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one day I woke up and realised all the waiting and yearning was actually me living my life and it’s happening right now and it’s still good even if it’s not perfect and there is no moment when all your dreams get fulfilled and everything makes sense. like… this is it. this is life. you’ll waste away your youth waiting for some imagined future if you don’t love life for what it is now and make the most of it
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anya saved plan B damian from getting a tonitrus bolt (again)
Ada Limón, “Love Poem with Apologies for My Appearance”
i like to pretend i already died and asked god to send me back to earth so i can swim in lakes again and see mountains and get my heart broken and love my friends and cry so hard in the bathroom and go grocery shopping 1,000 more times. and that i promised i would never forget the miracle of being here
Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life, Amy Krouse Rosenthal
ppl who pit goth girls and barbie girls against each other are miniature-brained. we are two sides of the same coin
i get so many compliments from goth girls like i’ll literally be abt to tell them i love their outfit and they’ll beat me to it 😭they Get It
if i don’t know anyone/have anyone to talk to at a social function and i spot or am spotted by a goth girl we immediately gravitate toward each other and start a conversation. like every time
smth about the mutual recognition of choosing commitment to the concept over not getting looked at like you’re nuts lol. like okay clearly you have your priorities straight, what’s up
Ppl think the scale goes like this
But really it goes like this
This is so funny bc at first i just thought you were calling ppl clowns for not committing to one color and then I realized that literal actual clowns rly are on the end of the spectrum, wearing as many colors at a time as possible 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
It’s Day #2 of home-from-work, so I made this.
bottom right is wizards
guy accidentally cures his own road rage by making fun of the person who caused his road rage
Guy: Yeah I’m, I’m just gonna put this out into the world: I need you to drive, like you got in your car on purpose. Drive like you’ve got somewhere to be, because I do, and I’m behind you! I don’t know how I always get stuck behind the person that’s like. *impression* “That cloud kinda looks like.....looks like a rabbit!” “I do believe....that meadow is full of daffodils!”
*cracking up* Okay, here’s the problem, is I was mad at that guy, and now that I’m doing an impression of him I kinda think he’s adorable and I like him. I like him now. It’s a very unique way to defuse my own road rage. I don’t know what kind of mental illness I have, but it’s fun.
I've been thinking about this video non-stop for months, but do you know what just occurred to me? This is actually a great example of mindfulness, expression, and self-modulation.
Instead of bottling it or lashing out, he took the time to stop in a quiet place to process an upsetting event. He validated his anger, and stated he felt his needs were going unmet. He then humanized the person who upset him, and considered their intentions. He then found perspective on the event and his own emotions. This then genuinely calmed him down.
Those are all therapy skills being used in real time! Which, like, I don't think people talk about enough. Part of the human experience is getting angry about stupid things. Feelings can't be permanently bottled or unleashed full force on the spot. You need to process it, and take the time to see the bigger picture.
"Wow he must really have to poop" instantly reframes certain rude traffic behaviors for me. Godspeed you, my good sir. I hope you don't shit yourself in your green and yellow iridescent El Camino classic with vanity plate SN1P3R.
it seems so strange to me that the only people it is socially acceptable to live with (once you reach a certain stage in life) are sexual partners? like why can’t i live with my best friend? why can’t i raise a child with them? why do i need to have sex with someone in order to live with them? why do we put certain relationships on a pedestal? why don’t we value non-sexual relationships enough? why do life partners always have to be sexual partners?
My grandmother and grandfather more or less adopted my grandmother’s best friend back in the 50s. After my grandfather died (before I was born, back in 1968 or so) they continued to keep house together, platonic best friends, and they hung together until they died, a few months apart, in 2007.
It’s quite recently, as far as I can tell, that living arrangements like that have stopped being regarded as normal.
It’s absolutely a new thing to find this stuff weird, and it has a lot to do with media pretending that the nuclear family and marriage are the only reasons to live with other people.
I’ve lived in a 3 adult household my whole life. My parents and their best friend. This was never weird to me, even though everyone my age thought it was because the media never portrayed these kinds of housing arrangements. As far as i was concerned, I just had an extra non-blood parent.
According to my parents, it was very common in the 70′s-80′s to buy houses with your friends, because it was financially smart to do so (so long as you were certain they were close friends who wouldn’t fall out with you and fuck everything up). Houses and house payments are much more manageable when you split the bills 3-4 ways instead of just two.
Millenials aren’t the first to think it’s a great idea to just shack up with friends. That’s housemating without the hastle of living with strangers. It’s still a good idea to shack up with people you’ve known a long time so you know how you’ll get on living together, but still. In the current economy, it’s pretty much now our only option for affording anything.
I think, and I’m not researched on this, but I think conservatives probably tried to suppress images of non-nuclear families because they likely thought it would encourage ideas of polygamy, polyamory, open sexual relationships with or without marriage, as well as other relationship types they thought of as un-christian or unsavoury. I could be wrong, but that shit wouldn’t surprise me.
(And i want to make a note that there’s also a disturbing amount of asexual denial around that makes people go ‘if they’re living together they HAVE to be banging because why wouldn’t they?’ and that shit both creeps me out and annoys me no end. People can be in relationships without sex. People can live together without sex. Sex is not the be-all and end-all and people being taught to think it is really need to stop).
Don’t let the media fool you into believing you can only live with a sexual partner or blood family. Someone somewhere has an agenda for making these seem abnormal, when really it’s just practical.
A lot of people acted like it was super weird when two of my brothers decided to move states with me when I started my postdoc. I got really used to giving a little canned speech about it because it seemed to bewilder people so much. (Their leases happened to be up! We could share rent! They wanted to try somewhere new!)
The notable exception was my grandma, who was just like, “oh, yes, when we were young my sister and I decided to move cross-country together and it was lovely.”
More of this kind of thing for everyone, pls.
The implication that close sibling relationships must also be a warning sign for incest also peeves me off; what kind of society are we living in anyway
#my mom’s a historian#does a lot of research#one of the main takeaways from the census data of literally every US census since the beginning#is that the nuclear family has never been the actual norm#nobody really ever lived like that#and a lot don’t now#and it’s clearly artificial and not ideal for most people#every household in the census had at least a grandma#usually a cousin#some rando#someone living in the house who wasn’t mom or dad or kid#always someone#usually several someones#some uncles etc.#unmarried aunties#that sort of person#but often unrelated friends#we’ve never really lived alone#that’s not how families work#that’s not how humans work
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Having a multi-adult household unit also just makes a shit-ton of sense, tbh. Much easier to split not only the bills, but also the housework and child-rearing responsibilities. Communal living ftw.
It’s also super a capitalism thing.
With only two working-age people in the house, it’s very difficult to make ends meet without one of them (or increasingly, these days, both of them) working away the vast majority of their waking hours to earn enough money to support the household. The other person, if they aren’t also working similar hours, is there to support that working person, full time, with unpaid labour.
The end result of this is that nobody has any time or energy to spend together properly, and they just end up tired and miserable and shackled to their work, throwing money at their problems because it’s all they can do. It’s very easy to convince tired, miserable people to spend their money in the ways you want them to, and it’s also very easy to manipulate and oppress people who don’t have the energy or the means to fight for their rights. Convince a whole nation that this is the way the world is supposed to work, and you’ll be well away.
Death to the cancerous myth of the nuclear family.
My grandmother lived with an unrelated, nonromantic partner for more than 50 years. I called this woman by her first name, but I still refer to her as my “bonus grandmother”, because that’s what she was. Both of them had been widowed young. My grandmother had 2 out of 3 of her kids out of the house, and my bonus grandmother’s kids were all out of the house. They spent most of the year at my grandmother’s house in Florida, and summers at my bonus grandmother’s lake house in Virginia, which had belonged to her husband’s family (I think). They were able to make ends meet and maintain a house and a half (the Virginia house was shut up most of the year, and also bonus grandmother’s eldest son contributed a lot to the maintenance), and to take care of each other as they aged. It helped them both stay sharp and healthy. My grandmother was devastated when her friend died, but she was stubborn enough to last another eight years. Her world grew an awful lot smaller very fast during those years, though.
And for most of my life, nobody thought any of that was weird. I’d phrase it as, “They were both widowed young, and so they lived together to make ends meet”, or something similar, and that made perfect sense. After Kevin Smith made the phrase a thing, I referred to them as “heterosexual life partners”, and that made sense to people just fine. I had like three people ever suggest they were romantically or sexually involved. “Well, given their reaction to me coming out, I really don’t think so,” had a way of stopping that. (Not that they were awful! They were great, considering that my grandmother was Catholic and my bonus grandmother was Lutheran! They were just baffled.)
Anyway. It’s not, historically, at all weird, and it’s not even that weird post-1950s (they moved in together in the late 1960s or early 1970s) in some circumstances.
TOMORROW IS HALLOWEEN!!!
WHAT THE FUCK IT’S CHRISTMAS EVE WHY DID SOMEONE REBLOG THIS
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Xiao in the 2.7 archon quest...
Xiao: Don't try to look for me. My karma will hurt you. I will fight alone.
Yanfei: Aether is in danger.
Xiao, bends reality to teleport to them: Who would dare?
NOT ME ABOUT TO RETURN TO TUMBLR BECAUSE I FUCKING SHIP XIAOETHER
Sailor moon wip :3
update! i just need to finish the ~city landscape~ in that blue square and fix the words and itll finally be done! <3
Sailor moon wip :3
if you got like a 100kilo bag of glitter and opened it up and left it in the path of like a tornado i think that would be interesting. i dont care abt ecological damage btw
every photo of a shoebill eating is progressively worse than the last
the one exception: this gentle boy who just wants to share a snack with you
I feel I should point out that the penultimate stork is being slandered. That duck was uneaten; the stork was just moving it out of the way, and promptly dropped it. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1225223/Dont-forget-duck-Giant-Shoebill-picks-feathered-friend-blocks-path.html
Look at the duck’s FACE
H A L P
Attention:
Person who named those mushrooms "toadstool" was a god damn genius
Change one line of dialogue and ruin and entire scene: check.
This post hit me like I was a cabbage stand.
