#life outside the internet

[bobcatmoran]

Highlights from today’s Eclipse Roadtrip:

Learning that Abe Lincoln rescued so many stray cats when he and his family were living in Springfield, IL, that Mary Todd (his wife) not-so jokingly said that her husband’s main hobby was taking in cats

Met so many other Minnesotans also on Eclipse Roadtrips

Touring the IL state capitol and seeing the sister staircase statues of the ones in Iowa’s capitol building (the ones in Iowa were Illinois rejects, due to their bronze cast clothing being more *cough* clingy

Also the FASTEST capitol tour I’ve ever been on, 3 floors in 20 minutes, no questions allowed until we got back to the rotunda. I think the guy just wanted to go to lunch.

Off and on rain while driving compensated with All The Rainbows, including a full arc plus about 1/2 of a double arc (double rainbow all the way across the sky)

Dude on the tour of Lincoln’s house who asked in every single room, “is this original? How about that? Is that original?”

Dinner at a tiki bar/Japanese restaurant. So much better than that makes it sound

Geese Drama at the pond at the University of Illinois arboretum. Such fighting! A great deal of honking and low-level flying, heedless of humans, leading to the victor chasing the other two out

Redbud trees in full bloom just lining the highway. Absolutely wild and very pretty

[kosi-annec]

There's a brownout right now so me n the fam are eating out in the club house

It's a mini picnic lol

[wis-art]

Women, so pretty, so shaped, i am so lesbian,,,

[catboymoments]

tip: I am so fucking mad

[miicycle]

One thing I find incredibly funny is how people deem Donnie as super smart in all fields, which he for sure acts like. He can identify species of animal, he can calculate at a quick notice, he knows ins and out of everything around him.

Everyone and himself is painting him like this when he the very first episode assumes Mayhem is a NUCLEAR SAINT BERNARD. WHAT EVEN IS THAT? AND incorrectly guessed what the hidden city was only for april to actually explain it and donnie replies "ah yes that was my second guess".

He's literally making shit up sometimes and people aren't giving that enough time of day. He's smart, but also refuses to be wrong, even when he doesn't know anything about the subject because hes the SMART one. He is literally the one that would edit a wiki article to be right in an argument. Not often, but he would.

Interpretations are fine and all but it's strange how obviously he's bullshitting sometimes and people portray him as super smart at all times because of this. He tricked you. You fell for his ruse.

[sariphantom]

Hanahaki+2012 Raph+Flowers or comfort

I couldn't bring myself to do Hanahaki at the moment, so have some 2012 comfort with flower crowns while still getting things done with the upcoming Lonely Flowers of the Nile rewrite (now with a new name TBA)

[slityclayloam]

Sometimes I like looking up dyspraxia on google or tumblr as it makes me feel better seeing others like me, but like everytime I am violently reminded just how much it seeps into my everyday life.

Like I have decent movement, I can't remember the last time I fell over and I rarely bump into things. I can now wear turtle neck jumpers without feeling like I'm being strangled. I can type fast on my laptop and rarely have to look at the keys. I can drive, parallel park and reverse park. I can even now catch stuff thrown at me like 9/10 times! All of this is because I've been working on those skills for 19 years, both by myself and through speech and physiotherapy between the ages of 5 and 9.

But then I still have major issues organising my life, I have problems going to appointments and responding to emails. My main emotion everyday is to feel unemotional and when I do feel a real, strong emotion I have a hard time showing it, often apperaing neutral or like I don't care. I still don't fully get some social concepts. My memory can be really dodgy. My handwriting is quick and spidery as it hurts my hand to write slowly and neatly and I can't use anything but cheap gel pens as anything else will smudge. I still drop food on myself or the table daily. I'm still nervous carrying mugs of tea or coffee around, in fact I actually refuse point blank to carry trays of food in cafes, as I worry so much about dropping them and I find the weight and instability difficult to handle. I get tired easily and find it hard to stand in the kitchen and cook for more than half an hour before I just end up in pain, I can't use can openers and I have a hard time chopping food. I really like doing craft stuff with my hands but I find it so hard to continue with that craft stuff as it always comes out looking horrible and I just don't have the patience to continue.

It is hard living in a constant uphill battle, with everyone around you getting on with their lives and being so "hyper" organised. But I've managed to grow so much over the years and I hope that one day soon I can move some more of the things on my "I can't do or struggle to do right now" list, and move them into my "success" or "I can just in my own way" list.

[icewindandboringhorror]

I find it kind of silly that so many of those "time based life rule" sayings are like ~deep serious guidelines~ of some sort, but then there's that one other Well Known Rule that's just like "hrmm can I eat something off of the ground or not"

[aitadjcrazytimes]

hi sorry i know i said im disappearing forever but i just had to say: to the person that said i seem like someone who identified a little too much with evan hansen of dear evan hansen fame in high school. first of all fuck you. second of all your comment gave me acid reflux. third of all fuck you

[cemeterything]

people in the notes of my religious horror game dream post diagnosing me with religious trauma don't know i was raised by a very hardcore branch of catholics (i wouldn't quite say cult-like but definitely very hostile to outsiders and anyone who doesn't conform) in a dying small seaside town that's extremely inaccessible to travel beyond without an independent income and/or driving license. like midnight mass isn't funny that happened to me.

[bobcatmoran]

Watching the newest season of "Make Some Noise," and a prompt reminded me of a story that came out about my paternal grandma's father (i.e. my great-grandpa) when that branch of the family gathered together for a funeral a few years back.

Great-Grandpa D worked for the railroads on coal trains during the Great Depression, but the demand for coal went down during the summer, when folks weren't using it for heating, and he'd take all sorts of odd jobs to fill the seasonal gap in order to support his family of 8 children (they were devout Catholics and Grandma, the eldest child and the only girl until sibling #8, wound up going to boarding school mostly because they literally did not have room for her at home). One of those jobs was working as a cooper to make barrels for a big name, major bourbon distillery.

Great-Grandpa would bring a flask to work in his lunchbox, which didn't phase anyone at that time and place, but the flask would be empty. He'd fill it up from one of the barrels at the distillery, and bring it home to fill up a barrel he'd made there. Once he had a full barrel of bourbon, he'd sell it off for a tidy sum, and then repeat the process.

I'd probably stan him more, except when Grandma was valedictorian of her boarding school graduating class and got a full ride scholarship to a local college, he said she couldn't take it since she needed to come home and help take care of her younger siblings.

[kosi-annec]

I just woke up and now there's a fire outside my house UMMM

[hella1975]

your sokka is SO sokka and i say this as someone who holds him so dear ur writing of him is amazing. tbh im sooo fussy with his portrayal but its pretty nailed. like so many fics (esp zukka and zuko centric and ESPECIALLY ones where hakoda like adopts zuko) he's constantly pushed to the side in favour of zukos issues and zukos problems when in reality sokka is very hurt himself and has suffered a lot. man i GET taob sokka i really do bc people seem to think he was a lil mean but nobody seems to realise when you're in sokkas position it would've read like everyone was against you. all the swt men, including his dad who snapped at him, and even katara and aang and suki tell him to give zuko a chance and the fact that they were trusting someone who had hurt all of them so much- because yes WE know zuko wouldn't have killed them, but the gaang didn't. not when they were being chased and terrorised, and when sokka had his trust betrayed in the prison, he had absolutely every right to hate zuko, esp when it felt like everyone who he thought would understand his feelings, including his own dad who had been hiding his relationship with zuko from him, seems against him. his conversation with hakoda was probably my favourite scene in taob just bc he was allowed to feel like that without being treated by the narrative as someone just being mean to poor little zuko. he gets to be a sourpuss and angry and jealous at zuko for feeling like hed been replaced by his own dad. all of the water tribe men get this treatment like they're not written as bad people for being wary or disliking zuko initially (even chena despite being enemy no.1 at the start). his convo with hakoda was so important bc it stressed the detail that yes zuko has suffered and deserves to be cared for but SOKKA is his son, his actual child who is so hard on himself for things out of his control and who has hurt so much and deserves just as much as zuko does. sokka is just a baby my boy. he's not the main character but he's just as complex and intricate as zuko, not just in taob but also for the times we have seen him in tams there's been keen detail to his emotion and how he's feeling pointed out

me rn

[musical-chick-13]

Regarding the whole "Fandom Is An Escape, so why should I have to care this much about misogyny/racism/ableism/transphobia/etc." thing. Idk about the rest of you, but it gets kind of hard for me to "escape" when I keep seeing people say the same vile things about characters who share aspects of my identity that I hear all the time in real life.

[frostbite-the-bat]

this appeared on the side while watching a video and holy SHIT yall need to leave ppl alone and get a fucking LIFE holy shit what