Down the Rabbit Hole

Welcome to my blog. My name is Erika, and you might be here by chance or because you genuinely enjoy my blog. Whichever it is, I hope you like it. I post a mess of things, much like my life, pulling from opposite ends of the tumblr spectrum. Scroll a bit, get comfortable, and stay awhile. You're always welcome here.

[thebestoftumbling]

[thegoodvybe]

Person recording: “Say frog!”

Child: “Fuck.”

Person recording: “Say frog!”

Child: “Fuck!”

Person recording: “Frog!”

[Person offscreen giggles]

Child: “Fuck!”

[Person offscreen bursts into laughter]

[sieunies]

google just made me so emo

[felicitysmoak-queeen]

oh my god I can’t stop crying

[beingbreannaleigh]

From a strictly marketing standpoint. This is the best ad of all time. Like…well fucking done Google.

[worldwariotwo]

I’m not crying you’re crying

[tyleroakley]

so ready for 2018. let’s do this.

[myfrogcroaked]

Here is the best animal face you will see today!

This is a Saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica), a species listed in CITES Appendix II and evaluated as critically endangered by the IUCN Red List. It lives in Asia (Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan).

Source: CITES

[photography-cnl]

Photographer Sanjay Chauhan Captures the Beauty of Canada’s Fall Foliage 

Keep reading

[workingitinportland-deactivated]

watching an actress in full makeup pretend to wash her face and then pat dry her still fully contoured cheeks for an acne wash commercial

when i was 13 i had no idea what make up looked like on. media literacy is important

[judeoceltische]

I especially like the makeup remover ads where she takes off her lipstick, to reveal lighter lipstick underneath.

[cupcakeslushie]

or the commercials for razors with women shaving their already baby smooth, waxed legs

[radicalfeministdragon]

This is such a surreal, dystopian thing about our culture. We literally treat the natural female body like its obscene. No wonder girls grow up with so much self loathing when they feel as if their own skin is incorrect.

[biggerthan-thewholesky]

Pink’s speech after receiving the Video Vanguard Award at the 2017 VMAs x

[frootpouch]

Prideful Plant Puns!!!

I’ve been working on these since pride month, and I feel bad they weren’t finished in time but I’m so happy with how they turned out! These basically happened because I called my best friend a lesbean-sprout and she loved it so much I decided to draw the first one, and things kinda,,, escalated. 

I really hope you guys love them as much as I do!

They’re all available on my redbubble!!

Please don’t repost/steal!

[thechanelmuse]

[kriscantspeakgerman]

bye bye little guy

[mooonjellies]

anastasia r

[sharpestbutterflyinthetoolshed]

Just rewatched Princess Jellyfish

[felderwin]

my favorite thing i’ve learned in college is that way back in ancient china there was this poet/philosopher guy who wrote this whole pretentious poem about how enlightened he was that was like “the eight winds cannot move me” blahblahblah and he was really proud of it so he sent it to his friend who lived across the lake and then his friend sends it back and just writes “FART” (or the ancient Chinese equivalent) on it and he was SO MAD he travels across the lake to chew his friend out and when he gets there his friend says “wow. the eight winds cannot move you, but one fart sends you across the lake”

[agnesmontague]

i googled this bc i desperately wanted this to be real, and guess what…it is.

the dude’s name was su dongpo (also known as su shi). his original poem went like this:

稽首天中天，

毫光照大千，

八風吹不動，

端坐紫金蓮

(Humbly bowed my head below all skies Minutest lights shine through my deepest bounds Immovable by strong winds from eight sides Upon purplish gold lotus I seated straightly by the low mound) (x)

on which his friend wrote “放屁” (fart, literally), and you know the rest.

(here’s a chinese source for the skeptics)

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this is even funnier because just writing “fart” out of the blue sounds really stupid and random in english, but in chinese, fart (fang pi) is used as a common reply to, well, people talking out of their ass. kind of like how we’d use “bullshit” in context.

[a-singing-dragonfly-deactivated]

IT’S BACK AND IT GOT BETTER

[mymodernmet]

Guy Photoshops Tiny Dog to Reflect How Big She Thinks She Is

[loamsome]

What did we do to deserve Bill Nye

[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 

[nubbsgalore]

despite its colourful appearance, the hawaiian bobtail squid (euprymna scolopes) has the ability to render itself invisible to predators from bellow, thanks to a luminescent bacteria, vibrio fischeri, which inhabits a special light organ in the squid’s mantle. 

the bacteria, which are fed a sugar and amino acid solution by the squid, produce luciferase, an enzyme that facilitates a biochemical reaction that produces light.

the nocturnal squid, who can control the amount of light produced by the bacteria, are able to ensure that they are not silhouetted when passing through the light of the moon or the stars by emitting an equal amount of light on their underside to that which hits them from above.

photos by mattias ormestad, jackson wong, jose martín piñatel, david slater, todd bretl

[montereybayaquarium]

You gotta be squidding with these! Inkredible!

[mayahan]

Creative Examples Of How To Fix Broken Stuff

[sadisticgames-deactivated201903]

Broken things are often the most beautiful. Just as I’ve found those who have been broken to be the most beautiful, the most caring, and the most brilliant.

[oatmealaddiction]

Can the guy above me just chill out please. I’m trying to enjoy the post. 

[huffpost]

This Comedian Nails Why The Mental Illness + Creativity Connection is Ridiculous

[merindab]

I used to really worry that medications would harm my creativity and it’s part of why I resisted taking them. It hasn’t. If anything it’s allowed me to be more focused and able to complete things. My imagination hasn’t changed just because I’m on anti-depressants.

[hollowedskin]

a lot of my family didnt want me to start medications because they thought it would impact my ability to create, and I believed them. Now im getting better and better with my art because i dont have to fight through the brainfog or the constant panic attacks and can dedicate my energy to my work. Antidepressents didnt take my emotions away, they made them easier to handle.

[dubiousculturalartifact]

also Van Gogh was literally in an asylum receiving mental health treatment when he painted ‘Starry Night’. It was one of the most stable & productive periods of his life, despite the fact that wasn’t hugely effective treatment, because they didn’t really have modern understandings of what things work on mental illness. Like, you know. Medication.

[hirakumblr]

This is why we don’t romanticize mental illness or chronic disease.

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ALSO because I am reading a book of his letters right now, Van Gogh himself addressed the idea that the best art came from pain and said that his art tended to suffer when his depression was hitting pretty hard. So don’t even pull that shit where you give his untreated depression credit for his art. Van Gogh would have hated that, and if antidepressants/better treatment of mental illness HAD existed then we might have even more of his work now.