#Excellence in School Wellness

[ckerouac]

So, I really love the selection of Tim Walz for VP and it’s taken me a moment to articulate why. I mean, obviously, Dem bonafides, he’s sharp, he’s funny, etc etc. But everyone in the Veepstakes fits that bill, Harris was spoiled for good choices.

But Walz offers something that the other men in contention don’t that I think will be incredibly useful in combating Trumpism.

He offers an example and an off ramp to the section of men who felt like they were Republicans by default, and so support Trump by default. There are a lot of Trump voters who are full on obsessive, but that’s not who we’re talking to. We’re talking to folks who grew up in Republican areas, or felt their hobbies didn’t line up with who a Democrat was, or didn’t feel represented by their image of a Democrat. You want to see it so you can be it, you know? Which is why Harris is so inspirational to a lot of segments of folks, but Walz is too.

He served in the military. He went to a state college. He’s your favorite teacher from your public high school. He’s your football coach who actually cared if you were passing your math class. He’s the guy you looked up to at school when your family sucked but this guy cared, and he helped you get out and make something of yourself.

He’s the neighbor who helps you jump your car. He’s your uncle who takes you hunting. He’s your Dad who loves teasing you at the Stare Fair. He’s you when he makes a mistake like his DUI and takes responsibility for it, and when he has the chance makes sure other can come back from similar mistakes. He’s you when you and your wife want so badly to be parents and IVF gives you the family you wanted. He’s you when he says ‘it had to be me’ and used his standing and power to protect vulnerable kids sponsoring the GSA at his school.

He gives the real life example to these men that they can be that football, fishing, hunting family man who wants to provide for his family, be that powerful, respected member of the community and use that power to feed kids in school. That it’s normal to enthusiastically work for a boss like Harris. That yeah those other guys are fucking weirdos, and you’re not a weirdo, are you?

That there’s a place in the Democratic Party for them. That they don’t have to default to being fucking weird.

I hope those guys see this example of masculinity and go… yeah, that’s me. That’s who I’m gonna be.

[tacosaysroar]

Three different boys like Adelaide right now and they all play on the same basketball team together.

Boy drama.

[backpackingspace]

Headcanon that most demon royalty goes to some fancy private/finishing school. But that Stolas was homeschooled with a private tutor. It was one of the very very few requests his dad granted him and for years it was a tressure memory, one of the few times he /got to choose/ one of the few times his dad /listened/ to him. Only to realize when he enters society that it was another isolation tactic. That everybody had already spent years forming social alliances and building their reputations and social credit. And that there was no room for him to break into those circles, that he /did not know/ the proper unspoken social rules. That his wife has spent years building her clout and that he is once again. Alone.

[ruindunburnit]

I am finally, FINALLY watching Interview with the Vampire (AMC).

Oh my God. Oh my God. It completely captures the spirit of the book, and even with the details of the book it changes, the ones it keeps are on POINTE. I am two episodes in and completely enamoured with this luxuriatingly horny vampire show.

[essektheylyss]

I have decided that I need to be more in the habit of reading weird fiction, and I have from now until the end of September without classes, so I've endeavored to read one piece of short speculative fiction available in lit mags online everyday until then.

In an effort to actually maintain that, and also because authors and lit mags are frequently the only ones promoting their own works and we should change that, I'm going to post them here, probably without additional commentary or I'll get overwhelmed and stop doing it. There will likely be no rhyme or reason to what the vibes are, because I plan to open a lit mag and read the first thing that catches my eye instead of trying to figure out which ones are actually my speed. This is an effort to read a lot of different stuff, after all.

If you want to read along, I'll post these under the tag "#sff shorts with megs"!

Here's the first:

[beastly-boy]

I am a slut for great dialogue. Most Popular Girls in School is my baseline for excellent dialogue. I want Than & Brittany's mixed messages back & forth from season 2 tattooed on my body.

[wereflamingo-in-thai-dramaland]

Anyway, if Nani can ace one of Fon's long-ass no-lines shots like he did at the end of this episode, he can do anything 👏👏👏💐

[nobodysdaydreams]

Giving a complicated tragic childhood backstory to your favorite character is all fun and games, until you realize you need to account for how old all the other adult characters would have been at the time and realize that scenes that would work perfectly if one character was twenty three and the other was fourteen stop working when you need other characters who are played by adult actors clearly younger than they are to be in college at the same time so your story beats line up thematically.

[pollen]

hi fellow neurodivergent people

i hate to jump on the "i think i might have adhd" bandwagon, but if i think i might have adhd, how do i bring it up to my care team as a 28-year-old cis woman who was a massive overachiever until i couldn't keep up the ruse anymore?

[pussymasterdooku]

my beloved imac from 2014 with a cracked screen that i conned my dad into giving me so i had a computer on which to do stupid freelancer shit for him but use primarily for personal use (file storage, use appletv to play streaming sites on our actual tv, play sims) seems to be……engaging in behaviors that for lack of a better way to put this best resemble when my elderly cat started having seizures after a hard summer of kidney problems and we had to be like. oh it’s the end the end? obviously less emotional than that but. you know. she’s had a long good life and maybe it’s her time. that’s okay. all things end. anyway. all this to say we are trying to coax her into not just waking up again but pretty please just giving me two files that are the backbone of the recurring stupid freelancer shit i do every month. please baby i have hand problems i can’t build those templates again. please.………

[werebutch]

I’m glad I’m getting $200 out of this house/dog sitting thing cause it is painful seeing my mom’s friend’s kids (who are more like my cousins than my actual cousins) stuff everywhere. Like trophies and huge posters of them in their high school sports teams uniforms. Like omfg, my mom could have had kids to actually be proud of. It must hurt her inside even though she’d never say it. These kids grew up wealthy and with stable parents and I know that’s most of why they turned out so different from me (plus they were not homeschooled lol..), but ugh. I wish I could do something literally anything at all to be proud of 😭

[tobe-sogolden]

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[rosea-tangible]

lowkey my therapist wants me to eventually try and reach out to and rekindle dead friendships and i don't know what she's cooking with this. will this lead to disaster and more trauma or will this heal me.

[lights-at-night]

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[deus-ex-mona]

a n y w a y s listen to nagisa’s new song it’ll change your life

[qprpbj]

i’m this close 🤏 to writing like a 15k+ seblos s4 entire rewrite fic to scrap the cheating entirely while still hitting all the emotional objectives & the fight/misunderstanding/reconciliation bits i can tell they were trying to get at 💀