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The jellyfish, in theory, can live forever. When damaged or on the brink of starvation, it simply reverts back to a polyp. The medusae it releases are genetically identical to the adult and so it lives on.

And yet, despite this, the jellyfish dies. Either to predation or disease, it dies anyway. If you were a jellyfish and you saw your brother die—really die—would you understand? Would you grieve?

There is no life or death for the immortal jellyfish. There is only existence. You spend your days, endless or not, swimming in the dark. You are here, and that is all. You are a jellyfish, and that is enough. There is nothing else.

So if you saw your brother sink to the ocean floor, would you know he would never get up again?

Maybe.

If life and death mean nothing to the jellyfish, does the jellyfish even know it lives forever? Does it know how special it is? Or does it think itself mortal and perhaps insignificant? After all, it’s just a jellyfish.

We, like the jellyfish, will die. We will end as all things must. But we, like the jellyfish, have the capacity to live forever.

We have songs dating back thousands of years. We have stories of ancestors that we never got to meet. Even our faces are not our own, borrowed from someone else and made something new. We owe our existence to the people before us; we are the “medusae” they left behind. Dead men live as long as we have mouths to speak.

There is no life or death for the immortal jellyfish. There is only existence, and existence is no insignificant thing. Life cannot be wasted, only experienced, and therefore, changed.

So I guess my final question is this:

If you could live forever, would you know it?

I'm thinking about the immortal jellyfish.

My fears exactly. And now that the results are in, I am terrified.

He has the presidency AND the Senate, and (as far as I've heard) he can appoint 3 more Supreme Court judges. Which means he has the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches. Basically the entire fucking government!!

I don't want to get political on my shitpost blog but you summed up my fears so accurately.

Why do I have a horrible sinking feeling that trump will win. I’m so scared guys. I don’t know what’s gonna happen I don’t have any control over what will happen except my one tiny say and the next four years are so critical for the planet and what if he is elected do I have to lose the forests and glaciers and nature as I know it what about living my life I’m a woman and he doesn’t want me to have rights and I don’t know if I’ll ever be in a high enough income bracket to escape his economic plans guys I’m so scared I was on the phone with my mom last night and we both started to cry because he already has the courts and he’s so close to having the senate if he gets the presidency then is it over or will it just become the horrible time before over where everything goes downhill but we don’t hit the bottom yet and somehow rock bottom gets lower and lower every day and I will try to bear it but fuck I don’t know if I can

Artist's rendition:

I just played a game of cat and mouse with my brother except I was the cat and also the mouse.

He thought we were playing keep-away with a mysterious cube but little did he know he was tricked. Fucking hoodwinked. Absolutely bamboozled.

While the fool scrambled to keep it away from me, I cleverly slunk away to my room to eat cheese in peace like a wretched little rodent.

Poor boy didn't even realize.

eating a salad (anxiously)

me, opening the box labeled "chicken drumstick" to reveal 1 (one) chicken drumstick: I am about to be. Not Normal.

IM GOING TO RATTLE YOU.

careful, you'll anger the bees

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AW HELL NAW

I DON'T CARE *WHO* THE IRS SENDS I'M NOT PAYING TAXES

Hold on, folks. Someone's at my door.

hooooooly moly that went way better than I thought it would

a bit scuffed but the crowd was nonetheless entertained

bruh one of the actors in a show I'm in just rage quit last night and I'm taking 3 of his parts

we open THIS THURSDAY