Gallimaufry

Things and stuff, very literally whatever takes my fancy. Christian, jack of all trades master of one, lover of stories, lowkey looking for adventures.

[what-isright]

[dracoj]

what they dont tell you about adulthood is that it’s startlingly easy to go long periods of time without having any fun at all not even a little bit. btw this causes ur brain to try to kill you with knives and hammers.

[alex51324]

Yeah the thing is, when you're a kid, there are often a lot of people going out of their way to make things fun for you: parents, other family members, your friends' parents/families, adults at school and at community places like libraries...and that's on top of your friends your own age, and the general fact that as a kid having fun is one of your top priorities.

And then if you go to college, there aren't quite so many people making things fun for you--although there are RAs, and the student life office, and various clubs and organizations doing activities, etc.--but you're in an environment where your friends are nearby and you all have similar schedules and responsibilities, so a lot fun just kind of arises spontaneously.

But once you're out on your own, in the workforce and whatnot, all that just drops of a cliff. Planned activities for adults exist, but you generally have to seek them out, rather than having them relentlessly advertised to you and/or taking place in locations where you will bump into them on the way to breakfast. And your friends are all spread out, and everyone's busy at different times, so you aren't just bumping into people and getting sucked into whatever adventure they have going on, you have to make arrangements.

It's a big shift! If you have kids, you generally figure out pretty quick that your role is now the Planner Of Fun, but without that big obvious signpost, it can feel like the world just gradually stopped having fun things in it.

But it hasn't; you just have to plan and seek out opportunities for fun yourself, because it's no longer anyone else's job to put them in front of you--it's yours!

TL:DR, when you're an adult you've got to take yourself to the aquarium and pick out a plushie in the gift shop and pay for it with your own credit card; you don't just wake up one day and find out that's happening. (Or that it's a have-dinner-on-a-picnic-blanket-in-the-living-room day, or that you're going to your cousins' house where you can splash around in the creek and look for frogs, or that's it's the day when we put the speakers in the window and let the music echo in the alley down below while we wash the car, or anything!)

[hinoneko]

*sigh* fine, fine, i'll be the new doctor who showrunner. bring me two twinks, britain's tallest woman, and 1000 pounds worth of alumininamian foil

[talkingpiffle]

Dorothy L. Sayers (June 13, 1893-December 17, 1957)

Happy 124th birthday!

Portrait by Sir William Oliphant Hutchison, c. 1949-50.

[talkingpiffle]

Happy 133rd!

[the-kirbe-anon-archive-deactiva]

I love dandelions!

*puts a dandelion in your hair*

Reblog to put a dandelion in prev's hair

[batrachised]

Always torn between "literary merit exists" and "the cultural standards for what determines literary merit are rank with bias" and "any story can reach out and catch your heart between its fingertips and it's an event as random and irrational as falling in love and that is worth more than any literary merit in the world"

[fullmetalfisting]

when i was 10 or so i was deathly afraid of vampires so i stole the garlic powder from my mom’s spice cabinet and kept it in my coat pocket and if i was out at night with like my parents and thought someone was acting really sus i’d try to surreptitiously sprinkle a lil garlic powder on them 

like imagine a weird little girl deciding you failed her vibe check and promptly seasoning you 

[woodsandhearth]

When’s the last time you prayed for someone you dislike from a heart of genuine love, sincerely desiring their best? Don’t get caught up in the American culture of dumping people who hurt you; get caught up in the biblical command to love those who hate you. - Trevor Sheatz

[parakeet]

if you go looking for doom and gloom all you will see is doom and gloom. if you go looking for reduced items at the grocery store you may find a littol treat

[st-hedge]

what a beautiful, beautiful phrase

[shesmydoct0r]

MUSICAL APPRECIATION WEEK

Day 4: Favorite Pro-shot

COME FROM AWAY (2021)

Five hundred and forty million years ago, the continents of the world crashed together right here. And two hundred million years ago, they separated again, moving apart from each other. But a little part of them was left behind.

[porchlights]

it should be a law that if it’s raining and you wake up feeling comfy in bed you shouldn’t have to answer to any of your obligations

[doctorhoe]

the doctor: the Time Lords died. They're gone. I am all alone.

the time lords, forcing themselves through a crack in the fabric of space and time: quit telling everyone we're dead.

the doctor: sometimes I can still hear their voices.

[knightclubbing]

spoon theory but with swords instead. can't do the laundry today i simply don't have enough swords

[insomniac-arrest]

hey, does anyone know if tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day, or if it's like. a bank holiday.

[a-ship-unto-thyself]

best trope: "ugh I guess I'll tolerate you for the time being, but this is a conditional, tactical alliance, and the second I get what I want, we're parting ways" to "you are the only good in the world and I will protect you to my dying breath"

[cartoonsbyandie]

I have no explanation for this other than it's what pops into my head whenever I hear this on the radio