#kind of personal?

[bethanydelleman]

My favourite fact in the whole world is that one pure teaspoon of botulinum toxin could kill the entire human race. It stops your skeletal muscles from working by blocking the neurotransmitter acetylcholine; you begin with blurry vision and end unable to expand your chest cavity to breath.

Why is this my favourite? Because humans are so insane! This substance is super deadly and terrifying and we were like, "But hey, what if it's secret medicine?" It now has 8 FDA approved medical uses (including cosmetic Botox) such as treating chronic migraines, and it has a whole list of off-label uses.

I don't know what that says about us as a species, but I put that fact in the same box as almonds used to contain deadly amounts of cyanide until we selectively bred them into eatbility. What is with us?

[seesternsstuff]

I can’t not be the only one who when feels sad, needs, craves angst fanfics. Like, something went wrong at work? Bum, Stony fanfic about iron man’s death. Did my family just fucked up my day? Bum, SuperBat fanfic about Jason’s death. And the list goes on and on

[tadpolesonalgae]

heyyyyy, so i know I usually talk about helion and stuff but i just wanted to let you know to take your time with cbmthy + oneshot updates. if anyone is pressuring you, even absent mindedly, just remember to take your time boo! <3

your work is gold, and im very proud of you for it! so here's your reminder to stay healthy, drink your water, get good sleep and be good to yourself.

and always remember, when in distress, imagine helion's thighs.

love ya! - ☀

Actually you’ve got pretty great timing with this message so thank you!

For anyone who doesn’t know, there’s going to be a General Election on the 4th of July, so there’s a fair chance I won’t be as active as usual or might not be able to write as frequently due to the uncertainty and anticipation over what’s going to happen in the foreseeable future!

I do have some things already written, so hopefully even if I am short on time or just too stressed to write, I’ll have some backup stuff, but I’m just letting you guys know what’s going on at the moment since it’s kind of important! 😭🧡💛

And you also look after yourself!! 🙄 You aren’t allowed to wish me well and then not wish well for yourself, that’s not how things work over here, so you’d better be taking care of yourself aswell 🧡💛

(Also I finished that Helion mini-fic and am going to proofread it this evening, then hopefully have it done and ready for tomorrow!)

[akirathedramaqueen]

Haha, while I certainly share the sentiment, I prefer the lighter version of it: "Perhaps, this story isn't for me."

I've been told "Master and Margarita" is a masterpiece. Back in the day, when I was actively reading all kinds of classics (not out of personal interest—school obliged me to—but I still enjoyed some of them), this was the book I never understood. Never got what was so deep in it. If anything, it felt like a couple of good ideas in otherwise highly disorganised plot with little to no sense. But there are many people who like it. I think it was in the school curriculum for a reason, at least.

One of my recent reads, "Before the Coffee Gets Cold," is a modern book, and while I didn't like it for numerous reasons, a lot of Goodreads reviews find the story moving and innovative. Good for them, I think? I just shrugged, left my 2-star review, and went on with life. Not because I wanted the author to go down, but to let the other potential readers to know what to expect.

And if there are people who enjoy things I don't, I just leave them the right to do so. And I allow myself to think, "The story isn't for me." Bad for me, if you will.

before i accuse a story of being bad i must ask myself one crucial question first: am i perhaps fucking stupid

[crystallizedtwilight]

People I met for a few moments that live in my head forever.

[copepods]

twitter is great for finding a person whos username is like ZL287635630JHSB67 and who doesn’t speak english and is drawing fictional characters with more raw skill than leonardo da vinci

[artsymeeshee]

Thinking about the idea I had a LONG time ago about Mabel sending motivational and complimenting stickers for the boys and Ford saving a “write your own message” one just for Stan and had to draw it.

[wusnus]

I love mabel and bill and i want to see them being bffs but i cannot see an interaction between them going any way other than this

[stil-lindigo]

lighthearted.

if this comic resonated with you, please consider donating to this palestinian escape fund (vetted by @/nabulsi and @/el-shab-hussein) as it is less than $7,000 away from it's goal.

i turn 24 today. To celebrate, I made this comic to be a spiritual successor to lead balloon, a comic in which I talked about the darkest period of my life so far.

A lot has changed since my 23rd birthday and this one. My priorities have shifted a lot, in ways that I think are mostly good. But i think the best part about today is that suicide has gone back to being a far away notion. I'm really lucky, and I'm grateful for that.

[inkskinned]

because sometimes there are invisible tests and invisible rules and you're just supposed to ... know the rule. someone you thought of as a friend asks you for book recommendations, so you give her a list of like 30 books, each with a brief blurb and why you like it. later, you find out she screenshotted the list and send it out to a group chat with the note: what an absolute freak can you believe this. you saw the responses: emojis where people are rolling over laughing. too much and obsessive and actually kind of creepy in the comments. you thought you'd been doing the right thing. she'd asked, right? an invisible rule: this is what happens when you get too excited.

you aren't supposed to laugh at your own jokes, so you don't, but then you're too serious. you're not supposed to be too loud, but then people say you're too quiet. you aren't supposed to get passionate about things, but then you're shy, boring. you aren't supposed to talk too much, but then people are mad when you're not good at replying.

you fold yourself into a prettier paper crane. since you never know what is "selfish" and what is "charity," you give yourself over, fully. you'd rather be empty and over-generous - you'd rather eat your own boundaries than have even one person believe that you're mean. since you don't know what the thing is that will make them hate you, you simply scrub yourself clean of any form of roughness. if you are perfect and smiling and funny, they can love you. if you are always there for them and never admit what's happening and never mention your past and never make them uncomfortable - you can make up for it. you can earn it.

don't fuck up. they're all testing you, always. they're tolerating you. whatever secret club happened, over a summer somewhere - during some activity you didn't get to attend - everyone else just... figured it out. like they got some kind of award or examination that allowed them to know how-to-be-normal. how to fit. and for the rest of your life, you've been playing catch-up. you've been trying to prove that - haha! you get it! that the joke they're telling, the people they are, the manual they got- yeah, you've totally read it.

if you can just divide yourself in two - the lovable one, and the one that is you - you can do this. you can walk the line. they can laugh and accept you. if you are always-balanced, never burdensome, a delight to have in class, champagne and glittering and never gawky or florescent or god-forbid cringe: you can get away with it.

you stare at your therapist, whom you can make jokes with, and who laughs at your jokes, because you are so fucking good at people-pleasing. you smile at her, and she asks you how you're doing, and you automatically say i'm good, thanks, how are you? while the answer swims somewhere in your little lizard brain:

how long have you been doing this now? mastering the art of your body and mind like you're piloting a puppet. has it worked? what do you mean that all you feel is... just exhausted. pick yourself up, the tightrope has no net. after all, you're cheating, somehow, but nobody seems to know you actually flunked the test. it's working!

aren't you happy yet?

[dougielombax]

I wonder what the largest shellfish is?

Edit: Okay this post is getting a LOT of traction. What is going on?

Edit: Fucking hell.

This post has set off a fucking MINEFIELD!!!

What have I DONE????!!!!!

I’ve lit the blue touch paper and found there’s nowhere to run to!

I’ve summoned a wolf only to unleash a tiger!!!!! Made of fire! And nails.

Probably….

Idk.

Edit 2: 5,000 Notes! Good god! What the HELL do you want from me. I’ve never had a post of mine take off like this until now.

Some got close like the one about homeowner associations (fucking powertripping middle aged mediocrities!) which got at least 1.5k notes but this is the most I’ve gotten on a single post so far.

Anyway.

AND this post has officially gone to hell. (6,666 notes)

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WHO THE HELL TURNED OFF THE REPLY THREAD FOR THE REBLOGS?!

Okay never mind it’s back. For now at least.

Anyway.

[kimdokjas]

though the movie might be cancelled, yuri on ice will live forever in our hearts. thank you yoi fandom, it's been real ♡

[lazylittledragon]

if i had a nickel for every au spawned from twitter that i SWORE i was going to be normal about

[percabetn]

i can’t stop thinking about how annabeth e-mailed percy the photo of her at dc but this doofus decided to print it and put it in his notebook to stare at her whenever he could. talk about dedication

[palatinewolfsblog]

"Being rude is easy. It does not take any effort and is a sign of weakness and insecurity. Kindness shows great self-discipline and strong self-esteem. Being kind is not always easy when dealing with rude people. Kindness is a sign of a person who has done a lot of personal work and has come to a great self-understanding and wisdom. Choose to be kind over being right, and you’ll be right every time because kindness is a sign of strength." U.N. Owen.