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Musings and Banter

@annearachne / annearachne.tumblr.com

This blog is made up of things I find amusing.
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𝙋𝙖𝙙𝙢𝙚 𝘼𝙢𝙞𝙙𝙖𝙡𝙖 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘳 𝘞𝘢𝘳𝘴: 𝘌𝘱𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘥𝘦 𝘐𝘐 – 𝘈𝘵𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴

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fairycosmos

sudden urge to burst into tears. im not a toddler i just agree with their beliefs

  • World is hard, scary, confusing
  • Needs not being met
  • Little to no control over my environment
  • Overwhelmed and need some release
  • Desperately want a nap

Yeah, that checks out

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briery

The Black Heron, “Umbrella Bird" using its wings as a shade canopy to fool and trap fish.

big gay yellow feet

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In the town where I grew up, there was a large statue in one of the parks, of a famous historical white colonizer. I'm not going to say who specifically, suffice it to say that it was someone who wasn't worth memorializing for their deeds. And as you can imagine, this statue was a frequent target of vandalism, with paint or toilet paper or eggs on multiple occasions. Now, the local council was generally pretty lax when it came to repairing potholes or other public damage in the town, but every time, 24 hours after this particular statue was hit, the same person would always appear in a Hi-Vis vest, hat, mask and sunglasses, carrying a bucket of water, and wash it clean. They would do it as quickly as possible, but always made sure the face and the name carved at the bottom were generously scrubbed. This only encouraged people to do it again, and so it became a vicious cycle.

Within a year, the statue had sustained so much damage that it was unrecognizable and the lettering unreadable, so eventually the council came and took it down. Also apparently, the person in the Hi-Vis vest didn't even work for the council. They were supposedly just some 'good samaritan' who cleaned it, often before the council even discovered it needed cleaning, so they just let them do it and ignored the problem. They didn't bother putting the statue up again.

Much later, we found out that the anonymous 'samaritan' had been deliberately washing the statue with a bucket of saltwater, which had dramatically corroded it, causing irreversible accumulative damage far worse than spray paint ever would have done. It's even theorized that they were also often the one spray-painting it, just so that they had an excuse to come back after a day to wash it.

A good samaritan indeed

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most important thing to remember about being a woman is if youre married you have to go under the covers with your husband and laugh cutely and play wrestle so when you die to progress the narrative he can remember it in slow motion montages

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