rest here awhile

My friend Alicia made an ATLA meme

sometimes you just have to. just have to stand in a ray of light and be warm for a minute

watching atla for the first time

True Love Waits

unfortunately for everyone i'm back on my twenty one pilots bullshit

me in 2015 watched the video of twenty one pilots sitting on my grandmother's floor and eating ice cream

also me in 2024 watching the video for the single from the new tøp album and trying to unravel all the mysteries that Tyler put into it

dangerous band bend symbol

Scaly Rustgill (Gymnopilus sapineus)

Sulphur Tuft Hypholoma fasciculare

your first column of emojis describes your personality! what’s yours?

take figures out of their boxes btw. sew patches on your favorite jacket. go to bed with your favorite plushes. wear the pants you usually save for special occasions. draw something cool on your wall. put a sticker on your laptop. dye your hair and pierce your lips. glass is meant to break, metal is meant to rust. items are meant to be used. that's how the world knows that somebody loved them.

When my aunt died of covid, we had to clean out a lot of stuff that she was saving. Foods she was going to try, she was a great chef, spices she'd never opened or only used sparingly, lotions and bath things she hadn't used. After she died I started making a point of using things up: the good vanilla that has to be imported, that we finally found more of, we'd used barely an ounce before she passed away. Even though we love it. I just got my family new bottles of it for Christmas because we used one up. We enjoyed that happiness. Sometimes I still get the impulse to wait for something special, or awful, to save nice things for celebration or comfort. The phrase that always echoes in my mind is "use the good vanilla". And I have been (burning the candles, squirting the body wash, dissolving the bath bombs, putting the saffron in things). And it's been great. Use the good vanilla.

they should invent a being in your twenties in which you do not feel your life is unsalvageable and ruined

there IS actually a reason why seconds and minutes (and degrees for geometry) are in base 60 instead of base 10, and if you want to blame someone for that, blame the very specific way Babylonians counted with their fingers.

The way Babylonians finger-counted was by using their thumb to tap each phalange of the fingers in the same hand the thumb was in, in the order of proximal to distal phalanges and index finger to pinky finger (for a total of 12 taps), and lifting a finger on the other hand every time they counted up to 12, resulting in each finger in the second hand representing 12 taps, with 5 fingers representing... 60 taps.

thats actually spot on.

yes. a gross is defined as 12 dozens.

I might start counting on my fingers like this now

I am really bad at keeping track of numbers so this took me a good few minutes but god it's cool

A TRILOGY OF GROWTH

Let’s not leave these in the tags.