Please, Mikala!

27. North of England. Gin, Diet Coke, and insomnia. Slimming World: Week 52, 6 stone 3.5lbs lost ✌🏼

[wherethereareoctobers]

If you could instantly be granted fluency in 5 languages—not taking away your existing language proficiency in any way, solely a gain—what 5 would you choose?

[mikalaplease]

British Sign Language

Latin

Welsh

Mandarin

French

[aewm]

what do u mean “what have i been up to” … i’m out here ruining my own life as always bitch

[mikalaplease]

If anyone’s still out there, I’ve recently returned to PoGo! Add me! I’m pretty good at sending out gifts and I get stupid excited when I get an egg from somewhere far away 😁

[gowns]

lower-income people tend to be “hoarders” and richer people are able to do more “minimalist” living spaces. if u don’t have much, you will hold onto any little thing that comes across your way. you got a new tv, but you still keep the old tv because you know things can break. you keep extra boxes of macaroni and cheese lying around because there will be a week when you don’t have money for groceries. you hold onto your stacks of books and clothes for dear life. those are your assets. physical evidence of where your money’s gone. it’s hard to get rid of it. the bare wall is terrifying when you don’t have much.

[femmeemberme-deactivated2018022]

Fuck. This makes so much sense and explains so much about me. I must have inherited this from my mum.

[lokahjarta]

so I’d normally put this in the tags but it’s kind of a lot so just reblog this from OP to skip my commentary. But I dogsit for a family who is clearly LOADED. Their house is immaculate. High, vaulted ceilings, wood flooring, two chandeliers in one room. These things are fancy, right ?? I really don’t know, anything that isn’t tile or 30 year old carpet seems fancy to me. It also so… bare. Everything is organized perfectly, they have no excess. Their decor is extravagant and yet minimal - it is carefully and precisely executed. Nothing that doesn’t match the aesthetic sits in their living room. I tried to replicate some of it, but it’s just not possible. I have every book I’ve ever owned, my mom keeps papers upon papers, VHSs in a dresser, how do you just get rid of these things when you know you may not have the opportunity to buy them again? How must it feel to live in such orderly quarters where everything is replaceable?

[ignescent]

This really locked into my brain when I was reading one of the declutter your space things and it suggested getting rid of duplicate highlighters and pens. /Pens/. It suggested that you needed one or two working pens, so if you had extra you should get rid of them. That was when I realized minimalist living was /innately/ tied to having spare money, because the idea was, of course you just went out and bought the single replacement thing whenever the first thing broke. You obv. Had the time and money to only ever hold what you needed that moment, because you could always buy more later.

[jiangchengdidnothingwrong]

there’s a nice article titled “minimalism is just another boring product wealthy people can buy” by Chelsea Fagan which i feel addressed lots of my problems with minimalism, you can read it [here]

[scavengedluxury]

Adding this article by Ian Svenonius: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/07/all-power-to-the-pack-rats/

[notalkingplz]

[itsavalonsmith]

me: *puts tea bag into boiling water*

me: what a great witch I am

[animatedtext]

[feministism]

[imthelesbian-archive-deactivate]

am i constantly tired? yes.

but am i staying awake when i should be sleeping? also yes.

[cmyque]

Books that people read romantically but shouldn’t because they’re missing the point:

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

[ami-saturna-deactivated20210622]

That’s your opinion.

[myutsuumoved-deactivated2014052]

there’s nothing romantic about a pedophile rapist, the senseless murder-suicide of teenagers because families can’t get their shit together or the hypocrisy of the roaring 20s

[technicallythearical]

FINALLY SOMEONE SAYS IT

[sodomymcscurvylegs]

NOTHING is funnier to me than the fact that Dumbledore literally designed the PERFECT protection for the Philosopher’s Stone but still let the McGonagall enchant a giant chess set and Snape make a Legend of Zelda puzzle purely for the DRAMA of it all. And y'all say Dumbledore wasn’t ever visibly gay.

[catboybreeder]

Dumbledore when Snape and McGonagall came to him with their suggestions, knowing FULL WELL how unnecessary they were:

[seleneofthejungle]

Flitwick, approaching nervously: Dumbledore, I heard that Snape and McGonagall are helping, and I’d like to design a – Dumbledore: – a room filled with enchanted keys. Flitwick: – a room filled with enchanted keys! Dumbledore:

[surlydruid]

Sprout: how about a room full of devils snare?

Dumbledore:

Hagrid: I also happen to have this three headed dog that I-well it’s not important where it came from, but he could help guard the stone too maybe?

Dumbledore:

[sarahseeandersen]

[bob-belcher]

[shencomix]

[orwell]

[mikalaplease]

Bitch me too the fuck

[squirreltidings]

Yesterday I had a friend tell me how one of her close friends has a whole bunch of succulents, and she has given each one the name of her close friends. She nurses them, takes care of them, talks to them, and if one ever starts to get sick or not grow well, she talks to the friend in question and something is almost always bothering them.

And if that isn’t one of the cutest examples of subtle green witchcraft I don’t know what is.

[embroideried]

this is so sad alexa play UNHhhh (chronological) playlist on YouTube