It's Good to Be Alive

The last few years have been pretty rough for me. This blog is a mix of everything, but mostly stuff that is important to me, anecdotes about my life, things that make me snort-laugh, and things that make me happy.

[throwbackblr]

The Lion King (2019)

[fjordfocused]

Vex, in Whitestone, squinting out the window facing east with her arms crossed:  Percy: …darling, what are you doing? Vex: I am … just so furious. Percy: …why? Vex, hands clenching: I can feel a bad deal. I can feel it. I can feel it and I am offended. Percy: Oh, okay.

[johncherrystone]

i like how yasha is canonically like 5'11 but everyone in this fandom makes her like 7 feet tall bc our dumb gay brains are going “big. woman. good. yes.”

[sakura-haruka]

#A-Force

[smallvictoriesforshorty]

I literally howled with righteous joy in the theater at this moment.

[phoenixcollective]

psa: if you’re learning a language on Duolingo you can use it for your resumé on Linkedin, it now gives you a certificate of fluency at different levels depending on how advanced you are in your lessons

[misfitreindeer-deactivated20160]

please signal boost this, many people don’t realize how important being multilingual can be in regards to you getting a job

[veryfunnymemes]

[mistybox051]

!!

[blackxmansxhaki]

Fr? Lemme check this out

[ms-demeanor]

Here’s the link to all of the free online classes offered by Harvard:

https://www.edx.org/school/harvardx

But TBH I prefer the MIT Open Coursewear approach. Feel like taking a class on the policy and economics of nuclear engineering? MIT’s got you covered:

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/find-by-topic/#cat=engineering&subcat=nuclearengineering&spec=nuclearsystemspolicyandeconomics

In fact they’ve got  you covered with A LOT of their courses, everything from fine arts to immunology.

Have fun :)

[pr-ay-the-gay-away]

[writing-prompt-s]

You’ve just aided an old woman knitting by the side of the road, and she reveals herself as a goddess in disguise!  Having passed her test and earned your place as the goddess’s chosen hero, she brings you back to her dwelling to choose a magical weapon or item, only to discover that a thief has completely cleaned out her stash!

The only magical gift she has left is the pair of knitting needles she was using in her “old lady” disguise.

[elidyce]

The young woman stood in the middle of the empty cavern, looking around. She seemed… untroubled. “This was thorough,” she said, her voice as calm and pleasant as it had been when she’d offered a helpless old woman a share of her bread and escort through the wood. “It looks professional, or at least well-planned. Did anyone know you were seeking a new chosen hero?” 

The goddess blinked. In three thousand years, she had been so mortified before a hero only twice before… and then, one had cried and one had lost faith in her upon the moment. This one, new as she was, didn’t even seem troubled. “All the gods know,” she said slowly. “My last champion’s fall was… widely known.” 

“I see.” The young woman knelt and examined the floor. “I see three, perhaps four distinct footprints,” she said, sitting back on her heels and looking up at her goddess. “And it would have taken at least one large cart or two smaller ones to move it all. I think I can track them, but I’ll be outnumbered. I don’t suppose you have any *other* caches of magical weapons?” 

“No.” The goddess felt her throat tighten. “This was a collection that took millennia to build. All I have left is these.” She held out the knitting-needles she’d clutched, as the helpless old woman. “These are enchanted.” 

Dark brows rose. “Hm. To do what?” 

“They can knit anything.” It didn’t sound like enough of an explanation, and she gestured vaguely. “Well… anything that you can catch between them. The branches of a tree, the feathers of a bird, the hairs of a man’s head - even the dust of the roadside.”

“And what can one knit them into?” the young woman asked. 

“That depends on one’s own gifts,” the goddess answered, surprised again. She hadn’t expected this young woman, carrying the bow and knife of a forester, with her sun-darkened brown skin and sun-faded hair, to take much interest in magic knitting needles. “Your will… and your imagination.” 

“Oh, I have those.” The young woman held out her hand for the knitting needles, and she did hold them as if she knew how to use them. “Thank you, my goddess. I’ll bring your treasures back, if I’m able.”

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[buried-l0cket]

Me: Pokémon Sleep sounds silly-

Me:

[dandy-boi-ftm]

Oh man look at Pokémon making us take walks and keep sleep schedules it is like they are trying to have us do the routines needed to improve mental health. What next Pokémon Mindfulness and emotional regulation.

[figmentforms-the-human]

I need Pokémon sleep SO MUCH

[critical-escape]

So in the beginning of the first campaign a critter offered to buy a giant bear if they reached 5000 subscribers and I assumed it was the Trinket on the set of Talks.

It has arrived.

[pagerunner-j]

That bear was THE BEST.

And for those who need some photos of Laura cuddling a giant teddy bear, because who doesn’t, here are some more pictures of Trinket mk. 1.

Is your day better now? Because mine is.

[smallvictoriesforshorty]

This is the actual best thing I have ever seen.

[intraosseous]

gays do me a solid and rb with tattoos you have or want in the tags

[smallvictoriesforshorty]

There was a shooting in my city tonight.

I wish I had the ability to string together coherent thought. All I can do is follow the ramble and try to make sense of it all.

There is no sense.

No reason for one human to destroy the lives of dozens of families because of their own pain.

I work for the City. The people lost were people I knew. I walked by them and joked when they visited our work site to fix things. I sat next to them in classes about the City's values and mission. Some of them, I got to allow into our animal areas to see things up close.

A gunman walked into a city operations building and opened fire indiscriminately on people getting ready to head home from their job of making our city a great place to live.

They still haven't released names. All I can do is pray that none of the faces and names belong to people I worked with. I pray that I don't know the shooter. I don't want to know that someone I worked with for years was capable of this horror.

My heart aches because I know I will have coworkers who did know the shooter and who will have to bear that knowledge. That it was one of us who cut this gaping wound in our community.

This has to stop. We should not have to live like this.

[tiefling-queer]

here is a diagram of why pacific rim is so good:

it’s just the perfect movie

[smallvictoriesforshorty]

This is it, this is everything that makes it one of my favorite movies.

[itscolossal]

Minimalist Modular Systems Turn Walls Into Feline Playgrounds

[wondersmith-and-sons]

me: callout culture is so toxic

me, cc'ing my boss, your boss, and God on my reply all: NOW ALL OF CHINA KNOWS YOUR SHAME

[wondersmith-and-sons]

me, cc'ing 3 different teams’ management: as per my previous email and our last conversation, with God as my witness I pull everyone on this email chain into a conference call if you try to bullshit me one more time

[psychopompathy]

cc stands for callout culture

[prokopetz]

Fact 1: In most versions of Dungeons & Dragons, when infected – as opposed to natural-born – lycanthropes transform under the full moon, they assume the default alignment of their type during the ensuing mindless rampage.

Fact 2: In most versions of Dungeons & Dragons, the default alignment of werebears is Lawful Good.

Conclusion: When an infected werebear transforms under the full moon, they go on a mindless Lawful Good rampage.

[rizaoftheowls]

EXCUSE ME CITIZEN YOU ARE JAYWALKING *picks up hapless elf and yeets them onto the crosswalk*

[we-are-avenger]

@wearepaladin @lawfulgoodness

[girlslikegirls-vk]