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@lavendersloththoughts
does anyone else get mischievous joy out of being nice sometimes? like “Haha, I knew you were going to be hungry so I got you your favorite food so I can surprise you with it being ready when you get here GOT YOU”
#YES!! #its like. it feels like scheming #but love scheming… #the scheme is i want u to be happy (via @calmdownthehawk)
@executeness
Look.
I try. I try so, so, so hard to be patient and kind. I try to be accommodating and I try to understand that people have different levels of education and that not everyone knows chemistry and that everyone makes mistakes from time to time.
But the other office admin here just mixed up a nice big basin of bleach and ammonia to clean out our coffee pot. And left it in the office kitchen. And didn’t tell anyone for 20 minutes.
I’m tired.
LET’S MAKE THIS A TEACHABLE MOMENT.
A lot of you are starting school and are away from home for the first time, so here are some chemicals that don’t play nice with each other - by which I mean they create other, meaner chemicals when they’re mixed:
Bleach + Vinegar = Chlorine Gas
Baking Soda + Vinegar = Sodium Acetate, which isn’t dangerous actually but this is a middle school volcano, not a cleaning product (and if you mix these two and put them in a sealed bottle they’ll explode)
Bleach + Ammonia (most glass cleaners contain Ammonia, Windex is basically ammonia) = Chloramine (a fun gas that can potentially kill you)
Hydrogen Peroxide + Vinegar = Peracetic Acid (because you’re mixing peroxide and acetic acid)
Bleach + Isopropyl Alcohol = Chloroform
Also if you mix two different drain cleaners they might explode.
Long story short DO NOT MIX CLEANING CHEMICALS.
If you’re considering mixing cleaning chemicals PLEASE GOOGLE IT FIRST. You can even search by brand name. Here:
“What happens if I mix Windex and Comet?”
Please do not die trying to clean out your dank shared dorm bathroom. Please do not die trying to get stains off of the counter in your janky off-campus apartment. Please do not die mixing cleaners in your commercial kitchen, please do not die trying to scrape sticky residue off of a photo frame, please do not die mixing chemicals, especially because most of those chemicals come in boxes or bottles that have big warnings on the back telling you not to mix them with shit.
Also here is your periodic reminder that vinegar is acetic acid. Lemon juice is citric acid. These are fairly strong acids that can cause chemical burns, strip the enamel off your teeth, irritate your esophagus, and fuck up your shit. Be fucking careful with them and if you get either on your skin make sure to wash it off well before any exposure to direct sunlight.
The world is full of magic, and by “magic” I mean “dangerous chemicals that we spend a lot of time around but don’t spend much time thinking about so please be careful out there, buddies.”
Careful friends!
Also, @ms-demeanor, what ended up happening? Did the other office admin get a good talking-to?
She got really angry that we’d told her it was dangerous but diluted and dumped out the solution anyway while my boss tried to explain chemical reactions.
It was a long day.
Customer Service Wolf.
That wolf embodies the thoughts of most in customer service
Bookstore staff for 9 years, and boy, this is eerily accurate, I can barely stand to look at it!
the saddest people………shit the loudest
How selfish…. it’s all about “me me me”.
Fellas, can I get an F for Verizon/Yahoo in the chat?
UNMUTE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!! #intears #lmao
alkjfaslkjalskdjald!!!!
Reblogging this with the tag australian dog because I spent HOURS searching for it one day…
Who Invented Metal?
from Polyphonic
hello i have learnt more spider facts
spiders will pull their own legs clean off if they get damaged because most of them can regrow legs during molting, which explains why you often see spiders missing a leg but never any missing half a leg?
some remarkably distressing scientists proved this by getting a spider to pull off all of its legs and then feeding its limbless torso for months until it sprouted a full complement of legs again and then hopefully used them to get the fuck out of dodge
baby spiders don’t get lenses until their first molt and before that they just have baby eyes and while this ought not to be any weirder than the concept of baby teeth, welp,
there are so many spiders floating around thousands of metres up in the air that they’re described as “aerial plankton”
The Sky Is Full Of Spiders
there are spider-parasitising spiders but instead of laying eggs in organs or stealing blood or anything like that they just ride on top of bigger spiders and steal snacks when their mighty steed is eating
there are ant-mimicking spiders that use their disguises to raid ant nests and w/e but there are also ant mimics that just. hang out. they make fake ant colonies full of fake ants. sometimes the actual ants that they’re mimicking find their house and live with them. stealth 100
some mother spiders live in communal family nests, where multiple mothers can work together to bring down bigger prey while all their collected babies are cared for by the babysitters
some mother spiders feed their babies mouth to mouth like birds
some mother spiders carry their babies around and i was aware of this but not the fact that if you steal their eggsac they’ll freak out and search for it for hours and sometimes end up adopting anything that’s vaguely the right size, they will carry around empty snail shells for weeks and lovingly dote on them…
guys i am literally about to cry over spider moms
I am terribly afraid of spiders and most of this list makes me want to hide in the shower forever but that bit about the spider mom’s adopting anything vaguely egg-sack shaped makes me terribly sad so please give the spider moms their egg sacks back.
@glumshoe
If I ever end up moving in with someone I’m in a relationship with, I want us to have separate bedrooms. I need us to have our own rooms. This doesn’t mean we won’t sleep together, it means we will get to have our own space when we need/want it. Not just for if we’re fighting, but just because people need space sometimes.
i’m actually in this arrangement right now with my partner and i can confirm this is the best idea ever especially if you’re incredibly introverted like i am
i wish more people understood this mindset
this honestly sounds ideal and is what i want.
The older I get, the more I realize that there’s no single “right” way to do relationships or marriage.
Like when my religion teacher told us, a bunch of kiddos with the whole abstinence-until-marriage thing going on, that we’re not obligated to have sex on our wedding night–it cleared up so much anxiety for me. I’m a sexual assault victim and I don’t ever, ever want to feel like there is a night of my life where I MUST have sex. And now I realize that there isn’t! I can have sex on my wedding night if I want, but there’s no rule saying I can’t wait just a tad bit.
Also, I’ve never lived with a significant other before, but my freshman year of college, I shared one small dorm room with my roommate. I love her dearly, we’re super close, we had a great friendship and roommate relationship…but living in the same room as her 24/7 was so detrimental to my mental health (and hers as well, I’m sure). I literally felt like I was losing my mind, and I harbored resentment toward her that couldn’t be helped because it was purely a product of our living arrangement. 10/10 would not recommend.
My social psych prof taught that being in the presence of other human beings increases physiological arousal (alertness, vigilance, elevated heart rate and blood pressure, accelerated breathing–stress), because we’re social creatures with societal rules and norms, so when we’re around others, our brain automatically becomes conscious of their perception of us and monitors our own behavior. It’s healthy to have alone time and give your brain a break from that state. You don’t have to be around your partner every moment of the day.
Just a collection of random thoughts, but in short: yes, I support this!
I’ve seen a lot of curious people wanting to dive into classical music but don’t know where to start, so I have written out a list of pieces to listen to depending on mood. I’ve only put out a few, but please add more if you want to. hope this helps y’all out. :)
stereotypical delightful classical music:
battalia a 10 in d major (biber)
brandenburg concerto no. 5
brandenburg concerto no. 3
symphony no. 45 - “farewell” (haydn)
if you need to chill:
rondo alla turca
fur elise
anitra’s dance
in the steppes of central asia (borodin) (added by viola-ology)
if you need to sleep:
moonlight sonata
swan lake
corral nocturne
if you need to wake up:
morning mood
summer (from the four seasons)
buckaroo holiday (if you’ve played this in orch you might end up screaming instead of waking up joyfully)
if you are feeling very proud:
pomp and circumstance
symphony no. 9 (beethoven; this is where ode to joy came from)
1812 overture
symphony no. 5, finale (tchaikovsky) (added by viola-ology)
american (dvořák)
if you feel really excited:
hoedown (copland)
bacchanale
spring (from the four seasons) (be careful, if you listen to this too much you’ll start hating it)
la gazza ladra
death and the maiden (schubert)
if you are angry and you want to take a baseball bat and start hitting a bush:
dance of the knights (from the romeo and juliet suite by prokofiev)
winter, mvt. 1 (from the four seasons)
symphony no. 10 mvt. 2 (shostakovich)
symphony no. 5 (beethoven)
totentanz (liszt)
quartet no. 8, mvt. 2 (shostakovich) (added by viola-ology)
young person’s guide to the orchestra, fugue (britten) (added by iwillsavemyworld)
if you want to cry for a really long time:
fantasia based on russian themes (rimsky-korsakov)
adagio for strings (barber)
violin concerto in e minor (mendelssohn)
aase’s death
andante festivo
if you want to feel like you’re on an adventure:
an american in paris (gershwin)
if you want chills:
danse macabre
russian easter overture
if you want to study:
eine kleine nachtmusik
bolero (ravel)
serenade for strings (elgar)
scheherazade (rimsky-korsakov) (added by viola-ology)
pines of rome, mvt. 4 (resphigi) (added by viola-ology)
if you really want to dance:
capriccio espagnol (rimsky-korsakov)
blue danube
le cid (massenet) (added by viola-ology)
radetzky march
if you want to start bouncing in your chair:
hopak (mussorgsky)
les toreadors (from carmen suite no.1)
if you’re about to pass out and you need energy:
hungarian dance no. 1
hungarian dance no. 5
if you want to hear suspense within music:
firebird
in the hall of the mountain king
ride of the valkyries
night on bald mountain (mussorgsky) (added by viola-ology)
if you want a jazzy/classical feel:
rhapsody in blue
if you want to feel emotional with no explanation:
introduction and rondo capriccioso
unfinished symphony (schubert)
symphony no. 7, allegretto (beethoven) (added by viola-ology)
canon in d (pachelbel)
if you want to sit back and have a nice cup of tea:
st. paul’s suite
concerto for two violins (vivaldi)
l’arlésienne suite
pieces that don’t really have a valid explanation:
symphony no. 40 (mozart)
cello suite no. 1 (bach)
polovtsian dances
enigma variations (elgar) (added by viola-ology)
perpetuum mobile
pieces that just sound really cool:
scherzo tarantelle
dance of the goblins
caprice no. 24 (paganini)
new world symphony, allegro con fuoco (dvorak) (added by viola-ology)
if you feel like listening to concertos all day (I do not recommend doing that):
concerto for two violins (bach)
concerto for two violins (vivaldi)
violin concerto in a minor (vivaldi)
violin concerto (tchaikovsky) (added by iwillsavemyworld)
cello concerto in c (haydn)
piano concerto, mvt. 1 (pierne) (added by iwillsavemyworld)
harp concerto in E-flat major, mvt. 1 (added by iwillsavemyworld)
and if you really just hate classical music in general:
4′33″ (cage)
a lot of these pieces apply in multiple categories, but I sorted them by which I think they match the most. have fun exploring classical music!
also, thank you to viola-ology and iwillsavemyworld for adding on! if you would like to add on your own suggestions, please reblog and add on or message me so I can give you credit for the suggestion!
The Signs and Rage
Aries: To preserve oneself until after the end of the world. A slow change. Awakening to a nightmare of broken glass and the long frozen bodies of those who were to be your family. Strength to smash the tanks and lumber to meet the sun with hatred.
Taurus: Another poor casualty of war. Missed by the corpse-grinders. The belly of the thing meant to renew that rotting husk you call a body. You can hear them crying out for you. This crucible of flesh and steel will be your new body. Take the revenge you so rightly deserve.
Gemini: You used to gaze at the sky, envious at the freedom of passing clouds. But now the sky is razed and acrid, but information knows neither pain nor death. You spent a lifetime mastering the deep calculus, assuming its fleeting form, and one day you will find who it was who took the sky from you.
Cancer: Ever higher the old empires build as the foundations of the world sink ever deeper into the poison and rot. The sunless diseased things that escape from the deep shafts threaten to pull the world into the noxious deep. Kill the vermin. Seal the holes. Defend what feeble light remains.
Leo: A doomed military expedition to the deep places. A pillar of bones clawing upwards, fossilized in place. Soldiers and officers and kings all desperately trying to escape some nameless horror born by untold centuries without the sun.
Virgo: Last of the ancient noble war machines, finally running low on a fuel that hasn’t been made in centuries. Legions of enemy dead at your feet but still they come, seeking dominion over the heap of ruin and slag your people called a home. There is still napalm in your lungs and you will show these invaders what it means to raze earth.
Libra: An outcast among outcasts. Free from all compunctions and laws that bind the lonely residents of the world. Forgotten arts, esoteric and profane, pulled from the ruins of once-great places. When nothing is left, the only thing to do is to build something new.
Scorpio: Hunger. Hunger unimaginable. Hunger like dropping a pebble into the sea. Hunger for the very stars in the sky. Hunger for the living. hunger for the dead. Hunger for thought and feeling and dreams. Hunger so deep and bottomless it turns the mind and body inside-out so that one might eat the world itself so that there may not be any hunger ever again.
Ophiuchus: A traitor who gave everything for their people, only to watch as the world burned around them. Nothing left to defend, but a slave to ancient failsafes. An eternity spent waiting to be rightly bested.
Sagittarius: Pulled too early from your cocoon and stolen for petty things. The change happened quickly. Something new and flexible and strong and vicious. Cold blood. Returning what was supposed to be home. Watching over the ones still waiting.
Capricorn: Too many aches and pains from too long a life. Hydraulics and gearing now. Too many memories of fire and death. Wires and circuits now. Too much time. Defend. Defend what? Too much time. Too many memories of fire and death. Defend. Kill any that attempt to cross.
Aquarius: You were built to sustain this place. To see the blueprints in your mind. Your brother was built to make what you need, for the heavy work. Both of you were left abandoned. Left to rot as this citadel crumbles around you. The both of you agreed to let it do just that.
Pisces: You were never supposed to happen. Nobody ever could have expected you. Millenniums unknown of attempts and failures to harness this infernal engine. Ash and slag and dead flesh melded seamlessly together into something wholly new. You. All of you, now stand as caretaker to the rampant engine that gave you life.
“I can move everything but on.”
— Omar Holmon, “Precious Little Life”
via @rupikaurpoems
things that are self-harm:
cutting
burning
poisoning
risky sex/having sex or masturbating even though you do not want to
drug/alcohol abuse
things that are also self-harm:
hitting yourself
throwing yourself against objects
making yourself sleep deprived
making yourself sleep on the floor
making yourself overcaffeinated/oversugared
making yourself dehydrated
purposefully neglecting body hygiene
purposefully catching sicknesses or sexually transmitted diseases (see risky sex)
keeping love affairs you are not actually interested in
over-/undereating until you’re sick
purging food
negative self-talk
denying yourself activities you would have enjoyed
overexercising
cutting off relationships that you hold dear
destroying objects that have sentimental meaning to you
uselessly spending money which you would have needed
purposefully spending time with people you don’t like
purposefully eating food you don’t like
purposefully consuming media you don’t like
purposefully participating in activities you don’t like
visiting crowded places although you are unable to handle the sensory stimuli
denying yourself to feel certain emotions
overworking yourself
helping others to a degree which you cannot actually handle
purposefully getting yourself into trouble
purposefully ignoring deadlines
purposefully insulting friends/family/authorities/etc
breaking the law
getting into fights both verbal and physical
provoking others to insult or otherwise hurt you
feel free to add, more people need to know how unhealthy some of the more “normal” coping mechanisms can be
most of the time when you’re having a crush on someone, you don’t actually like them in the way that you think you do. you just love the romanticised version of them that you created in your head.
