Your Mom Has A Blog

Your mom contains multitudes.

[britneyspears]

Taste the victory.

⚽ Britney x Pepsi // World Cup 2002. ⚽

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

jeez. sorry you didn't like it.

[apoemaday]

Blackberries

by Margaret Atwood

In the early morning an old woman is picking blackberries in the shade. It will be too hot later but right now there’s dew.

Some berries fall: those are for squirrels. Some are unripe, reserved for bears. Some go into the metal bowl. Those are for you, so you may taste them just for a moment. That’s good times: one little sweetness after another, then quickly gone.

Once, this old woman I’m conjuring up for you would have been my grandmother. Today it’s me. Years from now it might be you, if you’re quite lucky.

The hands reaching in among the leaves and spines were once my mother’s. I’ve passed them on. Decades ahead, you’ll study your own temporary hands, and you’ll remember. Don’t cry, this is what happens.

Look! The steel bowl is almost full. Enough for all of us. The blackberries gleam like glass, like the glass ornaments we hang on trees in December to remind ourselves to be grateful for snow.

Some berries occur in sun, but they are smaller. It’s as I always told you: the best ones grow in shadow.

[dailyflicks]

THE TESTAMENTS 1.04 "Green Tea"

[nixscriptum]

[soggypages]

"I hope people who read Parable of the Sower will think about where we seem to be heading - we the United States, even we the human species. Where are we going? What sort of future are we creating? Is it the kind of future you want to live in? If it isn't, what can we do to create a better future? Individually and in groups, what can we do?"

-Octavia E. Butler (1999)

[nathanielthecurious]

academic writing these days is always like “be/longing” “re-membering” “(under)standing”

[guerrillatech]

[retinaofthemindseye]

[gnawing-suspicion]

[animentality]

so this should be illegal.

[samsizzle333]

Deleted all Meta profiles and haven’t looked back.

[peteneems]

[wilwheaton]

“Wheaton couldn’t get leave from TNG for a single week to finish a movie filmed over hiatus. The producers told him the episode was important to Wesley, his relationship with his mother, Dr. Beverly Crusher and the series overall. When the time came to film this episode, the Wesley arc was nowhere to be found. Mistreatment by the producers inspired Wil Wheaton’s departure, but the terrible way fans treated the actor because he played Wesley Crusher also played a role.”

— 38 Years Later, It’s Time to Admit That This Star Trek: TNG Character Never Deserved The Hate

[samsizzle333]

Wesley Crusher was my first TV crush and also the reason I’m a Trekkie.

[ruinedchildhood]

[rhinco]

you know what dad? maybe i don't wanna be the saviour of the broken, the beaten and the damned. it's a lot of pressure to put on me and honestly i've been feeling stressed recently because of it

[concentrated-mug-of-me]

hold on lemme google something

[concentrated-mug-of-me]

ok yeah this is funny

[eurodynamic]

[wilwheaton]

Generally speaking, I am supportive of kids when they struggle. Everyone struggles, and just because your struggle is different than mine, doesn't mean it's less valid.

But.

BUT.

Come on. 600 words is nothing. I will write and throw away 600 words ten times before I finish the 800 words I need to turn in. You can do this. You need to do this. You do not want a future -- and I don't want to grow old in a future -- where you are outsourcing your creativity, your critical thinking, and your ability to put words together to a computer.

Trust me? Please? I'm old and I've read / watched / written a lot of science fiction about this.

[politedemon]

HAPPY IDES OF MARCH!

[weaponsofmassdisruption]

Not what I expected coming from John Green

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

I said what I said.

[hithisismeandmyfaces]