either way the time will pass

(via tomcardy)

POV: you meet your mother's friend at your workplace and it's so embarrassing

my fave additions from the notes

Hang on, I'm intrigued by this. Is this an example of convergent evolution or are their genetic ties between Brazilian humor and tumblr humor?

If they win a Sumo tournament they get a giant macaron.

It's just the French that do this. The bad news is the giant macaron is inedible. The good news is it comes with a 'luxurious' box of 22 real macarons.

"and the universe said i love you."

i say this as a disabled trans person whose trans identity is made front-and-center to the (mainly cis) people who know i’m trans but my identity as a disabled person is brushed off by the very same people.

Neanderthals are frequently spoken of as if they were dead-ends of human evolution or they went extinct because of modern humans or barely contributed anything at all to modern humanity, but i like this sentence because it actually frames them more as a success. more of their DNA exists on earth now than when they were alive as their own species. merging with the humans out of africa wasn't a death sentence it was what made them everlasting.

this one is She Has Her Mother's Laugh by Carl Zimmer! im quite enjoying it so far

TLDR- Modern agriculture pollen is low in nutrients, and there aren’t enough wildflowers. Science has to develop vitamins to supplement the diets of agricultural bees. So plant some wildflowers for the wild bees near you.

From both my experience reading works by white writers, and my experience running this blog, I have come to the conclusion that many white writers are too used to relying on Whiteness being understood as the default experience of both your characters and your readers, and it makes you weaker writers with weaker technique overall.

That doesn't work as well as a slogan, though

Policing who can and can't come into a country