#this is weird!!!!!

[reigningm4x]

Max and Rupert walking into the paddock for the first time together

[seancosy]

i'm on a work trip to a desert town and it's surreal

the streets are empty. i can walk for 15+ minutes before coming across another pedestrian.

the book shop had maybe 15 books, about half of which were explicitly queer-focused. which is really weird because grindr is dead here

the florist only sells plastic plants

the pub food is some of the worst food i've eaten in my life. but i risked trying fish and chips from the local shop (we are >500 away from the ocean), and it was amazing??

the swimming pool -- newly built; perfect for 40 degree heat -- is basically empty each time i visit. when in any other town it would be humming with swimmers and families.

every surface has a coating of soft red dust on it

some people speak in such thick accents that we can't understand understand each other

there is no infrastructure for handling rain, so apparently the town regularly floods and the locals just go on with their lives like it's not a big deal

i have seen no snakes and no spiders. but about 547839872 flies.

it isn't safe to drive at night because kangaroos, emus, and feral goats will try and kill themselves in front of your car. (baby emus are adorable btw. i went for a run and a family of emus ran beside me!)

[watch-out-it-bites]

[correctopinionhaver]

[allthatispeculiar]

[yeepof]

I understand that tall men are our POV characters, but surely being like a foot taller than everyone around them would have some occasional consequences

[andhumanslovedstories]

look I'm not gonna pretend I know anything about electronics, but sometimes a plug is so big it blocks another socket, and I'm always like "who the fuck do you think you are"

[vamprisms]

shut da hell up

[whydidisavethistomyphone]

Elon’s being weird again. Threatening everyone on twitter for calling his weird friends weird.

[plaguedocboi]

I hate the “open floor plan” that everyone is obsessed with in houses now. I want nooks and crannies and bizarre floor plans. I don’t need to be able to see what someone is doing on the other side of the house. I want places to hide and lurk and dwell in the shadows. I am the beast who awaits in the labyrinth

[dutchs-blog]

Restoring The Smallest Clockwork

[beebfreeb]

Messaging people for the first time is so hard. What am I supposed to say? Like, "You seem really odd and your blog intrigues me. Do you want to have philosophical conversations or perhaps talk about fictional characters?" What! Whatever. I will just follow you back and stare at your blog with my big beautiful brown eyes.

[cubistemoji]

[pirateprincessjess]

When I was a kid my family pretended to get raptured so I would think I was left behind on earth while they all went to heaven.

I was like 8 years old and my sister and mom had gotten really into the Left Behind novels (bible fan fic about the rapture). In the books when the rapture happened the clothes that people were wearing when they got raptured were left behind in neatly folded piles.

One day when I was getting home from school my family decided that they would leave piles of neatly folded clothes around the house, and then hide in the basement.

The intended effect was that I would get home and see the clothes then, think that my family had been raptured and that I wasn’t good enough to get into heaven… or something?

The problem was that I had never read these books, and didn’t really think about the rapture very often. There was no reason that I would see some laundry on the floor and think “The rapture happened and I’ve been abandoned by God! I’ll never see my family again!! Oh nooo!!!!”

I just sat down and watched cartoons and eventually my family got bored and revealed that they were all hiding in the basement.

It’s a good thing I didn’t understand the joke, otherwise that shit would have been traumatic.

[allthatispeculiar]