gravityeyelids | Mar. 4th, 2019

Mar. 4th, 2019

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dayoldhakarl:

orriculum:

Tbh I wonder what Marie kondo says for items that are gifted to you that you disliked but feel bad about throwing it away bc that is a lot of clutter in my room

Hello, friend! I dug through my book because she actually does say something about this!

“…let’s consider this more carefully. Most of these gifts remain unopened or have been used only once. Admit it. They simply don’t suit your taste. The true purpose of a present is to be received. Presents are not “things” but a means to convey someone’s feelings. When viewed from this perspective, you don’t need to feel guilty for parting with a gift. Just thank it for the joy it gave you when you first received it. Of course, it would be ideal if you could use it with joy. But surely the person who gave it to you doesn’t want you to use it out of a sense of obligation, or to put it away without using it, only to feel guilty every time you see it. When you discard or donate it, you do so for the sake of the giver, too.”

(The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, page 108 - emphasis hers)

Hopefully this answers your question a little bit?
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tofixtheshadows:

tofixtheshadows:

The Genius page for Hozier’s new song No Plan is the funniest thing right now.

The scholars are at work in Dinner & Diatribes too:
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yesterdaysprint:

W.K. Haselden in The Daily Mirror, England, Thursday, July 17, 1918
Image © The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved.
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youaretheunicorn:

vampireapologist:

i felt my hair and there’s a whole fucking stick in there and I was like??? so I stopped one of my classmates and she said “oh there’s a whole bunch a’ leaves too let me get them” but the stick is so tangled into my braid I have to wait to get home to take my braid out to get it out and I went back into work and said “so did none of y’all notice there’s a stick in my hair or did you just decide not to say anything” and my boss said “oh…I thought it was on purpose…I thought it looked nice…I liked the leaves.”

i fucking thought this was from @one-time-i-dreamt

i’m devastated
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mikeyfriskeyhands:

ydgn4life:

mira-of-sassgard:

I lost my shit at self-governing snakes.

ONLY THINKS OF YOU AS A FRIEND

RECOGNIZE MY AUTHORITY GODDAMMIT
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heywetotheotherworld:

kaijutegu:

justnoodlefishthings:

There’s a local breeder that I need to find and hug

The woman is attempting to breed back English Bulldogs into their “original” form and is aiming for a much healthier animal. This is one of the puppies, a sweet little munchkin with good long legs and a much better mouth than modern bulldogs. She had such a nice body shape and never snorted once, and I didn’t hear a single wheeze like the other bulldogs that come in.

There are good breeders out there doing the Lord’s work

d…does that animal… does she have an actual snout?? ? ??

be still, my beating heart.

A snoot! A snoot for booping!!
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hexglyphs:

but that’s none of my business 🤷💅
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simonalkenmayer:

americasnexttopsoil:

americasnexttopsoil:

There’s no text so fiendish and manipulative that it’s too dangerous to read. Comparing works from opposing viewpoints is a standard scholastic practice. Critical readings and analyses of material one finds objectionable in whole or in part is kind of what academia is, you know? The slickest, most well-written propaganda can be dissected. “Know your enemy”? Anybody? Anybody?

If you find yourself around sentiments like, “Our enemy is too dangerous for you to ‘know.’ You might be contaminated by bad ideas; knowledge is therefore forbidden,” what you should do is leave, and quickly. Getting out is far easier before any border closings start.

Sun Tzu, “Know your enemy and know yourself and you need not fear the outcome of a hundred battles”
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glumshoe:

“Wait,” said the young man, “If you’re Death, then… who is that?”

Death stifled a snicker, and the tiny figure in the black robe bowed low, mouse-sized skeletal hand still clutching its miniature scythe. “My name is La Petite Mort!” it squeaked from under its hood. “The Little Death!”

The young man blinked and looked between the two Grim Reapers, pulling the bedsheet tighter around him. “Why are you both here? Surely there’s been some mistake! I mean, it’s not like I can die twice… right?”

Death and La Petite Mort exchanged a look. The larger figure coughed politely, but when it spoke; there was an edge of amusement to its strange voice. “Well, it’s, ah… it’s really sort of a metaphor… a poetic euphemism…”

The young man scowled and folded his arms over his chest. “Oh, come on! ‘Euphemism’? Just tell me if I’m dying or not!” he demanded crossly.

“Oh, you’re dying alright.” Death rolled up its sleeve and consulted the rather gaudy watch it wore on its bony wrist. “Any minute now.”

“You should really hurry it up!” chirped La Petite Mort. “Just go back to what you were doing and we’ll take care of the rest!”

“Yes,” agreed Death. “Don’t let us interrupt.” Both skull faces turned to the young man expectantly. “We’re on very a tight schedule, you see. We don’t usually get double-bookings like this.”

For what seemed like the first time in several years, the young man found himself unable to return to his previous task.
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anais-ninja-bitch:

unpopular opinion

history is a complex subject and those “what they don’t teach you in school” posts are often as simplistic and misleading as what they did teach you in school. 💁‍♀️
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hellenhighwater:

There’s a very soft black hole wedged in beside the grandfather clock
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mulukhiyah:

discgirl:
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snootyfoxfashion:

memesandmagik:

uglyteapot:

I. AM. SCREAMING.

THIS IS SO FUNNY.

rebagel if the flu shot made you gay

went and found everything ol’ sierra here is mad about + more

From GoldenDogStudios and available in gay, lesbian, bi, pan, and ace pride colors!!!

from Doodlepeople

from QuotableeArt

from DankShirtsStore

from BEARandCLARK

from Doodlepeople

from skippyhaha

from ScienceDeco

from oTZIshirts

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buy to make sierra, and every dumbass antivaxxer mad!!

sidenote: when you search antivax on etsy, exactly 8 results show up and all eight are pro vaccine. take note tumblr.
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a-potter-head:

twinkie13:

ladyloveandjustice:

one of the v. important things the movies missed about ron is just like, how down to fight he was at all times. like not even duel just he was always ready to physically beat the shit out of people who insulted his family or friends and WOULD if no one stopped him.

there are so many points in the books where its just casually dropped in ‘and so Harry and/or Hermione had to physically restrain Ron’ usually from Malfoy but if Harry or Hermione weren’t paying attention it became ‘and so Ron punched Malfoy in the face’.

Like, Ron cursing Malfoy for calling Hermione Mudblood wasnt just a one off thing like every time he did that in the future when Ron was there it was like ‘ron had to be stopped from ending Malfoy’s life’ just thrown in there. Same for any other severe insults.

My absolute favorite instance of this is in the first book when they’re just watching a Quidditch game and Malfoy just starts bothering Ron and Hermione during it and is finally like ‘man its pretty funny how the Gryffindor quidditch team is recruited based on pity like y’know Potter has no parents, Weasley’s brothers have no money they should include Longbottom for having no brains” and Ron just flings himself at Malfoy and starts punching him and rolling around under the bleachers and Neville is like “uh shit i guess i better fight CRABBE AND GOYLE BOTH AT ONCE so they don’t go after him” (very underrated moment of courage from Neville he knew he had no chance but he just went for it honestly almost more impressive than confronting Voldemort in book 7)

and they’re just fighting for like twenty minutes and Hermione doesn’t even notice because she was so focused on tuning Malfoy out and watching the game and when its over she looks around like “where’d ron go” and then later its mentioned “Harry sees Ron and his face is covered in blood and he’s like “GOOD JOB WINNING THE GAME HARRY I GAVE MALFOY A BLACK EYE SO WE BOTH DID GREAT THINGS TONIGHT oh btw i have detention for a week and neville’s unconcious but they say he’ll be fine”.

Ron is ride or die and will fight u for $0 y’all

harry: and what if I wave my wand and nothing happens?
ron: throw it away and punch him on the nose

Draco in COS: Pity Granger didn’t die.

Ron: I don’t need my wand. I’m going to kill him with my bare hands.
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ericdragonslayer:

johorror:

aquatariuswriter:

okay but Barry walks in and smooches Taako on the cheek and everyone’s like ‘uuuuuhhh thats not lup’ and hes just like ‘yeah i know but taako needs affection too’

And Magnus puts his hands on his hips and says “Well, Barry, did you bring enough kisses for everyone?”

I feel like this person really understands Magnus
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badaxefamily:

lztybrn:

remember way back in 2006 when the wii first came out and then the entirety of the world forgot how to hold onto something with a firm grasp so much that nintendo had to make a shock absorbing condom just so that tvs wouldnt get destroyed when people would end up sending this thing flying at their tvs at 900 miles per hour

A lot of those incidents were with Wii Bowling, which to me implies that people didn’t so much forget to how to hold something, as they forgot they weren’t holding a bowling ball and weren’t in a bowling alley.
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andiamburdenedwithgloriousfeels:

a-fragile-sort-of-anarchy:

horatiohshit:

a-fragile-sort-of-anarchy:

scaredofsheep:

a-fragile-sort-of-anarchy:

Do you guys want to hear a really good idea I have for a production of Hamlet?

Heck yeah

do u accept constructive criticism

No.

It’s what Shakespeare would’ve wanted
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marithlizard:

heatheralicewatson:

jenniferrpovey:

“My mother confessed to me that at the age of nine or so, she was addicted to fairy stories. You could buy little paper books of them for a penny, she said, and she bought a whole stack and buried herself in them avidly. and her father caught her reading them. He not only took them away. He burned them. Ceremonially, with disgust and loathing. They were not true, he said, not real, and were therefore harming her mind. And he forbade her ever to read such things. So she didn’t. For the rest of her life […] This grandfather of mine died long before I was born, or I would have had a few things to say to him. Among the first things I would have said is that his belief (which I call the Don Quixote Fallacy) - that reading things that are not true damages your mind - was held by far too many people in the firs half of this century, and I do not think this is unconnected with teh fact that we had two world wars during that time. Certainly my impression is that this burning of books has caused my mother to be one of the most unhappy and maladjusted people I know. And it does bring you hard up against the responsibility adults have, if only because it shows what a truly lasting impression can be made on a child. But this Don Quixote Fallacy is not dead. It is alive and well and living in Britain. Recently I was reading for the Whitbread Prize and I came upon no less than five books purveying this notion in an even more advanced form than my grandfather’s. In the face of it they were “child with a problem” books. There was this young person who was the wrong colour, or disabled, or with divorcing parents and so on, and each of these kids tried to offset their troubles by imagining some vivid, or better or more exciting life. This was usually a world in which they had splendid adventures. Then, halfway through the book it became clear that the child who had invented this world was not able to tell which bit of life was physically real and which was only in his or her mind. In other words, imagining things had driven this young person mad. This struck me as such an appalling, irresponsible threat to hold over impressionable people that I tried to find out who these writers were. Two of them seemed to be teachers who were annoyed that their pupils were addicted to computer games and the rest were social workers who seemed to be equating fantasy with drug-abuse, Possibly none of them were quite aware of what they were saying. But the fact is that be making this threat - imagination drives you mad - they were closing off for their impressionable readers their most important route to sanity. The source of their threat seems to lie in a grand combination of all the mistakes I have mentioned so far: the beliefs that the only reality is dull and unpleasant, that young people must be prepared to confront this and this only, and that the way to do this is to close down the imagination. To these, they have added a further error: that what a person has in his or her head does not exist in everyday life.”

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Diana Wynne Jones on the importance of imagination in the young, A Whirlwind Tour of Australia. (via cimness)

Furthermore, for WRITERS to do this, for people who lie professionally…

CS Lewis once said that the only people who object to escape are by definition jailors.

Imagine being a kid who needs help, and instead being assigned one of these social workers :(
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