“I’m almost 50, and here is the best thing I have learned so far: every strange thing you’ve ever been into, every failed hobby or forgotten instrument, everything you have ever learned will come back to you, will serve you when you need it. No love, however brief, is wasted.” @louisethebaker on Twitter

No love, however brief, is wasted.

ppl are so annoying “you can’t paint ur bedroom pink you’re an adult” i did not spend my entire life waiting to grow up and control my life to paint my bedroom beige

I had a sales woman in furniture store try and tell me not to buy a hot bubblegum pink loveseat because she wanted me to “think about the future”

Bitch, I am thinking about the future. I already got a hot bubblegum pink couch at home and now I need a loveseat to go with it.

when I first bought my house, I announced my decision to paint my bedroom purple. I had wanted a purple bedroom for thirty damn years, you fucking bet I was gonna have one now. My friends decided, for some reason, that I meant what one of them referred to as “14 year old girl purple” (through what’s wrong with the colors a 14 year old girl chooses, I don’t know, even if they’re not what I want as an adult). They didn’t believe me until they saw the color on the actual wall, even thought they helped me pick out paints. My mother, meanwhile, decided to get worried that if I painted my bedroom a “dark purple”, it would be “depressing”. As if, with an entire house to live in, I would spend all my time in the bedroom, which I wanted to be dark because I would be sleeping in there. In the damn dark.

I had like one, maybe two friends who were all like FUCK YEAH YOU PAINT IT WHATEVER COLOR YOU WANT, PURPLE BEDROOMS ARE AWESOME.

But when they actualy saw the finished bedroom, every single one of them was like, “Oh yeah, that’s really pretty.” (Well, the ones who supported me from the beginning were more like WOOHOO.)

And the moral of the story is: Fuck ‘em, please yourself. Either they’ll come around, or you can safely ignore every question of taste they opine about for the rest of time.

This applies to other adulting activities, too. When I was a kid, I decided that I wanted to have a wedding cake made of doughnuts. When I got older, I figured that I would be “mature” about it and get a traditional cake, which the older adults approved of. Now that I’m 25 and facing the possibility of actual marriage in the near future, I’m just like “marriage is a social construct but it comes with tax & insurance benefits, so just give me that goddamn doughnut cake.” If they don’t like it then they don’t have to come to my wedding.

https://xkcd.com/150/

I would like you all to view my office. I’m thirty and my rainbow room is awesome, people can fight me

I’m thirty and my first big furniture purchase was a custom coffin shaped coffee table that opens up and is lined with purple crushed velvet. I would have loved it at 13 and I love it now. Growing up doesn’t mean you have to abandon what makes you happy.

GROWING UP DOESN’T MEAN YOU HAVE TO ABANDON WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY.

YAAAAASSSSSSS

The customer is always right saying needs to die.

get to know me: [7/7] favorite female characters ▸ Regina Mills | The Evil Queen

“Any ideas for the new park sculpture?”

“How about a giant, metallic octopus attacking a rook?”

“Perfect.”

that’s cool as fuck though

Adulting Discovery of the Day (4/11/21)

Toothpaste has an expiration date.

So if you look at the end of the of the toothpaste tube, at the part opposite the part where the toothpaste actually comes out, there usually will be either numbers or letter and numbers to indicate the month/year your toothpaste tube expires. If it's not there, it might be written somewhere else on the tube.

This expiration date is to indicate when the fluoride in your toothpaste has broken down and therefore isn't as effective anymore. Typically about 2 years after production. Obviously, if you want the full benefit of your toothpaste, you'd want the fluoride not to be broken down, so if your toothpaste is past its expiration you might want to replace it.

That said, assuming you're not stockpiling toothpaste (like, say, the free travel size ones you get from the dentist and keep in the guest bathroom for the rare times you have guests who need to brush their teeth and didn't bring their own), and assuming you're brushing your teeth regularly, you should be able to finish your toothpaste before that 2 years.

Good to know, thanks!

My sister, who I live with, thought she couldn't get the vaccine because she doesn't have insurance.

We're not really used to "free".... spread the word.

It depends where you go too. I tried to sign up at CVS and it said "free with insurance"

In the US they are not allowed to charge an individual for this vaccine. They are allowed to bill your insurance. Whether you have insurance or not, you will not pay anything.

THERE WILL BE A QUESTION ON THE REGISTRATION ABOUT INSURANCE YOU DO NOT NEED TO FILL IT OUT.

When I registered there was a page for insurance information. We were instructed just to put “no insurance” and keep going.

You don't need insurance for this! Go get vaccinated!

Just sign up and get it as soon as you can.

When I signed up for mine (through my city’s health department website), they didn’t even ask whether you had insurance or not. Didn’t need to present an ID when I showed up either. It was ridiculously easy and accessible. This might not be the case everywhere, bit I do recommend looking at your city, county, or state health department if you’re in the US.

Side note, my s/o was not able to get an appointment because I took the last one, but we went together and just asked if they could get him in. They still had enough doses for the day, so he got signed up on the spot. Obviously, I can’t guarantee this strategy will work, but it’s worth a try if appointments are scarce.

Women in niqab practicing archery is the realest aesthetic of them all.

u ever see a character that’s so much Your Type it makes u genuinely mad at ur own predictability

Heres your reminder to use literally anything but chrome

reminder that Firefox is free, has a million plug-ins and extensions, and doesn’t track every fucking thing you do to sell to advertisers

I keep trying to tell myself this. Especially when I see people, work with people, or are related to people who don’t give two shits about trying to stay safe in this pandemic.

March has some fucking nerve showing it’s face around here again

this pandemic will end and you’ll claim the window seat in your favorite cafe, stand in a crowd at a concert, visit a museum and make crappy art in the park. sometimes things feel like they’ll go on forever, sometimes bad things feel heavier than good things, sometimes life feels like it’s slowing down and all you’re doing is waiting for the full stop— but just because this hopelessness is all that you’re feeling right now, doesn’t mean that it’s all there is. there’s always more and you will experience that, and you will feel alive again.

Experiencing brutal cold for a period of time every year keeps you humble

That’s why Californians are like that

I would once again like to thank The Magnus Archives for making a love so powerful that it’s Web-proof, and making one of them canon asexual