vondell-swain:

“the wild TENTACOOL used ACID!”

well that’s pretty personal information. i didn’t really need to know that. but i hope he knows that i don’t judge people for things they’ve done in their past.

Casually noticed the suggested items list:

Wait, what did that blue barrel say?

omgthatdress:

Hat

Sally Victor, 1945

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art

areyoutryingtodeduceme:

YOU GUYS NEARLY 11,000 OF YOU PUT UP WITH ME ON A DAILY BASIS. You guys listen to more of my crap than my own boyfriend generally does. That deserves rewarding. So this is an extra SPECIAL tea give away, and there will be THREE winners. Oh my god. Want a chance to become one of those lucky three people? Read on and follow directions.

THE PRIZES:

• First Place Prize: A set of all seven Sherlock Shipper tea blends [Sherlock/Moriarty, Sherlock/Irene, Moriarty/Moran, Mycroft/Lestrade, Lestrade/John, Lestrade/Molly, Molly/Moriarty]
• Second Place Prize: A set of all four* Avengers Teas [Thor, Loki, Steve Rogers, and Coulson *and possibly also Tony Stark if I make a tea for him soon]
• Third Place Prize: A set of all three Doctor Who Teas [The TARDIS, Amy Pond, and Rory]
• IN ADDITION TO THE ABOVE PRIZE PACKS: Each winner will get ONE blend specially created for them. It can be a character or ship or show or book or whatever that I haven’t done that they’d like me to do. It can even be a blend made based on THEM. Whatever the winners would like. They each get to request one, and they will receive it with their other teas.

I MIGHT ADD TO THESE PRIZES. If this gets reblogged like, a lot, or something, I might lose my head and also send the winners mugs to go with their tea. Or a book. WE’LL SEE.

THE RULES: 

• Anyone ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD can enter EXCEPT AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND!! I am SUPER sorry for my followers down under because not only do you have to put up with terrifying wild life, you can’t even allow tea to be imported to help comfort you. Sorry, there’s like, crazy laws and stuff.
• You do not have to be following me to win, but it might be helpful to keep track of updates or changes (if any). Plus I plan to make some blends for other fandoms in the future, so if tea is your thing, it might not be a bad idea?
• Only two reblogs a day allowed.I did not realize how often people would reblog my last big give away soooo I’m going to enforce this LOL. You can reblog on as many days as you’d like, but yeah, only 2 reblogs a day please. I’ll be checking.
• LIKES DON’T COUNT. Sorry! You have to reblog!
  
• The give away will end and I will choose the winners on FRIDAY JUNE 1ST. I’ll probably do the drawing late at night on that day, so I’m going to say I’ll stop counting reblogs at 10 p.m. EST. Winners may not be announced until the next day or so, just to be aware!
• Here’s how the winners will be selected: Just like all of my other give aways, I’ll compile a spreadsheet or numbered list of all of the reblogs, and I’ll use the number generator on random.org to chose a number and find the corresponding username on the list. The first number I draw will win the first place prize (or, if they are more into Avengers or Doctor Who, they may chose one of the other prizes). Second number I draw will win the second place prize (or a choice between whatever two packs remain), and the third number drawn will receive the last prize!

[5/20 UPDATE] Dudes you guys are on a ROLL with this! I promised that if it hit 25k notes by the end of this weekend, I’d add another prize pack and, well, it happened. So now instead of three winners, FOUR people will win a prize. Same rules apply as before. The first place winner gets first choice of the prizes, then the second place winner, then so on. So what teas am I adding? CABIN PRESSURE!

The Lemon is in Play, Ottery Kisses, and Polar Bears are BRILLIANT!
And of course this prize pack will also come with a customized tea blend of the winners choice as well <33

Thanks so much everyone! You guys seriously are just the best, and odds are, I may end up adding another prize pack at 35K or something if it actually gets to that o_o

[5/21 UPDATE] DANG GUYS. ANOTHER ADDITION ALREADY!

Not another prize pack, per se, BUT, I am possibly doubling the number of final winners. Basically, when I draw names for the prizes, the people that the winners reblogged the contest from will ALSO win the prize that the person drawn chooses. If the winner reblogged from me or themselves, they’ll still only get one prize. And I’m not going to win a prize in my own contest so….

Anyway, I guess this is a good reason to encourage your followers to reblog the contest from your blogs or something 8D;

internetwinnage:

thambos:

internetwinnage:

thambos:

Sort of true! 20ish years ago 1 in 7 young adults had hearing loss, but now it’s 1 in 5.

This comic (and also following your blog) have made me want to go find out if something really is up with my hearing.  I used to think everyone around me was a mumbler and that I just “had trouble with accents and dialects” but now I’m really starting to wonder if maybe there is a reason I can’t pick individual noises (like voices) out of environmental noises or music. 

I feel so insecure about it that I don’t think I do a very good job of explaining it. 

That is /exactly/ how people explain it though! Which… I hope that doesn’t make you feel more insecure, because it’s a scary thing to become aware of if you haven’t had to think about it before. I know it was definitely something I was aware of for a long time, like even in high school I was really nonchalant about telling people I couldn’t hear women (read: non-androgenized voices) as well, but then when it became “real” I was freaking the hell out. I didn’t tell ANYONE for about a month because it was so scary to realize.

If you do get your hearing checked, which many times is completely free BTW, let me know if you want any resources or anything. Since I wanted to do this “right” I spent a loooooooot of time online before deciding what to do with my test results, especially because one doctor said I didn’t need hearing aids and another said I really should get them (and fortunately my insurance covered them so as a person with mild loss and living in the hearing world it was a no-brainer).

That makes me feel AMAZINGLY better.  I try to tell people when we are hanging out in public that I have to have eye contact with them to understand what they are saying (partially because I’ve developed the means to…contextually read lips?  Hard to explain) because I can’t pick their voice out of the general cacophony of public life.  In private it doesn’t make too much of a difference because I have some control over the level and types of noise, but if music is playing and I’m trying to talk on the phone….you might as well just text me.  I won’t understand you. 

Makes my job here (where my boss likes the music to be pretty loud and we keep the door open to general road and construction noises) really difficult because I sometimes can’t understand customer’s questions over the environmental noise inside the store.  Customers think I’m not paying attention/not listening ALL THE FREAKING TIME when in actually I can’t hear them.  Very frustrating for all involved.  It’s actually this work environment in particular that has made me question whether or not Imight actuallyhave hearing loss. 

Ok, so this made me start thinking… maybe I have some degree of hearing loss.  Well, what’s a 19-year-old to do but consult the internet on this matter?  
-Googled “hearing test”

-Found a couple pages

-Ooh, this one’s from some Norwegian health association

-Sounds legit

-I start taking the test

-All of a sudden some kid starts talking to me and crying through the speakers

-Can’t click anything

-I freak the fuck out thinking my computer’s possessed 

-Message comes up about listening to kids who need help

-Turns out I got trolled hardcore by the Red Cross

(Source: thatdeafdude)

Dirk, my new profile picture is for you.  I owe you everything for the artistic endeavour you have undertaken.

I love looking at photos of guys with impressive facial hair but end up falling for the ones who can’t grow it.  Whatevs.  good thing it’s not the 1800s.  Bitches loved them some muttonchops.

I’ve been researching lucid dreaming for some time now, so I know all the little tricks you can do to go lucid.  I’ve done so a couple times now.  But this time… it was insane!  As soon as I realized I was lucid, I tried flying, because I’ve never been able to fly in a dream before.  I was so aware of the fact that I was dreaming that I could carry out experiments and everyone in the dream would help me!  I was indeed able to fly, and every time anything went wrong in my dream (example: I spilled a huge bottle of milk all over my boyfriend’s laptop) I could reset it like nothing happened.  I could also influence future events.  Like I wanted certain people to show up and they did, instantly.  This was such an exciting experience and I hope it happens again so I can further experiment!

tommilsom:

but! first of all! hooray for all who are in authority!

Respect Authority, Obey Authority, the best rock song ever written by parents