"Sirens is like lullabies to me."

It was the common joke in my group of friends, to respond to “are you ready?” with “I am ready to die.” 

For some reason that day, I had the thought, “is this healthy? Is it affecting me at all to be saying that I want to die all the time, even if I’m sure I don’t mean it?” My answer was no. It couldn’t possibly be healthy to repeatedly say that I was ready to die, every single day. 

I asked myself, am I ready to die? The answer was “No! I got shit to do! I got shit to do, like, tomorrow! I got dreams and stuff!” 

From then on I decided I’d change how I spoke – to stop with the suicidal ‘jokes’, to say positive things instead. From then on, I did not respond to “how are you?” with “boy, I’m ready to die,” I would try to respond with “doin’ alright,” at the very least.

A month ago, I was walking through along when a Vietnam Veteran I work with, Sergeant Lewallen, came the other way. He greeted me with, “how are you doing?” I instantly responded with my usual of “I’m doin’ good, Sergeant.” “That’s what I like about you. Every time I ask, you’re always doin’ good.”

Perhaps that’s part of the secret of beating the temptation of suicide. Simply changing how you act and what you say. Because if you say it enough times… you begin to believe it. It doesn’t work one way, either. If you say you’re ‘doin’ good’ enough times? 

- grantaire is really sad??? maybe the saddest grantaire i’ve seen?? i don’t really know how to explain it but even in his line in red & black he was more like a sad drunk than a playful drunk.. i thought that was a really interesting portrayal of R - instead of teasing enj, grantaire was kind of abrupt to him for most of the show and it almost felt like R didn’t trust himself around enjolras - R quietly nodded along enj’s words quite a few times - enjolras doesn’t really acknowledge grantaire till the barricade when he hands R the gun - after eponine’s death, grantaire literally doesn’t take his eyes off enjolras - in drink with me, when grantaire starts singing his part, enjolras breaks into the most beautiful shiny grin???? - but as soon as enj realizes what grantaire is singing/talking about, his smile disappears - also during his lines in drink with me, R is throwing stuff around angrily and no one is really being able to stop him - enj runs up to grantaire and everyone backs off - grantaire stops and, for the first time during the show, allows himself to get really near enjolras and they hold the most intense and longest eye contact???/)/ - my favorite part about this was that you could really see how much enj cares about grantaire

how gay can we make Enjolras and Grantaire before the Homophobes catch on

Hi there. I’m sorry you’re having body issues. Be gentle and patient with yourself. Hcs below:

Inspiration comes and goes, that’s natural. Sometimes I don’t answer asks until I’m inspired to answer the request wholeheartedly. There are a few questions in my inbox that are fascinating to me but I want to allow myself the time to think about a more careful response and write when I’m most enthusiastic about it. I don’t want to spit out quick and cheap work on this blog just to have it out of my inbox. I’d like to give each one a little bit of care.

I guess I just don’t force myself to write or draw or create when I don’t want to, and taking little breaks lets inspiration come back to me instead of me chasing it. I also write about things that I want to read too so I constantly have my own attention and interest haha, but sometimes it’s good to be a little selfish in that way. 

I write about things I wish I had, or had once, or want to hear, or how I wish things were handled. I want to see what it looks like when my own thoughts are written before me. I want to see how I appear in different characters and how willing I am to step into someone else’s shoes. I want to see if I grow from it. In that way it’s therapeutic for me to write, I suppose, and that’s a type motivation in itself.

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Victor Hugo

earlier this month it was 120 degrees in Australia , but yeah lets continue to mock those trying to save us in the 12 years we have left to slow climate change’s effects. 

What is the worst thing that could happen if we listen to scientists and change our ways, and then it turns out they were lying? 

because these dense motherfuckers couldn’t get it through their heads that an increase in the average global temperature is, has, and will lead to an increase in extreme weather events including goddamn polar vortexes.

“Fner ner ner, look at all the snow outside, what of your global warming now?? CHECK AND MATE SCIENTISTS so much for your fancy degrees and decades of research” of fucking course you’re still gonna get a winter you goddamn dingdongs! The Earth still has a fucking axial tilt – there is always going to be a portion of the year that is colder because that’s when you’re further away from the sun! 

This rise in polar temperatures is the reason the polar vortex is currently above the US and making Day After Tomorrow a reality

For those who don’t know, a polar vortex is an area of low pressure that likes to chill around the poles (both north and south but the north is more relevant here). These areas of cold, dense air are usually kept in check by jet streams: long, narrow, fast flowing air currents caused by two masses of air that are different in density/pressure/temperature etc. meeting. 

The polar jet streams in particular are caused by the meeting of cold, dense low pressure polar air and warm high pressure air from the tropics. It’s usually pretty strong, especially during winter, as the temperature gradient between the poles and the tropics is rather large. The bigger the difference, the stronger the wind, and the less likely that polar air escapes southwards.

However, due to the warming around the north pole thanks to the melting sea ice and warming oceans, this gradient is decreasing.

This results in a weaker polar jet stream, which allows the vortex to meander all over the place, such as down south into the US, bringing the cold dense air with it.