Southern Resident Orcas, Also Known As The Southern Resident Killer Whales (SRKW), Are An Exclusively

Your friends watching something for the first time and getting to that scene VS you, the knower.

“I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do.

To make others less happy is a crime.

To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts.

We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances.

We must try.”

​— Roger Ebert, “Go gentle into that good night.”

“When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.”

— Alexander den Heijer

everyone says join your local mutual aid groups and build community, but uh, what do you do if a lot of them seem to have dissolved and the other ones don't have consistent recurring meetings.

Don’t let the world fool you: consistent kindness is the most quietly powerful thing.

As Uncle Iroh said in the last airbender: "if you look for a light, you can always find it. If you look for darkness, it is all you'll ever see."

Though I am realistic about the misery in the world, I refuse to lose sight of hope.

I think if there was a god it would look like a whale.

Always remember: In a pinch you can bypass imposter syndrome by just flipping the script on people. Everyone's making it up as they go along, anyway, and 95% of the time nobody ever questions you like you're scared that they will. But if someone would? With what authority, exactly? Are they really qualified to make that judgement? Okay fine but what clown college gave them those qualifications? Okay fine sure that's a legit university to get a PhD from, but are they sure they didn't just get lucky to stumble in there and then accidentally stumble out with a degree? Who are they to claim you shouldn't be there, if they can't tell for sure if they are supposed to be there?

Physically, you may get wrestled our of there by the facility security. But emotionally, you can take them down with you.

no fucking way

the aliens are going to have questions about our world that absolutely no one will ever be able to answer