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u should always wear oversized sweaters bc when ur in an uncomfortable situation u can just kind of pull ur entire body into it and hide from the world until the danger passes, also if u want to, u can pretend ur a turtle
the upside of ADHD is that it makes you a fucking genius
the downside is that you don't get to decide when and for how long you're a genius.
With all the Barbie promotion that's been happening this scene keeps replaying in my head.
NEVER BEEN KISSED (1999) Dir. Raja Gosnell
“Just because you’re angry doesn’t mean you have the right to be cruel.”
— Unknown
A couple of years ago I had a coworker who asked why I collected vinyl because I had just got done telling him that I didn't really care about the "sound quality" thing that most people talk about when they talk about vinyl. (I like the tone of records but it's not why I like records)
My response was almost exactly this. Vinyl almost forces you to listen to an album as a whole. You can skip around on cd's, you don't even have to buy entire mp3 albums and can opt instead for single song purchases. And streaming services? You don't even have to pay for the music. Records are bulky, they're a commitment.
There's a physicality, a ritual, a performance that needs to take place when you listen to records. At least once an album you have to flip the record over and place the needle to the groove.
The album flows as the artist intends it to. The thought they put into which track goes where is evident.
If you're in to music I highly recommend listening to albums as a whole.
please listen to albums someitmes youll be amazed at what an artists songs do when theyree in an order they made. for you to listen to. etc
I was not a merciful, benevolent god over my Barbies. I was full of terror and vengeance. I was the stuff of their nightmares.
The lightest known star, OTS 44
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hey netizens! i'm not sure how many people are aware, but youtube's been slowly rolling out a new anti-adblock policy that can't be bypassed with the usual software like uBlock Origin and Pi-Hole out of the gate
BUT, if you're a uBlock Origin user (or use an adblocker with a similar cosmetics modifier), you can add these commands in the uBlock dashboard (under My Filters) to get rid of it!
youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false) youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0) youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, []) youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)
reblog to help keep the internet less annoying and to tell corporations that try shit like this to go fuck themselves <3
"You can't be a lurker on tumblr." Yes, you absolutely can. I've been quietly reblogging things since 2014 and I haven't interacted with anyone in years.
walks around the dashboard with my hands behind my back like someone's grandpa
“what if people transition and then regret it?” ok. let’s do that with everything. no more straight marriages until the heterosexual divorce rate is below the detransition rates
Fuck, these are good.
Hello Neil, have you seen the news about an amateur submarine that sank in the Atlantic Ocean and now there are people there without much hope of salvation. Do you think they will be saved? I feel sorry for these people, I hope everything will be fine
I have indeed seen that news. Did you know that last week a ship with about 750 migrants on it sank off the coast of Greece? 82 bodies were recovered, about a hundred people were saved, another 500 people are unaccounted for and probably drowned. The vessel may have capsized due to the Greek Coast Guard trying to tow it. Most of the people on the ship were from Pakistan, trying to get to Italy.
the fact that a river ends at the mouth implies that the source is the anus, and a river flows from anus to mouth
not for this one I don't think so
This is like porn.
Another copy of American Gods by @neil-gaiman . Originally in paperback, rebound as a hardcover book in hand dyed red sienna leather with gilded pages edges and gold vinyl decoration depicting Shadow Moon standing beneath the tree Yggdrasil.
Do you ever just… crave the forest? Like you feel like you NEED to be in a forest. The crisp cold air with just a sweater on, looking at the red and orange foliage in the autumn. In the winter the frigid and empty branches. The summer all the green. The spring the smell of rain and the mud. God I love the forest.
absolutely gutted that I’ll never get to live in an art nouveau style house!!
A quite insightful quote from Stormy Daniels.
ok. listen. it’s about your girlfriend. you know how we thought she was a crop-blighting witch and we were planning to stone her? so, here’s the thing. every stone we threw drew not blood but like, the black and fathomless rage of a race of titans that were once slain but could not die. and she like, rose from her hastily-shoveled roadside grave as their resubstantiated champion or something. yeah, we’re suffering the onslaught of her vengeance right now. yeah. I guess we inadvertently created that which we had so feared. yeahh. could you like, answer her texts and ask if she’ll stop sloughing our flesh with her baleful gaze every time she sees us. thx in advance
Have you had anything named after you Mr gaiman? From what I am aware it seems you and Mr pratchett were close partners like jamie and Adam from mythbusters so some of those scientists must like you as well
I've got a trapdoor spider and a sacred grove beetle that I know of.
Park Rangers Understand That Cryptids Can Share Traits With Their Mundane Cousin Species
We just want to know why the mothmen chose to eat our couch specifically.
“How many thousands have I spent on perfume and alcohol, cigarettes and Turkish baths, disappointing trips and third-class movies; how many months in silent bars or parks, expecting, in a chair with a book not reading, or waiting in line, waiting in line? Who will tell me it’s a loss when I know life must be for pleasure? The parks were balanced by museums, the baths by oceans, bars by composition, and the dreaming chair by books finished. Nothing is waste that makes a memory.”
— Ned Rorem, The Paris Diary & The New York Diary: 1951-1961
not to be all “think of the children” but the fact that companies can openly admit to using methods to intentionally form addictions in children and we’re not killing their ceos in the streets yet is astounding
OOF
Can’t stop thinking about the TikTok I saw (I can’t find it again) where the person says that the wizard game has caused us to witness the moment that most of the millennial generation migrate into the boomer mindset of “my nostalgia is more important than your rights”
Did you know that your interests are really cool?? The stuff that you find fascinating and the little facts you know aren’t lame. They’re what make you passionate and that’s a really cool thing