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You know when you can hear the people in the next room and you can hear the movie they're watching and you can hear the light and you can feel your heartbeat and your head is pounding and you can also hear people outside and you're trying to edit this paper because it's due tonight and your eyes hurt and you really feel like you're going to die or is that just me

#feeling insane #I understand it's the autism #but there is truly nothing that makes it pop off like being at this campus does #I am Struggling here

trying desperately to write a short story for class so I tried to start with a funeral and then it immediately became a student's funeral and now I can't stop crying

#write what you're scared of I guess #problem is I don't know what I would say with this #or anything else for that matter #and I don't want to workshop this #I don't think I can engage with it without crying #ughhh

October 11-13 is going to kill me

- Oct 11th: friend's wedding (local)

- Oct 12th: Becky Chambers event near Boston

- Oct 13th: Dan & Phil in Hartford (and the official release date of the Becky Chambers novel) (on the one year hard launch-aversary)

#lol I guess it's a good thing I wasn't cast in that show #that would have only made it worse if the show was rained out and performances were also that weekend #but like #I can't not go to the Becky Chambers event if I can go #and I already got my dip & pip ticket because they're like the one thing giving me joy this year #if there is anyone else who is attending both of these events #I might as well propose right now you know what I mean #maybe I should just take off of work on the 13th...

masonhawthorne

I keep remembering a run of Hamlet I saw a few years ago, where the Ghost was costumed in full plate armour which was very noisy, and instead of muffling it, they had him crash across the stage, stomping so the whole set rattled, and he said all of his lines in a bellow, like he was furious with Hamlet.

And the thing that made it absolutely terrifying was that Hamlet was the only one who reacted. He was cowering, and covering his ears with both hands, and yelling to be heard over the noise.

And no one else seemed to know why he was doing that. The other actors didn't even raise their voices.

That's scary, something so loud and painful, and REAL, and the people around you don't even notice it, and think that you're the crazy one.

chestercopperpotz

I love when I hear about a choice in Shakespeare I've never thought of before. Brilliant

flythesail

You should automatically get time off work until the light returns to your eyes and you feel like a real person again

reallyreallyreallytrying

“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

laerugo

#tapping the reblog button with utmost care because i’m handling a historical artifact (via @malarkiness)

mortimermcmirestinks

holy shit OP is not only still active but is still making absolutely banger posts in this exact style 11 years later

rue-nightly

A 2025 update

existennialmemes

Not to sound like a decrepit, rambling corpse about it, but back in my day Word used to be a pre installed program that came with your computer, if you were running Windows.

No subscription. Just program.

On your computer. You got to use it forever and ever and never had to worry about it going away.

Because it was physically on your computer. As a program. That you actually owned. Not because you got it separately, but because it was a standard inclusion with your computer.

I'm sorry but I'll just never get over it. I remember when companies cared about their products being usable out of the box. I remember when our things belonged to us.

Old man shaking fist at cloud, wherein the cloud is the background of the Windows 98 logo.

eulers-babe

for no reason whatsoever here’s a reminder that if you consider yourself a leftist/punk/abolitionist/anarchist/radical in any sort of way and get called into jury duty, you are to become the most square person on earth during the jury questionnaire!!!

don’t be that guy who says fuck the police in the jury questionnaire! that just gets you sent home! if you want to generate change, interact with the case and use your jury vote for good! ESPECIALLY if it’s a high profile case!

libraryogre

Remember, when you're on the jury, a good "that cop's story didn't add up" will sway a lot more Chads and Karens than "fuck the police."

damnfool-of-a-took

Had jury duty, can confirm!

An innocent man is home with his family instead of spending his kids' whole childhoods in jail for "resisting arrest" when none of the cops could agree on why he was being arrested in the first place. (But it definitely had nothing to do with him being a Black man in a nice car, honest! 🙄)

And it still took like two hours of delibration after we'd heard all the evidence because one lady was so gung ho about believing everything the cops said, even when not a single goddamn one could agree with their own testimony, let alone their colleagues'.

Pointing out all the inconsistencies and admitted misconduct and letting people slowly come to their own conclusions as the trial played out was fucking hard, I won't lie. I can be patient, but it doesn't come naturally to me.

But. Yelling about how this was obviously a bs case would have shut everyone down and made them stop listening. Asking questions and letting people discuss how the cops tried to make xyz sound suspicious but it was totally normal, or about how if things played out the way the cops said then logically events should have proceeded in a totally different direction, and positing different theories that actually lined up with the evidence presented?

That got people thinking, and everyone realized that for a variety of reasons we all had reasonable doubts that the defendent had committed any of the crimes of which he was accused.

Being able to raise reasonable doubt among a jury of one's peers saves lives. If you get the chance, take it.

genderkoolaid

"Jury Room / The Holdout" (1959) by Norman Rockwell. One of my favorites of his. Particularly the gendered dynamic he depicts here.

burr-ell

YOU ARE A REGULAR GUY. YOU CAN HANDLE CRITIQUE. YOU ARE A REGULAR GUY. YOU CAN EMBRACE BEING TOLD YOU WERE WRONG. YOU ARE A REGULAR GUY. YOU CAN ACCOMPLISH UNPLEASANT TASKS. YOU ARE A REGULAR GUY. YOU CAN DELIVER DISAPPOINTING NEWS. YOU ARE A REGULAR GUY. YOU KNOW HOW TO BE DISAGREED WITH. YOU ARE A REGULAR GUY. YOU CAN BE CORRECTED. YOU ARE A REGULAR GUY. YOU CAN BE TOLD YOU MESSED UP. YOU ARE A REGULAR GUY. YOU ARE ABLE TO DO HARD THINGS.

starlit-meadow

dumbwaves

Shut up. I'm witnessing what Love does to men.

youmissedthememo

2009

bytiara13

Dnp yuri with watercolour brushes

caramhie

Bow best dad, no contest

veryberryskye

yeah i like to give my blessing to the most pathetic looking weak little knight at the tournament. she can’t even look me in the eye when i give her my flower and she stutters out that she’ll do her best or something of the like. i think its funny when she has to cry and beg my forgiveness and i get to say “such a shame, i suppose my hand in marriage will have to go to someone else…” and then i get to hear her whimper like a dog. ive done this like 6 times alrea-

did she just win.