remarkable and unexpected places

letting go and enjoying the flight.

[missroserose]

Happy Pride Month to Caroline Kingsbury and all my fellow colorful synth-pop yearning queers 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

[memeuplift]

[mrbrojangles]

[purlturtle]

Twitter thread by Melissa Caruso about a labyrinthine magical bookstore in Syracuse, NY. Link to the first tweet in the thread; most pictures have image descriptions! Now here are the screenshots of that thread:

And then a hero of the labyrinthine magical bookstores of the world put all the bookstores that people listed in the replies on a map! (Google Maps link)

[jackiefour]

There are many such bookstores scattered around, but there will soon be one less. Books Galore, in Erie, PA, is closing at the end of the month.

Books Galore Announces Final Chapter After 43 Years

After over 40 years in business, Books Galore on Peach Street in Erie will close permanently on July 31, 2026, marking the end of a communit

I was able to go, one last time, at the beginning of July. It's been part of my annual trip to Erie for decades. My boys and I would go there and spend an hour or two browsing before hitting the road and heading home. I'm so sad. Anyway, if you're in the Erie area this month (July 2026), now's your last chance to go.

[an-atlas-or-other]

Soccer players are the horses of sports. They run around in fields for hours on end. They stub their toe and they die. They fall and they die. They run into each other and

[qhockeysacrament]

This would make hockey players the cats of sports. Random zoomies, chasing the little dot, knocking things over, and not admitting sickness or injury until nearly dead.

[scifigrl47]

Put more hockey players in air jail. Putting them in the naughty box isn't enough. Air jail. Watch them hiss and claw the air.

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[aetherograph]

this is very funny but you NEED to know it's a front, with geese. They are prey animals, they know it, they are trying to convince you that is not the case. If you stare them down and start Stalking them, they change their tune REAL fast. They are smaller than you. You are a predatory animal as well as a prey animal, and geese are one of your prey species. We literally domesticated geese because they are delicious. They chase because you act afraid and that is what they want, it isn't because they have any ability to actually do much to you. They're filter feeding birds that are like, 1/5th your size. They come with a convenient handle for yeeting.

Swans have the ability to do you a bit of harm bc of the bony knobs on their wings that are for punching, but even they can't really do a lot. Running at you is actually very foolish, as it puts your hands in range of their necks.

I'm not saying go out and kill the geese and the swans.

I'm saying make sure they THINK you are absolutely going to kill and eat them if they are dumb enough to get close to you.

[thelawfulchaotic]

That's great and all but I was once bitten by a duck and geese are bigger than that and I don't like it

[winonaparadise]

"a moment on the lips a lifetime on the hips" is so fucking crazy to me because that just sounds like a win/win

[funnier-as-a-feedist]

prev you're changing my brain chemistry

[hutsonwoolyums]

It’s vitally important that people remember that no matter how many followers someone has on here they’re still literally just some person with a blog and not, like, The Authority on anything.

[thickness-protection-program]

One of my dude coworkers was like "we should both quit and start an onlyfans." We??

[thickness-protection-program]

Update he is in fact bi. Happy pride everybody

[thickness-protection-program]

Update he and his 40 year old "roommate" like to bump coochies and didn't rule out the possibility of a third. Happy pride everybody

[thickness-protection-program]

Update he just offered to give me my first bottoming experience happy pride everybody

[thickness-protection-program]

Update me and him made out in the meat cooler on the clock happy pride everybody

[elgreytea]

What are you reading rn, why are you reading it, and what format are you reading it in (physical book, ereader, on your phone etc)

[waytoomuchinformation]

I put a spell on you…

Photos by @themonsterthing

[screampotato]

Suddenly struck with a need to explain to you how boat pronouns work (I work in the marine industry).

When you're talking about the design of the boat, you say "it".

When the boat is still being built, your say "it".

When the boat is nearing completion, you can say "it" or "she".

When the boat is floating in the water you probably say "she", unless there is still a lot of work to be done (e.g. no engine yet) then you say "it".

When the boat is officially launched and operating, you say "she". If you continue to say "it" at this point you are not incorrect but suspiciously untraditional. You are not playing the game.

If you are referring to a boat you don't really know anything about you may say "it" ("there's a big boat, it's coming this way"). But if you know its name, it's probably "she" ("there's the Waverley, she's on her way to Greenock").

If you are talking about boats in general, you say "it" ("when a boat is hit by a wave it heels over")

If you speak about a boat in complimentary terms, it's "she" ("she's a grand boat"). If you are being disparaging it may be it, but not necessarily ("it's as ugly as sin", "she's a grotty old tub").

If she has a boy's name, she's still she. "Boy James", "King Edward", "Sir David Attenborough"? The pronoun is she.

If it's a dumb barge (no engine), you say it. But if it's a rowing boat (no engine), you say she.

I hope this has cleared things up so that you may not be in danger of misgendering floating objects.

[glitched-out-mess]

[theramblingvoid]

Hit "view post" and lost it

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[holy-leapin-splits-batman]

[haarute]

pov you are sent to hell

[sodeathitis]

They grow grants there like rhubarb

[stuckinapril]

[stuckinapril]

happy if you have scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with your sexuality july

[docholligay]

Possibly my spiciest take is that it's actually good to have people you respect and like that have some dogshit takes.

I think part of what is making young people lonelier, in discussing why they're increasingly isolated, is that they're so afraid of meeting someone who doesn't hold their same beliefs, and instead of being just core beliefs it is kinda ancillary shit.

It's actually okay to disagree even on social topics! Even on some political ones! But I mean, online you can start with "i love this mutual but they have a really bad/uninformed opinion about x media"

I know this is IMMEDIATELY going to be taken in bad faith, and yes babygirl, you are so right, I DO want you to go make best friends with both the KKK grand wizard AND your nearest nazi leader.

But seriously, as someone who has spent two decades doing community organization: finding ways to connect with different people is so so so important. There are people i follow here who ate 80% smart and their brain falls out of their head 20% of the time and that is GOOD FOR MY MENTAL ECOSYSTEM AND GOOD FOR LEARNING HOW TO BE A PERSON

LET'S ALL GO PISS ON THE POOR

[mikkeneko]

[notaplaceofhonour]

It’s also good to assume you probably are the friend whose brain falls out 20% of the time.

We all have blind spots, assumptions, and dogshit take from time to time. They can’t all be winners.

[missroserose]

confess your sins to me while you— 🙏🥵

A spicy little something my friend Velvet Rose and I put together to keep warm during a recent cold snap. You're welcome 😘