Lola Thimble

She/Her. Old enough to be your mum. Really. And I'm not great at tagging (I tend to use them purely for yelling into the void) so: If you choose to be here, that's a choice you're making and has nothing to do with me. I'm not in charge of your internet experience so please look after yourself and curate that experience carefully. Among these pages you will find an ever changing set of tv shows and movies that I feel the need to fangirl over, some feminism, politics and anything that makes me laugh and/or cry, oh, and animals, because animals are better than everything. Feel free to say hi; I'm shy but friendly!

[holespoles]

The Rainbow Book of American Folk Tales and Legends illustration by Marc Simont 1958

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oh this phrase is not going to leave my mind for a solid week at least. obsessed with this collection of words

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le doohickie in question btw:

[thereigning-lorelai]

He’s a mechanic, I think. He uses a metal form of xenon. He can make anything. And if I can’t understand what he’s saying, which is most of the time, he puts on a little puppet show for me and my tiny brain.

Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord, Chris Miller

bonus:

[vonlipwig]

so you're a parent, right? and your kid's school has been keeping in pretty constant contact about their staffing issues. you get it; it's not like education has ever been a well-paid job. maybe you even considered it once, a million years ago, but you discounted the idea as soon as you saw the paygrades - it really is a vocation for those people.

anyway, yeah, your kid's had substitutes for over half the academic year now and it's not that they're bad at their jobs, per se, it's just. well. y'know. a rotating cast of teachers isn't ideal for academic advancement. kids need stability.

but you get why the school hasn't let their usual teacher go and hired someone new. you think he's been on stress leave, maybe? you understand that, for sure; practically everyone is going through burnout right now, ironically. and the guy's the most committed, knowledgable, passionate teacher you've ever met. he has a doctorate, for christ's sake - god knows why he's teaching middle school. but he cares. like REALLY cares. you swear he fully teared up at the last parent-teacher conference when you said your child was considering a career in STEM because of his lessons.

you hope he's doing alright. and you really hope he comes back soon; apparently the last sub believed in intelligent design.

anyway, it's time for the launch, so you'd better focus up and watch-- wait. what the FUCK.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

so strange when people assume 'waking up early' means increased productivity bc no??? im awake so i can read fanfic in bed before breakdown

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

BREAKFAST

[transformativeworks]

[the-walking-red-blog]

that’s an interesting marketing strategy

[oldbutchdanielmolloy]

it is just obvious to me that if you opened your eyes for even one second you would realize that Big Sweat invented the idea of going outside in the summer to make you produce more sweat

[existennialmemes]

[scrolling social media] Who the fuck is Jimothy?

[a brief internet search later] Ahh yes, ok I understand. Jimothy is my religion now.

[croaksac]

via Seattle Times:

Local Ballard raccoon has been spotted thriving in a remarkably unique and charming body

Yes he(?)'s actually factually real and has even been given an extremely millennial nickname: Jimothy. Wildlife experts advise everyone to just leave him alone and let him live his life

[voidcreations]

Look at my birthday cake...

[thedarkesthistories]

has paid off their student loans: robinavitch, walsh

has some loans left but is on a good payment plan: collins, santos

has over a 100k in loans: whitaker, ellis, langdon, mckay, mel

never had student loans: javadi, garcia, mohan (scholarship) + bonus: the army paid for school for abbot(t).

has about 700k in loans and ignores the governments threat letters: shen

[yourreddancer]

The European Union already forced Apple to abandon its proprietary charging port and adopt USB-C across its entire iPhone lineup. It just did something bigger. A new EU mandate requires every smartphone sold in Europe including Apple devices to feature a battery that can be replaced by the user without specialist tools, without voiding a warranty, and without sending the device to a manufacturer approved service center. Batteries must maintain a minimum capacity threshold after a set number of charge cycles and replacement parts must remain available for up to ten years after a model goes on sale.

The consumer electronics industry built its current business model around batteries that degrade, cannot be replaced at home, and create a natural upgrade cycle every two to three years. The EU just legislated that model out of existence in the world's largest regulatory market.

Apple, Samsung, and every other manufacturer now faces a choice between redesigning their devices for the European market or accepting that their current hardware architecture is no longer legally sellable there.

Given that no company walks away from European consumers voluntarily the phones are going to change and once they change for Europe the rest of the world will ask why theirs still do not.

[laterkiss]

Hii

i can't do this rn

[stellaluna33]

We want Flawed Female Characters! No, not THOSE flaws. 😕 Those aren't sexy, COOL flaws. You know, the ones that I don't think actually SHOULD be considered flaws, that I might even feel personally judged for. The "unjustly martyred by the court of public opinion" kind of flaws. So like a "flawed" woman who's actually kind of a Saint in a way. I didn't want, like, FLAW flaws. What she did was WRONG and that makes her a BAD PERSON, and how can you justify that? If you still like her after what she did, that makes YOU a Bad Person too. Ugh, disgusting. 😕 But anyway, WHY isn't anyone writing flawed female characters?

[enchantedbook]

“The Magician’s Chariot” (1939), by Gwen Raverat, for the tale The Bird Talisman.

[titsay]

[benepla-deactivated20180521]

if i didnt know who these characters were i’d say its a french indie gay romantic drama that is playing a little too heavily with color symbolism