#Thoughts

[vendetta06]

the world is getting so ugly and bleak and it’s hard not to feel so hopeless. but we have to remember that they want us to feel that way.

it reminds me of this quote by dan savage - “During the darkest days of the AIDS crisis we buried our friends in the morning, we protested in the afternoon, and we danced all night, and it was the dance that kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for.”

joy is resistance. it’s really scary times but we are all in this together.

[bimb1na]

💭 Imagine being Vi’s wife, living domestically in the countryside in the middle of nowhere. You were a docile— But far from submissive— Housewife.

You spent your time cooking all sorts of meals for you and your wife, sometimes you’d be playing with your dogs and cats, other times you’d be gathering the eggs from your chicken coop or picking the fruits and vegetables that grew in your garden.

Whenever you'd cook, Vi would come up behind you and wrap her arms around your waist, pressing kisses to your shoulders and neck as she complimented how the meal (and you) smelt.

You would oftentimes look outside and see her working on one of her many vintage motorcycles, which she always impulse-purchased just so she could fix it up. She also did this with cars and tractors— But the tractors were mostly paid gigs from the farmers that lived nearby.

Imagine cooking pasta from scratch and feeding it to her JAKASUABAapabHhajKj Too cute to bear AHAJOKLwshsdgahidhiahhdbj

[cersplace]

─ Hisham Siddiqi

[artbyblastweave]

Playing Fallout 4 on survival difficulty is interesting in that it makes the story significantly better through emergent gameplay. It took me roughly two in-game weeks of scavenging and scrounging every available resource before I was able to get out of Sanctuary alive. My first human contact was with a raider at an unmarked hovel north of the island who sicced a German Shepard on me without warning, and then nothing until Concord. I lost two shootouts with the bloatflies by the bridge. Fighting my way south to Diamond City was a jumpy, touch-and-go odyssey, and I was stuck in Diamond City for easily another three in-game weeks scraping together the resources necessary to punch through to Park Street station. Rinse and repeat for going after Kellogg, for punching through to Goodneighbor, for punching through the glowing sea to find Virgil. I actually had to plan shit out! For everything!

An inability to fast travel and a protagonist made of tissue paper turns every paperthin "moral compromise" present in the base game into a genuine nailbiter simply because you don't have the typical assurance that you'll be able to survive pursuing the dudley-do-right option. Covenant is a pointed example of this; attempting to take a stand against their kidnapping program is genuinely dangerous and impactful in a way it isn't in the base game, since you do it from within the belly of the beast and it converts a badly-needed stopover point into an inconveniently positioned, hard-to-assault nest of gunmen out for your blood. Extensive settlement building with the Minutemen goes from a bizarre, dissonant digression from the significantly more pressing business of finding your son, to a forward-thinking and practical measure taken to facilitate living long enough to find your son. The Brotherhood might be incipient technofeudalists but fuck it if they don't provide on-call airlifts. The Institute might be a totalitarian technocracy with a slave-based internal economy but they've got teleporters, running water, and if you threw in with them you'd never have to deal with any of this bullshit on the surface ever again. All of that's true in the base game, from a thematic perspective, but Survival mode makes you feel it. Finally, I understand the convention of NPCs farming out even the most basic fetch quests to the player; you're experiencing what the narrative has always been claiming would happen if they tried to do any of this themselves.

[my-unsent-thoughts]

I wish I could share everything with you like before

[grntaire]

HELLLLLL YEAH!!!!!!!

[perfectfeelings]

The past doesn’t need you anymore. Your future does.

Unknown

[snakeautistic]

People underestimate how much it fucks you up to be subtly excluded as a kid. I would try to talk to my classmates and be met with disinterest or annoyance. The one friend I had, who I clung to and nodded along to his every word, had other friends he liked just as much or more. And his other friends didn’t care for me at all.

I look back at pictures from the time and see how separated I was from them. I remember knowing I was different. I remember posing questions about the world to the girls playing next to me and realizing that they had never asked the same ones to themselves. That the ways we thought couldn’t be more different.

I kept myself amused with my own fanatical stories and musings in my head. I would wander the playground on a circular path, imagining a friend and being sorely disappointed when it didn’t feel as real as I’d hoped.

There was a bubble separating me from everyone else, thin, and nearly invisible, but with a pearly sheen you could catch under the right conditions. I knew it was there, they knew it was there, and it changed me

[noctivagant-ghost]

i do not want joy wrapped in lightning. i want mornings that open slowly. i want laughter that does not ask me to earn it.

to walk without waiting for collapse, to speak without tasting apology, to wake, not simply because the night ended but because i chose to stay.

Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies

[artbyblastweave]

What, the forest-dwelling entities with imperfect human mimicry who insinuate themselves into groups of hikers? Yeah, we had one of those. Clocked it immediately, of course. Honestly it kind of fell in that so-inept-it's-kind-of-charming range. We just played along until it'd had it's fill of marshmallows and shambled back into the treeline. We might have been violating some kind of killjoy wildlife contact best practices but what the hell, can't plan around every little thing. Why, what happened to you guys

[nightlyquotes]

Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.

Jonathan Safran Foer

[varshnarsh]

maybe this is boring but my summer bucket list consists of only two things: witness a caterpillar crawling and eating lil nibbles of a leaf and witness an owl sitting in a tree hooting

[soul-from-another-era]

Unconditional love isn't a free pass to hurt me.

[artbyblastweave]

Been a really long time since I've watched Daredevil but I do remember coming away from it feeling like it presented a pretty compelling internally-consistent moral justification for the vigilante thing. You're not planet-crackingly powerful, it's just that you can hear, in detail, every awful thing your neighbors are doing to each other, every night that they're doing it. You can't not know and you can't pretend not to know and when the kid tells you the next day that he just fell down the stairs you can't fall back on the provided ambiguity to absolve yourself of your responsibility to act. Semi-relatedly, you're really really good at martial arts. Start the clock

[linklethehistorian]

Source

Transcript:

“BREAKING: A constitutional amendment has been filed allowing President Trump to seek a 3rd term in office.

"No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than three times, nor be elected to any additional term after being elected to two consecutive terms, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice."

It was filed by Congressman Andy Ogles (R-TN).

Don’t let this slip by unnoticed. This is not just “one extra term”, it’s a warning shot. It’s a red flag. It’s an omen.

They are slowly turning up the heat in the pan. Do not be the frog who sits denying it’s getting hotter.

One extra term will become two, two will become three, and three will eventually give way to lifelong reign of each president.

Fight. Fight for God’s sake.

Contact your local representative of congress. Convince them we do not want this.

We are going to end up in a dictatorship.

@ikiyou

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