shirley

the mortifying ordeal of being known

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

When I tell you "whatever state you are, I'll be that state's bird" made me audibly gasp

[foreverlostinliterature]

[catslittlecorner]

1 August, 2025

For the last two months I haven't been keeping up with my studies and have barely been able to keep up with my reading. During August, my plan is to catch up as much as I can, since I won't know my schedule or avalability for the next months. My baby is due September 8, but she might come early, so I need to be ready for everything.

For the next two weeks I'll be listening to Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson and A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid. I opted for audiobooks this month so I could read and work at the same time — I "work" as a vlogger/youtuber, but I'm still trying to get monetized so I need to keep on posting.

So, for the next month, my goals are:

Finish Oathbringer - have been dragging this book for months.

Listen to A Study in Drowning - I want to re-read (or re-listen) this book before getting my hands on the sequel.

Finish my German A1 course - technically I already passed, but want to copy my notes in a notebook instead of keeping them online.

Get ahead on content before baby girl arrives.

[shisasan]

It is 11:30 p.m. on the evening of August first, and I am very tired.

The unabridged journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962

[nymphoutofwater]

fuuuuck that is my circus. are those…? yep… those are my monkeys….. goddammit.

[sachermorte]

angel losing his wings when I'm forced to edit a line of my thesis from "you can really top from the bottom here if you want" to "not only the mighty possess the ability to change social and institutional realities. one may absolutely choose to deliver an exercitive statement from underneath"

[thememedaddy]

[dikdikpronouncedxylophone]

[vero-niche]

adhd will get you thinking "i should make this doctors appointment" every day for 7 months and counting

[vero-niche]

none of us are making those appointments huh

[despazito]

[fluorescentbrains]

seeing straight men be disgusted by booktok smut recommenders has actually radicalized me to the side of booktok smut recommenders. girls your taste may be atrocious but i will never disparage you for exposing mainstream discourse to the concept of soaking through your underwear. spent my whole life listening to men talk about penises it’s about time they get jumpscared by women talking about pussy in crude detail on social media. go forth and goon my warriors

[jammespotter]

so I went to the counseling center at my school to set up an appointment etc etc and I know they have a therapy dog there and I was like “where’s the dog?” and the receptionist was like ‘oh I’m sorry, she’s in a meeting right now’ and I look over at the other room and there is a fucking dog sitting in a chair at a long table sitting next to all these people in business suits and I felt like I was in a dream

[kitttenteeth]

heart - shaped scallion found In pho . reblog for good luck & yummy soup 500000 forwver

[medievalthymes]

bro your whimsy. you forgot your fucking whimsy. your solemn and somber attitude is scaring the hoes

[theconcealedweapon]

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

[Image description: a social media post from "Fifty Shades of Whey" (@davenewworld_2), date and time cropped out: "When we say 'Crime is a social construct', what we mean is that you, as an individual, can go to jail for littering, but a corporation can poison the air, the soil, and the water of an entire town, and no one will go to jail." Description ends]

[shenandoah-cottage]

🕯️𝕎𝕖𝕝𝕔𝕠𝕞𝕖 𝕥𝕠 𝕊𝕙𝕖𝕟𝕒𝕟𝕕𝕠𝕒𝕙🕯️

[feluka]

cats being capable of understanding accidents and even giving you a little head bonk to let you know you're still cool makes it infinitely funnier that they don't understand when you're trying to help them

cats when you step on their tail: i'll admit that was rather ouchie, but given the lifetime of goodwill and trust between us, one must conclude this booboo is but a fluke.

cats when you try to get their claws unstuck from the couch covering: this nefarious bitch has never had a single honorable intention in their dishonest and shameful life, this must be one of their sinister plots or perhaps even an attempt on my life,

[kynvillingur-deactivated2026021]

guy sitting in front of me in class was vandalizing wikipedia and i kept reverting his edits as soon as he made them and he couldn't figure out why it was happening

[kynvillingur-deactivated2026021]

absolutely

[ID: a tag by weirdlizard26, reading, “ive never seen death note but i think this is what death note is”. /end ID]

[bamkoon]