lunetta-suzie-jewel:

fourlokototallandscaping:

A few months back, I read about a study that found that people who were told to regularly think about things they’re grateful for reported significantly improved physical and mental well-being at the end of the study. So I started going for a walk every day before work and making myself come up with 5 things that I’m grateful for. And I know it sounds like the most cornball shit ever, but it has fundamentally changed my brain chemistry.

I was aware that I was becoming a little bit too much of a sarcastic little hater before I started this experiment. Now I am almost startled to catch myself saying shit like, “Wow, look at the flowers on that tree, I am so grateful I decided to walk this way,” unironically, completely unprompted, and outside of the specific time in the day when I do the gratitude practice. I’ve rewired my brain to look for things to be grateful for, and so I look around me more and find more of them, which makes me feel happier, which makes me find even more good things.

For the record, I’m not saying, “Only think positive thoughts! No bad vibes!” Toxic positivity is probably about as unhealthy as only thinking negative thoughts. Sometimes shit does just suck. I’m not telling you to be grateful for the bad things around you. Being a sarcastic little hater definitely has its place. But setting aside like 2 minutes per day to come up with 5 things you’re grateful for will genuinely improve your outlook. It doesn’t have to be big stuff—sometimes the best I can manage is simple shit like, “I’m grateful that zippers were invented,” but even that forces me to be in the present moment and deepens my appreciation of the world around me. Try it, even if you have to do it badly or sarcastically at first. Even if you only do it so that you can come back and tell me I’m wrong in 3 months. Set a daily alarm on your phone and give it a try.

Developing an overall positive attitude doesn’t make the bad things stop; it makes the bad things manageable.

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assiraphales:

enough reclaiming slurs, I think in 2023 we should reclaim nascar. they banned the confederate flag on all properties & their stance on lgbtq+ isn’t just performative bc in 2013 they fined a driver 10k for using a homophobic slur, condemned indiana in a statement for an anti lgbt law, and partnered w carolina’s lgbt+ chamber of conference in 2022. nascar was founded by anti-cop moonshiners/bootleggers who drove suped-up fords to out-run the police. #yaaascar

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To this day, my favorite argument I ever had was with my Nascar-loving family about how a thin blue line flag on a Nascar is antithetical to the core tenets of Nascar.
There is no organization more rooted in ACAB than Nascar. Literally, the only reason it exists was that a bunch of moonshining families had to build cars that could outrun the cops while on supply runs during the Prohibition Era. The goal was to make the car look like a regular vehicle so they could pick up supplies or drop off illegal alcohol without arousing suspicion. But if the cops were on you all you had to do was put the pedal to the metal and that little truck could outrun them with no problems.
And of course, families would be in competition over who made the best alcohol, and whose car was fastest. So, they would have races on the weekends. When prohibition was lifted, the races continued. And that is why we have Nascar.

It really frustrates me how people look at American car culture and scoff at it. Formula One racing is more exciting and more dynamic to watch, but the history of it is not as interesting: a bunch of rich assholes who made specialized cars for racing. And to this day, it is still a rich man’s sport. Whereas Nascar was about a bunch of so-called hicks in the backwoods who used some basic hand tools and trial and error to make a junker into a racecar.

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crabbng:

panel 1-3: tera transforming into a magical girl, starting with her hands, going to her waist and then her shoes. panel 4: tera stands in front of an excited baby, shocked bon, and blushing aoife in her pale colored magical girl outfit with gold details. tera: "here we go."ALT
panel 1: chaarose is surrounded by 4 preachan. chaar: "i received some training in preparation for this position. one of the tactics they emphasized was to knock out your opponent, instead of going for blood. panel 2: chaar knocked one of the preachan in the face, cracking their mask. chaar: "i-i was doing that. i cracked a preachan's mask with the pommel of my sword." panel 3: the preachan lays on the floor with a cracked mask. chaar: "part of it broke off and-: panel 4: rhean looks at chaar with concern. rhean: "and?" panel 5: chaar sits quietly. panel 6: the preachan's face is revealed. it is segmented into four parts, with rows of teeth lining each part. chaar: "when the mask broke... underneath... wasn't a person's face..." panel 7: hana looks up thoughtfully. hana: "i've seen some without masks... they were just normal people though" panel 8: chaar nervously plays with her fingers. chaar: "i know- i've seen them too-i've known people who- who have gone into the preachan program!"ALT
3 panels separated by music bars and lyrics.  panel 1: bon summons a garden of colorful flowers, exciting the people watching his performance. there are images on the walls, golden buildings and dragons, and a sky turning from day to night. lyrics: "gardens filled with blooms that glow so bright" panel 2: bon continues to sing, a dragon flies in front of a night sky on the wall. lyrics: "great dragons soaring high" panel 3: baby points at a dragon, pictured on the floor, tera turns around, startled. lyrics: "and floating low".ALT
cw: blood panel 1: hana is crying, looking at his now removed fingers. maighstir (off-screen): "as long as you can still work, anything is on the table." panel 2: the maighstir looms over hana menacingly, face shrouded in shadow. hana startles. maighstir: "ANYTHING." panel 3: the maighstir swings the bloody knife around, smiling. maighstir: "so! my pathetic little worm." she stops smiling and points the knife at hana. maighstir: "start groveling." panel 4: hana looks fearfully at the maighstir, tears in his eyes. panel 5: hana looks to the preachan beside him. panel 6: the preachan loom over him. their blank masked faces hold no comfort. panel 7: hana flinches away from them, still crying. he looks to the other side..ALT

like every webcomic artist, for my bday i implore you to read my comic Kings of Sorts

Hana has been ousted from his lonely life by an unfriendly stranger due to a king’s decree. After a short time together, Hana decides to put his life on the line for the stranger, and go to the king’s castle to bargain for his freedom. Things go poorly from there.

a lineup of characters from the webcomic kings of sorts. on the far left is tera, in a pale colored magical girl outfit with gold details. on her right is kiigari drawing their bow, chaarose looking very nervous, and bonic controlling a small amount of lava flying through the air). in front is hana  looking very happy and smiling, holding a coin and baby (tiny red dragon). in the bottom left is the kings of sorts logo. underneath are the two main genres: "fantasy and sci fi". under that are some minor genres: "action/adventure, comedy, drama, queer, political". lastly: "rated T for occasional strong language, cartoon, fantasy or mild violence, and minimal suggestive themes".ALT

check it out here! kingsofsorts.com

cattailsgame:

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Get to know Spark! ✨

Cattails: Wildwood Story is coming soon to Steam, and Nintendo Switch in 2024! Wishlist us today: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1882500/Cattails_Wildwood_Story/

viesanterieures:

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This looks like the poster for a period romance film in which a serious, workaholic professor meets a cheerful, pink loving lady who shows him how to have fun in life.

edit: If someone writes a fanfiction about this please tag me I wanna read it

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crabbng:

panel 1: a redhead, zylvae, stands before a green door. panel 2: bon, currently going by Riannoc, stands behind the door. he looks at it as zylvae calls for him: "Rian?" panel 3: zylvae looks to the door. zyl: "may I come in?" she receives no answer.  panel 4: a view of the hallway. zyl calls again: "Rian?" bon interrupts, "the door's unlocked." panel 5: zyl opens the door. zyl: "are you-" panel 6: she sees the state of bon's room. it looks like its been trashed, a moody and bruised bon stands in the middle. zyl: "alright..?" bon (sarcastically): "peachy." panel 7: zyl nervously grips the strap of her bag. zyl: "did- did she-" panel 8: bon glares. bon: "why don't you ask your dad? he was there."ALT
panel 1: zylvae looks almost angry, but mostly troubled. zyl: "Rian- you know there's nothing he could do..." her expression falls to something more sad. zyl: "there's no way she would listen-" panel 2: bon glares at her. bon: "well, he could TRY!" his expression also falls to something sadder. bon: "someone-! anyone-! could- could at least TRY!" panel 3: bon turns his back to zyl, hunched over. bon: "no one- no one ever even tries..." panel 4: zyl looks away, troubled. she relaxes slightly. zyl: "I brought ointment and bandages.. will you let me look at it?"ALT
panel 1: bon lays on a couch, zyl sits. bon shows her his freshly burned leg. zyl is visibly upset. zyl: "oh-! oh dear..." panel 2: zyl grabs her ointment. zyl: "why did she go so far?" panel 3: bon nonchalantly explains. bon: "same old. i was doing a magic show. someone snitches. guards come. we have a little tussle." panel 4: bon continues to explain, zyl looks on, concerned. bon (off-screen): "i managed to knock a few out this time, before they were able to get any of their blocking sigils on me." panel 5: bon continues, laughing. he looks pleased. bon: "mother wasn't pleased i made fools of her special anti-magic guard." panel 6: zyl pulls out bandages, looking away  from bon. zyl: "Rian... i know magic is important to you..." she looks to bon. zyl: "and I know i'm not a magic user. so I don't 'get it'. but... have you considered just.. not using it?"ALT
panel 1: bon  and zyl glare at each other. bon: "oh- so it's MY fault?!" zyl: "that's NOT what i'm saying!" panel 2: zyl looks at bon, pained. zyl: "it's just- are they worth it? these magic shows?" panel 3: bon fiddles with his burned fingers, considering what zyl is saying. zyl continues (off-screen): "are they worth all this suffering? it's not so bad, you know... living without magic. just for a while?" panel 4: bon stands up, zyl looks at him, concerned. bon: "you're right. you DON'T get it." panel 5: bon turns away. bon: "you think it'd be better to live my life pretending like I don't have magic?" panel 6: he turns around, yelling. he points at his hair. bon: "then what's next?! should I dye my hair blonde? call myself a girl?!" he balls both his hands into fists. bon: "how much of myself should I throw away, in the hope that- that mother won't hurt me if I play the part of her perfect heir?! i'd rather DIE."ALT
panel 1: zyl looks up at bon, not startled by his yelling, but just concerned about him. zyl: "of course, I don't think you should have to hide who you are, Rian..." panel 2: bon's expression softens, he looks back, troubled by her words. zyl continues (off-screen): "I'm afraid of what will happen if you don't." panel 3: zyl continues as images of future Bons are shown. zyl (off-screen): "how many more times can you go through this? before there's no skin left for her to burn?" bon is shown, in pain from large, newly-made scars on his face and side. panel 4: zyl continues (off-screen): "before she takes more drastic measures.." bon's back is shown, bloody, bruised and starved.  panel 5: zyl continues (off-screen): "how long before you break?" bon is shown in his lava man form, looking creepy and inhuman.ALT

to celebrate my bday, here’s a sad comic about bon :)

cw: blood, starvation :(

anarchblr:

unbossed:

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My favorite new feature on the app is the one that pops one of these notifications up whenever I reblog something with an image in it. I find it especially charming that they stack up and don’t go away on their own.

Tumblr users and staff are locked in an eternal battle

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rontology:

I finally switched to firefox and I’ve seen a lot of posts about the effortless importing of preferences from chrome and how it’s important to support non-chromium platforms, but nobody is talking about the loss of productivity that happens when beautiful women come to your house to kiss you on the mouth because they heard you use firefox now. nobody’s talking about this

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mr-iskender:

Quick FAQ on Tumblr, “Value”, and the Proposed Crab Day

Motivation: I see a lot of misinformation circulating on the dash re the proposed crab day and I wanted to offer a simplified and judgement free perspective using core principles of finance.

Q: We keep being told that tumblr’s been making nothing but a loss for years, and yet, if it is so unprofitable, then why is no one is shutting the website down? Is it really in need of our money if it’s already owned by a multi-billion dollar corporation?

This is in fact not as much of a paradox as it appears to be because “value” in corporate finance terms is a function of present and expected future profits (adjusting for the fact that profits you expect to be earn in the near future are worth a lot more than equivalent profits expected to be earned much later in time).

This means that you can have a company or a product that is currently making a loss (i.e. costing a lot more to run than the income it generates) and it might still be worth some (or a lot of) money as long as you expect it to generate enough profits going forward. Uber for example has been making a loss for years and is still valued at billions of dollars because people think it will eventually generate a lot of profit.

Q: What does all of that mean for tumblr, specifically?

Given how unprofitable tumblr has been historically it’s actually a pretty good sign that management has a plan to try and make it profitable because it means they haven’t thrown in the towel yet!

But if they fail or if they decide that no matter what they do tumblr will remain unprofitable, then they wouldn’t have much business incentive to keep running it. This is why participating in crab day or spending some money on tumblr in general is a good idea, if you can afford it and if tumblr is a service you would like to keep enjoying into the future. And if the answer is no to either of those questions, that’s ok too–don’t let anyone guilt you on this.

Even more questions-and-answers under the cut! My inbox is also open for any (good faith) questions you might have.

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soberscientistlife:

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Compare paychecks with you co-workers. It is the best way to get equality.

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thingstrumperssay:

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I’m not giving context for this because it’s funnier that way.

Joining Ted Cruz’s war on Barbie on the side of Barbie.

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bogleech:

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I want to taste the lizard rice

lovelyvoidless-intrusivethoughts:

Barbie Movie™ spoilers without context:

(more in the reblogs!)

A poster for BBC's Pride and PrejudiceALT
A poster for The GodfatherALT
An image of a horseALT
An image of a person with watches fully covering his wristsALT
"Ah, the opposite of gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss: Manipulate, mansplain, malewife."ALT
A group of construction workers holleringALT
A woman drinking water and missing entirelyALT
A dude playing guitar while sitting on the grassALT
The word "fascist" highlightedALT
"The sharks" and "The Jets" from West Side Story, confrontedALT

yellenabelova:

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#The best thing about Barbie (2023) is probably Ryan Gosling who method acted too hard

nessa007:

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RYAN GOSLING
“I wouldn’t dare Ken-splain the Barbie movie.”

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