it is a serious thing

just to be alive, on this fresh morning, in this broken world.

[wordlessmelodies]

[niqvassieart]

little owls and cow parsley, may 2026.

[cuunos]

being a kid and hearing adults say stuff like "woah 2011 was 4 years ago haha" didn't really convey the fucking horror of a youtube video crossing my recommended labelled "9 years ago" and it's from 2017. that's not true. 9 years ago is 2010 or something. don't lie.

[targetedknowledge]

[aromanticduck]

You have to read all the books in your bedroom before you can leave. How long will you be trapped?

There's no books in there, I can leave immediately

Less than a day

1-3 days

4-6 days

1-3 weeks

4-7 weeks

2-3 months

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You can't die from hunger or thirst or lack of medication etc.

It doesn't matter which books you've already read. You have to read them all, starting from now.

Physical books only - if you have an e-reader in there you don't have to read your entire digital library.

[redstonedust]

how's the heat treating you? i've had a stomachache since last week

[anyroads]

This is the Supernatural "I love you" meme but specific to announcing that another UK PM has resigned.

[valtsv]

executed for the crime of asking me stupid shit in this hot ass weather

[valtsv]

sentencing will be carried out at dawn because it's the only time it isn't too facking hot to be out side

[the-domestic-mammoth]

IN THE THEATER TONIGHT...

Accents and accentuation are in the theater. Apocalypse is in the theater. Black people are in the theater. Blindness is in the theater. Christian martyrs are in the theater. Collective trauma is in the theater. Computers are in the theater. Death is in the theater.

Deception is in the theater. Dictatorship is in the theater. Disabilities are in the theater. Diseases are in the theater.

Domestic space is in the theater. Doors are in the theater.

Education is in the theater. Firearms are in the theater. Ghosts are in the theater. Heroines are in the theater.

Horror is in the theater.

Idolatry is in the theater. Illusion is in the theater. Immigrants are in the theater. Intimacy is in the theater. Masculinity is in the theater. Monsters are in the theater.

Music is in the theater. Mysticism is in the theater. Mythology, Greek, is in the theater. Nuclear weapons are in the theater. Pain is in the theater. Pictures are in the theater. Pregnant women are in the theater.

Psychic trauma is in the theater. Race is in the theater. Ritual is in the theater. Scandals are in the theater. Senses and sensation are in the theater. Social media is in the theater. Social problems are in the theater. Sports are in the theater. Symbolism is in the theater.

Ugliness is in the theater. Violence is in the theater.

Women are in the theater. Work is in the theater.

This poem was constructed by looking at Library of Congress Subject Headings, specifically those that are listed as narrower terms under the broader term "Theater." In particular, I chose the ones that were already structured "____ in the theater," like "Ugliness in the theater" or "Pain in the theater."

[girlfictions]

Laura Gilpin

[vixvigil]

it’s never a normal temperature anymore it’s always some fucking bullshit

[wellntruly]

EVERYTHING WE CAN SEE IN THE UNIVERSE GLOWS

A giant ice cube at South Pole Station captures extragalactic neutrinos. Please take me to where you are,

pleaded the pregnant Korean widow to her lost love in a sixteenth-century letter an archaeologist

found folded in a tomb. Telescopes see only light; faces from our dreams, unspoken desires, dead stars

go undetected. Come to me secretly and show yourself she whispered. Hans Spemann plucked a fine hair

from his newborn daughter to tie an embryo egg in half. The microscope zooms in on a freshly formed eyeball

gazing expectantly back. The archaeologist feels ill, presses twice-boiled tea leaves to his forehead,

unfolds and refolds the letter again. The fastest thing in the universe is light; the slowest is forgiving

then forgetting. The seal gnaws a hole in the sea ice, sunlight flashes on a million emerald cod flitting below.

Captured neutrinos flare pale blue; embryos float in drops of glistening saline fluid and await their fate.

Quartz cuvettes filled with seawater and lavender dye slide into a spectrometer, colors the human eye

cannot see fan out inside a box. Please, come in a dream, there is no limit to what I want to know. I wait here.

Jynne Dilling Martin From her poetry collection We Mammals In Hospitable Times (2015), written after her stay in Antarctica

[caspercryptid]

I feel like not enough people realize that people under enormous strain act really really fucking Weird

[caspercryptid]

If someone is doing things that don't make Sense, try to understand that it is entirely possible that their brain is probably under an enormous weight and fracturing under the pressure. People who have been stabbed will sometimes talk a circle around the fact that they've been stabbed because stress and shock prevent you from recognizing the distress you are in and what you need to do to seek help for it. PTSD will do this also. You will find yourself repeatedly jamming a bag of frozen fruit into the same spot in the freezer where it doesn't fit and keeps falling, over and over and over, focused on nothing but that bag. You will decide that a beanbag chair is 10000% necessary to your life. You will lose your entire shit because you stubbed your toe on a table and that means the whole setup of your furniture is wrong. These are largely harmless examples. People under strain will also hurt themselves and others. Cornered animals bite. And it doesn't heal the bite to go "Hey, are you okay?" But it might get you to an animal that stops biting, so you can start to heal. And before you had an animal that bit, you probably had an animal that kept doing shit you didn't understand as stress signals

[caspercryptid]

Mental illness is Off-putting. Trauma and stress make people hard to be around. There are no perfect victims. If your framework for someone under pressure are people who cry photogenically at home in the bathroom or at night when everyone else is asleep and then wake up and act like they're fine then you will fail to recognize it when your coworker who's normally really nice suddenly blows up on someone for leaving forks in the company sink.

Everyone is going through shit. And it doesn't make it okay for them to treat others badly, but it also sometimes makes it difficult for them to recognize that they're treating you badly, like the person on the phone with 9-11 who no longer realizes that he's telling the operator about his day and not answering questions. When your friend of ten years who has a new boyfriend suddenly starts being a massive bitch to you about your weight maybe she's just being a cunt, or maybe she's internalized some bullshit. You don't have to take that, but you Can go "Hey, what the fuck?" And that is often more helpful than you realize. It is easy to assume that someone who does something cruel is acting with intent, but especially in cases where someone's behavior changed in a short span of time, they aren't, any more than the person who is convinced the beanbag chair is going to fix them.

You don't have to give people endless chances. But you should give them at least one chance. Because on your worst week, it's going to be you crying at your friend's birthday party because she ran out of chili before you got to have some, and you're going to want some grace for yourself.

[acertainmoshke]

All of this and also, sometimes you just cannot control your reaction even if it’s harmful or mean. Which also doesn’t make it acceptable to treat people poorly, but it does tie into the give people a second or third chance and communicate before deciding they’re just terrible now

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

do you have a hobby that requires no phone and no money

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[geryone]

Love Poem with Lines from Jesus and Muhammad, Kaveh Akbar

[virtualgirladvance]

Realised strange nerd is an anagram of transgender and my life suddenly got better

[elise-mopie]

[weltenwellen]

Notes On Staying Hieu Minh Nguyen