ell

it wasn’t her fault, she made sugar taste like salt

[ell @elly_mcneill]

there's a sausage on the floor

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Hundreds of Minnesotans are leaving their "I voted" stickers at the site where Alex Pretti was murdered by ICE agents.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

This is a reckless act of escalation that endangers us all. No discussion. No debate. What a disgrace.

How on earth can the Prime Minister still pretend we are not involved?

It doesn't matter how he dresses it up. Britain is participating in an illegal war of aggression.

[positivity moon @arrtnem]

It sounds funny until you realize that is a whole life philosophy in one sentence. You sit there with your giant emotional Stanley cup, refilling it all day, proud of yourself. You drink your 2 liters, 3 liters, you count your bottles like a good kid ticking boxes. On paper, you are doing everything right. And still your tongue feels like paper, your skin looks tired, your head hurts behind the eyes at 16:40, and you are one minor inconvenience away from wanting to lie face down on the floor. You keep thinking the answer is more of the same water.

Nobody tells you that sometimes you are not lacking volume. You are lacking minerals. You are lacking anything with weight.

Electrolytes sound like a gym word, but really they are just proof that the body does not run on purity. It runs on salt and mess and tiny charged things that hold the water in place. Think about how different it feels when you drink a glass of cold orange juice at 09:12 after a bad night of sleep compared to your fourth bottle of plain water at your desk. One hits like “oh, I exist again.” The other just runs straight through you, and twenty minutes later you are in the bathroom wondering why your organs still feel like dry towels.

A lot of people live like that. Drowning in content, in advice, in “healthy habits,” and still emotionally dehydrated. They scroll for three hours consuming wellness tips in bed, wake up at 7, drink water, do their 10 minutes of journaling, take 8000 steps before dinner, and still feel this static emptiness in their chest. They think, weird, maybe I need another habit tracker.

No one explained that habits are just water. Minerals are something else.

Minerals are the things that actually carry charge through your life. The phone call where you finally say what hurt you instead of being “chill” again. The ugly 23:37 breakdown in the shower where you admit you are not “fine, just tired,” you are lonely and scared you wasted three years on the wrong thing. The bowl of pasta you let yourself eat slowly without scrolling while your brain keeps trying to sprint ahead to the next problem and you keep dragging it back to the plate. The real rest day that is not secretly a productivity cosplay.

Of course plain water feels safer. It is neutral. It does not wake anything up. Electrolytes sting a little on the way in. Salt on a cracked lip, sugar in a starved system. Orange juice tastes so sweet after dehydration it almost hurts. It reminds your body of how long you have been ignoring it.

Same with life. You can drink twenty self help books and still be dehydrated if you never put in one real mineral: a boundary, a no, a goodbye, a yes that you actually want, not one that sounds impressive on Instagram. You can go to therapy and carefully avoid saying the one sentence that would actually change your blood pressure. You can talk about burnout like it is a scheduling issue instead of the fact that you do not believe you are allowed to be a human being who stops.

Everyone loves the aesthetic of “clean water.” No one posts “I added salt because my nervous system is fried from 10 years of people pleasing and pretending I’m chill with everything.” But that is what actually fixes things.

Sometimes the reason you feel so tired is not that you are underperforming. It is that everything you pour into yourself is frictionless. It does not cling to you. It does not bind. It slides right through and leaves you pee-clear and soul-empty.

The body tries to tell you. The headache at 17:23 that hits in the supermarket lighting. The way your vision gets grainy when you stand up too fast. The random heart flutters when you lie down, like your chest forgot its script. You drink more water, thinking you are being good, when what you need is to eat actual food, sprinkle some salt, sit down for fifteen minutes without being “useful.”

[draculaura @DRACULAURlTA]

tomato basil soup and grilled cheese please

[ELLɅ MɅCHINɅ @orchidcamp]

looks like footage of the ocean floor. What the fuck. impossible to fathom this level of destruction even after seeing it with my own eyes

[planet clarke 🌱 @planetclarke]

Maybe we’re all just a little bit curious about each other

[faith⋆｡𖦹 @k3miffy]

in the town wearing my miffy shirt and i walked past a little girl wearing her miffy shirt

[Minnie @saintdutchess]

The arts are for everyone not just the upper class. This is your reminder.

[planet clarke 🌱 @planetclarke]

Sloppy drunk and naked in the sunshine rolling around in the grass with the homegirls. Genuinely love that for them

[a. @SashaLondon_tw]

Fuck - and I can't state this enough - AI in any creative field. Go fuck yourself if you use it too. Fuck google too for pushing it at the top of the page. Fuck meta. Fuck this shit. Enough!

[zoë rose bryant @zoerosebryant]

as if beauty standards haven’t become unrealistic enough, now girls will be competing with and comparing themselves to women who aren’t even real. incredible work everyone

[! @grey990s]

This how the last day of playing house in the airbnb feel

[stevie @adultmomband]

post beach shower is undefeated. greatest feeling a human could experience. throw a nap in there and you will never touch serenity so close

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

As I've been saying, if you willingly relinquish your mental abilities, you will lose them. The fact that millions of people seem eager to give up their intellects, to be freed from the burden of ever having to think or create, is a nightmare out of our darkest science fictions.

[Merrick 🦂 @punishedmother]

I didn’t like Bonnie Blue to begin with, but this is like …exile you from the village worthy

[Franck Magennis 🍉 @FranckMagennis]

Absolutely iconic that @KNEECAPCEOL are insisting the Brits run and fetch an Irish language interpreter. The British Empire being totally outclassed by some working class lads from Belfast and Derry.

[zoë rose bryant @zoerosebryant]

this line falls into the same group as that “what is grief if not love persevering” one from wandavision where no matter how many times it’s quoted or shared it’ll never fail to stop me dead in my tracks bc it really is just one of the most romantic things i’ve ever heard man