To Know True Living

Rose. 26. Leo ☀️ Taurus 🌙 Leo ⬆️. Autistic. ADHD. Poly. Queer. Genderfluid. They/We. Chaos. Feminist. Anarchist. I drink too much tea. Basically a hobbit. ⛅️ “I can neither participate in joy nor prevent disaster, so I sing”

[charlestrask]

sexual thrill at the mere prospect of cataloging things in a database

[homunculus-argument]

You ever think back to how annoying it was to be like 5 years old and being frustrated about how you know exactly what you're trying to say, but you lack the vocabulary to express it, so you're just stuck trying to repeat the words you do know with different tones in hopes that one of them would make it click and people would understand what you've been trying to say this whole time?

Like trying to ask adults hypothetical questions like "what would happen if clouds were cotton candy?" and what you're trying to ask is "if clouds were made out of sugar instead of water (which I know they are not), how would it practically alter the way they function?" and adults would just answer "no, they're made out of water." And you're stuck repeating "yes, but IF they were", and they're stuck repeating "no, but they are not", and you're at a loss of how to explain the concept of "hypothetical question" to an adult, who clearly doesn't seem to understand what a hypothetical question is, and you don't know the word "hypothetical" because you are literally five years old.

[trashboat]

my friend told me last night that he gets girls to come back to his place by telling them “oh i can’t wait to go home and have some stew” and “i’m so hungry, good thing i have stew at home” and it’s worked every time

[trashboat]

bro the worst part is last night i went to his place and it’s 11pm and i’m sitting there eating fucking stew like god damn it worked on me too

[moreglitter]

[filmnoirsbian]

This week:

A 19 year old passenger with her baby, who only spoke spanish, missed her connecting flight due to weather and would have been stuck sleeping in the airport but my co flight attendant (who spoke spanish) booked her commuter hotel for her and gave her a free room for the night

Another passenger missed her connecting flight home but since she lived just under an hour from me I gave her a ride from dc to virginia beach

My pilot was contacted by the wife of a pilot he'd flown with (who later killed himself) because she'd found a photo of their crew at dinner, so now he takes group photos of every crew he hangs out with, just in case

Another passenger missed her connecting flight and was crying because her mom was in hospice so 2 other passengers who did not know her offered to rent a car and carpool down to jacksonville together

An actor who I will not name but who I'm a huge fan of was in line at the airport pizza place in front of me and my co flight attendant (also a fan) and we were trying so hard to be cool about it and he could tell and he paid for our food because "You all take such good care of us in the air, we should take care of you on the ground."

The van driver for our new orleans overnight heard me say I was vegetarian but wished I could try authentic gumbo and called his friend who is a chef and then drove us to the restaurant where I was given a creole style vegetarian gumbo he'd improvised

After a terrible night which saw me and my co flight attendant trying for 4 hours to get hotel rooms from our airline, the night clerk at a hotel finally took over the phone call and reprimanded them on our behalf, dictating the exact paperwork she needed sent over and then expedited the process so she could give us rooms

[vultania]

When I was little I showed a flight attendant a picture of a ladybug life cycle I drew myself, and he sat down in the empty seat on the other side of the aisle and drew a flipping plane and holy cow that was the first experience I had of someone drawing and drawing amazingly well. I wonder how he's doing...

I still have the drawings! And the notebook!

The notebook in question:

The terribly childish drawings in question:

LOOK AT THIS

I DIDN'T EVEN REALISE HE'D WRITTEN MY NAME

Flipping heck 🤣🤣🤣

Oh yeah, this was a Virgin Australia domestic Brisbane to Sydney flight which I'd done with my family multiple times at this point.

Btw I was 8.

Gerome Gardiner, I have cherished this drawing all throughout my childhood, and if you ever see this, thank you for taking the time on a pretty empty flight to draw me something with such beauty that I have carried it throughout my life.

But I feel I should apologise because I have not kept up my drawing skills and neither have I had much time or energy to do so 😅

I paint pictures with words now ✒️📖💻

One day I'll show you one of my stories! 😁

[thecactifindahome]

He's still out there drawing planes.

[therealraewest]

[acidhues]

mushroom chat just dropped

[lastvalyrian]

[normal-horoscopes]

I want to log on to the mushroom chat so bad

[sighinastorm]

What would you even say?

[bebe-benzenheimer]

"Had a cute frog sit on me today. Win."

[sighinastorm]

[thefairfolkscottage]

cottagecore things: black♟ & white🐚

[nyctaeus]

Derek Jarman, ‘Blue’, 1973

[taahko]

every so often im struck by the memory of one of my college professors getting very angry with our class (art history of pompeii 250) because when she excitedly detailed the ingenious roman invention of heated floors in bathhouses via hearths in small crawlspaces, we asked who was tending the fires. she said "oh, slaves i suppose. but that isnt the point". and we said that it actually very much was the point. she had just told us that in roman society there were dozens of people, maybe hundreds, who spent every day of their enslaved lives crawling in cramped, hot, smoky tunnels to light fires to warm pools of water (which they were not allowed to swim in). how could that not be the point?

she wanted us to focus on the art, on the innovation of heated plumbing, on the tiles and decorations of the bathhouses, and all we wanted to do was learn more about the people under the floors. and she didn't know anything more about that. in fact, she said she thought we were focusing too much on superfluous details.

it feels almost hokey to put too fine a point on the idea im getting at here but i will anyway: There are a lot of people who are still under the floors. all these beautiful, convenient, brilliant innovations of modern society (think fast fashion, chatgpt, uber, doordash) are still powered by people working in inhumane, untenable conditions.

the people who run these systems want you to focus on the good - who doesnt love warm water? - but if anything is going to improve or change in our lifetimes, you need to examine these things with an attentive, critical, and empathetic eye. and for fucks sake stop ordering from amazon

[67i203]

hidden messages in electronic boards

[krippe90]

[heathkrycek]

[andante-ace]

[cannibalcaprine-deactivated2024]

alright, pick the best science so we can all go home

physics

mathematics

astronomy

geology

chemistry

biology

psychology

sociology

paleontology

archaeology

linguistics

logic

Voting ended onAug 27, 2023

[dearearlyarchaeologists]

Someone fix this percentage

[aimofdestiny]

[qqueenofhades]

Someone made Felonies Georg into a graphic. Bless.

[kurtbusiek]

That’s an average of almost two per president.

[crowzs]

The trick is to not let people know how really weird you are until it’s too late for them to back out.

[animatedamerican]

Absolutely the frak not, the trick is to immediately let people know how weird you are so you scare off the weak ones. The ones who stay because they like how weird you are? Those are the ones you want.

[supervillainny]

Post 1: workplace

Post 2: everywhere else

[animatedamerican]

… you know what, codicil accepted

[albatris]

today’s gender of the day is unfortunate time loop accidents

[gingerly-writing]

IM CRYING this is the best gender ever

[winslowat3am]

✨🧚‍♀️ Women as fairies 🧚‍♀️✨

[ganjamanana-deactivated20241109]

Source: @zagreus

[zagreus]

this post is already on tumblr, why repost it?

[lorileopard]

You must be new here.

[zagreus]

I've been here for a decade and my puzzlement over this kind of behavior remains evergreen

[etrianodysseyobsession-hd-deact]

I admire the restraint not to point out you literally wrote the post that was screencapped.

[teratomarty]

My brother is a librarian, and his library is one of the ones that hosts Drag Queen Story Time.

He is also 6'3", 300 lbs of Heavy Weapons Librarian.

This week, some karen showed up to take video of said storytime. She was unmoved by the director of the library telling her their policy against taking video in the children's room.

My brother was also unmoved. Specifically, he was unmoved from his position directly in the line of karen's cellphone. She got video of an acre of blue broadcloth shirt, and that's it.

Other people who showed up to scowl at the drag queen decided they had other things to do that day when my brother scowled at them. He inherited our Mama's scowl, and it's a good one.

Sometimes, an ally looks like a big fat bald white guy. Sometimes, an ally looks like a wall.

[envydeath]

silence lay steadily.

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