💙Rocky!!!🐱
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This is literally what it's like using Tumblr.
Blade will turn up to a party but point blank refuse to have fun.
I can respect that.
astronaut doodles. i want to make a comic, but more importantly i want to know how to make a comic
yasfera2
this must have been what the court at versailles was like
It will never cease to be funny to me that you can post whatever pictures of your asshole you want on Twitter but you cannot, under any circumstances ever so much as joke about causing any person physical harm. Meanwhile, you can't post a picture of a nipple on Tumblr but you are free (encouraged, even) to describe how you’d like to run somebody over with your car or maim them with any of a number of instruments for daring to make you read a stupid post.
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when it takes you a while to process what someone is saying and you realize they asked you a question
I cannot fucking believe I am drunk, past midnight, and tumblr is throwing fucking saturated fatty-acids at me
Listen here friendo I didn’t sit through a year of organic chemistry for you to come into my house and call a carboxylic acid a saturated fatty acid you respect that hexadecanoic acid
And I didnt get a degree in biochemistry to hear you say that carboxylic acids with aliphatic chains arent fatty acids. That hexadecanoic acid IS a saturated fatty acid!
Withdrawing from school was probably one of the best individual decisions i've ever made in my life, for reasons too numerous to list here, but I have obtained vital wisdom that I will share here:
Log off and talk to old people
Your brain is being microwaved by exposure to almost exclusively under-30s who don't get outside very much. There's nothing inherently wrong with being young or indoors, but it's really starting to click for me that your 20's are a garbage fire, and no one in their 20's knows shit (including me). We are all just so unfinished and terrified and confused.
You need role models that are older than you. If your role models are all your age you're admiring a lot of people that have fewer challenges than you, and not very many people that used to be like you and bloomed.
It won't click for you until you make friends with "boomers" who are the most blisteringly self-actualized people you've ever seen, actively involved in their communities, cool and thoughtful and full of stories, and 80% of the things that seem important to you burn away. You Will Be Okay.
Let me tell you a secret: The bigger part of the fight for good in this wretched world is invisible to the internet, rippling past without surfacing on Twitter or Instagram.
I'm organizing right now to launch a "re-wilding" project around my hometown, and joining forces with a lady who runs a native plant giveaway sort of thing, and she [coolest person ever] [gives off the powerful aura of a level 999 human] doesn't have a cell phone let alone the internet
I'm here to tell you that there are a billion awesome things in your community for you to join with, and it seems to you like they don't exist, simply because the people that run them don't know how to social media
f.f.f. (farmer family friend) is the president of the farmers market in his hometown and they have a facebook page and that's basically it and i'm like, there are so many farmers markets that 20somethings don't know about, aren't there...
But if you talk to a person like this and say "hey i wanna grow native trees/start a community garden/grow a food forest" chances are you will get pelted with connections to 75 other people who are exactly who you need to talk to
There's a guy who just started where I work who is interested in urban and suburban food forests, and because of my brother's volunteer work, I happen to know that a local food bank is about to buy land to start farming on, and I tell him "Here, here's this guy's number, talk to him he'll be SUPER excited to hear what you have to say" and then I think to myself "Networking? Is this networking? EEEEE!"
And listen...
you, a Young Person, may be ALSO just as vital to these not-as-internet-adept folks who are doing good work, because YOU can get THEM connected to all the folks on the internets and link them to resources THEY can't access
When I meet people who are like “oh how can I DEAL with my very special and personal climate anxiety” and “I’m working very hard to save the world with my bamboo toothbrush* but it doesn’t feel like ENOUGH,” and “how can progress possibly be made,” then it’s like… oh have you met your local eco group? You really need to meet your local eco group. They admittedly spend a certain amount of time doing strange little Extinction Rebellion activities and “bug hotels” but they spend an equal amount of time on repair cafes and fairs/festivals and if you hang out with them it will, regrettably, cure the parts of your brain that have been scorched.
You, personally, individual citizen, are not in any way “rewilding the park” when you dump a seedbomb on the grass where the dogs of the town are explicitly coming to wee because it’s the most accessible grass for the apartment dwellers. That does not, in any way, make any sort of progress. You make progress by following the toddlers clutching small shovels with fierce expressions, old retired people in handwoven shawls, old British men with Hats who Tell You About Concepts, extremely young genderless people apparently in their teens with owlish glasses and large raincoats who are always the Government Ecologist, loud dads in incongruously overengineered boots and possibly hi-vis vests, mothers with an Ergobaby who ask you for tips on gently ending breastfeeding on your toddler, the ENTIRE elderly committee of the allotment, extremely small babies being passed around like teddy bears, and the mayor who is for some reason in full mayoral regalia, who are all Officially Rewilding The Park. And none of these people are even remotely cool. There is no coolness to be found here. You might not have chosen to be friends with them; you might have said “what does a cool twentysomething have in common with a MOM who will talk about her BABY or an OLD MAN IN A HAT or a STICKY CHILD,” but it is actually quite normal for humans to regularly hang out with people of different ages and interests. It is abnormal in the span of human history to not hang out with toddlers and practice graciously accepting the leaves they hand you. These people have leveraged a free donation of 25 native saplings and the full permission of the council to change the unloved-part-of-the-park-where-dogs-don’t-piss-and-kids-don’t-play into a “wild” place whose primary function will admittedly be a place where the park squirrels can hide from said dogs and kids and smoke a quick cigarette in peace, but which also separates the miner bees from the other park users, who keep calling the council and complaining about the “wasps.” An informational signage board about miner bees has been commissioned. Your first job as a Part of the Community Effort to Save The Whole Damn World will to make a quick pass to collect all then especially unsavoury or dangerous trash (condom wrappers, broken glass, suspicious pieces of discarded clothing, godforbid needles, etc) so that the toddlers can litterpick the safe stuff in safety. None of it will be cool at all. It will be a fantastic cure for your climate anxiety or the equivalent. I am not being judgmental or thomas_edison_was_a_witch.jpeg when I say that it is demonstrably better for you and the planet than fighting on social media.
Like if you can learn to tolerate Morris Dancers and their international equivalents, whatever admittedly crunchy and cringey things that people do without shame around you, you do unlock some of the things you’re looking for; elder queer communities exist around you. Eco-groups exist around you. Skill-sharing communities exist around you.
Also, to support @headspace-hotel please see above: photos of a larger-scale cross-county event attended by thousands that wasn’t really advertised at all. Everyone of a certain group of interests simply Knows about it.
A fun fact is that there are exactly zero cases of any US child ever being killed by Halloween candy that has been tampered with by a stranger, but the myth is so widespread that news stations report on it every single year, simply assuming the fact that it is talked about means that it has happened before. A reference with no referent. But making people needlessly terrified of the other people they live near is how the local news makes most of its money anyway so what’s a little lie once a year
Haha, good thing that they *only* do this about Halloween candy and not anything major like human trafficking cults or transgender bathroom rapists; that would be pretty fucked up.
i think part of the reason lost media videos are so fun is that it more ethically scratches the same itch as true crime. a bunch of people online being amateur sleuths and going down rabbit holes is a lot easier to enjoy when theyre looking for a cereal commercial from 1991 instead of liike bothering the families of murder victims
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