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penguinlass · 9 days
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penguinlass · 10 months
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I think it's interesting how the two big holidays we celebrate today have completely exchanged places over their lifetimes.
When it started, Towel Day was very much a memorial. The date - May 25th - has no textual significance whatsoever. Rather, like the feast day of a Saint, it is the anniversary of Douglas Adams' death. The observance with the towels and all is/was a Fandom reference, but the purpose of the holiday was to honor the memory of a Great Man - and how more appropriately than with a bit of silliness? And in the, what is it, 20? more? years since his death, the memorial aspect has been eroded away, until it is now basically a celebration of the work more than the man, fun unalloyed by grief, a way to fly your geek colors. And perhaps that's what he would want in the end.
The Glorious 25th of May is exactly the opposite. It is - or was - purely a Fandom thing. It's a holiday in text, and we celebrate it alongside the characters because, well, Night Watch is a frickin amazing book and deserves to be celebrated. And there's admittedly always been a melancholic aspect, deriving from the text itself, but the date and the celebration were ultimately fictional. What I used to say is that I celebrated both, but I celebrated Towel Day harder because it commemorated something real.
And then Terry Pratchett died.
And this silly fandom thing we were already doing proved a ready made memorial to honor the memory of a Great Man. The fan art now us bursting with lilac covered fedoras. It now celebrates the man in addition to (perhaps even more than) the work.
I always wondered if Pratchett chose May 25th in honor of Adams. And I wonder what this day will look like in another 20 years, when the grief of this death has faded as well.
GNU Terry Pratchett. GNU Douglas Adams.
Happy Memorial Day.
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penguinlass · 10 months
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Reblog if you think public libraries are important and should be maintained.
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penguinlass · 10 months
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baseball cat 🥺
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penguinlass · 1 year
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add another clove of garlic im not driving
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penguinlass · 2 years
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At the risk of my pride I'm posting this with the hope of some support. Please,please share🙏 #willprobablydeletelateridk?
Long Story, short: my husband of 3 years, Stephen, my 2 year old Ezra, and I have been living in extremely poor circumstances these past 3 years. We've been staying in my childhood home(and source of childhood trauma) that was formerly packed to the brim due to my mother's hoarding issue. It's a 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom 700sf house in the country outside a small rural town of Caldwell, Tx. The house is pretty run down as shown in pics below. It is not well insulated, has no central heat, has black mold, water stains and leaks in ceiling, no washing machine or dryer, extremely low water pressure, and no hot water in the bathtub (we take baths by carrying pots of hot water from the kitchen sink to the bathroom which takes some time since we have to wait about 3 minutes for the water to turn back on in between each pot of water). I know these are minor inconveniences but to 2 unemployed individuals with bipolar disorder and as of recently, no vehicle, it has been extremely hard to live here, 45 minutes south of College Station, Tx our closest big city and really the only place with resources for advancement. We have recently been blessed by a friend in Fox River Grove, Illinois who has offered my husband a job and all of us a living situation. However we lack the funds to get there and have started a Go fund me.
https://gofund.me/0f99b7bb
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Any help with this will literally mean the world to my family! We just want to get back to living life and being properly functioning members of society again🤕
Breakdown of funds 
●Uhaul/towing trailer- $1079
●Gas to get there- $660
●Remaining money ($700+)will be used to get new drivers licenses, for help with our friends groceries, electric bill, and gas money to help our friend get us to the various places we need to go in the first month we are there (getting established at doctors, public housing meetings, etc.)
Short Story, long: In Dec.2018 I married my husband, and just a month after being married, we found out we would be having a child (my husband had done dialysis for a rare kidney disease when he was 19 and was told he couldnt have children so this was definitely a suprise🙆‍♀️). I was struck with intense morning sickness and the flu at the same time and I idiotically left my job. Around this time we had also been paying our roommates rent since he was having a hard time and in the middle of the night,after being asked to step it up, he left and we were evicted and forced to move into my childhood home in a small rural town of 4,000 people called Caldwell, Tx, 45 minutes from College Station, Tx home of Texas A&M College and where we held jobs and our doctors were located. It was vacant since my mother had moved in with her boyfriend in another town but the house wasnt empty. It was full of antiques and random crap from garage sales that my mom had gathered over the years due to her untreated hoarding disorder.
this was the house when he was halfway finished cleaning....
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Because of extremely debilitating morning sickness as well as my own untreated depression/anxiety I was unable to help my husband with any cleaning and after alot of stress and being yelled at by my mother he basically made the house livable all by himself. He continued taking care of me and working while also battling his own, at the time unmedicated, Bipolar disorder. Due to his mental illness and my inability to function properly/help around the house due to physical/mental health, his job history fluctuated and times were extremely hard. Eventually in my 6th month of pregnancy I was able to get a job and secure an apartment above my office while my husband drove for Uber. Finally after what felt like forever living in a house that had caused me soo much trauma as a child and trouble in my relationship due to fighting with my mom about improving conditions of the property, we were out of it! However after I had my son, Ezra, I started suffering from post partum depression and lost my job and the apartment and we moved back into the Caldwell house. Out in the country, away from public transportation, 45 minutes away from any sustainable jobs and medical care (My son has frequent ear infections like once ever month or 2 and thanks to medicaid will be getting tubes may 27).
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Since then my husband and I have both been hospitalized in psychiatric wards 2 times each due to our clashing mental disorders and lack of resources. Being a young person trying to figure things out in your 20s gets alot harder when you have to be there for your mentally ill partner as well as a new baby and your own brain is trying to kill you too. Eventually I was also diagnosed with Bipolar 2 and we were both connected with low income mental health resources through MHMR and finally got on some medication that helped stabilize us. However through the help of our counselors we have determined that the thing that was affecting us most adversely was our environment and in November 2021 we took steps to getting into public housing. After 3 years,7+ jobs, and 3 cars breaking down and living in sub optimal conditions we finally had hope. Then our truck was broken into and rendered undrivable in March 2022
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and we missed 2 of our public housing meeting due to our rides being late and after finagling with the housing authority I'm still waiting for my application to be taken out of the system so I can reapply and wait another 4 months to get into housing. We have food stamps thank god but have had to rely on rides from family and friends to take us to plasma donation centers in college station to get enough money to take care of our other needs. No one has ever said anything to us but I know our family and friends are being worn thin by helping us soo much. Before we were evicted in 2018 my husband and I were functioning members of society, he was a phlebotomist and I was a massage therapist, but slowly over these past few years we have been worn down to shells of people, like zombies, just surviving and repeating the same things everyday. Our quality of life has been extremely low. Thoughts of suicide, isolation from friends and family, extremely low functioning living habits, basically just barely being able to take care of our child and not ourselves has been our life recently. Suddenly a childhood friend of my husband from around Chicago, IL has just been made aware of our situation, is well off in his living situation and has offered us hope. He just bought his second house, manages a restaurant, and owns his own shitake mushroom business where he grows and sells to local restaurants. He has offered my husband a job helping him with the mushrooms and access to his guest  room, we just have to make it up there. We need a uhaul and trailer to tow our truck which we will be selling, gas to get up there and some money for groceries/helping with electric bill ect. Until my husband can get paid for his job. We will also be applying for housing in Chicago and I'm very hopeful about this because I've researched it and there are 3x as many resources for low income and mentally ill individuals in Illinois as compared to Texas. We are going to be donating plasma and trying to gather up as much as we can as quickly as possible but any monetary aid from friends, family and others will be greatly appreciated! We just want to start ACTUALLY LIVING AGAIN😪 
💝Love and hugs in advance!💝
-abbie
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penguinlass · 2 years
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Ever missed one person in your life that somehow came and go away?
Yes
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penguinlass · 2 years
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CHEDDAR BISCUIT NEEDS HAM
callout post for my fiance:
won't buy ham specially for our cat, cheddar biscuit
wouldn't feed cheddar biscuit any of the chinese barbecue ham that went into the fried rice she made
won't share any of her meals with cheddar biscuit
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this is the cat my fiance won't buy ham for
:((((
fiance stopped just short of asking me to write this post, probably because she thinks tumblr will vindicate and agree with her. prove her wrong
make her suffer
make her buy ham for cheddar biscuit.
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penguinlass · 2 years
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Yes, I have a framed photograph of Carie Fisher in my home reminding me to take my meds everyday. Don’t you?
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penguinlass · 3 years
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penguinlass · 3 years
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Frederick Judd Waugh.
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penguinlass · 3 years
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This is the book I am currently reading. It was given to me by my grandfather who passed away about a year ago. I found some interesting documents inside from a class and workshop he went to the year I was born that dealt with this book, which showed me a new side of him 💜 I miss him.
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penguinlass · 3 years
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I found her! Olga Foroga.
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penguinlass · 3 years
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penguinlass · 3 years
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I still can’t believe Tumblr replaced all the sexy stuff with ads and thought we would not mind.
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penguinlass · 3 years
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As a hobbit, I support this!
hobbits were the peak of civilization in tolkien verse. jobs were Gardening, Stall At The Farmer’s Market, or Mailman. Shoes OFF, capris ON, 6 meals a day, high and fat as all shit. Names like Daddy Twofoot….why the fuck are we horny for elves
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penguinlass · 3 years
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