the question, you see, is not ‘is it too ooc for this character to cry’ but rather ‘what circumstances would push this character to cry’

this is the whump wisdom, go forth and make that character cry

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not a dream

My mom was at the store and after paying, the cashier asked her whether she'd like to receive a gift toy for her child if she had one (you get them after spending a certain amount of money as a present for your purchase) and she said he'd looked so doubtful that she had a young kid that she replied yes to his question and took the toy of 'some blue critter driving a blue car' for me, her 31 year old adult daughter and only child.

SONIC

SHE GAVE ME SONIC THE HEDGEHOG TOY THAT SHE GOT FOR FREE JUST BECAUSE SOME YOUNG CASHIER LOOKED LIKE HE DIDN'T THINK SHE COULD HAVE A YOUNG CHILD AT HOME BECAUSE SHE'S CLEARLY IN HER 50S.

BECAUSE SHE DOESN'T HAVE A YOUNG CHILD.

SHE HAS ME.

AND I HAVE A SONIC TOY NOW.

hehe

reblog to slap his bald head

reblog to slap his bald head with a tortilla

ahsoka is trying to set anidala's vow renewal up as we speak

(commission info // tip jar!)

…meanwhile it’s something Anakin can fix in like 5 minutes

you've all gotta stop acting like "overweight" is a gentle PC alternative for the word fat and not itself an assertion of the ontological wrongness of being large. Over What Weight Precisely

and it feels very much like a product of this thing where the majority of people cannot ever conceptualize fatphobia or fat politics as legitimate or really anything beyond a meanness/bullying issue that can be solved with a couple language tweaks and one plus size runway show a year. it's great that you know not to be actively vitriolic towards fat people, but if you're still calling us "overweight" and talking about the ""obesity epidemic"" and justifying our presence in the world only through the fact that losing weight and keeping it off is difficult so we should really be pitied instead of hated, you're still moralizing around our bodies and positing them as a problem!

Update on the rainbow pony~. :D

Firefighter demonstrates how to put out a kitchen fire

Reblog to actually save a life

To explain. The latter works because you’re cutting off the supply of oxygen to the fire and suffocating it

as opposed to slapping oxygen inside the pan with the downward motion

Reblogging, because this is so important. When I was learning how to cook for myself in my tweens, I had at least a five years of fire safety seminars from school drilling this into my head, and I STILL had that instinctive put-the-fire-out-with-water reflex. Didn’t even think. I saw our oily burner catch fire after frying eggs, whipped around towards the sink for water, and my brain immediately screamed NO!!! NO WATER! I mean that fire safety stuff straight up bitchslapped me out of REFLEXIVELY setting my house on fire. I found a pot lid and inched it over the burner before turning off the heat. Even if you think you know this stuff, panic is powerful shit. Make knowledge more powerful.

“Even if you think you know this stuff, panic is powerful shit. Make knowledge more powerful.”

i try to reblog this every few times i see it because you might someday need to know how to put out a fire.

fun fact I learned the exciting way: if you see something on fire in the oven, and you open that oven, it’s going to *immediately* become significantly more on fire.

because oxygen. whoops.

if you turn off the oven and leave everything closed while you get your extinguisher and call the fire department or whatever, there is a reasonable chance it will use up the oxygen and put *itself* out.

so don’t open the oven.

Or you use a plastic/silicon spatula?? Or a silicon whisk?? go to literally any dollar store they have shitty plastic/silicon kitchen utensils you can scramble eggs with without scratching up your pans

Now that’s what I call

@rpepperpotshipssciencebros please forgive me for this one

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I think life might be awesome

are you holding on to any tension right now??? tension in your FACE maybe??? free yourself from this toil

It’s crazy and fucked up that being yourself is actually the solution.

It’s like. When I was told to “just be yourself” as a kid I thought it was a passive thing. Like oh easy I just have to sit here and be myself. but the reason so many people think that “being yourself” is bullshit advice is because you actually have to make active choices to do this and it WILL make your life way more fun. You have to wear t-shirts of bands that were popular ten years ago because you like them. You have to do your hair in a way that you find cute or comfortable even if it’s “so nineties”. If your friend says a food you enjoy is gross to them, you can’t be afraid to admit you casually disagree. You have to do hobbies that you’re interested in even if you’re bad at them and you cant feel like you have to get good at something before you tell people it’s an activity you do. You have to read manga and comic books in public and get piercings your relatives think are unattractive. You don’t have to tell people you dislike that you dislike them, but you don’t have to give them your time and attention either. You have to rewatch that kids show you’re nostalgic for even if you’re in your 30s. You have to change your name if you hate it, even if only a few close friends can know. You have to get fun girly drinks at the bar. You have to order hot chocolate when you don’t like coffee and black coffee when you don’t like sweet things. I am still bad at practicing this but it is the only way to make it all tolerable.

First you have to realize that "yourself" is a construct built by the decisions you make. Then it becomes clear that being yourself is a deliberate and intentional practice, not a passive state of existence.