edamame is just boiled soybeans

Just another day in customer service

It’s not even funny how relatable this is.

How it feels recently. I've been struggling to write 😭 life and writers fatigue really kicking my ass

Redwood National Park - Author: IrisSultry

have you heard of this spray that makes you see hair on your face that is otherwise invisible so you can shave it with a dull plastic razor that comes in a 20 pack which will be on this planet for hundreds of years??? buy. have you heard of this single use sheet masks that does nothing different than a normal mask and you have to wear it overnight (it will come off) and on flights (you look crazy)??? buy. have you heard of this camera that makes you see your greasy scalp (normal) and dead skin (also normal) up close so you can purchase a treatment for hundreds of dollars and/or exfoliating scrub containing particles that are going down your drain and straight into the sea???? buy. have you heard of this special plastic gadget that

Gwen isn't even mad because she knows how it is when you give Merlin a lil' smooch on reflex.

"when i was your age, netflix came to our house in the mail" never gets old. they don't believe you, because they can't, because they cannot conceive the apparatus by which this would be true. but it is true. they mailed me season 1 of the sopranos with stamps. with fucking stamps man

The final stop. Kirill Zibnitsky

peeta tried to save him and katniss by saying she had a baby, because he knew that would pull at the capitals heart strings. In a dystopian society, peeta mellark knew the capital would care more about a fetus than the real dying children . this sounds oddly familiar

75% decrease in insect biomass within my lifetime and I'm supposed to care about cover letters

i have a long history of by-force befriending people who are terrified of social interaction and of whom i was deeply reminded as i read murderbot but i can never ever tell them that because i think it would feel like an insult instead of the intended utmost possible praise

when they told murderbot it could hang out with them and it looked so genuinely horrified it startled everyone, i thought of early encounters with like three of my best friends. with so much love in my heart

one time i was out drinking with a coworker and i saw our new boss sitting alone at another table in the bar. it was winter on an island so no tourists and we were the only three people in the whole bar. we’d only met earlier that day in a meeting where they briefly introduced themself to us. i walked over to our boss and invited them to sit with us and in their expression they visibly scanned through ann internal script of how to politely turn me down and settled on “I don’t socialize with my employees outside of work.” I said, “I don’t socialize with my bosses outside of work—on the mainland. You just moved to an island in the middle of the off-season.” He said, “Even so.”

I told him to suit himself and went back to the table and told my coworker, “Give him a month.”

we all lived alone in separate company housing in the woods and were quite literally each other’s only daily social opportunities but he dutifully avoided me as soon as we clocked out. after 5 pm he only communicated with me over our work radios where we had to address each other as assigned numbers.

anyway recently my iphone photos app prompted me to view memories from this month last year, which includes a video of him standing barefoot on a kitchen counter at a mutual friend’s house at 2 am, shouting at me in fear while i drunkenly tried to bite his ankles. we’re in matching tiedye shirts, which we made together at a cookout.

doing this to introverts is how i’ve curated my beautiful social menagerie

embarrassment has good bones

"if tumblr dies you can find me on bluesky" "if tumblr dies you can find me on Instagram" if tumblr dies you cannot find me. It's over. I'm free.

Going to see children and adolescents dance badly, play ball badly, sing badly, play recorder badly because they are young: YES! YOU ARE LEARNING! INCREDIBLE!

People are so rude about going to watch the children in their lives do stuff shittily. “Ugh toddler dance recital,” “ugh tee-ball weekend again,” “ugh nativity play.”

That guy learned what skipping is this year and now he’s playing the piano the worst I’ve ever seen but the best he’s ever done! AREN’T YOU CAPTIVATED BY THEIR ABILITY TO DO A LITTLE BIT WHEN PREVIOUSLY THEY COULD DO NOTHING? Be filled with wonder and joy!

PEER REVIEWED

when my brother was in toddler hockey they had to skate back and forth between the stands to practice going fast and it was AMAZING cause they were so slow and wobbly so it was just a line of a dozen little armoured-up little meatball tanks frantically shuffling away from you, then they’d have to stop turn and come back and none of them were taller than the wall so you’s just see shuffle shuffle shuffle shuffle, ALL OUT OF VIEW, then hear think-thunk-thunk-thunk-thunk as they all slowly collided with it one by one

Children doing things are so motivated and terrible and enthusiastic, they’re like puppies

I’m watching Splash (1984) which is a romcom about a guy who falls in love with a mermaid, and when she chooses a human name she chooses Madison and guy says “that’s not a real name, but alright” which seems to imply that Madison was not a name until at least the 80’s and all girls named Madison are actually named after the mermaid. thought you should know

I think...you might be right

what the fuck

josh’s speech about how to understand if you’re in love with someone/like them not platonically, but romantically is one of my favourite buddie moments ever, and eddie is not even there

because, yes, they’re talking about tommy, but the same things apply to eddie from buck’s pov, and it just shows that buck has been in love with eddie this whole time, he just didn’t know it, because he didn’t understand that that’s how being in love with a man feels like, because he never experienced it before and never understood it

again, thank you, tommy, for finally kissing this dumbass. you finished the job that tk started in the lone star crossover

it was the key for buck to finally understand what his feelings toward eddie were this whole time (but he’s still in denial of “hopelessly pining for his best friend” because that whole “this doesn’t change a thing between us” moment sent him the wrong signal, since eddie wasn’t ready yet)

slow burns are the best thing in the world, it’s an agony in the best way possible

and i absolutely love that it’s a queer slow burn, because it happens so rarely on screen, but a lot of us have experienced it in real life

finally, a great queer friends-to-lovers representation, because it’s close to what sometimes happens in reality

and i really don’t get some people saying that “buck’s bisexuality came out of nowhere because he never displayed any signs of attraction to men before”, when he literally had a “boy crush” on eddie this whole time, and as a bisexual myself, i clocked it right away

i’m also fully convinced he had a small crush on tk in the crossover episode, and his reaction to tk saying “i gotta mention though, i already have a boyfriend” after buck invited him to meet if he visits LA was like, “oh, that’s not what it is. or is it? i don’t know”, and then eddie came into the picture and distracted him from this line of thought before he could think about it too hard

like, tk could be buck’s first bi-awakening, if he wasn’t taken and pursued a relationship with him, and it was in season 4 already

- in love with eddie?

- it wouldn’t be so crazy

stuck in a timeloop called i just have to get through this week