you ever have “cry and scream yourself awake” level nightmares that are immediately the stupidest premises imaginable the moment you actually wake up

The last time I wailed “help, please, help me, heeelp” loud enough to have the whole house come running, it was because I was having a nightmare that I was in my laundry room, and out of the corner of my eye I witnessed a Snoopy stuffed animal slowly rise up on two legs, as if being manipulated by a ghost or perhaps made animate by a possessing spirit, and slowly start to dance the Macarena.

I can’t stop thinking about this

Eeeeeey macarena

I'm Diné (Navajo) and in high school I was put in some kind of group for native kids. It was run by a white woman who told us that if we were ever in class and feeling overwhelmed, we had permission to just up and leave class to go wander around outside and reconnect with nature. We all took advantage of this regularly

the implication she thought you were like, forest fairies that had to periodically connect with nature to regain your strength is the most racist but also kinda funny thing I ever heard

Why would you leave this absolute gem in the tags

It just hits different...

I'm not downplaying the historical and philosophical value in Marcus Aurelius' writings but I do think it's funny how many people hold up his Meditations as an earth-shattering paradigm-shifting breakthrough in human thought when it was very, very clearly an extremely stressed out and depressed man desperately trying to teach himself any form of coping mechanism he could to put up with more or less being forced to continue to reign as emperor against his will

Meditations reads less like a philosophical text or compilation of thought and more like a series of post it notes Marcus had tacked to his bathroom mirror that said stuff like "hang in there kitten!" and "don't kill yourself today!"

This still blows my mind

I will happily delete this if I’m derailing or taking away from the original message (initially I put this in the tags, but a friend asked me to reblog as text)

If you don't want to pursue an autism or adhd diagnosis and you have access to a doctor or therapist you can get them to write you a note attesting to a symptom of your neurodivergence (rather than naming the condition itself) and stating the need for accommodation. 

It's something my therapist told me about when we were still working in offices. I have sensory processing issues and on multiple occasions the noise in my office was so bad I broke the skin on my hand clenching my fist. 

This work-around of course won't fix structural ableism and relies on you having access to a doctor/therapist who actually gives a crap, so still might only help a couple of folks. 

Thats a good add on

i can't do this anymore! i mean i can, and i will, obviously. but i can't fucking do this anymore!

Area Man Who Has "Had Enough" Wakes Up Next Morning at 6:30 AM to Commute to Work Again

Love the universe need of all babies human and animal to just lay on adults

A collection

Further proof

There’s two very different sides of tumblr on my dash and I had to scroll back to see where it came from, because I expected there to be a joke about parenting under this, but apparently it’s my non parenting blorbos that set this post up.

A samurai does the sword thing but instead of someone dying it’s perfect top surgery

Artistic rendition of my dream

My boyfriend was showing me his cat and I leaned over to kiss the cat on his soft little baby head and he went "meow" and scrambled away because I'd been wearing my headphones and I accidentally jabbed him with the microphone.

And I said "Damn, this is exactly like in the Iliad"

#explanation: this references the scene where Hektor the prince of troy goes to his wife after a battle and leans in to kiss his son #(who is still a baby and being held in andromache's arms) #but his son cringes away in fear of his father's battle helmet #it's a gut wrenching scene about how war dehumanizes you and separates you from the people you love #this interpretation implies that being a gamer is analogous

@wolfythewitch

Hey, I reblogged this yesterday and at the time  Ithought the work was really important to just let be on it’s own as a piece of art... But since then some of the notes I saw were bleak and I just want to say that I’m not an expert by any means, I’m just a person whose watched a youtube video or two but as a trans person you don’t have no options when you die. 

What you need is something called an advanced directive - a will is not going to cut it because that won’t some into play until after you’re buried. The youtuber and mortician Caitlin Doughty has a video about it, specifically as it relates to trans people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVgumSUZQRI

You need to make sure the right people look after you after death. 

A news report from Australia's government broadcaster in the 70s, found in their archives simply labeled 'lesbians'

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Remind us to make this into a bumper sticker in the morning

Here's to those

I'm so anxious right now. I wonder what would happen if I drank some caffeine

I'm scared but faster

kill the shift manager in your brain

you are not wasting time you are vibing. you are not being unproductive you are literally chilling. make a grill cheese with cheddar cheese and slather a piece of the bread with some honey and maybe you'll relax

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This is overwhelmingly my feeling about every single 9/11 news article I've seen this week. It's like people dying at work (killed by terrorism) is something we should "never forget" but people dying at work (killed by Covid because the people were nurses or short order cooks or retail workers) is something we should "get over already".

We got a whole new federal agency and the Patriot Act after 9/11, but we can't even get guaranteed free shots or free tests after Covid, because it's no longer an "emergency".

the common usage of the phrase "halo of light" in descriptive writing always catches my attention because the word 'halo' literally means 'ring of light', so specifying that quality of it suggests that there are other things which a halo can be made of

wait of course. how could i possibly forget.

halo of knives

Maybe she's born with it. Maybe it's 3 years of constant hormone therapy, 4 years of voice training, 12 sessions of facial hair removal, bottom surgery by the best surgeon in the country,

Ok real

you can't just etc. etc.

HELLA

With almost everything on earth there’s someone that’s dedicated their entire lives to it either through hobby or career and I’m so glad that there’s someone thinking about everything.

I’m glad that there’s people that travel around Tokyo taking pictures of trains and I’m glad that there’s people that design printers and I’m stoked that people like hiking down abandoned trails and reading old scientific texts from 400 bce. It’s cool. I’ve got my own corners of stuff I like. I hope I’m adding to something when I read ancient literature. If nothing else it makes me feel connected to everyone else with really specific interests.

there’s a guy on youtube who really likes romanian trains. he’s got hundreds of videos spanning 14 years of trainspotting and rearview rides in old and shabby trains on old and shabby 60-year-old rails. i (who also like romanian trains but i’m not like, passionate about them) thought it was a really cool hobby to have…….and then i found a full 4-hour rearview of the route to my grandparents’ village. the one i took every summer from birth into my 20s. every tiny little stop is nearly time-stamped and in-between there’s every river and bridge crossing and power station, every old silo and derelict water tower somehow still standing, and i remember all of it.

sometimes i let the video run in the background while working because i like the sounds (there’s no music like in similar videos from other channels and i’m very nostalgic about those sounds). a few times when i was at my lowest from depression and insomnia, i’d just stay in bed and watch all 4 uninterrupted hours of it. and i got to have this odd source of comfort in some of the worst moments of my life because one guy has a youtube channel, a gopro and a really cool hobby.

it’s called a riverbed for a reason. lie down in it

Fireflies photograph in trees with long time exposure.

He was right: I do not believe my eyes.

This is basically what my physical therapist had me do for my back problems last year and it helped with the pain so much! Also walk for at least thirty minutes a day, even if it's just in small chunks throughout the day.