I JUST WANTED TO HAVE DINNER WITH MY FRIEMMMS.

My name's Rachel, artist and illustrator living in the Midwest. You can find my original and fanart here, as well as whatever catches my fancy. Ask me anything!

[orange-kitsune]

Making a new pinned post to remember my tags

[orange-kitsune]

All the eligible young misses of the Stardew ton

[thewitchdoctor]

[kopionkin]

[ID: Reply from @thelilithmachine : “Yanked that thing asunder”]

[sammyfaeyrin]

[acutelesbian]

A lot of people ask me what my biggest fear is, or what scares me most. And I know they expect an answer like heights, or closed spaces, or people dressed like animals, but how do I tell them that when I was 17 I took a class called Relationships For Life and I learned that most people fall out of love for the same reasons they fell in it. That their lover’s once endearing stubbornness has now become refusal to compromise and their one track mind is now immaturity and their bad habits that you once adored is now money down the drain. Their spontaneity becomes reckless and irresponsible and their feet up on your dash is no longer sexy, just another distraction in your busy life. Nothing saddens and scares me like the thought that I can become ugly to someone who once thought all the stars were in my eyes.

[fat-thin-skinny]

this fucks me up every single time

[acutelesbian]

I never expected this to be my most popular poem out of the hundreds I’ve written. I was extremely bitter and sad when I wrote this and I left out the most beautiful part of that class.

After my teacher introduced us to this theory, she asked us, “is love a feeling? Or is it a choice?” We were all a bunch of teenagers. Naturally we said it was a feeling. She said that if we clung to that belief, we’d never have a lasting relationship of any sort.

She made us interview a dozen adults who were or had been married and we asked them about their marriages and why it lasted or why it failed. At the end, I asked every single person if love was an emotion or a choice.

Everybody said that it was a choice. It was a conscious commitment. It was something you choose to make work every day with a person who has chosen the same thing. They all said that at one point in their marriage, the “feeling of love” had vanished or faded and they weren’t happy. They said feelings are always changing and you cannot build something that will last on such a shaky foundation.

The married ones said that when things were bad, they chose to open the communication, chose to identify what broke and how to fix it, and chose to recreate something worth falling in love with.

The divorced ones said they chose to walk away.

Ever since that class, since that project, I never looked at relationships the same way. I understood why arranged marriages were successful. I discovered the difference in feelings and commitments. I’ve never gone for the person who makes my heart flutter or my head spin. I’ve chosen the people who were committed to choosing me, dedicated to finding something to adore even on the ugliest days.

I no longer fear the day someone who swore I was their universe can no longer see the stars in my eyes as long as they still choose to look until they find them again.

[conceitedtrash]

This is so fucking important and I think it’s something I needed right now

[thegreenpea]

[orange-kitsune]

Some sapphic Harriet

[oystergf]

ever think about how istanbul was constantinople… now it’s istanbul, not constantinople

[charlesoberonn]

Why did Constantinople get the works?

[humanlyimprobable]

thats nobody’s business but the turks

[whatwecanfic]

Well even old New York was once New Amsterdam.

[lucide-dreamer-dreams]

Why’d they change it?

[amusewithaview]

I can’t say.

[nemhaine42]

people just liked it better that way ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[tracing-rivers]

Me, at my character whom I created, whose dialogues I write, whose actions I decide, whose development and personality are completely under my control: Why are you such a bitch

[dunyun-rings]

I saw some great pigeons the other day

[peachtimes-deactivated20160528]

these are normal pigeons

[pawpile]

yes but they’re great

[waffletails]

[bananonbinary]

one of the hardest things to learn as a depressed former Gifted Kid™ is that half-assed is better than nothing. take the 50%, 40%, even 20% job. scrubbing your face is better than not taking a shower at all. picking up your clothes is better than never cleaning. nibbling on some bread is better than starving.

DO THINGS HALFWAY. NOW YOU’RE 100% BETTER OFF THAN YOU WERE BEFORE.

[redheadhatchet]

One of my college professors used to say “anything worth doing is worth doing poorly.”  I didn’t understand that for years because I didn’t do anything poorly, I couldn’t do anything poorly, I had to Do Everything Perfectly.

But brushing your teeth for 30 seconds is better than not brushing them at all when that 2 minutes seems exhausting.  Doing ten minutes of yoga is better than 10 minutes of sitting when 30 minutes of cardio sounds impossible.  Changing my clothes is good when a whole shower is impossible.  Standing on the porch for a few minutes is worth it after being in the house for three straight days because I don’t have the energy to go anywhere.

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly… because doing it poorly is better than not doing it.

[valtsv]

u ever get really apathetic about your interests for no reason so u just start cycling through all your past hyperfixations in ur head out of an inexplicable need to feel passion for something

[flowerinaflame]

[flowerinaflame]

[existenceisanillusion]

[beancrossing]

Delete this

[yeaka]

Has this been done yet? Because I love you Elrond but wtf. [Screencap credit]

[elenorasweet]

LAUGHING BUT CRYING INSIDE

[tokoshi-deactivated20191031]

my 2019 resolution is to live deliciously

[prokopetz]

If you’re trying to catch a housecat that’s gotten outside, don’t forget: they’re an ambush predator and you’re a persistence predator. You have several times more endurance than they do - use that to your advantage! Don’t run after them; that’s playing to the cat’s strengths, and vigorous pursuit may cause them to hide. Instead, follow them at a brisk walking pace until they get tired and need to have a lie-down, at which point you can simply pick them up and take them home.

[fsthhdwefg-deactivated20180515]

Ok but no shit this tactic is what allowed humans to survive pre-civilisation

[lowkey-revolutionary-raccoon]

Some mammoth: *chilling, eating grass, mammothing*

Cavedude: *power walks towards them*

Mammoth: oh sIHT

[krwzprtt]

cat : haha you can’t outrun me

human:

[jaunes-hoodie]

That’s the best possible use of a gif I’ve ever seen

[retrogamingblog]

Super Smash Bros moves performed by Marvel stuntmen

[qsy-complains-a-lot]

Why are the stunts in that shit better than in most action movies of the past decade ?

[scienced-deactivated20250710]

Passion.

[phuijl]

#you work a lot harder on things you actually want to do #versus things you may not want to do but are being paid for