Sobbing Because All Of Loid's Scenes Are So Sad And Dull And Grey Before He Sees His Family

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.

Pirate Terms and Phrases

Link: The Sea is in Her Blood

Brig - A prison on a ship

Cutlass - A type of sword

Dance with Jack Ketch - To hang; death at the hands of the law (Jack Ketch was a famed English executioner)

Davy Jones's Locker - A mythical place at the bottom of the ocean where drowned sailors are said to go

Dead Men Tell No Tales - The reason given for leaving no survivors

Give No Quarter - Show no mercy

Keelhaul - A punishment where someone is dragged under the ship

Maroon - To leave someone stranded on a deserted island with no supplies, typically a punishment for any crew members who disrespected the captain

Mutiny - A situation in which the crew chooses a new captain, sometimes by forcibly removing the old one

No Prey, No Pay - A common pirate law that meant crew members were not paid, but rather received a share of whatever loot was taken

Pillage - To steal/rob a place using violence

Powder Monkeys - Men that performed the most dangerous work on the ship. They were treated harshly, rarely paid, and were expendable

Privateer - Government-appointed pirates

Run A Shot Across The Bow - Fire a warning shot

Scurvy - A disease caused by Vitamin C Deficiency

bridget and the marimos

apparently native american tribes were in contact with the donner party and offered them food when they saw the colonists were starving and the donner party turned them down and decided to go the whole “cannibalism” route instead. 

This is absolutely adorable! The color palette works so well 🐟

fish logo

Me, looking a Minecraft sheep in the eyes: I want to pet you but can not

Minecraft sheep: beeh

Me, crying: you are full of love

Great news! The most manipulative, unsympathetic, mean-spirited, tone-deaf person you know is majoring in psychology

a bunch of sharks remembering that they left the oven on at home