Keep on Trekking

Just a himbo trekking along. Wil / He/Him / Millennial Talk to me about Star Trek, Dragon Age, and Transformers!

[wizardarchetypes]

someone in the tags said that a lot of the distress-tolerance training for people with OCD is similar to the distress-tolerance training they're learning for their reactive dog and i love that because yeah. we really are just mammals huh.

[incorrectfmaquotes]

Roy: Havoc, don’t pretend you’re not the kind of guy who keeps a list of all the women he slept with.

Hughes: I have one. It’s called my marriage license.

Hughes & Gracia: [high fives each other]

[thestuffedalligator]

Shout out to the clover, the dandelion and the daisy. The triumvirate of springtime childish whimsy. WHO is doing it like them

[thestuffedalligator]

This plant, we tell children, has a one in ten-thousand chance to have four leaves. You can search through a clover patch all day and never find one. But if you do, and you pluck it and keep it, it will bring you luck.

And this flower, we tell children, if you let it bud and bloom and age from sun-yellow flower to moon-white seed, you can then pluck it and blow its seeds away to make a wish.

And this flower, we tell children, can be woven into a hat

[herpsandbirds]

Gaboon Viper (Bitis gabonicus), hatchling, family Viperidae, Usambara Mountains, Tanzania

Venomous.

This species has the longest fangs of any venomous snake, at a length of up to 2 inches (5 cm).

Photograph by Joseph Mboya

[herpsandbirds]

Whitehead’s Broadbill (Calyptomena whiteheadi), family Calyptomenidae, order Passeriformes, endemic to Borneo

photograph by William Ko

[herpsandbirds]

Limbless Snake-tooth Skink (Coeranoscincus frontalis), family Scincidae, endemic to north-eastern Queensland, Australia

photographs by Rob Valentic 

[redstonedust]

i do find the rules around clothes fascinating because of how made up it all is. we invented the idea of covering our bodies from the elements because we lack fur like other mammals and then made up all these rules around it and now people will unironically tell you "men cant wear skirts its unnatural" girl none of this is natural. we are born naked and made up the rest as we went along. hope this helps.

[neenarchive]

kill 'character did nothing wrong'. nurture 'character did everything wrong and i was whooping and cheering the whole time'

[janedrewfinally]

Perfect tag is perfect:

#character did a lot of stuff wrong and I was unconvincingly saying oh no stop don't do that between bites of popcorn

[catchymemes]

[caterpilleee]

I know why you drew him. Because he is beautiful.

[shadowgirl-10]

this one goes out to the trans people who are ugly

to the trans women and fems who aren’t beautiful

to the trans men and mascs who aren’t handsome

to the nonbinary people who aren’t attractive

you don’t need to be attractive to be valid. you can be ugly or unattractive and still be just as trans. do not let beauty standards make you think otherwise

[note: this post is inclusive of ALL trans people, any exclusionists will be blocked]

[isuggestrespecttranspeople]

hell yeah. be ugly and be free motherfuckers lets go

[buried-in-stardust]

OP: "I've seen lion dancing and dragon dancing before, but this is the first time I've seen realistic lobsters fighting clams."

[anartificialsatellite]

People feel extremely entitled to the Holocaust

[anartificialsatellite]

I have a lot of issues with the way "Holocaust envy" as a term is used but it is absolutely fucking bizarre the way non-Jewish and non-Roma people want to center themselves in the Holocaust and act like anyone pointing out that Nazi ideology was centered on antisemitism at its core are like, gatekeeping??

[iswearbyalltheflowers]

[hero-israel]

Not letting those quality tags go to waste.

[vettir]

Antisemites looking at the Holocaust.

[blairhumphrey]

[gahdamnpunk]

Can we support him please?!

[comfygiant]

I would love to share this with everyone who may happen to see this post. Please support this wonderful human being. He spent nearly a half century in prison for a crime he never committed. And the only thing that kept him going was his artistic endeavors. He deserves the best life can offer anyone ❤️

[mildmayfoxe]

HERE IS A LINK TO HIS WORK

[notaplaceofhonour]

Ryan Gosling’s career has just been one long quest to climb the Warner Bros water tower

[notaplaceofhonour]

that man has been trying to climb this tower since he was 16. he has asked multiple times, and every time they said no, but now he’s famous enough & variety was able to convince them to do a shoot on the tower. it all led here. it was all for this.

[notaplaceofhonour]

I’m obsessed with the implication that this was a coming-of-age ritual where a boy becomes a man, like a bar mitzvah

[eldritchbauble]

People who have a pervasive shit attitude toward everything are extremely exhausting to be around. No, this doesn't make you a bad person for having trauma or depression. You're allowed to go through hard times and lean on others for support. But there is a point where being negative and spiteful about things all the time is not only self-defeating but harmful to your relationships. There is a meaningful difference between talking about your struggles vs. almost pointedly refusing to engage with opportunities for positive experiences/emotions. The latter becomes contagious and fatiguing for people around you, because you're essentially expecting them to dig themselves into a hole, too. It can even start to feel like you're punishing others for enjoying things if you're not happy. And it's wrong.

[eldritchbauble]

Like my mother will often respond to a comment that's positive or happy by talking about how she's unhappy, upset, or angry about things, and she does it with a spiteful "good for you" tone. Absolutely nothing I say will get her to acknowledge that she's still being shown support and caring even if people aren't willing to be miserable with her all the time. It's a very unhealthy and emotionally immature trait. If this is you, I strongly suggest that you look at ways to improve your distress tolerance and consider the emotional impact you have on others. It is NOT others' job to regulate your emotions or fix all of the wrongs in your life for you. Other people's happiness or attempts at happiness aren't a betrayal.

[eldritchbauble]

The bottom line is that it does actually matter how you frame things, sometimes. A lot of the time. Are you committed to being miserable because you take some form of satisfaction in it, and is that maybe preventing you from being healthier and happier?

[plexippusangel]

I love my girl Delenn but there is something so wrong with her (affectionate.) She is a sweetheart. She loves peace. She is so haunted by the past. And yet. Every time there is a moment for the application of terror. She is ready to GO. She answers that call, she is the terror and she will reign until terror is no longer required. She’s everything to me.

[linguini17]

But also

[fairytrashmother]

she is an incredible reminder that kindness and compassion are choices we make. she makes them because the universe is net better when she does, and because it incentivizes others to meet her with the same grace

but it is a choice and you really, really don't want to be the one who motivates her not to make it

[heathyr]

i saw a post on twitter by a european saying americans are fake for their random compliments to strangers and their general cheery demeanor and like no. no no no you don’t understand. if you get a random compliment from an american on the street about your outfit or whatever, that is 100% genuine. we mean it. we aren’t lying we are making a small but fleeting connection with you because our lives are shitty but the human condition is enduring. oh god i’m clutching my chest

[distractedbyshinyobjects]

If you get a compliment from a random American on the street, know that they tried their best to keep from saying a peep to you but they literally could not hold it in. They HAD to say something.

[fremedon]

The other day a tiny gay man in a hurry bumped me on the Metro escalator and said "Sorry, great dress by the way" and then he stopped at the top of the escalator and turned around and said "AND a great hat. THAT is how we do summer!" and SPRINTED for his bus and I coasted on that for the rest of the day.

[unreconstructedfangirl]

Love this post!

When I first moved to Prague I had a colleague who had such great style, and I always complimented her because I thought she was hot and cool. Years later when we were friends, she told me that she always suspected me of trying to manipulate her somehow because that is not how Czechs roll, and it was really inconceivable to her that I was simply complimenting her with no ulterior motive, but that's culturally normal to me?

Also, I am married to a British person, and his mother is an artist -- she's a collograph print-maker, and she told me that whenever she wants a pick me up, she sends photos of her latest prints to me, because I can be counted upon to say something nice. What can I say? I love her work? Her prints are beautiful, so...not faking?

Americans have a lot of blind spots and issues, but saying the nice thing in their brains to other people is fine? Like? A little more kindness and connection isn't hurting anyone?

[aprillikesthings]

There was a post on r/askanamerican just the other day, by a guy living in Eastern Europe who has a fun backpack (it looks like a reeses cup package with a bite taken out of it!) and said he constantly got compliments on it from American tourists

And he was like...are all of you like that? You say nice things to total strangers as if you're life-long friends??

And the entire comment section was like: Yup. Absolutely. This is 100% a thing we do.

And someone looked up a picture of the backpack and shared it and we were all like OMG THAT IS AN AMAZING BACKPACK yeah if I saw someone in any city on earth wearing that thing I would in fact say something.

Sometimes posts on that subreddit are a trash fire, but we were all so happy to talk about times we've told strangers compliments or been complimented by strangers.

And genuinely, it's one of the few things that makes me proud to be American. Like. We have a reputation for telling total strangers when we like something they're wearing/doing. And we mean it, every single time!

[madmaudlingoes]

One of my professors in grad school was an American married to a German, and ran into this constantly - he'd compliment his in laws on something and they just. Could not compute. His wife eventually published a paper on it.

[small-witch-big-hat]

Life is hard and the world is cold and that dress is stunning, and it deserves saying