Them

For those who missed it, here’s Phil slam-dunking Quackity’s face into his birthday cake LMFAO, I love their friendship dynamic

Riven: The Sequel to Myst (PC, 1997)

Bro I legitimately think one of the coolest things about Puffy and Sam parenting Tommy is that they are both managing to do it without Tommy realizing he’s being parented. Sam sending Tommy on little quests to gather materials and stuff for his hotel so he learns to do the work himself and not just steal or get other people to do the work all without just abandoning Tommy without any guidance like pretty much everyone else has. Puffy loaning Tommy stuff and when he tries to be a dick and take it gently explaining to him why he should give it back and promising to help him get better gear, then following through on her promises. Like they are so slick about it that Tommy’s character doesn’t even realize he’s being parented. And like he’s still a little thief who steals from Ponk and Ranboo and Eret and he probably always will be, but he’s learning to be better slowly but surely and it’s sweet.

/rp

lady dimmadome

Devonian memories in the river

Want to learn something new in 2022??

Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)

40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano I’ve ever seen)

Excellent basic crochet video series

Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)

Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)

How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)

Another drawing character faces video

Literally my favorite art pose hack

Tutorial of how to make a whole ass Stardew Valley esque farming game in Gamemaker Studios 2??

Introduction to flying small aircrafts

French/Dutch/Fishtail braiding

Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)

Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)

Color theory in digital art (not of the children’s hospital variety)

Retake classes you hated but now there’s zero stakes:

Calculus 1 (full semester class)

Learn basic statistics (free textbook)

Introduction to college physics (free textbook)

Introduction to accounting (free textbook)

Learn a language:

Ancient Greek

Latin

Spanish

German

Japanese (grammar guide) (for dummies)

French

Russian (pretty good cyrillic guide!)

top ten replacements for saying kms that don't make you sound like a fucking loser

i am literally suffering more than jesus right now

i'm going to kill YOU

i'm going to turn my entire body inside out through my digestive system

this is literally giving me incurable brain cancer

i'm going to turn into my werewolf form

sending me through the time vortex

i'm going to go back in time to kill my dad so i was never born

i'm going to start biting

literally turning into a bug

literally getting shot out of a gun slugterra style

I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.

Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.

The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.

I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.

so aria and I, trapped in quarantine for months and being generally the most extra lesbians you’ll ever meet, spruced up our kitchen. pour one out for aria, who came up with the idea of the accent cabinets and then Made It Happen. local baroque femme is engaged to brilliant handy aesthete, news at eleven. 

(I meant to share this on twitter with like a hundred people and it went SO VIRAL that I’m getting messages from family members who are now seeing it on meme aggregate sites on instagram. with some paint and a little imagination, you too can have chaos in your mentions!)