[a-quiet-green-agreement]

[astrangeenchantedboy]

thinking about when i was small, how my mom told me that pipe cleaners were just a tool until people started idly shaping things with them and it grew so popular that they were marketed as crafting materials. and that story about how the original frisbees were disposable pie plates that students flattened to throw. and how when i was a child i had a wooden mancala set with shiny, colorful stones, but on invention it was played with rocks and grooves dug into the dirt. and middle school, paper football and tic-tac-toe and mash and mad libs, games that just need pen and paper. and before that, games of pretend with pirates and princes and masked marauders. how at slumber parties after lights out, we used to whisper storytelling games, i say one sentence and you say the next. and shadow puppets. and the way all the kids in the neighborhood used to divide into teams and throw fallen pine cones at one another. and the floor is lava game, and the quiet game, and the games i play with my coworkers that are just words and retention. and "put a finger down" on the high school bus. and little girls clapping together, and how the first jump-rope was undoubtedly just a length of rope who knows how long ago, and how natural it is to play, how we seek play at every age and with any resources we have and with whatever time we can squeeze it into in a day. i'm not an anthropologist or a psychologist but i think after food and shelter and water and air what comes next is games and stories and laughter. i think that there is nothing -- not sex or fighting or forming unlikely bonds with animals -- there is nothing more human than to play.

[slowdisappear]

i’m not a religious person but i do sometimes think god made you for me

[slowdisappear]

[yms1]

I love days when it feels easy to find beauty in everything

[heavenhillgirl]

Normal People

[albertcamusofficial]

[lionfloss]

source

[street---lights]

[thevisualvirgin]

[rachelmpatterson]

"Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way." - Jane Austen, Emma

[cryfemme]

please don't use "epilepsy" or "epilepsy tw" as trigger tags for things that could induce epileptic seizures. there is a community on here for epileptics and resources that are under that tag. it's extremely dangerous because myself and others go through the tag looking for resources or posts about epilepsy, and should one of us come across a dangerous post and have a seizure, one's life could be in danger.

instead of "epilepsy", tag what exactly could induce a seizure: flashing/strobe lights, fast moving images, flickering, lightning, etc. that is what needs to be filtered for us, not epilepsy itself.

[delicatepoetry]

[cruzfucker]

third base is me asking if you hate me

[darklingpearl]

Karl Brjullov, The Last Day of Pompeii (detail), 1830-1833

[cupidcore]

[unloveablc]