#you know what I meant

[rob1ns]

that one tiktok

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"Ugh. How has he not noticed I'm mad at him? We haven't talked in 20 minutes. What is he even thinking about?"

"....hm. I could take a bear in a fight. Not like, a grizzy bear, but like a black bear? Jump on his back, put him in a headlock, done."

[dreaming-of-lu]

Commissions I've gotten the chance to do for the lovely @wayfayrr and @peepthatbish.

So fun to do these!

[i-cast-zone-of-truth]

Is Zhao Yuanzhou the starlight piercing Li Lun. Is that what we’re saying

[alterouslyinlove]

imagine you have your first kiss and you’re just so so happy that it’s finally happening that you can’t help but smile. as your lips touch you’re basically giggling into him but he doesn’t even care because he too is so happy and you’re just happy. together. and when you finally back away you just lean into each other and grin from ear to ear because of how in love you are. so yeah basically i was having some insane thoughts in the shower what about yall

[luciferfemme]

Butches and studs on T have a special place in my hole.... Heart. I mean heart.

[sixminutestoriesblog]

snowdrops

Thou fairy gift from summer,

Why art thou blooming now?

The Snowdrop by Letitia Landon (L.E.L)

January in the Northern Hemisphere can be a hard time to celebrate a birthday. It's cold, winter still has a ways to go yet and everyone is pretty hung over from the rash of holidays that took up the past three months straight.

Enter the delicate and determined snowdrop.

Once upon a time, so the story goes in Germany, back when the world was new, Winter was sent out to find itself a color. Knowing how everyone raved about the beautiful colors of the Flowers, Winter went to them and asked if one of them would give him their color to wear. Prideful and protective of their own glory, the Flowers laughed at Winter and turned away from him. Only one didn't laugh. The snowdrop, small and dainty, offered to share its color with the Winter. In gratitude, Winter promised that the cold of its touch would never harm the little flower and it would be allowed to bloom during Winter's reign whenever the little flower liked.

The snowdrop, legend claims, can create its own warmth.

It is also one of the first flowers to bloom each year, often before the snow has even finished melting, its hard leaves able to push up through ice and frozen soil, popping up to carpet the forest floor in a very different white, filling the sharp winter air with its light fragrance. If you listen, the stories say, you can hear the faint sounds of their petal bells ringing, waking up the rest of the world to spring's arrival.

The plucky little snowdrop has been around for a very long time and they have a lot of stories that go with them.

In Romania and Moldova, snowdrops, sometimes called 'daughter of the wind', were the results of a hero's battle against Winter (or the Winter Witch). Winter had decided to prevent Spring, either by trapping the Sun or simply refusing to move on. The Sun's lover - or Lady Spring herself - fought with Winter and in each place their blood fell, snowdrops sprang up.

When Adam and Eve were chased from the Garden of Eden at the beginning of the world, Eve wept so bitterly that an angel took pity on her. He breathed onto a falling snowflake and everywhere the snow fell, snowdrops sprang up, to give the weeping woman hope and the promise of a better future.

Snowdrops were Persephone's tears when she was freed from Hades in Greek myth and their arrival heralded her return to her mother.

The flowers are sometimes called 'Candlemas bells' because Christian stories say that when Mary went to the Temple to be purified and to present Jesus there as her first-born on February 2, an angel gave her the gift of snowdrops.

Want another one?

In Homer's Odyssey, Sean Bean Odysseus is given a magical plant called 'moly' by Hermes. He uses this to resist Circe's poison. There's debate whether Homer's moly was truly meant to be a snowdrop - but at least as far back as Roman times, the snowdrop was believed to be an antidote against poison. In modern times, doctors are using it to help in the fight against Alzheimer's.

Don't get carried away with the home remedies just yet. Snowdrops can be toxic to pets and humans can suffer from imbibing too much as well.

Overall, given all the stories associated with snowdrops, it shouldn't surprise anyone that they are seen as symbols of hope and rebirth, or light in the darkness and triumph over tribulation. Their white color gives them a symbolism of purity. In the story of Snow White, her name is sometimes changed to Snowdrop. These little flowers give those worn down by the snow the promise of sunlight and brighter days to come.

Unless you were a Victorian. Because - of course. Snowdrops had a habit of growing in cemeteries and church yards and so Victorians viewed them as omens of illness at best and death at worst. Seeing a single snowdrop was bad. Bringing a single snowdrop inside your house was nothing short of inviting death in.

Luckily, that doesn't have to stop the rest of us from being delighted by these determined flowers and holding to the faith that, when the snowdrops arrive, better days are soon to come.

[readysetjo]

I think it should become comfortable and common for us all to reply with a “you know what I meant” anytime someone tries to unnecessarily nit pick and say “well actually”

[lazaruspiss]

we need a mediator i am going to kill this guy

[alfalfascouting]

somebody on the internet told me that there's no non-binary or gender-indifferent way to say "Girl, you know what I meant" or "Dude, you know what I meant" so please reblog/reply with your favorite non-binary or gender-indifferent terms of exasperation

[wings-of-flying]

call out post for @spacedustmantis cause it's literally so cool and epic and not enough people are talking about it. get #auroraisawesome trending please

[wastelandbaby7]

Me: there's a lot of hmm pagan vibes?

My sister: did you mean folk vibes?

[messyfangirl]

Catch me being a hypocrite😌

[skellytonsandstars]

I have one thing and one thing only on my bucket list and that one thing is get IKEA shark

[rogue-ai-cat]

I'm equally as tempted to change my url to something with less potential to be in the news suddenly as I am to just redraw my pfp to be more like this

[perrieedwards]

i feel like people are skimming over the uk riots in a way that makes me want to tear my hair out. muslims in the uk are in active danger. immigrants in the uk are in active danger. refugees in the uk are in active danger. people of colour in the uk are in active danger. asian communities in the uk are in active danger. black communities in the uk are in active danger.

there are massive far right riots throughout the country right now and people like fucking elon musk and nigel farage are inciting it and still have a platform to speak. people have used three young girls deaths, people's genuine grief in southport, to try and gain traction for their own racist bullshit and it's working.

a lot of refugee charities have been forced to close leaving many people without support, homes, funding, food, etc. if you aren't able to donate please consider sending a message via the conversation over borders campaign! it will send a hopeful, welcoming letter to a refugee in the uk. there is also a guide to staying safe here.

please do your own research and donate to refugee charities, anti-islamophobia charities, mosques who are trying to rebuild after being destroyed, counter protesters, here are some i've heard positive things about but the list is extensive; southport strong together (support for the southport victims and their families), southport mosque rebuilding, riot repair fund, middlesbrough vulnerable residents, nasir mosque rebuilding, hull help for refugees, bristol welcomes migrants,