“Jolene"
Your beauty is beyond compare
I shudder from your Eldritch stare
With scaly skin and fins of emerald green
Why would you leave this gem in the tags
ONE FOR THE MONSTER FUCKERS
Dorothy just wanted something that she could believe in, A gray dustbowl girl in a life she was better off leavin’. She made her escape, went from gray into green, And she could have got clear, and she could have got clean, But she chose to be good and go back to the gray Kansas sky Where color’s a fable and freedom’s a fairy tale lie.
Alice got lost, and I guess that we really can’t blame her; They say she got tangled and tied in the lies that became her. They say she went mad, and she never complained, For there’s peace of a kind in a life unconstrained. She gives Cheshire kisses, she’s easy with white rabbit smiles, And she’ll never be free, but she’s won herself safe for a while.
Susan and Lucy were queens, and they ruled well and proudly. They honored their land and their lord, rang the bells long and loudly. They never once asked to return to their lives To be children and chattel and mothers and wives, But the land cast them out in a lesson that only one learned; And one queen said ‘I am not a toy’, and she never returned.
Mandy’s a pirate, and Mia weaves silk shrouds for faeries, And Deborah will pour you red wine pressed from sweet poisoned berries. Kate poses riddles and Mary plays tricks, While Kaia builds towers from brambles and sticks, And the rules that we live by are simple and clear: Be wicked and lovely and don’t live in fear
Dorothy, Alice and Wendy and Jane, Susan and Lucy, we’re calling your names, All the Lost Girls who came out of the rain And chose to go back on the shelf. Tinker Bell says, and I find I agree You have to break rules if you want to break free. So do as you like — we’re determined to be Wicked girls saving ourselves.
For we will be wicked and we will be fair And they’ll call us such names, and we really won’t care, So go, tell your Wendys, your Susans, your Janes, There’s a place they can go if they’re tired of chains, And our roads may be golden, or broken, or lost, But we’ll walk on them willingly, knowing the cost — We won’t take our place on the shelves. It’s better to fly and it’s better to die Say the wicked girls saving ourselves.
(Seanan McGuire)
Well, this made me cry...
adhd is so embarrassing ur basically like “I have to have fun right the fuck now or I’m throwing myself off the roof” 90% of the time and you also have very little control over this
This was the single most important thing for me to start understanding re: my undiagnosed ADHD, and it's the thing no one tells you except other ADHD sufferers. My brain's reward system is so broken that boredom rapidly becomes indistinguishable from a depressive episode. There's no healthy, normal ability to experience something as simply being a little dull--as soon as my brain isn't getting regular hits of stimulation, I start clawing at the walls. This is what makes working in a structured environment and initiating tasks so difficult for me, not malice or other character flaws.
What makes it worse is that, if you're like me, when you were growing up, the only way your authority figures knew how to perceive this was "they're just goofing off," and therefore, would deprive you of anything remotely stimulating until you'd done your work, thinking that -- if it worked like it would with an NT kid, you'd do your work faster so you could get back to having fun.
Instead, they just pulled the plug on any tiny bit of power you had running to your necessary brainwaves and put you into longterm shutdown mode.
But then....you grew up...with only that method for coping ingrained into you. So no matter how much you may know logically, now, that you have to have the "fun/interesting/challenging" cord plugged in for your brain to have any juice at all, you feel guilty for having to plug that in FIRST instead of as a reward for doing Adulting. So you just sit there, unplugged, not getting anything done.
Or maybe that's just me.
even the most supportive and well meaning people in my life struggle to understand how painful lack of stimulation is, how immobilizing executive dysfunction is, and how i cannot feel satisfaction the way they do. the number of times i’ve been told “won’t it feel so nice to accomplish it and have it off your plate?” and having to explain that i don’t feel relief or pride when i finish a task, just exhaustion, and that’s part of why it’s so hard to even start it
I lost it at “2 bread”
chunkpump
1 gallon of regular chocolate
18 minutes of flour
5 plates of salt
wtf is harper talking about
I’ve been thinking about “you can’t pin joy like a moth” all day.
DEFINITELY the time for me to start devouring all my nicest things.
I’m remembering a carton of (discontinued) Valhrona chocolate sauce we were “saving for a really special occasion” that never happened.
Not because we couldn’t think of an occasion special enough, but because, before that special occasion arrived, a mouse got into the kitchen and, among other depredations, chewed open the carton at the bottom so all the sauce ran out.
The sight and scent that greeted us next morning, a congealing, now-useless pool of high-grade chocolate, would have made strong men weep.
I settled for swearing a blue streak, and I recall @dduane‘s vocabulary wasn’t much different…
So we don’t hoard goodies any more.
Eating, drinking, wearing, using them… That can make any occasion special. ;->
I think of it as saving things until the Second Coming of the Great Prophet Zarquon and I really try hard not to do it, with some limited success!
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Perfect magnets
Fun story: One of the first things I was taught as an astronomy student is that, if you want to be a dick to someone giving a presentation, ask them “and how do the magnetic fields play into this?” and they will invariably say “fuck you I don’t know” because no one understands magnetic fields they are black magic.
Magnets are pure bullshit.
Pure utter bullshit. Electromagnetic forces somehow outstrip gravitic forces in strength by an obscene factor, for no reason I can comprehend and it bothers me.
madmints
I love magnets
One, that gif showing the Curie temperature is really cool.
Two, you don’t understand, magnetic fields are the bane of my existance and I have a masters dissertation about them. I studied how magnetic fields develop in low mass stars and every single meeting with my supervisor ended in some conversation about how stupid magnetism is.
“Oh yeah and this is effected by the magnetic field strength…”
“But why?”
“God knows, I don’t have a clue.”
Was literally said to me by a professor who has spent 20 years of his life looking at magnetism in stars.
ALSO:
“Don’t ask why, we don’t know. Maybe magnetism? Who knows anything about magnetism.” - My Stellar Physics professor when asked about certain processes in stellar formation, something he has been studying for 10 years.
Like we know so little about that it’s actually funny.
I’m having a Jack O’Neill moment here… “Why?” “Magnets.”
Black cats are lucky. (via leahweissmuller)
MAN [IN THICK ACCENT]: Black cat bring good luck. Not bad luck. I have black cat - See, him face - And I am not dead today: Good luck!
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“See him face”
I sure fucking do see him face
Him face
Reblog him face for good luck in 2021
Reblog him face for good luck in 2021 (2)
Reblog him face for good luck in 2022
Reblog him face for good luck in 2023
Always reblogging him face.
See, him face bring good luck in 2023.
Remembering Lilith and Pip.
Black cats DO bring good luck.
Him Face is on dashboard again, so reblogging again. Good luck!
Respectfully, Ireland is the best country on the planet
from the same thread:
I have witnessed so much slaughter and death here
So what I’m hearing is Irish people are extremely funny.
i feel like it’s not a penguins power play if you can’t put yakity sax over top of it so we’re right on track
Anyway if you see this you have to reblog and tag with a delight from ur day -- even the littlest thing counts
I live in a world with cheap, effective and readily available pain killers like paracetamol and ibuprofen!
Anonymous asked:
A word wrongly used in fic and even video subs that I see a lot is "alter" when they meant "altar". Those are two different things and I can't help but pause on reading to correct it in my mind. On the other hand, not sure if it's on purpose but in social media posts/comments, I keep seeing "defiantly" when they meant "definitely", "sweaty" when they mean "sweetie", and "licherally" for "literally". I think the latter two are on purpose sarcasm but the "defiantly" I think isn't and it bothers me
Oh, this reminds me:
Dear internet, please learn the difference between ‘loose’ and ‘lose’.
Can we also add “reign” and “rein” because that one is almost never right anymore.
Can I shout out for breath and beathe? I so often read 'he let out a breathe' in fic and it jolts me right out of the story everytime