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it is important to cling to wonder btw
many people grow up and forget what it feels like to be a child. we must remember this. we have to remember what a joy it is to play. to learn. to build connections. to grow. to experience. we must hold onto the things that awe us. we are changed by what we love
top 3 hobbies for young adults:
1. borrowing misery from future
2. carrying grief of the past
3. agonizing over the present
top 3 hobbies for young adults:
1. borrowing misery from future
2. carrying grief of the past
3. agonizing over the present
How people get nicknames:
Recipient of a third-degree burn in front of witnesses. IE, "I won't take that shit from a man dressed like a ghostbuster"= "Gostbuster" or "Buster"
A distinctive personal feature or quirk. IE, "Have you noticed how that new guy is always eating bell peppers?" = "Peppers", or "That chick has a massive forehead" = "Forehead".
An embarrassing thing you said or did. IE, "Did you seriously call Dale "Dad"?" = "Junior", "Baby boy", "Sport"
A game of name-mutation telephone. IE, "Donny Clyde" = "Bonnie 'n' Clyde" = "Bonnie" = "Bon-bon".
Irony. IE, calling a tall person "short stack" or a particularly dour person "sunshine".
A 'wrong place wrong time' one-off incident. IE, "He spilled oil on his pants and had to borrow a pair that were way too big and Jim saw him with the waistband pulled up to his nipples and called him 'Parachute'"
A batman-style origin story but not in a cool way: "One time she hit a deer with the company car and when she called the boss to tell her she was crying so hard we thought she was dying" = "Bambi"
The incredibly rare 'admiration' nickname, bourne only once a millennia under the light of the blood moon: "We saw him lift a truck once so now we call him 'iron man'"
+ How Nicknames Stick:
Your fate is determined by The Counsel
You hate it
It's accurate
This reminds me of an article about how callsigns in movies are inaccurate because they're too cool. Generally your callsign in the military is like "Bepis" because you once pronounced "Pepsi" wrong.
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I think one of the funniest abortion stances I've heard was from my parents neighbor. He's a like, hard-core libertarian viking larper guy who is very tall and very fat and very bald.
He believes a fetus is human with a soul, but also its "basically attacking the woman's body" so if she wants to get rid of it, that's "basically self-defense". He compared it to shooting a home invader. So he supports abortion not as healthcare, but as killing a baby in self-defense
Y'know I'm so glad someone reminded me of this. Because this was also discussed.
My stepmother did NOT like the way her Libertarian Viking Neighbor framed pregnancy as the fetus "attacking the woman". She incredulously told him this was extremely disrespectful to expectant mothers to portray pregnancy as so violent and negative.
Libertarian Viking Neighbor's response was that people consensually hurt each other all the time, and "there's like a whole community about that, with the acronym the one that starts with a B" And his reasoning was that if the mother was consenting to bring attacked by the baby, it in fact wasn't violent and negative because there was consent.
He brought up people consensually hurting each other, didn't go for one of the obvious answers like boxing or body mods or something, no he went STRAIGHT TO BDSM and he DIDN'T EVEN REMEMBER THE ACRONYM
Dude... allow me to add to your trove.
I have a folder of these on my phone... I'm not sure what that says about me!
This has always bothered me too and it didn't make sense until someone older told me that when they were growing up "scare quotes" were used the way we used *asterisks* or ALL CAPS for emphasis
Edit: Oh. The fake kid's book is... dark.
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(Captioned for screen readers) A screenshot of a tweet from Nithya Shri @Nithya Shrii
Buying things isn't fun anymore. Everything is either too expensive, poor quality, a subscription where you don't actually own anything, benefits an evil corporation, or all of the above. (End caption)
Everyone in the tags saying "go to farmer's markets!", "shop small creators!", "buy secondhand/thrift old goods!" is missing the point (it's the mug post all over again).
Not everyone has access to farmer's markets or small local shops due to location and big box stores killing them.
Places like etsy and conventions are filled with dropship garbage and ai slop, burying *actual* small creators. If they use ko-fi, there's no way to search shops to find what you're looking for (afaik). If they have their own shopify or whatever, ai slop clogs the search results, making them harder to find and places like temu will show up first with their bootleg junk.
Resellers and tiktok style 'upcyclers' have tanked the thrift market, as well general greed. I feel I can add additional context to this because I work at a thrift store. Resellers will literally wait by the door and pounce on new racks/bins before they're even officially on the floor. I stg, at least a third of the stuff is shein or similar fast fashion garbage. People not having money to buy *new* things means that they're holding on to their *old* things longer, so less stuff is available overall, and the stuff that *does* go out is in rougher condition or cheaper brands. Gods forbid you need plus-sized clothing, because it's a target for trendy 'upcycling' content to make it into something smaller. Tou also have to be lucky enough to find something you want that also *fits*. Prices at thrift stores have ALSO gone up, and there are some things you simply can't buy there due to donation bans (bean bag chairs, electric blankets, any heating/cooling appliance really, sleeper sofas, to name a few from my own store). Shopping at big name thrift stores can also benefit 'evil corporations' (looking at YOU salvation army. And goodwill is nicknamed 'greedwill' online for a reason).
"Make it yourself" is also not a perfect option - supplies have to come from somewhere and they're often hit by the same issues as mentioned in the screenshot.
Many of the suggested alternatives are also not available for many due to lack of time, not being net savvy, or simple exhaustion. I feel like the concept of 'buying a little treat' is also based on the *ease* of being able to buy it, and so many options are buried under so so SO much actual garbage and time contraints.
I know, I know, 'bean soup', but there are many places that simply don't have access to other options and those who live in or closer to more affluent and/or metro areas might not know that these options aren't available for everyone.
On Seatbelts and Sunsets Hanif Abdurraqib
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And God, if you are listening, I do worry. God, if you are listening, I count the miles between my body and the body of the person I love and I worry about each of them. God, I worry about the planes we take to each other and the sky that might not hold them. God, I wear seatbelts and visit the graves of my friends in spring to kick away the dirt from winter. God, it is just us talking now, and I worry about everything I can't control. God, can you tell me how much longer I'll get to be alive and in love. God, I am sorry for the times I didn't want to stick around. God, there is a scroll of things I have taken for granted in order to survive this long, and it is endless.
And it is maybe too late to want to live forever after everything I've seen and done. But there are freeways between me and the person I love, God. And I don't have enough time to travel all of them. I worry that I can't bend them all into a giant circle from where I begin to where she begins. God, I don't know what I believe in except the shrinking of distance. God, do you worry about the things you can control? I am enough in love to worry about everything that might cast a shadow over it.
God, I have touched the living face of a person I love with the same hands I have touched the dying face of someone I love and none of that seems fair.
End text ID.
think that everyone has their own personal theme in life
every nolan film is about time. it winds its way through his filmography; it is fractured in memento, distorted in inception, expanded in interstellar, reversed in tenet.
every hopper painting is about stillness. it is found in every brushstroke; at dusk in automat, at dawn in morning sun, at noon in office in a small city, at night in nighthawks.
i have a friend who orbits ideas of power, another who delights in the prosaic and the plain. one weaves around systems and structures, another returns always to wonder at the sea.
there are other elements of course - our lives cannot be measured by single concepts no matter how large they may be - but time and again i think we return to the things that fascinate, the things that intrigue, the things we cannot quite tear ourselves away from. the themes of our lives.
The first rule of sewing is you can fix anything if you have patience, creativity, and a little bit of extra fabric! The second rule of sewing is AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
OP: When you walk the Jianghu, be fast (cr ε ιζη³)
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Not All Wounds Are Visible #2 Bandages, lint, plasters, embroidery threads and fabric pen.
Second version of Not All Wounds Are Visible a piece expressing my feelings towards mental health illness, Iβve developed this idea, and this piece features the image of a brain, to link more to the subject of mental health.
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