#worbs

[cutecumber-water]

I am no longer calling lists “To-Do”

They are now “Side Quests.”

I am on an adventure, upgrading my skills as I age tyvm. And if I have stuff to do I might as well make it fun m.

[innytoes]

Because sometimes the worbs won't worb and you need a custom Ferbinand reaction image for it.

[babblingflowers]

I did a thing

Gar doesn’t know when he got so fucking old. Probably around the time that Jackson looked at him with those big fisheyes and said 'dude, you’re twenty-six?' Which, twenty-six isn't even old, what the hell does that idiot even know? Okay, maybe that's a bit harsh. Jackson is a good kid.Highly preferable to his predecessor as far as Aqualads go. Maybe it was Garth’s wedding. That sure as hell made him feel old. They didn’t even make him sit at the kids table. He was a groomsman. Because apparently that’s what happen when you get old: somehow your teenage rival becomes one of your closest friends. At some point he turned into the guy who's telling other people not to leave empty milk cartons in the fridge (Cassie).Instead of being the guy the rest of the team second guesses because he's younger, less experienced than them, he’s now the guy they all look to because he's regularly the only real adult in the room. And now he's the guy who can barely handle staying up to 3 a.m. and just wishes his girlfriend would come home so he can stop playing video games and go to bed. Um, about that.

[autistic-michael-queerler]

Silly pictures I took in the freezing cold with one singular sweater on awhile back (I got sick the next week lmao)

I feel the need to share these, and you keep popping up in the notifications, so suffer

i love the vibes of these lmao

[godblessyoublackemperor]

sitting at my desk at work watching a big fat magpie outside in the rain, pottering around in the grass looking for worms & bugs, and thinking about how dinosaur-y birds sometimes look, especially when they just potter around, and then thinking of birds beaks and the millions of years of chaotic trial & error mutation and variation that turned a dinosaurs long toothy reptile snoot into a little sharp pointy beak, and thinking in general about how a little scrungly chirruping lizardy guy becomes a sleek little dude with cool black & white plumage and cool long tail feathers like a hyphen, like ---magpie>

and then thinking again of those millions of years of slow chaos with random yet recognisable patterns recurring like a huge elaborate piece of music with repeating motifs that are just a little bit different every time but always familiar, how the basic Earthling Skeleton Plan is just variations on a unified theme, and how the little blip of time we exist in is so infinitessimally small in comparison to all those millions & millions of years

[prosebushpatch]

If you want to humble yourself, write a synopsis of your wip that is under 1000 words.

[jyndor2]

i fell in love with so much music while working retail. like yeah i know a lot of workers hate the music and i get why, it's shitty quality and they play the same music over and over again.

but for me, i hadn't really been able to enjoy music from when i dropped out of college until i worked at cvs, so a good couple years. and music was previously a MASSIVE part of my life. good music was like stars behind my eyes, i'm not even exaggerating. but because of depression and trauma, i lost all interest in this thing that connected me to a better time in my life - until i started working retail a few years later, and then it became a distraction from the shitty customers and shittier policies, the stress of my mental illness and poorly treated adhd.

and that was when i first connected with a bunch of artists i hadn't really ever related to - one of whom was taylor swift. it wasn't so much that i related to high school romances at 23, but i remembered them - how so much of my love life was one-sided, or poorly timed, or just young and foolish. and there was so much healing i had to do for my inner teen cait, healing i'm still doing years later. and that music, all of that music that played in that garbage fire cvs, corporate pharmacy hell though it was, helped me begin to heal.

i would dance around that store that i felt such complicated feelings about (resentment because i was never good enough but fierce loyalty to the people i worked with) to love story and fifteen and i knew you were trouble and mine and so many others, and then later i couldn't stop listening to 1989, and all along the way, even after i ~left cvs~ i had friends who loved taylor from the time they were kids and never, ever treated me like i was a fake fan or some shit because i didn't know all the songs she ever wrote or that i came to it late.

and later, my friends at my waxing job and i squealed over lover, and the archer meant a lot to me as a sagittarius ofc, and then quarantine hit and nothing hit me like folklore/evermore did.

before then i had some lovely people try to reach me - emily/@grantairely im looking at you girl - but i was just So Not Ready to be a good friend to anyone.

so i have to be honest. even though i didn't grow up a taylor swift fan, i still had an emotional response to hearing her new recording of love story, and isn't that a good thing? artists don't speak to everyone at the same time.

have you ever read a book as a kid in school and not liked it, and then gone back as an adult and seen all kinds of new things in it?

and i think since taylor's story seems to be about growth, that's not out of step with her vibe.

(shout out to stevie wonder for being one of the other artists who helped me survive over four years of retail pharmacy hell)

[the-pasta-surveyor]

TODAY in School there was a fish b :))))) his Name was don