Jfc

Beating the alcoholic allegations by easily plugging my phone into the charger with no struggle at all

Julie Bell, world renowned fantasy artist & bodybuilder (1995)

The plague was spreading rapidly. Deaths in London and the outskirts were thirty-two for the week ending 26 May and the Lord Mayor was issuing new plague orders. The paper bills marked with the words ‘Lord Have Mercy on Us’ that denoted infected households had proved to be too easy to deface and dispose of. They were now to be replaced by a red cross 'fourteen inches in length and the like in breadth upon the wall or boards in the most open place.’ Some of those shut up were so angry that they set out deliberately to infect others. One such, Henry Ross of St. Bartholomew’s the Great, was flogged and throw into Newgate, after he did 'most lewdly presume to go to the King’s Majesty’s Court at Greenwich and there thrust himself in company amongst his Majesty’s household servants and others.’

A description of the bubonic plague in London, 1603, from “After Elizabeth: The Rise of James of Scotland and the Struggle for the Throne of England” by Leanda de Lisle (via delphinidin4)

kris give me a cig

IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946) • JIMMY STEWART as George Bailey and LIONEL BARRYMORE as Mr. Potter

Some internet language things I really like:

Phrases like “that’s certainly a thing”, “it’s so shaped”, or “one of the most animals” (is there a name for this?)

when people write with little to no punctuation like they are just so done

More specifically, asking questions without punctuation i.e. ‘what’ or ‘why’. It’s like, you want to know but also you are resigned to the answer?

When people capitalise The Thing for emphasis - particularly if they add a trademark symbol to really drive The Point™ home

How we use both bold and italic text for emphasis, but they convey it in different ways and I can’t quite explain how

Responding to things exclusively with punctuation, because sometimes words fail you and all you can say is !!!

dear people who didn’t grow up christian: if your christian or raised-christian friends say “hey i wanna show you something from veggietales,” 99.99999% of the time they are not trying to use it to preach to you, they just want you to feel like you’re high for the duration of the silly song they’re boutta pull up

grounding techniques, ok 5 things i can see. ugly man. shitty palm tree. clear evidence of air pollution. conservative bumper stickers. roadkill. why do i feel worse

when I first saw parts of Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet (1996) on TV as a child, I didn’t realize the dialogue was in Shakespearean Early Modern English, I just thought they talked like that in New Jersey

being uncomfortable becomes easier when you realize that’s literally the point. it’s like working out. if you work out & it becomes easy for you, you already got all you could out of that workout. your body adjusted & is strong enough to handle it now. you’re not improving anymore. that’s why you up the ante with harder workouts, where you’re uncomfortable & not quite strong enough yet. bc eventually you will be strong enough. but if it’s not a challenge, there’s no gain. & that’s exactly how it is with situations out of your comfort zone. the more you put yourself in them, the easier they get—but that in-between phase where you’re struggling is still completely valid and ok and natural. it’s what’s supposed to happen. it’s what’s going to change you as a person. and you should keep doing it

it’s so fricken windy that Jesus got fully picked up blown across the yard

Honestly laugh way too hard at this, every time.

Was looking for a book today when I saw these various animal books all on the same shelf and noticed their titles made a nice little impromptu poem about veterinary medicine