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them 21

[ghoul-bois]

He made it to the big leagues, boys.

[pastperfectcontinuous]

The Age of Instagram Face

How social media, FaceTune, and plastic surgery created a single, cyborgian look.

I had worn makeup at sixteen to my college interviews; I’d worn makeup at my gymnastic meets when I was ten. In the photos I have of myself at ballet recitals when I was six or seven, I’m wearing mascara and blush and lipstick, and I’m so happy. What did it mean, I wondered, that I have spent so much of my life attempting to perform well in circumstances where an unaltered female face is aberrant? How had I been changed by an era in which ordinary humans receive daily metrics that appear to quantify how our personalities and our physical selves are performing on the market? What was the logical end of this escalating back-and-forth between digital and physical improvement?

On Instagram, I checked up on the accounts of the plastic surgeons I had visited, watching comments roll in: “this is what I need! I need to come see you ASAP!”, “want want want,” “what is the youngest you could perform this procedure?” I looked at the Instagram account of a singer born in 1999, who had become famous as a teen-ager and had since given herself an entirely new face. I met up with a bunch of female friends for dinner in L.A. that night, two of whom had already adopted injectables as part of their cosmetic routine. They looked beautiful. The sun went down, and the hills of L.A. started to glitter. I had the sense that I was living in some inexorable future. For some days afterward, I noticed that I was avoiding looking too closely at my face.

[nursery-deactivated20160926]

[arterialtrees]

ALL THINGS ARE DELICATELY INTERCONNECTED by Jenny Holzer

[yesterdaysprint]

Vancouver Daily World, British Columbia, June 27, 1921

[chronicgoth]

Fucking kill it, little girl next door

[illcebran-deactivated20221104]

A FUCKING ICON

[viciousmeme]

[toxictiktoks]

[hyrude]

ao3′s orphaning option is cool and a good idea but mostly very fucking funny. i posted this work for fun when i was younger and i still want people to be able to come back to it if they liked it, but now im an adult professional and i dont want it attached to my name. whats the word for that? umm, anonymously posting? no. i want something that indicates i murdered this story’s parents 

[kyraneko]

technically the story’s parents faked their own death and disappeared to go have an office job, and that’s even funnier

[berkblock]

we sold our fics to One Direction

[gublernews]

[boarofthenorth100]

Today I Am Playing Death Stranding

[boarofthenorth100]

Today I Am Turning Off Death Stranding Because It Is Too Scary

[boarofthenorth100]

Today I Am Playing Kirby & The Amazing Mirror

[sodomymcscurvylegs]

When you're at Halloween Horror Nights and something grabs your shoulder

[sumrsgirl]

how to self teach a new language 

have contact with this language by hearing it on movies, tv shows and music. this will help you with your pronunciation skills and with your vocabulary

learn vocabulary and grammar at the same time

read kids books and translate what you don’t know. it might be hard at the beginning, but keep trying 

speak to yourself will help you like crazy. I like to pretend that I’m acting or that someone is interviewing me hahah see the magic happens 

READ AND WRITE. this is as important as speaking. It used to be so hard for me to write in English and I felt awful because I could actually speak very well. But my writing skills were just a lower level than my speaking level. Thankfully it’s getting better with practice. 

try to study a little everyday. if you don’t have time to do so, watch a movie or something, but have this contact with the new language at least once a day

be persistent because the processes of learning a new language can really piss you off. sometimes you will understand nothing and that will drag you down. the difference is to keep pushing until it doesn’t bother you anymore! 

[threesideddream]

[animal-factbook]

Dog owners please be aware.

[teamvoorhees]

REBLOG THIS PLEASE

[vaspider]

This is Snopes-confirmed. Also be aware this is very common in sugar free food of many kinds. The retriever puppy who I know of who died of xylitol poisoning got hold of a pack of sugar-free gum.

[veterinaryrambles]

Always good to remind folks - if it has xylitol, KEEP IT AWAY FROM DOGS! It induces profound hypoglycemia and liver failure and is life-threatening :(

[ruffboi-mags]

[yespumpkindoodlesthings]

Xylitol is also the typical ingredient in sugar free candies and some baked goods. Other names, if you’re checking labels:

What other names is Xylitol known by? Birch Sugar, E967, Meso-Xylitol, Méso-Xylitol, Sucre de Bouleau, Xilitol, Xylit, Xylite, Xylo-pentane-1,2,3,4,5-pentol.

A list of brands and products containing xylitol

[bbbbb843965704367h-deactivated2]

bro… are you writing mean things about yourself online..?

stop saying these things.. u gotta stop using maladaptive coping humour to demean and belittle yourself so much.. i just want u to be kinder to urself bro

[maladaptive-coping-mechanism]

called out

[bbbbb843965704367h-deactivated2]

.. our psyche is like a garden that needs to be tended to and watered.. take care of urself ok bro? i’m always here if u need me

[moonemojii]

*friends car is locked*

Friend: stop pulling the handle

Me:

[takkezooi-deactivated20200726]

The disorted version is a million times funnier than the original one… i’m wheezing

[localtiktoks]

This is from the Official Nickelodeon Tik Tok page..?