#try things

[pratchettquotes]

"Building some sort of boat can't be very hard," said the Chair of Indefinite Studies. "Even quite primitive people manage it."

"Now look," snapped the Dean, "we've searched everywhere for a decent library on this island. There simply isn't one! It's ridiculous. How is anyone supposed to get anything done?"

"I suppose...we could...try things?" said the Senior Wrangler. "You know...see what floats, that sort of thing."

"Oh, well, if you want to be crude about it..."

Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

[mariethewallflower]

Happy Friday

[smb3]

i’ve got this coworker that likes to talk about how he’s excited for smash and for “a reason to use his switch again” and i’m like... ok?  but he likes to bring it up at every chance he can.

like mother fucker.  you haven’t even played odyssey.   i have so many games on my switch i haven’t even opened some of them, finished most of them and my wishlist is over 70 titles long.  you’re telling me this doesn’t have anything to play on it?  really?

the switch is one of the juiciest gaming systems ever and it’s relatively new.  just because you got breath of the wild because it was popular and then mario kart and didn’t hear about another trending game doesn’t mean the system ain’t got games.

[gigi-the-drow]

try to use firealpaca! is really cool

this is the first thing I do

[famousyellowraincoat]

I wanna tell you guys a story

I have always loved music, but I am terrible at making it. So terrible, that my parents forbade me to touch the instruments in our house. 

This might have had something to do with the fact I accidentally set the piano on fire when I was nine. 

Anyway, I’m all grown up now, have accepted I will never play anything and I am happy to just listen to others. But then, only a couple of weeks ago, I meet this girl. And we started talking and talking and somewhere around the midnight she gets started on music, and she was telling me about it so passionately her whole face lit up and she was the most beautiful thing that ever existed. I am mesmerized. 

And then she hands me her guitar.

I freak out a little. But she takes my hands and places my fingers on the strings so gently that I have to try, at least, and it sounds sort of okay. So she teaches me another chord. And another. And by the time everyone it asleep and it is only a couple hours until we have to get up again, I can play this very rudimentary song from start to finish. 

I got her number the next morning and that is the story of how I unexpectedly snatched up a guitar teacher who might be an angel in human form. And I love it and it is okay that I am not good because sometimes you can just do things because you like them and not because they have to amount to something. 

[wehavemadchemistry]

It’s important to keep your mind flexible. I think that includes trying new music, though I have no scientific evidence

[girlzoot]

I never let the memory of something painful prevent me from trying something new. If you think too much about the ass-kicking your mom gave you, or the ass-kicking that life gave you, you’ll stop pushing the boundaries and breaking the rules. It’s better to take it, spend some time crying, then wake up the next day and move on. You’ll have a few bruises and they’ll remind you of what happened and that’s okay. But after a while the bruises fade, and they fade for a reason—because now it’s time to get up to some shit again. —Trevor Noah/Born a Crime