banjo enjoyer

a single, solitary, earth-shattering note thunders across the battlefield like a tsunami.

time to make a post on tumblr. surely no one will interpret it to be as offensive and bad intentioned as possible.

I hate what's happened to the word "triggered" because a lot of people are Not very good at realizing when they're having a PTSD response and end up lashing out at strangers on the internet about it and even when you recognize that this is happening to someone else there is not a lot of language that can allow you to compassionately make them aware of what's happening without sounding like you're accusing them of being irrational and flipping out over nothing

I believe I picked this up in social work school - I have very recently started trying to use “activating” rather than “triggering” and I, personally, find it much easier for myself psychologically. Because yeah, this thing activated you. It activated your emotions, your memories, your ability to be in the present moment. It’s a much gentler word, to me.

culture is so interesting because I currently live only 200 miles (322 kilometers) away from where I grew up - still in the same state - and I find myself experiencing moments of homesickness. What is THAT about (I know what it’s about. Still!)

got curious so I googled and this is roughly the same distance from London to Liverpool, or Stuttgart to Zurich, so I feel a little more normal about the cultural differences.

been lightly researching cultural practices that may have been familiar to the first people in my fathers’ family to come to the US and goddamn it why are so many things evangelical Christianity. Again I KNOW why. But c’mon, man!

Stardew valley is problematic because it forces you to have an outside cat in a threatened woodland environment

it’s a beautiful day to check out a book from the library

its a beautiful day to return a book to the library unread after it auto renews 3 times

The library says thank you for boosting our circulation stats and the book will still be here later if you want it another time <3

Been feeling a bit hopeless of late. Wasn't expecting to stumble across a quote that would fundamentally alter my perspective and make me cry during my lunch break but here we are

This is an excellent sentiment.

"when i was your age, netflix came to our house in the mail" never gets old. they don't believe you, because they can't, because they cannot conceive the apparatus by which this would be true. but it is true. they mailed me season 1 of the sopranos with stamps. with fucking stamps man

culture is so interesting because I currently live only 200 miles (322 kilometers) away from where I grew up - still in the same state - and I find myself experiencing moments of homesickness. What is THAT about (I know what it’s about. Still!)

got curious so I googled and this is roughly the same distance from London to Liverpool, or Stuttgart to Zurich, so I feel a little more normal about the cultural differences.