#But also

[teaboot]

I feel like if you're using a lot of disposable plastic bags in your day to day life, you've gotta do something sustainable to make up for it. Like using bamboo toilet paper or eco friendly cat litter or something, yknow

Honestly I exaggerate for comedic effect, while I DO routinely use ziplock bags to hold spaghetti I cook maybe once a month and the bag itself is usually for freezer storage. I actually throw out maybe one bag a week? I DO hate washing plates and tupperware and junk but that usually just means I eat sandwiches without a plate.

I agree though that needless waste should be avoided, and I do avoid it- biodegradable bags and recyclables, empty butter tubs used to store leftovers, etc.

This said, though, not applicable necessarily for myself but for a lot of others- I feel that it's importat to remember that there are many people who legitimately NEED things like plastic straws, or catheters, or pre-packaged foods

And the idea that that's a moral failing that individuals need to personally make up for when a single billionaire blows out more CO2 in a long weekend than I will in my whole life on a superjet meet-cute in the Bolivian rainforest between humvee drag races funded by the river-polluting textiles plants they planted in a third world country to avoid EPA laws and give an entire village stillbirths and stomach cancer is an idea that those very same bigwigs have spent a LOT of time and money investing in planting in the public psyche.

Like- Glass bottles are infinitely recyclable, so why are so many drinks in plastic now? Loads of drinks manufacturers used to buy them back and clean them for re-use, so why did they stop? If they chose to make something out of a limited and environmentally irresponsible material, why is it my failing to track down a correct process of disposal for them? What if there are none in my area? Do I lobby for more recycling plants in my area? Do I set aside some of my limited time outside the pain factory of my job- which I have more than one of, thanks to rising costs of things just like that drink I just emptied- to properly dispose of this company's waste FOR them?

Say coca-cola just rolled up to your town and started dumping millions of empty plastic bottles in the street, going, "wow, you should really think about building and staffing a recycling depot, it would be really shameful of you to just put these in the trash." When companies purposefully use materials with limited lifespans- because yes, even plastic can only be reused so many times- and tell you it's your own fault if it harms the environment- that's essentially what they're doing, just with more steps.

Yes, its important to be as environmentally concious as we can in our day to day life, but responsible sustainability is not catholicism. We don't get good boy points from our lord and savior Captain Planet every time the average low-income household gathers together to hold hands and repent for a single-use plastic that allows them to access something they need.

Entire families could eat trees and shit dead lithium batteries for years and still not do as much damage to the planet as an average dye plant or braindead celebrity does in a week just for fun, and I'm mad about it

...this went on longer than intended.

TL/DR: DO recycle and minimize waste, but don't beat yourself up over the little waste you can't avoid, and follow the money.

EDIT: Part 2

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[constantlyfalling]

OK, but Glinda putting the flower Fiyero gave her in Elphaba’s hair. They're a throuple, your honor.

[crazy-pages]

I like to imagine an epilogue scene where Viktor and Jayce are sitting shoulder to shoulder on some beach-like nebula on the astral mind palace.

And then Viktor says, "By the way, fuck you."

"Bwuh?"

"Even fresh off a death world and down half your sanity, you are such a goddamn privileged liberal noble."

"What? I- Viktor, where is this coming from?"

"My disability didn't make me damaged? Was part of who I was and shouldn't be changed? Jayce I was fucking dying from a wasting illness I contracted playing in tainted water from the mines that supplied *your* family's factories. Absolutely fuck you and the hammer you rode in on."

"Well I- I mean ... it sounded like a poetic and affirming line in my head? I meant it in good way?"

"Of that I am absolutely certain."

"Hey what's that supposed to mean?!"

[maylilithreign]

I'm way too fucking awesome to be crying over some mean girl bullshit and I'm not doing it anymore.

From now on I will cry at the following: sad movies/songs, stubbing my toe real bad, how adorable my cats are, incredible orgasms, and, finally, the actual real shit that's happened in my life involving people who actually matter.

[solarwynd]

Like Crazy #2 in Atlanta last year, all those streams absolutely came from me.

[a-tad-bit-obsessed]

Random headcanon I feel very strongly about even though it really is nothing and is not grounded in much

Rio doesn’t have to eat, it doesn’t do anything for her, but she likes to eat, loves trying different things and, when things were good, was the cook between her and Agatha

[lyquoritte]

"I won't fail." || a JayVik comic.

Been working on this all week. I'm extremely excited for the finale! And really nervous too...

I'll get to watch it in a few hours along with my brother and his friend, probably. I just can't wait aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

[maraskywalkers]

freaking out about the ending so much I forgot about the actual RAINBOW that was over the shot of Buck & Eddie hello can we talk about this what what hello

[sporadeen]

Gotta say i was very meh on jayvik and timebomb til today but yeah i get it

[zadabug98]

And even that one is on thin ice. If you only have one bull at a time you gotta replace that dude every now and again to maintain genetic variance.

YOU ONLY KEEP ONE BULL 

(Originally published in Comics For Choice)

[lightershadows]

god i LOVE a floating island. i never get sick of them. i don’t care how many times its been done. if you give me a magical archipelago in the air i will eat that shit UP

[rubberduckyrye]

So I started to mess around with my mouse and uh

Have a Ryoma is he wasn't drawn to be a joke Ig?

[sydneyadmu]

honestly tv is really dead. I’m tired of streaming services making those 8 episodes shows that never get the chance to have more seasons after making the audience invested in the characters and also making the cast and creators uncertain and anxious about getting the chance to go back to another season. I miss when we had actual shows with multiple seasons in production from the start to keep the interest going, this format of not quite a show but also not a limited series fucking sucks and I feel so bad for everyone that works for these streamings

[catgirlcaliphate]

Turning off the reblogs on this. At the time I wrote it, it felt like what I needed to say. There's not as much activity on the post now, but when there is, I feel...sort of hollow. We're so far past the point where this even means anything.

Y'all remember "cops aren't supposed to kill guilty people, either", right?

Palestinians who have done something wrong don't deserve to die beneath the rubble of their homes.

Palestinians who have done something wrong don't deserve to be shot with expanding bullets that cause massive tissue damage leading to amputation.

Palestinians who have done something wrong don't deserve to have their flesh burned away with white phosphorous.

Palestinians who have done something wrong don't deserve their fishing boats blown up.

Palestinians who have done something wrong don't deserve to see their husbands and fathers executed in front of them along evacuation routes.

Palestinians who have done something wrong don't deserve an anonymous phone call threatening to destroy their lives and families.

Palestinians who have done something wrong don't deserve to be detained for years without charges.

Palestinians who have done something wrong don't deserve to be tortured, starved, and sexually assaulted in prison.

Palestinians who have done something wrong don't deserve to be deprived of water.

Palestinians who have done something wrong don't deserve their olive trees to be uprooted while they look on.

Palestinians who have done something wrong don't deserve sixteen years of blockade.

Palestinians who have done something wrong don't deserve to be prevented from traveling for lifesaving medical care.

Palestinians who have done something wrong don't deserve this genocide.