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Always useful to find something that helps with procrastination 😂😂😂

7 Reasons you might be procrastinating and how to solve them:

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Roman empire this, roman empire that, idgaf

What's your Sisyphus's boulder? (A burden you've been constantly trying to get rid off only for it to put you back to square 1)

#roman empire #gen z mood

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“The average US president has been charged with 1.54 felonies” factoid isn’t true. The average US President has been charged with 0 felonies. Donald trump, who has been charged with 71, is a statistical outlier and should not have been counted

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This hurt😭😭😭😭

Days seem sometimes as if they’ll never end

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REBLOGGING BECAUSE THIS NEEDS TO BE EVERYWHERE.

Just in case

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Breakdown of "Eat Your Young" MV - This is going to be a long-ass post because I went into hyperdrive...

My friend basically asked me to explain the MV of Eat Your Young and as you would have it... I did. This will be very long, and It is completely okay if you don't read it... if you do, wow do you have time on your hands or you hyper-fixate like I do... [there may be typos because I was texting them the rant.]

[Disclaimer: there may be continuity issues, apologies in advance... and this is in no way a "concrete" interpretation, it is just what I felt and was excited to share. Feel free to drop in corrections or your own POVs... I would loveee to read them.]

First, the mv starts with two settings we have the older people sitting, facing a stage with two human actors the second setting is the children, facing away from the adults, and towards a puppet show setup. This shows how the adults and children are shown different things, which divide their worldviews so much that they often don't see eye to eye. Going a little deeper into this, the adults are shown a play where the actors are humans who have agency over their actions… it's more, "normal", or "serious" whereas the children are being shown shadows and puppets, controlled by someone hidden away from them, they don't know who is controlling them, just that something "fun" is happening. This speaks to how we tell kids to blindly have faith in the "adults" since they know better.

Now, looking at the play on stage, A man and a Woman, meet up, a few times (shown by them circling each other), fall in love, and then he proposes, and she accepts… next, they need to choose the roles that they need to fulfill. Notice how he picks her clothes, and she picks his… It shows that we want to tailor the person we want according to our own desires or needs… They try out combinations to see what fits the best, and land on "housewife" and "soldier" [indicates these are the conventional roles during WWII]. So she goes to her work and he goes to his. They say goodbye to each other, full of love, hope… It's intimate. (the onlookers are unfazed, like it's something that's "normal", although, being that vulnerable is always taken for granted).

The woman is reading a magazine "Looks", and there is a statue, "Venus de Milo" in between her and the mirror, Venus is the Roman goddess of beauty, so she's the epitome of perfection. She's basically trying to become perfect for her husband who is still at war… so that when he comes back home, he would still finds her appealing…she ends up painting her face grey like a marble statue, which points towards the unrealistic standards we hold ourselves to…

He comes back from the war, with an arm lost… The woman is "perfect" it makes him ashamed, but it comes out as "disgust"… so what does she do… she becomes the broken statue. Loses her "perfection" and just becomes an object for his needs and wants.

(notice how when he enters without an arm, an arm enters the puppet stage and when she covers her arm, another comes out in the puppet stage… I think it is a way of saying that the "hands that are lost, are showing the way to the kids, in a way they are being told things by hands that do not exist" types. Those hands are "enticing" the kids rn… playing with the shadows and all that…)

Back to the stage that the adults face, they see that the couple has given birth to a boy The man and the woman "loom" high above the kid, as a sign of being bigger than he is. The man shakes the boy's hand. Usually, a parent would "hug" their child… but that wasn't the case for that generation. They needed to be "tough" because how else with the kids learn to deal with the harsh world. The parents then give the kid toys… he picks up a doll, and the father, clenches his fists and then takes it away because boys do not play with dolls… Pushing the gender roles to the max, the boy becomes violent… where he starts smashing shit so what does the mother do? She disciplines him and takes away his "angry" hand (which then reappears in the puppet shows... The puppet show was only showing the happy side of the family… nothing goes wrong until the kid's hand comes in and just smashes everything and removes the "disguises" of the parents.)

The father then picks the role for the kid, and then the kid disappears (which I believe indicates that we lose ourselves trying to fit into the mold our parents choose for us)

The play ends with a hook behind them… that kind of hook is usually for hanging big fish (or meat)… and they've basically "eaten their young"

on the puppet show side, the kid's hand pulls out a fridge which shows the kids the ugly reality and therefore they are scared and they run backward

but instead of it being towards the "adults" it's into the darkness.

#hozier #eat your young #eatyouryoungmv #interpretatio #icannotbelievehowamazingthemvwas #ineedtoliedown #ialsoneedtotouchgrass #adhd rant

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Random period-pain induced thoughts 🥲👍

When I said I want to be sore, I did not mean sore from cramps.

I have a hot water bottle between my legs, when instead there should be a person.

I only get disappointments but no disappoint-men-s.

#periods #these cramps are killing me #like why #pain only pain #i hate cramps

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Do you know what Love is?

Love is when they listen to my TMIs because when it comes to me, nothing is TMI anymore.

Love is when I send that niche crap that only excites me and they do their best to reciprocate it.

Love is the way they look at me when they are angry, it is still love, just a little pissed off.

Love is when they put up with me on my dumb days, days when I am slow but they explain things to me again and again.

Love is when they know by the tone of my messages how I am feeling and manage to comfort without having be around me.

Love is when their gaze softens and they forgive me immediately because nothing can make them stay mad at me.

Love is when you say it so much, it stops making sense, but still feels the same. Comfortable.

Love is my heart clenching when I think of them, because I know it is never going to end up the way I hope it will.

Love is pain.

But, it is what it is, and it is Love.

#i love you #love #poetry #poets on tumblr #short poem #original poem #i'm sappy today #sorry for being depressing

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When I was young, my father would always tell me

A forest filled with sounds is a safe place

Be afraid, when all goes silent.

It stuck with me and,

I spent every day ensuring the forest inside me would never stay silent.

I filled it with books, debates, stars, art, and scars.

I’ve grown afraid of that silent forest.

I’m afraid of the sounds that I can hear in silence.

The blood in my ears sounds like the ocean

And the heart beating, like the waves that crash against the rocks of my sanity.

In radio silence, my inner voices scream the loudest

And with nothing to drown it,

It wins. Against me.

#poetry #poets on tumblr #short poem #my words #silence #scared

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the heartstopper cast dancing with pride flags and flipping off homophobes is my new favorite thing. ever.

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My toxic trait is saying shit like, "I believe god exists, I just have nothing to do with him" but also having an god complex and saying, "i think he is being a brat and causing all these inconveniences for me"

#agnostic #toxic traits #i just like being a brat #wtf is he going to do?

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I have 99 problems, and having a kawaii PC setup which borders on being an emo gamer boy PC setup will solve 80 of them.

#pcsetups #kawaii #yes im that bitch #save me

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what i read in february 2022:

(previous editions) bold = favourite

class, race, & economy

what coming out of the ‘caste closet’ was like

world food prices are climbing closer toward a record high

i was surrounded by ‘final girls’ in school, knowing i’d never be one (usa)

petrópolis: a perfect storm of weather extremes and deep inequality (brazil)

gender & sexuality

why were scientists so slow to study covid-19 vaccines and menstruation?

bimbofication is taking over. what does that mean for you?

hollywood played a role in hypersexualising asian women

politics, climate change, & covid

‘whatever horrors they do, they do in secret’: inside the taliban’s return to power (afghanistan)

the vietnamese workers japan depends on are falling through the cracks

britain’s ownership of the chagos islands has no basis, mauritius is right to claim them

despite climate goals, europe’s 25 largest banks continue to invest billions in oil and gas

history, culture, & media

‘i remember the feeling of insult’: when britain imprisoned its wartime refugees

archaeologists in egypt discover 3,000-year-old ‘lost golden city’

the good place and bojack horseman died as they lived

‘death knows no colour’: the forgotten african soldiers of wwii

ukraine

i’m in kyiv and awake at the darkest hour – as putin’s bombs rain down

dictators aren’t pretending anymore

‘the hope is finished’: life in the ukrainian separatist regions of donetsk and luhansk

how suicide became the hidden toll of the war in ukraine

nigeria condemns treatment of africans

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My url is what it is because my dad sent me a photo of a cut finger around the time i became active on tumblr and it reminded me of a hindu story of a guy cutting his thumb off as a gift for his "teacher"... so it seemed like a sign because I had been struggling to come up with a url XD

How’d you come up with your URL? I wanna know, these things always have fun stories behind them. If yours is a song lyric or a quote, tell me why you picked that one in particular. Why did it stick out to you?

#i'm just vibing #i guess that is what i get for trying to be edgy #i also was just bored

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I could be a better boyfriend than him.

I could do the shit that he never did.

Up all night . . .

reblog w the song lyrics in your head NOW. either stuck in yr head or what yr listening to

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I am fully convinced i am being haunted, but the ghost has been real polite. On most days, that is. Sometimes though, really gets on my nerves. This one time, I was having a late night study/jam session in my library. As I sang along to Yorktown (Hamilton) this bag with papers in it just shifted and fell on the printer. I stopped dancing (because it was literally 3AM and it terrified me for a moment) around my room, stared at it and yelled, "really?! Rn? When I'm at the best part of the song! I'm telling you, your attention seeking behavior is maddening. You are lucky I haven't fucking salted you BITCH!"

When I tell you, i felt incredibly Winchester like... oh the power.

#supernatural #witchy #hamilton musical #yorktown #haunted #shitpost