Obliviate

I’m Tori and I have a cat named Toad This mind of mine is mine to lose

[pokkin]

Computer simulation of a world where eye floaters are replaced by bart

[sandersstudies]

Me: Okay improv class somebody give me an occupation. :)

Class: Dentist!

Me: okay, so in this scene you are going to be a dentist. :)

Child 1: WHY DID YOU STEAL MY TEETH!

Child 2, on the floor, sobbing: I’m so sorry! I sold them on the dark web. I’m in so much debt from medical college.

[sandersstudies]

I ask myself this every day.

[sandersstudies]

12 year olds REALLY like taxes, debt, and divorce as topics of distress in improvisation for some reason

[segamascott]

i want to vaguepost about someone it seems fun

[segamascott]

bitch...

[self-development-infographics]

[originalromanticsir]

When you found that person; you both know.

[wordfather]

worst thing about a job is that you have to. keep showing up. like you have to. you gotta.

[cool-bathrobe-bitch]

how i think i got over unrequited love and many other failures in life:

the sixth stage of grief, not only accepting the loss, but shedding the weight of it. Shedding the weight of an imagined future that never came to be and seeing that it never existed in the first place.

I don't gamble - the concept never stuck with me, because I played to win and was met with anger and disappointment more often than not, erasing my joy and the will to try again. But while this has hypothetically saved me good money, the mentality came at a cost, because:

We don't live and work for an outcome, but for a chance at an outcome. I stayed for a chance at love. I did the best I could. This isn't a loss, it never was. It exists as a result of my best efforts. I did everything to facilitate a chance and it worked. It hurt because I considered it a loss, when it was still the best I could've done.

I think life is about building roads to where you want to go, even if the goal proves to be different than imagined once achieved. There are too few big moments in life - goals to be achieved - to dictate whether we're successful or not. The process has to be enjoyable, because the process is what life is made of, even if the goal proves to be misguided, lost or unachieved.

I thoroughly enjoyed every year of love and even grief that followed it, as hard as it is to believe. The road to a chance was a good endeavor.

And finally, I can breathe easy. A chapter closed with a cliffhanger of hope instead of desolate silence.

[pjharvey]

basically i have to stay silly bc the other option is death

[byjove]

Humanity going extinct because everyone collectively decides to stop reproducing would not be the worst case scenario, actually. I don’t think that is going to happen and I think people fear-mongering about it because of the declining birthrate are fucking absurd but compared to all the possible causes for the extinction of humanity (total nuclear annihilation, drug-resistant supervirus, earth becoming completely uninhabitable) humans saying “Nah, no more.” and just giving up on continuing to reproduce is a much gentler ending to our species. One of the best extinction scenarios but unlikely/impossible.

[toruandmidori]

[byjove]

It is so hysterically funny to me that homophobic Christians behave like marriage is a Christianity exclusive concept and that is why gay marriage shouldn’t exist. Genuinely out there acting like Jesus invented marriage and it’s not a cultural universal that has existed since before the beginning of written language. Not just in societies that practiced monotheistic abrahamic religions, it was a thing in Mesopotamia. You do not get to act like the Christian concept of marriage is the only valid concept of marriage. It entered the game late.

[busket]

sometimes I think about how rattlesnakes are starting to adapt to bite immediately instead of using their rattle as a warning, because this defense mechanism that says "im here! im frightened! don't come close or ill bite you" has instead ilicited a reaction of "oh fuck a rattlesnake, i should kill it"

so of course every snake that has the instinct to warn humans of its presence gets killed, and only the snakes that bite first and dont make themselves known get to survive. a human who's been bitten is too worried about his swelling ankle to decapitate a snake with a shovel.

it's a good example of how humans make the world more dangerous for ourselves by believing that we have mastery and ownership of it. we think we have the power and importance to control the life around us down to the snakes and insects, but every animal fights for life. and no animal thinks that any human is more important than it's own life.

[bonniebugsy]

Remember: an animal that is growling (or rattling in this case) likely does not want to hurt you. That's their "fuck off" warning, not their kill engine revving up.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

the thing that really cheeses my cake about flies getting in my house is they clearly don't want to be there anyway. like at least the ants trying to steal cereal from my pantry had a goal and a plan. you are just here because you're too stupid to use a window twice

[suturesque]

a tree hurts, too. illus. david m. carroll

[ruhaniya]

[scramratz]

outing myself in the men's restroom by washing my hands

[unpretty]

"hurts because i need to move more" and "hurts because i need to not move it at all" should really be different sensations. i should be able to troubleshoot my own body without just picking one and seeing if that makes it worse.

[woman-becomer]

I'm on a noble quest to feel something

[woman-becomer]

things felt so far:

humidity

[woman-becomer]

shame