*monotone screaming*

Inspired by this post, my husband and I set out to take a photo like it. To much success

in case you needed to hear it today:

This is what "your emotions are valid" means.

you heard of the academic icarus, now get ready for:

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You know what? one more on the house:

Academic Oedipus: despite all your efforts, it went exactly the way your supervisor said it was gonna go, and now everyone is cursing your name until you’re ready to claw your eyes out.

Academic Cassandra: you have abundant evidence to prove your hypothesis, but nary a journal in sight will actually publish your paper.

Academic Aeneas: that one person who survives over and over and over again because someone did their work for them.

many thanks to those who thought this post was about gomez addams. from this moment forward, tis

we need to de-glamourize hollywood. impossible to hold an industry accountable when they are successfully selling the world a myth that it's a privilege to work for them (often for free, in insane conditions, while being forced to live in one of the most expensive places on earth). the glitz, the costumes, the fantasy, the parties, the paparazzi, all of it draws the public eye away from some very ugly realities.

u think iron man ever just...goes through a car wash? just stands patiently on the conveyor belt and lets himself get soaped up & buffed & comes out all shiny and clean?

I can't use earplugs - my ears are too tiny - but I do have giant around ear headphones, ear buds I found that actually fit (Back Bay Audio), and now these guys that I got specifically for my local ren fair, but honestly I may just start wearing them in general (for $13 they have amazing sound quality)

Of the 19 hijackers who carried out the Sept 11 attacks:

This was known at the time. Also known at the time: Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda (a terrorist organization NOT a government) were responsible for the attacks.

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thinking about beefsteak fungus. imagine you're walking through the forest. and one of these reaches out. and (tenderly, sensually) licks you