falling into focus

I'm Eliza.

[thomyorkeisahottie]

It only makes sense that now I’m an adult and no longer obsessed with radiohead in a teenager way, that I am now totally obsessed with Moderat. If anybody still follows me and gets it, lemme know because I don’t know anyone else who even knows who they are.

[libraford]

I think part of the issue is people assuming that everyone MUST want to move upwards. Like... it's the next logical step for a person to want to move up the chain: from worker to manager, to district manager, eventually owner.

But I always think of growth like plants.

Aspens grow tall to reach the sun, for sure. But dandelions grow deep, understanding themselves fully so that if some misguided fool tries to uproot them they'd have to try damn hard. And then there's thyme and other creeping plants, which spread themselves out so much that if you chop a part of it off it roots wherever it can find dirt to root in.

It's okay not to have lofty dreams. You know what kind of plant you are better than anyone else.

[aphony-cree]

This reminds me of a business problem called The Peter Principle that’s been written about for years but few businesses have been willing to make changes because of it

The concept is that a worker is really good at their job, so good that they clearly deserve better compensation for all they bring to the company, but business is structured so that the only way to get more money is to be promoted to a higher position. A new position comes with new job requirements, but not everyone is going to be right for those. Example: an amazing computer programmer might be useless at managing staff, but if you promote that programmer to head of the department they’ll be required to manage staff. It seems like the best thing for everyone, the company included, would be to put that employee back in their original job and let them keep the higher salary since they clearly do the job well enough to deserve it. However companies want those lower level jobs to be seen as undesirable so workers will feel upper staff deserve their higher wages. Because of this, putting the employee back in the job they’re right for is considered a demotion, so instead companies let the employee keep the upper level job they’re bad at forever or until they have just cause to fire them. Clearly the company was better off with them in the job they were good at, but the illusion of hierarchy to justify higher waged employees is more important

Just because capitalism says everyone should climb the corporate ladder doesn’t mean it’s actually the right thing for everyone

[scurviesdisneyblog]

Production art from Winnie the Pooh by Art Director Paul Felix

[themakeupbrush]

Iris van Herpen Fall 2021 Couture

[roomba-with-knives-taped-to-it]

“No man is an island” oh really? Really? What about him?:

[nonpolar-bear]

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x

[everythingfox]

(via)

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x

[girlrose]

13 year old me would think im so fucking cool

[paperstorm]

Pride history posts on here seem almost exclusively to revolve around Stonewall which can leave the impression that America is the only place where anything important ever happened and obviously is not true so I have compiled a few links where you can learn about LGBTQ history in other countries! Feel free to add

The Brunswick Four and the Toronto raids in Canada 🇨🇦

Queer icons like Virginia Wolf, Oscar Wilde, and Freddie Mercury in Britain 🇬🇧

Cultural revolution in Weimar Germany 🇩🇪

The drag scene in Nigeria 🇳🇬

Gay and lesbian Mardi Gras in Australia 🇦🇺

Frida Kahlo and Mexicos fraught history 🇲🇽

Gay samurai in Japan 🇯🇵

Queer narratives erased by colonialism in Pakistan 🇵🇰

The modern world’s first legal same-sex marriages in the Netherlands 🇳🇱

The honoured Mahu (transgender individuals) in traditional Hawaiian culture 🌺

Hidden queer communities in communist Poland 🇵🇱

Husbands in ancient Egypt 🇪🇬

The Athens pride festival in Greece 🇬🇷

The Homosexual Movement of Liberation in Chile 🇨🇱

Gay rights protests in India 🇮🇳

[pawn-into-a-queen]

Tom of Finland 🇫🇮

[egberts]

why do so many people refuse to believe that cats love so pure and deeply and they're not always just self serving little heat creatures. when a cat loves you, when a cat looks at you with love in their eyes... my god

[xlrecordings]

[awwflycat]

Have a nice day

[drumsplsfab]

sweater weather but it’s interpol

source

[sexyolddudes]

Thom Yorke 

Photo by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images for RFF (via x)

[dilfhershellayton]

jojo siwa is like. her style is not my taste at all but as soon as other people call it annoying im like actually you're wrong she's an icon and a legend

[saxophonechihuahua]

she looks like the concentrated essence of a claires store and i do not mean this negatively