#How to Be Perfect

[somewhere-to-be]

How do we deal with the fundamental absurdity (of the world)?

We can acknowledge the fundamental absurdity of the human condition, and just kind of exist within it!

I added the exclamation point to try to hide how bleak a sentence that is. But for Camus, that’s the only real answer.

I don’t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I do not know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it.… These two certainties—my appetite for the absolute and for unity and the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle—I also know that I cannot reconcile them.

The only way to cope with our desire for meaning inside an empty, pointless universe is to recognize how absurd it is that we exist in an empty, pointless universe and still desire meaning. He wants us to stand in the middle of the hurricane of absurdity, neither denying it nor allowing it to defeat us.

- From How To Be Perfect by Mike Schur

[fandom-took-my-sanity]

best moment of this year was when michael schur did his book tour thing and i got to see him give a sit down chat thing in person. he answered my funny question i submitted, and it made him LAUGH. peak of my existence tbh

[shrubsparrow]

It's in the eye of the beholder

[shiroikabocha]

if The Good Place has piqued your interest in moral philosophy, the show runner wrote a nonfiction book that gives an informative, entertaining overview of all the philosophical concepts discussed in the show! It’s called How To Be Perfect and I found it fascinating.

while it's all well and good to teach people how to understand and criticize the messages and morals in fictional media, i think it's ultimately more important to teach people that they shouldn't be getting their understanding of ethics from fiction full stop period.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Expertise can't help you here.

[noperopesaredope]

I wish we had more female characters like Eleanor Shellstrop. One of the most unlikable people you've ever met. Read a Buzzfeed article on most rude things you can do on a daily basis and decided to use that as a list of goals. Makes everyone's day worse just by being there. Dropped a margarita mix on the ground and tried to pick it up, only to get hit by a row of shopping carts which pushed her into the road where she was hit by a boner pill delivery truck, killing her instantly. Cannot keep a romantic partner despite being bisexual. Had a terrible childhood but will die before she gets therapy. Best employee at a scam company. Just the worst but also can't help but root for her to improve.

Absolute loser. Girl-failure. Bad at almost everything. Literally perfect female character.

[0sbrain]

alternatives for ai to design ocs

hero forge

picrew

the fucking sims 4

your local furry artist

bitmoji

shitty photoshoped collage

DeviantArt bases

zepeto

making edits of your favorite character

searching "dress up game" on the app store

learning how to draw

[otterandterrier]

Mike Schur why is abortion "a thorny political issue" you "don't want to get into" in your book, but talking about same sex marriage and ted cruz needs no such disclaimer?

[botanyshitposts]

me explaining to my grandma that the turkey tail and golden oyster mushrooms and birds nest fungi growing on her huge backyard tree stump are simply eating the dead wood to return it to the soil and they're cute and colorful and add to the whimsy of her landscaping and are not causing the weeds in other places of the yard or harming her little white dog

[wiisagi-maiingan]

What a terrible world we live in where you can google wild plants or bugs because you're interested in them and the first results are all "how do I kill this"

[nereb-and-dungalef]

Mongolian history class, 2022, start of the semester. We're having a discussion on animal slaughter, featuring the one Mongolian student in our school.

The student explains that he's slaughtered animals himself, and there are two ways of doing it that avoid the spilling of blood. For a small animal like a chicken, you reach up into the chest of the animal and sever the arteries. For a larger animal like a camel, there's a spot on the forehead that, when hit hard enough, causes the animal to die instantly.

While this discussion is going on, a couple of the students are sharing something back and forth on their phone

The professor calls this out, asking if what they're sharing is more interesting than Mongolian animal slaughter

The room is dead silent for a few seconds. The two students look at each other awkwardly.

Eventually, one of the students pipes up:

"Well, the queen of England just died."

And without missing a beat, another student:

"Did they hit her on the head like a camel?"

[chloesimaginationthings]

So that FNAF 2 movie teaser huh,,

[miothle]

Let's raise the stakes, shall we?♠️🦚

if you look closely, you'll see some familiar faces👀

[vintrage]

can someone please get this girl her dog back

[egophiliac]

since Eng is getting 7.5 soon(?), I felt motivated to go back to my Meleanor rig and make her a couple of lesson animations! ...except for alchemy, because the cauldron bubbles proved too hard to photoshop around, whoops.

maybe she just got lost on her way to the classroom...?

(credit: backgrounds are from the game, I just put her on top of 'em)

(aside from the backgrounds, this is not an edit, I drew her from scratch! please do not tag or treat as an edit!)

[hansoeii]

stuck in the rain.