Just A Little Guy Doing His Best

People who cannot find beauty in every biome on earth are incredibly bizarre to me. "yeah this place is really beautiful but this place isnt :/". what the fuck are you talking about. start admiring that rock and that tree and that bug and that scrubby little plant and that weird animal and that extreme weather right now. im not telling you to go live there but please you gotta start enjoying all kinds of nature im begging you.

Author, tearfully: b-because of a century or more of mis-management and agricultural drainage resulting in successional creep to willow carr

I expect the footnote on my desk tomorrow

fun fact about character development by the way. you can make them develop worse.

While obviously World War I wasn't called that until there was a World War II to compare it to, the phrase "the First World War" actually predates WWII, in the sense of being the first war of its kind. So if you went back in time to between WWI and WWII and referred to the former as "World War I", you wouldn't necessarily out yourself as a time traveller, but people would be thinking "what an odd way to phrase that".

i think ppl would be a lot happier and better-adjusted on here if they realized that being online on a website is like being in any other casual public space full of people. if u walk into walmart u dont immediately think to yourself “i have to be friends with everyone in this walmart and if not everyone likes me i’m a failure” and u really shouldn’t feel that way online either. likewise if there’s a guy in the walmart parking lot shouting obscenities u probably wouldn’t answer him and that’s literally an exact equivalent to some of the weird stuff that people on here seem to feel they’re obligated to respond to.

I maintain that the best summation of my feminist beliefs are that men and women are not fundamentally different. There are a few quantifiable differences if you average out every woman and every man, but they are not qualitative. And most of them are socially constructed, and would be fixed if we started treating men and women the same. Neither is inherently smarter, neither is inherently kinder, neither is inherently more stoic or stronger or angrier or softer. Everyone is obsessed with the differences between women and men, with finding them and creating them and distancing themselves from the "other half". It's fucked up

the most dangerous thing in the world is a man with nothing left to lose. [thinking] or maybe something to lose. maybe a lot of things to lose? [furrowing brow] or a spider. a really big spider with... poison teeth. [exceedingly pleased with myself] the most dangerous thing in the world is a big ass spider with poisonous fangs

Migraines are literally the stupidest thing in human evolution. "Oh no, we're experiencing too much Thing! Better send a rail spike through the skull and blind ourselves about it" like c'mon, man

I do like that Minecraft horror mods exist because they all seem to be “creepy monster attacks you and makes loud noise.” Because I am 100% sure that the scariest shit you could do in Minecraft is make the game function slightly Wrong

People have been playing Minecraft religiously for over a decade now. At this point, exploiting this game’s mechanics are muscle memory by now. Literally all it would take is one slight tweak chosen at random from a list to induce a House of Leaves type breakdown

wait this is just what it feels like to play bedrock

"why do you know that" i am curious about the world around me

finding out you spent most of your life dissociated is a HUGE bummer

i thought shit didnt stick to me cuz i was slick but its cause i wasnt there #LAME

hey welcome to my evil lair, good job beating my minions. yeah hold on before i fight you let me just stand directly underneath this massive iron chandelier held up by four ropes connected to big stakes at each corner of the room. like an idiot

Idea: The bright red rope holding up the massive iron chandelier contains a live electrical wire, which will shock anyone who cuts it with a sword. The end tied to the big stake is coated with black lotus extract, a deadly contact poison.

i have an insatiable hunger for connection and an inescapable urge to isolate myself from others and they play catch with my mortal soul like it’s some kind of bean bag or something

truly one of the most demoralising things about being in the job market atm is "only successful applicants will be notified" is practically a universal standard. so you spend hours, sometimes days filling out applications, writing CVs and cover letters only to be ghosted as the only form of communication. Not even a "thank you but this time you've been unsuccessful" email. You're in a constant state of "did I not get it or have they not contacted me?" and you just have to eventually conclude you were unsuccessful without so much as courtesy, "sorry, but thank you for your application." A literal thankless cycle for months and months and months. You'd think with all the ways to automate these processes they would at least have the time, means and decency to acknowledge your submission and let you off the hook, but no. You're just in limbo in every possible way in the name of "efficiency". Solidarity with everyone going through this because it is truly dehumanising and demoralising to work so hard on putting yourself forward constantly without acknowledgement or useful communication of any sort for long periods of time, and most ppl simply will not have any compassion for what that's like.

they should invent a disproportionate emotional response that goes away when you understand it's disproportionate. they should invent a way to logic yourself out of emotions

"Isn't it weird that [thing humans commonly eat] is poisonous to literally every domesticated animal" I mean, there's a pretty good chance that [thing humans commonly eat] is at least mildly poisonous to humans, too. One of our quirks as a species is that we think our food is bland if it doesn't have enough poison in it.

I've seen it pointed out a few times that the various toxins mentioned above did technically have the desired effect, given humans started cultivating the plants and thus protected them from predators/insects, and spreading their seeds far and wide. I just like the idea of evolution/DNA in the examples above being like a benevolent Monkey Paw for the plants.

Gotta love humans. Fucking weirdos.