Child of the stars

meh

[sunsbleeding]

[inkskinned]

the thing about watching someone fall out of love with you is how slow it is. how hard you try to get it back. the careful, horrible twisting of yourself into an unfamiliar shape - just in case this new form might finally be enough. just in case this next beautiful moment will call them back. each little slip is just giving them more reason to leave, so you try to never slip. in the end, you become accustomed to a strange and groveling perfection - and for what? they don't love you, neither who-you-are or who-you-became-for-them. you wake up and they are okay and moving on - and you have no idea who you are or how to get back home again.

[woolfmalice]

diagnosed with woman in her twenties disease

[animatedtext]

[floridakilo]

i feel like this

[sunsbleeding]

JUST HOLDING ON //

[risilient]

Life but every time you smile it becomes happier and more fulfilling

[lylylylylylylylyly]

[unloveablc]

[misssuperlady]

Houston,TX photo by Ricky Walter Molnar

[natalieweepoetry]

Canadian-specific actionables in support of Black Lives Matter

Hey friends, please share: a Canadian-specific 24-page masterpost to actionables and resources, including mental health supports for Black folks, education and literature resources for allies, IG guides, protest safety, and more:

  tiny.cc/BLMactionables

[natalieweepoetry]

Only 13 notes? My god, countless hours were put into compiling resources, contacting folks, and making this document easy-to-read. Anti-Black racism is as pervasive in Canada as in the U.S.; do not believe the myth of Canadian exceptionalism that erodes histories of genocide and imperialism. Please share this. Please.

[bitchycode]

NOT SURE WHAT THEY R PROMOTING ON G STREET

[bitchycode]

Name a more iconic duo than my fear of abandonment and instinct to self isolate, I’ll wait

[bitchycode]

occupation: the family disappointment

[holyisthenameofmyruthlessaxe]

“You have survived so much that no one remembers. And you still spread warm rain on all your overgrown lots. And you still get dressed in the morning. You still open wide for the sun.”

— When the Ghosts Come Ashore: Things I Should Say to Myself in the Mirror or Things I Would Say to the City of St. Louis if it Could Hear Me by Jacqui Germain

[dreamdiviner]

Nightmares

A quick tip on nightmares. When you wake up from one, flip your pillow over. I forgot where I read this but I’ve been doing it for years and it works like a charm. The bad dream won’t return that night.

[the-seidkona-of-polaris]

This totally works for me!!!

[friend-called-boxcar]

who was the fool who was tasked with naming the galaxy and the only adjective they could think of was ‘mmmmmmmmmmmmilky…’

[skajador]

scientist: (gazing up at space)  scientist: ……….. it sure is a milky boy 

[freshfriedtrash]

NO

YOU DONT UNDERSTAND

ASTRONOMERS ARE THE SHITTIEST EVER AT NAMING THINGS I KID YOU NOT.

When it came time to name the two theoretical particle types that might be dark matter THEY INTENTIONALLY CHOSE THE NAMES SO THAT THE ACRONYMS WOULD SPELL “WIMPS” AND “MACHOS” I SHIT YOU NOT

THEY ARE FUCKING TERRIBLE AT NAMING ANYTHING

[braincoins]

I just listened to a talk by Neil deGrasse Tyson himself LAST NIGHT and he went on about this more than once.

“I’m walking down the street and I’m like ‘ooh pretty rock…’ and some Geologist is like ‘actually, that’s anorthosite feldspar’ and I’m like ‘Nevermind, I don’t want it anymore.’ Any biologists in the audience? [some clapping] Yeah, you know what I’m talking about. The most important molecule in the human body, what did you name it? It has NINE SYLLABLES and it’s so long that even YOU GUYS abbreviate it as ‘DNA’!

But astrophysicists and astronomers? No, man, we call it like we see it. Star made of neutrons? NEUTRON STAR. Small white star? WHITE DWARF. You know that big red spot on Jupiter? Know what we called it? JUPITER’S RED SPOT.”

[devil-in-red-deactivated2019010]

okay i’m glad you mentioned the biologist nonsense bc their naming methods are the bane of my existence

[gallusrostromegalus]

I see your astrophysicists-are-shit-at-names and raise you Marine-Biologists-Are-Fucking-Maniacs.

See this beautiful creature?

It’s a carnivorous deep-sea sponge that lives off of Easter Island and never sees the light of day, as it’s about 9000 feet down. Those delicate-looking orbs are covered in millions of tiny hooked spines, which latch onto anything unfortunate enough to bump into it, and hold it in place as it is digested alive by the sponge’s skin.  Amazing, beautiful and profoundly creepy.  They could have given it so many cool names.  Could have drawn on mythology (I think Scylla would have been an appropriate reference), the region it was found in, the textured skin, PHAGOCYTOSIS, anything!  

You wanna know what they called it?

PING-PONG TREE SPONGE.

Good job, marine biologists.