#I HATE THIS DAMN PLACE SO MUCH

[taralen]

garbage noise▓▒░

I'm cursed. Some @#$^ing witch has hexed me. I have no other idea why the #%^ this is happening.

I had almost two days without any power, putting my aquariums at risk since no power = no heat. It's the middle of WINTER, and the entire grid here failed, leaving almost a million people without any power. I managed to keep the tanks at stable levels by using candles to heat them from below and providing warm water to raise the temperature. My pufferfish weren't so lucky, though, and all they could do was just to keep as still as possible since their tank had no way of heating from below. I'm really @#$%ing glad they pulled through.

My birds, especially the youngest, which are just barely over a month old, were so cold that they needed two sheets to keep them warm.

Thunder blared, and hail pounded the house. My cats hid from the noise, and I bundled up in my bed, staring into pitch-blackness and seeing nothing but static.

I found out you can toast bagels on a pan over an open fire if you have a lid to heat the top. Wowee. Nice.

Since I had @$%^ all to do, I finally got my eyes examined for my visual snow (aka static vision) and got a mild prescription. The optometrist said that she doesn't know what's causing the [visual distortions] since my eyeballs are apparently "very healthy" but believes it's a neurological problem tied to my optic nerves. She tried to see if she could minimize it with lenses, but it didn't work, and she genuinely looked crestfallen for me. [[Heaven]] help me.

I used up all my backup chargers, so I had to go to @#%^ing McDonald's, of all places, to charge my phone. After waiting until it was around 80%, I decided to get something to eat, and when I put it on the windowsill behind me while it was charging. I wasn't aware that the windowsill's surface was slightly curved, so my phone fell to the floor. This was only a small drop or only a little over a foot, but that McDonald's floor must have poor impact control because that #$%^^$()^ BROKE MY PHONE. The screen is now unresponsive, and I was told my warranty only covers some of it, but I would still need to pay a $100 deductible to get it replaced. When I saw that, I just nearly snapped. HAHAHA! BUT I DIDN'T BECAUSE I was so ANGRY I just stormed out of the phone store instead! HEHAEH

The absolute CHERRY ON THE TOP Besides the fact I have the worst indigestion from whatever I ate at McDonald's, the internet was down for several hours! WOO HOO! AWESOME. I couldn't access ANYTHING because it kept asking me to use my phone to verify, and I sat there thinking, "WHAT PHONE? IT'S BUSTED, YOU PIECE OF *@&^!"

These are just MINOR INCONVENICENCES. First-world problems! Definitely not the worst thing that could happen, I assure you, but BOY DO THEY SUCK. My head is throbbing, I had to stop typing to nearly vomit, and YET HERE I AM.

HA HA HA HAHAEHAEAHAHAHAH

IT's oKAY I HAVE SO MANY groceries that ARE BAD NOW.

JUST PART AND PARCEL of living in the BIGGGGGGGGG CITTTYYY

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[tytoalbatross]

god damn i do not post often but can i talk about intentionality for a second?? one second please

i'm gonna be talking about bg3 but this really applies to any fandom space. people will, surface-level, agree that a Black character is not getting enough content compared to their white counterparts because it's. obvious . take wyll, who is several hours behind on voiced lines compared to other origins despite being one of the original five (before they added karlach and whiteified her too but that's another post). it's hard to deny cold hard facts

but then instead of engaging in content that uplifts Black characters and creators, they'll go right back to pumping out more and more content of just their white faves. on its own, it's not actively harmful, but here's what the implication is, whether they acknowledge it or not: yes wyll has less in-game content, yes his writing didn't get the attention it deserved, therefore i don't like him as much. it only perpetuates wyll's lack of content by contributing to his sidelining in fandom spaces

what i would love for fans who claim to be allies to do is to step out of the comfort zone of their initial favorites (which can, in fact, be biased!) and start pursuing content centering Black characters with intentionality. like all things, anti-racism (actively pushing back against racism rather than simply "Not Being Racist") takes practice and effort. you can't really agree with us that wyll needs more content, then in the same breath say that it's because of that that he's not interesting to you . the point was right in front of you doing a jig and you still missed it

[pinkfey]

me when the boy savior the boy saved everyone: 🤯🤯🤯

[darckcarnival]

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[arson-09]

i dont think ill ever recover from the pure tragedy that is Touya Todorokis story/life. Genuinely the ending did mental damage to me

[softestepiloguemisc]

people who are hyper critical of aang are super fucking weird and we should say so.

[cornistasiathecoblinking]

*sees a really awesome Megamind fanart*

8>

*hovers mouse over the reblog icon*

*see the artist hating on Megamind Vs. The Doom Syndicate and Megamind Rules*

>8<

*removes mouse from reblog icon and moves tf on*

[chimchiri]

I will forever hate Instagram and Twitter. Nothing will drag me over there to post any art or follow artists (no matter how much I admire your art).

Oh, sorry, you're almost exclusively posting over there? No, thanks, I'm good just seeing the 1% you post here ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[the-flowerpatch]

many thoughts, many thoughts…

[lollytea]

The new percy jackson show is good for launching the hopefully successful careers of three brilliant young actors and i think thats neat. but man it looks like shit

[orbmanson7]

how do y'all motivate yourself to do anything?? I'm amazed I can even remember to eat once a day, go to work most days, but this shit is ridiculous, man

[worfsbarmitzvah]

midwestern gothic this suburban gothic that. who's ready for rust belt gothic

[laugtherhyena]

While Nikei is the character i dislike the most out of anyone in the another series Kokoro is the one that physically hurts me whenever i think too much about her

[nyxi-pixie]

saw a tiktok talking about bookmarks earlier and there was a comment saying they were worried their bookmark could be seen by authors because they shit talk fics in their bookmark comment??????? why would you save something just to be rude about it????

[petrichal]

It's absolutely a me thing, probably, but people who say that they hate an author and have the time to reiterate it endlessly but continues to support their work- without ever crediting the good part of the writing that makes them a fan to begin with- irks me so goddamn much.

An author and their work is very intrinsically tied together. They write their beliefs of the world in the text, their sociopolitical stance practically bleeds out from the pages. Of course this isn't the case when you're making a comic or book/any form of media for the sake of it being disturbing, but the point is, I need people to understand that an artist's work is an extension of themselves and you need to respect that especially if it's a work that you love and connect with.

[qkmlh]

On a superficial level, I get Amelia because Sam Winchester?? Very very pretty with certain attributes that make him an appealing man. That being said. That same man also has soooo many blaring red flags that do NOT make it worth it from a long term, especially romantic, partnership stand point.

That is to say, I did indeed judge her choice in choosing to go to the motel to meet Sam and it’s this feeling of oh. Honey. You can do so much better please you are the Other in his questionable everything with his brother and y’know, you’ve seen, what his brother meant to him because he understood you as a widow on a mourning and bleeding heart level. Please. He deadass packed his bag and left you with the dog without even saying goodbye. (Did he even tell you what it was?? The Something that wasn’t even fully about your own husband coming back, the Something Else that was even more the reason he left??)

You think about him all the time GIRL HE WAS RUNNING!!! HE WAS RUNNJNG JUST LIKE YOU!!!! TWO WAR WIDOWS FINDING SOLACE IN UNDERSTANDING AND CARNAL ATTRACTION!!!! SURE IT WAS LOVE BUT BESTIE GIRLIE SWEETIE I’M SO SORRY THAT LOVE IS NOT ENOUGH THAT LOVE IS ONLY A FRACTION TO THE PSYCHOTIC IRRATIONAL EROTIC CODEPENDENCE