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Cosimo Galluzzi

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Monterey Bay Aquarium
Cosmic Funnies
Not today Justin
Today's Document
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I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
cherry valley forever

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Stranger Things
$LAYYYTER
we're not kids anymore.

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@wildbynature
i miss u so much (pre ai internet)
because sometimes there are invisible tests and invisible rules and you're just supposed to ... know the rule. someone you thought of as a friend asks you for book recommendations, so you give her a list of like 30 books, each with a brief blurb and why you like it. later, you find out she screenshotted the list and send it out to a group chat with the note: what an absolute freak can you believe this. you saw the responses: emojis where people are rolling over laughing. too much and obsessive and actually kind of creepy in the comments. you thought you'd been doing the right thing. she'd asked, right? an invisible rule: this is what happens when you get too excited.
you aren't supposed to laugh at your own jokes, so you don't, but then you're too serious. you're not supposed to be too loud, but then people say you're too quiet. you aren't supposed to get passionate about things, but then you're shy, boring. you aren't supposed to talk too much, but then people are mad when you're not good at replying.
you fold yourself into a prettier paper crane. since you never know what is "selfish" and what is "charity," you give yourself over, fully. you'd rather be empty and over-generous - you'd rather eat your own boundaries than have even one person believe that you're mean. since you don't know what the thing is that will make them hate you, you simply scrub yourself clean of any form of roughness. if you are perfect and smiling and funny, they can love you. if you are always there for them and never admit what's happening and never mention your past and never make them uncomfortable - you can make up for it. you can earn it.
don't fuck up. they're all testing you, always. they're tolerating you. whatever secret club happened, over a summer somewhere - during some activity you didn't get to attend - everyone else just... figured it out. like they got some kind of award or examination that allowed them to know how-to-be-normal. how to fit. and for the rest of your life, you've been playing catch-up. you've been trying to prove that - haha! you get it! that the joke they're telling, the people they are, the manual they got- yeah, you've totally read it.
if you can just divide yourself in two - the lovable one, and the one that is you - you can do this. you can walk the line. they can laugh and accept you. if you are always-balanced, never burdensome, a delight to have in class, champagne and glittering and never gawky or florescent or god-forbid cringe: you can get away with it.
you stare at your therapist, whom you can make jokes with, and who laughs at your jokes, because you are so fucking good at people-pleasing. you smile at her, and she asks you how you're doing, and you automatically say i'm good, thanks, how are you? while the answer swims somewhere in your little lizard brain:
how long have you been doing this now? mastering the art of your body and mind like you're piloting a puppet. has it worked? what do you mean that all you feel is... just exhausted. pick yourself up, the tightrope has no net. after all, you're cheating, somehow, but nobody seems to know you actually flunked the test. it's working!
aren't you happy yet?
i would like to officially thank sesame for its seeds, its oil, and of course its street
couldn’t leave this in the tags
Creon: Polynices was a rebel and a traitor, and you know it. Antigone: He was my brother.
thank you to @the-star-rigel for this !!
Cressida: Today is just such a beautiful day. The sun is shining, the birds are-
Maid: Ms. Eloise said good morning, didn’t she?
Cressida, grinning: She even smiled!
"Indeed, when he applied to become an astronaut, he failed on the first attempt. Part of the test featured the famous Rorschach ink-blots psychiatric exam. “I leafed through a whole series of them, and then the last one was a blank sheet of paper, pure white, eight by 10,” he once recalled. “I was asked what I could see. And I said, ‘Well, of course, that’s 11 polar bears fornicating in a snow bank.’ And I could see the examiner’s eyes kind of tighten. He didn’t think that was funny.”"
The examiner was, in fact, objectively incorrect.
The Onion pulling zero fucking punches.
Mass Effect: Andromeda | ▶ dev. Bioware
yikes
top 10 most divorced men to ever live right behind henry viii
He was bitching about Mackenzie Scott, Bezos’s ex wife, because she’s donated tons of money to nonprofits who support minorities. Man invents a new level of petulance each day.
Musk said of Scott that "super rich ex-wives who hate their former spouse" should be listed under the "Reasons that Western Civilization die
context is so important/funnier cause omfg this man is so Divorced he's endlessly bitter at ex-wives that aren't even his own
this is a comment on the sinking thing 🚢
HAAAAAANK!!!! HANK IT'S NOT A BOOSTER! HANK! THIS YEARS COVID SHOT IS A WHOLE NEW VACCINATION SERIES THAT GIVES YOU RESISTANCE TO STRAINS THAT HAVE EMERGED SINCE 2021 , HANK!!! IT'S AN UPDATE, NOT A BOOSTER!!!! HAAAAAAAAAAAAANK!
and only like 15% of the population has the updated vaxx right now. yall are NO LONGER VACCINATED unless u got the shot since late september 2023