#Thank the laurd

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no one:

me, jolting awake at 3am: Newton Geiszler uses 1-indexed programming languages and Hermann Gottlieb is naturally a 0-indexer

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Thanks @laurd-brochtuarach this is so good Sam is a natural around kiss!

Sam Heughan Asks Kids for Dating Advice // Omaze

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I just don't get it. What the actual fuck was so good about these people's lives in 2020 that they wanna go back to that? Everyone was horrified as the pandemic swept America and the government did little to nothing to control it until it was too late. Americans were pariahs in the global community at the personal and the policy level. (And that reputation continued post-2020, because of what happened in 2016.) Inflation was exactly the fucking same. That's what these people are voting for?? What???

Who read project 2025 before going to the polls? I bet if even half of the millions who voted for Trump looked at the thing, enough would have turned against him that this wouldn't have happened (if any woman read that... how, how could you go a long with this?) I just can't. When I get fucking fired as a result of this shit I'm taking out a loan and doing a degree somewhere else. This country is unsalvageable, absolutely unsalvageable.

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Ice cream time

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🦈🌊🐠🐳

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liveblogging: im watching contact, it's already too fucking much

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most hermann coded haircut yet

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Make a poll with five of your all time favorite characters and then tag five people to do the same. See which character is everyone’s favorite.

I was tagged by the beautiful, lovely @octarineblues to do this so here we are.

Let me tell you, I tried not to include two characters from any one media, but alas, Newt and Hermann both prevail. (Yes, I've been on tumblr for 12 years, and there's absolutely no way of hiding that.)

Tags for my friendos (no obligation to participate): @girl-in-the-mirrorbluenight @randompens @ladybender and whoever else of my beloved little following sees this

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wrote a bit of fic in some kinda trance recently, bc there's a few hundred words I have no memory of writing but I was like kinda into it you know? Like, dang, this writer got moves. Where are they now I wonder 🤔

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can someone explain something to me? how can you be interested in wildlife and nature in general and also only experience pessimism regarding Earth's future? if you care for creatures, ecosystems, natural beauty, then is there any option but to fight and hope for their best outcome?

I just ... maybe I've consumed too much pop sci and positive speculative fiction re:climate change, maybe i am too comfortable with the idea of change not being bad in and of itself. Of course I think oil companies are bad and need to close up shop asap, and of course there is and will be a lot of ugliness in the world. there will be species we lose due to climate change, and there will be death in general. the entire economic system will need to change, and it will be rough.

we need to mitigate loss of life and habitat and focus on sustainable resource use strategies. but without hope that any mitigation is possible, how can you claim to care about the natural world at all? ecosystems are pretty good at adapting. humans can adapt pretty well too.

it just makes me sad that people who are intelligent and claim to care about the Earth can simultaneously shrug their shoulders and say "yep, it's going to shit". I used to think this way to some extent, but maybe this is part of that 'hope/optimism takes maturity' thing. anyway, i just found my recent conversation with a 'pessimist' disconcerting. thinking that way is not useful or personally fulfilling, even though I know it can be easy to fall into it. there already is and there will continue to be much to grieve regarding the state of the natural world and human society, but if the majority of us believe there is no reason to fight for our planet's future, then that degrades the quality of life in that future even further.

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waittt new heartbreak high :DDDD

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i picked my dad up in the car earlier and he said "why aren't you playing music" and i said "i was listening to an audiobook and i stopped playing it" and he said "oh so you've forgotten how to read?"

actually, yeah. i have forgotten how to read. i've read maybe 10 books for pleasure plus several textbooks in the past year and you've read maybe half of some imperialist or another's biography in the same time. but yes, i've forgotten. can't spell. no reading comprehension.

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does anyone want a gif in these trying times?

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