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ot3:

my roommates cat has been sitting outside of my door scratching at it and meowing miserably for like the past fifteen minutes and i havent let him in to give him any attention yet so the timing of this ask really makes it seem like hes decided to come anonymously harass me on tumblr instead

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adruze:

inkskinned:

nosebleedclub:

Tell me a soft memory

we would find out later i had burned off my entire cornea - about 65% of my eye. my doctor told me it is the organ with the highest concentration of nerve endings - i was in an amount of pain that can’t be spoken.

and i was blind. for the first time in my life, i was totally blind. i kept thinking about reading, about writing. weirdly, just once, about driving. we had no idea if i would ever see again. just like that - my entire life was different.

it is a strange place to reference for a soft memory, to begin here.

my siblings were taking excellent care of me, but there was a moment in the hospital where, just through bad luck and timing - both of them had to step away for a moment. i was crying at that point; not emotionally. for 3 days after this i would still be crying, my tears, like a mermaid’s, a frothy pink with blood.

my brother worried about leaving me. he had another, just-as-bad emergency.

“i got her,” someone said. “don’t worry.”

a soft hand held mine, and then she started talking.

her name was jess. she has a wife named clyde. they live a few blocks up the street. clyde fell down, but the x-rays seem to be coming back better than expected. jess says she’s got long dark hair and “more wrinkles than an elephant”. jess describes every chair in the room and every person. she talks about her two kids and her cats and her favorite memories from college.

a doctor came. i had to switch to a different waiting room. i tried to stand up to follow the voice - i found jess’s hand, following me. she didn’t let go. she kept talking the whole way: lamp to your left, just a few more steps, okay to your right is the ugliest painting, good, now a little more walking straight, you got it baby

in the new silence of the next room she sat me down and called my brother for me, telling him where we’d gone to. and she stayed there for a bit, just chatting, her voice echoing in the eerie quiet. gently describing the room to me. and then someone was rude. from the sound of the voice, a kid, i think.

“why is she crying?”

“she just lost her vision,” jess said. “she can’t see.”

“oh.” said the kid. “that’s scary.”

the kid tells me he is here because he has peas stuck up his nose. that makes me laugh, his mom (?) groans. she tells me about the kid (he’s 6, he likes paw patrol and eating cheese), about herself, about moving from cali.

jess says she’s sorry, but she has to leave now, she’s gotta go check on her wife.

“don’t worry,” says the mom. “i got her.” and then i felt her hand press into mine.

for hours like that: i am taken care of by strangers. each person just talking with whatever comes to their head - not for any reward or celebrity or real reason, i guess. just because i am scared and alone and in the hospital and blinded and need to be distracted. not everyone even got told the story - they would just pick up in the silence with - oh by the way the television is playing HGTV - do you like that kind of a thing? yeah, me too, but could never quite get into those open-floor plans, i’ll tell you -

by the time my brother is able to come back, the room is buzzing. we talk to each other like old friends, laughing, cracking jokes about if you don’t like hospital food wait until you get on an airplane and can’t believe i’m up past two in the morning what a party animal i’m becoming. i am holding the hands of someone named drew, who likes my crow tattoo and making crochet snails.

there are many dark moments full of pain in this world. this - in the low of absolute-dark, absolute-pain: people find a way to paint in it anyway. the color splash of their voices: this triumphant, radiating kindness of - let’s be here together, let me help you, let’s keep going.

i never saw their faces. i can’t remember many of their names. but i think about them often, and the way we all took a deep breath - and did something gentle amongst the pain.

Most of us could probably stand to benefit from reading this. I did. It’s really lovely.

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cryptobranchid:

i think all jobs should be like salaried or whatever the word is. like you shouldn’t make less in a month just because your hours got cut or you had something come up. all jobs should pay you a consistent paycheck, give you paid sick and maternity leave, and pay you properly for overtime.

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yodaprod:

When cassettes ruled the world….

Source: Musikkassetten & Tapedeck

posted 2 days agoJune 29, 2023 with 43,311 notes - via / origreblog

vonnegutcunt:

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hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy

posted 3 days agoJune 28, 2023 with 71,163 notes - via / origreblog

eternal-fractal:

greenycrimson:

starseekrr:

mishastoesies:

“if no art makes you feel anything, make your own art and feel something” is too raw of a line to have come from a jenna marbles video of her painting a rainbow/polka dot seahorse saying “it’s seahorse time” on a denim jacket

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Why do you people feel profound thought has to come from high places? The gutter looks at the stars too

not only did you prove your point, but you showed an example of it in the same sentence

posted 3 days agoJune 28, 2023 with 231,706 notes - via / origreblog

sigurdjarlson:

Losing it at this

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bny83:

mamoru:

mamoru:

mamoru:

if you have an android phone get newpipe

thank me later.

newpipe is:

  • YouTube without ads
  • YouTube with downloads (you can even download the audio by itself!)
  • YouTube with subscriptions and playlists without logging in
  • completely free.

this is not sponsored newpipe just absolutely fucks

newpipe also has a grade A privacy rating on tosdr.org, in contrast to youtube’s grade C

posted 3 days agoJune 28, 2023 with 12,051 notes - via / origreblog