bedlam boy

Shepherd | they/we | 26 "for they all go bare and they live by the air and they want no drink nor money."

[great-and-small]

Saddest thing ever is reading an academic paper about a threatened or declining species where you can tell the author is really trying to come up with ways the animal could hypothetically be useful to humans in a desperate attempt to get someone to care. Nobody gives a shit about the animals that “don’t affect” us and it seriously breaks my heart

[great-and-small]

“No I can’t come out tonight I’m sobbing about this entomologist’s heartfelt plea for someone to care about an endangered moth”

[bogleech]

This is how I learn there’s a moth whose tiny caterpillars live exclusively off the old shells of dead tortoises.

[bogleech]

felt like reblogging this again :(

[shepherdit]

Hello anyone out there I am back in here for some little bit of time perhaps

[turnpikeghosts]

saw a sponsored post about knotting. this is the only website

[turnpikeghosts]

the only website

[turnpikeghosts]

staff approving this post

[fallcaesar]

Santa is on strike due to global warming.  All presents this year will be delivered by Sasha the Christmas Tiger.  Milk and cookies may not be sufficient.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

“MUST BRING PRESENTS TO GOOD CHILDREN”

“Yes good”

“AND EAT THE BAD ONES”

“Wait no”

“EAT THEM”

“sasha no”

[tolkientrash]

@burstofhope the Christmas tiger is watching

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

She is making a list

It is not easy with her paws but she is making it

[iguanamouth]

shes almost here

[miscriont]

Okay fine this is the ONE Christmas thing I will reblog before Thanksgiving BUT THAT’S IT

[craptaztic]

SASHA’S BACK ON MY DASH!

[mace-from-outerspace]

Y’all better behave, you have two months

[aseriouscomedian]

You better watch out

You better watch out

You better watch out

You better watch out

[pisshandkerchief-deactivated202]

Sasha the Christmas tiger my absolute beloved

[switchingtogeico]

[switchingtogeico]

[dingdongyouarewrong]

you ever heard of sondheim? that sonofabitch he loves patter songs and people singing different melodies at the same time

[lachlanthesane]

and it slaps

[dingdongyouarewrong]

and it slaps

[dingdongyouarewrong]

i made this post a few days before we lost sondheim. that sonofabitch made so much shit that slapped so hard and resonated so hard with me and so many people. may his memory be a blessing

[intermundia]

[unspuncreature]

[dankmemeuniversity]

[mayfriend]

king i think it is not fucking sufficient at all. wolftopia or bust

[anxiouscryptid]

Also Wolftopia is gorgeous by the way

[lierdumoa]

Wolftopia is nearly the size of Saturn and orbits two stars that closely orbit each other!

[wooteena]

are you telling me americans have stores that open up SPECIFICALLY for halloween and just. dont exist any other time of the year. you people are insane

[offishly]

Imagine an empty storefront. Some business that closed years ago. The building stands empty, unused for literal months. And then boom. Fall comes around and there’s a Spirit Halloween. There’s no escape.

[wooteena]

what the fuck 😁

[enderenby404]

Yeah this is a thing

[krystal-prisms]

Are you serious

[what-even-is-thiss]

Yes and they are divine gifts of beauty and cheap plastic lawn decorations.

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

… I honestly assumed that the existence of Halloween stores was just a running joke in American TV shows.

[what-even-is-thiss]

No they’re very real

[onepersonfriendgroup]

Can confirm this phenomenon also occurs in Canada

[fan-enby-anonymous]

It’s fun

[what-even-is-thiss]

Oh, it’s a blast.

[moonybyte]

Wait, so during non-halloween they are just empty? Like, they don’t switch between seasonal decorations (like christmas, easter, etc), they just…close and wait for next year???

[strawberrydragon]

Yeah, it’s not a permanent store. A company will rent an empty building for the 2-3 months before halloween, sell halloween stuff, and then clean everything up and disappear until the following year. And they’ll usually set up in different buildings from year to year. They just find any good-sized empty store space that will give them a cheap, short-term lease.

It’s so temporary that the halloween stores don’t even have a real sign, they just hang up a banner outside:

[wheeled-jack]

So you’re telling me that every year for a month or two the Spirit of Halloween possesses a dead building then disappears?

[velvety-vixen]

that is exactly what we’re telling you

[dissociativedoe]

"your [disability/disorder/mental illness] doesnt make you weak !!!"

okay, but... what if it does?

mentally, i'm not always strong. i have a lot of moments of weakness. i cry a lot, i overreact, i spend days isolating myself because socializing is so exhausting. my anxiety gets so bad that it physically exhausts me, it makes me sick to my stomach i have to sleep for hours to recover. physically, im weaker. i cant carry heavy things for long periods, i have to rest FREQUENTLY, im constantly exhausted.

so what, so why is being weak bad? does it make you a bad person? does it make you unworthy of love, of respect, of compassion? of course not.

your "strength" does not determine your worth. your value is not determined by what you can (physically or mentally) do for others or for society. you have value just by being.

take care of yourself. dont push yourself just because you feel like you need to be seen as "strong."

[rhube]

My mate Dave delivers some important information about Roman sex coins on the Twitters. (Source)

[rhube]

I just wanted to let you all know that my appeal on the Sex Coins post was accepted.

There are still a great many entirely innocent posts that I can’t even appeal, but somewhere out there there’s a human who loves history who let this one go, and I’m grateful to them!

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

kids these days with their sundials & their water clocks. when I was a boy we told time with our hunger pangs and we LIKED it

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

I wish I were making this up

people have always just been Like This (src)

[mooonbride]

You really don’t realize how disconnected from reality rich people are until you have to work for them bro, like I just had a woman start crying because I told her that the leather recliners she wants to order would take 2 weeks to ship and she goes “We just finished our custom home theater room and I have a get together this weekend and I have kitchen chairs in there. do you have any idea what thats like?” HELLO????

[normal-horoscopes]

When I worked at one of the nicest malls in america I had a woman literally offer to hire me for the day. Like as a servant.

[amazoogle]

after analyzing every possible chess game using a quantum computer we have determined that the optimal strategy is to move the horseys around. this is literally unbeatable

[what-even-is-thiss]

I'm volunteering for a literary journal right now and there's two things I think you all should know.

1. Most people that submit to literary journals are cis white men. We know this because our journal has an anonymous survey about demographics for people that submit.

2. Most things that get submitted to the creative non fiction section are on the level of middle school "What I did over the summer" essays.

I cannot see the demographics of the people whose essays I'm reading, but guys, if you are wondering if you should submit your work to a literary journal or not, I promise you that just in terms of statistics there are a lot of mediocre cis white men and people in general confidently submitting weird crap that isn't literature to literature magazines. Do it. Submit your work. Please. If you want there to be more diversity in literature, be the diversity. Do it. Do it do it do it.

[what-even-is-thiss]

In general literary magazines want to include more diversity, but if poc, queer people, disabled people, etc. don't submit their work then they aren't gonna get more diverse because we just won't have the material necessary to get more diverse. Submit your work. Do it. Do it. Do it do it do it.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Here's a list of university run literary journals. Do it. Get published.

[what-even-is-thiss]

[what-even-is-thiss]

Oh by the way for the most part at least in the US you can submit to journals even if you don’t live in the area or even in the country. Some will pay you a little bit and some will just provide you with a free copy of the journal. Some journals specifically like premiering new writers and some don’t. Most university journals don’t allow students and faculty from that university to submit. These journals are specifically designed to feature writers with no affiliation with the university.

Submit! Build a reputation! Do it! Poetry! Fiction! Non fiction! Translation! Art! Comics! Do it!

[omgthatdress]

Carl Clemons-Hopkins look is half pirate, half magna cum laude, with just a pinch of slut.

[c-chanfromda]

Just so everyone knows, those colors Carl’s gotten on are 100% intentional!! They are non-binary!!

[lady-writes]

[lady-writes]

AW SHIT MAN I really *REALLY* need designers for these things to understand the space between art and costume and how the latter of those shouldn't require secondary explanation ESPECIALLY AT AN EVENT WHERE SO MUCH OF THE COVERAGE IS PHOTO BASED

HIS FUCKING BOUTONNIERE IS A FUCKING STEM OF COTTON?!?!

FUUUUUUCK MAN

I STG if the garment had communicated this concept on its own the entirety of fucking met gala watching fashion twitter would have been foaming at the mouth last night like DAMMMMMMNIT

INDEPENTENT DESIGNERS I AM B-E-G-G-I-N-G YOU...

PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR STATEMENT PEICES READ AS FUCKING STATEMENT PEICES!!!

This look deserved to be on ALL THE LISTS AND BLOGS because it GETS it so beautifully.... i just weep at the lost opportunity

Jeremy Pope in Dion Lee, Broadcloth Sack by James Flemons of Phlemons, boutonniere by Denim Tears

From J.Pope's Twitter:

They planted seeds of beauty, tended to fields with unspeakable strength, & harvested a kind of excellence that would outlive them for centuries. So that we could one day stand up, stretch toward the sun, & tell their story.

YALL THIS MAN BROUGHT A WHOLE PERFORMANCE BASED VISUAL PRESENTATION. TRULY I AM WEEPING

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