coconut head stan

floaty islands

glowing mushrooms

bigger versions of normal animals

animalistic dragons

deep, sentient forests

me:

It was sad when Stan Lee died, because he created a rich universe for everyone to imagine good people running around, saving the day in, but Spongebob seasons 1-3 were closer to my own heart because they really were something else.

They were silly and light hearted, but evoked this sense of being weirdly realistic too.

I mean, how iconic are spongebob memes?

How relatable are they, that screenshots and stills and references to old quotes can create a whole new linguistic communication for teens and young adults? 

Listen, we can joke about memes being trash all day, but memes possess raw cultural energy.

people use these formats to express in easy-to-understand ways their life experiences and even political views.

Memes are a part of people’s lives, nowadays, or at least, the younger generations that grew up in this digital culture that’s taken over their lives. 

And spongebob was just so delightful. 

Had so many memorable moments. 

So many good quotes, and they don’t have to be deep. they just have to be simple. 

“I’m ugly and I’m proud.”

“Is this the krusty krab?” “no this is patrick.”

“We did it, Patrick, we saved the city!”

“The pioneers used to ride these babies for miles!”

“the inner machinations of my mind are an enigma.”

The iconic marching band moment.

am i positive that all of these moments are from hillenburg’s spongebob- well no. I honestly don’t remember. 

but it doesn’t matter, because spongebob is a cultural icon, and the show exists thanks to stephen hillenburg’s wonderful direction.

So thank you, Stephen.

bronwyn and i met at age 12 but i dont have any photos from then, really, but this is from grade 9 science class when we were being goofs and i was 13

this is from our first ever sleepover, we couldn’t stop laughing and we were sleeping on a mattress on the floor and we went to boston pizza and got plastic rings that we both still have (bronwyn kept hers on a necklace after that)

i went to bronwyn’s cottage for the first time in the summer after grade 9

we had our first kiss in grade 10 when i was 14 and were in a weird kind of dating limbo period

then i moved to the states and turned 15 and told bronwyn i was in love with her and we visited every chance we could and she sent me flowers and packages

then i went to junior prom with her and bronwyn cut her hair

then we had the most beautiful summer where i spent 5 weeks at her cottage and i cut my hair

then i went back to miami for 12th grade and turned 16 and bronwyn was 17 and we went to senior prom together

then i moved back to canada for university when i was turning 17 and we finally lived in the same place again and we loved each other so much and got breakfast together every day

then after a beautiful summer we started living together when i was 18 and bronwyn was 19  and we went to bahrain together and bronwyn dyed her hair brown and now i get to see her every morning and every night and we adventure in our city and have a coffee shop and love each other more than i could have thought. there were periods of scary intense darkness but we love each other so much and i’ve never been happier. i’ve known bronwyn since i was 12 and now i’m almost 19 and i love her more and more.

This is because there are two parts to memories - their encoding and their recall. The encoding determines their availability, their recall determines their accessibility. The reason why trauma memory and childhood amnesia are different is in this distinction. Trauma memory is often encoded differently, bypassing to the limbic system where it is stored as intrinsic memory. It can’t be recalled because it was never encoded. Childhood amnesia, however, seems to indicate that the memories are encoded, but we lose access to them as we age. This is most likely due to the development of brain structures that fundamentally change our encoding and recall of memory as we get older.