[dragonomatopoeia]

when i was a kid I was really bad (or really good depending on your definition) at hidden object games. which is to say that I would not specifically search for the objects the book asked me to look for. no. that would make no sense. what i instead did was open a spreadsheet

i then proceeded to list every single object in the image in my excel spreadsheet, highlighting the objects the book asked me to find in red as i went. Then, by the end, not only had i found the objects, I had also found and categorized all of the other objects as well. This way, if anyone asked me to find any other objects in that image, i was fully prepared

on an unrelated note i was diagnosed as autistic before third grade

[a-counter]

You used the letter a 46 times!!

And 555 letters, so the letter a is about 8.29%

The letter a is on average used about 8.2% of the time, which means you used it more than average!! :)

[dragonomatopoeia]

a-counter you are my best friend and greatest ally

[snarp]

Google Query: "best low-end compact Android phone for fucked up arthritic little hands in 2023"

Top Result: "Tech Truths (techlies.com) Best Small Phones of 2023 - 1 days ago - Our reviewers fucking loved the Samsung Galaxy Cookie Sheet, at 8"x13" and $1,800"

[spiralingintocontrol]

Unihertz Unihertz Unihertz

Gonna keep spreading the good word. My phone is the size of a credit card and you can too.

[hootenanie]

can't get any of my friends to agree with me that dueling scars (early 20th century practice among upper class college boys of semi-intentionally getting a minor facial scar from fencing) are fun and flirty despite half of them having had gender affirming surgery and tattoos which are basically the same thing. hell on earth

[solitarelee]

Tumblr is giving us a lot of different dashes but the thing is no one wants "for you" so what I propose instead is you give me the ability to make mini-dashes with specific subsets of people I follow. Let me follow 300 people but then sort them into category. Let me have one dash for all my aesthetic stuff, another for news, another for my weird feral friends. Am I the only one who wants this? Maybe. Give it to me anyway.

[boydykecreature]

2023:

1. GET! WEIRDER!

2. CHILL THE FUCK OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

3. IF SOMETHING ISNT MAKING YOU HAPPY IT’S NOT WORTH IT

4. STOP WORRYING ABOUT WHO YOU ARE AND START LIVING HOW YOU WANT TO LIVE

7. GAY SEX I GUESS

[p4nsy]

What's that poem about the cockroach and the moth where the cockroach is like "I wish I've ever wanted anything the way that moth wanted to burn itself up in that lantern" because we had to read that in high school and it still fucks me up to this day

[p4nsy]

Ok I found it it's called "the lesson of the moth by archy" and it's by Don Marquis

[play-now-my-lord]

archy and mehitabel are a treasure, newspaper columnist Don Marquis wrote a lot of these free-verse poems in character as a cockroach named archy (always lowercase because he's a cockroach and can't reach the shift key!!) who was using his typewriter & while it started out as a way of poking gentle fun at the avant-garde poetry of his time (the 1910s - startling how little "avant-garde poetry" has moved forward, isn't it) it evolved over time into some genuinely beautiful and moving poetry

[play-now-my-lord]

ALSO many of them have illustrations by Krazy Kat author George Herriman which are frankly iconic and adorable!!

[imagedescribed]

[ ID: Text reading as follows:

i was talking to a moth

the other evening

he was trying to break into

an electric light bulb

and fry himself on the wires

why do you fellows

pull this stunt i asked him

because it is the conventional

thing for moths or why

if that had been an uncovered

candle instead of an electric

light bulb you would

now be a small unsightly cinder

have you no sense

plenty of it he answered

but at times we get tired

of using it

we get bored with the routine

and crave beauty

and excitement

fire is beautiful

and we know that if we get

too close it will kill us

but what does that matter

it is better to be happy

for a moment

and be burned up with beauty

than to live a long time

and be bored all the while

so we wad all our life up

into one little roll

and then we shoot the roll

that is what life is for

it is better to be a part of beauty

for one instant and then cease to

exist than to exist forever

and never be a part of beauty

our attitude toward life

is come easy go easy

we are like human beings

used to be before they became

too civilized to enjoy themselves

and before i could argue him

out of his philosophy

he went and immolated himself

on a patent cigar lighter

i do not agree with him

myself i would rather have

half the happiness and twice

the longevity

but at the same time i wish

there was something i wanted

as badly as he wanted to fry himself

archy

/end ID. ]

[ms-t-marie]

Fb find.

[tokyozilla]

More train than dragon but I fold, metro train from the DC area cause public transit is cool

[rubyneo]

what is the most anxiety inducing form of communication

face to face

phone call

texting

email

other (elaborate in tags!)

[arias-fantasy]

the funniest thing ever just happened to me

[arias-fantasy]

im changing my name purely bc i don’t like it and we just told my family like a month ago. i haven’t been home since then but today i got back and my (extremely country) uncle gives me a pat on the back and goes “so i hear you’re my nephew now. proud of you, son” and i have to very gently say i am so so happy to hear that but i am still his niece just with a cooler name. and he throws his hat down on the table and goes “no! but ive been practicing!” so now he is calling me his nephew for fun