adarkerbeamoflight:

inkskinned:

Actually life is beautiful because the sound I make while trying to breathe around hot food sounds like my dog trying to eat an apple. When I yawn my cat tries to put his face in my mouth like a little dentist man and when he yawns I put my finger in his obligate-carnivore trapzone and we both know he will not hurt me. When I do not fold my clothes, they do not hold it against me.

I am demonstrably sad, and lonely, and full of fear. But there are other people who will hold my hand, who will point out the hawk overhead, who will give you That Look in a public place. The other day at a coffee shop a child said “look! It’s snowing!” so all of us strangers went to go look out the windows. It wasn’t the first snow and it won’t be the last but wasn’t it lovely, like that?

How wonderful to live in a world where birds and frogs both say beep! How wonderful to have an ocean of beautiful sharks with their dinosaur teeth! How wonderful the moon and her changing face, how wonderful the bees and their dancing to communicate, how wonderful shrimp and their forbidden layers of vision! How wonderful, you, and what you will give the world! The way we love things enough to spend entire blogs devoted to them? How people will let me explain my Pokemon team to them? How we will both jump at the scare in the movie, how we laugh so loudly, how it feels to give someone your baking? How wonderful to be alive. I am sorry for forgetting.

This is the process of getting better. With wonderful people and wonderful strangers and wonderful friends: I am getting better, slowly. Thank you, whoever you are. In some way, you’ve been wonderful, and left a wonderful place in the world to ripple out to me. In some small way - isn’t it beautiful - I promise, you’ve been helping.

“How wonderful to be alive. I am sorry for forgetting.”

(via sneakyfeets)

sadpearonmars:

failchild:

vampires have been drinking human blood for centuries they don’t give a fuck about guys on eight different antidepressants. they were sucking on asbestos factory workers

The absolutely hilarity of imagining some older vampires hectoring younger ones. “Back in my day, I had to drink blood with radium in it and I liked it! We glowed in the damn dark for weeks!”

(via loverofskypie)

d-is-for-dumb-ass:

stickballenthusiast:

be-sapphic-do-crime:

ploofyfun:

secret-engima:

sevi007:

thefreelancerdivision:

holy-crap-someone-finally:

flightyfinch:

my FAVORITE tropes compiled thanks to some suggestions from others

  • a character gets a sick burn and doesn’t realize it immediately, at some point later there’s just “HEY WAIT A MINUTE”
  • the double take. this one’s an oldie but a goodie
  • the injured character makes the killing shot that saves everyone else in a dangerous situation
  • a character who isn’t speaking is doing something weird in the background, it’s subtle and never acknowledged it’s just there for those who notice it (pulling another character out of something they got stuck in, making a huge sandwich, etc)
  • the beleaguered assistant inches away from smacking their boss
  • “quick act natural”
  • in that vein, the leader character was just in a shouting match with someone and when they come back the rest of the team scrambles to look like they weren’t listening at the door
  • never forget: “he’s standing right behind me isn’t he”
  • When a character mentions a normal past event and someone else mentions an absurd detail (”Don’t you remember what happened last time you went to the dentist?” “Those deaths were nothing to do with me”) 
  • Multiple characters banding together to lie about something 
  • Characters being split up for questioning
  • Really stoic characters briefly becoming happy, freaking everyone out
  • “I think that went well!” *Distant explosion*

-“quick act natural” *everyone scrambles to do completely random shit that looks anything but natural*

Always a good one:

- Character A is talking, saying something like “It’s not like anybody would ever be so stupid to do that, right”

*scene changes, Character B is shown doing exactly that stupid thing*

Consider also:

- Character A telling the rest of the cast to “relax, I have a foolproof plan” and then scene immediately changes to show all the cast fleeing for their lives after the failure of the Definitely-Not-A-Plan-Let-Alone-A-Foolproof-One.

- The stoic/sensible character breaking character to do something Completely Reckless and Dumb and then only realizing later that the usually Reckless and Dumb character is rubbing off on them-oh-no-.

Characters being taken into custody and lying but each character has a more twisted and convoluted story than the last

very important addition

  • When two characters are looking down at something very shocking and they look up at each other quickly, look back down at the thing quickly, look up, look down, look back up, and SCREAM
  • When character A is talking to character B, and character C is behind character B’s back silently mouthing words or gesturing to character A on what to convey to character B, and when character B turns around character C is like looking at the ceiling whistling like they weren’t listening
  • When a character hears terrible news and as soon as they lock themselves in their room they just break and slide down the door, tears streaming and sobs slipping
  • When a character passes out and everyone else surrounds them in a circle (camera view from the ground looking up), leaning down the exact same way like idiots
  • Dress shopping in chick flicks where character A’s best friend keeps rejecting options like “ew no” “hideous” “I think my grandma has that same pattern on her curtains” and then character A finally comes out with a dress that’s like AWOOGA
  • When a character just doesn’t know how to drive for shit (and is oblivious to the fact, might I add) and the person in the passenger seat is hanging on for dear life

- Character who tries to make things worse inadvertently making things better as a direct result of the thing they did to make things worse (Example: character trying to break up a dating couple ends up pushing them to get married)
- Character: “No, i absolutely refuse to [insert activity here]”
  *Immediately cuts to scene of them doing the thing they just said they didn’t want to do*
- Character A: Wait where’s [Character C] i thought they were with you?
  Character B: Huh? I thought they were with you?
  *Cut to Character C doing something completely random and/or insane*
- Situations where a character reveals and/or has the opportunity to use a very specific set of skills or knowledge. Bonus points if the skill or knowledge is an extreme contrast to their established character (Example: Knuckles feminism speech in that one sonic boom scene we’ve all watched)

(via alloverthegaf)

brightwanderer:

I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.

Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.

The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.

I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.

dykebeckett:

tomorrow is the ides of march! don’t forget to leave milk and cookies out for brutus tonight!


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