The Ramblings Of A Tired Introvert

Don't expect much from this account except for sleepy ramblings, happy art and random fandom stuff.

[ommanyte]

how dull for you to live your life without any hills to die on, you, on your vast flat barren plains of compromise, acceptance, and accommodation, while I reign supreme over the lush, rolling highlands of stupid shit I have irrationally chosen to stake my entire identity on

[headspace-hotel]

USA Native Plant Resource Masterlist

Because Google is totally useless and won't help you with ANYTHING

iNaturalist: Take photos of living things you see, post them, and the community will identify them for you. Data from iNaturalist is used in scientific research.

Wildflower.org Plant Database: Enter search criteria and find some plants. Very useful if you're looking for plants with specific qualities or know what you have in mind.

Native Plant Finder: This website is still in beta and is a work in progress, but it will show you plants for your area ranked by the number of butterflies that use them for their caterpillars.

WildflowerSearch: AMAZING resource for identification and for learning about new plants. Shows you where plants are native/not native, TONS of search filters.

Native Plant Trust: A New England organization, but probably useful to anyone.

Northern Forest Atlas: Great images and identification resources for trees; has good pictures of bark, seeds, buds, leaves.

FloraFinder: Another plant database site that's being slowly built up by a passionate nerd.

MonarchWatch milkweed by USA ecoregion: Tells you what milkweed species you should plant for monarch butterflies.

Native Beeology: Not plants, but a closely related subject.

I will add more and post an updated list as I find more.

[theramblingsofatiredintrovert]

In honor of his sacrifice (and because I was playing Stardew Valley while watching) my new chicken is now named Lint.

[theramblingsofatiredintrovert]

Don't laugh during your death scene.

They are literally siblings lol

[theramblingsofatiredintrovert]

I am thrilled about the new season but I am incredibly distracted by how incredible Katie looks as an elf.

[theramblingsofatiredintrovert]

Mr Ryder was in Cats, which is unbelievably funny to me.

[theramblingsofatiredintrovert]

I can't make gifs but I'd like to remind you all that the aunt in The Other Bennet Sister plays Caroline Bingley in Bride and Prejudice (the Bollywood Pride and Prejudice) and her quote about there always being another Caroline and we don't let them get to us hits harder with that info.

[midnights-dragon]

In case anyone is having a bad night

(The best of this post and its reblogs, but with links that work)

Here is a website where you can scroll down to all the different levels of the ocean 

Here is a website where you can see the future of the universe

Here is a website where you can press a ‘make everything okay’ button, over and over, until things really are okay

Here is a website that you can read if you feel like a burden

Here is a website where you can look at strobe illusions (TW strobe/flashing)

Here is a website where you can cut stuff up (TW blood/sh)

Here and here are websites where you can play with sand

Here is a website where you can draw with macaroni and other fun foods

Here is a website where you can paint someone’s nails

Here is a website where you can grow a garden with emojis

Here is a website with hundreds of videos of people hugging you (rightfully dubbed ‘the nicest place on the internet’ because it really is, y’all, it made me cry)

Here is a website that will take you to other useless websites

Here is a website where you can make a tiny cat play bongo drums (and other instruments!)

Here is a website to help give you gentle reminders <3

Here is a website where you can grow a tiny farm

Here is a website where you can take a bunch of scientific personality tests

Here is a website of calm rain noise

Take a breath. It’s going to be okay, I promise.

[theramblingsofatiredintrovert]

Dan Levy made a new show and it has him, the mustached bi from Adults and Leon from the HiLeon Turkish show from like a decade ago? Thoughts??? Not sure what Leon's doing there but seems like a lot of kidnapping.

[kineticpenguin]

At the risk of sounding anti-intellectual, I think that college should be free and also not a requirement for employment outside of highly specialized career fields

[kineticpenguin]

At the risk of sounding like an effete intellectual, I do actually think you should be allowed to just take college courses indefinitely

[yourunderwaterskies]

technically you can, if you don't care about degrees.

Free Harvard courses. Free Courses from Stanford. Free Courses from MIT. Free courses from Yale. Free courses from Princeton.

Free courses on Coursera.

Free Courses on EDx Free Courses on Alison

For paid, there's The Great Courses+/Wonderium. 20$ a month for unlimited courses.

When searching, the phrases you're looking for are Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), or you can do a general search of say, "free online college courses." Oh, and so you don't get surprised like I did, have an avoid: Hillsdale College is a conservative Christian site and not a valid MOOC place. Sign up with them and you will get things like THIS IS WHY THE LEFT IS TURNING YOUR KIDS TRANS AND GAY in your inbox.

[aloeverawrites]

@yourunderwaterskies I wanted to say thank you so much for adding these links, seriously, they've been life-changingly helpful to me-

And I also wanted to mention that humanitarian organisations have free courses too, like the Red Cross on international humanitarian law.

Humanity in War

Learn more about the Red Cross International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Program to train policy professionals, government officials, academics,

Kaya

Kaya is a free humanitarian learning platform which offers hundreds of training opportunities across a range of key topics, including the hu

[theramblingsofatiredintrovert]

You're telling me Moriarty played Orpheus and has that face AND a voice like an angel????

[theramblingsofatiredintrovert]

I cry easily now, my grief stays so close to the surface, at the ready for each new horror. 

I let myself cry so the joy will stay close too. I can't shut out my grief, joy lives behind the same door.

[fandanglefrogfarts]

Unfair of my job to expect me to show up when I have arts and also crafts to do

[theramblingsofatiredintrovert]

I realize this fandom is all but non-existent (which is dumb but ya know)

However I think we can all agree that Kraken by Florence and the Machines is Xiala's theme song, right?

Go read the books and report back.

[formerlyluckymanticore]

Reblog if you will never. Ever. Use AI in your writing.

[theramblingsofatiredintrovert]

Or art or life or anything ever

[xbuggyxboyx]

they need to invent a staying up late that doesn't make you get less sleep

[muppetshow2026]

you may think misogyny is good because it is made up of miso, which is delicious, and gyny, which is woman. and girl miso sounds great. but 👆 it is not girl miso