hope is a skill
hope is a weapon you are trained to wield
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You cannot hide this in the tags, bestie. This is too lovely to keep a secret.
It may not be apparent to everyone how to easily find out who wrote the poem in the tags, so: @mumblesplash
(an instant-classic example of a Tumblr thread where so many people add value!)
i cant stop editing nancy comics. and also ive never edited a bunch of someone else's comics before in my entire life.
writer’s block (dry) = no desire to write, no ability to write (bearable)
writer’s block (wet) = HUGE desire to write, no ability to write (very evil)
while i appreciate the fact that the lord of the rings crew was very taken with the idea of elves as this graceful, ethereal, wise, beautiful race that operates on a level we can't comprehend as mortals & portrays legolas according to that vision, i do greatly mourn the fact that they left out the most critical aspect of his character—
that there is something seriously so wrong with that man.
I can't believe home depot literally produced a wildly successful science fiction musical and we all just pretend it didn't happen. on one hand yes it had a boring white guy main character but like.... home depot just... Made it? And it had shit ton of box office sales? and no one even talks about this. this is like avatar (2009) all over again
OP. PHENOMENAL. 11/10.
Home depot produced goncharov
hope u dont mind me keeping ur tags because ur right:
I’ll reblog this every time I see it.
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what does it feel like to do heroin
A reply from [deleted]
Actually this is an obvious question but it’s not what you might think. Let me explain it to you, I’ve been an opiate addict for a long time and tried many drugs. Drugs that are ‘uppers’ have the most ‘obvious’ euphoria. For example if you take adderall/coke/meth/speed/MDMA you will get this shining bright euphoria, self confidence, energy, and other drug-specific feelings (for meth like you are king or for MDMA like you love everyone). However, you owe these drugs back what they delivered to you. After a meth binge, or lots of MDMA use, or staying up all night on coke you will feel like shit. To an extent this aspect is similar to an alcoholic hangover.
On the other hand, for many people who experiment with heroin they are underwhelmed (not including IV usage, but most experimenters rarely ever IV first time). They just feel good, chill, happy, but they feel like this spooky drug ‘heroin’ hasn’t delivered. They are just mellow. Oh obviously it has all been a lie they will think. Heroin isn’t spooky, it’s chill. It’s not addictive like everyone else thinks. It doesn’t make you do stupid shit or stay up all day and hallucinate like amphetamines or coke. It doesn’t empty your serotonin like MDMA or give you a hangover like alcohol. People tend to just think oh, what a nice drug.
So the next day they wake up and everything is normal. No headache or shitty feeling–just a slight afterglow of that nice feeling. Oh it was cheap as well! It only cost $10 for a whole night of being high! I thought people said heroin was expensive? And then next weekend comes… There are all these drugs I could do but I liked heroin. It didn’t fuck me up,‘I could still think clearly. No hangover. No feeling like shit later. I still was awake. It just made me happy and content with life. Oh and it’s only $10! Well, I should get some more for the whole weekend. This is great! I will use Heroin on the weekends now!
Now let’s say this person works and has responsibilities. He knows he can’t go into work drunk, or on MDMA, or high. So he doesn’t. It’s actually simple. But heroin… Well the user might actually find they do better work on heroin. Instead of being sad or grumpy or depressed with his job… he is just… happy. Mellow. Content. Everything is fine and the world is beautiful. It’s raining, it’s dark, I woke up at 5:30AM, I’m commuting in traffic. I would have had a headache, I would have been miserable, I would have wondered how my life took me to this point. This point I’m at right now. But no, no, everything is fine. Life is beautiful. The rain drops are just falling and in each one I see the reflection of every persons life around me. Humanity is beautiful. In this still frame shot of traffic on this crowded bus I just found love and peace. Heroin is a wonder drug. Heroin is better than everything else. Heroin makes me who I wish I was. Heroin makes life worth living. Heroin is better than everything else. Heroin builds up a tolerance fast. Heroin starts to cost more money. I need heroin to feel normal. I don’t love anymore. Now I’m sick. I can’t afford the heroin that I need. How did $10 used to get me high? Now I need $100. That guy that let me try a few lines the first time doesn’t actually deal. Oh I need to find a real dealer? This guy is a felon and carries a gun–he can sell me the drug that lets me find love in the world. No this isn’t working, I need to quit.
To answer your question, heroin feels nice. That’s all, it just feels very nice. You can make the rest up for yourself. Attach your own half-truths to this drug that will show you the world and for a moment you will feel as clever as Faust.
Edit: Thank you for the kind words. I received help and I’m doing well now. Luckily I was able to pull up and get help right before I entered the deadly downward spiral. Some of my friends have not done as well. Sorry to steal the limelight from OP
A reply to this from Ifuxdalion
Reading that was more haunting than any anti-drug campaign that I’ve been exposed to. Thanks. A lot.
End of reddit post.
The third image are tags on tumblr. They read #anti-drug campaigns should be run by recovering addicts #cause like #how are you gonna talk honestly about how a drug affects your life if youve never done it #how can you really communicate what it does to your life if you ignore the reasons people do drugs in the first place? #i dont think anyone’s gonna believe you when you say a drug is bad if you never acknowledge the way the drug makes you feel good #tags
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The thing that kills me about this, is that it frankly discusses the general misery and malaise that we put up with in our regular sober lives, and it says straight up that the drug makes it BEARABLE. This is the clearest and most straightforward description of “drug addiction is not a failure of personal strength and character, it is an attempt to medicate and make survivable the horrifying sociocultural conditions that we are being forced to accept as the normal cost of living.” It’s the Rat Park drug addiction hypothesis demonstrated in humanity.
This is your reminder that if you are feeling helpless and cannot be on the front lines, there are other ways to help.
People need to be fed. Check to see what your local food pantry situation is. Make hot meals for people you know have been out in the cold for hours on end. Emergency kits for field medics need to be supplied. People need help getting to the pharmacy, the grocery store. Help shovel your neighbor’s sidewalk if you’re able. Find a way to do something.
Build connections. Build community. They want us frightened and isolated. Refuse.
had an edible and am now explaining goncharov to the party guests
they've invented a minor character named ernesto who's only role is to follow goncharov around and say "nice one boss!" whenever he does anything. im so proud of them
I feel like boiling Ernesto Cagliari's role in the story down to "guy who follows Goncharov around and says nice one, boss!" Is really doing his character a disservice. Yes, he's a very on-the-nose parody of the sorts of nameless henchmen and "right hand men" that you see in other mafia media, but he's also a subversion of the trope who embodies the way that powerful men who surround themselves with yes-men eventually find themselves trapped in an echo chamber where they can't separate their own delusions of grandeur from the real world. The entire carnival chase sequence in Venice ends with Goncharov leading himself into a literal funhouse where he's trapped with an (actually nameless!) assassin and surrounded by distorted mirror Ernestos all equally unable to help him find the exit because all they can do at that point is encourage the boss's fruitless andmisguided efforts. It's only once Ernesto is killed by reality violently reasserting itself in the form of the assassin, and the funhouse mirrors are broken in the ensuing fight that Goncharov even begins to confront the immediate reality his actions have created and the broader reality of those people who live outside his self-important bubble.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but the idea that you can make a little mistake while doing your taxes and then go to jail for it is mostly not a thing. If you make a mistake on your taxes you'll get a letter in the mail that says 'hey you made a mistake on your taxes' and then you can fix it (source: I have made mistakes on my taxes, international tax treaties are complicated). The only time people typically go to jail for tax stuff is if they commit massive intentional (or negligent, like if they run a business and never consult any expert on how payroll taxes work) fraud over a long period of time.
There's basically no way for a person new to doing taxes - and presumably not handling a lot of money - to accidentally fuck up those taxes in a way that's going to end with that person in jail.
who's ruling it, who's native to it, what do they want?
here's the deal:
" grønland ", or kalaallit nunaat (the land of the Kalaallit, an Inuit people) is an 'autonomous territory' that makes one of three parts of Denmark, the state. notice that, Denmark, the state. that's bc the other two parts are Denmark, the country proper (which is only this part in continental Europe) and an archipelago called the Faroe Islands, in the atlantic
so in that sense, Greenland isn't "owned" by Denmark, it isn't identical with Denmark- but it's Denmark, it's danish, it's a constituent part of the Danish Realm. in their constitution, this is called rigsfællesskabet, the unity of the realm
the Danish constitutional monarchy, basic law, foreign policy and defense are common to all parts, despite self-government and the distinct sociopolitical identity of the place and Greenlanders. and since Denmark is a member-state of the EU, Greenland is Europe. Greenlanders are European citizens; Denmark is in NATO as well
roughly 90% of Greenlanders are Inuit, an arctic native people who speak Kalaallisut, an Eskaleut language. The other 10% is mostly Danes and other nordics. Greenlandic people are very religious, a recent census shows more than 95% are Lutheran Christians, which is also the official danish religion. there's c. 57k inhabitants in Greenland, and the biggest city is the capital, Nuuk
right now, the legislature (called landstinget in Danish or "law-makers" in Greenlandic, the inatsisartut) has the following five groups: the Democrats, the IA (Inuit Ataqatigiit), the Siumut, the Atassut and the Naleraq. All except the last have made a government coalition.
the biggest groups is the Democrats. these were historically "unionist", advocating for closer ties with the mainland - nowadays they're okay with eventual independence, but through a bilateral and democratic process that could imply constitutional reform. they're a centrist liberal party, and the most voted party in the election last year. the second most voted are the IA, which are a green leftist party; Siumut, "Forward", is a socdem (center-left) party, and both are also pro-independence. Atassut, is a conservative unionist party.
small regions tend to make gov'ts of broad consensus and are amicable to big-tent parties. this is also true of Greenland. the reason the last party, Naleraq, is out of the gov't, is because it's a splinter off Siumut which advocates for abrupt independence, which is not popular (8/31 seats) - it's the only major party which has signalled anything but stark rejection of US rhetoric. and that's not because it's pro-US at all (remember, it's one of the most independentist), but rather bc it was strongly pro-NATO, at least at the time.
so it's the only one where populist interference could thrive. by large, opinion polls in Greenland show almost uniform rejection of US annexation, even as a state, with <6% of people approving of such a scenario. it's way less popular even than danish unionism.
so, basically, an "american greenland" would be all of these: -an act of aggression against a sovereign state -an act of war between NATO countries -an impopular imposition on a mostly native, christian population, which could only be described as neocolonial
it's very possible Trump has no intentions of doing anything on this front, but rather in the caribbean- and saturated world attention, media, and social networks with distractions. and yet... what measures will Denmark and Europe take to prepare for this scenario?
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infographs are life
trump neocolonial aggression so repellent for free civil peoples that greenlanders are feeling more european than ever
after a joint statement by all political parties, the prime minister said greenland would even embrace being danish, than become USan. that speaks of healthy postcolonial relations.
stay strong, greenland! we're with you as european citizens
thanks to our american friends of dignity and principle and i hope the anti-MAGA bipartisan sentiment keeps growing <3
this must be a watershed moment, a new "common sense" for the american republic
g*d she ripped him a new one
doing things at the right age is literally a made up concept. you can start/pursue anything at any age. btw.
remember remember
I often refer to my bottle-raised lamb as my adopted daughter, because it’s mostly true, it temporarily keeps nosy strangers from knowing I’m an eeeevil childfree woman, and it’s hilarious when people find out. And by that time they’re usually too disturbed by the “her-daughter-is-a-sheep” thing to get on my case about the “woman-with-no-husband-or-kids-oh-the-horror” thing.
Most of my friends are aware that I do this, and will back me up in conversations without batting an eye when I reference my daughter. And the best part is that they literally never drop the story. They just 100% all the time accept that I have a two-year-old adopted daughter. The fact that she happens to be a sheep is an unimportant detail, not worth mentioning until an anecdote gets too weird to plausibly be about a human toddler.
Which actually takes much longer than you’d think, since human toddlers apparently have absolutely zero sense. “She bites if you stop paying attention to her” is believable, “she tries to eat rocks out of the landscaping” is believable, “she stuck her head through a fence and couldn’t get out” is believable. “She jumped a five foot fence and came screaming back into the house through the dog door when I left her outside in the pasture” does get some strange looks, though usually not for the right reason.
Occasionally the joke gets turned around on me, though. I posted a picture on my not-tumblr blog of her wearing my glasses, and every comment was “Oh my gosh she looks just like you!!!” “I would never have known she was adopted If you hadn’t told me!!” “Are you sure that’s not an old picture of you?!”
So apparently this is what I look like:
At least she does look cute in glasses.
[ID: a close-up photo of a brown sheep, stylishly sporting a pair of glasses. End ID]
it is. sincerely really weird that 2016 nostalgia is a trend. like i knew this day would come but not for specifically 2016. the meme that year was about how this was the worst year ever for most people
person who assumes maleness as default and refuses to interrogate this: yeah this character has no gender, they're just a little Guy
Let's not cooperate with mama
Always lovely to see how universal the experience of getting a very unwilling and strong minded toddler into the car seat can be.
