The Lady Byng Diaries

Nice girl. Tries hard. Loves the game(s).🇦🇺🇨🇦

[lbelongiiu]

SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (1952) directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen

[killeroos]

"Did you realise how close he was?"

"He makes a lot of noise, Marnus. Huffin' and puffin' and breathin' and chewin' and.. yeah, I knew he was pretty close to me. And then after I took the catch I almost felt his tongue down my throat, he was that close to me! But nah, he's a close mate, we had a nice little moment there and- there we go."

"Yeah, I think there's a few memes that might come out because of that, but it was a very good catch."

"I think what Marn said to me [was] 'AI, they might get us making out', and I said 'Mate, you don't have to worry about AI, that happened.'"

[killeroos]

2025/26 MEN'S ASHES AS TEXT POSTS

[lady-byng]

Just saying, if we need to cast anyone to play "quirky" white boy, Ryan Blaney, this guy'd be perfect.

[lady-byng]

"Oh you mean Jos Buttler, the English cricket captain?"

"No. I mean Josh Butler, the Guernsey cricket captain."

[joerooty]

Pretty

[joerooty]

RR vs CSK

[lady-byng]

I have many opinions about Ben’s hair and they’re not nice.

[whaaaaatt]

Blubba

(noun)

A bromance so soft for each other it turns me into a blubbering pile of blubber.

[formulazwaan]

Perfect Pairings with Ryan Blaney

[lady-byng]

This sparks joy

[bogleech]

If you still call tumblr the hellsite you haven’t seen twitter’s recent discourse over whether short women can be loved for anything other than a fetish

[dumbunnii]

[lady-byng]

I'm 4'11. This is absurd.

[lady-byng]

Could we not have got some CONTRAST, people?

You just had to go dress him as a chair. He's not ginger enough for this.

[gay-irl]

Gay irl

[lady-byng]

This also applies for being Australian and just calling everyone 'mate'

[brightwanderer]

I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.

Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.

The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.

I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.

[lady-byng]

A GIF Collection: Perfect for when you've just got a lot of emotions.

[lady-byng]

A GIF Collection: Perfect for any situation.

[lady-byng]

Exquisite photography.

[lady-byng]

"Mindblowing that someone with that hitting power has the same tone as a kitten." - Me, discussing Jos Buttler with my mother.