The Diary of a Fangirl

C • 30s • she/her • bi • introvert • Taurus • Queer • Magical Girl • I like lots of things and I like to share the things that I like! This is a blog of those things!

[tiskycat]

Keeping my astrological sign in my blog description not to give any insight into my personality or anything, but to instead provide a time frame within which it is appropriate to gift me birthday presents

[notaplaceofhonour]

Ryan Gosling’s career has just been one long quest to climb the Warner Bros water tower

[notaplaceofhonour]

that man has been trying to climb this tower since he was 16. he has asked multiple times, and every time they said no, but now he’s famous enough & variety was able to convince them to do a shoot on the tower. it all led here. it was all for this.

[notaplaceofhonour]

I’m obsessed with the implication that this was a coming-of-age ritual where a boy becomes a man, like a bar mitzvah

[jvnart]

:3

[drpebberlover]

[sandmandaddy69]

[randomitemdrop]

Item: PlayStantula

[pururin]

this video looks so funny, cause im sure there's a proper reason but its like that 1 meme where its 'thing' and 'thing japan'

[pururin]

so it turns out the method involves planting multiple plants and fungi and flowers and trees together rather than spreading them out, this forces them to compete for light and resources more aggressively and grow in a much quicker time than just the standard method of planting 1 tree per cubic meter, the reason its Japanese is because of a botanist called Akira Miyawaki who invented the method after studying how the forest works near him, but this method can be used world wide, the picture above is how the trees and plants look on each side after 3 years when they were planted the same time

[wingkink]

btw it's so fucking stupid you can be anxious physically in your body even after you've decided mentally you don't care. I'm supposed to be in charge here

[samtf]

reblog to give a strawberry to the person you reblogged this from

[amaraqwolf]

Good news: if you’re currently laying around and not producing anything, you are a credit to your species.

[willow-wanderings]

It’s recently been found that even hive insects rest. Bees will play with colorful toys. Ants sleep for about 1 minute but they do it so frequently it amounts to a few hours per day. Even trees take breaks.

The only things that work without rest are machines; literally everything that lives requires rest.

EVERYTHING THAT LIVES REQUIRES REST. STOP JUDGING YOURSELF FOR NOT BEING A ROBOT.

[roach-works]

robots require very frequent breaks! welding machines generally have it programmed in that they can’t run so long they melt themselves. ive overseen two different manufacturing robots now and each of them were fragile, finicky idiots that require constant maintenance and repair. they pause in between moves, in between jobs. you’re always keeping an eye on programming errors, on coolant levels, on heat. you’re always pulling bits of scrap out of joints, sweeping up debris, washing off nozzles and untangling hoses. and even then it snaps a chain and takes a whole morning’s vacation.

even robots need downtime.

[can-i-make-image-descriptions]

[Image ID: Tweet from SpookyBritches Jules (@/ SQLPi) on Oct 12, 2020 reading: Reminder that you are an omnivore, a predator, and a pretty big one at that. You are not a bee or an ant. It is, in fact, normal for you to just want to lay around not producing anything. You’re a mammal. Stop judging yourself for not being a hive insect. /End ID]

Plain text: Everything that lives requires rest. Stop judging yourself for not being a robot.

[antibunni]

The only thing — not man, animal, insect, plant, or machine — that demands no rest is capitalism

[tearlessrain]

what companies who sell you anti aging stuff don't want you to know is that if you're chill about aging, your perception of attractiveness changes as you get older. there is no "wall" where you suddenly become ugly and unfuckable because in my experience what actually happens is you get into your thirties and suddenly realize that people in their thirties are hot as fuck and the "flaws" that the beauty industry wants you to panic about are a feature not a bug, and based on the std statistics in nursing homes I don't really expect that trajectory to change.

[plant-folk]

The full rotation of the Moon as seen by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

[wilwheaton]

It’s so beautiful and amazing that we live at a moment in time when we can see the entire moon, and not just the side that’s tidally-locked toward the Earth.

[gothiccharmschool]

@netherworldpost Atty, my darling! A post featuring your beloved!

[digitalfossils]

[derbophobia]

kyoko sakura wouldve loved crushing a dozen empty beer cans against her forehead. and mami wouldve loved getting embarrassingly sloppydrunk off lemon drops. and sayaka wouldve loved ordering whiskey neat and pretending not to choke and sputter with every sip. and homura wouldve loved insisting on being the designated driver because she knows if she drinks she'll start crying over random shit. and madoka wouldve loved spending 10 minutes hemming and hawing over the cocktail menu only to order the same fruity beverage she always gets. all of them ... gone too soon ...

[vegasgrandprix]

i love looking at old race posters and i think this one for the 1993 detroit grand prix might be one of my favorites

[runraerun]

This but make it domestic Spirk:

[eldar-of-zemlya]

Maaan, this Ernest Chiriacka illustration has been in my K/S inspiration folder for over a year now!! Thank you for making this post—this was the push I needed to finally make it happen xD

✨ Full size on AO3 ✨

[unamccormack]

Friends you know what’s needed

[byjove]

Heterosexual relationship culture is so alien to me and I don’t know if it’s the fact I’m not cishet or the fact I’m autistic but I hear so many things that make me go “Am I insane or are they?”

There’s a lot of hate on widowers and I saw a woman say “You cannot compete with a dead woman.” which is perhaps a reasonable statement to say if he’s constantly comparing you to his dead partner but that wasn’t what the post was about. And I realized “Oh my God, these people genuinely feel like they’re constantly in competition with their spouse’s exes and the ex being dead makes them feel insecure that they cannot best her.”

There’s also been an uptick in the ‘men and women cannot be ‘just’ friends’ rhetoric which I feel like is extremely dangerous and reflects the rise of fascism and sexism. Some of these stories of women feeling threatened by their husband’s female best friend have some merit and others are like “I feel angry that my husband still talks to the girl he grew up next door to and she and her wife are invited to family gatherings and included in family photos sometimes. Am I right to be suspicious?” No. No you’re not. I cannot imagine being you and living with that high level of stress and paranoia and constant torment and jealousy about your husband having a positive relationship with anyone who isn’t you.

[covington-shenanigans]

okay look i know this isn't relevant to this post past the second paragraph but. here's the thing. the facts of the case are as follows:

1) I am widowed. my Beloved Wife of Blessed Memory(tm) died in 2019

2) I got together with my current partner about 18 months later

3) when I am committing acts of Foolishness my current partner loves to gesture at the sky to my dead wife, like "do you see this shit, my liege" and regularly says to me things like "[wife's name] was right about this" when my Foolishness inevitably comes back to bite me in the ass

4) this happens. all the time

more importantly:

5) my current partner is on tumblr

6) they love to incessantly send me posts

WHICH MEANS:

7) they just sent me this post with this commentary:

8) they really, really are ganging up on me with her. god help us if there's an afterlife and those two ever actually meet. "eternal rest" my ass, i will never know peace again

[tiskycat]

The toxic yuri tension between the two skeins of embroidery thread I just entangled together bc they’re the same color and I want them to stay together while in my bag when I’m not using them but know that untangling them whenever I do get around to needing one of them again is gonna fucking SUCK