Assorted Musings

Probably taller than you. Queer perv. Foodie, although you wouldn't know it from my Tumblr.

[toyastales]

Zendaya

My Faves From The 2025 Met Gala celebrating “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” Part 2

[ghw-archive]

d&g fw17

[anxiousangerball]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but

YOU DO NOT NEED TO START A NEW HOBBY!

STEP AWAY FROM THE TEXTILES!

YOU DON'T NEED MORE YARN!

THAT FABRIC IS NOT CALLING TO YOU! LEAVE IT ALONE!

[boyrot]

boy it's me the textiles speaking to you inside your head. you need the yarn. you need thread. your soul hungers to participate in the act of creation. you must feed it. you must buy so many beads.

[nonbinary-octopus]

[narcissistcookbook]

One of the many weird things about depression is that it retcons your life. Not only are you lying in bed feeling like a piece of shit and that everything is awful, but you start projecting those feelings back along your own time stream - you start low-key believing you've always felt this way, that nothing good has ever happened, or if it has it happened a long time ago.

On January 1st of last year I decided to start keeping a tally of good days and bad days, because I stopped trusting my brain to report on that accurately. I expected to come and look at the tally when I was depressed and go "oh, I had a good day only a few days ago. this hasn't always been like this."

What I didn't expect was that the process of asking myself whether a day had been good or bad would radically shift my perspective on what a bad day was and what a good day was. On the very first day, when I'd achieved nothing and had felt sad and slow all day, I went to put a notch in the Bad Day column before stopping myself:

wait, i thought. has today actually been bad? not bad enough to write it off. i played rummikub online with my partner. i drank some water. i had a long bath. no, today wasn't a bad day.

And so I put a notch in the Good Day column and went to bed. The next day I did the same thing, and the next day, and the next day. Just the process of going over my day every day meant that I found at least one good thing that happened every day. I had a good meal. I went to the pub and was around people, albeit quietly. I went for a walk. I saw a duck. There were days where truly awful, terrible things happened, but even on those days there was always something - even if the something was a simple as We Were There For Each Other or We Reminisced.

On December 31st I put the final tally down. Not a single day had been so bad that I could justify writing it off as a bad day. The bad day column was completely empty.

I'm still depressed, occasionally deeply, but I think I have more perspective. Depression is a physical feeling, and an emotional feeling, but even without trying *something* comes along every day that makes me glad I'm here despite that feeling.

[zippyzstuff]

[aurpiment]

Shout out to the ten primate species, four bat species, elephant shrews, and the Cairo spiny mouse. Nobody else gets it

[oarfjsh]

[tessa-the-duck]

here you are sweetie

[memewhore]

Penguin escapes killer whales by jumping onto a boat.

[is-the-owl-video-cute-deactivat]

Antarctic penguins (and most other Antarctic animals for that matter) are very interesting because they lack a natural fear of humans since, of course, humans are not a natural occurrence on the continent. It is one of the few places on earth where it is completely normal for fully wild animals to be comfortable around you. In fact, most react as though humans are just especially large penguins as those are the only flightless biped native to the area.

As far as this gentoo penguin is concerned, it was saved by a float of large yellow penguins also hiding from orcas.

[crystalepicness]

[sarkos]

Penguin Diogenes

[womantoday]

Shaunese Crawford (photographer, cinematographer, director)

website, Boogie Down Cinema, Facebook, IG, TikTok

[byjove]

having a nightmare while taking a nap is like the ultimate betrayal

[byjove]

like I’m sleeping recreationally. this is supposed to be fun sleep time.

[soberscientistlife]

The perfect response

[sail-sea]

[memeuplift]

[kuvaton]

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[nonegenderleftpain]

[largishcat]

before: GOD DAMN MOTHERFUCK PIECE OF SHIT

after: hello mommy 🥺 could you pretty please help me with this 🥺 it’s me your baby boy

[love-too]

[charlesoberonn]

Absolutely.

[ifeelsoalpha]

[love-too]

Always thinking about them

[genderkoolaid]

Alexander Avila just released a sociological video essay on the "crisis of masculinity" discourse. Its very well done and I'm very happy to see this being tackled by a trans man video essayist! It hits on a lot of things that have been brought up in the discussion of anti-transmasculinity (and even brings up The Will to Change by bell hooks).

[transgirlsgetswords-deactivated]

*bites you to show affection* *bites you to show affection* *bites you to show affection* *bites you to show affection* *bites you to show affection* *bites you to show affection* *bites you to show affection*