Paper Whale's Magical Bloggity Blog

Nerdy stuff, fandom, and occasionally shit that matters. I'm interested in art, attractive people, tea, and cute animals.

[darkcomedies-deactivated2022042]

girl what the fuck is even the theme of a midsummer night’s dream. is there even a lesson to be learned. is it just vibes or what

[darkcomedies-deactivated2022042]

puck at the end of the play: god did you see that shit? insane, right? haha alright take it easy

[pearl-jam-bud]

Been thinking about my long hair pearl design again....

[paperwhale]

I’m so lonely. Being apart from my ex for half a year has been better for my mental health, but I’m also just feeling kind of lost. I don’t have friends, online or irl. It feels like all of my relationships have fizzled out.

I want so badly to be loved. For 4 years I put my entire soul into trying to make that relationship work only to realize that I was grinding myself down for someone who wasn’t capable of giving back. I didn’t examine why to me, love meant giving endlessly, being unselfish and ignoring my own needs.

And now I don’t know what I am alive for. I feel like a burden on my family.

The only people who try to contact me lately are the people who have emotionally abused me in the past and I just find that funny.

And I’m isolating myself further because the only way I know how to not be hurt is to have no contact with people whatsoever.

I wish I knew how to not be a failure

[love2gruel]

all she wanted w as a pepsi

[worldhammerer-old]

what if vampires are like mosquitoes and only the ladies drink blood

[jamesspaderspulloutmethod]

Pretty sure that would mean the fellas drink tree sap or something. Imagine running from a vampire thru the woods and passing her husband who's biting a tree real hard

[elf-kid2]

Maple syrup vampire husband

[gayplanets]

utterly obsessed with this headline

[guerrillatech]

[silly-slacker-person]

There are political newspaper comics that aren't this succinct

[hatsfromhistory]

“The Bumless Beauties” 1788 probably by Thomas Rowlandson, The Lewis Walpole Library

(Thanks to sew18thcentury.com for posting this!)

[higherentity]

[soundsof71]

Buffy Sainte-Marie 1969, by Jack Robinson for Vogue. One more from that session:

[0x1-deactivated20220826]

the amount of openly far-right doctors and nurses in this country should scare you

[0x1-deactivated20220826]

litcherally it's so freaky when like liberals are constantly exhorting each other to "believe in science/believe medical professionals" like that gives us so little room to express skepticism about the political aspects of modern medicine without coming off as a covid denier anti vaxxer strawman. even (perhaps especially) if you're talking about something totally unrelated like psychiatry or trans healthcare

[tempest-caller]

My mom accidentally said “gender non-compliant” instead of “gender non-conforming” and you know what? I like that. Let’s use that for something.

❄💙 Aria 💙❄

[transenbyhollis]

“gender non compliant” thats a MOOD

[transenbyhollis]

I noticed this has a shitton of notes and the comments are Very Good Big Mood Hard Same

[astraldemise]

just found out that stoats hunt twice the size of them like rabbits by aggressively and eccentrically dancing around it with their little slinky rigatoni bodies so it can confuse the absolute fuck out of its prey until it can get close enough to jump on its back like some shadow of the colossus shit and take it down

[astraldemise]

oh my god its called the weasel war dance and they just go off the shits apeshit little animals

[ruinedchildhood]

[kyloren]

EMMA. 2020 | dir. Autumn de Wilde

[paulfrankjuliusthemonkey]

Baby Tiger小脑斧, 2018, Zhelong Xu

[jackalop-deactivated20220227]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Put $100 in the pocket of a low-income person, and it will circle through the local economy a dozen times in a week.

Put $100 in the pocket of bankers and hedge fund owners, and it gets hoarded away in an offshore bank account.

So tell me what type of "stimulus package" actually stimulates the economy

[beowulf22121]

an extra $20 in someones pocket becomes a trip to the coffee shop before work and they leave a generous tip. Then $20 comes out of the tip jar to buy everyone behind the counter something from the taco truck. Taco guy spends $20 on a ride home at the end of taco time. Cab driver spends $20 on a late dinner on the eay home. Food worker misses the last bus and hires an Uber instead of walking home, spending about $20.

Any economist worth their degree will tell you that 5 people spending the same $20 in a day is $100 worth of economic stimulation.

Meanwhile the rich persons $20 is just another $20 in a fund somewhere and they change nothing about their day, effectively turning that $20 into $0 worth of functional economy.

Info from: accountant friend, whom I speak of rather often.

[goodnight-moves-deactivated2022]

At 40, Franz Kafka (1883-1924), who never married and had no children, walked through the park in Berlin when he met a girl who was crying because she had lost her favourite doll. She and Kafka searched for the doll unsuccessfully. Kafka told her to meet him there the next day and they would come back to look for her.

The next day, when they had not yet found the doll, Kafka gave the girl a letter "written" by the doll saying "please don't cry. I took a trip to see the world. I will write to you about my adventures."

Thus began a story which continued until the end of Kafka's life.

During their meetings, Kafka read the letters of the doll carefully written with adventures and conversations that the girl found adorable.

Finally, Kafka brought back the doll (he bought one) that had returned. “It doesn't look like my doll at all," said the girl.

Kafka handed her another letter in which the doll wrote: "my travels have changed me." the little girl hugged the new doll and brought her happy home.

A year later Kafka died. Many years later, the now-adult girl found a letter inside the doll. In the tiny letter signed by Kafka it was written:

"Everything you love will probably be lost, but in the end, love will return in another way."