ID:
"Finish something. Anything. Stop researching, planning, and preparing to do the work and just do the work.
It doesn't matter how good or how bad it is. You don't need to set the world on fire with your first try. You just need to prove to yourself that you have what it takes to produce something.
There are no artists, athletes, entrepreneurs, or scientists who became great by half-finishing their work.
Stop debating what you should make and just make something."
the epic highs and tragic lows of literally just being in my head on a perfectly normal day
Just learned this absolutely delightful bit of etymology:
During the 15th century, the English had an endearing practice of granting common human names to the birds that lived among them. Virtually every bird in that era had a name, and most of them, like Will Wagtail and Philip Sparrow have been long forgotten. Polly Parrot has stuck around, and Tom Tit and Jenny Wren, personable companions of the English countryside, are names still sometimes found in children’s rhymes.
Other human names, however, have been incorporated so durably into the common names that still grace birds as to almost entirely obscure their origin. The Magpie, a loquacious black and white bird with a penchant for snatching shiny objects, once bore the simple name “pie,” probably coming from its Roman name, “pica.” The English named these birds Margaret, which was then abbreviated to Maggie, and finally left at Mag Pie. The vocal, crow-like bird called Jackdaw was also once just a “daw” named “Jack.”
The English also gave their ubiquitous and beloved orange-bellied, orb-shaped, wren-sized bird a human name. The first recorded Anglo-Saxon name for the Eurasian Robin was ruddoc, meaning “little red one.” By the medieval period, its name evolved to redbreast (the more accurate term orange only entered the English language when the fruit of the same name reached Great Britain in the 16th century). The English chose the satisfyingly alliterative name Robert for the redbreast, which they then changed to the popular Tudor nickname Robin. Soon enough, the name Robin Redbreast became so identified with the bird that Redbreast was dropped because it seemed so redundant.
truenoodle asked:
thoughts on Katy Perry/Justin Trudeau?
thealogie answered:
It genuinely doesn’t even compute. It gives me a feeling of unreality. Lots of things nowadays make me feel like “we can’t be living in the real world, this can’t be happening” but this is by far the most lowest stakes thing that makes me feel that way
Sorry to those of you who found out this way
what reading this immediately after waking up feels like
"there's no way out of this system our country is soooooo unwalkable and we have no public transport" well yes as long as the population considers it their god-given right to drive for 2c a mile and will riot if it ever becomes more expensive:
- there will be no incentive to improve public transport infrastructure
- the culture will remain entirely car-centred and unwalkable
- your politicians will continue to invest in destroying billions of lives to keep American gas prices down with your full consent and encouragement
cheap gas in America means poisoning indigenous communities it means CIA-backed fascism it means bombing the middle east it means the continuation of genocide because America has incentive to back Israel and the UAE to maintain control in the Middle East it means tearing up the Amazon and sending death squads to anyone who tries to raise legal objections to being literally poisoned en masse. it means the planet continues to burn but it also means continuous political and economic violence against people across the world to ensure America can pay pennies for dollars' worth of labour, damage and pain.
but you know. it also means you are not getting out of six lane car hell at any point. 'if America is going to be hell it should have to be comfortable' well then why the fuck would there be any incentive to change that?
we're in the imperial core here lads. you more than me because let's be real the UK has been a ghost economy carried along on its own momentum since 1945, but it's still the imperial core. justice in the world does in fact mean our quality of life may get worse. we did not have an inherent right to live cheaply and luxuriously on the bones of millions to begin with.
It sucks for us sometimes but we gotta accept that while you might be sore about it and it might in fact have actual serious implications for our personal wellbeing, our lives and comfort are not worth more than someone in Nicaragua or Jamaica or Afghanistan or Congo who also has to get to work in an unwalkable community, but who doesn't get super cheap fuel and is in fact paying more for everything so that you can pay pennies.
i think everyone owes a debt of gratitude to jimmy eat world for the middle. you ARE in the middle of the ride. and everything WILL be just fine. and you SHOULD live right now and be yourself. and it DOESN'T matter if it's good enough for someone else. thank you jimmy eat world
This Sounds Serious pulls the delightful magic trick of making you forget you’re listening to a comedy podcast and then hits you with the stupidest little bits in the world. It’s wonderful it keeps catching me off guard
Money fucking sucks. It distorts everything: relationships, decisions, timelines, who gets to feel safe and who doesn’t. It turns something like “home” into a math problem. That’s brutal, and unfair, and I hate it so much.
if it were 2014 you could use a deviantart template to draw a monster high OC and you could name her harmony ashton-sharp and you could give her a cool twisted neck and a hole in her body and list her monster parents as madeline ashton and helen sharp and under the category of biggest pet peeve u could write something about how she has trouble lying because everyone can see right through her and u could give her red and blonde streaked hair and under the favorite school subject section u could pick a class name with "dead" in the title and make a death becomes her pun and when people in the comments asked about her name u could tell them that it fits the pattern with her moms (mad, hell, and harm). alas it is not 2014.