#[anon is right on the money]

[inkskinned]

oh you know it's all latestage capitalism but the thing is. how are you supposed to be a person inside of this. a person trying to be a better version of yourself.

oh, you started working young, which was kind of hard, but it's just the way stuff works sometimes. and it was 2008 and your family couldn't afford heat. but it's fine, you grow a spine and get used to the professional world and besides it was the suburbs we're talking about here, like, your life could have been actually hard, so what if your father lost his job and you can't afford to move or turn the lights back on. and once you start making money, it's good. you keep doing that. because now they're relying on you. so you have to do that.

oh you were in thousands of dollars of debt at 17 years old so that you could go to school, because you have to go to school if you want to get a "real" job. you even did it "right", you worked parttime and attended community college before you transferred to a public school. you were under so many merit scholarships.

which is fine. you pick yourself up and you say like, okay. i graduated college. i'm holding down a job. i'm doing the Adult Thing, which looks and acts like this, according to all the books i've read. you start with the shitty job and then you climb that corporate ladder.

but the shitty job doesn't cover rent and you stretch yourself too-thin so you get sick. good luck with that. the shitty job no longer pays for your meals. everyone asks why you don't just move, but there's nowhere to move to. and with what money are you going to be moving? and then the loans come back, because they were never going to forgive them, because you were 17 and trying to do the right thing, which was stupid. people are now saying you shouldn't have even gone to school.

which is fine. but because you have no other option, so you do the shitty job, and you apply every day for like 5 new ones, and despite the fact everyone says "there's no one who wants to work!" it's actually just that nobody is fucking hiring so you can either work for 13 dollars an hour in the shitty place you know (where at least you have a passingly friendly relationship with the manager) or you can start from scratch again with a different 13 dollars an hour without knowing how much abuse from the new job you'll be taking.

and if you quit you lose your insurance. if you quit you lose your housing. if you quit, you'll be another burnout kid. the lazy ones. these assholes, look at them!

and you come home to a family dinner and you hear from your father the same old thing. how he worked hard at his job and yes it sucked for a while but he was able to provide for the family and then the house and the dog and the rest of barbie's dream vacation. how the insurance did cover some of it. how you just really need to start speaking up more in manager conversations so they know you're a go-getter. you want to tell him - did you know we're actually doing more now hourly than any previous generation? - but you can't remember where you heard that statistic, and you're far too tired for the fucking argument. and then he starts in on his usual bit. where's the house? where's your kids? where's your ambition.

the same job the same money the same hours doesn't do it anymore. the same nose-to-the-grindstone now just shreds your face off. there's no such thing as upwards mobility, not really. and as far as you're aware, the money certainly is not trickling. you do the soulless stupid shit you signed up for because you fucking have to or else you literally risk your life (food, the apartment, the insurance), but it's not getting you anything. you download the stupid "save more" app and you budget and you do every right thing and then the price of eggs is 7 dollars and you say - oh great! another thing i have to fucking worry about now!

and you go to your stupid job and everyone in your father's generation just tells you to be better about being an adult. they have their homes and their savings account and their bailout and they say. well have you tried not drinking starbucks. well your generation just spends too much on clothing. well you might just be too addicted to travelling. and you - because you need the job - you bite your tongue and don't say i am being held prisoner and you're suggesting i stop pacing my cell if i don't like the scenery and you don't say what the fuck do you think i've been doing with my money and you don't say i haven't spent a cent on something nice in literally forever much less coffee you arrogant asshole. you open and close your bank app and check your loans and check your credit score and check fucking zillow and ziprecruiter and apartments.com just one time more. and still they give you that demeaning little grin and say - see, what you need is -

what you need is for your meds to stop being so fucking expensive. what you need is for the housing bubble to explode into dust. what you need is for billionaires to choke on their wealth. what you need is actual help. what you will get is more economic advice from people who are older-and-wiser.

and above you, almost in a glimmer, you can see the wedged smile of your debt getting toothier, wider.

[cocksley-and-catapult]

they would be the kind of people to chant "NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE" while making hand gestures at you when you get high with them

[ii-meeple-confessions]

Something that's haunting my brain is the thought that--assuming MePhone and 3GS's emotional processors work close enough to human brains for this to work the same way--it will probably take them YEARS to even BEGIN to fully process their trauma.

I'm not sure if this is true of everyone, but I know that generally, your brain doesn't start fully processing things like trauma or grief until it feels safe to do so. (It's why you might be fine at a funeral, but then when you step into your bedroom you suddenly burst into tears. Or in terms of trauma, it's why abuse survivors have a risk of going BACK to their abusers because once they get away from them and get someplace safe, they suddenly start feeling WORSE, because their brain is finally unpacking everything.)

MePhone and 3GS? Yeah they got away from Cobs. But now they're left in a weird, uncertain position. MePhone wants to give the contestants space so he probably won't hang around the island. But where do they go from there? Meeple HQ? Maybe at first, but they're sure not going to feel SAFE there.

They'll probably wind up traveling someplace else they've never been before. Maybe they'll travel to several places before they find a more permanent home, or maybe they'll just become comfortable with a life of travel. Either way, it's probably going to be a while before they have a home, or at least a place they truly feel safe.

And THEN it hits them. Their processors have decided it's safe to do so, and begin to unpack their trauma, and it SUCKS. Just when they felt they were doing better, they suddenly feel worse than they have in YEARS. Worse than when Cobs shut 3GS in the closet. Worse than when MePhone lost everything and Cobs went all-out physically attacking him. (MePhone especially is going to have it rough because he had NO TIME to fully take in how bad everything was as it was happening. 3GS ironically might fare slightly better because he at least had time to think through things in that closet, awful as that was.) Hopefully at this point they'll have built up a support network of some sort so they can have SOMEONE to help them, but man, they're in for a rough time.

But that's how it goes. Things get worse before they get better, and hopefully things really will start getting better for these two.

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[chrliekclly]

How did you get your job on sunny? I really wanna go into the entertainment industry.

iv told th story b4 but i got onto th show bcuz i just happened to b n th right place @ th right time

was working on smthn completely different nd drunk on th camera truck during one of our wrap days me, the DIT, nd the loader wer talking abt fave tv shows nd when i said tht always sunny was mine th loaders just like "oh lol funny im the 1st AC on that. i can get u some days if u want" ???

so i...did some days...then i did a season...and now im core crew i guess

[ithinkhesgaybutwesavedmufasa]

Just got an anon from an angry TERF. so, I donated $5 to our local transgender support group in your name, baby!

Anyway; here's the link if you wanna join me:

Stay mad. ✌️

[bi-writes]

I wish I could remember where it was from, but I read something the other day about clashing disabilities, and the example the used was someone having a service dog and someone with a severe dog allergy both needing a space.

They both have a right to accommodation, but their accommodations will harm someone else with a disability. What then? There's no good answer. Someone is gonna have to compromise.

Having a disability sucks (I would know, I have several...including the dog allergy) but it doesn't make you the only person in existence whose opinions matter. And your right to accommodation should never come at the cost of someone else's rights to exist in a space.

Especially when said space is freaking Tumblr of all things

would kiss you if i could, anon.

[bitlngs]

Ashswag (Kaboodle SMP) stimboard under cut!

if you saw the wip no you didn't

🔌 -> requested by -> anon

👾 -> taglist -> @kolektsiakomah @gravestone-sys

🟪 -> requests -> closed for admin 🧨

[t4tails]

im too much of a dirty commie for my economics class goddamn this shit sucks

[pynkhues]

do you have any meta on lestat bottoming for louis within canon, i really like the dynamic in an au sense but i can’t remember any good textual evidence it (other than “you can be on top” which i have a different interpretation of) :)

Oh, anon, please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but this feels like a pretty bad faith ask from someone who probably hate reads my blog (hello! I know there are a few of you now!)

Look, I've said plenty on here about the fact that I think the show's pretty explicit that Lestat and Louis are vers (I raise your 'good textual evidence' of 'you can be on top' with Louis literally tongue-fucking, stabbing and biting Lestat in his mistress' house, three forms of narrative and sexual penetration of which I'm pretty sure the implication is there was a fourth, with Lestat being literally, canonically a brat, and Louis sliding into the role of a Dom in s2!), but regardless!

Anon, it's totally okay if you don't see it that way! I really appreciate so much of what anons send me, but on this particular topic, if you don't agree, I don't mind! This fandom being so divided on this issue is very silly to me, and if you have a preference one way or the other, that's great! Enjoy it! Have fun :-)

[jrueships]

https://x.com/j0yb0ysung0d/status/1839062081909264574

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the way he tried so hard to make this a 'hashtag Slay u say it feminist sauce! hashtag the only man i trust in my hashtag pussay ' moment by pointing out another man as weird but forgot the very important, very obvious fact that he is also an extremly weird man

[mxtxfanatic]

how does public domain stuff work? saw some weird ask on orion's blog a few days ago and it got me thinking that isn't the whole purpose to allow ppl to adapt these works + reduce cost? like it doesn't mean that some person can just rip your work and pretend that whatever you wrote in terms of plot and characterization doesn't exist, right? RIGHT?

im just confused lol

Something entering the public domain means that a work is so old that it no longer makes sense for it to be subject to copyright, which means that the og creator (already long dead) and their estate (if still active) are not entitled to adaptation royalties or to whether or not individuals can make adaptations of the work at all. Something entering the public domain does not mean that someone can claim to be the creator of the og work lmao. The og work will always be the original, and any attempts to claim otherwise would just open the copycat up to plagiarism penalties.

[cloudninetonine]

Hey! I just got an Anon about a Legend theory!! And all I gotta say is

[heartbinders]

// That 'gaza donation link victim' ask is a scam. Gofundme doesn’t operate in Gaza, and that 'victim' is taking advantage of current events and posting stolen images to trick you and others. I've reverse-searched a few of the photos on their account, and many of them are taken from instagram and other social medias.

Admittedly the most cursory checking I did was looking at the Instagram linked in OP's bio, which seems to have some of the same images. I posted that in good faith operating on the knowledge that there's apparently a whole spreadsheet of vetted GFM campaigns, but if anyone has any reliable sources saying anything to back this up, let me know

[lover-of-mine]

All of the execs and team from that movie sobbing rn bc the group of like ten fans of a ship from a different show aren't gonna watch their film...

ALSO SIDE NOTE CAN WE PLS STOPPPP WITH USING BOYCOTT IN A FUCKING SILLY AND APOLITICAL WAY IM SORRY.... LIKE THERE ARE IMPORTANT BOYCOTTS GOING ON RN.... WDYM???? (directed at them and not you)

literally.

AND I KNOW RIGHT???? MAYBE GO OUT IN THE REAL WORLD FOR A BIT

[definitelynotshouting]

(About hunger au) Thinking about the gift fic Divergency you got from Raichett and rotating how it meshes with the current story

Thinking about how Grian could be doing this at least a little due to the guilt he has from being born the way he was

He didn't have a choice but to kill and cause pain when he was born and now he's using his control over his life to cause pain to himself and die. Oughhh

Raichett's fic is so near and dear to my heart, i'll never get over how incredible it was to receive that. Frankly, its canon to me-- that is exactly how it went for poor Grian. And the circumstances around his birth as a Watcher were so objectively tragic... i think the guilt honest to gods just eats him up inside. In his head he's sorta mentally separated them into the Good (past) Grian and then Himself (aka the Bad Grian), and now he just feels this constant weight about killing that original version of him. I think what he's doing now definitely has that desperate bid to atone in it, and not just for hurting his friends, but for killing Player!Grian as well.

Its genuinely heartbreaking tbh, like i know im the one doing this to him but i feel for him so badly about this in particular, because its such a horrible thing to be convinced you're a monster for something you had literally no control over at birth

[grimowled]

Now that you've lost your powers, your status, and your wealth... you frighten me the most out of any demon in hell.

Your adversaries should tread carefully around what you have left.

For they cannot strip you of your intellect and cunning.

BEING A DEMON first, a prince of the ars goetia second, is indeed more than any such trifling thing - it is something darker and more grotesquely ANCIENT than material possessions or evolved concepts like status; it is something PRIMAL and unendingly abysmal, like pitch black shadow, stifling and unsettling, an appetite latching onto the base needs of a mind in a fever dream at the edge of inescapable insanity.

"true enough, no one can strip me of that which I am made of."

that is the true POWER of a demon, unspeakable aberration and spawn of the first fallen, the first true evil to haunt the minds of mortal souls.