#Something has to change

[jnateg]

I am so livid & furious seeing things like this.

To see this woman struggling so hard with everything, to continue to be screwed over by the system that demands we get screwed more. Are you serious?

This is not the land of the free. Our nation is deteriorating in front of our eyes & we have people so terrified of what they’ve been convinced is “socialism”, “communism”, or whatever is the buzzword of the week that this country has effectively sold their children into a life of misery for the possibility that they’ll be rich if they keep working hard enough.

The American dream is dead, & our country is run by necromancers puppeteering dead ideals. Republicans are the worst at but the democrats aren’t a whole lot better.

[erggggggggg]

i can feel another villain era coming and i’m ready for it

[the-ladyrae]

...would it be messy of me to literally block every single cis man on every social media I have?

Like I'm not trying to make a point or educate them anymore. I just... don't want to see them in my escapism. And also? I don't want to be perceived by them.

I'm done giving and giving and GIVING so much of my time, energy, patience, and general being in emotional labor to people who do not see me as a person. I just want to make a space for me and people who identify with what I'm saying to just be without being objectified, dehumanized, tokenized, or commodified. As for me, it often feels that simply by existing silently in their spaces, I validate my own subjugation through complacency.

I can not physically remove myself from their environment. I do not have the financial means to leave the US, and even if I did? I don't want to.

My ancestors were stolen from their homes and spent centuries fighting through unspoken horrors to build some kind of a future for me here. So no, I'm not going to consider their blood, bones, hearts, and souls that this nation was built on a sunk cost. The descendents of their oppressors do not deserve the fruits of their labor.

So if I can't leave physically? The digital landscape proves slightly easier to manipulate. So why all cis men if it seems like my biggest issue is with white supremacy? Various internal biases, but honestly, it really boils down to the harm perpetrated upon women of color by men within our communities who think patriarchy and misogyny are tools they can use to overcome the wrongs done to them by white supremacy. When in reality they only serve to keep us divided and support it.

So I'm just done. They get nothing from me now. As far as the digital landscape is concerned I no longer exist to cis men. No validating comments, no encouraging remark, no funny content, no passing smile.

[crowsflag]

okay but mclaren.. that strategy was not good. fast car fast drivers but the pit wall lets it down when it matters

[saintanhedonia]

Something Has to change lyrics. God. Wait I'll write my favorites

・"Baby, the one thing I get to keep to myself

I share it with you while you don't wanna read my line"

・"I shed tears, everything I do is for a boy

Please, God, save me, I just wanna party

Baby, do you feel me changing? Or do you feel me partly?"

・"You make me feel so lucky

If only that meant something"

・"If it's anything, then love me, even if it's softly"

[kettle-black]

Working with other companies and cultures I am figuring out that even for a capitalist country, America is still fucking awful.

From January 22nd to February 3rd, China celebrates Chinese New Year holiday. There, someone working a job similar to mine would have a holiday break as operations would stop to celebrate.

My job has a base Isreal (please, if yall comment, don't take it there. That's not what this post is about) and for their holidays, they get that day off. Every single one of them. And the ones that last several days and their religion says "you must use this time for praying" they get that time off.

Last Christmas, I had taken off the week for Christmas for a break. After all we literally only get about five(5) other days off for paid holiday in the year. And only about a week of PTO which usually has to be used for doctor and dentist appointments. I had taken this week off hoping to have that week to chill out because the site was going to be closed.... Or so I thought. Turns out the site wasn't closed and meant people did not take off. So as to avoid the build up of work, I ended up only getting the specified paid holiday days off.

Tl;dr: Other countries get weeks worth of paid holidays off. Americans are lucky if they even get 3 consecutive days off and they are paid. Most Americans do not get paid for holidays at all and have to take a loss.

And then when people burn out, they get called lazy.

[b0ydyke]

the cycle as a motif in touching yourself and something has to change by the japanese house

[kingsofeverything]

[dearestlyrics]

and you look back

you're going round in circles

your world feels just the same

your heart keeps breaking in the same way

[wywyyearns]

I feel like I’ve been trying extra hard to accommodate everyone else in my life and I’ve refused to let anyone do anything for me or do things for myself.

[twistedappletree]

and it’s the same face,

your heart keeps breaking in the same place—

something has to change.

[rabbitindisguise]

Oh hm. I was doing a lot of photography stuff because I thought it was helping my mental health but I think it might have been making it worse?

I think the whole topic has become a ball of stress because I'm like, stressed over the idea that I won't have an income if this SSI thing doesn't work out and it's like . . . I dunno funneling into the idea I have to get good at something or else. It's not actually because I'm having fun at this point.

[gibbearish]

love when ppl defend the aggressive monetization of the internet with "what, do you just expect it to be free and them not make a profit???" like. yeah that would be really nice actually i would love that:)! thanks for asking

[druid-for-hire]

[image id: a four-page comic. it is titled "immortality” after the poem by clare harner (more popularly known as “do not stand at my grave and weep”). the first page shows paleontologists digging up fossils at a dig. it reads, “do not stand at my grave and weep. i am not there. i do not sleep.” page two features several prehistoric creatures living in the wild. not featured but notable, each have modern descendants: horses, cetaceans, horsetail plants, and crocodilians. it reads, “i am a thousand winds that blow. i am the diamond glints on snow. i am the sunlight on ripened grain. i am the gentle autumn rain.” the third page shows archaeopteryx in the treetops and the skies, then a modern museum-goer reading the placard on a fossil display. it reads, “when you awaken in the morning’s hush, i am the swift uplifting rush, of quiet birds in circled flight. i am the soft stars that shine at night. do not stand at my grave and cry.” the fourth page shows a chicken in a field. it reads, “i am not there. i did not die” / end id]

a comic i made in about 15 hours for my school’s comic anthology. the theme was “evolution”

[wishfulsketching]

So. All this to tell the idea "shimmer is used as a medicine that helps patients in critical condition to survive their surgeries". It's very regulated and Silco's ass is in the line if anyone abuses shimmer.

I also wanted to tie some scenes/lines etc from season 1 to the Alternative Universe. And make Silco a bit more, well, Silco but with the AU vibe. I am also not letting Singed go, he is gonna be helping Silco and getting something in return. Maybe the kids are gonna try to build Orianna her body. Also, whatever the universe, Singed will burn his face. No timeline will save him. He is just like that.

Vander almost lost half his family in one day.

This is like a regular fanfic. Just with pictures. Nothing deeper than that.

Happy one week of zaundads insanity!