The Pool Of The Dead

Bruce is going to be an awesome grandaddy! 👴🏻

Something that I am gradually learning as an adult is that all the cringey things you enjoyed as a teenager aren’t cringey at all. Cringeyness is just a social construct and in all honesty, who cares? As long as it doesn’t hurt anyone, don’t feel guilty for enjoying the hobbies you indulge in! Go back to watching anime and playing dorky video games or rewatching children’s programmes for the nostalgia. Take up painting again. Read those books you never got around to as you grew up. We weren’t put on this planet to be miserable and follow society’s norms, so just go ham!

Honestly, in my work as a therapist, I’m seeing this A Lot, and tbh I still don’t have a satisfactory approach to it. A heavy dose of Existentialist “create your own Purpose” tempered with “when the plane’s going down, put your own oxygen mask on first”, but… yeah, there is no ethical way to work on individual emotional distress without acknowledging the systemic socioeconomic, geopolitical fuckery going on at the moment, and the sheer grief that comes with it.

I’m a guidance counselor/psychologist for teenagers and it’s getting really hard to motivate young people to work for a future they don’t believe in. 

 They look at ther future and see global warming, wwIII, unemployement, political unstability, poison in everything  they eat, the earth and animals dying all around them. 

I saw this video where someone was asking french teens in the 50s how they imagine the future would be. The war hadn’t been over for long and yet it was all positive with like peace and flying cars and such. Then they went and ask the same questions to nowadays teens and hell that was depressing. Some still had hope, but it was just that “well I hope I’ll have a nice house and maybe some kid” but there was such a hesitancy to it, like they didn’t dare to hope too much. 

People mock Greta Thunberg but what they don’t get is that when she said “you stole my dreams”, it was the truth. 

Young people don’t get to dream like they used to. They don’t dream anymore, they grief all that won’t be anymore and that’s just so fucking sad. 

The fact that both the tweet and these reblogs are pre-pandemic makes this post even worse

New Chaos pizza in the works at the moment. Stand by

By the way, I have told them about the 28k notes you lunatics brought their post up to and I am happy to report that Chaos is pleased. They want you all to how happy they are to have brought a smile to so many people.

They also asked "how did they know I was non-binary??" And I was like "bro..."

They made.... oh gods ... They made this

It's a horror movie monster face

Oh, and they have an eye patch now

I think I poorly timed reading the book I am currently reading. Mother's day is tomorrow and I am walking around holding this

When someone sneezes and you say "bless you" but then they sneeze again a few seconds later and your like

Nicolette Sowder

Lizzo absolutely distressed

@queensqueercourt

How dare you leave this in the tags

those posts that are like "the flavor profile of doritos would kill a 14th century french peasant" are all about atem to me

"but he wasn't a peasant he was an ancient egyptian pharaoh - " granted he would've had access to the literal best quality his civilization had to offer but the concept and practice of a vending machine would still shatter him to dust

On the other end of the spectrum, Thief King Bakura would see a vending machine and immediately extrapolate how it can be used for low-risk, mild effort and exceptionally lucrative crime. By the end of the month he's amassed several thousand dollars in untraceable cash and is wanted by seven different police departments and Nestle Inc., but they have it coming and he has PLANS for them.

Making a glass rabbit

[eng by me]

Some more thoughts:

This collab was not on my 2023 bingo card

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These pictures are killing me

There are many animals I expect to see in caves, but I can confidently say that this was not one of them.

Are you frustrated you can't leave second kudos on AO3? or third kudos? or whatever-who's-counting kudos?

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UPDATE with some suggestions from the replies! And bonus: cookie kudos.

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let me tell you, I got a ‘kisses your forehead’ kudos and it absolutely made my day

Self-taught sculptor Romain Langlais turned to bronze, a metal he now incorporates into works that are inspired by nature rather than man. His pieces visually pull apart the natural objects that surround us—building works that appear as bisected rocks, boulders, and tree trunks. These sculptures showcase glistening bronze protruding from their insides, unleashing the perceived inner energy of each object.

See more work by Romain on his website.

this is brilliant and also out of control