#I just needed to get that off my chest

[independent-variables]

crucial alpha-17 fact (to me) is that he does not think of himself as impossible to love. he knows people love him. his batchmates love him. obi-wan loves him. cody loves him. he simply thinks he is incapable of returning that love.

people can love him all they want! but something something faulty incubation chamber, too many pieces taken out of his genome, whatever. he's human, yes. but not enough to love like humans are supposed to love.

[maribird444]

omfg guys i just had the dumbest fucking goof moment ever…. i was always aware that dans iconic shirt was called the “eclipse shirt,” but for some reason it just sank in to me that it’s an actual eclipse ??? THIS WHOLE MF TIME SINCE 2016 i thought it was just a random white ring on a black tshirt GOODFUCKINGBYE😭😭😭😭😭

[unfortunate--moth]

im going to eat cheesecake and then im gonna write this chapter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[wyvspike]

im so upset, i misread the 24 hour clock and got the time mixed up for dnd night and because my little gremlin brain can't handle having An Event at some vague amorphous point in the future, i got literally nothing done today i haaaate this i hate this. i restructured my whole day around it and then turns out i totally messed it up

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

i have so many opinions about how popular discussions about publishing misrepresent how it works but it's really hard to talk about them without saying more about my day job than i am comfortable doing on here

but the short version is that the idea that you have to be an influencer to get a (fiction) book deal is absolute 100% bullshit (nonfic is a different kettle of fish and one I'm less qualified to talk about). also a vast amount of it all is luck, but sometimes that luck is about being in the right place at the right time, which means yes, the whole system is biased towards people who can, for example, go to book launches and events and get chatting to editors who will later be interested in their work, which means there are major geographical biases as well as people needing to know enough to know those events are happening at all

and THAT accounts for way more selection bias than how many twitter followers someone has. given that a very large proportion of the published authors that i know didn't even have a twitter account when they got their book deal, or if they did, had <500 followers (the majority of them still don't have TikTok, either)

there are structural problems in this industry but the idea that you need 10k social media followers to get an agent (categorically untrue) ain't actually one of them, so stop talking horseshit and let's talk about the ACTUAL issues, like the median income for primary occupation authors in the UK being £7k/yr, aka less than half minimum wage

[mistninja]

sorry but what gets me is that whenever i say i want to buy something or make any financial decision on my own my mom (and my dad) acts like im a shopaholic who cant have money on her hands which is incredibly idiotic when 90% of my salary always end up being spent on bills and paying off debts since i started working, and on the same breath she will lament that i never get stuff for myself and that she feels so so sad for having me help the family???? SO WHICH IS IT. but im fine im cool i stay silly, she wont ruin my excellent mood

[the-down-upside-finch]

I sit in the restaurant with my family, feeling the stares as I attempt to hide myself within the mask. Judging with their eyes. It's Saturday. I have to save my meds. I need to eat this food before we can leave.

She stands up.

"Bathroom," she says when she sees me wondering. I was trying to make conversation. Maybe she didn’t hear me. She stumbles and falls into the chair in her path and it screeches against the floor.

Everyone turns to look.

"My leg fell asleep," she loudly says, so everyone knows she’s not like me. She wouldn’t bump into furniture like me. She’s spatially aware. She’s not a klutz. She’s not strange.

I continue to eat my rice.

Misinterpreted again. I try to explain myself and use too many words. Be quiet be quiet be quiet.

The man comes out of the kitchen and sees me standing there at the counter. I was too scared to ring the bell for service.

"Could I get a box?"

He smiles. One moment, he tells me. He needs to deliver this ice cream to a table and then he will give me a box. I go back to the table to wait.

She’s gone. Back to the bathroom, maybe.

I try to explain again. I try to give context. I try to explain why I am giving context but I'm being dramatic. I wasn’t trying to be dramatic but that’s what they tell me I’m doing. It was an accident. I didn’t know. Shut up shut up shut up.

The sky looks very ominous.

I clutch my box of unfinished food as we walk to the car. Maybe it's going to rain. She’s already in the car. She was crying. I should have been the one crying. She snapped at me and told me to not. "Can you not." It wasn’t a question. And then she went to the car and cried.

I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm

[4r4chn10]

//Tumblr keeps recommending shit to me and I saw things that said Noir would be racist towards Hobie and I just...

No? Noir Spider's best friend was a POC and when the Otto Octavius of that timeline lobotmized said friend (and yes this Otto was quite outwardly racist and did not hide it)? Noir nearly beat him to death with his bare hands and he only stopped because the government agents with him put guns to him. I'm sorry but I don't believe you would be willingly racist towards somebody you're willing to kill for.

Idk where these fucking takes come from but Jesus fuck do your damn research.

[tigerdrachin]

sometimes I have to remember that I am on this platform to be deranged

like mask off we are all cringe here deranged

I forget that to often

[trans-kevin-juice]

I’m gonna say it. Voira is a straight ship for straight people, if you know what I mean.

[avid-idiot]

They love me bc i turn notifications off after literally sobbing my eyeballs out

[saucerfulofsins]

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[tuttle-4077]

Can we stop being afraid of the word 'me' ? We used to use 'me' all the time even though it was wrong: "me and Jenny went to the store."; "Henry and me are friends."

Then someone came along and corrected us: "*Actually* it's 'I'. 'Jenny and *I* went to the store.' 'Henry and *I* are friends.'"

And that's all fine and good, but then we got so afraid of 'me' that we started replacing all of them with 'I'. The pendulum swung waaaaaaaay in the other direction.

"This is a picture of Jenny and I."; "Henry talked to Jenny and I."

(I heard one just yesterday and that's what started this whole thing in my head, but I can't remember the exact phrase used).

Look, I'm no great grammarian, and maybe it's just me (it's probably just me), but replacing 'me' with 'I' when you shouldn't is waaaay worse than replacing 'I' with 'me' when you shouldn't. When you say 'me' instead of 'I' it may sound uneducated, but in an innocent sort of way. It comes across as colloquial. When you say 'I' instead of 'me', however, it sounds uneducated, but in a pretentious sort of way. Like you're saying, "Oh, look how sophisticated I am. I would never use the word 'me'. Oh dear oh deary me. What am I, a peasant?"

So here's a bit of a trick: if you can replace the phrase with the word 'us', then use 'me'. If you can replace the phrase with 'we', the use 'I'.

"This is a picture of me and Jenny." then becomes, "This is a picture of us".

"This is a picture of Jenny and I." becomes, "This is a picture of we."

"Henry and I went to the store." becomes, "We went to the store."

"Henry and me went to the store." becomes, "Us went to the store."

Like I said, I know I'm no great grammarian. I abuse commas and punctuation in general right and left. So take this or leave it as you will. It's just for my two bits, I'd rather hear 'me' used incorrectly than 'I'.

TL;DR: 'Me' is not a bad word. Don't be afraid of it.

[latetaektalk]

Are you angry or offended by us?🥺

no im not !! i know i didnt add a lot of "!!" or emojis but im not mad. i just thought it was important and a better way to convey my feelings if i left out all of the little details like the occasional "!!"

[ninelivesastrology]

I cast a horary chart asking if my ex was in federal prison because there's apparently a difference between jail and federal prison and his significator was in the 12th House that rules jails and prisons, God is so good.

[girlfictions]

something i’ve been thinking about lately is like. growing up muslim right after 9/11 is something i’d never really reflected on much because it was all i’d ever known — at 5, my friend’s mum didn’t let her invite me to her birthday party because i was the only brown girl in our class, at 12, my classmates would joke about my family being part of isis, at 16, my dad was interrogated by american airport security for hours — and it always stung and it always hurt but it was just the way things were because the western world hated muslims. but i don’t think i’ve ever fully comprehended the extent to which we were hated until now.

palestine is being turned into a mass graveyard. every single day there are new photos of the atrocities being carried out against them and videos of them pleading for help and still those who can actually intervene turn a blind eye. israel is claiming to only be targeting hamas “terrorists” while bombing a refugee camp. israeli police raided and assaulted a non-zionist jewish neighbourhood. israeli soldiers are posting tiktoks of them torturing captured palestinians. this is not a complicated issue and it never has been. ethnic cleansing is being committed right in front of us. and yet the western world leaders refuse to call for a ceasefire.

and while zionist organisations accuse pro-palestine demonstrations of anti-semitism, while zionist celebrities insist that they’re afraid to leave their mansions in los angeles, a six year old muslim boy was stabbed to death and his mother wounded in the same attack in chicago. a muslim doctor was murdered while sitting outside her apartment complex in texas. hundreds of peaceful protesters have been arrested (many of whom have been jewish). despite what zionists want you to believe, this is not a jewish/muslim conflict. i have so much love and gratitude to my brave jewish brothers and sisters all over the world who are condemning israel for their actions.

ultimately, israel have been granted impunity by the west. they have slaughtered thousands upon thousands of innocent palestinians. they have bombed hospitals and schools indiscriminately. they have used white phosphorus, violating the geneva convention. they have completely eradicated nearly 900 bloodlines. how many more need to be wiped out? how many more children need to be buried underneath the rubble? how many more doctors need to be confronted with the bodies of their own family members? how many more journalists need to detail the horrific acts of violence they are witnessing? what more can be done to the palestinian people that has not been done already?

i truly believe that palestine will be free one day. i believe the palestinian people will receive the justice they finally deserve. but what breaks my heart is how much they have suffered and will continue to suffer before they are deemed worthy of help. and it would be to all of our detriment if we ignored how much of a factor palestine being a predominantly muslim state has played into the way the world has reacted to their genocide.