walk through my garden forever

"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you..."

[wearethepiranhas]

yo we haven't talked in years but one time i was at a summer camp dance and i was crying in the girls' bathroom because of boy problems or whatever and you walked in while i was this huge mess of mascara tears and adolescent angst and you were really nice to me and that's always stayed with me as a cool thing

oh my god, I haven’t checked my tumblr in YEARS and this was so nice to see after such a long time! please message me who you are if you’re comfortable with it, I’d love to connect again!! I’m glad I could be there for you <3 

[helenruthofficial]

Chicago Gothic

– The CTA trains are running. You hear the screech of metal against metal as they go by. You hear them at school, and at work, and while you shop, eat, and everywhere you walk. As you lie in bed at night, you hear the screech and wonder if it really is metal against metal.

– “The tourists are here,” you say, grimly, to your friend. The tour buses are parked along every street, and when the doors open, the people spill out clutching cameras and backpacks. As one woman brushes past you, you notice she’s wearing the same tattered Blackhawks cap as someone you saw last year, and the year before that. Are the tourists here, or have they never left?

– In the tunnels where the subway trains run there are streaks on the wall. They are a deep brownish red. Some of them resemble words, but you can’t be sure. You look around to see if any of the other passengers have noticed, but they are all asleep. You also begin to feel drowsy…

– There’s a fog over Millennium Park. It covers the tops of buildings. It covers the tops of trees. It is beginning to cover the top of Cloud Gate and its small crowd of visitors. It will soon cover you as well, walking along Michigan Avenue.

– You are in the Loop. You have been in the Loop for as long as you know, but you’re still not sure what it is or how big it is. When you ask where the Loop ends, it’s always a different answer. They tell you the Loop is the heart of Chicago. Where is the body? Have they seen outside? 

– The buildings are getting taller and taller. Everyday another small patch of the sky disappears. Very soon, you estimate, there will be no sky left.

[kreuzaderny]

[cosmoscenti]

i wanna know who spent a once-in-a-lifetime event to take this horrifying aesthetically-pleasing picture

[madness-and-brilliancee]

Ethnic Family Gothic

Your mom calls you to take the chicken out of the freezer. You take it out. Hours later, the chicken is still frozen. Your mom calls you to take the chicken out.

The plastic bag full of bags never seems to get any smaller, no matter how many times someone uses a plastic bag. You stop putting plastic bags in to see if they’ll use them up. It stays full.

Your mom tells you she’ll give you something to cry about. You can’t cry, no matter how much to try.

The sink is full of dishes. You wash them all. Your mother gets home and the sink is full of dishes.

You’re hungry. You look in the fridge. There are hundreds of labeled plastic bins. You open one, but what’s inside isn’t what is labeled. You open another, and again it’s wrong. You open all of them. They’ll all wrong.

One day, you start pulling plastic bags out of the plastic bag, to see how many there are. You keep pulling and pulling, but it never seems to end. The bag stays full. Your mom walks in and finds you surrounded by plastic bags. She asks where the chicken is.

You go to a family party. There are thousands of people there. Everyone is your cousin. You don’t know anyone. You recognize them all.  

You go with your parents to the grocery store. Every person you see is someone your mother knows. She talks to all of them. They talk for minutes. They talk for hours. They talk for years. They talk Forever.

You get sick. You ask your mom for medicine. She hands you a bottle. It’s full of VapoRub. Every medicine is VapoRub.

The Royal Dansk cookie bin appears in your kitchen. You don’t open it. You know it’s full of sewing supplies. 

You’re hungry again. You ask your mom for McDonalds. She tells you there is food at home. You get home, but all the containers are empty.

You open the oven to bake the chicken. It’s full of pans. You try to take them out, but they are scalding. The oven was off. The chicken is still frozen.

You go to your friend’s house. They have a Royal Dansk cookie container. They open it and take out a cookie. You open it. It’s full of sewing supplies. 

It’s the family party again. Everyone is asking you where your significant other is. They’re right there, you say. No one sees them. They keep asking. You thought you were married. Where are they?

[darlinghogwarts]

If you don’t love languages, hear me out: my telugu friend had been affectionately calling me, a hindi speaker, “gundi” for 7 months. We didn’t realize until recently that the word has two completely different meanings in Telugu and Hindi, and that we both had completely different interpretations of her affection.

In Telugu, “gundi” means “smol/button/round/cute”.

In Hindi, “gundi” means “female thug”

[berniesrevolution]

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[eatsleepdraw]

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[nextwavecinema]

actresses acting! 

[memeguy-com]

years later House is still as relevant as he ever was

[doyouthinkaboutme]

I wasn’t vaccinated and never got sick so

[appropriately-inappropriate]

And I swam and didn’t drown.

Anecdotes aren’t evidence. The reason YOU specifically didn’t get sick is because of something called Mass Immunity.

That means that since everyone ELSE is vaccinated (you’re welcome), there’s nowhere for the virus to establish a hold. That mass immunity is the only thing that keeps people who CANNOT vaccinate—like the immunocompromised—from catching it.

The second that people stop vaccinating, that immunity disappears and the disease resurges, as is clear from the fact that the US is currently experiencing an epidemic of a disease that was projected to become extinct in our lifetimes.

Get immunized. There’s no reason not to.

[gehayi]

or a adinfinitumxx:

Considering that there’s a whole host of people in my age range who weren’t vaccinated enough (even I was missing the second dose of MMR until recently) getting the measles and the mumps I think it’s ridiculous that we’re arguing over a life and death situation. Literally, do you want to live or die?

Also, even if you weren’t vaccinated and never got sick–at least not visibly–that doesn’t preclude the possibility that you picked up a virus and passed it on without knowing it. 

Maybe you had…oh, let’s say measles. But you had no symptoms. Or maybe you had a fever,  or sore eyes, or a harsh dry cough, but that was it. But nothing that said anything was seriously wrong. And in the meantime, you went about your business. Maybe you waited for a bus with an old man, or shared an aisle at the store with a pregnant woman and her wailing one-year-old, or attended a party with your friends.  

And the disease you didn’t know you had? That passed on to the people you met, or to people that they met. The disease you didn’t know you had was passed to a friend at that party, and she passed it to her mother and father, they passed it to their workmates, and now two offices are sick with your measles. The old man you saw at the bus stop? He got pneumonia as a result of the measles you passed to him. The pregnant woman from the store? She miscarried. Her baby, who was too young to be vaccinated? She developed encephalitis and died. 

You’re not the only one who’s being protected by your vaccination. You’re protecting everyone else as well. That’s the fucking POINT of vaccination.

[marzaenna]

Trickster Week (7/8) ↳ South Asian Gods: Mohini (Hindu Mythology)

Her kisses are divine, they are poison, and she will entice and enchant you until you can do nothing but drown in an unrequited desire. If you’re fortunate, she’ll lure you to your demise, but if not she’ll leave you to writhe in your yearning for beauty is a mad mistress.

[knowtherealcost]

Hydrogen cyanide is a dangerous chemical. It’s one of the 7,000+ chemicals in cigarette smoke.

[wearethepiranhas]

I quit three weeks ago, and every one of your ads makes me want to go buy a new pack.

[bob-belcher]

[northgang]

[transfemmbeatrice]

do you think vampires and werewolves are an exclusively human phenomenon or are there dwarfish werewolves and elvish vamps and shit??

[betazeds]

would you fucking go to bed

[transfemmbeatrice]

*griffin voice* come plaaaaaay with me in this spaaaace

centaurs but the human part is a dragonborn

mermaids but the human part is an orc

[transfemmbeatrice]

HOBBIT ZOMBIES

[betazeds]

i’m coming to your house and turning off your wifi

[transfemmbeatrice]

it’s a new month I have data for days bitch

[stacylambe]

How does it feel to be a meme? I have been adopted by the millennials, and I’m enjoying every minute of it! I’m learning a new language. You never think about shade, for example, other than, you know, ‘‘a tree is providing shade,’’ but when they taught me what shade was, I thought: Now, isn’t that creative?–Maxine Waters  

(”New York Times Magazine”)

[gif87a-com]

[tinysaurus-rex-deactivated20240]

THE TINIEST FEET

[crouchingtiger-hiddennegro]

Yo don’t forget the Taino people on Columbus Day

The were the first people to come in contact with the murderous bastard who enslaved their people and kidnapped their children

It’s often assumed the Taino’s were “wiped out” they weren’t

Taino/Arawak people are from Caribbean islands mainly (from my limited knowledge) Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Haiti.

We as Indigenous people need to remember not to wash away the histories of other Nations not in North America

Remember while we all have suffered since Columbus got lost, these people especially in Puerto Rico and Haiti still suffer from American Imperialism

Remember Tainos on Columbus Day