Tumblr user toastyglow:

it has occurred to me that the “walking under a ladder is bad luck” thing mainly seems designed to prevent safety hazards. we should start doing this with other safety hazards.

if you stand on a rolling chair your livestock shall fall ill
if you bike without a helmet your bloodline shall be cursed with obscure allergies
on the phone while driving? plague of locusts
I know the whole point of superstition is vagueness because that keeps it unprovable but this is more fun
extra million years bad luck if you use a ladder without someone standing on the bottom to weigh it down

Tumblr user liloandstitched71:

Thats actually how most theater superstitions start!

- If you whistle in a theater bad things will happen. well thats cuz sailors used to operate the curtains and would whistle to communicate so any whistling may bring it down

- You need a ghost light to appease the theater ghost. Making sure there is a light in a dark room prevents injury source

Tumblr user the-lincyclopedia:

This maybe sounds mean, but I think we should be able to send doctors “hey, you were wrong” letters.

I was misdiagnosed with asthma when I was 12 and took asthma meds daily for seven years, and then it turned out I hadn’t had asthma in the first place; I actually have a different breathing problem. I don’t think the doctor who told me I had asthma (my pediatrician, who I was no longer seeing by that point) ever found out she’d been wrong. (This is one of at least four misdiagnoses in my life, from a variety of doctors, that I can think of off the top of my head.) Similarly, my first therapist told me she didn’t think I was autistic because I wasn’t obsessed with trains. I don’t think she ever found out that I am, in fact, autistic, because I wasn’t seeing her by the time I was diagnosed. source

Tumblr user bongjoonheaux:

I love seeing stores and cafes that display and sell shitty local art. Everybody on the planet should be making shitty local art. Everyone in the community should get to see what shitty local art everyone else is making. Eventually you will find something and be like hold on. This weirdly speaks to me. I've never seen anything quite like this, whether because of this person's idiosyncratic style or strange choice of subject matter or what. And suddenly your favorite piece of art is a collage painting done by a woman who waits tables during the day and does roller derby at night and uses the excess flyers and paper menus from both places of work to make amateur art on the weekends and you realize this is such a bizarre combination of circumstances that has produced something so striking to you, how lucky you are to live in a world where this got to exist and you got to see it source

Twitter user Splenda Pappy (@caroline_oreo):

The dating scene is ROUGH but please know that settling is so much worse than loneliness. Because that's just loneliness without the privacy. Like great I'm still sad and longing for a deep, life-changing love but now there's some guy in my apartment source

yes!

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Protect the sacred 🫀✨ source

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PS— @fernando.deveras made this for us ❤️ source