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Why Don't You...
Diana Vreeland helmed BAZAAR for 25 years, during which she very famously had a column called Why Don't You...
Denise and I laughed ourselves silly imagining our version, so here it is. This might become a regular thing, who knows?
Why don’t you…
Try making homemade marshmallows?
Embroider a secret message on the inside fly of your jeans?
Wear corpse paint to the grocery store on a sunny afternoon?
Keep a secret diary in the persona of a serial killer? Leave its location to your least favorite relative in your will.
Host a perfume sample swap?
Carve a linoleum stamp? Use it to personalize your correspondence.
Have some correspondence?
Lie down in the forest and be consumed by moss?
Sing along to Tina Turner?
Put your fucking phone down while you eat for once, c’mon?
Put pantyhose over your head and take a picture? Text it to your mom, then delete it and say “sorry, wrong thread.”
Make a gratitude list?
Start a zine?
Paint the edge of an interior door a bright surprising color?
Buy gnome figurines in bulk and start randomly leaving them places?
Get into geocaching?
Get your MFA?
Get a tattoo on your face?
Write a thank you note? Mail it. In the mail. With a stamp and everything.
Teach your dog to pick pockets?
Install the Library Extension?
Do one of the above and tell us about it? We’ll publish any that make us laugh in the next newsletter.
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why don't you (x-phile edition)
inspired by the late, great diana vreeland, but zhuzhed up with a certain paranormal bouquet:
why don't you....
re-watch grotesque and join mulder on a terrifying descent into full-fledged profiler mode?
write a fic with that unpopular pairing you can't get out of your mind (mulder/melissa? scully/skinner?) and get surprised by how many others were thinking the same thing?
take a master class in the art of the perfect, hypnotic sentence and read (or re-read) Black Hole Season by Penumbra/ @mashnotesofthemythopoeic ?
sprinkle a few of your favorite lines into everyday conversation in a way that no one else would notice but that delights you? [can you get away with saying "lots and lots of files" at work?]
leave a comment on that comfort fic you've read and re-read dozens of times but haven't let the author know yet? (if you don't have one, may I suggest A Boy and His Fox by @sixhours?)
go to your local thrift store and see if you can find a former phile's discarded VHS tapes or X-Files '98 expo t-shirt?
start a podcast devoted to re-watching the series through a super-specific lens (scully's hairstyles, mulder's ties, decoding the decor of the basement office)? [i will listen.]
go for a walk around your neighborhood with Walking After You on repeat in your headphones?
re-watch i want to believe and not just the scratchy beard scene? [jk, no one should have to do that]
add your own ideas to the tags?
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Xavier: what are you doing
Zayne: understood
Rafayel: well, well, well...look who finally remembers me 😒
#love and deepspace#love and deepspace xavier#love and deepspace zayne#love and deepspace rafayel#lnds ; messages#this fish???#why do i have to say hi first huh raf#why don't you#😒
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NAHreally & The Expert - Why Don't You?
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Ah, the feminine urge to cut your hair short and become a boy
#i need hjalp#agender#the gay agender (western accent)#here have a gender#why don't you#transmasc#trans guy#TERFs be like#transphobes be like
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Just discovered the "i hate math" tag exists and ??????? how tf is there a whole ass tag on this? is math *that* bad??????????????
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I asked for a good erotic book you told the rose 😮💨
Oh right! You should have mentioned you were talking about the book!
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#oh my god?????#txt#STOP FOLLOWING US!!! WE DONT POST LIKE THIS. WE POST JFK RPF#'blah hah hah and everyone clapped' don't you want to live in a world of beauty? with us?#‘why can’t i reblog this?’ Because trads started going He dodged a bullet in our notifications
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>Join a union
>Hear people constantly complaining that the current union leadership is super corrupt, it's all just the same ten guys making all the decisions in secret and nobody else in the union ever gets to know what's going on
>Go to the monthly union meetings that are completely open to all 1200 union members
>The only attendees are the same ten guys every month, giving detailed reports about everything that's going on
#anyway this is why i'm the way i am about politics and people who advocate against 'participating in the system'#i am on my way to becoming one of the ten guys and frankly? it's fucking exhausting#i chatted with the union president afterwards and he got this haunted look in his eye#and was like 'i'm glad to see you getting involved but remember you can say no. you can always say no.#don't let anyone bully you into doing more than you want to. make time for yourself. YOU CAN SAY NO.'#which was good and much appreciated advice! but also. ominous
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@thebibliosphere
we expected nothing less… {x}
#his smile at the end#chaotic neutral for sure#just pour some gasoline on the internet and hand us all a match#why don't you
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the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again
#yeehaw#1k#5k#10k#posts that got cursed. blasted. im making these tag updates after... 19 hours?#also i have been told it should say speech loss bc nonverbal specifically refers to the permanent state. did not know that!#unfortunately i fear it is so far past containment that even if i edited it now it would do very little. but noted for future reference#edit 2: nvm enough ppl have come to rb it from me directly that i changed the wording a bit. hopefully this makes sense#also. in case anyone is curious. though i doubt anyone who is commenting these things will check the original tags#1) my friend did not do this on purpose in any way. it was not intended to distract me or to hit on me. im a lesbian hes a gay man. cmon now#he felt very bad about it afterwards. i thought it was hilarious but it was very embarrassed and apologetic#2) “why didn't he use 🫵🏼?” didn't exist yet. “why didn't he use 🆗?” dunno! we'd been using a lot of hand emojis. 👌🏼 is an ok sign#like it makes sense. it was just a silly mixup. also No i did not invent 👉🏼👌🏼 as a gesture meaning sex. do you live under a rock#3) nonspeaking episodes are a recurring thing in my life and have been since i was born. this is not a quirky one-time thing#it is a pervasive issue that is very frustrating to both myself and the people i am trying to communicate with. in which trying to speak is#extremely distressing and causes very genuine anguish. this post is not me making light of it it's just a funny thing that happened once#it's no different than if i post about a funny thing that happened in conjunction w a physical disability. it's just me talking abt my life#i don't mind character tags tho. those can be entertaining. i don't know what any of you are talking about#Except the ppl who have said this is pego/ryu or wang/xian. those people i understand and respect#if you use it as a writing prompt that's fine but send it to me. i want to see it#aaaand i think that's it. everyday im tempted to turn off rbs on it. it hasn't even been a week
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why don't you (x-phile edition) pt. 2
I had a lot of fun with this post so I'm doing another one.
Why don’t you…
Make it an Unusual Suspects/Three of a Kind double feature in honor of our favorite triad?
Read a post-colonization fic and see how Mulder and Scully fare in the face of the apocalypse? (this week's xf fic discord book club pick, In the Watchfires of a Hundred Circling Camps by cthene, fits the bill and it is SO good and weird.)
Join the xf fic discord book club while you're at it?
Support a talented artist on Redbubble or Patreon? (how cool is this print?)
Find out if an episode originally aired on your birthday and then watch it? (if you're like me, you'll discover yours is Fearful Symmetry and be pleasantly surprised that it's not as bad as you remember.)
Write 100 words of Mulder and Scully road trip dialogue?
Write 1,000 words about what happens if their rental car breaks down in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night? (no judgment if 900 of those words are smut.)
Send a mutual a fic prompt or random ask?
Write a fix-it fic for the aspect of canon that bothers you most?
As always, add your own to the tags or share your responses?
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THE SHRIEK-LAUGH THAT JUST CAME OUT OF MY MOUTH WAS UNREAL AND SCARED MY POOR DOG OUT OF A SOUND SLEEP
ALEX HIRSCH YOU DELIGHT ME MORE EVERY DAY
#if you don't understand why this is hysterical you have not been on tumblr long enough#password to get this image (which is part of a much bigger image): DIONARAP#gravity falls#bill cipher#thisisnotawebsitedotcom#tumblr sexyman
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caught them doing the SIN, cos, tan (bad trigonometry joke, I'm sorry, you have permission to euthanize me)
bonus:
#I don’t know WHY on earth I drew this but sir mix-a-lot was playing so maybe that explains it#the book of bill#gravity falls#billford#Art Of The Sun Chip#gravity falls fanart#stanford pines#bill cipher#fiddleford mcgucket#fiddauthor#artists on tumblr#ford pines#art#drawing#fanart#my art#doodle#illustration#procreate#comic#please don't repost my artwork onto other sites thank you!
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watching bridgerton and obviously there were a lot of things wrong with the way socializing has worked in the past, but honestly the idea of a "calling hour" is so appealing. office hours for friendship. you can show up unannounced at my home between 1 and 3pm. you must leave by 3pm. I may give you a pastry. lets bring that back
#bridgerton#lauren says things#i know the calling hour is for romantic prospects#(at least in bridgerton)#but there IS something to be said for having social rules! I like it to an extent!#no I don't have a panic disorder rooted in social anxiety why are you asking me that#and tbf one CAN just do this!#but working out social contracts with friends is hard and scary lol
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Reblog the fundraisers you mfs!!!!! I don't know why you all skip those to reblog some pic of a banner saying "FREE PALESTINE" or of news from Columbia University! Literally these people from Gaza have made an account on Tumblr and is writing in english to communicate what they need and you all are coming onto my blog or on the tag and not reblogging their posts. We have people both Palestinian and non Palestinian vetting the fundraisers! I mean more the reblogs, more the chance of the fundraisers gaining momemtum, the more there would be a chance of a donation. Please donate if you can and reblog!!! and follow them if it is possible.
@/mohammedayesh has posted about getting leaflets, telling them to evacuate Rafah. They are very low on funds. Go follow them and reblog their posts and donate if possible.
We have @/haneenatya too whose mother is suffering from eye stroke and need to evacuate. Please I have been following them for some days and it doesn't seem their own posts are getting much attention.
Follow them! They are on tumblr. Reblog their posts and donate. The protests in universities are being done on account of them. They should be our focus.
(EDIT: on re-reading my post it seems as if I am dismissing all that the students of universities are doing. I am not. I just meant, since all of it is to help Palestinians, we must not ignore them when they ask for help).
#free palestine#don't only reblog popular posts#reblog posts these people are making from Gaza#I know we all struggle financially#which is why I think if we can get more and more reach then out of those people at least some maybe able to donate#their blog names are those which I have mentioned#please look at their posts#P.s. i have edited in some links please click on them and you will be redirected to the blogs of both the gazans#a popular 11k notes post has nothing over your attention on them
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