The Brightside

Hey, I'm Kylie. Kylie Merrow. I'm 20. Harry Potter is my passion as well as manatees. I believe that these times deserve to be better. So what I do in life will change the world. There are doubters of my greatness, but they'll see. You'll all see. Always remember to look on The Brightside ~My Obsessions: Harry Potter, The Avengers, Sherlock, Doctor Who, TRON, Coldplay, The Killers, The Gorillaz, The Hunger Games, Avatar the Last Airbender, Star Trek, Steven Universe Pottermore Username: HollyMist143, Ravenclaw House

[marypsue]

I do not want my fantasy media to be realistic. I want my fantasy media to be convincing.

[heroineimages]

That’s an excellent distinction.

[max1461]

Why are we italicizing?

[as-if-and-only-if]

To convince.

[max1461]

To convince who?

[sigmaleph]

The Italians

[queenpalms]

[humancomputer-blog1]

If you need me I’ll be in the bath watching lava on my television

[cloudfreed]

“sigh…. this extremely hot water will have to do”

[catchymemes]

[shitpostinguniverse]

[kittygallore]

Text from my wife this morning regarding our Sphynx

[dankmemecentral1]

My dad is a kroger manager and sent me this (repost without personal info)

[leafcrunch]

they thought 1 lb stood for “one little bean”

[ouijeparlefrancais69]

[persistent-wallflower]

S- spicey......

[bread-making-vikings]

begging everyone to watch the French contestant introducing herself at Miss World she's last if you want to skip some other fucking wild deliveries

[bespeckledbauble]

[whynotfabulous]

Being followed by a car for 2 turns in the city: "I'm about to be murdered. Let me call my mom and write my will because this is it"

Being followed by a car for 6 hours on country highways: "The relationship between Blue Subaru and I is beyond compare. We're family. My road brother."

[whynotfabulous]

You get it

[galehive]

[soggywarmpockets]

If/when you have children please let them (as soon as they're able) pick the theme of their birthday parties.

The girl who used to do my hair let her toddler pick the theme of her 3rd birthday and she chose Target. Like, the store. So everything was red and white and covered in bullseyes and I'm just so full of joy looking at the pictures on Facebook right now because it is obvious that this little girl is having the time of her life and that her parents put so much love and creativity into making the decorations and cupcakes.

Children will come up with some of the best and most fascinating ideas if you let them.

[asortoflight]

A former coworker told me her daughter chose a retirement themed 6th birthday party, so they had a whole bunch of decorations that said "happy retirement" etc. and I was like Jess your daughter is an absolute icon

[soggywarmpockets]

This child is BRILLIANT. I love this so much.

[uncommon-etc]

My brother got asked what theme he wanted for his 4th birthday (the same year I had my 9th) he said he wanted an Easter party like mine (mini-eggs, easter-eggs, painted eggs, egg-based crafts all round, with rabbits and chickens everywhere) the only issue? My birthday is in late-March, his is in August, do you know how hard it is to find easter eggs in August???

[tramampoline]

Don’t forget Him

[shitpostinguniverse]

[historicaltimes]

“Crazy Dion” Diamond at one of his sit-ins as a teenager in Arlington, VA. June 10, 1960

via reddit

[kaylapocalypse-deactivated20201]

All of those people around him are demons

[chemicallywrit]

hey guys! here’s some fun things i learned from this article about Dion Diamond:

he did these sit-ins by himself. like idk about you, but i always thought of sit-ins as organized by groups, what kind of bravery does it take, man

he didn’t tell anyone about it, like he was no glory-seeker about this. his parents didn’t even know until reporters started calling them up like “hey, did you know your son is in jail?

when someone called the cops he’d skedaddle out the back door although he was sent to prison multiple times

the last time he got arrested was in Baton Rouge, and the cops were so sick of him that they told inmates they’d put in a good word for anyone who gave Diamond a hard time. (the inmates didn’t take the bait.)

he’s still alive!

hark, a hero of our times!

[beesmygod]

[yotzuyu]

[cannibalchicken]

make better choices

[tkingfisher]

So the really fabulous thing about this is that while there’s two basic theories about how the seals get an eel up their nose, there are also problems with both of them. The first is that the seal is shoving its head in holes in the rocks and the eel panics and goes for what looks like a hole—ie a seal nostril. And that would be a great theory, except that seals have what are described as “extremely muscular nostrils” because they gotta slam them closed when diving to keep water out.

Which, okay, fine, except that there’s often like two, three feet of eel INSIDE THE SEAL. The stuff hanging out is just the end of the tail. And eels are astonishingly powerful for their size, true, but so are seal nostrils. (Why am I typing these words? How did my life come to this?)

The other theory, of course, is that they barfed up an eel and it came out their nose instead, but we’re talking a fairly impressive feat that the eel lined up just right to come out the nostrils, and also those are BIG eels. It’d be kinda like a human puking a spear of asparagus out of their nose. (Why am I typing THESE words, too? Why?)

The remaining theory, which is actually the one ascribed to by the lead scientist on the endangered monk seal project, is that dumb teenage seals are snorting eels at each other for fun. And y’know…I just…sure. We live in a world where that wouldn’t even be the tenth strangest thing I’ve heard about mammals.

In conclusion, if any young monk seals are following me, Just Say No To Eel.

[grimsauce]

[tkingfisher]

EXACTLY LIKE THAT probably

[irondoe]

Ok but the real question is what happens to the eels? Are they alive up there squiggling around like, ‘wtf?’ Do the scientists remove them? Are eels beginning to avoid areas where teenage monk seals hang out?

[tkingfisher]

I regret to say that the eels do not come out of this as well as the seals do. But it did lead to one of the most understated and marvelous sentences ever spoken by a wildlife rehabber, namely:

“Though no seals have died or been seriously affected by the eels, having a dead animal up their noses for any extended amount of time poses potentially adverse health impacts, said Simeone, director of Ke Kai Ola, a monk seal hospital in Hawaii run by the Marine Mammal Center.”

[rylandsgrace]

#Merry crisis