#in ways

[cosmicanchorite]

yellowjackets edit by me, song is sleep patterns by merchant ships

[matineaux]

i’m kind of a personality hire but for life itself

[minijenn]

No but real talk you may wonder how the hell I've managed to get four whole chapters of UF in the span of a month and its that UF is literally my coping mechanism right now, like even more than it was back in the old UF days when I was depressed in college becase holy fuck everything irl is so fucking bad like living in this goddamn country is so fucking bad and I am barely keeping my head above the water financially, emotionally, and socially so I cope by throwing myself into creating because fuck, rich assholes in power can't stop me from creating at the very least so fuck it. I write UF and Shades and whatever the fuck else in spite of them, in spite of how fucking bad it all is, in spite of everything feeling like its getting so much worse every goddamn day.

Because sometimes, the simple act of creation is the only thing able to spark joy in a world where joy is in such short supply.

[redmantic]

Connections that were fostered and grew into more

I saw the web in my hand - people I once knew.

It didn’t stick, slid off as I watched blankly.

For one reason or another, sometimes they strung wrong.

I thought I was fine, sitting on the concrete barrier

But it gets cold out here, the more people that go home.

Cars come and go

Concrete wares and cracks

No connection, no ride home

Anticipation for the ant hill,

To only muster words once the colony stakes claim.

You knew it would ware off when you formed

I know i couldn’t keep it forever either

It was nice while it lasted, but even back then,

Ants would fall from the cracked concrete mask.

Lay it to rest, you will never be more.

[copperheaded]

You must understand. Iam an older brother who is more like a single dad despite the fact my parents live here

[mashedpotatosinacup]

Silver Ghost 🤝 Edward Scissorhands

[queerstudiesnatural]

greta thunberg, liam cunningham, rima hassan, and everyone else on that ship, thank you, and i hope you succeed. i really hope you succeed. you know what you are risking, and i wish for you to come back safely, having done what you set out to do.

[yekokataa]

do you guys know about the internet roadtrip? right now somewhere between 500 and 900 people are collectively 'driving' a car on google street view trying to make it to canada. it's fun i recommend it

[chaoticgouda]

[plaguedocboi]

One of my coworkers owns this shirt and wears it to work almost every Saturday and I can’t stay silent about it any longer

[aromantic-goldfishdeactivated202]

I find it so funny, in light of TikTok’s imminent American demise, that even now they aren’t considering moving to tumblr. The last two social media refugee crises (Twitter -> X and whatever happened with Reddit) prompted a wave of wide-eyed new baffled tumblr users to flood this app and yet last I heard all of the tiktokers are flooding en-masse a Chinese social media app. That is entirely in Mandarin. Instead of moving to tumblr.

[daftpatience]

slow down for your disabled friends. thats like a bare minimum kindness that we shouldnt have to ask for. i love that youre so quirky and walking fast is a cool personality trait to you and all that but i bet you can count your physically disabled friends on less than one hand

[eaglerayys]

Suzanne Collins just said fuck you to everyone who’s ever critiqued the Hunger Games as being a “teen girl saves the day” story. She said oh, Mockingjay didn’t make it clear enough? Here’s a book about how people have been rebelling for decades only to have their efforts suppressed and propagandized. Rebellion takes time and it takes failure and Katniss may have been the spark that ignited the wildfire but she did so standing atop the doused flames of everyone who came before her.

[woman-respecter]

kids these days are like “i need chat gpt to write an essay that would normally take 12 hours in 2” but back in my day i did that all the time by using a little technique called “writing some absolute bullshit.” and yet i still walked away with a better essay and more critical thinking skills than i would get if i used chatgpt. write a bad essay that you started on the day it was due, but write it yourself.

[stillgotscars]

this part of stevie nicks’ interview with rolling stone is taking me out