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Hope life is treating you with kindness.

Hi, yeah, yep, I promise I'm all good, don't worry 💙

My '''''brief''''' break from tumblr last december because of travel kinda just never stopped 'cos I wanted to see what difference to my life it'd make, and honestly? It's been a helluva lot easier to manage various day-to-day stuff without feeling like I'm getting stuck on the hamster wheel that is my dashboard. I do miss the hellsite (affectionate (derogatory)) at times, but with the limited spoons I've got, tumblr ain't getting 'em

Life's doing alright though! Currently a bit stressful because of work nonsense and because my family is flying halfway around the world to visit in about a month so I've got a lot of prep to do before they get here, but it's good stuff because maybe potential promotion?? and also I miss my dad and brother and grandma and I haven't seen them in over 5 years now

The world gives me kindnesses by surrounding me with understanding and patient people, by letting me grow a herb garden on my windowsill, by keeping the one old man who runs my favourite tea shop in the market in good health, by playing out the corvid soap operas on the rooftops across from us (my partner has named the fledgeling rook Baby Kazoo), and by letting me keep taking life one breath at a time

I hope it's doing the same for you, Super 💙

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“ Wellcome To Jurasic World “ // danimunozlandin

Music:  Billie Holiday - Solitude

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Absolutely incredible work, lads

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dog time AKA the only reason i've been managing not to overwork myself

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water doggos 🦭

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ok but "Who is Cecil?" You know that podcast you like? Yeah that one? Would not exist without Cecil Gershwin Palmer. I'm dead serious. Podcasting as a genre would be completely unrecognizable if Cecil Baldwin, Joseph Fink, and Jeffrey Cranor did not pop their pussies so severely. They're to fiction podcasts what Star Trek is to film Sci Fi, or what Lord of the Rings is to Fantasy. They pioneered the pod. What did Mob Psycho do? Exactly. Cecil was a game changer. And he was gay. Say thank you.

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My favorite “humans are space orcs” idea is that trope where aliens kidnap some humans for their zoo, except it ends up like Jurassic Park. And the poor Alien Humanologists who were invited to the park are like:

“You mean you locked up a pack of curious, highly competitive persistence predators with NO enrichment in the enclosure? You FOOLS! If you had bothered to throw a basketball or half a box of Legos in there, KE-X9 would still be alive!

“Well of course they climbed the retaining wall! Did you think to study their evolutionary lineage AT ALL?”

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Moon cat moon cat

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why do so many teenagers follow me. you know i do drugs right.

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Life lessons.

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Headcanon that in the new good future where Marty McFly never has his accident, he does become a famous musician, while still going on time travel adventures with Doc, and then when the internet comes along, people on forums and message boards start discovering and posting photos of people in the past who look eerily like famous rock star Marty McFly, and as time goes on, “Marty McFly is a time traveller” becomes one of the biggest and most long running memes on the internet.

When Doc finds out he freaks out and panicks and makes blog posts (because of COURSE Doc runs a blog) talking about how UTTERLY RIDICULOUS the idea of a time travelling rock star is, which the internet finds hilarious and only makes the meme spread more.

Marty meanwhile thinks the whole thing is the funniest thing ever and is just wheezing at every new forum or jokey article about it, and directly addresses the meme in interviews, bringing up this “crazy conspiracy” that people have, until eventually he can just say things like “well of course I am a time traveller” or “oh you like my hat? Thank you I got it in the 1910s”, and people just crack up, and Marty cracks up too because no-one realises that he’s not even lying.

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while i can’t in good conscience recommend it watching spn does in fact unlock both the biggest part of the map on ao3 and the funniest part of the map on tumblr

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10 or 11 little ducks have been spotted crossing the dash board

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I hate, hate, HATE the term “affordable housing.” I hate that we’ve normalized it. I hate that we just accept that the majority of housing, a basic human right, is unaffordable to much of the population. Housing should be affordable as a baseline. If rich people want to add arcades and gold-plated hot tubs on top so be it, but everyone, everyone, regardless of income level, should have access to a clean, comfortable home with enough light and space to make life worth living.

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Honestly my memory of the Planet Earth series is so grand due to all the hype and all the first of it's kind footage and watching it back a lot of that is true, but watching the film diaries along with it is wild in retrospect bc instead of these hyper-funded crews with infinite time you get like...

Here's Jeff he sat in a hut for 8 days waiting for a female bird of paradise to arrive so the male he's been stalking will do a dance for her. Here's a dude we made him climb a giant guano hill with bugs in it and he's begging the director to say their shot is okay so he doesn't have to climb it again. We put this guy with a fear of heights on a hot air balloon with a Frenchman and they promptly crashed into a tree.

It reminds me that all this amazing one of a kind footage was made by a crew of nerds with awful luck and just makes it better tbh. One of their tents caught fire one time. Their car broke down while following some hunting lions and they realized "oh hey it'd be pretty easy for the lions to eat us right now". Incredible.