its just so hard to see tomorrow past tonight

do what you are you going to do, and i will live to tell of it.

[bluedusksandpinkdawns]

Can we not become a tragedy just yet?

Can we not fade to oblivion just yet?

I’m not ready for our love to be forgotten,

Eternally unspoken, the memory now foreign.

Although your name is never formed by my lips,

Unfamiliar as the taste of your kiss,

My pen knows all about the blue of your eyes,

Your smile, and the heat of your hand holding mine.

Look, I know we weren’t made to survive summer -

We are frozen lakes, windy days and snowflakes,

All bare trees and frosty breeze, delicate mistakes.

I know, when we cross paths, I stare at the floor,

You pretend not to see me, try to ignore.

Promises of ‘still friends’ slipped through our fingers,

Like ice, they shatter, but the cold still lingers.

When I see you affection overcomes me,

Emotion, tenderness, overpowering.

Can we hold on to this pretence one more night?

Could I hold you in my arms for one last time?

We’ll return to the ashes that we came from,

An ocean apart, and a state of nothing.

Not yet, though - can we smile and embrace once more?

Try, although I’m not sure such a thing exists,

To have an adequate goodbye.

[angelicavpd]

an authority figure: [expresses slight, arguable disappointment in me]

me, shaking: Wow. Can’t Believe I’m The Worst Person Alive

[fullmetal-alchemasst-deactivate]

authority figure: *is in a bad mood or even is just less friendly than usual*

me, stomach in knots: My fault? I must be the cause of this?

[owlmylove]

can we like…. talk about what a healthy relationship with technology looks like? not just for us, but for future generations: its super easy for us to accept tech unquestioningly bc many millennials and gen-Zers grew up alongside the growth of tech, and had a naturally evolving level of exposure to it. but what about the 5 year olds with tablets? the 8 year olds with perfectly curated instagrams?? i’m as obsessed with my phone as the rest of us, but can we please stop simply bemoaning how none of us read as much as we were kids and start exploring how all these screens might be affecting the kids growing up right now?

[owlmylove]

i work in customer service and please know that i am not baby-boomer aggrandizing when i say i have seen so many children, literally toddlers, dead-silent and completely, utterly absorbed in tablets bigger than their heads. i’ve seen a shitton of pre-pubescent girls posing for pictures together, planning their angles and backgrounds, and checking what shots their mom took bc they’re worried “they might look fat.” like. i’m talking 7 year olds. this isn’t meant to be some holier than thou bullshit, this is me being legitimately terrified about a problem i really haven’t seen any of us discuss or even acknowledge

[nerdgul]

We need to bring back those crappy burner phones for kids (the ones with no touch screen and only can be used to call/text a few numbers). So they still have emergency contact and a way of talking to friends but arnt bombarded with the constant uncontrolled stream of content on the internet. And please for the love of god, no tablets for kids under 10. Nit to be all anti tech but its not even good for adults to have to much screentime its certainly not good for developing brains.

[likethewaterandwind]

screens are proven to be really bad for kids’ brain development and social development. kids who play on tablets instead of with physical toys aren’t getting the motor skills they need from touching and manipulating toys. they aren’t getting the balance or understanding of gravity and physics that they get from playing with blocks or bouncy balls.

not to mention the blue light is real bad for their eyes. pretty soon we’re going to have a generation of kids with terrible eyesight and chronic headaches from staring at screens. 

you shouldn’t have the tv on or even have your own phone in the room with a baby under 6 months. this is because babies need eye contact to develop empathy (no, seriously) and if you’re looking at your phone, you aren’t playing with your baby. the pretty flashy lights of a phone are much more interesting to your baby than you are. 

if you think it’s too hard or annoying to engage your kid in conversation, and prefer to just hand them a tablet to keep them quiet, your kid is going to grow up having never learned to hold a conversation or to notice other humans. they’re also going to be hella impatient.

[rowanhunt0x7c8]

As a teacher we take so many courses on how tech is changing how students develop and they’re not learning how to be bored. They always have something in front of them, and parents are worried that a bored or upset child means they’re bad at parenting so they stick a screen in front of them. Learning how to be bored sparks creativity. Receiving entertainment the moment you’re upset limits your ability to handle those emotions. And it makes it soooooo hard for teachers to teach because now we have to teach kids not just academics, but social and emotional stability as well and there’s just not enough time in the day. I’m a huuuuge advocate for educational technology and I play so many video games but pleeeeease spend time with your kids! And don’t feel bad if you have to take away your kids electronics!

[tabloidsores]

There is nothing that embodies all my favorite things in a character design more than

[tabloidsores]

I look at this guy and go “well he’s just going to cast spells huh”

[floralmarsupial]

also!! please have this jade comic I put on my patreon earlier this month

[thebootydiaries]

me: i love this band

someone 30-40 years older than me: they've been around for awhile you just getting into them?

me: why didn't you prevent vietnam?

[estradiol]

Due to personal reasons I will be disappearing under mysterious circumstances

[allegedserialkiller]

being self-aware fucking sucks i wish i was a cucumber

[aminuteawayfromsnowing]

[hungry-hobbits]

oh god archduke franz ferdinand watch out he’s got a gun OH NO HE’S GOT AIRPODS IN HE CANT HEAR ME

[henryclervals]

[remakesihavetoremake-deactivate]

my absolute favorite part of tumblr is how much you guys hate symbolism and like to pretend english teachers made up symbolism and authors never intended to write it. symbolism is what saves books from being boring and lifeless. i need you guys to understand how lazy and childish you look when you complain about having to find symbolism in books made for finding symbolism

[riverlovesyou1]

Lmao Im a writer and fuck writing symbolism. Its all accidental

[remakesihavetoremake-deactivate]

[smspoetry]

“two weeks sober - fourteen days since my last hangover and for the first time i can see myself growing older. my lips no longer taste like whiskey and my footsteps no longer dizzy - i’m just trying to stay busy. the liquor bottles that were hidden under my bed are now a vase for yellow flowers instead - what a metaphor for this skin and bones that are slowly starting to feel like home.”

— smspoetry

[etherealeggplant]

How Californian are you?

Add up your points and put what you are in the tags

You live within half an hour of a beach (10 points)

You’ve gone to the beach after school/work (15 points)

You’ve worn shorts in winter (5 points)

You’ve eaten at In-N-Out (20 points)

You’ve ridden a long board (10 points)

You’ve complained about 60 degree weather being too cold (15 points)

You could look out a window right now and see a palm tree (10 points)

You have blonde hair (5 points)

You tan easily (5 points)

You know how to surf (10 points)

You frequently say “hella” or “gnarly” or “dank” or “dude” (5 points)

You’ve gotten yourself in a car accident (10 points)

You own more shorts than pants (15 points)

You’ve sat in traffic for over an hour (5 points)

You’ve experienced an earthquake (10 points)

An earthquake happened and you didn’t even notice (20 points)

Snow excites you (5 points)

You’ve had Chipotle and Starbucks within 24 hours of each other (10 points)

You’ve seen a celebrity in public (10 points)

You tend to lean more towards liberal than conservative (5 points)

You attend/attended an outdoor school (campus is not one giant building) (10 points)

There are 3+ Starbucks in your hometown (5 points)

You frequently practice the ‘California Rolling Stop’ (10 points)

You’ve had a California burrito (15 points)

You’ve had at least one fire day (like snow days but for wild fires) getting you out of school or work (20 points)

You say the word ‘like’ in almost every sentence (10 points)

You have a pool at your house/complex (5 points)

You’ve been to Disneyland (15 points)

You’ve ever been on any sort of “cleanse” (10 points)

Ranges:

0-100 - Not really Californian at all

100-200 - Eh, you could pass as Californian

200-300 - Congrats, you’re stereotypically Californian

[parakeet]

your bed is probably as happy to see you as you are to see it. ‘here comes the warmth slab’ it thinks

[targent]

wrong it thinks “god hope this dipshit doesnt spill beans all over me again who tf eats beans in bed”

[targent]

stop reblogging this new year new me i havent spilled beans in bed ONCE this year

[targent]

uh oh

[boringangel]

olivia de recat for the new yorker

[all-my-messy-thoughts-deactivat]

out behind the church with our knees knocking on the old tire swing you offered me one of your brother’s cigarettes and told me you always lied during confession. and when i asked you why you shrugged and said because you didn’t want the priest up in your business like that. it was a sunday after service and our fingers were sticky with sugar from the donuts your mom brought every sabbath which we hated but ate anyway.

i fumbled the lighter and coughed my way through it and asked you if you can get drunk off communion wine and you said you’d tried and it was better than nothing. and i didn’t know how to tell you this, how it was fasting to keep myself from touching you, how last week you looked over at me during service and my hands started sweating.

how to tell someone this. how to turn and look at you from across the pews, the two of us clean in our patent leather shoes, and tell you that i was made sinner by you, that i lied too, lied to my parents and it was about you. how would i tell you this, how my nights had turned red with wanting you. how i was feverish at the thought of you, made holy when i touched you. you poked at a spider with the end of a stick and i asked you what you lied to the priest about today. you looked at me and all i wanted was that moment pasted on the palms of my hands so when i opened a bible it would always be there looking back at me.

and forgive me father for i have sinned, forgive me father for i am sin. you put your hand on my thigh and i couldn’t stop shaking.

it was a sunday the lord’s day and you took a drag from your cigarette and kissed me like a prayer and you tasted like sugar and ashes and communion wine and i was baptized in you, undone by you, made sacred by you, and how could i not be forgiven for this, how could this make me filthy when i finally felt clean, because you, you were holy water.

two years later, we saw each other at a party, both of us drunk off real liqueur, us girls hard and bright and chomping at the bit of it, life i mean, and you were kissing a boy in a hot tub and i could see sugar on you, i wondered if he could still taste our ashes on you.

sometimes i used to stand across from the church and picture the stained glass, wonder how something with stained in the name could be holy but the stain of you made me sin, sometimes i would stand and picture the service, the people, their heads bright and good and blue under the light, and me, clean turning red by your holy, holy lips.

r.c.c

[inthetags]

reblog this and put your travel plans for 2019 in the tags