scrapbook reflections greater than ourselves

your bed is probably as happy to see you as you are to see it. ‘here comes the warmth slab’ it thinks

wrong it thinks “god hope this dipshit doesnt spill beans all over me again who tf eats beans in bed”

stop reblogging this new year new me i havent spilled beans in bed ONCE this year

uh oh

It gets funnier the earlier in the year you reblog it

Sabrina the Teenage Witch  |  1x01 - “Pilot”

obsessed with saying “both. love wins” when asked to make a decision between two things…it is not functional and nothing is solved but u know what? love won. what else matters truly

Lemmings don't jump off of cliffs unless they're being chased. Frogs don't stay in boiling water unless they've been lobotomized first. Crabs don't pull each other back into the bucket unless they are desperately and randomly grabbing for anything to try to get themselves out, out of fear for their lives.

Actions taken in specific, negative conditions don't exemplify the nature of all beings.

Before you mock a sheep for staying with the flock, ask what dogs nip at its heels when it strays too far, and what wolves wait just beyond the edge of the pasture.

Quick Ripley page

LOVELY art of one of my earliest Space Crushes <3

She strong!

HECK YE <3

Rip Estelle Getty (1923-2008), Bea Arthur (1922-2009), Rue McClanahan (1934-2010) and Betty White (1922-2021).

remember in School of Rock where the black girl was afraid to say she wanted to be a singer because she was fat and didn’t want to get laughed at but Dewey was all “who gives a shit, I’m fat too and so is aretha franklin but we’re still valuable and we rock” and then the girl felt better without having to be told that beauty comes in all sizes or some other bullshit. thats the kind of body positivity I’m looking for. tell these babies that they’re worth a damn without tying it to any other arbitrary ideals

Also like. when she asks him why he isn’t on a diet. and you just know she has heard this dumb “tip” a million times before (“just go on a diet!” “if you really apply yourself you can easily use x amount of weight!” “you just don’t want it enough!”)

& Dewey just

there’s nothing wrong! with liking food! and being hungry! you don’t need to starve yourself to fit into some bs aesthetic! eat food!

john “the mountain goats” darnielle’s 2021 new year’s eve twitter thread, for those who missed it

[ID: A twitter thread by ‘The Mountain Goats’ (verified) @mountai… Thread reads (with line breaks denoting separate tweets):

so I was washing potatoes last night when I got excited

it was just one of those moments, you know. I was getting dinner together and I looked at the ingredients coming together on the counter

and I thought to myself, and said aloud, “Hell yes, I have three potatoes”

living with me means having to develop a robust tolerance for hearing a guy occasionally cry out aloud: saying, for example, “Hell yes, I have three potatoes”

but over and above my everyday state of excitement about the ten trillion small things that ease the path a little — colors, shades, sounds, flavors, sensations, moods, fleeting thoughts, moments of transcendence when you’re very lucky —

I had one of those moments of gratitude to have food. and not just the food but a counter to prep it on and a stove for cooking

but it wasn’t just the food and the kitchen and the comforts of home, either

it was me standing at the stove in a house where I’m safe. got here on my own two feet. had a lot of help. plenty of points where I wouldn’t have bet on the outcome. now I have three potatoes, you know?

here’s the thing

some of you reading this are in houses where you’re not safe all the time, and I know it

some of you are day-to-day with any of a thousand different troubles and on any given day you feel like you might buckle

maybe you’ve felt like that a lot of times over the past couple years. A lot of people have. some people have felt that way who’d had some preparation, and some people have found themselves navigating scary, unfamiliar straits

but if you’re reading this right now you managed to make it work. maybe it doesn’t feel like it worked all that well, maybe you feel like you’re coasting across the goal line with no fuel at all left in the tank,

but here you are

here you are.

having found some way to nourish yourself through it.

look at the calendar, look at the clock. you sustained yourself through this. maybe you got sick, maybe it was real bad. maybe some things got better and maybe they got worse. but give yourself the gift of a long look in the mirror

look at the person hard, uncertain times, in days of sickness everywhere, will see another year

that’s the person who will do it again, and to that person, over and over, I say, loud enough for the neighbors to hear,

Hell yes, hell yes, hell yes, hell yes, hell yes

from all of us here at Mountain Goats Central Command a thank you for seeing us through 2021. it was so good to see you in the flesh again. stay safe. trust yourselves. we will see one another through to safer times

this year’s New Year’s Eve thread is dedicated to that one guy who’s mad about people wishing one another happy new year: may he never know why people actually do it

and may the rest of us, collectively, defiantly, never forget it /thread.

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I have tragically yet seen a A:TLA crack fic where canon! sokka gets suck in a modern, no powers AU. While juggling his counter identity, the everlasting bullshit that's American high school, bumbling at modern devices and slang, avoiding his sister and dad of this universe, and trying to find his way home... he's just like, huh. It's nice to have a hot minute thats not being a child soldier. And thus begins Sokka's journey doing absolutely batshit insanity thinking its even remotely in the ballpark of normal which includes but is not limited to:

• Joining the cheerleaders thinking that they’re like the kyoshi warriors. Furthermore seeing the make-up and skirt as integral to the art. (He's not wrong, and pulls it off amazingly)

• Met in universe Zuko, whos currently a jerk, but isn't also a human flamethrower and literally hunting him down. Sokka's just normal about it while Zuko insistences they're rivals. They fight in the hallways at least once (less a fight and more of zuko frantically throwing punches and Sukka ducking and blocking with the utmost and infuriating chill.)

• Wants money. So what does he do? Goes to a karate competition. Wins. Then proceeds not to tell anyone. Not out of any actual secrecy but because this is pretty standard Gaang stuff back home.

Que the frantic sensei that arrives at the door answered by the very confused Katara and Hakoda.

•Gets more into martial arts and literally freaking everyone out. Turns out, spending the majority of your short little life fighting, keeping up with, beating, and trying to survive from not only full grown masters, but also masters that can control forces of nature plus maybe a spirit or two makes you pretty damn good at fighting.

• Casual parkour. Twenty-four seven. On roofs. Climbing up brick walls. Gravity defying jumps. Ridiculous reflexes.

Naturally the modern him that lands in his universe is just screaming 24/7. But hey, they both go home in the end. Canon sokka gets a break, modern sokka gets a crisis, as a treat.

You know what? I'm not done.

• canon! sokka in the modern world can not adjust to the animals. Everything else is fine but every time he sees an animal. With-out fail he asks, "So, it’s just a crow?" "Just a cow? Only a cow?" "a dog what?" And if he's not asking he stares for a solid 20 seconds longer than he should.

• even when he learns that cheerleading isint a martial art he still stays because he sincerely believes that it's the superior sport. At first the team thought the whole thing was a joke but now they'd slaughter the school if he was wronged.

• he meets up with his (or I suppose alternative selfs) relatives only to find out that there is a sport they play together regularly. Literally it dosen't matter what it is because he looks it up in the library's encyclopedia he has in his bag (hasn't gotten used to tech yet) and goes "oh, that's it?" And beats the whole family single-handedly.

Once In public a relative asks his dad what he feeds him afterwards and he's asked at least 3 times privately.

• modern sokka does cosplay and is a total weeb so when canon! sokka stumbles towards the house no one bats an eye at how he’s dressed.

• if not being a child soldier for a bit wasn't a sweet enough deal, it's also the fact that the whole world feels made for him in the way that there is nothing like games or training rooms only benders would have access too. Not seeing bending is weird and he misses home but also so much less for him to try and figure out, you know?

• I legitimately can't tell what's funnier. If a portal/a dimension traveling spirit grabs sokka in the fucking middle of the cafeteria, canon!Gaang appears, and trades sokkas with no fucking explanation. Or, if it’s done in like an alley or something, modern! Zuko sees, and Canon! Sokka's last words are "no one, will ever believe you" before disappearing into the ether with what looks like another him.

Sokka would be over the moon about science like one of those FMA fanfics.

• Sokka tries explaining that his girlfriend is the moon. All the sapphics agree with him dreamily, “Yeah, she’s mine too.” To which Sokka says, “No, she’s my ACTUAL girlfriend,” and the sapphics are like, “Mhmm, she holds my hand sometimes.” And Sokka gets more and more exasperated explaining that she’s HIS girlfriend only, but the sapphics are like, “No need to get so touchy about it. The moon is polyamorous. She belongs to all of us and we belong to her.”

betty white... 😢

that’s enough emotions for a whole year. ciao

The earlier in the year you reblog this the better it gets

sneak attack 200% crit damage

I saw someone yesterday be like “I don’t understand why everyone is so shocked by Betty whites death, she was so old and on deaths door” or something to that effect

Like what a grim and cynical way to look at ppl reacting w sadness at the death of a beloved tv icon. Idk it just struck me as like mean spirited for no reason.

Yuppp I saw some of the same on Twitter.

Sometimes it feels like there’s a particular group of people trying their hardest every day to be as mean spirited as possible 😔 I wish I could scream at them: It’s not like anyone feeling upset about her death is actually SHOCKED she passed away at age 99…they’re just sad/hurting. Like, there’s a massive different between “how incredible she got to live such a long, full life” and “she was really old so we shouldn‘t give a shit she passed” and for some resaon they wanna come down w/ that second take.

ALSO I just want to note that I used to wonder why people would get so upset about a celebrity’s death who they didn’t actually know. Seemed kinda weird to me. But I’ve come to understand over the years that grief is just a complex, highly individualized thing that doesn’t “make sense.” Yesterday I took the news about Betty really hard and I think the reason is because she’s one of the few stars remaining of my beloved gma’s generation and it brought up all these memories of watching GG at my gma’s house and that evoked all of my grief about her that can flare up even 19 years later. It was about Betty but it also was about so much more for me than even I myself first understood.

Sorry to ramble so much on your post, but it obvi struck a chord w/ me. But yeah…it costs people $0.00 to not be mean when others are hurting.

bro oh my god … vanilla extract

vanilla extract smells wonderful but tastes horrific on its own. but mixed with sugar and flour and cream it tastes just like it smells. we need the support of others to reach our full potential

no man is an island everyone is vanilla extract