Imagine my shock as a neurodivergent teen when I first realized that using large vocabulary and eloquent speech doesn't make you less likely to be misinterpreted, rather it adds an entirely new layer of misinterpretation I had never even realized existed in the form of people thinking you're being snobbish or condescending when you're just trying to be specific

stop removing usb ports and audio jacks and buttons from electronics stop it you're hurting them stop it stops top stop it

this always gets me very warm in the face >/////<

Too good not to have here lol

After 8 foot tall lady dimitrescu went on a rampage through the internet getting everyone horny as fuck, I stopped being dysphoric about my height and instead use it to my advantage

don’t lose the notes:

#they always see ‘pixie’ and ‘dream’ and ‘girl’#but forget the terrible awesome driving power of ‘manic’

gritty both capturing the zeitgeist as usual AND educating me on the availability of free flow butter at american cinemas

no one ever talks about vermont i dont know anything about vermont

no cop outs, if you've never heard of vermont in your life choose the last option. vote on my poll. vote on my poll

Came back wrong this, came back monstrous that

What if they came back loving? What if they came back in love. What if the necromancy worked and you cheated death and it's everything you've ever wanted, but now they love you in a way they never did before and you cannot know if that is because they finally know the lengths you are willing to go for them, or because something in this deathless magic bound their soul to yours to guide them home and it left them no. choice.

“my dad is gay I think”

GOOD OMENS | 1.03

I got somethins to say

i already fED you

IRRELEVANT

every time i have salmon it’s like. bears are right. i would also stand in a stream for this.

They are also right about: honey, berries, napping all winter, and lack of pants. So really, bears are just living the best life possible.

shout out to gay men

I love Henry Cavill's portrayal, but this person looks more like how Geralt is described in the books than Cavill or Witcher 3's Geralt. Lean and a little wiry.

Twitter is now officially dead 🤪

Or, with Mark Hamill's words:

WHICH ONE OF YOU SPENT ACTUAL AMERICAN MONEY ON THIS

Barefoot Gen introduction by author Keiji Nakazawa, from the 2004 English edition.

me and the mutuals discussing themes and motifs

I know people on tumblr looove stories of underwater cave diving, but I haven't seen anyone talk about nitrogen narcosis aka "raptures of the deep"

basically when you want to get your advanced scuba certification (allowing you to go more than 60 feet deep) you have to undergo a very specific test: your instructor takes you down past the 60+ foot threshold, and she brings a little underwater white board with her.

she writes a very basic math problem on that board. 6 + 15. she shows it to you, and you have to solve it.

if you can solve it, you're good. that is the hardest part of the test.

because here's what happens: there is a subset of people, and we have no real idea why this happens only to them, who lose their minds at depth. they're not dying, they're not running out of oxygen, they just completely lose their sense of identity when deep in the sea.

a woman on a dive my instructor led once vanished during the course of the excursion. they were diving near this dropoff point, beyond which the depth exceeded 60 feet and he'd told them not to go down that way. the instructor made his way over to look for her and found a guy sitting at the edge of the dropoff (an underwater cliff situation) just staring down into the dark. the guy is okay, but he's at the threshold, spacing out, and mentally difficult to reach. they try to communicate, and finally the guy just points down into the dark, knowing he can't go down there, but he saw the woman go.

instructor is deep water certified and he goes down. he shines his light into the dark, down onto the seafloor which is at 90 feet below the surface. he sees the woman, her arms locked to her sides, moving like a fish, swimming furiously in circles in the pitch black.

she is hard to catch but he stops her and checks her remaining oxygen: she is almost out, on account of swimming a marathon for absolutely no reason. he is able to drag her back up, get her to a stable depth to decompress, and bring her to the surface safely.

when their masks are off and he finally asks her what happened, and why was she swimming like that, she says she fully, 100% believed she was a mermaid, had always been a mermaid, and something was hunting her in the dark 👍