- Virginia Woolf | Selected Letters

take figures out of their boxes btw. sew patches on your favorite jacket. go to bed with your favorite plushes. wear the pants you usually save for special occasions. draw something cool on your wall. put a sticker on your laptop. dye your hair and pierce your lips. glass is meant to break, metal is meant to rust. items are meant to be used. that's how the world knows that somebody loved them.

When my aunt died of covid, we had to clean out a lot of stuff that she was saving. Foods she was going to try, she was a great chef, spices she'd never opened or only used sparingly, lotions and bath things she hadn't used. After she died I started making a point of using things up: the good vanilla that has to be imported, that we finally found more of, we'd used barely an ounce before she passed away. Even though we love it. I just got my family new bottles of it for Christmas because we used one up. We enjoyed that happiness. Sometimes I still get the impulse to wait for something special, or awful, to save nice things for celebration or comfort. The phrase that always echoes in my mind is "use the good vanilla". And I have been (burning the candles, squirting the body wash, dissolving the bath bombs, putting the saffron in things). And it's been great. Use the good vanilla.

the city where we live doesn't allow public barbecues so my brother fucking welded a grill to a handcart and now hosts "chill and grill sessions" where he sends all his friends his live location so they can hunt him down on their bikes with sausages in their backpacks while he carts it around evading the police like some sort of barbecue vigilante, grilling on the run. i have never been prouder of him

why the fuck does english have a word for

but not for “the day after tomorrow”

???

Because you’re not looking hard enough! ;)

Overmorrow = the day after tomorrow

Ereyesterday = the day before yesterday

Example: I defenestrated my brother ereyesterday. I shall defenestrate my sister overmorrow! Because I hate my family and also windows.

english has some of the best examples of stupidly specific words, tbh

Rhotacism (n): excessive use of the letter “R”

Lingible (adj): meant to be licked

Whipjack (n): a beggar, specifically one who is pretending to have been shipwrecked

Yerd (v): to beat with an object with a stick

Roddikin (n): the fourth stomach of a cow or a deer

Balbriggan (n): a type of fine cotton, most often used in underwear

and my personal favorite

Cornobble (v): to slap or beat another person with a fish

This makes the English nerd in me extremely happy.

@poor-yoricks-skull I found you the word for slapping someone with a fish

- j (x)

hey guys. Drink water. Eat food. Take care of yourself. It’s ok if you need to take time for you.

— Joyce Carol Oates

To any suicidal followers I may have: This is a sign to not kill yourself. You are loved and the world is special because you are in it. Keep holding on.

Reblog this when it’s on your dash. You will save someone’s life.

10/10 no garlic bread needed.

<3

WHO NEEDS MIDDLE BITS WHEN YOU CAN HAVE ✨ 𝒔 𝒄 𝒆 𝒏 𝒆 𝒔 ✨

So I just binge watched the majority of the Percy Jackson show on Disney+ (episode 3 and onward in one sitting) without having ever read the books or watched the movies (which I'm told aren't that great??) It's now 2:16am and I question my life choices

Update: I tried to find the first book in my local library system, but somehow out of 8 copies, NONE were available. I put three books on hold, and my mom took me to pick up one of the other books once the library had it, but Percy Jackson supposedly hadn't arrived yet. I browsed the kid section anyway to see if I could find more of Rick's books. Tell me why that shelf had ZERO organization, with book one of about four different series' all right next to each other, books two and onward scattered all over the place and very NOT in order. Anyway, one shelf down I DID actually find The Lightning Thief, but it looked closer to death than Percy in episode four of the show, sorta like it'd been to hell and back at least twice.

Anyway, I finished reading it in two days (while working on my final project yay) and now I have to battle it out to find book 2

— Dr. Seuss