#i have learned

[artofdyingslowly]

[safeashousespdf]

i got a new tattoo on thursday and i’ve literally been sobbing since. it’s NOTHING like what i wanted but i was too shy to say anything… now i’m out seven hundred dollars and have this massive thing right on my arm forever

[selfshippinglover]

Not to self: I get mean when I'm hating myself and I should not do this in general statements someone will get hurt

[4ce-of-2pades]

Step 1: Oh look, Leo and Calypso fell in love. This is what happened in the books and I am neither questioning nor complaining (much).

Step 2: I’m going to change a few things about Caleo in my headcanons so I like their relationship better, but it’s still basically the same story.

Step 3: Okay, the fandom was right. I definitely prefer Valgrace or no partner for Leo, and he’s totally aroace. But Caleo is okay, and I still think Calypso and Leo should be friends. :)

Step 4: Wait… actually Calypso is really mean to Leo all the time. How did I not notice this?? She kind of sucks.

[seasonallydefective]

LetterBoxd has me re-evaluating how I have spent a given year.

“I’ve only seen 15 films so far in 2024???”

My me in Christ it is only January 17th!!

[invi-official]

Thank the universe everything is back to normal.

I am never clicking on free offers again :(

[werewolf-transgenderism]

keep seeing undergrads on social media saying “oh if a prof has a strict no-AI academic integrity policy that’s a red flag for me because that means they don’t know how to design assignments” like sorry girl but that just sounds like you’ve got a case of sour grapes about not being allowed to cheat with the plagiarism machine that doesn’t know how to evaluate sources and kills the environment! I have a strict no-AI policy because if you use AI to write your essays for a writing course it’s literally plagiarism because you didn’t write it and you’re not learning any of the things the course teaches if you just plug a prompt into the plagiarism generator that kills the environment, hope this helps!

[haunted-xander]

chomps you affectionately

[ace-and-ranty]

I gotta say, one of the greatest achievements of my 20s was that I learned (mostly) to differentiate between:

"I truly do not want to go" and

"I'm just feeling the Demand Avoidance, and I will like it once I get there."

[gibbearish]

love when ppl defend the aggressive monetization of the internet with "what, do you just expect it to be free and them not make a profit???" like. yeah that would be really nice actually i would love that:)! thanks for asking

[creepyjirachi]

i can be trusted with the lentils :) i promise i will make them delicious :) i won’t just throw them unrinsed and unseasoned in a pot with water :) and boil them on high heat so they stay raw, dry, and crusty :)

[mrtequilasunset]

Listen man, you guys can't be like "you guys need to be normal about asexuality" and then turn around and get weirdly judgemental when you find out someone doesn't have sex by choice. Like that's weird that some of you do that.

[reallybadblackoutpoems]

meditations on first philosophy (1641) - rene descartes

"who give a shit"

[throesofincreasingwonder]

"A story doesn't need a theme in order to be good" I'm only saying this once but a theme isn't some secret coded message an author weaves into a piece so that your English teacher can talk about Death or Family. A theme is a summary of an idea in the work. If the story is "Susan went grocery shopping and saw a weird bird" then it might have themes like 'birds don't belong in grocery stores' or 'nature is interesting and worth paying attention to' or 'small things can be worth hearing about.' Those could be the themes of the work. It doesn't matter if the author intended them or not, because reading is collaborative and the text gets its meaning from the reader (this is what "death of the author" means).

Every work has themes in it, and not just the ones your teachers made you read in high school. Stories that are bad or clearly not intended to have deep messages still have themes. It is inherent in being a story. All stories have themes, even if those themes are shallow, because stories are sentences connected together for the purpose of expressing ideas, and ideas are all that themes are.

[ceruleansol]

So my plan to break into the business social media scene is to write blog posts that help with writing but centered around anime, manga, and video games

Bc my target audience is mainly writers and comic creators, this feels beneficial and entertaining while it's something I can keep doing and enjoying

I think I bit off more than I can chew tho

First blog post is about analyzing reluctant heroes and ffxv

[kazieka]

hold up im reading more about the lionfish thing and this one island in Honduras has had such a huge problem with lionfish that the measures they have taken include

• getting special exemption from the Honduran government to allow divers access to harpoons and spears which are otherwise illegal in fishing

• public campaign to teach people how to prepare and eat lionfish (apparently they are very tasty once the poisonous spines are removed) (but watch out)

• holding lionfish combination hunting competition and cookout (reportedly they killed and cooked 1,700 in a day) (someone killed 60 of them with a rubber band spear gun???)

• most recently and apparently out of desperation, the divers in charge of culling the lionfish in the Roatan Marine Park just started. feeding the lionfish they killed to sharks. bc what else are you gonna do with it

• the sharks don’t seem to notice or be affected by the poison and begin hanging out with the divers

• the sharks then were seen hunting and killing the lionfish on their own

like this is nuts to me sorry. the sharks just had to be shown “hey this is food, did you know?? you can eat these!! here try one!!” we are possibly altering an entire foodchain bc we like feeding the big ocean wolves