this years girl

omg if i was an oracle i would be LYYYYYINGGGG

its actually maddening when people reduce skyler down to a "girl boss" without looking into her actual character and how her competence changed the trajectory of the show's events. we're told from the very beginning that walt is intelligent, he's wasting his intellect teaching high school chemistry, he was responsible for helping launch a now wildly successful company. this is stressed to the point that the first few episodes really linger on how much "dimmer" the people around him are: hank is an ignorant loudmouth, marie is a vain airhead, jesse is a raging dumbass, and skyler has her pipe dreams of writing, doesnt she?? how Cute. but as the show progresses, we start to realize that walt is not some tortured genius surrounded by incompetents. skyler is just as smart as he is: she picks up right away on his bizarre behavior, she does her research and puts together pieces in an exacting manner, she thinks ahead to potential consequences and scenarios that walt doesnt even consider. we learn that she's brilliant with numbers and finances, that she's keenly observant and dedicated. and that fuels walt's resentment. he was the genius behind this empire, the one in control of everything, the one singlehandedly rescuing his family from ruin. his pride was such that he saw skyler as his loyal handmaiden, his inferior (trying to rape her in the kitchen is the pinnacle of this attitude). but as soon as skyler got involved and started solving problems and running things, he grew resentful and hateful. skyler forces him to confront the fact that he's not solely responsible for all of this success and that he lucked into a great amount of it. his wife becomes his equal for the first time in their marriage and he can't stand it. and it just makes u think: why Did skyler stop writing?? why did she sound so unconfident when marie asked about her novel?? why did gretchen end up with elliott?? was it just because elliott "got" her first?? or could walt never be in a relationship with someone who was so obviously his intellectual equal and could not be dissuaded from this fact??

Piracy is a “victimless crime”? Idk i was kinda hoping there would be a victim. I want the mouse dead

everytime this gets notes there's a chance i will see them while outside without sunscreen and go oh yeah. so ty for being part in my cancer prevention

what if it happens on the 4th of july like can u imagine

not my bald ass drinking tea earl grey hot

nobody with a tumblr in 2026 is a good person

i keep thinking about whether upon hearing about darla's pregnancy some vampires like... started using protection again

i don’t use “special interest” for myself anymore because i think it unnecessarily pathologizes passion and further alienates the experiences of autistic people from “normative” society — most people have areas of passion, only pathologized people have their areas of passion viewed as marks of disorder — and also because i think flapping my hands and shaking when i see particularly inventive fashion design is the only appropriate response and everyone else is underreacting

tumblr is kind of cool as a platform. i like that it's semi-anonymous and at the same time personality driven rather than "communities" (I think this is actually a bad term for what e.g. subreddits actually are) driven. it's a little gamefied but not to the extent that other platforms are. it's longform blogging so it tends to be better than just-the-quips platforms like twitter in terms of content. and it's not photo/video based so you can actually be somewhat private and both the ugly and the beautiful have relatively equal opportunity. i think it's both what makes it kind of special and unpopular.

[recommending something i sincerely love] ok so the thing about it is it kinda sucks

I don't need the chatgpt random algorithm to write emails for me because I already have a custom and 100% flawless algorithm called "writing the exact same three emails with the names changed"

"but op I work in an office I have to write way more emails than you" well that's your fault for working in an office i got nothing to do with that

to everyone who wants help with emails: go through the notes of this post. there are ideas I've never thought of and plenty of scripts for all kinds of situations/jobs