#31 years

[batteredshoes]

31.

It’s not been a great year so far, but there are still things to be grateful for. Always.

[muses-of-the-memory]

Happy 31st Anniversary, Sonic CD!

Today is the 31st Anniversary of

Sonic the Hedgehog CD or Sonic CD since it came to the US!

It has now been 31 years since Sonic the Hedgehog had went back in time to save the Little Planet from the clutches of Dr. Robotnik slash Eggman by finding the Time Stones!

Also, this game was the debut of the love interest of Sonic, Amy Rose,

and Metal Sonic, the copy of the original Sonic! We must all remember the epic race that Sonic had with him on Stardust Speedway!

Tagged by: @hoshi-neko-hikari, @bluemajingirl, @the-world-hopper, @smashingveteransandnewcomers, @spirits-of-nature16, @themultiverseheroines, @astral-multiverse

[teedeekay]

Today is the anniversary of my first They Might Be Giants show (1993), my 50th They Might Be Giants show (2000) and my 250th They Might Be Giants show (2018) 🫶

Here's the most recent of these 🙌

[logankisseswade]

31 Years(a Rant/Poem by me)

In February, I’ll be turning 31, that means I’ve been here on this planet for 31 years, for 31 years I’ve seen the worst of humanity, I hope the next 31 years will be the years that I end up seeing the best of humanity

hopefully when I’m 61 I can look back on my life and I’ll be cuddling in the arms of a beautiful man, that man will be my husband and we’ll have a few beautiful kids together,

who knows what’ll happen

I just hope and pray that by the time I’m 61 my life will be the reason that I wake up every morning

the truth is I only wake up everyday because of my Faith in God, I wake up everyday hoping that life will get better, that life can get better, I’m not suicidal, I’m just tired of all the nonsense

maybe all I really need is to believe in myself more

31 years, I’m terrified, I’m excited, I’m grateful for the good things that I have, maybe that’s all that really matters in life, the fact that I’m grateful for what I have, that I have a strong Faith in God and that I keep trying my best just to even breathe

@fatal-plastic-kiss

@oooohcherry

[prokopetz]

Well, it's finally happened.

Nintendo has finally caught up with the Philips CD-i.

[cheddardillon]

Happy 31 Years of Cartoon Network!!!

I hope you guys like my artwork of cartoon network!!!.

[thedaveandkimmershow]

We're in the air right now on our way to Orlando, the second leg of a two part flight that's gonna eat our whole day.

What about tonight? You can hit some night life tonight, can't you?

Haha. Nope.

We got, like, four hours of sleep last night most of which were the first few hours of today. So we might literally go back to sleep we arrive in our room at the Dockside. Energy's a funny thing, though, so who knows? We might still catch our second wind.

Today's journey is the necessary first step of celebrating thirty-one years of being married.

Necessary???

Of course! And, with our status as empty-nesters firmly established, this kind of travel's very much like the kind of travel we did when we were care-free newlyweds.

Just the two of us.

I still remember our first Disney World vacation together. It was a straight up mess. Not the vacation, mind you, but the night before. The night during which Kimmer only got a coupla hours of sleep and I didn't get any. The night during which we did all our packing from scratch (because how tough can that possibly be?) and the night we were preparing for our home and our logistics to be unattended for a week.

Wait. Unattended?

Well, someone would be there... just not us to attend to anything that might come up. So the objective was to make sure nothing would come up. Making sure everything was just-so. Also making sure every single bill,.every invoice was tended-to, all our mail, all the things you gotta do before you leave on vacation especially considering this was the era before cell phones, before widespread convenient use of laptops, before the free, widespread availability of WiFi. So in our judgement, everything, absolutely everything, had to be handled before we left for the airport.

Hence the all-nighter.

I was even doing laundry at Kimmer's parent's place down the street, driving back and forth between loads. I can't even imagine why from this distance. But there you go and there you are (as my friend Ann likes to say).

I wouldn't say it was a traumatic experience... but we were thoroughly exhausted by the time we left for our vacation.

We got better at the travel thing, by the way. Massively better. Also, in the time between then and now, the technology we use to do what we do on the road has changed our experience to such a degree that it's hard to imagine how we possibly could have done this without. We actually maintain control of the logistics for which we're responsible personally and professionally on the road. We've maintained such control from moving cars, escape campervans, a tent with solar power along the Pacific Coast Highway overlooking the Pacific Ocean, RVs, trains, boats, even planes before takeoff and after landing (during flights sometimes if we pay up for WiFi). Anywhere there was Wifi whether at a campground, a national park, a beach, a lake, nearly everywhere on the road... we maintained control. A few years ago, free WiFi even stopped being the deal breaker 'cause now we travel with our own hot spot

Our home, in particular this way, moves with us wherever we go. Our home offices... same.

I really can't believe we used to travel long distances at a time when we were only connected by landlines, for God's sake. But, as my friend Ann likes to say, there you go and there you are.

We had to learn all that together, of course. We had to learn traveling best practices together by car, boat, train, plane, RV, tent, and campervans. We had to learn the business of being a house together

Wait. A house together?

Well, sure. The House of Collison-Ris is a business even though it's not a business business

It's still gotta be maintained and navigated. So we learned together how to manage income, expenses, and financial planning. And no. It was not always brilliant.

For many, many years it wasn't brilliant.

For many many years we made a mess that required fun collaboration to navigate our way out of. And as we got better at that, we learned how to navigate through or around specific choices ahead of us. I won't lie. It wasn't always error-free ball. It still isn't error free ball. But the success-failure ratio definitely flipped.

It's almost as if we know what we're doing. And to the degree that we do... that's only because we've been there, done that, slammed into the brick wall and learned how not to do that again.

Seriously. I wouldn't go so far as to say failure is character building... but it sure is one helluvan efficient teacher with zero empathy.

So.

She said "I do" and then I said "I do" and then, basically all hell broke loose.

That's one way of looking at it, of course. Another way of looking at it is that we signed up for a life's worth of adventure together and...

We got one.

Because it is an adventure. Complete with white water rapids, theme parks, legitimate head scratchers, plot twists, and road trips.

That's not an exhaustive list, by the way. Those are just some of my favorite hits (he said, semi-ironically).

We were young, we were in love, she said yes, and we set off on an adventure we thought we knew but didn't know at all. In loose terms, our experiences were not only sometimes transcendent, there was also treachery afoot in our lives. And our ability to navigate the white water rapids and plot twists turns out to be the X-factor allowing us to lead full spectrum lives that exceed our long ago dreams and hopes.

My younger self would never have understood this. For sure my younger self (and her younger self) were rattled by events both close to us and far away. My younger self could not have computed how three minus ten equals nine hundred sixty five. My younger self could not have computed how all the negatives that came gunning for us to commit highway robbery would still produce a net positive that's not even close.

Three.

Minus ten.

Equals nine hundred sixty five.

I don't know how else to say that, unfortunately.

Not long after I think things like that, of course, I'm reminded that, once upon a time, we found each other and said "we do" and "we will" without knowing what comes next. We were actually, stunningly, by the way, mistaken about what did come next.

And yet...

And yet...

What I somehow managed to know at the time and what I still know today was that whatever this was gonna be, well... we could do it. That's probably hubris speaking out my younger self's mouth but, once again, there you go and there you are.

That guy was right.

He was.

Somehow he knew it or knew enough in a way that's seemingly impossible because what I know for a fact now...

What I know for a fact...

Is that the life I lead to this very moment right here, the life I would't trade with anyone, is impossible without her. All of it.

And when I said "I do" to her with all the promise and hubris of a twenty-something, I had no idea how profound those words were, how profound they would be...

And how profound they continue to be to this day.

😊

[harikrishnaexports]

[b0tster]

its fucking embarassing having to do this every 6 months. i swear to god.

deadbunny is not a necrophile. he did not desecrate a corpse.

he made an edgy drawing to cope with a death years ago.

it is a drawing.

it will not hurt anyone.

i retweeted bunlith fanart from him forever ago. i left polite replies when he leaves comments on my post throughout the years. we are not besties.

'but he gets off to it' do me a favor and talk to a lesbian. romanticizing death in a theoretical fashion is not new.

stop trying to use this as an excuse to slander me. its pathetic, and sad.

i dont talk about this because i dont want to participate in dragging his trauma up every 6 months but im left with no choice.

i am done with this. do not do it again.

[wilwheaton]

What, and I can't stress this enough, the ACTUAL fuck.

[dailyhatsune]

electric angel and 31 year old chimera

[chinzhilla]

𝔗𝔥𝔦𝔯𝔱𝔶-𝔒𝔫𝔢 𝔇𝔞𝔶𝔰 𝔬𝔣 ℌ𝔬𝔯𝔯𝔬𝔯 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟺

You don't want to hurt anyone. But I do. And I'm sorry. It won't stop.

The Ring (2002) dir. Gore Verbinski

[onyxrx]

aizawa sketches

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my first actual post, wowwie (and ofc it’s aizawa related)

all of them, drew with zero proper structure and straight out of my noggin. none of them are probably anatomically accurate, but they look good enough to me until i look back at it a few months later and die of cringe.

[pastadoughie]

WE WISH U AND LITTLE GUYS A HAPPI HALLOWEEN

tism candy

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[lovelydeps]

happy birthday to my good buddy Amazingphil

[marshmallowgoop]

no thoughts just Heiji Hattori (HD)