yearning for the night bus

• nessie • she/they/it • dragon enthusiast • mutuals can ask for my discord

[namelessennes]

not alive not dead but a secret third thing (chronically ill)

[kuttithevangu]

I have a disease called if the author tells me this world is good and then doesn’t examine the power structures involved I start looking for the Omelas hole

[confines]

communication

[lamignonette]

[hellenhighwater]

Should I be saving my money for a down payment on a house and getting rid of furniture so I have less to move? Yes. And also yes.

But consider:

She's $300 and I need her

[hellenhighwater]

She's here!!

This side-by-side was built by the Rockford Desk and Furniture Co., which only existed from 1891-1895. I've found one singular other example of this cabinet, which was auctioned over a decade ago, and was stained a dark cherry color. I personally like the color of the quartersawn oak as it is, so I'm not planning a full restoration.

[hellenhighwater]

Wait I just realized this puts her in line of sight with my favorite chifforobe and I love how they look together. Very different periods and styles but I feel like there's a dialogue there.

We are not judging the mess in my drawing room, that's a later problem. Work table all covered in nonsense...

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

always some new bullshit in the ocean

[local-demon-in-your-area]

Why is it always orcas or dolphins

Why can't a salmon do some bullshit for once

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

worry not ☝️ they're doing coke

[datsderbunnyblog]

This comment was left on a post about making the most of the Libby app. "Excessive use of generous lending policies" is the most absurd phrase I've ever seen anyone use to discuss libraries.

[catboycommunist]

evergreen

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

looked up Heidi because I'm a journalist

for reasons I can't imagine this publisher of sexless Alaska love stories is averaging under 20 likes each on posts about her books, so if I can be so honest I kind of have my doubts that her books are getting read even with the excessive use of generous lending policies

[banji-effect]

The ancient world was full of textile masterpieces we can only imagine… but most of them have rotted away. So few of them have come down to us in these days that we think of metal and stone as the primary mediums for the oldest artworks. But there were tapestries and fabric work that would have rivaled the finest wrought gold and iron and the first cave paintings.

[hellenhighwater]

Admittedly I am obsessed with this thing

[homunculus-argument]

Sphynx cats are so beautiful and absurd little creatures, I can't imagine I could ever take life seriously again if I had some. Like when they do the cat paw slap thing at each other, there's no fur to muffle the sound so it sounds just like human hands clapping.

Imagine being sound asleep at 3 am and suddenly wake up to the sounds of applause, and you just know that there's fucking goblin combat going on somewhere in the house.

[homunculus-argument]

This thing about old historical novel adaptations - especially the adaptations that I've seen of Jane Austen books and stuff like that - where people don't really talk the way that people speak in real life, but in the distinct writing style of the original books, one thing I've noticed is that they'll generally either have the characters eloquently speak that way naturally, or then re-wording the dialogue into something that feels more like how real people talk.

I think it'd be interesting to see something where the characters don't just speak like that as easily as they breathe, but still go out of their way to do so. I know it'd be wildly hard to pull that off in a way where it feels like the characters have some occasional difficulties expressing themselves as eloquently as they are clearly expected to, instead of just being a result of poor directing where the actors are struggling with clunky dialogue that should've been worked through more.

It'd just be interesting to see someone in regency era clothing angrily yelling some shit like "well pardon me for failing to live up to the standards of your righteous grief!" while being so obviously, genuinely mad that they're stammering.

[homunculus-argument]

Se varmaan tuntuu aivan sairaan hyvältä olla jonkun pihavajan tuoreeltaan puhtaaks ja paljaaks harjattu säännussima raakalautaseinä jota tervataan oikeen huolella niin ettei ensimmäisestä kerroksesta jää jälkeäkään kun kuiva puu nielee sen kokonaan.

[homunculus-argument]

The tenacious tension between commitment to the bit, and the sunk-cost fallacy.

[turing-tested]

IVE BEEN HANGING OUT WITH MY FRIEND FOR LIKE A YEAR NOW AND IT TURNS OUT WE KNEW EACH OTHER AND WERE FRIENDS WITH EACH OTHER PRETRANSITION

[turing-tested]

we we’re talking about how we had a mutual friend and how that was so wild and then they mentioned another friend i knew and i was like “yeah i played soccer with them both in the park” and my friend was like “wait does your deadname start with a C” and it turns out she was also there and we just had no idea who each other was this entire time till now

[asymbina]

This is fucking wild

[lesbianredpanda]

[professorsparklepants]

This is half a plot for a modern Shakespearean comedy of errors.

[mananabuffins]

Romcom where two people meet cute and bond over how awful their exes were and plan elaborate revenge schemes but it turns out they both transitioned and are helping to plan revenge plots against themselves

[storybookprincess]

being sick & miserable objectively sucks, but it has become significantly easier to cope with since learning that “sickness behavior” is a well documented part of the body’s immune response

feeling not only physically but also emotionally like fucking garbage is unfortunately an extremely effective way to force your body to prioritize fighting infection & keeping you alive. i don’t have to like it, but knowing why i get weepy & pathetic when sick does help at least a little

[autumn2may]

i just found out that this is not common knowledge and am reblogging so more people know

YOUR BODY DOES THIS ON PURPOSE

YOU ARE NOT A BAD PERSON BECAUSE OR "WEAK" WHEN YOU ARE SICK IF YOU CAN"T CARRY ON AS NORMAL

[headpainmigraine]

Laughing in chronic illness.

Sharing so my crip friends get a laugh

Seriously though, the impact of illness in the body is a creature all of its own, especially if your body is forced into that state in a chronic form.

[freenarnian]

You know what would make a GREAT plot twist? Fidelity.

[freenarnian]

And yes I mean in the context of romantic relationships, but not only in the context of romantic relationships. Or did AND ROHAN WILL ANSWER mean nothing to you?

[vigilantsycamore]

every time i hear people talk about how rain and mildly warm temperatures is "awful weather" and temperatures in the thirties with no rain for a week is "nice" i feel like i'm in a particularly fucked-up twilight zone episode