the first draft

stories aren't written; they're rewritten sydney. 25. bi. cis female. don't be shy, say hello! **this blog is not spoiler free

[662607015]

having a freeze response to stress is so funny in the context of normal adult stressors. millions of years of evolution are trying to tell me that the email will not find me if i stay very still and do nothing

[despazito]

*old man voice* back in my day tik tok was a ke$ha song

[muppetshow2026]

they call me the problem ignorer for reasons that i know but dont feel like addressing right now

[petricorah]

+context [ids in alt]

[fnordseer5]

has anyone else ever noticed how good i am at picking pictures to reblog

[avatarskorra]

we popping the BIGGEST bottles when makorra happens tomorrow

[wizardarchetypes]

this TikTok comment isn’t about learning second languages but it is a great example of why second languages can be so challenging in extremely funny ways. Already this verbiage can confuse a native speaker, because yeah, “chewing” and “eating” can be interchanged in a sentence that’s literally about food. But “chewing someone out” (scolding them harshly) and “eating someone out” (performing oral sex, usually vaginal) are Very different phrases. Similar to the words in “butt dial” and “booty call” meaning the same thing, but the phrases meaning something very different.

Idk anyway the comments made me laugh & whenever I speak another language I wonder when this will happen to me. Because I know it will eventually.

[avayarising]

When I was about fifteen I went on a week-long school exchange trip to France, where we all stayed with local families.

One of my classmates, after eating a large and delicious meal served by her assigned family, told them “Je suis plein”.

That is the literal translation of the English I am full, which has the colloquial meaning I have had enough to eat.

In French, she had just happily announced to the table that she was pregnant.

[thewritersblockk]

“There are no reasons to hate other people—especially other kinds of people. We make up reasons why other people are less human than we are. We make up reasons and then we believe those reasons and then those reasons become true and they are true because now we believe they are facts and we even forget where it all started—with a reason we made up.”

—Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World, Benjamin Alire Sáenz

[gaybd1]

Twitter has been on an absolute heater today holy shit

[gaybd1]

[gaybd1]

[vympr]

i love reading sad books bc when your own grief is stopped up inside you like a clogged drain you can grieve for a character on a page and understand that you're also grieving for yourself a little bit

[petrichara]

‘There is a theory that watching unbearable stories about other people lost in grief and rage is good for you—may cleanse you of your darkness. Do you want to go down to the pits of yourself all alone? Not much. What if an actor could do it for you? Isn’t that why they are called actors? They act for you. You sacrifice them to action. And this sacrifice is a mode of deepest intimacy of you with your own life. Within it you watch [yourself] act out the present or possible organization of your nature. You can be aware of your own awareness of this nature as you never are at the moment of experience. The actor, by reiterating you, sacrifices a moment of his own life in order to give you a story of yours.’

-Anne Carson, ‘Grief Lessons: Four Plays By Euripides’

[paxamericana]

[provendermalkin]

[gayhornythoughts]

No you dont get to keep that in the tags

[thewritersblockk]

“The world is not a safe place for us. There are cartographers who came and made a map of the world as they saw it. They did not leave a place for us to write our names on that map. But here we are, we’re in it, this world that does not want us, a world that will never love us, a world that would choose to destroy us rather than make a space for us even though there is more than enough room. There is no room for us because it has already been decided that exile is our only choice.”

—Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World, Benjamin Alire Sáenz

[tomacidus]

[holespoles]

Chinese artist Shou Xin creates the most wonderful cats with just a few pencil lines

[lakevida]

lying down for 50 minutes to imagine in real time the experience of walking to trader joes and buying a single pea and walking back home and getting out a cutting board and a knife and skinning and chopping one pea and sprinkling it into a tank with one fish in it

[bumblebeebats]

When i used to work at Whole Foods i would make and freeze my sandwiches for the week but since frozen lettuce is an abomination and a whole head of lettuce is Way too much for a single broke college student who doesn't even really like salad that much, each lunch break i would go to the by-weight salad bar and carefully purchase one single small lettuce leaf. All of my coworkers mocked me relentlessly for it but it cost like $0.01 and half the time it was too light for the scale so they'd just shove it towards me like "Just take it, man." Through such cunning means i probably spent like a dollar total on lettuce in 2 years

[bumblebeebats]

just saying. we got a lot in common, the humble betta fish and I

[valtsv]

she sunk cost on my fallacy until it's not even worth it any more but it's much too late to stop now

[hubedihubbe]

I’ve been wanting to do a thing like this for a while. Behold my amazing animu mongah skills there wow swoons

[hubedihubbe]

2016 rendition!

[hubedihubbe]

She finally has hands!

[hubedihubbe]

She’s on her way!

[hubedihubbe]

Wooshing that skirt a bit more!

[hubedihubbe]

Trying a softer approach!

[hubedihubbe]

Woosh that skirt some more

[hubedihubbe]

This year was stressful, and I redid the yellow dress girl twice before ending up with this!  I’m gonna end up with her feet in a couple years aren’t I

[hubedihubbe]

The sketch is something I love seeing in art - it shows progress and thought, it adds motion and detail, so in this year’s Yellow Dress Girl I’m keeping the sketch lines by choice!

[hubedihubbe]

Turbulent year, I went back to my roots - so has she