why would you read this

kecrambles:

tvface:

foxmccloud:

kaomojiru:

bradofarrell:

I didn’t want this to show up in the reblog notes for this picture but I also wanted to give credit to the artist because it’s really good art. But I see this picture on my dash all the time and it’s really upsetting because it’s promoting and glamorizing behavior that is really unhealthy. It needs an additional 8 panels where they try to talk but they don’t have anything to talk about in person and they have no chemistry and they can’t kiss without it feeling weird and then it takes less than 4 hours for them to decide they’re better off being just friends.

When you talk to someone online for years and meet them for the first time in person you’re basically setting yourself up for an extremely awkward but extremely well researched blind date. Almost everything that matters in a romantic relationship is not something you can gauge by an online relationship. Things like how a person holds themselves in conversation and how they smell and how tall they are and how easy it is to hang out on the couch with them and how a solid week of hanging out together would unfold are all things you can not know from talking to someone online for years and they make up like 60% of what a relationship even is.

Pretending a relationship is “all mental” and assuming that if you get along on chat you’ll get along in person is really juvenile and unfair to yourself. Even if you’re gay. Even if you’re a sexual minority. Even if you think there is no one in your home town you can date, and even if you’re right, it’s still not smart to put all your stock into someone over the internet.

I mean it makes sense if you’re young and in high school because it doesn’t matter as much as your friendships with class mates don’t matter. But please please please don’t, like, not date people in your real life because you think you’re dating someone online or god forbid move to their city without spending several weeks with them first.

If you’re in a place in your life where you think you need to be in an online relationship the healthiest option is to tough it out until you can change your situation to the point that real life relationships are available to you. But by letting yourself fall in love with someone online (which is SUPER EASY when you don’t have to deal with the very real barrier of “chemistry”) you’re setting yourself up for this weird thing where one of you has to make a big move to live with a stranger, which is always a bad choice, or for the thing to just fizzle out anyway.

Don’t do that. Move to another city. Go to a queer bar. Meet a nice real human being.

Also I’m not going to actually argue against anyone in this post because I guarantee if you’re getting mad about reading this you’re going to realize I’m right a few hours after your awkward airport hug because I’m speaking from both personal experience and the aggregate experience of every one of my friends who’s tried to do this.

It doesn’t work, man, the internet is a venus flytrap for your heart.

so you’re gonna say that people who are in long-distance relationships are in relationships that are inherently less credible than face-to-face relationships? even though i have an absurd amount of friends who exist and are completely happy in these relationships?

yeah. whatever. you’re a fucking scumbag.

remember that time bradofarrell said trans people weren’t human as a hilarious “joke” yeah lmao real advice guru right here 

there is so much i can say to this but i cant even believe this much stupidity was spewed

lmfao all of my currrent relationships have started off as online!! i am married to someone i met online!! (almost 5 years happily now) and with one of my bfs (almost 5 years as well) wow!! and-

this is so stupid hahaha holy shit

some of my best friendships are online, also.. i have plenty of friendships offline, too, but damn in my line of work, you really have to be able to form a relationship without seeing someone’s face.

(Source: the-humans-from-wall-e)

I’m bored and killing time until I go to get groceries, so I decided to clean up my desk and take pictures. I like looking at the workspaces of others, it’s interesting to me to see how people spend a lot of their time working.

I have two monitors to make grading easier (solutions on one, problems on the other), and they are 1080p so I can easily view two pages of each at once. It really makes a huge difference in efficiency, seriously. Even more though, especially now, is I can look at a paper and read it while having an editor open so I can work on my thesis.

Long story short, if you’re an academic, I strongly recommend two monitors. Hell, I recommend it to anyone. Y’all should reblog with a photo of your setup.

And yes, I am watching X-Files. I’m on season 5. It’s awesome. David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson are attractive people, and I love their acting. X-Files is legit really good a lot of the time.

Also the little flower pot and Latias next to it were gifts of the EVERY LOVELY PaparuKecleon

meli-blog:

Gunpowder commission finished ! It felt good to be productive again

Gunpowder takes a nap AND IS SUPER ADORABLE WHILE DOING SO

ask-camellia:

[ SAVE THE BEST ONE FOR THE FINAL WHAT A SHAME I CAN’T DRAW GUNNY SORRY

yay for gabites ]

Gosh Meili is such a cutie I want to give her a lot of hugs ;w; and also Gunpowder, Double Gabite Hugs!!