All Systems Welcome!

ID: first image is a photo of a tree with two huge oval-shaped holes pecked into its trunk, maybe two or three feet tall and four inches wide, with a big pile of woodchips and bark at its base. second image is a pileated woodpecker hanging onto the underside of a branch end ID.

in one of those phases of crippling existential self-doubt where the nervous horse that controls my productivity is just lying down in the mud and won't get up. the horse is asking questions like do I deserve carrot for big jump if big jump meaningless and is it wrong to be a horse. I'm trying to goad it with compliments and treats but so far the horse won't bite, it's too busy ruminating about the cosmic value of horses

we're telling the horse you can make the jump, you're such a special horse for being able to do the big jump, everybody loves it when they get to watch a big jump, you will get so many carrots, and the horse is not buying it. it's just snorting at us. the horse is saying well there are other horses and flicking mud at us with its tail without getting up. we're telling the horse: but not for us! you're the only horse in the world to us! what must we offer you, nervous horse? o, nervous horse, take pity on your believers!

the horse is questioning the validity of a system in which carrots are rewarded to horses who make the big jumps, seeing as every horse wants a carrot and big jumpers are few, and wants to know why we can't love it for its talents in identifying threats like plastic bags blowing in the wind & being so alert it has a nervous breakdown, instead of expecting it to jump all the time, and perhaps the horse would enjoy a career in calligraphy or nursing instead of this jumping for carrots rigamarole. our negotiator was forced to state that the horse is, nonetheless, a horse. the atmosphere remains tense.

@io-archival

[image description: a divider made of photos of pancakes and waffles. This is followed by a breakfast themed grammar worksheet with sections for spelling and plural nouns, the words too and also and either, synonyms, subject pronouns, and fixing badly written sentences. It also has a word of the day section with the word Emulsify. There’s another pancake and waffles divider below the worksheet. End ID]

Isekai called How I Got Reincarnated as an Average Duck Into a Magical World Full of Sickass Fantasy Things. Then it's just two dozen episodes of a duck sitting peacefully on a lake. Every once in awhile it chases an adventurer or some magical bullshit happens nearby.

when ur plural friend reacts with several emojis.... yup i got the whole crowd laughing

I love that thing when people get a little bit tongue-tied and garble what they’re trying to say so they make a little “blegh” 👅 noise and start over. verbal reset button. hitting the top of the tv to unscramble the signal

starting your journey of becoming a kinder person is an accomplishment to be proud of. redemption is hard in so many angles. but your efforts to become a better person are recognized and appreciated.

[ID: A colored pencil drawing of a pink and green sparkle-dog style original character. The date in the background reads 04/15/13. The character is a canine with mostly pink fur, with light green patterning stretching from the mouth down the stomach and on the legs. The front two legs are accessorized with patterned socks, the one on the character's left being black and green stripes and the one on the character's right being rainbow stripes. They also display green hair cut in a shaggy longer-short emo style. Their tail is also mostly pink, with green and black accents. The background is multicolored checkers, and the border of the image is edited digitally with curves and circle patterns. There is a neon green text in the bottom left displaying a music note and the username nichansu14. End ID]

[image description: a screenshot from rocketman (2019) showing elton john in a car dressed in an extravagant pink feathery outfit, with big pink sunglasses on and a bird shaped hat. the feathers extend into the personal space of the person beside him, who’s dressed in black and does not look impressed. elton is labelled “children’s librarian” and the other man is labelled “reference librarian” /end id]

Image Description: “The illusion of free choice” meme showing a cow standing in front of two hallways that appear to be divided but aren't, with the two dividing barriers being labelled “Acting like a shithead to drive people away” with Jax and "Acting like a doormat to keep people close” with Ralsei. The end result for both sides is “Realizing that that was an unhealthy coping mechanism you were doing because you were an egg who was trying to opt out of being a person” with the trans flag.

teamwork makes the dream work. and dreamwork. makes shrek

[Image ID: Tumblr tag from tromboneAlert reading: my spouse and i sued to say this so often that now we finish a task together and just say "shrek" /End ID]