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Rachel, 18, plant enthusiast || twitter @ rxachexl

[bananonbinary]

one of the hardest things to learn as a depressed former Gifted Kid™ is that half-assed is better than nothing. take the 50%, 40%, even 20% job. scrubbing your face is better than not taking a shower at all. picking up your clothes is better than never cleaning. nibbling on some bread is better than starving.

DO THINGS HALFWAY. NOW YOU’RE 100% BETTER OFF THAN YOU WERE BEFORE.

[redheadhatchet]

One of my college professors used to say “anything worth doing is worth doing poorly.”  I didn’t understand that for years because I didn’t do anything poorly, I couldn’t do anything poorly, I had to Do Everything Perfectly.

But brushing your teeth for 30 seconds is better than not brushing them at all when that 2 minutes seems exhausting.  Doing ten minutes of yoga is better than 10 minutes of sitting when 30 minutes of cardio sounds impossible.  Changing my clothes is good when a whole shower is impossible.  Standing on the porch for a few minutes is worth it after being in the house for three straight days because I don’t have the energy to go anywhere.

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly… because doing it poorly is better than not doing it.

[valtsv]

the funniest character headcanons are feral, homophobic and tax evader i dont accept constructive criticism and you cant change my mind

[shaggytwodope-deactivated202104]

hates the irish, fucks to survive, war criminal

[regbian-moved-to-lezbianz]

alignment chart

[wrexingdrew]

[spar-kie]

[identificat]

[pacmantrinity-deactivated202207]

she does not FUCK

[sabrinawinslow-deactivated20191]

[sagethesailor]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

In 5th grade some boys hid my desk in the boys bathroom. I was confused when I got to school and it was missing, so I just sat on the floor and read my book until the teacher came in and made them put it back.

I realize now they were trying to trick me into go into the boys bathroom, but no one actually told me that’s where my desk was, and it didn’t occur to me to ask.

Looking back I realize they had to make the effort to get to school early to move it, and I feel a tiny bit of regret for not reacting more.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

In 3rd grade Richard brought his new lacrosse set in for show in tell. the ball went missing during class time and at the end of the day we all had to check our bookbags to look for it. I only glanced in mine (I just wanted to go home), but that evening I found it at the bottom of my bag. I was so scared of being blamed, I threw it into the neighbor’s yard and never told anyone.

I found out 2 years later that my bully Luke put it there to frame me, and he was still extremely frustrated I hadn’t gotten caught.

I’m pretty sure Richard got a new ball.

[feral-renaissance-cat]

I had a crush on a boy I met in Kindergarten and made NO attempts to hide it because the people on TV were always telling each other when they liked each other. Didn’t work as well as I’d hope (i.e. didn’t work AT ALL and no boy wanted to hang out with me ever after that), but that’s not the point.

Skip ahead to third grade. We had a new kid who was kind of a jerk. One day he asks me if I have a crush and I’m like, “Yeah, [Crush]. And?” Dude turns around and yells to my crush “Hey! She has a crush on you!”

My crush just kinda sighs and is like, “Yeah. I know. Everyone knows. Thanks.”

So this guy was hoping to embarrass me in front of everyone but it completely backfired because I lack the social filter necessary to feel ashamed of my base desires.

[darkhumourandfandoms-blog]

One time in like kindergerden some kid stole my shoe and instead if reacting I just went the whole day barefoot. No one questioned it. He got bored of no reaction and just dropped the shoe but by then I was too committed and continued to walk around barefoot.

[lycant-guy22]

Some of yall grew up with a low base stat of “fucks given”

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

damn right we did

[valtsv]

adult person: life gets faster as you get older!

me aged 10: sounds fake but ok

me now:

[concealedblade-deactivated20210]

[ladysansa]

all of henry viii’s wives deserved better. their husband was a piece of shit and most of them have been made to look like whores or bitches when in reality most of them were in pressured into marry him and suffered abuse at the hands of a monster who was willing to murder and destroy the lives of women he supposedly loved simply to get what he wanted

[ladysansa]

nothing gives me more pleasure than the fact that the only thing henry viii is known for is the women in his life. his wives, his mother, mary, elizabeth. eat a dick, henry, the women in your life are what made you memorable.

[gaypeopletwitter]

[mothsluggy]

[caenis-mordred]

@im-in-way-2many-fandoms

[thenextchapterbegins]

did nasa just forget bi and lesbians exist or did they ask them beforehand..would they that…i just..what..

[smallgamedev-deactivated2025062]

its because they don’t want people getting pregnant on space missions, the article is badly written scissoring in space is to be expected and respected

[deadmugen]

scissoring in space is to be expected and respected

[iamoutofideas]

DIY shingles

[swarnpert]

like the disease or the roof tiles

[iamoutofideas]

whatever

[peer2peer2peer-deactivated20210]

okay i just had a bad epiphany but corporate interest’s influence on the internet is going to become so much stronger now that generations that are internet naturalized have grown up and starting working as “social media consultants”. advertising is going to become so much more subtle, manipulate your behavior to a greater extent, and completely pervade every aspect of our lives the more we rely on the internet for everything from entertainment to social validation. 

[peer2peer2peer-deactivated20210]

what im saying is its scary that corporate twitter accounts are getting good at twitter. to have the same avenue a human would to express themself. its like, an extreme anthromorphism of a brand, and that brand representing a corporate interest, and successfully passing itself off as a sentient entity on twitter, thats really weird to me.

[peer2peer2peer-deactivated20210]

like this is so fucked up. it doesnt immediately read as an advertisement, conceptually it executes the levels of irony and deconstruction that usually make for successful memes in this genre or whatever. its almost subverting itself, but ultimately it still succeeds as an advertisement. it makes me sick. for every misfire of corporations trying to relate (pepsi protest commercial), theres another company getting better at it

[radailurophiles]

okay but like my thing about this is… who is actually eating at these places because shit like this? yeah it’s funny but i never go to wendy’s because a meme, if i go to wendy’s it’s because i want a gross burger and a frosty, same with taco bell and mcdonald’s and wherever the fuck.

i really think that you’re blowing this out of proportion and having very little faith in people’s ability to decide what they want for themselves. it’s just not that deep.

[peer2peer2peer-deactivated20210]

It’s not about the effectiveness of the ads in question, but their complete omnipresence in every aspect and moment of life, and how bizarre and sophisticated the mechanations of advertising have become. If people don’t call attention to these things, they become normal.

[sausaged-rat]

The effectiveness of marketing isnt one-to-one, like, “ad says burger is good, I think burger is good, I eat burger.” That was 50 years ago. Y'all, since then these multi-million dollar corporations have been hiring psychologists and sociologists and anthropologists to study how best to get under consumer skin and theyve figured out it’s not about making you WANT a burger,

It’s about creating a Brand Identity - an anthropomorphized personality that your brain fits into an established schema (system of thought) so it’s easier to just drop into the background of your everyday life. It’s not about making you want a burger, it’s about making it so, when you DO want a burger, the first place you think of is Wendy’s, because their ads have made you think about them five time already that day. And most importantly, it’s about making sure you dont realize how often they make you think about them, so you don’t resent how pervasive they’ve become. They do that by tricking your brain into thinking of them as just another human-like personality. Your Funny Meme Friend Wendy’s. Wine Aunt World Market. Woke Jock Nike. Even your Endearingly Unhip Uncle Geico.

(hey also if you want dozens of terrifying examples of what I mean, just type ‘brand identity schema’ into Google like I just did and take a gander at all those scholarly articles discussing how best to acquire consumers, like we’re a fucking commodity)

[captainsnoop-deactivated2020041]

one time i said i didn’t like the wendys twitter and got called classist for hating retail employees 

this shit works. it makes people like Brands. gets under their skin and in to their minds. when i said i didnt like the wendys twitter i personally offended people that viewed wendys as a friend, that viewed the wendys social media manager as a friendly individual that they respected.

the wendys social media manager is not your friend. they don’t even really exist. there’s no one person that writes the tweets for wendys. there’s a team of 20 something year olds that casually observe the latest meme trends and crank out mspaint memes because they know they’ll get retweeted if the memes are relevant.

they trick you in to thinking that Wendys is a hip friendly young person, and they manipulate you in to thinking that disliking marketing is somehow a “problematic” “un-woke” thing to do. 

and it works. 

install ublock origin. on mobile, block every promoted tweet you see. don’t let them convince you that this shit is normal.

[lostinspaceandmeaning]

[crafts-chicks-and-cats-deactiva]

Making the burgundy dress.

Design, patterns and sewing made by me. The dress is renaissance inspired, with some personal modifications. The whole dress was hand sewn, including the hems. More pictures of it and a tutorial can be found on my blog.  

[thecarvingwitch]

I can’t even begin to express how beautiful this is

[improvewithtutorials]

Again, something different this time.

[nessa007]

legends only!!!

[meanplastic]

LMAOOOOOOOOO??? This ain’t it !!!!

[pathfind]

i thought you guys would find this thread i wrote interesting

[internetmessiah-deactivated2017]

Hello, 911? *twirls phone cord around finger* sooooo how was your day? Did you arrest any bad guys?…No you hang up first! Hello? 911?

[rlymax-deactivated20140421]

help I’ve fallen and am perfectly capable of getting up but refuse to

[obligatory-regal-name]

[hamletthedane]

Pro tip: if an evangelical stranger approaches you asking to pray for you, there’s inevitably something about you that they see and want to change. [Ex: I attend a very conservative, very religious uni and am clearly tomboyish/lesbiany, and thus am constantly attracting evangelical strangers] If you can’t shake them (usually very difficult), then turn the tactic upon them by asking if they mind you leading the prayer bc “I have a few things on my mind.”

Then talk about whatever it is that’s making them uncomfortable. I ask god to protect all the lgbt+ kids that are lost, isolated or homeless. I mention my non-Christian brothers, sisters, and siblings that have to fight for recognition and respect in a monoreligious nation. I pray for the protection of immigrants and refugees, reminding my evangelical friends that their savoir was once one of that number. You can pray for pregnant mothers to find the resources and abortive care that they need, if they need it, if you’re feeling particularly brave.

This achieves two things: 1) there is no response to this, esp if you wrap it up with “amen, thank you guys so much for doing that with me. I hope y'all have a blessed day” and leave them no room to continue the prayer. But more importantly 2) that group will NEVER bother you again and you will show them, using their own method against them, that their prayer isn’t an act of faith, but of power.

Just thought I’d share bc I know that I used to be accosted by evangelical strangers once a week on my uni campus and never had a good response or ‘out’. This is by far the most effective method of shutting that sort of behavior down real quick.

[darkfrog24]

Jesus could be a passive-aggressive son of a G and this is right out of his playbook.