More than Hope. Belief.

"A future is not given to you. It is something you must take for yourself." "Today, you are the waves of the Pacific, pushing ever eastward. You are the sequoias rising from the Sierra Nevadas, defiant and enduring." "I was crushed by my longing and had given up Without even knowing the color of the endless sky So I began to run because my feelings, even now, Are definitely beating against my heart." Carlos, Hispanic, 21. I like anime, feminism, and video games.

[personaquotes]

“Talk’s cheap though. You’re gonna have to put your money where your mouth is.”

— Caroline

[e-seal-deactivated20210319]

If you want to use a non sketchy youtube downloading site I just spent some time making a really simple one here: https://y23.cmder.tech/

It lets you download the video or just the audio of a youtube video

[e-seal-deactivated20210319]

Well since I’ve made this post I’ve added a few features:

Get whole playlists at once (or download all the audio from the playlist in a zip)

Convert audio to mp3/wav

Added the ability to cut up videos/make gifs

If you like the site and want more features why don’t you become a patreon and vote on new ones! https://www.patreon.com/ssn

[garbage-empress]

[e-seal-deactivated20210319]

I’m just going to keep updating this post from here, the URL is and has been https://y23.tech for a while so please use that URL. In addition, Youtube has been incredibly vigilant about Youtube downloading sites so I have to use a proxy and cycle it every couple of days, so if you have any problems downloading videos let me know, that’s probably what’s going on. Last! I can always use donations to continue running the server and especially now that I have to pay for proxies. There is a better way to handle it but that also costs money so we’re kind of stuck here for right now.

[e-seal-deactivated20210319]

Oh and for people who were having difficulty you can now download the Y23 app here: https://bit.ly/y23-app-1

[wychelm]

is this something

[gurrenlagging]

[anti-entropy]

Call it a day

Call it a night

Careless and cold

And just unbearably white

[eintsein]

Flexible Time Blocking: A More Breathable Way to Get Things Done

I’ve met a lot of people who struggle with sticking to a schedule - myself included - so here’s one way you can get things done without restricting your spontaneity.

Linked: The ABCDE Method: Accomplish Tasks More Efficiently

Hope this helps!

[flowerinaflame]

I’m reading this thing about how farmers in Japan considered thunderstorms to be good luck because they’d make more mushrooms grow so some Japanese scientists created this lil electrical machine that they wheeled through the forest administering shocks to the ground to simulate lightning strikes and the areas that they shocked yielded twice as many mushrooms as unshocked plots of land ⚡️🍄

[flowerinaflame]

https://blog.mycology.cornell.edu/2013/01/20/zap-lightning-gods-and-mushrooms/

[jerk-jock]

the fact that we reached a point where we can simulate fake storms to make little buddies grow twice as much is like magic but slightly to the left and just down right delightful

[thoughts-in-shower]

Currently, you’re procrastinating something.

[sexhaver]

what if magic was real but it was treated the way music is now with different genres and like “oh youre still into conjuring? thats cool I guess. recently ive been getting into third-wave post-necromancy, it’s some pretty heavy stuff”

[chorusofravenousangels]

“what do you mean you’ve never learned FIREBALL, it’s a CLASSIC” “idk I’m not really into evocations.” “how can you not be into ANY evocations?” “well, it’s kind of dad magic, isn’t it?”

[thecolorsfucked]

DAD MAGIC

[averyterrible]

Every time this comes around, the response is still “that’s literally how the real occult community works”

[pridefulsuggestion]

destroy that which threatens you.

[hamtastrophe]

wotlk had taunka.

[gamgee]

[einsbern]

I’m gonna do a bit more with them later on, but since tumblr is better at showing gifs than twitter here’s a WIP of sorts

[rawringcrafts-deactivated202601]

Crow Sword done! As usual, EVA foam and fiber glass core.

I hand carved the skull out of a chunk of foam and laser cut the feathers and pommel. A weird and fun combination of relatively low and high tech. 

“Why the pink dots?” you ask? Well, at night, they glow Orange! Why would pink pigment glow orange? Dunno, ask a chemist.

[theradioghost]

when the times get rough and I lose sight of the goal i just. reread “the orange” by wendy cope again & remember. that’s where I’m going folks. sooner or later, whatever it takes.

[theradioghost]

At lunchtime I bought a huge orange— The size of it made us all laugh. I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave— They got quarters and I had a half.

And that orange, it made me so happy, As ordinary things often do Just lately. The shopping. A walk in the park. This is peace and contentment. It’s new.

The rest of the day was quite easy. I did all the jobs on my list And enjoyed them and had some time over. I love you. I’m glad I exist.

– “The Orange,” Wendy Cope

[brutereason]

I find it fascinating that people who choose not to have children are generally assumed to feel really strongly about not having children (or even to feel really strongly against children, anyone’s children, in general). I am probably not going to have children, not because I REALLY REALLY HATE the idea of having children, but because I don’t really really love it. Out of all the major decisions I will make in my life, this one is the only irreversible one. I can sell a house, quit a job, divorce a spouse, whatever. I cannot unhave a child. I cannot opt out of being a parent once I become a parent. I can’t even take a step back for the sake of self-care or whatever, or else my child will suffer.

So for me, having children is fuck yes or not at all. The default will be to remain childfree. Having children should be an opt-in decision, not an opt-out one. Until/unless I develop really strong feelings about wanting to have children, I won’t have them, even if that means I never end up having them at all.

[functioning-minne-holic]

Sometimes you just come across something that puts into words what you have yet been unable to.

[beesmygod]

did you know you can review tsa checkpoints on yelp for some reason

[savethematches]

tumblr dont sleep on letterkenny

[little-sister-shotgun]

Honest to god I can’t understand anything any of them say.

[unorthodoxchronicles]

It’s two gay guys using hockey terms to catcall the two presumably straight hockey players (riley and jonesy) who then counter by being comfortable enough to accept the compliments. The conversation then continues along to describe different words and terms for a variety of queer folk as if said words were also hockey players. So when they say a word got cut it’s merely a euphanism for people agreeing not to use that term. The whole scene is two (presumably straight) men being educated gently on the subject by two gay men and listening rather than bickering.

[perissologist]

this dialogue is like something out of a greek drama it’s both downright melodic and utterly incomprehensible

[scify65]

Letterkenny is 100% the inheritor of Shakespeare’s legacy.