In The Mirror

SD, he/they, queer, 30s. Blog runs mostly on queue. Multi-fandom and ever changing interests. I try to tag triggers, but please ask if you need me to add something to that list. transphobes, antisemites, racists, homophobes, bigots not welcome. Come visit me on AO3

[lycan-teeth]

[lovewithagirl]

image description: a black patch with white text embroidered on it that reads "YES I BITE BUT I'VE HAD MY SHOTS". / end description

[tahthetrickster]

did a bit of driving through the state of georgia today and wound up driving through a small town that i later discovered was called newborn, which is an odd name but doesn’t technically have anything wrong with it, except for the fact that i nearly gave myself whiplash doing a double-take at a building sign advertising NEWBORN TAXIDERMY

[phleb0tomist]

so many people ive known have pushed themselves to burnout trying to deny their disabled reality, skipping accommodations, skipping rests etc. and the world convinces them that the solution to their burnout is to push even harder. it’s a huge tragedy. i know social pressures make it tough but i want more disabled people to make things easier for themselves where possible, to opt out of things that harm them when possible, to quit while they’re ahead. be that person today! protect yourself where you can! take micro breaks while doing your hobby. get that shower chair. sit to brush your teeth. lie down in the middle of the day, even if only for 5 mins. these things add up and it’s so worth it.

[unalivejournal]

Ok. What you're gonna want to do is chop up a cucumber and put it in a bowl. Then you're gonna sprinkle a generous portion of salt on top. Then you're gonna drizzle them with a balsamic vinaigrette and gently shake to combine, leaving you with a cool and refreshing summer snack. In 15 seconds dangerous and burly men are going to drag me away to an unknown second location. Remember everything I've taught you. I love you

[slimetony]

hey guys im making french toast sticks in the oven. I’m gonna take a quick nap wake me up in 5 minutes so i can flip them over

[guddram-deactivated20180109]

Randy its been five minutes flip your sticks

[slimetony]

snnnnzzzzz

[guddram-deactivated20180109]

[dreg-heap]

10 years ago

[lovewithagirl]

image description: large black text against a white background that reads, "RANDY YOUR STICKS". / end description

[flyin-shark]

I feel cheated. no one on Reddit told me that tumblr is a serotonin factory. Keep liking and reblogging my posts please thanks

[felixcloud6288]

Just don't fly too close to the sun.

[flyin-shark]

Throw me to the sun and I’ll get it pregnant

[strangehorse]

he understands the website your honour

[hotgirlmeg]

imagine you have a movie with oscar isaac and john boyega and people fixate on adam driver instead. this actually happened

[degrommunism]

I really do not think the average person understands how different the training resources and access are for a cis man playing sports vs everyone else. I wrote an article last month about how until 2020 they were given the Swedish women’s national hockey team expired protein bars for tournaments and only five practices leading up to it. More often than not people who aren’t cis able bodied men playing a sport do not have equipment properly fitted to them. Women’s teams do just straight up get less court or field or ice time. Coaches and trainers will refuse to train you on certain things because they just assume you cannot do something.

Idk. We have seen the athletic accomplishments of cis men come very far in the past century as they got more specialized training and the sports industry as a whole grew. Yet People still really think physical advancements and progression can only be done by cis men, and the the upper limit of what’s been recorded by everyone else is this permanent, unmovable thing. For a long time people thought it was impossible for a woman to do a triple axel until it happened.

[johannestevans]

Watched a documentary about abuse and advice one guy said to give children was, "Tell them that if someone is hurting them, to tell someone - and don't just tell one person. Tell as many people as possible, and keep telling as many people as possible until the abuse stops." and i really liked that

Bc so many ppl focus on the idea of telling A Trusted Adult, but even a well-meaning individual can fuck up and let abuse fall through the cracks or not know what to do

Whereas if a child tells LOADS of adults AND other kids, there's far less opportunity for an abuser to do damage control

Consistently telling their story and spreading it around disempowers the abuser to control and coerce the flow of information, or to utilise gaps and weaknesses in systems of reporting or welfare to isolate the child

Just really good advice. Not suprised I don't hear it more often.

[kadens-a-bee]

When the pairing is so good that it doesn’t matter if you see it as romantic or platonic. What matters is that you see them and know that one is not complete without the other. Frequently bought together. Do not separate. If you separate them one of them will bite you

[website-com]

oh quote from joseph gordon-levitt on being second, we're really in it now

[website-com]

[lovewithagirl]

image one text description: I AM a second child—my brother, Dan, was 6 1/2 years older than I was. That meant that he was always better at everything. That was really hard for me, 'cause I was competetive.

image two text description: I always had him as an example. When I was young, just doing basic things, like learning how to talk. Well, he's my example.

image three text description: Learning how to—piss standing up. Or—shave. My mom told him he had to do it. She was like, show your brother how to shave. [Laughs].

image four text description: Yeah. He also...he also died first. So, I...have that, as an example. In a way.

image five text description: And—and frankly, it makes it less scary. In a way, too. Knowing that he's—done it. 'Cause all the big things I ever had to do, he did 'em first. / end descriptions

[cerleansky]

The legacies people leave behind in you.

My handwriting is the same style as the teacher’s who I had when I was nine. I’m now twenty one and he’s been dead eight years but my i’s still curve the same way as his.

I watched the last season of a TV show recently but I started it with my friend in high school. We haven’t spoken in four years.

I make lentil soup through the recipe my gran gave me.

I curl my hair the way my best friend showed me.

I learned to love books because my father loved them first.

How terrifying, how excruciatingly painful to acknowledge this. That I am a jigsaw puzzle of everyone I have briefly known and loved. I carry them on with me even if I don’t know it. How beautiful.

~Edit~

Yikes guys I didn’t expect this post to blow up.

I’m grateful it did though. Looking at all the comments and tags really takes a stab at my heart because it just shows how wired we are for connection. If life has any meaning, then it’s that.

This concept really sunk its teeth into me as it reassures the notion that no one is ever truly gone. Parts of them just change into you.

That teacher I talked about inspired me to become a teacher myself. This was my first year teaching. Here’s to a new generation of curved i’s.

[kyoshi-lesbians]

my controversial opinion is I don’t think Zuko was confused by “my first girlfriend turned into the moon”

[kyoshi-lesbians]

he was there during siege of the North. he infiltrated the spirit oasis. he has an uncle who studies spirits and the spirit world. he watched the sky go dark then the moon suddenly reappear like everyone else in the entire world did. and most importantly he watched zhao get eaten by a giant godzilla fish spirit.

[kyoshi-lesbians]

his entire life since he saw that beam of blue-white light in the south pole has been ‘this day has already been so goddamn weird’

[edgar-allan-possum]

The only really new information was that that was Sokka’s girlfriend

[library-graffiti]

Important opinion in the tags that I need to have be part of the post:

[clearascountryair]

Also, Iroh was there? He literally watched Sokka make out with the moon spirit. And you want to tell me that a romantic sap like him would not have immediately told Zuko about this romantic tragedy? Please, Zuko has known about this for ages, he just knows that this is not an acceptable situation in which to say “yeah, I know.”

[terriwriting]

Sokka: “My girlfriend turned into the moon.”

Zuko: “I know.” “Yes.” “She sure did.” “Uh huh.” “Tell me something new.” “Are we still talking about that?” “That’s rough, buddy.”

[alexseanchai]

[image: tags by samwisethebold: #it’s not that he doesn’t get what sokka means #it’s that how on earth do you respond to that]

[uberguber89]

When you put it like that, this is actually a legendary display of tact on Zuko’s part

[iguanamouth]

I really like winnie the pooh, Can you draw winnie the pooh pleaseeeeee

[thetyrannosaur]

Happy 10 year anniversary to this absolutely foundational post

[skiingcows]

#really cannot emphasize enough how much iguanamouth changed the site’s sense of humor and therefore the timeline of the western world

[lovewithagirl]

image one description: a drawing of Winnie the Pooh half propping himself up on the snowy ground, blood in his eyes and a bloody scratch on his cheek as he presses one hand to a wound on his stomach, saying "It's no use.....he bit me". Behind him is a still Tigger laying on the ground facing away from the viewer, a gun wound in his back as well as several other bloody wounds, part of his rib cage exposed.

image two description: a close up drawing of Piglet crying and sweating as he holds a double-barreled shotgun, with a speech bubble coming from the offscreen Winnie the Pooh saying "Pull the trigger Piglet". / end description

[shattersaurus]

Old foes

Always been a sucker for whales

[lovewithagirl]

image description: an illustration of a red giant squid and a scar-covered black sperm whale swimming down with several of the squids tentacles around the whale, and also surrounded by several much smaller red squids. / end description

[willgrahamscock]

some of you need to internalize this concept

[lovewithagirl]

image description: a screenshot of a social media comment by thanian that reads, "the fact that you cannot understand it doesn't decreases it's meaning". / end description

[cupkaykie]

There’s something immeasurably beautiful about humans, in that they can be the furthest from Earth that anyone has ever traveled, and the first thing they want to do is express love.

The crew of Artemis II officially broke the record previously set by Apollo 13 in 1970, and the first thing they did was name a crater, Carroll, after the late wife of Commander Reid Wiseman.

It doesn’t matter how far from home I am, I will always be thinking of you. When I look up at the night sky, I think of you. When I ponder human existence and the importance of this mission, I think of you. I want a place for you, forever. I want the whole world to know about you and how much I love you. People say they’d give the one they love the moon, if they could.

So I chose a beautiful bright spot on the moon, and it’s yours, in perpetuity.

Crater Carroll.