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arcade | he/they | 29 | about "No. This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it's still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You're still alive."

[somerockysocket]

my own company is a blessing and my life is mine to live !!!

[somerockysocket]

i know very little in the grand scheme of things and it sucks when youre trying to help someone and dont really have the answers they need. so it rules when your specific experiences actually do genuinely help someone

[herpsandbirds]

Great Grey Owls (Strix nebulosa), mother with chicks, family Strigidae, order Strigiformes, northern China

photograph via: Ornis Birding Expeditions 

[minotauri]

[louder than everyone] MAN I THINK IT DEPENDS!

[pmamtraveller]

By Aoi Tokunaga

[ikwli]

A Room With A View, 2022

Fernando Cidoncha Pérez

[falseknees]

Lake-Side Gallery

[somerockysocket]

had a big weekend of things that are difficult for me. totally worth it but oh my god. MY BED

[sexchangedotcom]

disco elysium is a game that makes you feel bad for hours on end and you absolutely should play it during a transitional period of your life and when you have a lot of other problems you arent dealing with. advice from me

[wizardlyghost]

the best time to read shit like this is at a moment when it feels way too applicable to your real life circumstances

[somerockysocket]

i love doing the crossword as a group activity

[makingtrouble]

It's my cat's birthday (anniversary of me getting him) so I told him the story of his life while petting him real good

Highlights include:

For your first two years (when you were small) you lived in a foster home with people who raised you into a very polite young man. Two is like you plus me, that's what two is.

Some people adopted you before me and they called you Timmy (which is a stupid name) and they returned your ass almost immediately because you were so annoying at that age.

Like think about how annoying you are right now at seven years old, but way worse.

I'm better than them though, I don't call you Timmy and I wore earplugs to bed for three years because you love to scream at bedtime. Earplugs are like when I roll over and go back to sleep even when you are yelling so so so loud.

I got you at a time in my life when I was really sick (being sick is like when I'm up late because I'm throwing up and you are a very handsome good boy who sits with me) and they had to put me asleep for a procedure. A procedure is like what happened to you when they put you asleep and took your balls away.

Now you've lived with me for five years. Five is like the number of toe beans on one of your feet. When I clip your nails five is when we're halfway done. But we're hopefully not even halfway done with how long we get to be together. I'm gonna have to figure out new ways to help you count.

[makingtrouble]

Actually I've decided this is a poem

[theegoist]

Tim Storrier (Australian, b. 1949) - The White Pan (Saddle 4), pencil, gouache, rope and copper on paper, 101.00 x 101.00 cm (1982)

[wisedreamdelusion]

why you give me the food this way i have to say respect my dignity any way

[shutternoise]

Bushy Spruce [Mar 6 2026]

[mf-dude]

[caztiel]

[ultraluuminary]

[e-n-d-a-s-h]

Liz Toohey-Wiese, 2024.

"A sign installed in the largest wildfire burn I’ve ever seen, along the BC/YK border. Borrowing the aesthetics of BC Recreation Site signs, once again pointing to the overlaps of outdoor recreation, resource extraction, and the consequences of the climate crisis. Most recreation sites in BC exist along previously built logging and mining roads.

“Forced into a great and difficult transformation” was a line I heard in a lecture on Buddhist philosophy I was listening to on my drive up north. But it became another mantra I thought about while living in a place that’s been utterly transformed by resource extraction over the past century, and as I thought about the burnt landscapes I drove through."

More here.