4 months ago
4 months ago
This is…. Absurdly cute. What the fuck.
It’s worth noting that the reason the beaver wants the water to be deeper in the first place is that the Beaver is using the deep water as a pantry:
All summer and fall, beavers gather up branches with the leaves they actually eat, and store it in the deep end of the Pond, where the cold water and limited oxygen keep the leaves fresh all winter, so when it’s negative 20 outside, a beaver can take a dip out of it’s lodge, grab some refrigerated leaves in the (relatively) warmer water and go back to it’s cozy little nap hole while everything else is out there suffering and eating bark or the like.
So it’s less “there’s a leak in my house” and more “OH SHIT THE FRIDGE!!”
via gallusrostromegalus
I think that in real life…. Relationships r like . Your partner WILL ‘trauma dump’ on you. You will have to perform ‘emotional labor’ for your partner. Your partner will make mistakes. You will also do all of these things. The very nature of love is irrational and problematic and difficult …. To expect a relationship to be free of these things is strange to me…. The point is that your relationship to that person is ultimately worth it, and worth growing with them, helping each other, seeing the worst parts of another person and being able to love them anyway
There’s a book I read years ago about marriages that last vs. ones that don’t, and the Big Secret wasn’t how much conflict or stress they had in them. It was how often each partner made little attempts at repair–whether apologies, letting things go, willingness to poke a bit of fun at themself for getting Super Mad over something silly, whatever–and how receptive each partner was to them.
If you’re willing to forgive each other and get past things, your relationship lasts. If you’re not, it doesn’t.
Not all relationships SHOULD last. Not everything should be forgiven. But the key is how committed you are to getting past things together, NOT how many times issues come up or how similar or different you are.
via cobrilee
4 months ago
It’s always funny to me when someone’s like Americans suck Americans are so weird and I’m like yeah buddy you’ll get no argument from me and then they go on to be like “ew they SMILE at you on the BUS” or “they say THANK YOU TOO MUCH at restaurants” and I’m like wait hang on thats what you’re going with???? We do WAY worse stuff than that dude like are you sure that’s your final answer
Oh exactly
via sleepingpinwheel
4 months ago
“Reblog my poll so I can have a bigger sample size!” is the new, “If you don’t reblog this then you hate kittens and puppies and rainbows!” No. If your poll is worth reblogging, then people will do it without being told to.
I have seen this on all but three polls I’ve encountered since I posted this less than 24 hours ago fucking stoooooop. I’m about to beg staff for an option to block polls just so I never have to see that phrase again.
via cobrilee
This went in a direction unexpected, but I am totally ok wth.
Wow, this one is unexpectedly wholesome, a nice surprise
I just realized that the catcher’s explanation was entirely free of derision. I heard derision in his explanation because I was expecting him to be arrogant and clout-chasing, but after seeing his reason, I went back and read.
He answered the girl’s question with total respect, and his self-satisfaction had nothing to do with feeling superior to her, but in achieving his goal of making his little brother happy.
I even missed how the catcher was INSISTENT that a shiny Pokémon was essentially no different, no better or worse than any other Pokémon of the same species.
Because he was thinking of his brother, whom he doesn’t love any more or any less on account of his albinism.
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