sometimes my thoughts stray from the water…

anything that doesn’t fit my main aesthetic of @aquatic-dusk

[apolladay]

What do you consider the floor?

Anything you're standing on (literally anything)

Natural ground in any enclosed space (caves, freestanding awnings)

Natural ground in any man-made construction (closed tents, permanent pavilions)

Man-made ground in any context (roads, sidewalks)

Man-made ground inside a temporary structure (freestanding awning on concrete)

Man-made ground inside a permanent structure (hardwood, vinyl)

Remaining time: 4 hours 39 minutes

Each category goes beyond what's in parentheses, I just wanted to add some examples.

[lemonic-absurdity]

trying to vote in the us is so frustrating cuz even left leaning candidates in a liberal state will just be like “healthcare is a human right” and “climate change is bad and a problem” and “people should be able to live in a house.” like these shouldn’t be the pinnacle of your political stance these should be the bare minimum standards for having any power whatsoever. i get that this is as left as they can reasonably be without causing some huge scandal, but come on.

[theconcealedweapon]

[lemonic-absurdity]

i am this generation. ive come to realize that even if the american government does eventually get its shit together and elect someone decently competent and benevolent, i won’t be able to recognize it. my distrust and lack of faith in the system is too deep to be alleviated by anything less than a complete dismantling of the entire country as an institution.

[genderfluid-offical]

"explain your answer" no. i used a calculator, and i do not care about this class

[petewentz-]

It's fun being queer and weird and unconventional until you remember you live in a society

[tall]

[lemonic-absurdity]

my schedule, as a fool

[peachdoxie]

soooo tired of sex and romance always being tied together in committed relationships in fiction. I want fiction where the characters are 1) utterly devoted to each other 2) regularly fucking each other's brains out 3) not at all romantically inclined. the romance can go, but the devotion and fucking can stay.

[scramratz]

Remember "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" ? I feel like there's been a distancing from the "reduce" and "reuse" part and a favoritism towards "recycle" by corporate American.

Capitalism can still thrive with recycling in the mix. You buy Plastic Thing 1, throw it away after one use, and they take that and recycle it into Plastic Thing 2 and sell it back to you. All while continuing to harm the environment.

Reusing puts a damper on things. They can't sell you Plastic Thing 2 when you're still using Plastic Thing 1. Plastic forks, for example- there is literally no reason why you can't reuse plastic forks more than once (aside from maybe microplastics, but it's too late for that)

Reducing is the one everyone wants to ignore. Just don't buy Plastic Thing 1. You don't need Plastic Thing 1. Pick up a set of metal forks and use those for years. Convenience is killing the planet

[ladytabletop]

the slogan is in that order for a reason! It is listed in order of effectiveness and impact; if you can't reduce, reuse. If you can't reuse, recycle.

[cwicseolfor]

Refuse what you don’t need

Reduce what you can

Reuse everything still in working order

Recirculate what you don’t need by sharing or selling onward

Refurbish what’s fallen out of good condition so it lasts longer

Repair what’s broken altogether

Repurpose what can’t serve its original function

Recycle what is unsuitable for repurposing

What goes unsaid here is why they’re all “re-“ prefixed: it’s about circularity. Keeping the resources in use means that we don’t have to keep incurring the environmental costs of production over and over on infinite one-way trips of new stuff starting in the earth, through human society, and right back into the earth in landfill.

[apolladay]

Am I a "bad" Canadian for not giving a sweet flying fuck about hockey?

yes

no

Voting ended onMay 16

[ourladyamalthea]

u see ultimately the silt verses understands that the best way to write a het relationship is if they never kiss or have sex or do anything at all explicitly romantic and then the guy* half of the equation dies in the dirt. hashtag true love. (suddenly very serious) and it was true love. it was.

[strawberry-crocodile]

personally? i enjoy being a fan of characters who have done Wrong. i like when a character is not a perfect victim, has hurt people, has transgressed, has done bad things. sometimes its nice to feel the sting yknow? and to recognize that a character is not a flawless perfect victim, but is deserving of understanding and compassion anyway. a lot of people in fandom refuse to let go of moral absolutism and its... rough.

[strawberry-crocodile]

great now name a female character you feel this way about in the next 30 seconds or another hostage dies

[lemonic-absurdity]

if i report every ad i see as malicious (because advertising is an inherently malicious practice) can they genuinely do anything to stop me

[whyenn-reader]

firm believer you can't be a ''good person''. too much niuance to life.

[whyenn-reader]

you can be good (adjective) but you cannot be good (identity)

[lemonic-absurdity]

what is identity but a loose collection of adjectives

[strictlygenteel]

Glass of water (oil on canvas) Artist / Emma May Riley

[thlayli-rah]

EVERYONE STOP WHAT YOU’RE DOING THIS IS AN OIL PAINTING

[leblogreblog]

Glass of water (oil on canvas) Artist / Emma May Riley

[dreadwedge]

“Try to imagine a tower of cubes which stretches to the sky. Try to imagine the cube at the very top of the tower. Try to imagine a door in the side of the topmost cube. Can you imagine walking through that door? Do you know what’s inside?”

— Question from a diagnostic assessment for a mental illness I’m trying to invent

[lemonic-absurdity]

try to imagine all your thoughts are squeezed inside a cube and the cube is in a garden but the garden isnt real and the cube is made of nothing now lets imagine we're in a library and theres loads and loads of books and they represent the cube and the cube is actually you

[deadinthename]

Sigh

[dykeferatu]

pluto (the celestial body) told me that it’s actually kind of upsetting how much you guys insist on her being a planet. she says it feels like you don’t like her for who she is and you’d prefer an imagined version of her instead. what’s so terrible about being a dwarf planet, she asked me. does she have to be a “real” planet to be worthy of love?