Fitzy's bloglet
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[Standing comedian Hannah Gadsby saying:
But I– A couple of years ago, a man came up to me after… my show. He had an opinion. Now, in the show, I’d spoken about taking antidepressant medication, and he had an opinion on that.
Now, interestingly, I’d also spoken about how unhelpful unsolicited advice is, in mental health plan, but he mustn’t have heard that bit.
He said, “you shouldn’t take medication, because you’re an artist. It’s important that you feel.” He said, “if Vincent van Gogh had have taken medication, we wouldn’t have sunflowers.”
I never, ever, ever thought that my art history degree would ever come in handy.
I tore that man a college debt-sized new arsehole.
I said, “good opinion, mate, except that he did medicate. He self-medicated a lot. He drank a lot. He even nibbled on his own paints.
He didn’t just paint sunflowers, he did quite a few portraits of psychiatrists. Not even random ones. Psychiatrists who were treating him. And medicating him.
And there’s one particular portrait of one particular psychiatrist, and he’s holding a flower, and it isn’t a sunflower. It’s a foxglove. And that foxglove forms a part of a medication that van Gogh… took for epilepsy.
And that derivative of the foxglove plant medi-fucking-cation…”
I must’ve skipped a dose that day ‘cause I was feeling.
“The derivative of the foxglove, if you overdose out a bit, you know what happens? You can experience the color yellow a little too intensely.
“So perhaps… we have the sunflowers precisely because… van Gogh medicated.
“What do you honestly think, mate?” I said. “That creativity means that you must suffer? That is the burden of creativity? Just so you can enjoy it?
“Fuck you, mate. If you like sunflowers so much, buy a bunch and jerk off into a geranium.”]
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one of the things i really like about los angeles is all the men hanging around with trucks full of produce
the first time i saw one was at home depot, the sun was setting, and i was with a group of friends. and right there, in the middle of the parking lot, was a giant truck filled with pomegranates, so high that he couldn’t possibly drive like that, but it was amazing
i literally stopped in my tracks. i’d never seen so many pomegranates in my life. i took pictures. i was so excited. my friends were laughing at me. people walking by were laughing at me. the guy who had the truck full of pomegranates was laughing at me. but i was thrilled. a truckful of pomegranates just right there, hundreds of them, the same color as the setting sun
maybe it’s weird to romanticize a pile of fruit, but i was thoroughly charmed.
anyway. i left the bank today, and there was a truck of oranges. so many oranges, piled almost as high as i was tall. the man had cut some of them into slices and put a bowl next the bank entrance. ‘free samples!’ he hollered. i took one. it was firm and sweet and i pulled it off the skin in one motion. i bought a bag for $5, and he studied them before choosing one for me, picking up one bag and then putting it down to grab another. ‘they’re sweet,’ he promised.
there’s something so satisfying about it, about going to cash a check or pick up some nails, and being confronted with a huge pile of brightly colored fruit, a cheerful splash of color against concrete.
support your local man with a truck full of fruit. they’re sweet. i promise.
You’ve heard of “The Baker and The Tattoo artist” now get ready for, “The produce delivery guy, and the random ass person that loves FUCKING fruit”
is … is fucking an adjective or a verb here? because that, um, changes things
Is the story about lemons or is the story the lemon?
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Me trying to figure out the distance between places and how long it’ll take a character to get there in a society that travels mostly on foot:
What I do is determine about how many miles the distance is, after that I look up two European cities that are about that far apart, and switch the Google maps thingy from car to walk.
Holy shit my dude! Why you gotta blow my mind like this!?
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before i watched thor ragnarok i didn’t quite understand the overflowing love for taika waititi everyone had on here, but after watching it, i’m like. he really did that. he really put in an intelligent subtext about colonization, whitewashing of history, and the immigrant experience in a movie about norse gods in space. in a fandom where straight white male voices are overwhelmingly dominant. while giving really interesting character arcs to everyone in the main cast. what a flex
And he did it while making a visually stunning and just really fucking funny film.
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Question reblogged from A Bird's Art Blog
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Video reblogged from Random Shit
when it’s november 1st
Songs with the same bpm but played over different than original video tracks give me life
(Source: dutchster)
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Sometimes I wonder if native English speakers appreciate how much more comfortable the internet is for them than for the rest of the world
Like, you can go on tumblr and simply read stuff in your mother tongue? Amazing. Go on youtube and you don’t have to replay some sentences ten times to try to understand what they’re saying? Incredible. Look for practically anything on google and know that there will be a fuckton of results that you can read without having to spend half the time looking up words in a dictionary? Fascinating. Make a post or send an ask without panicking that you’ll make a silly mistake or that they won’t understand what you meant? Unbelievable.
lol this is still the most relatable gif ever:
*Italian
I quote this GIF in half of my conversations. (Also not only smart but fun. I’m fucking funny in italian.)
I relate to this hard. In my native language it’s so much easier to express myself which, in turn, results in me sounding a lot more eloquent and (emotionally) intelligent. I constantly feel frustrated by my failure to truly convey my thoughts and ideas in English.
👆👆 I feel like I don’t know more than 17 words in english most of the time. 17 words that I put randomly together and hope for the best without really knowing what I’m doing.
the fact that every single anxiously non-native speaker in this post used completely flawless English just breaks my heart
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“‘But what will you do with the lazy man, the man who does not want to work?’ inquires your friend. That is an interesting question, and you will probably be very much surprised when I say that there is really no such thing as laziness. What we call a lazy man is generally a square man in a round hole. That is, the right man in the wrong place. And you will always find that when a fellow is in the wrong place, he will be inefficient or shiftless. For so-called laziness and a good deal of inefficiency are merely unfitness, misplacement. If you are compelled to do the thing you are unfitted for by your inclinations or temperament, you will be inefficient at it; if you are forced to do work you are not interested in, you will be lazy at it.”
— Alexander Berkman - What Is Communist Anarchism?
(via e-seal)(Source: e-seal)
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Post reblogged from Wake up to Tang!!
me clicking on the 7th “sharpest knife in the world” video today: omg i wonder what hes gonna do with that plastic wrap…..
kiwami japan, the absolute madman:
me:
:O
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Post reblogged from Garbage Boy Stink Man
gays, i have an important question:
are you a sword gay, knife gay, battle axe gay, or a bow n arrow gay
this question is good for all lgbt people of course, except for terfs
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Post reblogged from A Handprint on My Heart
anyway you should cherish ur weird friends
treasure that friend who’ll yell nonsense sounds at you until you’re both gibbering back and forth like ancient humanity at the tower of babel. love the friend u can make eye contact with before saying some absolute jackshit inside joke you share at the same time and collapsing in entirely unnecessary fits of laughter. acknowledge how lucky you are to have someone you can text at 3am in the morning when you’re on a tangent of a tangent on your bullshit and NEED to blabber incoherently about it to someone or you’ll explode. don’t take for granted the people you know you can talk to about literally anything without fear of judgement or disinterest. because people like that? they’re few and far between.
(Source: hexglyphs)
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Post reblogged from I am extremely bi and I want romance
Not cheating on people and not betraying your friends is actually very very very easy and I would 100% recommend this to everyone
