Musings of a former blonde

Sarah. Older. She/her. Still confused.

[alexander]

How Animals Eat Their Food

[pastelvirgil]

this video is fuckin ancient and i honestly forgot how funny it was

[alien-fanbitch]

I always forget how funny this is until I watch it again and die laughing!

[radioactivepeasant]

Oh gosh, I forgot this was a thing!

[copperbadge]

I have somehow become the arbiter of cool at my job.

I am not cool and I make no pretense to be cool, but somehow I’m the one my colleagues draw on for coolness points, and they fear my scorn.

“You’ll laugh when I tell you,” my boss said sheepishly when I asked him if he had weekend plans. “I’m taking my son to WWE. He just really loves it.”

“Oh shit, I watched wrestling all the time when I was writing my thesis! It’s such a great soap opera!” I said.

“Yes, exactly! That’s why we love it!” He replied. Note: we.

“That’s cool though,” I told him. Who could laugh at a guy bonding with his kid over something they both love?

Things I have deemed cool for my colleagues and seen their faces light up over include:

Secretly watching your kid eat lunch over the “kid cams” at their daycare during a meeting

Belonging to a novelty marching band (kazoo and drum corp)

Helping a daughter repair her stuffed toys (tough to be a middle aged straight man admitting he can sew, apparently)

Romance novels

Not understanding Twitter (“But it’s cool not to be on Twitter now.” “It is?!”)

Every single new hairdo I have noticed and complimented. Especially the women who think they’re too old for undercuts. 

I don’t even think it’s that anyone at work thinks I’m especially hip. I think it’s just that adults never get told they’re cool when they talk about the secret things that make them interesting, and people are now aware I will do that openly.

Also I feel like a few of them are still impressed I know what dressage is. I’m not sure why. None of us ride horses.

[hubblegleeflower]

People are starved. They expect you to think the harmless things they love are stupid or at best unremarkable. Instead you speak of those tjings as though they are lovely (which they are) and the people as though their loves make them special (which they DO). They are not used to being thought special, and have not dared to think of their little joys as having any value at all. You see it, and admire it, and hand it back to them and they see that it is treasure after all.

[stayhungry-stayfree]

Spoiler alert: You will never reach a place in life in which you experience constant happiness or never experience challenges. What you can achieve is learning to find joy in as many moments as possible, fully embracing the good when it graces your life, and navigating the challenges life throws your way with greater ease. It all has its place; it all contains a blessing. Beauty can be found in every season of life. 

[partywithponies]

I love that in the ten years I've been on tumblr, tumblr users' attitude towards tumblr has come full circle, now we're back where we started at "tumblr is our beloved home, no other social media can compare, no other website has what we have, do not trust other websites, do not tell the outsiders about us", only this time we're like. Really exhausted and with a sense of irony about it.

[postmodernmulticoloredcloak]

you know what, we should organize a tumblr convention

[beaft]

[themedicalstate]

Anatomical Works Sculpted in Crystal and Glass

Santa Fe-based sculptor and jewelry designer Debra Baxter combines glass, bronze, crystal, wood, and found objects to create ghostly sculptures of human forms. 

For many of her recent works Baxter shares with Roq Larue Gallery that she drew inspiration from the phenomenon of the “Ghost Heart.” In this medical procedure, a heart is cleansed of all of its blood cells and then injected with hundreds of millions of new blood steam cells which cause the heart to begin beating again. Baxter is interested in how this concept explores the complexity of existence, walking the line between life and death.  

1. Catch Your Breath, 2021

2. Love Side, 2019

3. Cross My Heart (1), 2019

4. Cross My Heart (2), 2019

5. Love Hard, 2021

6. Holding Onto Black Metal, 2020

7. Heart of Gold, 2019

8. Ghost Hand, 2019

9. Silver Heart, 2019

You can see more of her sculpted artworks on her website and Instagram.

[hellolovelyscientist]

@bekkathyst

[pointnclick]

whenever i see a noir detective in the rain i’m like yeah man… that’s exactly where you’re supposed to be

[pointnclick]

[screechingcollectivecollectorus]

Noir detectives are actually meant to be stressed, it’s their natural state. A Noir detective with nothing to be stressed about, will quickly revert to a more highly stressed state than normal.

[elidyce]

Noir detectives require stress to be healthy, that’s why it’s a good idea to make sure that an Inside Detective has access to regular difficult and alarming cases to solve and also a shower they can stand in (fully clothed or not) to agonize, since they can’t go out in the rain. Don’t be alarmed if they bang their little fists on the tile and howl, that’s a normal part of the display. If they sit on the floor and cry, though, they may be overstimulated and need some hard alcohol and a nap to help them settle down. 

[jraker4]

It can be difficult, but if you have a friend with a Femme Fatale, arranging a (supervised) playdate can be enriching to both of them.

[zvaigzdelasas]

Propaganda doesn't mean "incorrect information". Propaganda means information disseminated w the intent to shape ones worldview.

More often than not - especially with capitalist propaganda - that is more easily done by telling some truths & leaving out half of the story to make its targets seem irrational or uniquely evil, than it is by making up straight-up lies.

[agrippinaes]

emma (2020) + mr knightley looking at emma

[deanky]

[hjartasalt]

Actually I wasn’t born in the wrong body I was just born in my body and then it was up to me to decide what I want to do with that

[fallacious-faggot]

A fucking men

[sunfloodme]

exactly. im going to be a fucking men

[erin-luci-and-me]

you know what. That’s a solid argument. I need these kinds of statements when I go to thanksgiving dinners with conservatives.

We’re born in a body, and we should be allowed to do what we want with it. This argument works also with tattoos. “ You know thats permanent” YEAH. if I’m gonna live in it, I should be able to do what I want to it.

I always wish there was a place I can take my body in like a Skyrim mod to just change it whenever I want.

also. I’d be a fucking men.

[ceekari]

“What do you think FREEDOM means, Earl?”

[elidyce]

“As the sole inhabitant and tyrannous despot of Me-vania, I will do whatever I want to with my sovereign territory, and I don’t care if you don’t like it because I wasn’t going to let you visit anyway.” 

[classicfilmblr]

Sleeping Beauty dir. Clyde Geronimi | 1959

[netherworldpost]

“Why should rich people pay more” because fuck ‘em

“So you are okay for paying more when you have money” I am not excluded from ‘fuck ‘em’ when relevant

[pedulum-chronometry]

“I am not excluded from ‘fuck ‘‘em’ when relevant” is surprisingly powerful as both a statement and philosophy

[babblebunny]

I’m calling this segment

✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* Just Ace Things *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧

[beemovieerotica]

best way I have found to comfort people who are endlessly apologetic of things outside their control (often as a result of shitty relationships) is the jokingly hyperbolic accusation of [gasp] "so you're behind it all!"

like someone giving me directions who starts apologizing profusely when I miss a light as if it's their fault--[gasp] "it was you who petitioned city council to build this intersection in 1893!!" because it snaps them out of it and they laugh like. oh yeah. that's a ridiculous thing to blame someone for. I'm not that guy. you're not that guy. it works.

[starpeace]

i love when tragedies are like “the love was there. it didnt change anything. it didnt save anyone. there were just too many forces against it. but it still matters that the love was there”

[starpeace]

this post got over 1000 notes in four hours in case anyone was wondering how we are all doing emotionally

[starpeace]

hi this post has approx 1k notes per hour since it was posted. in case anyone wants an update on that collective mental state

[allhailthe70shousewife]

[teaboot]

Not to be a drooling socialist cuck, but if a full day's labour can't purchase three square meals, 24 hour's worth of rent and utilities, a fraction of a month's clothing budget, and a reasonable portion to be saved for when you can no longer comfortably work, what the fuck are we doing shit for