#to be comfy but at what cost

[driftingvoid-155]

Scooped Michael wanting a weighted blanket and Jeremy terrified to get it for him bc he thinks it’s going to break his bones.

[slythereen]

max just about giving up on the weekend as if we don’t need him on the podium with charles when he finally wins monaco… unacceptable

[nothazellevesque]

walker scobell rocking up to the stage at D23 wearing socks and birkenstocks is the most American public school teen behavior i have ever seen. i get it buddy. you’re probably too tired and busy to think about ironing your shirt or putting on full shoes. no one’s staring at your feet anyways, who gives a shit? you put together a somewhat presentable outfit so who cares if you’re wearing slippers in public?

[emerald-sonata]

Had this made at my work and thought maybe the Rise side of Tumblr would enjoy~

If anyone wants the vectors, nm and Ill send them (For free ofc not looking to get sued out here)!

[gloireceleste]

Gotta love when your 6000+ year crush kisses you and your brain can’t work quick enough through the panic while your former boss / creepy stalker the metatron is watching from outside.

[teawiththespleen]

okay i get it feminine women find NLOG narratives grating but these video essays about NLOG characters in historical dramas are soooo obtuse. like you really think youve analysed the story critically when your point boils down to jo march/anne shirley/anne lister werent all that for going against everything that was expected of them, or when the character trope youre critiquing are REAL people

there’s nOt LiKe OtHeR giRLs, and then there’s existing in an insular or conservative culture as a woman and being unable to exist in peace in any way other than a way that ACTIVELY makes your life harder. i live in a conservative place by and large and im okay dressing in any way that doesn’t have me be a focal point, so i’ll wear something that i dont feel entirely myself in and be fine. but man it’s tough out here for decidedly masc presenting women, who, if anything, check all the conservative dresscode boxes. and that’s NOW. like present day.

what these critiques fail to take into account is that what youd consider NLOG is often performatively so? like youre not just unlike other girls, you’re unlike other girls in a way that’s appealing to men or other such women or whoever decides things are cool. so much of being NLOG is about declaring that you are not like the other girls. and then listing out the ways that you are then not.like the other girls (but you’re still thin, light skinned, have long hair, have a carefully curated wardrobe dw).

ig it’s distancing yourself from admitting you’re preoccupied with figuring out how to perform femininity or feminine appeal or maybe not wanting to be hyperfeminine but youre still straight, or maybe youre at lvl 1 NLOG and you think hyperfemininity and critical thinking is a real life dichotomy or smth

idk what to tell the ytuber but anne lister was decidedly not like other girls. i dont think she’d even call herself a girl if she were plonked into the present day. anne shirley was either born ND or was put through a traumatising system early and for long enough to never be able to look at the world the same way as the kids brought up safely and with loving, money-having parents. and both of these characters loved women too much for you to conclude that they scorned “feminine” qualities (and therefore, the other girls).

you really cant ignore the context of the time. it took so little to not be like other girls. and so many of her points kind of made my heart sink. is attention to clothing and caring about feminine coded things all that there is to being a woman? if anything a historical setting lets you see there’s more to gender and that people contain multitudes. esp w little women, jo and amy are written as foils and share many core features that make them THEM, more so than their clothing or style or the way they choose to come across and the things they scoff at. they’re two ends of the SAME spectrum

where people get the idea that existing as a masculine woman is easy i do not know. i think people too often conflate being gender non-conforming, with actively rebelling against and/or denouncing gendered expectations, with the NLOG trope/phenomenon as seen in social media/published media

you would really make a “we need to talk about…” video about these women and characters while wearing jeans and having your hair down and wearing bright lipstick..

[heyclickadee]

I think I've been assigned "dad" by tumblr. I keep getting ads for cargo shorts.

[minasweep]

I need a million energy drinks stat.

[gemharvest]

Thinks about making a post complaining about how people would burn me at the stake if I actually talked about my sexuality (and how it relates to my gender) but then realizes doing so would risk randos coming into my askbox to harass me and promptly puts that thing to rot in drafts.

[spikesartbook]

Breaking news sleepy dog is forced to wake up and participate in society despite really wanting to sleep in today. More on the matter at 1

[folksy]

I have this oversized tank top I like to wear to bed but one thing is you haven’t known pain until the edge of it catches on the ball of your nipple piercing and is wedged between the ball and your nipple

[death-limes]

why do you assume that an animal with a physical deformity must be in awful pain & keeping it alive must be cruel? did you not read the story?

-they made a point that the calf doesn’t seem to be in any physical distress. behavior is all we EVER have to go on when determining if an animal is in pain. any animal — with or without health problems — could be in silent pain, but we don’t go around euthanizing them all because of that ~possibility~.

-all of her organs and systems are in good working order, which is practically unheard of for this condition. complications usually arise because of organs not functioning properly

-she is learning to walk, just very slowly. (which is understandable. she probably gets disoriented more easily than a regular calf would)

-cows aren’t the only animals to be born with this condition. it’s notable in cats too, and the oldest cat with the condition (“Frankenlouie”) lived to 15 years. there’s another one now named Duo who will turn 5 this June. so it is possible for a two-faced animal to live a long, happy life. as for why the cats and not the cows… i suspect it has something to do with cats being seen as companions vs cows being seen as livestock. pet owners are more likely to take special care of a beloved fur baby than a farmer is to take care of their stock. this calf’s case is especially promising, however, plus i believe it’s a smaller farm with access to proper resources. most two-faced cows in the past have been born in parts of the world where they really can’t afford specialized care.

-oh yeah they also made a point to say that they don’t plan on “showing her off to the media” like they were very clear they just want to take care of her and help her live for as long as she naturally/comfortably can

like im having a VERY hard time seeing how you look at a story like that and see evil…? does disability or deformity just automatically mean a creature can’t be happy and thus it’s not worth letting them live?

i want to hold my tongue and not share the depth of my opinions about the two-headed cow but it upsets me so much every time i see it, i really do hate the narrative of 'rooting for' an animal like this to live despite it being unable (and will be unable, for its entire life) to do the most basic of things life has to offer, even breathing, eating, moving, to prioritize the savior myth that everything can and should be saved, that every living creature should be treated this way as though its not one of the greatest mercies that we as humans have the ability to enact a quick and painless alternative to a slow and miserable life that ends in slow and miserable death on our livestock when they can't advocate for themselves, the ability we have as humans to see the research and make a prognosis and decide that the spectacle is not worth the extended misery, but this life is worth the dignity of a peaceful death we have the capacity to grant

because there is a difference between helping a baby animal in the first legs of life knowing it has a chance to have a quality of life worth fighting for, not a life doomed to be painful that we KNOW is painful knowing all that we know about animals who come with this specific type of physical abnormality, what we see on the surface is only a fraction of much more malformation and deterioration on the inside that we can't just decide is not happening because they 'look' fine, and what we see on the surface is already a life from start to finish without any experience an animal like this should have by virtue of being alive, with no life at all and no understanding of why it is going through this

the assumption that there is no suffering despite eating, breathing, moving never something that this baby will be able to do unassisted, despite knowing the longest a two-headed cow has ever survived was not even a year and a half and that record hasn't been broken in over thirty years, that's not even a quarter, an 8th, a 12th, a 15th of a cow's normal lifespan, and doubtfully much of that was pleasant or comfortable, and even if this cow does get to the point of being able to stand on its own, we can't ever know the full range of agony this animal is going through, all we know is there is and there will be agony, and we need to not see life as inherently successful or painless just because something is going in one end and coming out the other, that isn't what defines an animal's quality of life to me

the two-headed calf poem is beautiful to me because it's a miracle that something so rare (luckily) and so doomed could see one extraordinary thing before passing. the sky ceases to be beautiful when forced to live every day for the sake of social media's voyeurism, it makes me so sad that someone who raises livestock would put public attention over their duty to their animals ☹️

[tahwarts]

all the goth diy advice is like oh just take ur old clothes and dye them black but like im tryna wear black not patchy ugly blue

[scorporia]

wearing pajamas to my flight and im feeling unbelievable exposed (´• ω •`)

[honeytonedhottie]

how to embrace being alone⋆.ೃ࿔*:･✍🏽🎀

learning to be alone is such a crucial thing to learn at all times during your life, but especially during your youth. and something to understand is that sometimes, protecting your peace comes at the cost of being alone but being alone is peaceful! and not as bad as you might think that it is.

being alone offers an opportunity for self discovery and growth and rest and relaxation and reflection and the list goes ON. being able to enjoy your own company is a SUPER power bcuz it genuinely nourishes you so much.

ENJOYING UR OWN COMPANY ;

you dont have to be codependent on someone else to make yourself happy or to make yourself feel good. what fulfills you and nourishes you isnt the relationships that u have with others. although that is an amazing and fulfilling thing, the most fulfilling thing is learning yourself. being alone REPLENISHES you, its like, hydration for the soul.

dont wait on someone else to do something that you wanna do!! if u dont have anyone to go with, just go on your own. you dont have to wait on others to be happy…💬🎀

PRACTICE BEING ALONE ;

go on solo dates, practice planning to do something fun and just doing it by yourself. once you start doing things alone and you see how nice it feels, you'll want to do it more bcuz its so easy to enjoy your own company, you just have to get over your fear of judgement or of being alone and learn to enjoy and embrace it.

♡ have a spa day

♡ learn to cook a new dish

♡ read a book

♡ have a journalling session

♡ schedule appointments for urself

♡ go on a long drive

SOME BENEFITS OF ENJOYING UR OWN COMPANY ;

♡ u can be urself without filter

♡ less distractions and u give urself time to ponder and look internally

♡ ur in control of ur space and time

♡ u can be creative and imaginative without reference

♡ its peaceful

BEING UR OWN BESTFRIEND ;

treat yourself how you'd treat someone that you valued a lot. be compassionate and understanding and respectful. dont talk badly about yourself and dont be mean to/punish yourself bcuz u wouldn't do that to someone that u loved and cherished…💬🎀

dont abandon yourself in times where life can become stressful. focus on being present and dont forget your worth. your self worth and value doesn’t come from how useful you are to others, your valuable simply because you are you. a human being who is deserving of love. your worth doesnt come from how productive you are or what you’ve achieved, instead your worth is already done and your valuable because of your existence. 

COPING WITHOUT FRIENDS ;

everything is temporary and meaningful relationships will always find their way to you. just understand that some ppl are here temporarily and some ppl are here for a lifetime but only you are here for all of it which is why its important to be alone and be comfy with that.

not everyone is gonna like you or wanna be your friend and thats okay. it has nothing to do with you and is almost always simply because of different personalities and its not personal

brush off rejections bcuz rejection is just redirection. when you dont take everything personally you'll notice how much happier you'll be overall.

know that the meaningful relationships and connections that u crave will come!! no one is here to be alone forever so you'll meet the people who pour into you and you'll meet ppl that u can pour into and you'll be okay!!

overall, enjoying your own company does wonders for your mental and physical health and its a useful skill to learn in general because it brings so much peace from being able to sit with your thoughts…💬🎀

[kleefkruid]

NMBS did not send the promised train 💔 they really need to hire more autistics there

Bless train people bc I wanted to know if the last train on my route would be a double decker or not (bc double = more seating) but the train app only gave me the trains registration number.

So I thought, someone online must keep track of this information, and I googled the number, und sure enough, there’s someone keeping a video collection of passing trains with their IDs:

Thanks train guys I wish they would just hand you the NMBS app