Silent in the Trees

| Nic | 19 | Ohio | They/She pronouns | Asexual | Some sorta romantic | Smol and scare but ready to fight | Hocking College '20 | Early Childhood Education major | "Be kind to yourself so you're happy enough to be kind to the world" -Misha Collins |

[captainsnoop-deactivated2020041]

how the human brain works:

electricity tickles the meat so that different slimes come out. sometimes the slime feels good sometimes bad. some people make more bad slime than good slime. that’s called clinical depression.

[reverbpotato]

my biology textbook said it was more like a sauce

[simonalkenmayer]

I’m afraid you were reading a cookbook.

[fuckyeahpaganism]

[diaryofaborderlineman]

Me: I love you

Me: but also fuck you

[blooming-daydreams]

Things we need to tell each other (and ourselves) more often

🌹 “You’re doing such a great job.”

🌹 “You are stronger than you think.”

🌹 “I can see you are doing the best you can.”

🌹 “You are allowed to take a break.”

🌹 “Someday you will see the beauty that I see in you.”

🌹 “It’s okay.”

🌹 “You are capable of anything.”

🌹 “I’m sorry.”

🌹 “Your kindness is a treasure and it’s much appreciated.”

🌹 “You are full of light.”

🌹 “I am here for you whenever you need someone.”

🌹 “I am proud of you.”

🌹 “You are such a wise person.”

🌹 “I believe in you.”

🌹 “Take time to bloom.”

🌹 “You deserve respect. Please walk away from people who treat you wrongly.”

🌹 “I care about you.”

🌹 “You have grown so much as a person.”

🌹 “You deserve the best.”

🌹 “You are valid.”

🌹 “You can make a difference.”

🌹 “It’s okay to take time for yourself. Please tell me when you want to be alone.”

🌹 “It’s not weird, please tell me more about it.”

🌹 “You are never alone.”

🌹 “You are worthy.”

🌹 “You are enough.”

🌹 “You matter.”

🌹 “Thank you.”

🌹 “I’d like to know more about you.”

🌹 “You make me feel happy.”

🌹 “I appreciate you.”

🌹 “You have a beautiful soul.”

🌹 “I know things can be hard but I am sure you will make it through. You’ve already come so far.”

🌹 “I’m here for you.”

🌹 “You aren’t defined by conceptual things like grades.”

🌹 “You deserve all the love in the world.”

🌹 “You inspire me.”

🌹 “May your day be as lovely as you.”

I’ll be adding more when I can think of more

[lohver]

you need to understand the difference between someone who speaks to you in their free time and someone who frees their time to speak to you.

[arahir]

i’m reading a very manly 1950s account of a hunt for el dorado but i’m thirty pages in and the narrator has already described his traveling companion as “handsome” 4 times, “extremely handsome” twice, “exceedingly handsome” once, his voice as “quietly husky” and “a husky whisper,” his fingers as long and deft, his body as “tall and cat-like,” and his eyes as some variation of ice-blue at least three times.

just men being dudes. dudes being pals. it’s great. this is great.

[arahir]

“Ever since he had aimed that gun at my throat, I had liked him immensely. And now I liked him even better.”

oh my god

[arahir]

“I awoke when a beam of light fell across my eyes. Jorge had come into my room carrying a lighted candle.

‘I’m going with you,’ he said quietly.

‘I can’t pay you.’

He smiled. ‘I thought I was a partner?’”

OH MY GOD

[hashtagloveloses]

according to apparently every adaptation of a search of el dorado, i think we can conclude that maybe the real el dorado was the homosexuality we found along the way

[realid]

[wereyoulookingforsomething-deac]

I took my girlfriend to an improv show the other night and during intermission we were passionately arguing over whether half a 5 Hour Energy shot would give you 2.5 hours of energy or 5 hours of half-assed energy so we turned around to ask the opinions of the three people behind us and one of them said “Are all your arguments like this because we heard you in the lobby earlier fighting over the right way to pronounce ‘egg’?”

[kaijuno]

my astro prof is like 80% of my impulse control last week in lab I was like “im gonna adopt 400 rabbits” and he’s just “no!!!!!!” or we were using the telescope on the roof and I was like “yo this is a perfect building to jump off of” and he was like “jess pls I will duct tape you to the telescope” and in class about a month ago I said “do you think I can fit myself in the particle accelerator?” And he just sighed and said “oh my god jess NO”

[kaijuno]

this is also the same person who squealed when I showed him a picture of my gerbils (his favorite animal), doodles hearts and flowers in his teaching notes, and retweets the “emergency kittens” pictures almost daily. he almost cried giving a lecture about global warming (it’s always his most attended lecture). puts puns on all of the labs we have, and puts smiley faces and jokes on our exams when he’s grading them. he also brought US a cake on HIS birthday. protect this soft boy.

[kaijuno]

I made this post probably about a year ago and so as a small update: we do research together now on RR Lyrae variable stars and he sends me papers that he thinks I’d like and I’ll send him my astrophotography pictures. I think my favorite thing though is that he babysits my gerbils, rats, and hamster whenever my apartment is due to be inspected aaa

[surfeit-of-stoats]

Laziness: I’d rather sit here than pick up those clothes

Executive Dysfunction: I need to pick up those clothes I need to pick up those clothes why am I still watching this thing on Netflix while sitting down c’mon stand up I need to pick up those clothes I need to pick up those clothes I need to-

[ace-feminist]

Holy shit you nailed it

[positiveautistic-deactivated202]

Forgiveness is not saying “what you did to me was okay”

It’s saying “I’m not going to let what you did to me ruin my happiness forever”

[miqorems]

It’s… actually completely possible to be happy without forgiving people, though…

[thelegendofkungjew-archived-dea]

Literally neither of those are the definition of forgiveness and the second one is, if anything, an example of recovery.

Recovery is not saying, “What was done to me was ok.”

Recovery is saying, “I’m not going to let the moral failings of another person define my life not because they should be forgotten, but because I need to heal.”

Recovering from abuse does not mean forgiving your abusers.

[christinecanigula-archive]

you know when you’re at the dentist/orthodontist and they give you that AirTube that just gets rid of all your spit and makes you feel like you met a wind god and deepthroated his tornado dick

[presto-ritardando]

(car comes near me)

me: please run me over

[peace-love-colbert]

Source

[captaincrusher]

I read this on twitter and every anti-choice response proves his point. They all try to redefine the scenario.

[strengthofmayhem]

str8 people try so hard to keep on assuming everyone around them is as str8 as them like. for a quick writing thing in English the teacher wanted to know “what u looked for romantically in the opposite sex” which was bullshit phrasing to begin with and I was annoyed so I put “I dont” cause I wasn’t in the mood to play along

and the guy next to me was like “so u don’t have any standards???????!?!??” and I was like. “I don’t look for anything in the opposite sex” and he was like “yeah I heard u, your saying u don’t have any standards” and I was like

“I don’t look for anything in the opposite sex”

he STILL doesn’t get it. everyone else at my table is also confused. the teacher thinks I was making a joke about not dating anyone.

?????????????????????????

[black--lamb-blog]

I know it’s illegal but whenever I get antibiotics from the doctor I save a few and give them to friends or coworkers who don’t have insurance so that when cold season comes they might be able to shorten their illness

[knightfrog1248-blog-deactivated]

That is not good- that’s not quite how antibiotics work.

Antibiotics kill some bacteria, but don’t manage to kill other bacteria. Just like when you get a particular sickness (or a vaccination), your body can protect you from future infections, any bacteria that came into contact with the antibiotic is protected from future doses of that antibiotic. Bacteria are very virulent breeders, so they spawn more resistant bacteria.

If you take the full dose of antibiotics, your natural antibodies can deal with the cells that are resistant while the medicine kills off the bacteria that isn’t resistant. If you don’t take the full course of antibiotics, then your body has to deal with both the resistant and the non-resistant strains of bacteria, and it can become overwhelming. Also, most bacteria are able to pass on genes between still-living cells, so that previously non-resistant strains become resistant, and you have inadvertently cultivated a stronger strain of bacteria.

Furthermore, colds and the flu are viral infections, so antibiotics don’t work against them anyway. The best protection against viral infections are vaccinations, as there are not many viruses that we have developed anti-viral medication against, once you already have the disease. If there are anti-viral medications, it is even more important that you take the full dose of the medication, because anti-viral medication is even harsher against the body than antibacterial medication is.

How antibiotics work

How antiviral medication works

[quasi-normalcy]

Spread this around; antibiotics are not candy

[homoluigi]

To put it shortly: antibiotics don’t do shit for the cold. You need to take the entire bottle that is prescribed to you. People not doing that is how antibiotic resistant infections crop up. People like OP are literally why diseases like MRSA exist.

[queenshulamit-deactivated201602]

OP shouldn’t feel bad about good intentions but this is really dangerous. There’s also the risk that your friends are allergic to the specific type of antibiotics you give them.

[lemonsharks]

things that a better-off person can do for their sick less-well-off friends that don’t involve breeding superbacteria through misue of antibiotics:

Buy them cold medicine 

Buy them cough drops

Buy them fancy tissues with lotion

Make them too much soup to eat in one go and freeze half for later

Find them a low-cost clinic and accompany them there

Tell them you are giving them their day’s wages and they are staying home Friday/Monday and then do.

Go to their house. Wash the dishes, take out the garbage, walk the dog, scoop the cat or just plain change the whole litter box, clean the bathtub and mom voice them until they take a hot shower or steam their head.

if they have asthma or bronchitis and are out of inhaler but you have a half-full one, that is a thing you can sanitize and share.

ditto palliative prescription medication like “I have half a bottle of lidocaine gargle, you want it?” “I am bringing you the rest of my Robitussin with codeine” “here harvest some ibuprofen from my giant bottle of 1,000 ibuprofen”

[stromesquad-deactivated20221111]

I feel like some of this should have been covered in high school health class. It would do a lot to combat misuse of antibiotics. Superbacteria is really dangerous for everyone but is particularly bad for people with multiple antibiotic allergies and will lead to hospital stays for IV antibiotics of kinds they can take.

[cricketcat9]

PLEASE for fuck’s sake don’t distribute “a few” antibiotics randomly to people for COLD! Good intentions, very, VERY bad idea. Also, FINISH ALL antibiotics prescribed for you, you are fucking everything up by not doing this!!!

[animalsustainability]

PSA as we enter flu season! The flu is a virus, and antibiotics won’t do anything for it. But not finishing a course of antibiotics puts you and others at risk, as does requesting antibiotics for viral infections. Keep yourself and others safe, by getting your flu shot, and if you do have a bacterial infection like a sinus infection or something, make sure to take the full course of antibiotics.

[tinysaurus-rex-deactivated20240]

Don’t ever shorten the time your pets are on antibiotics either, if they don’t take them for the full amount it will essentially vaccinate the bacteria and make it more resistant to antibiotics in the future, not to mention they won’t get better.

Always, ALWAYS take medicine as prescribed, both for you and your pet.

[presto-ritardando]

Tbh, I legit hate it when hippies are the butt-end of the joke. Here's a history lesson. Hippies were mostly college educated kids. Many of them had jobs, or lived in communes (some of which are still around today, even after 50 years). They opposed a draft that unfairly targeted p.o.c and people of the working class. They promoted love-ins and be-ins, places people could 'be themselves' and 'do their own thing'. They knew how organize enormous protests (without facebook, and without twitter).

There's a reason society has gone out of it's way to make the hippies look ridiculous. There's a reason they're presented to you as dirty, lazy, stoners thus making them unappealing.

The reason is simple: the hippies were dangerous, and society never wants ANYTHING like that to happen again.