#IN THIS FUCKING UNSAFE WORLD??

[naiomiirayn]

i hate how the #1 problem in america is guns. and they still dont want to fucking take them away like WTFFF…. i dont wanna hear no bullshit about how theyre “to protect yourself” BITCH FROM WHAT?. IF THERES NO GUNS THEN WHAT ARE U PROTECTING URSELF FROM??? WHY DO U NEED THEM? if you really wanna protect yourself take away the guns and use a mf knife or smth idfk idc just take them away from people. there wouldnt be AS MUCH of a crime rate as there is now, and thats not to say there wouldnt be any at all but children and teachers atleast wouldnt have to feel so fucking unsafe in schools if they were js taken away. i’m tired of seeing shit on the news or on articles about how “this school got sh*t” or “this person did too” especially when theyre about CHILDREN no less like deadass the only people i feel deserve guns are the army not even the regular police bc theyre obviously abusing that fucking power as is. innocent civilians are getting sh*t bc you cant fucking differentiate whether or not they have a gun. yk how easily that could be solved??? BY TAKING THEM THE FUCK AWAYYYYY. please dont piss me off bc innocent children d*e everday, innocent TEACHERS d*e everyday and innocent PEOPLEEEEE d*e everyday bc yall wanna have a mf “right to bear arms” YOURE FINNA HAVE A RIGHT TO THIS ASS BEATING IN A SECOND BC WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG W YOUUUU AMERICA.

[milkweedman]

Made another spindle. It's very small. Also very irregular and lumpy due to the wood (I wanted the raised brown lines to stay and erred on the side of caution in how much I cut away...but that did lead to a very irregular spindle).

It also wanted to crumble as I carved, so pretty much all the fine tuning I just did by sanding it, which helps to compress the fibers down as well as remove material without crumbling or splintering.

It really came to life when I oiled it. Probably will be best after a few good coats and some time. My woodburning kit seems to be totally gone, which is a bummer. So I'm not woodburning anymore.

Spins well. Obviously being so tiny and light it was always going to be a fine spinning spindle, but effortless thread from an unprepped piece of fleece is pretty indicative as well. I seem to find myself carving mostly thread spindles at the moment. They're always so small and light in the hand, they remind me of holding baby birds.

[mountain-in-springtime]

the cody ko allegations going on make me so sick

[takeyourcyanide]

asking for help always makes things worse

[seaquestions]

🙃🙃 cant wait to go home in 4 hrs

[gotyouanyway]

sent email withdrawing from sailing this summer 😞

[bioswear]

not to sound like some political bootlicker but i could cry honestly seeing a presidential candidate who can actually string a coherent sentence together and isn’t on the verge of having an aneurysm

[apostate-in-an-alcove]

Torn between wanting to speak and encourage other women to speak about abuse and trauma they've suffered from men and living in a misogynistic society but also not wanting them to do that too publicly because men are unempathetic monsters who harrass, dox and threaten women who do so.

[doodlboy]

Tomorrow is freaking me out

[lgbtlunaverse]

I've talked before about how I think Jgy's specific attitude to defending his actions comes less from a genuine conviction that he's in the right or holds no responsibility and more from a knowledge that any punishment he'd be given would be more because of who his mother was than anything he actually did, and a person with more power of a "cleaner" background wouldn't be punished the same way. Why accept "consequences" for his actions when that's just a smokescreen for what people really want to punish him for. Daring to stand before them instead of knowing his place.

And if I do envision a socratic dialogue with an imaginary nie mingjue in my head, a counterpoint might be that, well yeah at first, sure. But there's a point where punishment doesn't get worse than, y'know, death. And surely at some point in canon jgy passes the threshold where, even if he wasn't the son of a sex worker, he would... "deserve to die" isn't right here because I personally don't believe in the death penalty but basically that, within the moral framework of the world of mdzs where the death penalty is universally accepted, characters would, regadless of his background, rationally agree that the just punishment was death. The moment jgy crosses this threshold, then- and I have no interest in debating when this would be- it wouldn't matter that in reality his punishment was really for something else, because it'd be virtually the same as the "just" consequences of his actions.

And what I like is that the story FORCES you to ask that question, to entertain that argument, and perhaps see the flaws in it. Because it expicitly kills jgy for something he didn't do. Huaisang couldn't have said anything, and jgy would still have been taken prisoner, and the cultivation world would still have demanded his head. He'd have been tried for his crimes and executed. The story could have done that, and everything i said above would still have been true, but you could very easily wash your hands of it and say that justice was served.

Instead Huaisang lies, and Jin Guangyao is killed for something he never did. And the story asks: does that change things? Does it matter, that he died for something he didn't do when all of his actual actions were already enough to doom him? And if it does, what else does that change? Because that has always been the case. That was always going to be the case.

[beesorcery]

google how do i tell my dad that the reason i keep bringing up elon musk's transphobia isn't that i've got gen z political tunnel vision that makes me blind to his "innovation" in electric cars but because i am desperately crying out for you as the father of a trans child to feel just as outraged and angry as i am that that man has so much power

[relaxxattack]

boys when they cant read some of the most popular and interesting looking fics of their ship because the author who wrote them supports incest shipping and that feels genuinely uncomfortable/unsafe

[the-bitter-ocean]

7 for the choose violence game

7) what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them?

You didn’t say a specific fandom for this and truthfully I usually don’t hate a character solely because of a fan or fandoms interpretation of it- if I don’t like something I just block/mute and move on. That being said if I had to really think hard on it I really get uncomfortable by the way certain fans write or draw Miguel O’ Hara (Spiderverse: Across The spiderverse). It usually veers into over sexualizing and blatant stereotypes and racism which haha as a black person not fun to see! That and the whitewashing/colorism ( which is not limited to this fandom and rather a larger issue in any fandom community but that’s a separate can of worms) That makes me super uncomfortable! Lol!

Like I think Miquel is a interesting antagonist / character to analyze. Even if I don’t necessarily like him as a person or agree with his values I can appreciate the work went into designing or writing the character. So it’s a shame my brain instinctively thinks about the gross one dimensional misinterpretations of his character I see online (Twitter, tumblr, tiktok and insta) that either completely erases the fact that he did Bad Things to people (UwU he did nothing wrong ever1!1”) or makes him into A Big Bad Scary 1000% Evil Brown Man Whose Super Sexy ™️

Anywho I think that’s enough salt for now. Thank you for the question anon!

[hiddenworldofmary]

four coffees and all i want is sleep

also i spent 50 minutes trying to hunt down a book and discovered its crazy expensive and the nearest library that has it is 290km away

[gregoftom]

“do you have all the support that you need [for sweden]?”

[camellia-thea]

initially this post had some commentary about interests right now. and then it turned into a ramble about personal healing in the tags. so the interest post is going separately.