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honestly people were so right about how when the right people come along, the way you love them will come so naturally

as long as we can find at least one thing that gives us hope or makes us smile every day, I think we will be alright

so. it turns out i am the most sensitive girl in the world

i want to be a sweet and friendly girl but there’s all this anxiety. and the horrors

they should make a pill that makes people in their 20s feel good about where their lives are going

— Louise Glück Epithalamium from "Descending Figure.”

Barbie was about motherhood and belonging and feminism and love and identity and toxic masculinity and existentialism and humanism and it was, most importantly, pink.

The Barbie movie isn't about girl power. It's not about how women can do everything they set their mind to. It's about how sometimes women are tired and average and that has to be okay too, because you don't have to do everything to be worth anything. (And that this is also true of men.)

Culture is so obsessed with the idea of lone geniuses that it doesn't really appreciate that most of the progress of science (and likely every other discipline) occurs collaboratively, in babysteps, and usually through a lot very tedious, utterly unsexy, work.

This is what’s so faulty with our short sighted coverage of scientific discoveries. You hear politicians question why we spend money on science studying insect wings and then decades later that research gets used by NASA for the most efficient way to fold/unfold solar panels on spacecraft. All of science is connected and useful because it enhances our understanding of the universe

When lasers were discovered they were called “a solution without a problem”, noone had any idea what to use them for. Since then they’re revolutionised communications and SO many parts of technology. CDs, DVDs, printing, fast internet, laser etching for making computer chips, laser eye surgery, spectroscopy, LIDAR measurements of weather patterns, barcode scanners, cooling atomic clocks, nuclear fusion, microscopy, LED technology and materials research. I’m probably not even scratching the surface here. Fund theory and fundamental science research.

It's actually kind of heartening, lasers; because before they were invented, their only real antecedents in science fiction were things like rayguns and heatrays and what not. But it actually turns out that their usefulness as a weapon is extremely limited, whereas their usefulness for just about everything else is incredible. It's one of the occasions where we flipped the "Dual Use" coin and it landed very solidly on the good side.

they should make a pill that makes people in their 20s feel good about where their lives are going

you ever know someone and you think “god i love you. i wish we could’ve known eachother when we were carefree and 11. i wish we could’ve played together as kids”

i hope my unwashed hair and deer in headlights type stare has captivated you

something I really loved about everything everywhere all at once is that often when we talk about the idea of multiverses a big question is "am I in the best one?" or "am I in the worst one?" and the fact that evelyn was in her worst multiverse and still not only found happiness and love but after seeing everything she could have been she still chose her life it really speaks to the fact that thinking about all of the different versions of you that you will never be is meaningless because you are who you are and you can find happiness in it because this is the life you have built for yourself

suzume was so good…it’s about abandoned places overwhelmed by the feeling of being abandoned, fit to bursting. it’s about remembering the people who once inhabited those places, remembering what those places once meant to them, and then letting go. it’s about the kindness of ordinary, everyday people. it’s about wanting to fight fate for the sake of loved ones. and most of all, it’s about a girl in love with a chair. in love with what it represents and the memories it holds, but also literally in love with it. what’s not to love

go see suzume!!!!!!

[looks for you in everything] [finds you there]

Crazy how we are everything that has happened to us but then you meet someone and you don’t see everything that has happened to them you just see them. And you both try to explain everything that has happened to you but your words and memories are so biased and oversimplified.

Oculus, Sally Wen Mao

peace and love on planet earth