I’m Just A Wet Boat Hermit

🍎ABBOTT ELEMENTARY ↪ S04E19: Music Class 🩷💜💙

Every time Emily reads the rulebook or researches the setting this happens:

Smol Scale

I have never seen this post before but tumblr already said I liked it. And I do like it

Me: I don't get it. I thought I was doing a lot better than I was a few years ago. I'm like 10 times more on top of things than I used to be. How does everything feel terrible now?

The Tiny Me in OSHA-approved Hi-Vis Gear Who lives in my brain and pulls all the levers: Boss, it's the fascism. You're completely gunked up with cortisol due to the fact that your entire daily life is now underscored with a haunting awareness of the rapid erosion of your rights, dignity, and any and all social safety nets, and you're also bearing witness to the most vulnerable people immediately being persecuted. This creates a natural stress response that basically means you're going to continue having memory and organizational problems, as well as emotional imbalances.

Me: BUT I HAVE A BULLET JOURNAL AND I MEDITATE NOW.

Tiny OSHA Me: BOSS, THE FASCISM.

Come and sit by the fire. Soup will be ready soon.

OH FUCK

Oh sick

Greetings from the museum! Oh yeah!

WIZARD OSHA TIP: The wizard on fire in this image is actually the safest by a mile. Please do not roast foodstuffs over a mysterious cauldron fire; magical side effects are all but guaranteed and will only get worse the longer the cauldron has been in service.

The correct procedure in this case would be to roast them over the flaming wizard instead.

Did you know that many gastropods can create a pearl, including terrestrial snails? The difference is nacre which is only found in some species of mollusks and which which gives pearls their beautiful shine. Terrestrial snails occasionally produce very small translucent white pearls which are usually lost. One non-nacre secreting sea snail, the melo melo, produces gorgeous pearls that are extremely prized and rare.

Conches can also produce pearls.

Paua (also called abalone) can make pearls as well- though they are only half-pearls (called mabel pearls)

Things animals love to make:

Just realized I'm still that kid that loved watching the videos on Sesame Street where they showed crayons being made or whatever.

I used to be 21 but now I'm 24. so you can understand why I'm so freaked out

buddy I was in this situation and then next thing I knew I was 27. watch out man

#that would be pretty awesome #she’s staring down stepmom number five #and she’s like ‘those pitiful crocs might have beaten the last stepmother but you’ll need more than that to defeat me.’ #and cinderella starts screaming while she starts lacing up a pair of timberland boots

I NEED THIS!!!!!!!!!!

I feel like many people have a fundamental misconception of what unreliable narrator means. It's simply a narrative vehicle not a character flaw, a sign that the character is a bad person. There are also many different types of unreliable narrators in fiction. Being an unreliable narrator doesn't necessarily mean that the character is 'wrong', it definitely doesn't mean that they're wrong about everything even if some aspects in their story are inaccurate, and only some unreliable narrators actively and consciously lie. Stories that have unreliable narrators also tend to deal with perception and memory and they often don't even have one objective truth, just different versions. It reflects real life where we know human memory is highly unreliable and vague and people can interpret same events very differently

Some types of unreliable narrator:

The Watson: is present for the event but does not have the same level of perception as protagonist

The Lemony Snicket: isn't present for the event, reconstructs the facts based on later research, can get things wrong or incomplete

The Ted Moseby: is present for the event but has romanticised and embellished their memory of it through nostalgia to an extent that you cannot fully believe it; is also prone to misremembering or outright forgetting details.

The Katniss Everdeen: is present for the event, is the protagonist, but is completely foreign to the world and out of their depth so they don't quite understand a lot of what is going on.

The Rose Quartz: is present for the event, but due to their personal agenda or feelings of shame hides and embellishes what actually happened in favour of a version that paints them in a better light.

The Big Brother: overwrites what actually happened in favour of propaganda.

The Jonathan Harker: is absolutely clueless about what is going on around them and the genre they're in so their perception of events is tinted by their own naivety.

The Goob: the narrator's own emotional bias clouds their judgement of what really happened.

The Tyler Durden: the narrator is suffering from hallucinations and doesn't realise it.

The Pi: the narrator has survived a traumatic experience and copes with it by turning it into a wonderful tale.

Yknow what I LOVE about the Star Trek fandom? It’s ANCIENT. I had a talk with a nice old lady at the old persons home that my great grandma is in and she noticed my Spock shirt and was like “oh I love that show I thought the premise was lovely” and you all know THE PREMISE is trekspeak for spirk and I was like “do you accept the premise because I do” and she looked at me with the eyes of someone who is reliving their otp moments and she said “the premise is all I wrote about, dear” and we just talked about spirk for a hella long time and I just love how age doesn’t matter in this fandom you can be ninety and still be the biggest spirk bitch ever how rad is that

I was today years old when I learned that particular euphemism

I was also today years old. Fandom codes man

Reblogging to spread knowledge about the Premise, because I absolutely love that bit of fandom, and I want to make sure that it survives. (and yay to everyone who is part of today’s 10,000!)

The reason it was called “The Premise” was plausible deniability. Because homosexuality was still criminalized then, and admitting to shipping a couple fictional dudes together could get you in serious trouble if you said it to the wrong person, but fans wanted to be able to find each other, and discuss their fandom in semi-public spaces safely. And so, “The Premise” became code. If someone didn’t know the code, they’d assume you’re talking about the literal premise of the show (that is, the idea that humans will have faster-than-light space travel in the future and travel around meeting aliens and having adventures), and respond accordingly.

It’s exactly the same concept as how, if you tell some random person who doesn’t tumblr that you like their shoelaces, they’ll be like “uh, thanks?” and then you know they don’t tumblr while they also have not been informed that YOU tumblr. But if they respond “thanks, I stole them from the president”… you both know. Except with higher social stakes for making sure you aren’t outing yourself as a Spirk shipper to the wrong person. It’s fine NOW of course, but it wasn’t always.

I am a simple woman. I see Star Trek content, I reblog.