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Gonna start a new tradition where on the day after midwinter we all go outside at sunrise to boo the sun
morallydiseased
seananmcguire
You want me to go outside, in winter, at bedtime? What kind of monster are you?
Petition to make this a summer solstice tradition instead, because I need ten hours of sleep to function and at my latitude midsummer nights are shorter than 10 hours. It's 21:10 and still light out there. Fuck the sun.
Why are all of you asking me to leave the house, you monsters?
Bc you're so cute when you skitter around hissing under the open sky.
I got skittering and hissing at home!
Skittering and hissing at home:
tksstgiftguide
📖🛶 “A discovery in a remote part of the Amazon,” Journey to the Last River is a wonder-filled book that reveals a journal “belonging to an unknown artist and adventurer.”
An epic picture book, Last River is an appreciation-builder for nature, for wild places, for conservation, and for hidden, essential, fleeting, and sometimes dangerous details on our exquisite planet. 🌿 Lovely color pencil illustrations often provide additional information—maps, labeled inventories, fascinating notes about found items, annotated animal illustrations… 🗺🐍🐜🐸🐆 No doubt that its young readers will want to become resourceful explorers, protectors, problem solvers, and custodians of the natural world. 🌏
I highly recommend this unconventional 128-page picture book from the Unknown Adventurer / Teddy Keen. Kirkus Reviews does, too, calling it “sometimes thrilling, often terrifying, thoroughly immersive.” ⚡️
morallydiseased
viridescent-vinca
Build-a-Bear Employee: please,,, I can’t fit any more stuffing into this pikachu
Me: You fool….. Make Him Fatter
i worked at build-a-bear in downtown disney and one time a guest came with a grinch and had me force 6 custom sounds into him which was just him breathing really hard and saying “MERRY CHRISTMAS” into each one
the thing is, he had me stuff them into the arms, which were stick-thin
so the seams were coming up and i was having to repair his now lumpy grinchy arms
this took like 45 minutes and all the while the kid was legit trying to remove my kneecaps, his mom was even telling me that she warned someone this would happen and they sent her straight to me ROFLMAO
after he was stuffed to the brim and i could hear the soul of the plush screaming at me for what would be the next eternity the kid dressed him up like batman
but his mom was like “NO HE HAS TO BE CHRISTMAS” so he put a santa hat on him and also a little plush gingerbread that smelled like actual gingerbread and it ended up looking like this
i clocked out an hour and a half late it was like 1 am
this is the most I’ve laughed in years
elodieunderglass
english-history-trip
(Part 2) (Part 3)
Words from this post by @valarhalla
My dear and valued friend, my colleague and comrade, i want to rip the vambraces lovingly off your arms and pack you away in the attic like an off season holiday decoration
morallydiseased
viridescent-vinca
I'm showing my software engineer flatmate tumblr code and glitches and he just keeps getting more and more agitated
"and people use this site??" bad news chief its my primary social media
I'm having to reblog this manually because guess what social media's mobile app decided to remove fast reblogs
I use tumblr exclusively on mobile and it sucks that they removed fast reblogs
IM SORRY THEY WHAT
i just updated mobile a solid minute ago and i can still fast reblog?
the fuck is a fast reblog
I’ve never used that in my life
morallydiseased
derinthescarletpescatarian
Cis people do know that they can change their names too right
Like from what I’ve seen it seems like they don’t know that.
My first college roommate’s name was Sarah but decided our freshman year that Sarah was too common of a name and decided that she was going to go by Phyllis instead. It’s not her middle name or anything, it’s just a name she liked the sound of. Our entire friend group called her that for years.
My uncle-in-law is called Keith and apparently a lot of his nieces and nephews didn’t find out until they were adults that his legal name is John. I knew one of the supervisors at work as Rose for so long I was shocked when I saw her legal name on a piece of paperwork. My cousin was named after my grandfather, but with a name so outdated that he’s gone by a different one since birth.
And you’ll find that nobody challenges them on this topic either :) nobody insists “you should go by your real name.” Interesting.
I had a friend named “Booby” growing up. His real name was Tony. Then at 8th grade graduation it was revealed that his first name was actually “Phineas.”
Or the guy I knew as “Steve” who’s real name was Houdini.
Why the fuck was his real name Houdini
Houdini’s real name wasn’t even Houdini
My birth name was the most common girls name in the US for about a decade.
After I left my shitty biological family, I realized being called it was setting off my PTSD, because I was used to it (and the most logical nickname for it) being screamed across the house.
I legally changed the whole thing to something else totally unrelated, and it was super helpful for me.
You can totally change your name for any reason you want!
It took me years of knowing @lynati before I saw her legal name and went ?????
This is best with people you meet online; I met a friend on Tumblr and later added them on Facebook and they took one look at my name on Facebook and went “ummm no your name is Derin”
I have, in the past, forgotten my meatspace name and filled out important documents as “Derin Edala”
ladyyatexel
I was peer pressured into watching YuGiOh GX, so here’s a Johan.
I don’t know why I didn’t post him here back when I did him, but here you are now, I guess!
abi-does-stuff
quousque
“J.R.R. Tolkien has become a sort of mountain, appearing in all subsequent fantasy in the way that Mt. Fuji appears so often in Japanese prints. Sometimes it’s big and up close. Sometimes it’s a shape on the horizon. Sometimes it’s not there at all, which means that the artist either has made a deliberate decision against the mountain, which is interesting in itself, or is in fact standing on Mt. Fuji.”
— Terry Pratchett
Some vitriol was printed … when The Lord of the Rings was voted the best book of the century in a poll of Waterstone’s readers. Certain critics felt that the public were being jolly ungrateful … It didn’t matter. The book is beyond their control. They might as well have been throwing bricks at a mountain; it doesn’t cause any damage, and it makes the mountain slightly higher. The book is now a classic, and real classics aren’t created by diktat.
Terry Pratchett : A Slip of the Keyboard : collected non-fiction.
arcticflakes
