doing my thing

I just reblog things I find interesting

[ilovedirt]

never seen that show but I did watch it on tumblr

[exemplarybehaviour]

bad news is that i have spent years cultivating the ability to pass as a normal social person in public only for it to be largely undone by 2020. the good news is that everyone else is ALSO out of practice so me being a giant weird is excusable

[exemplarybehaviour]

the context of this is that i shook someone's hand for the first time in years and i went about it in the weirdest weird possible and was like "sorry that was a pretty hesitant hand shake" and he replied "no it's okay. it was nice and warm." no offense but what the F U C K kind of conversation is that

[tiktoks-we-like]

[grafai-ai]

Man sees crab for the first time.

[marshthemehllow]

does he...

Live in the

Sea?!

[asingularcanadian]

Some fucking

mollusk

pulls up

[brayinghorses]

Lots of my favorite vines are old ones, so here are some that I didn’t want lost to the wind

Might make part 2 w/more modern vines(?)

[worddevourer]

Feels like home, y’know?

[lotrlocked]

Vine has such a different energy than tiktok like this is definitely more chaotic.

[luisonte]

Me duele la cabeza

[humandryersheet]

This is actually examples of the field of mathematics called topology and it’s fucking bullshit wizard shit.

[weissfire]

finally, applied mathematics

[unmistrusting]

[the-quotable-alberta-hansard]

March 6, 1972

MR. NOTLEY: Too often, Mr. Speaker, the efforts of government to date to deal with the problem of poverty have been based on the old trickle- down theory that as the rich get richer, by some magic formula the poor will benefit. Well, as the Human Resources Research Council report, tabled just before Christmas, points out, "it ain't necessarily so." It is only when we are prepared to commit our resources to a basic redistribution of income and power that we will begin to meaningfully combat poverty, not only in this province but throughout Canada.

[killtheboyband-deactivated20220]

please god i am so deathly sick of people saying like "how is this straight the writers are so dumb!" about literal actual gay media i don't know how to break it to you people but nbc hannibal is about two men who are attracted to each other. jennifer's body is about two women who are attracted to each other. i know you guys are used to only consuming captain america movies and the occasional mark zuckerburg biopic but there are writers who actually write gay people and they do in fact do so on purpose. you don't have to say "i can't believe the writers thought this was heterosexual" they literally did not

[killtheboyband-deactivated20220]

actually i cracked the code. you all are like this because you are biphobic

[killtheboyband-deactivated20220]

she says out loud with her mouth “i go both ways”

[pileofknives]

"I bet it doesn't hurt that bad, I don't have time for this shit."

[ampersandvich]

"at least one"

[sexhaver]

now this is a gender binary i can get behind

[carnival-phantasm]

Very generous of them to describe it as the "Thinking Period"

[retiredmahoushoujo]

They correctly excluded the outlier Electroshocks Georg

[edgebug]

so when i was 7 or 8 i’d “write letters to hermione granger” and set them out on the piano in the living room every night with my stuffed toy owl and every morning i’d have a letter from hermione back, sitting at the foot of my bed, and hermione and i corresponded like that for months and i’d just like to thank my mom for writing out a “letter from hermione” for me every single night

[sure-to-lure-someone-bad-deacti]

That is the cutest thing I’ve ever read oh my god

[justastormie]

so when i was about the same age i got really into both ciphers and james madison (idk don’t ask) so i just randomly started writing these letters like i was james madison writing to my own spy ring, using all kinds of ciphers. constantly writing that WE MUST SWITCH CIPHERS THE BRITISH ARE ON TO US. and it wasn’t every night because the ciphers kept getting more complex, but it was about one every week for six months and my mother always responded. and she always found the letters, because i took to hiding them in increasingly more obscure locations because spies, obviously. 

i didn’t realize how much work this was until i snuck down late one night for a cookie. and saw my mother bent over my giant book of ciphers and muttering to the dog “is this another code or can she not spell?” (i could not and still can not spell) and i was a bit angry at first but i kept watching and she KEPT AT IT. checking everything in that book against my letter and i never felt so loved. my mom with a full time job sitting up to figure out my silly letters said just because i enjoyed the game. 

i got her this bio of james madison a few years ago for xmas with a simple number substitution cipher on the inside saying “In thanks for your dedicated years of service, your daughter and occasional President.” She still has it pride of place on her desk next to the obligatory kid pics

so yeah cute mom story for the day. 

[unicornempire]

These are some of the best secret mom stories I’ve ever read, omg.

[spamton]

the dragons when they're in a dungeon idk I'm too pretty to play dnd

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[holyfunnyhistoryherring]

Transcript: Yesterday my cousin said that my rooster wasn't a real rooster. He said he's a Walmart rooster. *chicken noises* Does this not look like a real rooster to you? *chicken makes a sound again* Sure, he's small, but he has feelings.

[mrdsc1010]

Can't wait for their collab

[dajo42]

Princess Peach was really just like “my castle is gonna be a weird museum with maybe some living quarters tucked away somewhere but mostly just magic portals to battlefields and slides” and everybody was like yeah you beautiful binch go ahead

[dajo42]

There’s a whole fucking room in the castle that’s just a long corridor with a portrait of bowser at the end. There’s another specifically designed to be a trick of perspective so you run towards a portrait of a goomba that looks like it’s right in front of you but it’s actually far away and huge. There’s a room filled with paintings and then a mirror wall so you can like, see the paintings reflected, I guess?

Princess Peach just has a bizarre series of magical art installations and that’s her house

[dajo42]

Like she LIVES there. That’s her HOUSE. She was like “hey toadsworth can we have a giant grandfather clock that if you jump at it it takes you to a magical world inside the clock but depending on what time you jump in the moving parts of the magic clock world will be faster or slower” and toadsworth was like “k lol” in her HOUSE

[dajo42]

What I’m saying is Princess Peach is a fucking legend

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

Years ago, my husband sent an email to Nintendo asking them a bunch of questions about Mario 64; stuff like “How do Bobombs reproduce?” and “Who does the second baby penguin belong to?” and that. I bring it up because one of the fifty-odd questions asked was “Why is there no furniture in Princess Peach’s castle?”

Nintendo of Europe answered every question, so I can canonically tell you that Princess Peach is so rich that she owns two castles, one for furniture and one for all her artwork.

(In case you’re wondering, the answers to the other two are “Through a mixture of gunpowder and love” and “No one. It is its own penguin.”)

[purple-possibilities]

There’s extra, and then theres Princess Peach

[guerrillatech]

[rumade]

I’d divorce him too lmao

[sustainableseparatists]

[sisyphereantask]

It’s never JUST about the tomatoes.

[probablyasocialecologist]

Basically!

Throughout the day, partners would make requests for connection, what Gottman calls “bids.” For example, say that the husband is a bird enthusiast and notices a goldfinch fly across the yard. He might say to his wife, “Look at that beautiful bird outside!” He’s not just commenting on the bird here: He’s requesting a response from his wife—a sign of interest or support—hoping they’ll connect, however momentarily, over the bird.

The wife now has a choice. She can respond by either “turning toward” or “turning away” from her husband, as Gottman puts it. Though the bird-bid might seem minor and silly, it can actually reveal a lot about the health of the relationship. The husband thought the bird was important enough to bring it up in conversation and the question is whether his wife recognizes and respects that.

These bidding interactions had profound effects on marital well-being. Couples who had divorced after a six-year follow-up had “turn-toward bids” 33 percent of the time. Only three in 10 of their bids for emotional connection were met with intimacy. The couples who were still together after six years had “turn-toward bids” 87 percent of the time. Nine times out of 10, they were meeting their partner’s emotional needs.

The Secret to Love Is Just Kindness

Those who showed genuine interest in their partner’s joys were more likely to be together.

[kedreeva]

This isn’t romantic only btw. This is what’s going on in this modern day, when you send links to friends.

[thenatsdorf]

Rescued tiger gets a pool for the first time. (via)

[helloneels17]

From marcus’ perspective this moment was more like why are these monkeys making so much noise about this weird water *gets in* oh shit this do sorta slap tho

[ithelpstodream]