Paper Bullets Of The Forebrain

Humans, eh? Basically, a collection of things I think, enjoy, obsess over, consider, reconsider, and find ridiculous. I love words and playing with words. Puns, alliteration, and oxymorons are my favorites. Literature! I use literature to guide my thinking. I use literature to process things. Donne gets me through grief, Shakespeare gets me through anything, Keats reminds me life is too short to waste, I love it when the topic is just right and the ideas flow so easily. It rarely happens, but it’s nice to think about. I believe that it's true that the simplest things in life are what make it so enjoyable. So I'm making this tumblr to share these things with others. Love Shakespeare, theater, Broadway, podcasts (particularly narrative fiction/humor podcasts). Things I might post about often include Good Omens, Our Flag Means Death, The Sandman, Terry Pratchett/Discworld, British panel shows, Doctor Who, Slings and Arrows, Murderbot, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Greek mythology (particularly these modern retellings we have a wealth of at the moment), Derry Girls, John and Hank Green books, Dimension 20, Welcome to Night Vale, Victoriocity, Wooden Overcoats, any show by the No Bad Ideas crew (Wolf 359, Time Bombs, Unseen, Zero Hours), Starkid, Overly Sarcastic Productions, Tin Can Bros, Shipwrecked Comedy, EOS 10, Heroics, Staged, The Thrilling Adventure Hour, Threedom!, Beyond the Bastards, Hadestown, Sondheim, tick, tick.. Boom, Taskmaster, Schitt’s Creek. Not a comprehensive list, by any means. Header cross stitch was stitched by me, design by Vivsters on Etsy, highly recommend their patterns!

[crazycatsiren]

You know what?

My ancestors would have wanted pasteurization, vaccines, antibiotics, disinfectants, birth control, psychiatric medications, pain management, anesthesia. My ancestors would have wanted to be able to keep their loved ones around longer, and not lose them too early/too soon to childbirths, injuries, bacterial infections, mental illnesses, and diseases that are curable and/or preventable in our modern day life.

Modern medicine saves lives.

[yarrowthewitch]

In fact, we know they did want these things, because they invented them. They gave them to us out of generations of struggling to understand and make use of nature itself. "Ancestral knowledge" includes the unglamorous things like germ theory, the functioning of the immune system, and how to manufacture lifesaving vaccines. It's not just magical or mystical or remote, it's present in our lives at every moment. It's the reward of human connection: the sum total of human discovery and the boundless ingenuity of human invention, surrounding us at all times with absolute miracles made banal by their familiarity.

If we reject modern medicine, then we reject all the labors and trials our ancestors went through for us; we reject our very nature.

Please, for your ancestors' sake: vaccinate your kids, and take your goddamn medicine.

[someslothcheese]

I found the perfect series formula

(I have non-stop been rolling this around in my head and I had to share it 😭)

[taskmasteristics]

a series 20 update (though honestly most of these are debatable)

[vexheart]

This

[theabigailthorn]

they put me in the book

[everyshadeofwrong]

happy?

[giussepimezzoalto]

Jeff's off-the-wall batshit lyrics drive me insane and not because I think they're bad but because now I gotta vocal stim about keeping the beans cool we gotta gotta keep the beans beans the cool keep the beans the cool keep the beans beans cool. bean school. excellent

[teaboot]

I love that I share my house with one of the most efficient apex predators millions of years of evolution could produce. I love that two of nature’s most prolific machines met and were like “hmmm. We should lay around and do nothing together”. Now we’re both fat and happy and full of meat. The hedonism of it all

[teaboot]

Humans keeping cats and dogs as family members is like three prodigy assassins being introduced in the back of a shady nightclub and 45 minutes later they’re 6 crunchwrap supremes deep passing a blunt in the back of a shag carpeted Volkswagen microbus rating Oreo varietals by fuckability

[miseria-fortes-viros]

tumblr users have the unique ability to string together sentences never before seen in all of human history and yet they conjure up such specific visceral imagery that you can’t help but be a little in awe. and i think that’s beautiful

[teaboot]

Love and peace on planet earth

[paperbulletsoftheforebrain]

A continuing list of reflections on the dissolution of my longest and most invested relationship so far:

- We’re much like the waterfalls in my neighboring state parks; full of rushing water in the spring with the snow melt. Now slowed to a trickle.

- He was my first kiss. And I kept thinking of that section of “Into the Woods” where the Baker’s Wife sings “did a prince really kiss me, and kiss me and kiss me?” when I would think about it. But this probably should have been a red flag association to me. Because the prince was raised to be charming but not sincere. And the Baker’s Wife ends up crushed only moments later.

- If I scroll through my notes app and see draft upon draft of messages I either wanted to (or occasionally did) send and if 90% of them were about feeling disconnected and a lack of communication on his part, why did I let this go on for so long? Like I have a note from February that says I felt like I was sometimes texting a black hole. I do kind of know why: because he was VERY attentive at the start and once it started to slip I kept telling myself we could get it back. Do not do this.

[wearewatcher]

Yes it is, Ryan. Yes it is.

[oneclickangel]

reblog if you're corny and insufferable

[supreme-leader-stoat]

[mephistopheles]

yall i swear to god if a bitch says her pronouns are she/her then her pronouns are she/her

[mephistopheles]

my close friend from uni was a cis girl who had the audacity to wear pants and cut her hair short and like nobody at this school, a place OBSESSED with ‘respecting everyone’s gender identities,’ would call her ‘she.’ after MONTHS of this she started wearing a fucking pronoun pin to work and i dont even think that fixed it. me, im sorta androgynous; i have shaggy self-cut hair and go by a neutral name, but i always say my pronouns are she/her, and people ive worked with for months and have introduced myself in front of fifty times will STILL reflexively say ‘they’ for me. i respect the progressive circles i run in, but this IS evidence of misogyny. people’s definition of “woman” or “girl” is so narrow and high-maintenance that even the tiniest deviation from the norm gets you forcibly defeminized. but it’s a compliment, right? like who would wanna be a girl anyway?

[mephistopheles]

replacing an inescapable gender binary with an equally-inescapable gender trinary is stupid 🩷

[waitineedaname]

"we don't have girl talk, we have creature talk," my roommate Julia just said while rolling on the floor, "put that on your fucking tumblr, they'll love that shit"

[waitineedaname]

she just asked how many notes this post has and I told her eighteen and with restrained glee she said "this is going to do horrible things to my ego"

[waitineedaname]

I'm out of town rn but I told her this broke 500 notes and sent her some of yall's tags

[bugsybaritone]

Hey op why is the contact icon a T if their name is Julia? *condescending tone* do you have your roommate saved as “trash” in your phone?

[waitineedaname]

nope!

[jemmalynette]

Maybe all the things you thought made you you aren’t really…you. Barbie (2023) / Fight Club (1999)

[lesbian-shakespeare]

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

[narcissistcookbook]

an underrecognised tragedy of AI slop isn't just that any piece of contemporary art could be AI, any news reel could be AI, it's that now just any video of something vaguely nice and whimsical happening in the world could be AI

this is about the trampoline bunnies

[narcissistcookbook]

"lol if you just look closely you can tell when somethi--" silence nerd, the problem is that i don't want to have to approach everything nice wondering if the devil is trying to deceive me

[queenofcarrots]

(x)

[unpretty]

thank god for the mythbusters though because it used to be that whenever i knew i had insomnia i’d just kind of accept it and stay up doing whatever until my morning classes and spend the day feeling like shit

but then they did an episode where they established that even just fucking laying there for a half hour, not even sleeping just laying there and not even for an hour, makes a significant difference and you’ll feel way better

it has made a huge difference in my life to know that it’s okay if i can’t fall asleep, it takes a lot of the pressure off and ironically helps me fall asleep better

[inkstainedchocolateeyes]

…i did not know this, thank you

[unpretty]

If anyone wants to look it up, the episode was specifically the Deadliest Catch crossover ep, and the myth was that it’s better/safer when working a 30 hour shift to take a 20 minute nap every six hours rather than try to power through. They did an obstacle course test, one without naps and one with, and even though they couldn’t even sleep half the time the naps resulted in their scores doubling.

So actually I undersold it, even if it’s 7:40 and your alarm goes off at 8 just lie down and shut your eyes and it will still be better than nothing

[thatsthewrongwallcraig]

Write it shitty, write it scared, write it without a clue but don't you be so spineless and have an AI write fanfic for you.