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Reminder to self: You are not suddenly horribly out of shape and incapable of even moderate exertion. You have not suddenly developed asthma. You have hayfever. You are congested. Do not spend three days worrying about being unusually out of breath after your normal exercise. You cannot breathe normally through your nose right now. It is temporary. Stop worrying.

#every time my allergies act up or I get a cold I do this #my car changed color from all the pollen #I’m going through so many tissues even with the allergy meds #why am I so out of breath after climbing the stairs? #something must be seriously wrong with me

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#Usually third person plural #I’m talking to myself which means there’s two people I guess? #Poll

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i think women should get into polearms in a big way. not a lot of women in polearms these days. would love to see women doing battle with polearms.

#local hema club won't let us do polearms #apparently they used to #but there was an incident #no one was hurt #the protective gear did its job #and gave its life in the process #you can generate a lot of force with a 6-foot long stick #replacing the blade with foam doesn't change that #polearm

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Repeating to myself that self harm is not activism and I do not need to feel guilty for indulging in things I enjoy to comfort myself while there is stuff going on because I cannot do anything for that at this point in time

#Important to remember #Self harm isn’t helping

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this is a callout post about the people in the Fiber Hell Discord

Their crimes; made me start watching Supernatural in the year of 2024

#Sometimes I think about finishing the series #But my to watch list is already so long #my sympathies OP #supernatural

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Everyone needs to see Boney M performing Rasputin on stage.

#he must be so tired #the costumes! #Boney M #Rasputin #Youtube

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I read an article years ago, I don’t remember where, but it was about a struggling family who drove a Mustang.

They weren’t struggling when they bought the car. But then she got pregnant with twins, her husband lost his job, she couldn’t work because of pregnancy and post-pregnancy problems, the twins needed formula, they had medical bills…but they still had the Mustang.

She felt self-conscious and guilty driving it to the food bank. She knew people were judging her for driving a nice car while claiming not to be able to make ends meet. But they needed a car. They had a safe, reliable car in good condition that was already paid off. If they sold it, they'd have to use some of the money to buy another car, something cheap. Something that would require more repairs and maintenance and have more risk of leaving them stranded.

No car was not feasible. Trading in the car that did not require a lot of money to keep running for something more socially acceptable for poor people would not help them and might cause further problems. So she drove a Mustang to the food bank.

I realize a working car is different from a necklace or a video came console or cable subscription, but even so, ask yourself “is the money from that sale, or the money saved from skipping something, enough to solve the bigger problem?” Because in most cases, the answer is no. Giving up every luxury, every nonessential, won’t make up for not making enough money to live on.

the thing about the "um excuse me if you're as poor as you say you are why don't you just sell all your most treasured possessions" thing that people love to trot out as some kind of "gotcha" is that they do not acknowledge how fucking soul-crushing it is to be in a situation that is already destroying your mental health and then be forced to sell one of the few things in your life that still bring you joy

#poverty

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look at this overgrown wireless charger

#Love this #Thor #marvel 2012

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You can boop yourself.

#Boop #tumblr

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The two best reasons to get into fossils are booping trilobites and getting to say the word "fossiliferous" a lot.

Fossil [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

[Cueball is holding two pieces of rock in a paleontological site. Megan, Ponytail and White Hat are in the background.] Cueball: It's weird to pry open a rock and see an animal that no one has laid eyes on for 400 million years.

[Zoom in on Cueball looking at the fossil he is holding.]

[Cueball pokes the fossil.] Cueball: Boop! Off-panel voice: Hey! Don't boop the trilobites!

#boob! #xkcd

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Last night's dream:

It was an amusement park or a tourist town of some sort. There were a lot of people waiting for this one room (large room? series of rooms?) in a larger building but many were let in at a time.

You go in and go to a little kiosk and enter your information. Name, address, and something nonsensical? I don't remember all of it but I do know that some of the questions were random and possibly had no answer, you just made stuff up. And then you got a print out of how much "money" you got to spend. I was unclear about whether or not everyone got the same amount. Then you wandered through what was essentially a junk shop with display cabinets. There were ceramic masks. Food made with honey. Cheap toys. Nesting eggs in bright colors. Some kind squishy egg with a creature inside that may have been a toy and may have been an actual living animal. Everything was clean and in good condition but a lot of it was secondhand. And further in were lockers, and you could open and reach in and some were empty and some had items. I found a few dollars in one, and another had an addressed envelope with a note on it asking it be mailed. There were other areas I didn't get to.

The pricing was never explained, but you could only buy stuff with the credit assigned at the beginning. You didn't have to spend it all, you could come back later, but there was a limited amount of time to shop and then the first group would leave and the next group come in.

I knew most of the stuff was only special because of the situation--like prizes in an arcade or doodads in a gift shop. I also knew that the store's pricing did not match outside-world value--scattered throughout the shop, mixed in with secondhand knickknacks and easily overlooked, were items that were actually valuable. I think some items were left by other shoppers, especially in the lockers. I was also certain that there was something truly special, magical. Whether that's because dream shop had magical items or because dream-me, like awake-me, approaches just about all shopping with the hope bordering on belief that this time I'll find something truly amazing and perfect and possibly truly magic, I don't know.

I took the cash and the envelop (I didn't know how long it had been there but I knew other people passed it over because why spend your limited credit on dropping off a stranger's mail?), and was debating a white ceramic mask that had been my first choice but seemed less special the more I thought about it but I kept coming back to it. I was also considering the nesting eggs. I woke up then and don't know how people checked out.

#dreams #I don't know if I can use this in a story #but I want to remember it anyway

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you know how sometimes you see a shape from a distance and hope it's a cat or other small pettable animal. but it turns out to be just a plastic bag or something. well that's sort of what just happened to me, except for some reason i decided it must be a gargoyle statue someone had decided to abandon on the side of the road. so i think i may have just had a truly unique human experience.

#way back when I took a Native American mythology class #the teacher told us about a canoe trip he took where they thought they saw a bear #on the way back they were closer and saw it was only a stump #his companions told him it was both #a bear spirit and a stump #or maybe it had been a bear and had become a stump #it was a long time ago and I don't remember the details #I don't remember what tribe they were #I don't know how widespread the belief is #maybe it's not a belief at all and they were trolling my professor #but whenever I see something I think is an animal #and then find it's an inanimate object #I think of that #maybe the gargoyle spirits aren't getting any new statues so they've moved on to roadside trash

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It should not be this hard to give the government my money.

#Monday I get to call the IRS #and tell them they screwed up #and I can’t finish this year's taxes until they fix last year's #taxes

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https://vm.tiktok.com/ZTdQuxw52/

I think I found my new favorite rabbit hole. This voice actor does Shakespeare scenes in a southern accent and I need to see the whole damn play. Absolutely beautiful

#Love this #shakespeare #marc antony #julius caesar

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Blue Beetles, Charlton Heroes and Booster Gold. Art credits: Keith Giffen, Eddy Barrows, Chris Batista, Justiniano, Mike McKone, Patrick Olliffe and Darick Robertson

#Still hurts #blue beetle #booster gold #skeets

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This is 4x rarer than most other iterations of the meme, reblog today or wait 4 years.

#pirates of penzance #happy birthday frederic #leap day

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#Happy Birthday Frederic #Leap Day #Pirates of Penzance #Paradox #for such a beastly month of February #28 days as a rule is plenty #Youtube