The Vandiemenlander

"In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, "Look at me...I'm tall, and I'm straight, and I'm handsome. Look at you...you're all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you." And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, "Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest." So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day." — Tom Waits

[eldritch-bard]

The best picture I have ever taken of my cat Jax

[thevandiemenlander]

Reminds me of this old gem of mine

[everythingfox]

Guy helps stray cat drink from public fountain

[buttlovinangel]

[thevandiemenlander]

ASAC Hank Schrader helps a stray cat drink out of a fountain.

[owarim]

[ambris]

Please, never let this meme die.

[silkirose]

This is the best one I’ve seen so far

[wizardshark]

What kind of quantum fucking memeing from 2056 are you people beaming to us

[warblyzombie]

It’s fucking back

[onyx-was-here]

shooting star. i can’t believe i’m hearing shooting star again in the year 2020

[thevandiemenlander]

If this is the last thing I ever post on this website it will at least be an accurate summary of my time spent here

[bob-belcher]

Happy International Women’s Day!

[chanelbagsandcigarettedrags]

[thevandiemenlander]

Well alright then

*puts dick in blender*

[stevesfriend]

[10knotes]

i always wanted to find you waldo

[thevandiemenlander]

Looks like we were too late

[liquidfem]

[boostergold78]

I didn’t know Mr. T pityed fool’s that weren’t woke, but that’s awesome. #respect

[lordxeras]

“I think about my father being called ‘boy’, my uncle being called ‘boy’, my brother, coming back from Vietnam and being called ‘boy’. So I questioned myself: “What does a black man have to do before he’s given the respect as a man?” So when I was 18 years old, when I was old enough to fight and die for my country, old enough to drink, old enough to vote, I said I was old enough to be called a man. I self-ordained myself Mr. T so the first word out of everybody’s mouth is “Mr.” That’s a sign of respect that my father didn’t get, that my brother didn’t get, that my mother didn’t get.“

-Mr. T on the subject of his name

[kenyanxgyal-deactivated20191123]

I had no idea he put this much thought into this wow

[oxfordcommaforever]

I wonder why we dont hear about this…

[yinx1]

[mixedican-deactivated20190330]

Mr. T’s raw power vaporizing the guy in the last gif

[thevandiemenlander]

1) hell yeah woke af Mr. T

2) "the guy"

[thevandiemenlander]

Tumblr: we are banning all adult content!

Also Tumblr: all of our ads are now adult content!

[bandwidth-of-the-hawk-deactivat]

HBO Deadwood Movie

[thevandiemenlander]

Ooooohhhhhh snap

[just-shower-thoughts]

One of the most satisfactory thing is successfully picking out something stuck in your teeth with the tongue after long efforts.

[thevandiemenlander]

Earlier this year I was doing this, turns out is was the edge of a cap on a back molar, popped it off and took half the tooth with it. Good times

[bunsen-deactivated20150516]

when you’re checking someone out and they catch you

[thevandiemenlander]

Isn't that exactly what's happening in this scene?

[thevandiemenlander]

Tumblpg13

[totalparksandrec]

[thevandiemenlander]

So fitting that jerry was left out here

[ampervadasz]

[rainy-days-will-never-end-deact]

of cola is a soft drink what’s a hard drink

[racistspiderman]

alcohol

[unclebeanbag]

Cement

[irnbruforthetrue]

Irn bru

[rainy-days-will-never-end-deact]

okay yeah thats the right answer

[thevandiemenlander]

Coca Cola was called a soft drink because it had less alcohol than hard liquor - but originally, still had some 

[cabinporn]

Yosemite National Park, California

Submitted by Moritz Peters / @mori_tz

Found this cozy cabin in the forests of Yosemite while coming back from a hike. It took me a while til I realized that I’m just taking photos of a toilet.

[thevandiemenlander]

Ha, was going to say, pretty sure this is the toilet on the vernal falls hike. Good looking toilet though

[danielle-writes]

Some advice for when you’re writing and find yourself stuck in the middle of a scene:

kill someone

ask this question: “What could go wrong?” and write exactly how it goes wrong

switch the POV from your current character to another - a minor character, the antagonist, anyone

stop writing whatever scene you’re struggling with and skip to the next one you want to write

write the ending

write a sex scene

use a scene prompt

use sentence starters

read someone else’s writing

Never delete. Never read what you’ve already written. Pass Go, collect your $200, and keep going.

[bookcharactersthough]

This is the literal best writing advice I have ever read. Period.

[anexperimentallife]

Special note: “Kill someone” means kill someone in the story. Please do not kill random real life passers by every time you hit a block. My lawyer says misunderstanding writing advice is not an acceptable defense. See you all in 25 to 50 years.

[thevandiemenlander]

My old writing mentor (RIP) had a plaque above his typewriter that said “"fight or fuck” that he'd look to whenever he got stuck