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alright I'm genuinely getting buff bc when I'm too stressed out to do something, as a method of procrastination, I just lie on the floor and start furiously pumping weights. and can I say. haven't answered a lot of emails, but my arms are getting big

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Urban Design Lab posted these great pics of an architect's life before CAD ...

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learning that addiction is a progressive narrowing of the range of things that make one happy was kinda life changing for me. i apply it to everything not even just addiction i am always checking to ask if i am narrowing my range of happiness or widening it

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"good night" <- guy who is about to reblog 3-11 more posts

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one of my formative experiences with sex ed was having sexual desire explained to my class by a catholic nun who was very clearly working on a purely theoretical model. she explained with like increasing mania that women and men are very different because men are "like microwaves" and women "are like crock pots" and the more confused the class (age 13) became the more frantic sister patrick stephen became until she was accidentally making the point that men and women are too much like different appliances to have sex with each other at all. we all felt quite guilty as this was the year twilight came out so we'd all just gotten horny for the first time. so we felt bad for her if anything

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after growing up on theater directed by my father, who was an absolute adherent to brecht's sparsity of set, big elaborate stage pieces has never stopped seeming shocking, even scandalous. put those away slut.

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Getting into perfume makes you question your sanity. You think you won't become like the people on Fragrantica who have favorite scents for hiking and that you just like to smell nice, but then one day you will think, "Hmm, what perfume should I wear to bed?" And that's when you know you've gone insane. "Which one would be best for the farmer's market?" I've lost my mind.

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do u have any good perfume advice for some1 who rlly likes scents for an autism reason but also is masc???

ooh thank you for the fun question :) ! i don't know if you mean advice as in recommendations or advice as in advice finding a scent, and i also don't know how deep into the perfume iceberg you are (i personally am not very deep! so i am not the best person to offer expertise!) but i will try to offer both.

for figuring out what scents you like, it helps a lot if you live in a major city and have an independently owned perfume store near you like ministry of scent in san francisco or merz apothecary in chicago, or individual brand-owned stores like a le labo or a diptyque, it's really fun to visit and try different scent profiles in person! if the only things near you are a department store or a sephora it might be harder unless you really like generic masc department store perfume, which i assume you might not jive with super well because if it was that easy then you would probably not be asking me for advice on tumblr. but it might still be useful either way to stop in and try a few profiles, like leathers and woods. also important addendum that I find the vast majority of masc and fem department store scents wildly grating and thus don’t know them well, so it could be there’s good ones I don’t know. If there’s a sephora in the area there’s a few masc replica fragrances that are ok, especially for getting a sense of what scent profiles you enjoy on yourself.

from there – or if you have an idea of what you like already, or if you have already tried everywhere – you might just want to go wild and order some spray samples based on notes! ministry of scent and many other perfume retailers let you purchase samples at $5/2 ml sample, which is definitely steep but a lot more affordable (and fun!) then buying something without smelling it first. these sites let you filter by notes, so if youre interested in woods or marine scents or heavy amber fragrances then you can click around those and just use vibes/lists of notes/sometimes reviews, though obviously those are super subjective to pick a few that intrigue you and try them out.

i don't buy or test perfume enough that my taste is like super refined or interesting, so apologies if i recommend stuff to look at that is super basic. but – with the understanding that heavy/vanillic/amber fragrances are underrepresented here because they give me Big Headache – some of my favorite masc adjacent scents include the following:

kosciusko by blocki (bergamot, tobacco, fir, cedar)

every storm a serenade by imaginary authors (eucalyptus, vetiver, ambergris)

heartbreak silverado by good dearest unhappy* (peppercorn, hay, leather)

regime de fleurs rock river melody (ivy, galbanum, patchouli)

liis bo (tobacco, pine, guaiac wood, vanilla) (really stretching the definition of 'masc' here but definitely gender neutral in a way that reads as masc to some, worth trying if you like warm woods)

*this one is indie and might be difficult to purchase as an individual sample! but it is one of my favorites

if you wanna message back with more details about what scents you like or a clarification on what kind of advice you were looking for (sorry if this was unhelpful!) feel free!!! i hope you find some epic masc scents out there

p.s. would not recommend scentbird (selection lowkey sucks) or perfumetok (mostly cringe and fail, with a few notable exceptions.)

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when you save alarms for specific things but then you just keep reusing them. like sure wake me up at the chocolate milk alarm, what do i care

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bro is amok

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who are u really

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How did Gregory Maguire write Wizard of Oz fanfiction where a broody weird girl and a girly blond are forced to be college roommates and then grow into oppositional celebrity roles + then a sequel to that where the weird girl’s son is a dark haired broody boy and a snarky charismatic dragon charmer blond boy and they rebel against the empire and run away together. and there was only one bed in both of these setups. How does he know how to do that like innately. He has the slashfic premonition that some people have to train in the ff.net mines for

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more Raidou stuff (mostly narumi)

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watching my promised afternoon thunderstorm slip from a 90% chance to a 20% chance.... baby come back i can change

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I need to be more disciplined starting tomorrow

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tinned fishing