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Someone asked me a while ago if I still had a photo of the worst sink I had ever seen while apartment hunting in Los Angeles. I assumed I deleted it so I didn't answer the ask and now it's gone, but as it turns out, yes, I do still have a photo of it.

#this is completely breath-taking in its simplicity and how it manages to be so horrid in so many different ways

powder--blue

"we haven't talked in a while what have you been doing recently?"

haveyouseenthismovie-poll

Have you seen Polite Society (2023)?

Yes

No

Haven’t even heard of this movie

Voting ended onFeb 19

#to watch

shore-birds

WE HAVE MCR TODAY‼️‼️‼️

Some art cards I’m bringing with me to trade at citi field later!!

#AAAGGGHHH THIS IS SO FUCKING COOL #beautiful art

daggerdoggy

settings > wound > my wound > reopen

daggerdoggy

do not forget this

#well jokes on you you are salt and we are the wooouuunndd #i have been listening to that song on repeat idk why it just fucks

sabertoothwalrus

I love when someone is explaining instructions to a group I’m in and they look at me and it reminds them to say something about using preferred names/pronouns or that there’s vegan food options available. I go by my given name/pronouns and I’m not vegan but I’m proud that I can provide this service

[image: screenshot of a tumblr post by user meimetchi-deactivated20251007 reading "gooodbyee 200 dollars helloo piece of pleastic". end ID]

narcissene

affirmations:

- it’s fun to be awake & in an upright position

- consciousness is a gift

- i CAN do this anymore

fluorescentbrains

this lab safety training module is sending me

fluorescentbrains

I feel like whoever wrote these questions was speaking from experience

#every answer is for sure a firsthand experience with some dumbass

focsle

Speaking of trees, I’ve been reading The Overstory and it’s such an astoundingly stunning book, but the thing that made me know it was special came just a few lines into the first page.

“A good answer must be reinvented many times, from scratch.” Lodged into my brain the second I read it and hasn’t left me. It’s gonna be with me as a guide for the rest of my life, I think.

focsle

Finished this—cracked me open a little in many parts. There’s a quote in it that’s, “What do all good stories do?[…] They kill you a little. They turn you into something you weren’t."

This book has the stuff of that, for me.

focsle

Or this bit…

“Say the planet is born at midnight and it runs for one day. First there is nothing. Two hours are lost to lava and meteors. Life doesn’t show up until three or four a.m. Even then, it’s just the barest self-copying bits and pieces. From dawn to late morning—a million million years of branching—nothing more exists than lean and simple cells.

Then there is everything. Something wild happens, not long after noon. One kind of simple cell enslaves a couple of others. Nuclei get membranes. Cells evolve organelles. What was once a solo campsite grows into a town.

The day is two-thirds done when animals and plants part ways. And still life is only single cells. Dusk falls before compound life takes hold. Every large living thing is a latecomer, showing up after dark. Nine p.m. brings jellyfish and worms. Later that hour comes the breakout—backbones, cartilage, an explosion of body forms. From one instant to the next, countless new stems and twigs in the spreading crown burst open and run.

Plants make it up on land just before ten. Then insects, who instantly take to the air. Moments later, tetrapods crawl up from the tidal muck, carrying around on their skin and in their guts whole worlds of earlier creatures. By eleven, dinosaurs have shot their bolt, leaving the mammals and birds in charge for an hour.

Somewhere in that last sixty minutes, high up in the phylogenetic canopy, life grows aware. Creatures start to speculate. Animals start teaching their children about the past and the future. Animals learn to hold rituals.

Anatomically modern man shows up four seconds before midnight. The first cave paintings appear three seconds later. And in a thousandth of a click of the second hand, life solves the mystery of DNA and starts to map the tree of life itself.

By midnight, most of the globe is converted to row crops for the care and feeding of one species. And that’s when the tree of life becomes something else again. That’s when the giant trunk starts to teeter.”

#to read

vedurnan-archive

My longhouse is perfectly constructed. Every morning when I wake up in bed at the far end of my longhouse, I say my syllable. Then I spend all day sitting in bed. By sunset my syllable has traveled to the other end of my longhouse and back, and as it smacks me in the head, I fall asleep. My longhouse is perfectly constructed.

vedurnan-archive

gandalfsbignaturals

learning to notice an absence of people of color is crazy. you start seeing it everywhere. ill see a random pic of characters or people or whatever and be like "these are all white people. why"

gandalfsbignaturals

all the babies in those baby youtube video memes. humanized character posts. like. its the little innocent shit. and like, the people making those baby memes probably arent seeking out white babies. maybe theyre just easier to find. but why are they easier to find? a complicated question, surely... but you know what it probably comes down to. someone, somewhere, maybe a lot of someones in a lot of places, made a choice. maybe knowingly, maybe not. but they made a choice. it starts to make you feel like a conspiracy theorist!!

gandalfsbignaturals

its really funny that after 2 months this post is still making racists come into my askbox treating me like im a horrible person for pointing out that sometimes people of color are excluded from things in visible and offputting ways. cry about it

#lately ive been noticing this more in the irl spaces i frequent #like esp when im in a primarily black area if im in a shop or a class or w/e and its soley or primarily white ppl i ask nyself why that is #i think usually it's that they don't feel welcomed. even if a place touts inclusive imaging #its hard to believe it if no poc are represented..... and there's of course the fact that many areas w lots of poc are poor areas and so if #it's a “high end” (high cost) place that contributes......

dragongirlbunny

there is nothing a corporation hates more than having employees, but a close second is having to provide a good or service in order to make money. these two reasons concisely explain is why the ai bubble formed in the first place.