made of dreams & bones

teaching robots. parenting bees. cleaning the floor. treading water.

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HE PLAYED CARLO’S SONG?!?!?!

BRB walking into the sea

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Lost the ticket war three times, barely scraped by with a win on the 4th attempt.

Raced to the merch line to get a hat right before they sold out.

Blessed in this life because I was at the Noah Kahan night 1 rain show at Fenway.

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Aaaaalright I spent way too much money on concert merch the last month so I am officially putting myself on a spending ban.

I hope Noah buys his mom something nice with my money.

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Went to the Rolling Stone festival, Stateside, on Saturday. It was logistically really poorly run, but the food was amazing, this was my view of Noah Kahan with my own eyeballs, and there were ALL THESE GOLDEN RETRIEVERS for us to pet.

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My SIL is obsessed with these olives that her husband buys at wholesale cost from his bar management job, and unfortunately I had a couple today and now I’m out here thinking $45 isn’t too crazy for a jar of olives

[thegaymertrainer]

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I’m always so happy when this comes around again

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They found the body of that missing autistic child in the water after a two day search. He was not far from the family party he wandered away from.

He was also Muslim. And the owner of a local Italian restaurant took the heartbreaking death of an innocent child as an opportunity to post on their business page an absolutely horrific racist rant about immigrants and religion, claiming that “in his own country his family would have killed him”.

The backlash was so immediate and so loud that 24 hours later, the restaurant is “temporarily closed.” Other local restaurants are making their own posts condemning that one guy, people are flocking to leave positive reviews for local businesses that are immigrant-friendly, there was a protest outside the restaurant and a planned boycott for if/when it reopens.

Imagine seeing a community rally to find a lost child, to reach out to support the child’s family, and choosing to run your mouth and alienate that community so aggressively?

Anyway. Make racists ashamed again 2026.

[bandtshirt]

do y’all remember before direct messages tumblr had a dumbass ask limit of 10 per hour and communication was impossible until they introduced dumbass fan mail and we were basically sending telegraphs back in forth trying to communicate those were…dark times

Do y'all remember when they finally gave us direct messages and instead of doing it normally, they gave it to a few people at a time and we had to infect each other with it like a virus

[piedude]

[abandonrun]

remember when any post with more than like 6 people talking was unreadably smushed except for the last few additions remember when any post of over 500 characters became a link back to op’s blog readmore style remember when video and audio posts had about a 10% chance of working when you click play

[curseofsisyphus]

As a recent user I love finding out shit like this from older users. What the fuck guys???? Why were you USING IT AT ALL?!??

[dono-harm-totonystark]

believe it or not, we liked that more

[thefloralpeach]

its worth noting that immediately after these updates that made everything better, we were all angry about it

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Remember TUMBLARITY

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Guys what are we wearing to an all-day music festival in 95 degree heat with 8000% humidity and a 64% chance of thunderstorms

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My grandmother (who is an absolutely terrible person) is actively dying - probably within the next few days. My dad feels an obligation to be at the hospital and deal with her estate, but I don’t think he’ll be devastated or anything.

My sister texted me separately from the family group chat “guess the devil is finally being called home” at the exact same instant that I sent her a picture of a very tiny violin.

Bye, Judith! It was truly unpleasant knowing you!

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Some not so good things:

Got a voicemail from the owner of the car I scratched a full week after it happened. I was at a concert so I texted him and it turned blue so I know it’s a number that receives texts but he has not answered my text. I don’t want to talk on the phone! Tell me what info you need and I’ll send it.

There was a shooting fatality in my city last week, the murderer is still on the loose, and the victim was one of my students. I didn’t know him well, and taught him over ten years ago, but I did always worry about him because he lived in a rough neighborhood and got in trouble a lot. He had recently lost his best friend to gun violence back then. It’s so sad that he went out the same way.

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Small good things:

I got an email from G’s teacher this morning that was so glowing and kind it made me cry. Knowing he has spent his school days in the care of someone who really sees and values him is such a gift.

A therapy office where we’ve been on the waitlist for several months reached out today with an opening for G that doesn’t conflict with any of his extracurriculars and doesn’t cut into his school days.

I heard a super secret rumor that N is going to be placed with the teacher I was really hoping for next year!

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Well it’s been five days and I have not heard from the owner of the car I scratched last week. Mine looked worse than the other car initially, but when I got home and wiped it down with a damp rag, you could barely see the paint scuff at all, so hopefully theirs is in the same state and they decided it wasn’t worth the hassle to do anything about it. It was an 11 year old Chevy so not like I ruined the value of a Tesla or something dramatic. Fingers crossed.

Heading to Boston for Jimmy Eat World tonight with BFF! I have been so irritable with my family this week I cannot wait to get away and have a reset. We got a hotel in the city so we wouldn’t have to drive after we have a reasonable number of high noons (we are 40 year old lightweight moms so that number is low) which means I’ll be missing Father’s Day, but tbh my husband fumbled Mother’s Day pretty bad this year so the gifts from the kids will be good enough.

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Going to be in the city this weekend and boy do I hope the Scottish are still there!

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I’m reading the notes from G’s neuro evaluation and I am getting stuck on one part where it says he was able to accurately label emotions based on facial expressions in a picture, but “struggled to explain what emotions feel like” as if that was a weird thing to struggle with?

Happiness just feels like happiness, right? I mean as an adult I can think of different ways to define it - metaphorically, sure, but also maybe describing specific physical sensations that come along with happiness. But it’s not exactly an easy thing to explain, especially for a child, right?

Idk y’all how would you explain what happiness feels like?

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I’m SO crabby today, my children are being jerks, I couldn’t find parking downtown for N’s therapy appointment and accidentally sideswiped another car while trying to squeeze into a too-small spot. I left my info under their wiper blade, took pictures, texted my insurance agent who said I didn’t need to be “so honest” (yes I do, Derek! I DO need to be so honest!) and the car was still there an hour later after N’s appointment. I haven’t heard from them yet, after another hour.

I have to take G to the dance studio to try on some hard shoes, we were given a free hand-me-down pair but they’re too tight and now we’ll have to buy a consignment pair from the studio, which is a drag. I overcommitted my bank account this summer unfortunately and definitely didn’t need a fender bender in the mix. At least it was a 2015 Chevy and not something new or fancy. And the paint was scraped but no dents or structural damage. I’m just anxious now.

[namira]

Like two years ago I ran into a salamander biologist in the woods who complimented my ability to 'walk quietly in the forest while causing minimal disturbance to the leaf litter.' Still goes to my head.

[gallusrostromegalus]

I had to get my kidneys imaged a few years ago and the urologist somewhat breathlessly told me "you have absolutely beautiful kidneys." and tbh I've never felt hotter.

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When I was in college an OB/GYN told me I was “so picture-perfect you could be a cervix model”