#then we wouldn’t be here today

[pastacurls]

As the #1 defender of misunderstood child characters I will NEVER forgive the damage that was done to society with “grey heffley is a sociopath” videos.

[vrishere]

dsmp nostalgia wasn’t on my bingo card today

but damn do i miss those times

i may have tried to drown them but the recollections of my youth and carelessness are things i cherish deeply in my heart

[james-spooky]

this is a test

[housewifebuck]

Anyone else accidentally form an extremely buddie coded relationship with their best friend or am I just gay

[pernillecfcw]

Same old story 💀😵‍💫

[thewingedwolf]

i’m home but one more complaint. she was asked for a book on how to write a memoir. took the lady to a section, clearly didn’t get any hits. came back and asked me “what should i do.” i literally just googled “dewey decimal for writing instructions” and said “try that section” while they were over there i checked the catalog & it’s not even a hard title to just blindly type for i could have put in “memoir writing” and got it by narrowing search parameters a bit. she has her mlis btw.

[thetwilightroadtonightfall]

I am the happiest person on earth right now because I just went out with a friend to grab a late lunch and it was just supposed to be a quick casual catch up thing that turned into a 4 hour conversation in the car about things that happened to us almost a decade ago 🥲

[goldenhourhimbo]

update: we think my crown is fixed. I went in today and they said “bite down on this paper so we can check it” and I said “I will cry, that’s how much it hurts” so they numbed me up real nice and filed down the bite and now that I’m not numb I’m already in wayyyy less pain than I was yesterday.

[cultivating-wildflowers]

oh I almost forgot! happy anniversary to me getting a house and moving out!

[himblebo]

“If a lot of men get killed at one go, does it make the killing of one man less of a crime? I don’t know, Andy, I don’t know. I’m only twenty and they say today the world is ours, but Pa was twenty once and felt the world was his, and long, long ago Mad was twenty too, laughing at applauding audiences, smiling from picture postcards, and when I am as old as she is nothing will have changed…”

Daphne du Maurier, Rule Britannia (1972)

[mintmentos]

So apparently it’s snowing???

[harellan]

Just spent about 15-20 minutes in close proximity with a coworker only for them to admit as they were walking away that they tested positive for Covid last night so I’m pretty pissed about that 🙃

[worm-in-a-trenchcoat]

First day of Comi-con down!!

[deus-ex-mona]

it’s that time of week again…

[akkivee]

the nugget at the top was not part of today’s dinner but he made good company lol

[tautozhone]

idk how to start this so this post is ab individual action, trying to motivate positive change in the world, etc etc

a lot of growing up in the US for me makes things feel more scary than they are. like it’s actually not that difficult to go out of your way to get a bottle of water or iced cup of water from some random drive through if you think you should do it. either fast food conglomerate or local actually, it’ll usually be cheaper than 5 dollars to get drinkable water. i try to have 5-10 dollars i can justify spending on water, and asking for change, because sometimes when i’m out driving i need to go grab water.

i do not do this for me as much as i try to do it specifically when i see someone who’s most likely homeless on a street corner. i’m sure one day i might do this and they might not be there when i come back, but what have i lost really? a bit of time and a bit of money that would’ve meant more to them, that i can hold onto until i see them next.

the pressure that a lot of people feel when they think “what can i do” comes from this grand narrative that the average citizen can singlehandedly fix the housing crisis. rich people? maybe. nonprofits? not in a day, not all one person still. what can i do is a question i ask a lot. what can i do, not just because it feels bad to move along like nothings wrong with the world, but what can i do that will do anything. what can i do that makes even the smallest change.

i feel like it took me too long to figure out a personal method to what i consider individual action. it’s taking time to get to my own financial stability to be able to do more. but for now it’s as simple as water and cash. not water and food, but water and cash.

individual action means a lot in small steps, go get a bottle of water bare minimum and the price of a meal if you can and then just give it to them. if it wasn’t such a miserably hot place where i live i would keep a pack of water in my car, which i still want to do for the sake of having immediate access to water to give someone who might need it- hot or cold sometimes won’t matter. but when it’s hot out, get cold water, if it’s cold out, a warm tea will hydrate more than coffee will as long as it’s not super caffeinated.