abowlofpetuniasandawhale

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things i’ll not call you a whore for:

sexual activity

how you dress

things i’ll call you a whore for:

stealing my food 

stealing my lemons

my cat likes you more than me

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I am at the beginning of the 'Do you love the color of the sky?' post.

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the fact that op turned off rbs is very very funny to me. anyway i want this post on my blog too.

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“Why did you follow this person ? uwu”

I’ve been here for fourteen years, do you think I remember? I don’t know who any of these people are anymore. I don’t know why they’re on my dash. I allow them to stay because they haven’t pissed me off enough to unfollow them yet. “Why did you follow this person?” I’m not sure I ever did. They’re just part of my ecosystem now.

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“do it scared” “do it badly” “do it alone” i hate to say it but. nike was right. just do it

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STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS Lost in Translation

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listening to music i listened to when i was 14 makes me realise im still the same person but taller & with a rare esoteric wisdom that can only be gained through suffering

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Every discord I’ve ever been in has had a pets channel. I like that about humans. Our companions will never understand this form of affection, yet we still love them so much that we make space for them even in a virtual communities. We care regardless of whether it can be understood or returned.

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Any kind of sleep disturbance or deprivation puts me straight into survival mode and it’s so frustrating and wildly inconvenient. Had to call out of work today because my cat decided to wake me up at 4am meowing and my limbic system had Opinions about it.

And like how do I even try and mitigate this? He’s a cat, meowing in the middle of the night and being an asshole who refuses to respect decorum is like their whole thing! I would just like it to not instantly trigger me and ruin my whole day just because I happen to be too unconscious to handle it mindfully when it starts up.

#i tried sleeping with earplugs for a few weeks because I’m just a really light sleeper in general even when the cat isn’t being a little shi #but wearing them all night made my ears itch so much i had to stop #i also switch positions constantly so headphones instantly disappear into the sheets never to return

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If you struggle to keep up with dishes it cannot be overstated how happy seeing your stove and countertop cleared will make you. Even if you can only put your dishes in the sink it's wayyyy better than nothing and might even be powerful enough to make you wash some.

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One thing that can save you from so much needless bickering online is always taking an "innocent until proven guilty" approach about whether or not somebody is an idiot. If something that a person you don't know is doing, thinking, or saying makes no sense to you, it's better to assume that your initial assumption of what's going on is wrong, and that there's some additional element in this that you're unaware of, and what they're up to makes sense in context.

Let's say that someone posts on tumblr: "oh great, there's a fucking crocodile on the backyard. Hope it goes away before I have to let the dog out." Talking about it in a very casual way like that's just shit that happens sometimes.

And this is read by someone whose first assumption is that everyone online comes from a similar background and cultural context as they do, and thinks: Well, if there was a crocodile on my backyard, that would mean there's something horribly wrong, and I would be unsettled indeed. As this person does not seem appropriately freaked out about this, then clearly they must be an idiot.

And so they swoop in to scold the OP for being so casual about something that must clearly be a dire situation, an apex predator like a crocodile roaming around is an emergency worse than any regular invasive species, they must immediately find out where that creature escaped from and not let it out of their sight!

And meanwhile, the original OP argues that every single step of that plan is insane and they are not going to do that. And they continue arguing like this, because one is correct in their stance that an escaped crocodile in an environment it doesn't belong in is a dire and serious situation, and the other one is correct in their stanse that it would be ridiculous to call animal control over simply seeing a wild animal naturally chilling in its native environment.

And this whole argument could have been avoided if the responder had taken the alternative route: Concluding that since behaving the way OP does in their own environment would be idiotic, then clearly they must be living somewhere else.

And a simple question of "are crocodiles normal where you're from?" could have settled this immediately, as the two would have immediately come to learn that one of them is from Australia and the other one is from France.

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Out of curiosity and also guilt over my own coffee intake. I wanna ask:

Now I'm not talking about when you're studying and so you drink 3x the usual amount or something like that. This isn't me asking what your record is. I'm talking about the most basic, average day, how many coffees you drink?

#basic day 2. average day 3-6 before i cut myself off or switch to tea

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It's easy to think you'd be able to do something when you know that you'd never have to actually do it.

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the french beatles

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fell for the oldest trick in the book