Things That Keep Me Dreaming

[instant-yuri-machine]

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

The dumpster is a lot less likely to catch fire and kill people

[prof-grace-aspen]

The dumpster keeps trash OFF the streets.

[krisrisk]

the design of the dumpster had more thought put into it.

[fullyfunctionalminiaturebeehive]

The dumpster will last longer

[cursedpossums]

unrestrained summer fun

[cursedpossums]

every year around late may, without fail, this post starts getting notes again . and my little wet raw chicken breast of a brain gets puzzled. because i forget that summer is , in fact. a yearly event

[highways-are-liminal-spaces]

Monuments Valley

March 2021

[gallusrostromegalus]

Monuments Valley is the source of my absolute favorite goofy tourist quote. Family had pulled over at one of the information plaques with all the names and there was a young british man with his family simply gaping at the scenery, awestruck for a good five minutes, until he managed to speak:

“I THOUGHT THEY MADE IT ALL UP FOR THE CARTOONS! YOU KNOW, WITH THE BIRD AND THE FOX? ITS REAL! ITS REALLY REAL!!”

[piniatafullofblood]

my favorite microniche of cartoon tropes is when you look at a cartoon characters closet and it’s literally like 30 sets of the same outfit they’re in every episode

like call me easily amused but you can’t tell me this

isn’t peak comedy

[important-animal-images]

[tteawreckss]

finch fry

[headspace-hotel]

One of the most common and ferocious dinosaurs

[fizzfags]

how it feels to wash your hair and brush your teeth and have clean clothes on

[doomdaysdecays-deactivated20251]

ooooo you wanna take a shower so bad

[vampireopossum]

[valtsv]

it's such a bummer that losing control of your emotions only makes the entire situation worse in really embarrassing personal ways. losing control of my emotions should give me pyrokinesis.

[autistic-af]

Look, if you're having a bad day, here's a 6,000 year old pig-shaped pottery pot.

[foggystarfishmaker]

My day's been fine can I still have the pig pot?

[autistic-af]

Have a row of them

[rythms-of-synthax-deactivated20]

Quote of the day

[baffledtreesquid]

I’m seeing a lot of people saying this post changed their brain chemistry, and as a neuroscientist I wanted to say yes!!! Yes it does!

Wanting something requires dopamine signaling, but liking something doesn’t.

If you have a mental illness/disorder that affects dopamine, you might feel that you don’t want to do the things that you like. You do still like them. You will appreciate having done them.

Let your likes guide you.

(If you want to read more, here’s one experimental paper about it. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5171207/ This theory called the incentive-sensitization theory was originally created to explain behaviors in addiction but can be applied elsewhere as well)

Rewards are both ‘liked’ and ‘wanted’, and those two words seem almost interchangeable. However, the brain circuitry that mediates the psych

[huffy-the-bicycle-slayer]

If you mess up a social interaction you can say "Failed Experiment" and move on

[huffy-the-bicycle-slayer]

Cannot stress enough that you say this in your head

[charlesoberonn]

"Oh you had a plague? Come back to us when you had a World War, brand new unconventional weapons, and a new international order."

[charlesoberonn]

I apologize.

[noroquian]

[demareth]

insert that YOU chihuahua post where theyre being pinned down i cant for the life of me find it

[charlesoberonn]

This one?

[schwazombie]

[ruffboi-mags]

Oh, Charles. The hubris. Honey. You had to know this was a possibility. Why would you tempt Apollo like that.

[dzamie]

I love how we don't even need Apollo to be captioned, it's just "he's holding a dodgeball and looks Greek statue, of COURSE it's Apollo delivering the gift of prophecy unto unsuspecting tumblr users"

[nebulous-nebuli]

[sour-charity]

[blueelectivire]

Absolute fucking trainwreck of a post

[seven-very-hot-fish]

Oh gee I wonder why this is going around again

[zack-creeper]

Art

[the-doctor-and-the-asshole]

How. Interesting

[rainbow-dash-the-ultimate]

Absolute bog standard post

[hedgypipes]

I definitely must’ve missed a lot of Steven Universe bc how the heck did Lars went from “convenience store clerk to Captain Harlock”???

[hiveswap]

Without the slightest exaggeration, bust his skull open & died

[songsofwaterandnight]

No, app on my phone, I don't want to edit it with AI. I don't want to generate with AI. I don't want to ask the AI. I don't want to make AI wallpapers. I don't want to rewrite with AI. I don't want t-

[miseria-fortes-viros]

ultimately the truth about frankenstein is that we are all grotesque amalgamations of the best and worst parts of everyone who came before us. and sometimes the people who are supposed to love us because of and in spite of this will not. and we can kill them with hammers for that. and i think that’s beautiful

[miseria-fortes-viros]

my brother in christ frankenstein is the title of the book

[warlockofagnesi]

COUNTERPOINT

[miseria-fortes-viros]

well i can’t argue with that one

[quacksmith]

Ah yes, Mary Shelley’s monster.

[miseria-fortes-viros]

no mary shelley is the name of the monster not the doctor

[brick3621]

[brotheralyosha]

[dogcopter]

[aliveburs-deactivated20230829]

i really like memes like this. they are truthful, and there is a cat involved. just a big fan all around.

[aliveburs-deactivated20230829]

here’s some more i’ve gathered since making this post btw.

[nqsa]

you know who’s gay? paul the real estate novelist who never had time for a wife and davey who’s still in the navy and probably will be for life

[mooncustafer]

New headcannon: everyone in that song is gay except the Piano Man who has no idea he’s playing at a gay bar and the staff and regulars have a betting pool on how long he’ll take to finally figure it out. So far John is ahead.

[skeleton-richard]

[spacegay-yx]

[freshdonuts]

“The manager gives me a smile ‘cause he knows that it’s me they’ve been coming to see” also implies that the Piano Man is possibly an incredibly attractive but oblivious himbo, and if you listen to the rest of it imagining that, this all fits a little too well.

[spacedandelions]

this makes too much sense. Also, the full quote is “Now John at the bar is a friend of mine. He gets me my drinks for free. And he’s quick with a joke or to light up your smoke. But there’s someplace that he’d rather be” Yes, your bed, he wants to be on your bed honey, that’s not a joke, he is flirting with you.

[madgastronomer]

Lighting another man’s cigarette is some old-school gay cruising.

[dikdikpronouncedxylophone]

Billy Joel actually addressed this interpretation!