Lyrical Ballad, In Saratoga Springs, NY Is One Of My Favorite Used Bookstores In The World.

My absolute favorite outfit from the 2025 Met Gala, because of its sheer cleverness.

Janelle Monáe attends the 2025 Met Gala Celebrating "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 05, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images) if you want to support this blog consider donating to: ko-fi.com/fashionrunways

You know what would be cool? A story about a mideval Strong Rebellious Warrior Woman... who actually enjoys sewing and embroidery. Like, yes she dreams of riding horses through the fields and swinging a sword, but is also looking forward to returning home after a long day of fighting to finish that really cool lapel piece shes been working on all month.

I've also considered stargazing and archery.

planning to start birdwatching soon cause all of my hobbies go like this

and I need a hobby that goes like this

to try and fix my back ya know?

Congratulations, you are now a nest

The thing is, it DOES work... sometimes. But the older you are the less often it will work.

Like, when you're in your teens, absolutely you can fix a screwed up sleep schedule with this sort of hard reset. It'll work 95% of the time, and will still help at least a little bit in the remaining 5% of cases.

In your 20s it will solve the problem about 80% of the time, help 15%, and make things worse 5%.

In your thirties the ratio becomes 50/25/25%

In your forties there's still a chance the hard reset will work, but the odds don't favor it. Something like 29% chance of solving, 19% chance of helping, 50% chance of making things worse, and a 2% chance of triggering a major crisis.

I haven't gotten to my fifties yet, but I can see the pattern.

Currently doing an Insomniac's Gambit. For those of you who don't know, this is when you mess up your sleep schedule badly enough that you attempt to fix it by skipping an entire night of sleep then going to bed at a reasonable hour the next day. Crucially, it does not work

This is cool and awesome and amazing science and all that, but I have one question:

Why do we keep talking about de-extincting Ice Age animals in a warming world?

cocked that up. they're way too small

People who want to be awful are going to be awful.

What they read/watch/listen to/play might affect what flavor of awful they end up being, but not the basic state of awfulness.

"fiction affects reality" wrong "fiction doesn't affect reality" wrong

The decision to emulate or not emulate what we see in fiction is on the audience. It's YOUR responsibility to KNOW better like a reasonable ADULT.

Abusive people are going to be abusive regardless of what total strangers are writing on Tumblr. Because being an abusive person is an active series of decisions that you make. You don't get to blame murder on Satanism and metal music in goddamn 2025

I need to show this to my kid

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I walked past some lilac bushes on my way to lunch today and the smell brought me so much joy. I almost forget, from one spring to the next, how much I love it.

I'm thinking about getting some lilac scented stuff, but it needs to be as realistic as possible.

Anyone have any recommendations?

Too late for me. Now I'm praying the embroidery hyperfixation comes back in time for me to finish this set of Christmas ornaments before next Christmas.

hyperfixation please stay with me long enough to complete the project. hyperfixation do not fade. hyperfixation finish what you started for the love of god