Tracy K. Smith, from “Don’t You Wonder, Sometimes?”, Life on Mars

Théophile Steinlen - Deux chats couchés sur un canapé (1896)

Sooooo few people are actually willing to defend the basic human rights of people who have committed crimes. Like I know it's not fun but if you genuinely believe in human rights as a concept you can't be okay with the state violating them in prisons I'm sorrrrry. Having moral principles is not always a fun time.

WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!

measure once cut also once, no prablem

concept for a vcarving project

no i get you this was perfectly centered when i wrote it

I have done the cross stitch

Because people *do* take more than they need, in the short term. (But it levels out long-term, something that people tend to ignore.)

People do use more than they need at first just because they can. There's an adjustment curve when you go from living under strict rationing to unlimited access because your brain is going "holy fuck, I don't have to have to constantly be worried about every single thing I do??" It feels like finally being able to take a deep breath after being underwater.

I grew up under water rationing during an "Exceptional Drought" which is the most severe category of drought there is. When you go from getting four to five minutes in the shower for most of your life to having as long as you want, it's completely normal to take really long showers for a while, and then eventually you adjust to a more average length of time. It's like you're mentally making up for lost time.

There's a reason that people who are starving or severely dehydrated have to be put on a protocol in order to prevent refeeding syndrome (or whatever the water equivalent is called). The human instinct when you're staving and suddenly have access to food is to eat as much as possible, but when you've been starving, your body becomes unable to handle that amount of food and it can literally kill you. I know with water, it's because your body is trying to hold onto as much water as possible, so suddenly flooding the system can lead to hyperhydration, and I imagine with food it works the same way.

It's probably because, last I checked, there's scientific evidence that self-control is a limited resource. And being forced to push past your limits causes it to not work as well until you can recover. Like when you overuse a muscle until you injure yourself, and then you can't use it until it heals (or you do use it and then injure yourself worse)

I love tumblr porn blogs, never change ❤️

who’s got that one gif of Captain Kirk doing this I Need it

This one?

ive been sitting and waiting for these gifs to align like the sailors once waited for the celestial bodies to reveal their path

Wait no longer, I have aligned them!

i might be broke but never broke enough to deny myself a sweet treat

you can start anytime.

you can brush your teeth in the middle of the day. you can wash the dishes at 2am. you can do things outside the normal times assigned by society.

Guillermo del Toro on the Creature

i was opening up the nature center and a little wasp flew by while i unlocked the door so i let him out. then i looked down, and there was a spider, a millipede, and two rollie-pollie bugs waiting at the door and they all walked out in a line like they’d been at a party together overnight.

it’s been two weeks and i can’t stop thinking about it.

god forbid 5000 year old girls do anything

holy shit bronze age pro sheep bone gamer girl

this is hilarious but also im gonna cry like this teenage gamer died and they buried her with her high score. no one took back the pot or divided it up because no one would play against her again. her family and friends buried her with her wins. im crying

“your friend is dead, and their corpse is inhabited by something only you can see for what it truly is" is already good horror. but "you begin to love the thing that wears their face"? the blasphemy of it. terror turning into desire. grief turning into longing. being enticed by what should repel you. it twists the knife deeper, because the horror is not based on deception anymore. the fear comes from recognizing the monster in its raw form and finding beauty there. you're not clinging to scraps of your friend, you're surrendering to something other, something wrong, and loving it. you're not holding onto a ghost of the past, it’s the monster itself that you choose

knowing when not to open the comments is a skill

internet soft skills

blocking tip: you don't have to wait to have a negative interaction with someone to block them. you can block them without ever interacting with them. I can't tell you how many times I've seen someone being rude to someone else and preemptively blocked them