it's so fucked up you cant start working on your life at 3 am. when it most matters

yes, you can. you make a spreadsheet

EVERY YEAR

for april fools we’re deleting this entire site sayonara you weeaboo shits

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Our commander in Chief has thoughtfully prepared a hands-on, interactive demonstration of the effects of tariffs and mercantilism on a modern, developed economy. I hope everyone has their notebooks out and is ready to learn, as this will likely be the most expensive lesson in economics ever produced for an American audience.

Sometimes the rats in my brain come together and start yelling “YEARNING” and in trying to appease them I ask “FOR WHAT” but they are too small so all they can say is “YEARNING” which is a very big word for such a tiny creature, even collectively

I loved this visual so much I had to doodle it.

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Thank god this is still circulating because of your wonderful art, Mandy. I needed it tonight

Thank god your post was such a lovely way to describe such a universal feeling. The brain-rats yearn eternal 🐀🐀🐀

The George Constanza line asks the most important question of anyone fictional or otherwise: can they win in a fight with George Costanza? The answers may shock you.

Well put. (Source: Writing About Writing Facebook page)

as a lawyer who’s been practicing for six years now I can say with certainty that this 100% applies to lawyers

[O]ne thing that has helped me weed out a lot of companies that later turned out to be toxic is to ask much more specific, STAR type questions of the interviewers: -What is your leadership philosophy? What do you think a good leader should do for their team? What is your preferred communication style? How often do you have one-on-ones with your employees? (I listen to see if this aligns with how I like to be managed) -Can you describe your best employee, what does she do that makes her so successful? (red flag: she works really hard and never calls out, always goes the extra mile for me) -What personality traits would make someone NOT do well here? (I’ve literally heard ‘easily offended’ as an answer to this one – RED FLAG) -How does the team manage emergencies? (I’m looking for ‘we help each other out’ without verging into ‘like a family’ territory) -How many hours a week do you usually work? Does your team usually work? (try to get specifics here) -Do employees hang out with each other outside of work? Do you have lots of pot luck type events? -What happens when someone makes a mistake?

--Just Elle @ askamanager.org

PARKS AND RECREATION (2009-2015) 2x21 - 93 meetings

My therapist just told me my problem is that I need to write more fanfiction.

This sounds fake but the logic behind it is actually really interesting? She said obsession with a new fandom triggers quick dopamine release when we consume all this related content--it's easy and addictive.

What we're NOT getting is that 'slow dopamine' that's more sustainable and engaging. That's the kind we get from DOING things that take effort but are ultimately rewarding.

So like, she suggested that writing fic and making fanart are ways to balance the quick dopamine of watching a show/reading fic with the slow dopamine of working at something that takes effort.

Moral of the story is you should engage in the process of creation around your favorite things. You'll feel better for it.

Oh.

OH.

“sorry for the gap between updates, my therapist made me come back to this” would not be in the top 1 million wildest author’s notes on AO3

“Satisfice me!” she cried in response to my adequate lovemaking.

Just realized I passed a decade of posting on tumblr last week without noticing…. Good to see my sense of humor hasn’t evolved one bit in the last decade.

Anyway it’s been a very slow burn because of my personal deficiencies and life circumstances, but being on tumblr has completely changed my life for the better and that’s no exaggeration. When I joined I was in a depressed hole with no friends but in the end I literally posted my way out of it. All of the friendships and relationships, and frankly much of the happiness, I’ve had since then have flowed out of that initial decision to start posting here (which came about because I was reading Ozy’s blog which led me here and it seemed like a community with the right blend of interestingness and acceptance of gender non-conformity). I even moved across the country in part because of the ties I’ve made on tumblr.

Looking back it’s a rather vertiginous feeling realizing how different my life would have been if I was even a slightly worse poster. It’s a fragile thing to build so much on, one’s ability to be interesting or amusing on a regular basis. That alone doesn’t get you friends, it at best gets you an audience. It took me a long time to convert one to the other and that was mostly thanks to people ( @birdblogwhichisforbirds and @argumate come to mind) being repeatedly nice to me without adequate reciprocation on my part.

But I don’t mean to be a downer, this is a positive post. These days I could quit tumblr without everyone evaporating from my life. Not that I’m going to, I still like posting just as much as when I started and I seriously need a location to dump all my thoughts. My brain was like this even before social media. The point is, goddamn is ten years a long time, but I am grateful to my friends, mutuals, followers, lurkers, and even the fuckers who still haven’t followed me back after all these years. tumblr has made my life much better thanks to you, and it could have done even more if I’d had the courage to let it.

put my daughter on the cover of CRIME Magazine, where she belongs