spero meliora

I hope for better things. Welcome to my blog! This is a collection of things I find neat and interesting or funny and informative. Get comfy and delve into this silly and serious little world o' mine.

[weaver-z]

This satire article resonated with me so much

[gudetama-tamad]

[ef-1]

Imagine looking this majestic dancing on your stalker ex's grave while 80 thousand people call him a pedo, there are levels to this

[calicofae]

social media has really warped our perception of creativity and hobbies. Stop doing things to post them. Just write. Just journal. Just sketch. Just read. Just annotate. Just sing. Just crochet. Just do the thing you’re going to do with the assumption no one will ever see or know you did it. Stop performing. Just enjoy it.

[tooquirkytolose]

My fellow American hobby bakers, demoralized by egg prices and scarcity and how you will make the American apple pie or the chocolate chip cookie, fear not. I have spent many years turning regular baking recipes vegan for my corrupt and traitorous sister who last week ate a salmon cream cheesed roll. There are many, many substitutes for eggs including but not limited to:

Mashed banana: best added to compliment flavors of whatever it is you're baking (peanut butter, chocolate) make sure it's MUSHY and ripe

Apple sauce: again, best with complimentary flavors (cinnamon, brown sugar) use unsweetened and have the rest as a snack

The big boy champ, ground flaxseed: flavorless, though it does darken your batter/ dough a bit. Bags found next to cornstarch and almond meal, etc. Instructions on how to use right on the bag! Make sure to let the flaxseed water combo sit in a separate bowl until it has the consistency of mucus 👍

Now with all of these you MUST add a bit more leavener, they don't have the lil bit of lift eggs give, so make sure you add a touch more baking powder. Sort of ok for brownies and cookies if you want them a bit more dense but KEY for cakes, quick breads, muffins and other things like that or she is gonna be SQUIDGY 🫡

[oceanabylonianshell-deactivated]

Reblog for a miracle to happen tonight

[gemike]

[yesterdaysprint]

The Daily Times, New Philadelphia, Ohio, July 9, 1924

[thank-you-everyone-deactivated2]

whoever wrote this paper has the funniest phrasing possible

[the-wave-finally-broke]

happy turtle bit off a cop’s toe in the hudson river day for those who celebrate

[jellogram]

Any conspiracy theory about people going missing in National Parks is automatically silly to me. Like "Why are National Parks such a hotbed of disappearances???" because they're full of idiots. You've got thousands of people who've never pissed outdoors in their life wandering around the woods/desert/mountain with zero experience and zero gear and zero understanding that this place can kill them. You don't see as many disappearances in wild areas because people don't go to them unless they have some background knowledge. Whereas you get tour buses full of old folks and suburban families shuttling people into National Parks 365 days a year. If you took the same amount of buffoons and dropped them in the actual wilderness the disappearances would be significantly higher than at the parks. Use your brain.

[nonenosome2]

That's exactly what someone trying to hide what's really happening in the National Forests would say. 🤔

[bearthateatspeople]

No no the parks and forests are safe very safe

[jellogram]

I'm not sure I really trust your motives here, bearthateatspeople

[kittykatninja321]

I am not terribly familiar with the JLI characters but this fucking killed me

[icaruspendragon]

i don’t want to be fuckable i want to be unsettling

[rchardgrayson]

“To be, or not to be? That is the question—Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And, by opposing, end them?” - William Shakespeare, Hamlet

[my-random--thoughts-deactivated]

[powersnuffgirls]

[kitchen-light]

Lit Hub has posted an article with the names, photos and biographies of the Palestinian poets and writers killed by the IOF since the beginning of October. May we remember them, their names & their poems 🍉🕊🍓🪁

"Since October 7, Israel has killed at least thirteen Palestinian poets and writers in Gaza.

If we think of ourselves as a global literary community, then these people were our fellow travelers, our peers.

They—just like the more than 66 Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza in the line of duty; just like every one of the more than 21,000 innocent people massacred in Gaza, the West Bank, and Israel over the past 75 days—deserve to be remembered."

[firstfullmoon]

the article notably quotes the poem “Life” by Saleem Al-Naffar, killed in an Israeli airstrike on Dec. 7: “Knives might eat / what remains of my ribs, / machines might smash / what remains of stones, / but life is coming, / for that is its way, / creating life even for us.”

[soupysoot]

(Emotionally) Horrible idea! The Red Hood helmet in the rain, so that it looks like it’s crying a little.

Asdfghk love this idea anon!

Can't unsee Jason's jacket being the color of grave dirt. As if it still clings to him. Hmmm

[funnytwittertweets]

[chavisory]

[Tweet by Gillian Branstetter reads “If enforcing gender norms requires a constant state of surveillance and censorship then they probably aren’t as biological or innate as you think they are]

[musashi]

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[natalieironside]

"Don't you wanna look stylish?" no I wanna look like a PBS Kids character whose job is to teach children about classic literature

[natalieironside]

We're doing Titus Andronicus this week

[lobotomyscars]

do you ever laugh with your friends and think oh this is the point. this is the point of everything

[thehandymen]

i am not immune to stories in which characters who have endured harsh, empty existences become absolutely transformed by someone’s sincere love for them and learn to live