last life

“A kiss may be grand, but it won’t pay the rental, on your humble flat, or help you at the automat.”

Like literally the most famous song about how much girls love jewellry is just explaining the importance of getting jewellry for when your partner leaves you penniless and alone.

The founder of Girl Scouting in the US, Juliette Gordon Low, funded her first troop by selling her pearl necklace, which was her only belonging after her husband died and left everything to his mistress.

She founded Girl Scouts to teach girls self-sufficiency so they wouldn’t have to go through what she went through when her husband died and she didn’t know how to take care of herself.

I support the "fiction isn't real so nothing matters" mindset but tbf at a certain point it can tip over into "the curtains are just blue" territory

like yes actually there is a conversation to be had about how a characters actions are framed and how they thematically fit with the rest of the story and it can in fact reflect the author's beliefs. some authors are even trying to make a point

not all depiction is glorification but sometimes it is and you need to be able to tell the difference. not because your immortal soul will be tainted by reading The Bad One, but because you need to have reading comprehension skills

peer reviewed

if something fundamental in me wasn’t missing i would be so fun to be around

If you're in the US, now is a great time to talk to the young people in your life about the US military:

I would love a repeat gimmick, but I don't think 3rd life is the gimmick to repeat. I love it to death, but what made it good was that it was new and unexpected. The life series has become routine for creators, and it desperately needs a gimmick that will disrupt this routine. Doing 3rd life again will just force them into the same routine but without an eye-catching gimmick to distract from the rehashed plot beats.

Doing last life again, however, would be much more interesting. It's unfair to start, something that no other season plays with. Last life also forces alliances to break because of the "no team with red" rule, and the boogeyman drives a wedge between players. Maybe some tweaks could be made like removing the /give life command and allowing lives to be taken by killing green players instead, and maybe employing the "no sacrifices" rule on the boogeyman. But I think last life has the highest potential to break the current life series formula, especially if they take a long hiatus beforehand.

imagine going to a house party and ask to go to the bathroom and like theres a dark souls silver knight guarding a chest in there. and like you ask him to not look but he doesn’t respond at all. He’s not like agro, or staring at you with intent, but he’s FULLY aware of your presence and watching you like you intend to steal

Really enjoying the bathroom knight rp

Incredible Stuff. Based.

i told a spider about hatred and it spun a web that clearly conveyed a sense of betrayal and dissolutionment at the world

Charlotte's Web but she just writes "SHIT'S FUCKED MAN"

Okay the WEIRDEST THING is going going down right now

So some guy in Michigan in the US has just found a letter in his grandmother’s house; it seems to be a pen pal letter from 1973ish, and it’s from a young Welsh girl. In it, she lists:

So this American dude decides to take a photo, whack it on Twitter and ask the only Welsh person he knows if there’s any way to track this Welsh girl down, because you know, ALL WELSH PEOPLE KNOW EACH OTHER, OBVIOUSLY

Except

I am furious to report that it has worked

Welsh person he tags doesn’t know, but takes up the challenge. Someone reckons the Catrin might be a woman who translated a hymn book once, and checks the foreword to see that the dates and ages do seem to be about right. Someone else suddenly has a brainwave - wait, isn’t she the mother of Steff, the comedian?

My husband gets tagged, takes one look at this letter, and is like “That is 1000% my aunt.”

So now it’s 20 to midnight, Steff’s aunt has obviously not yet seen the excited message to put Twitter out of their misery, and my mother-in-law is currently on the phone gleefully telling us that when that letter was written her sister had never sat on a horse in her life before, and she’d lied to an American pen pal for clout before the internet even existed.

Post Cymru Swyddogol (Official Wales Post)

official michigan post

A Welsh comedian, Elis James, does a radio show which has a segment called ‘Cymru Connections’ where another Welsh person calls into the show and he has 1 minute to question them about their life until he finds someone the both know. I’ve never seen him fail.

// 2026 spoilers

holy shit

for traffictwt’s secret santa <33

a lot of people say that if you dont have children or get married youll be lonely in your old age but from what ive seen retirement gives you so much more time to make friends. like all my grandparents are on good terms with their neighbors and have clubs and events and old friends they go on vacations with. my great aunt organises a secret santa with the people in her care home. its never too late.

i wish cherry biomes were rare and cherry trees were bigger and looked like their saplings and i wish pale gardens were completely silent and spawn-proof for everything but creakings and looked normal from the outside and would suddenly become pale and dead on the inside and i wish there was bare soil in all forests and colorful leaves and seasonal fruits and veggies and autumn and spring and bdubs ran mojang

simple asks to help bolster ask culture again

didn’t jesus do something similar to that