Lively Of The Mind

This is a blog. I enjoy the things I like. Enjoy the specific description.

[just-shower-thoughts]

If 2/2/22 falls on a Tuesday it could also be known as “2’s Day”

[the-daily-echo-deactivated20170]

DUDE

[wave-on-seashell]

[pixalry]

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Illustrations - Created by Patrick O’Keefe

[profeminist]

“Thought 007 could never be a woman or black? Well, she’s both! James Bond will hand his licence to kill to actress Lashana Lynch’s character when he retires in new film script drafted by Phoebe Waller-Bridge”

-  🎀The_News_DIVA 🎀‏

“Prediction: Whiny dudes will be shaken AND stirred.”

-  John Scalzi‏

[smartassjen]

This excites the hell out of me.

[wolfjillyjill-deactivated202101]

I love the taste of mens tears.

[unaligned-valkyrie]

I’m excited for this.

[sistertaxon]

is there any temptation greater than being in the hardware store and seeing the place where they have all the little cards for the colours

[zagreus]

as someone who works in the paint department of a hardware store i just wanna say that you are absolutely allowed (and ENCOURAGED!) to grab as many cards off the rack as you want so long as you don’t take more than one or two of each colour (they are free for customers but the store only gets so many at a time so please don’t just walk off with our ENTIRE supply of SW 7587 Antique Red cards)

[madmanswords]

That’s too specific. Have people been stealing the SW 7587 Antique Red cards in droves lately?

[zagreus]

legally i am not allowed to comment

[recoil-operated-deactivated2021]

I’m too cheap to actually buy paint so I’ve been going to every hardware store in collecting all the SW 7587 antique red cards and gluing them to my walls

[zagreus]

YOU!!!!!! YOU ARE MY ENEMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[penguinssonamor]

I got to marry my wife, and our pupper was our flower girl. 2.5 years ago this wasn’t possible, as it wasn’t legal in Australia. It rained our whole wedding day, but was so worth it in the end with our phenomenal photographer.

[squidbroom]

op this looks absolutely magical

[traveling-madness]

I forgot homophobia was a thing and i spent about 5 seconds wondering why it was ever illegal to have a dog as a flower girl

[alittlebitgayandmore]

[radicalposture]

idk why it’s never occurred to me but I was just wondering where bucky was during the events of black panther….. I kno he was most likely in a freezer in shuris basement BUT it would be hilarious if he was just chilling on his farm the whole time and didn’t notice anything was going on

[radicalposture]

[otherwindow]

Never forget season 1 of Steven Universe.

[imagine-stevens-universe]

Unironically my favorite joke in the show.

[peri]

[synthient]

The story of Cats is that in the 1930s, the famous poet T.S. Eliot wrote a book of cutesy little cat-themed poems for his godchildren

And then 40 years later, Andrew Lloyd Webber found a lost cat poem that T.S. Eliot had cut from the cat book for being too sad for children, and ALW was like "woahhh. A cat....that's sad. That's deep, man. I wanna make a musical out of this"

So the producer assigned to the project was like "okay, I guess you could maybe read these cat poems as a satire of 1930s British society? We could probably do something sort of interesting with that, I'm thinking a cast of about 5 and--"

And ALW was like "no. Forget the satire. Also I want a cast of dozens and the most advanced special effects technology ever seen on stage. I've taken out a second mortgage on my house to fund this"

And the producer was like "wh-- you-- wh-- do you even have. a plot"

So ALW got a bunch of actors and writers and artists together and they holed up and did cocaine workshopped for 5 weeks, and at the end of it they emerged and said "the plot is that a bunch of cats are having a dance contest for the right to take a ufo to cat heaven :)"

and then it made 2 billion dollars.

[castielcampbell]

[caroldanversenthusiast]

this is simply the greatest video i have ever seen

[superstuporsblog-deactivated202]

She saw that poll and went bitch you thought!

[thegreenpea]

Her smile 😍😍😍

[havvkeye-squared]

I love how excited those guys are 😂

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

ppl are so annoying “you can’t paint ur bedroom pink you’re an adult” i did not spend my entire life waiting to grow up and control my life to paint my bedroom beige

[hojolove]

I had a sales woman in furniture store try and tell me not to buy a hot bubblegum pink loveseat because she wanted me to “think about the future”

Bitch, I am thinking about the future. I already got a hot bubblegum pink couch at home and now I need a loveseat to go with it.

[madgastronomer]

when I first bought my house, I announced my decision to paint my bedroom purple. I had wanted a purple bedroom for thirty damn years, you fucking bet I was gonna have one now. My friends decided, for some reason, that I meant what one of them referred to as “14 year old girl purple” (through what’s wrong with the colors a 14 year old girl chooses, I don’t know, even if they’re not what I want as an adult). They didn’t believe me until they saw the color on the actual wall, even thought they helped me pick out paints. My mother, meanwhile, decided to get worried that if I painted my bedroom a “dark purple”, it would be “depressing”. As if, with an entire house to live in, I would spend all my time in the bedroom, which I wanted to be dark because I would be sleeping in there. In the damn dark.

I had like one, maybe two friends who were all like FUCK YEAH YOU PAINT IT WHATEVER COLOR YOU WANT, PURPLE BEDROOMS ARE AWESOME.

But when they actualy saw the finished bedroom, every single one of them was like, “Oh yeah, that’s really pretty.” (Well, the ones who supported me from the beginning were more like WOOHOO.)

And the moral of the story is: Fuck ‘em, please yourself. Either they’ll come around, or you can safely ignore every question of taste they opine about for the rest of time.

[themintycupcake]

This applies to other adulting activities, too. When I was a kid, I decided that I wanted to have a wedding cake made of doughnuts. When I got older, I figured that I would be “mature” about it and get a traditional cake, which the older adults approved of. Now that I’m 25 and facing the possibility of actual marriage in the near future, I’m just like “marriage is a social construct but it comes with tax & insurance benefits, so just give me that goddamn doughnut cake.” If they don’t like it then they don’t have to come to my wedding.

[aridotdash]

https://xkcd.com/150/

[undanewneon]

I would like you all to view my office. I’m thirty and my rainbow room is awesome, people can fight me

[leonardslee]

[devilsss-dyke-deactivated202202]

i have never seen cats and at this point i don’t think i want to

[caressthosecheekbones]

me neither

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I- what

[beepboop-its-a-robot]

STORY TIME:

I work in a decent sized, local, indie bookstore. It’s a great job 99% of the time and a lot of our customers are pretty neat people. Any who, middle of the day this little old lady comes up. She’s lovably kooky. She effuses how much she loves the store and how she wishes she could spend more time in it but her husband is waiting in the car (OH! I BETTER BUY HIM SOME CHOCOLATE!), she piles a bunch of art supplies on the counter and then stops and tells me how my bangs are beautiful and remind her of the ocean (“Wooooosh” she says, making a wave gesture with her hand)

Ok. I think to myself. Awesomely happy, weird little old ladies are my favorite kind of customer. They’re thrilled about everything and they’re comfortably bananas. I can have a good time with this one. So we chat and it’s nice.

Then this kid, who’s been up my counter a few times to gather his school textbooks, comes up in line behind her (we’re connected to a major university in the city so we have a lot of harried students pass through). She turns around to him and, out of nowhere, demands that he put his textbooks on the counter. He’s confused but she explains that she’s going to buy his textbooks.

He goes sheetrock white. He refuses and adamantly insists that she can’t do that. It’s like, $400 worth of textbooks. She, this tiny old woman, bodily takes them out of her hands, throws them on the counter and turns to me with a intense stare and tells me to put them on her bill. The kid at this point is practically in tears. He’s confused and shocked and grateful. Then she turns to him and says “you need chocolate.” She starts grabbing handfuls of chocolates and putting them in her pile.

He keeps asking her “why are you doing this?” She responds “Do you like Harry Potter?“ and throws a copy of the new Cursed Child on the pile too.

Finally she’s done and I ring her up for a crazy amount of money. She pays and asks me to please give the kid a few bags for his stuff. While I’m bagging up her merchandise the kid hugs her. We’re both telling her how amazing she is and what an awesome thing she’s done. She turns to both of us and says probably one of the most profound, unscripted things I’ve ever had someone say:

“It’s important to be kind. You can’t know all the times that you’ve hurt people in tiny, significant ways. It’s easy to be cruel without meaning to be. There’s nothing you can do about that. But you can choose to be kind. Be kind.”

The kid thanks her again and leaves. I tell her again how awesome she is. She’s staring out the door after him and says to me: “My son is a homeless meth addict. I don’t know what I did. I see that boy and I see the man my son could have been if someone had chosen to be kind to him at just the right time.”

I’ve bagged up all her stuff and at this point am super awkward and feel like I should say something but I don’t know what. Then she turns to me and says: I wish I could have bangs like that but my darn hair is just too curly.“ And leaves.

And that is the story of the best customer I’ve ever had. Be kind to somebody today.

[shrewreadings]

 I didn’t reblog earlier. 

So I am now. 

[cluegrrl]

Be kind. It’s worth the effort.

[naamahdarling]

Ths is such a beautiful story. I hope that her son got help and is doing okay.

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[sunriseseance]

[thesweetpianowritingdownmylife]

Why revoke her “gamer” card if she obviously played all of you perfectly

[thyrell]

this is what we in the field call an “epic pwn”

[divine-noire]

I’m a lesbian and somehow I manage to walk down the street and not ogle women I find attractive, or cat call or degrade them, or touch them without permission, or interrupt their daily lives, it’s almost as if I’m treating them like human beings despite my attraction to them. What an insane concept.

[weareadvocates]

omg same

[notmadeofgold]

We were arguing about dress code in a meeting at work. And while my department knows I’m queer the other departments did not. As people (men) were saying that women showing skin and wearing tight clothes was distracting. I spoke up finally and said.

“I’m attracted to women.”

Everyone turned and looked at me and I was like “uhhh” so I finished.

“I’m attracted to women and I can still do my job. Regardless of what someone in my class is wearing. I can still teach. So why can’t you?”

The men all stayed silent.

[ohdarnitripped-deactivated20220]

I feel God and Sappho in this Chili’s tonight.

[deadlydeamonflashmob]

In honor of vulture awareness day, let me ask you a question.

Do you love vultures?

You should.

Here’s why:

1, They are simultaneously the most majestic, and the most f*cking derpy of birbs. Observe -

2. THEY’RE SO FUCKING BADASS. We all know that they eat dead things. Eww, right? Wrong. They’re capable of digesting fucking rabies, cholera, hundreds of strains of bacteria that would straight up kill your ass given the chance. They deserve ALL of the respect, but they don’t get any, because ‘eww they eat dead things’. 

3. THEY ARE FUCKING AMAZING AT WHAT THEY DO - Some of the highest flying birds ever recorded, with amazing eyesight and smell. Vultures are highly specialised - yes, that means they sometimes have bald heads. So what? People are all over sphinx cats and those semi-hairless dogs.

4. If you think they’re ugly, well, look at these precious babs and tell me you still don’t feel anything:

I have more reasons, but, look, I’ll just get straight to the point: 

THEY’RE GOING EXTINCT, AND MORE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.

Populations of some vultures have fallen more than 90% in the last 20 years, and that’s scary as fuck. Reasons for this range from livestock carcasses being contaminated with certain drugs, to poachers killing them off because vultures give them away. But whatever the reasons, they’re dying off fast, and we need to act before it’s too late. We need to help protect them and conserve them as much if not more than some of the ‘cuter’ endangered creatures. 

So what can you do? Here are some useful links if you want to learn more:

http://www.rspb.org.uk/joinandhelp/donations/campaigns/vultures/

http://www.hawk-conservancy.org/Documents/HCT_IVP_leaflet_2013_E_ver.pdf

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/africanvultures

http://www.tusk.org/vulture-conservation-project

http://www.save-vultures.org/

http://www.birdlife.org/europe-and-central-asia/news/international-vulture-awareness-day-%E2%80%93-no-cause-celebration

http://www.vulpro.com/

https://tristatebird.org/adoptavulture/

https://webcamvultures.wordpress.com/adopt-a-vulture/

http://www.wwfpak.org/species/Vulture.php

Please consider helping our seldom appreciated vulture buddies, either by donating, or even just by helping to change their bad reputation!! 

They really are amazing birds ~ thank you for sticking with my long-ass post 

:P 

[deadlydeamonflashmob]

IT’S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN, PALS!!!! 

in the last year, I’ve visited several bird of prey specialist centres, many of which are now actively championing the plight of our vulture friends - trying hard to endear them to the public and supporting/ participating in overseas causes that help in various ways. One of these places was the Hawk Conservancy Trust which, if you’re in the UK, I HIGHLY recommend - both for the quality of the centre and the displays they run, and for the extensive conservation work they do at home and overseas!

Anyway, enough talk. It’s time to appreciate this sleepy boy. 

[theboneandfeather]

But you forgot my most favorite of all!! The Bearded Vulture (Lammergeier or Ossifrage)!!!

[bundibird]

Good post OP

[wowbright]

Last winter I was birding and spotted group of 9 black and turkey vultures gathered around a small animal carcass in the woods. They were all within 50 yards of me, but we’re not immediately apparent to passersby because of the trees.

I was ecstatic. It was the closest I’ve ever gotten to a vulture, and the biggest grouping too.

Guy walks by with his dog. I’ve got my binoculars in my camera and I’m practically peeing myself with excitement. “What do you see?” he asks.

“Vultures!”

“Oh. That’s too bad.”

I look at him like he is an alien from outer space.

“Always a shame when something dies.” And then he walks off.

Um, dude. Things die. When you look at a hawk or a bald eagle, do you think, “Oh, what a shame, that thing is only alive because it kills things. Such a shame when things die. Damn, wish I’d never seen that magnificent creature. Now I’m just going to be depressed all day.”

No, you think, “wow!”

And if you think wow when you see hawks and eagles, then how much more noble are vultures, who have the same glorious carriage without being murderous?

(I mean, seriously. Have you ever seen a predator go after its prey? I was going to say “kill,” but not all of them actually kill their prey before they start eating it. And you think vultures are disturbing?)

Also, would you like the dead bodies of small animals to just sit in your local woods and rot until you can smell them from a quarter mile away? The vultures are doing you a favor.

Also, VULTURES. Just look at them for 2 seconds with new eyes. They are amazing.

[wellthatsjustgreat]

The next time they tell you Americans are “happy” with their employer provided health insurance remember that that “happiness” is fueled by willful ignorance of what the alternatives are really like and fear of losing what little crappy health care they currently have.