you are fucking alive do what you want

sometimes I get sad when I think about all the people who are missing out on the pleasures of life only because they've decided it wasn't for them before they even gave it a shot :(

Like idk sometimes you just have to step out of your comfort zone and take a risk to seek happiness in life... I almost didn't reach out to a classmate to ask if we could catch a movie bc it felt lame, but I did and now they're one of my best friends and we live together. I put off seeing live music for years because I was afraid to go alone and I thought I'd hate it, but after I finally pushed myself to go to a show alone I realized I fucking loved it! This year alone I've probably seen more live music than every year before this combined. I thrifted a film camera, bought some film, and then put off learning how to use it for two years because I was afraid people would think I looked stupid and I didn't want to be bad at something. A month ago I realized the film was just gonna expire and go to waste anyways, so I pushed myself to give it a go and I've had so much fun learning something new just for me. Sure, I've had nights where I've gone to the club or trivia night or a library event, and thought it was bogus - but it wasn't world ending either. I just left! But I felt happier just knowing I tried.

some of my favorite replies to this tweet. happy lesbian visibility week!

People tend to throw out the phrase "extremely specific kinks" as though that inherently implies something transgressive, but in my experience, the overwhelming majority of extremely specific kinks are so innocuous that you could see them in public and not even clock them. For every person who can only get off to having their nipples electrocuted, there are a dozen who are volcanically aroused by seeing their partner wearing one specific pair of socks.

Extremely specific kinks in fiction: I need several thousand dollars worth of equipment to act out an elaborate roleplaying scenario whose particulars are intimately linked to my childhood traumas.

90% of extremely specific kinks in reality: I feel tingly when I hear the word "passport", and for the life of me I cannot explain why.

unsung benefit i think a lot of ppl are sleeping on with using the public library is that i think its a great replacement for the dopamine hit some ppl get from online shopping. it kind of fills that niche of reserving something that you then get to anticipate the arrival of and enjoy when it arrives, but without like, the waste and the money.

bonus it ALSO fills that dopamine hit of in-person shopping. “oh I didn’t go in looking for this but hmm, I’m tempted… I can’t resist… oh ho ho I have made some irresponsible decisions at the library today [carrying my stack of ten random books]” and then it doesn’t even matter if you don’t like them because a) free b) you’re gonna give them back anyway

Librarian here! Please please please please PLEASE do this! We don’t have any way to know if you read them, and we don’t care! We’re happy to see those books go out because that helps our stats. And that affects how much money we can get.

So grab that silly paperback romance, and maybe this new YA fantasy, oh and check for the new movies too! And don’t forget to check Libby and hoopla for music and ebooks and e-audio.

#i love that on the check out reciepts for my library it also says how much the books would have cost to buy#because there are days where ive checked out so much it would have been $100-$200#so i really get that big purchase feeling and didnt spend anything via @mossiestpiglet

Yes!!! And you can ask the librarians to look up how much you've saved since signing up! Since I moved to Florida in 2016, I've saved something like $1300 by using our library system for books and dvds!

always kind of funny when you wake up from a dream and your first thought is "that symbolism was kind of heavy-handed wasn't it."

So we all know that Tumblr is US-centric. But to what degree? (and can we skew the results of this poll by posting it at a time where they should be asleep?)

Reblog to increase sample size!

actual criticisms of academia:

criticisms of academia that get made:

I know someone mentioned earlier how the bad batch is a pyramid scheme of adoption. They adopted Omega so Omega had to adopt 4 more kids. They failed to adopt Kanan, but he went on to adopt 2 kids. Hera also adopted 2 kids. Really any kid they get near and are nice to ends up adopting kids of their own. Basically within 50 years everyone will be adopted in the galaxy. Omega needs to reach her quotas.

Have I ever mentioned how much I love the found family trope cause I do. And I think it’s why I prefer The bad batch to TCW and Rebels is close behind. I know the found family dynamic between Anakin and Ahsoka exists, but I do think it’s so heavily underutilized in canon.

The bad batch adds a fun twist to it because they actually are related but it’s still a found family regardless. Which I think doubles down on the whole thicker than blood thing. The bonds you make are thicker than blood even if those bonds are with your blood. And I think that’s great.

So you know this probably happened

Emerie: Omega is not the only child on this base.

Echo: So, Hunter, we have a problem.

Hunter: What?

Echo: Apparently there are like…4 other kids here besides Omega.

Hunter: ……

Echo: Hunter? Hunter did you hear me?

Crosshair: Yeah he heard you, he’s currently printing out four adoption forms.

Hunter: -in the background- Rex doesn’t get first dibs on these ones!! Where’s my stamp!?

Crosshair: He’s still salty that Rex won’t let him adopt you. Even though you’re a grown man.

Adult Senator omega headcanon, now full color design 😎👍

My original post if you want to see her on the senate

Omega’s such a great character bc at her age my ass woulda never been able to do that shit. I was listening to MCR she was freeing the prisoners of war

Red-handed

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hemlock they just wanna talk:)

looking forward to it 💀

the whole guilt-tripping language in posts about important topics paired with how I'm still getting bitches in my notes talking about why it's actually good to tell "bad" people to kill themselves continues to prove to me that a lot of people have absolutely no concept of social justice or activism outside of assuming the worst of and then viciously attacking strangers on the internet

like I think a lot of people get "making the world a better place through activism" confused with "find out exactly who it is okay for me to be cruel to" despite the fact that those two are very much NOT the same thing

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i'm sorry but this is the only submission to this trend that i'll consider giving any thought to

i say this with 100% sincerity: if you want to know who monica lewkinsky is, she's the person who deserves to be back in the white house more than any person alive and she should get full rights to execute any 1990s comedians of her choice by firing squad. she deserves to be on the $20 bill and have her own monument on the national mall, but instead she's happy with reclaiming the narrative. she should have been america's people's princess instead of diana. we don't deserve her.

Okay, so I did google her and the scandal you mentioned in the tags, and I have two things to say

1. Holy shit

2. Yeah, I think she has the best one for the trend