#Waging am See

[kyeterna]

Law forms an alliance with the Straw Hat pirate Luffy. Immediately understands this is gonna cost him years of his lifespan.

Bonus: Law not soon after realises that it's the entire Straw Hat pirate crew.

[thegreenleavesofspring]

A genuinely horrible thought just occurred to me. Would everyone please pray that the court does not order me to put my children in public school so that I can go get 'a real job'?

[pleasedontcareaboutme]

The urge to spend a 100$ on merch before getting my paycheck is so strong. I might not survive soldiers

[bhaalsdeepbat]

Astarion and Karlach are perfect foils showing how trauma from having autonomy ripped from you, your body forcibly changed, and then used as a pawn serving a master can present wildly different, but still with that same under layer of RAGE.

[waywardsalt]

back to thinking about quitting

[knightelf]

i need to start writing but i literally do not know how to start. every time i try i get blocked by the same exact invisible barrier wall and time continues to pass me by. why was this sk much easier in high school 😭 (it was because i was doing it instead of homework)

[sponge-eating-goblin]

Job hunting in Today's Economy tm has got to be a greek mythology punishment of some sort

[tepli-mravenci]

Everyone else at my minimum wage part-time job: *doing as little as possible to get by*

Me at my minimum wage part-time job: *stressed constantly that I'm not doing enough or I'm doing something wrong while not stopping to rest for multiple hours*

[fridayiminlcve]

if i dont move to nyc or london or paris by age 27 what is the point of anything

[satinelabelle]

Tell this Yuletide bunny what you desire. Here I'll start

~Permanent Ceasefire

~ A LIVING FUCKING WAGE

~ Health insurance to be for everyone and free actually

~ My smex work to take off more. I really wanna feel like an actual artist.

Tell me your desires my little loves.

[that-punk-adam]

I don’t think Americans are ready for any form of revolution, or another way of life.

I’m 100% serious when I say that I don’t think people, more specifically the American people, are ready for a life that would benefit them more. I think collectively we’ve gotten used to the corruption to the point to where we don’t really care. We care enough to say “let’s have a conversation about..” and “XXX is an issue, and here is a solution. Let’s contact the people that represent us but don’t really care about our voices..” and that’s it. We are not ready for long term meaningful change.

Now, as far as I can tell? French people *are* ready for change. They want change and are absolutely demanding it. They are out in the streets and messing shit up. I’m not saying that there aren’t Americans out there that aren’t doing shit for long term meaningful change but I AM saying that as a collective we CAN do better.

Personally I think this current system can’t be saved. I think that the corruption of shareholders, CEOs, mega corps, politicians, etc are so bad that we really need to just take time and effort to step the fuck away from it. Enough is enough. We need to take our time and effort and put it into something that’s beneficial for EVERYONE taking part in it. We need to completely scrap most of our old ways of thinking because if we don’t we are literally DOOMED to keep doing things that keep us suffering. Hunger, poverty, inequality.

We have power. WE CAN CHANGE THINGS FOR US, FOR THE BETTER. we know what we need for our souls to feel satisfied. It’s possible to do things and we don’t need fucking permission.

Revolution can be as big or as small as we want it to be. Imagine if we achieved the most basic of things… we could have better public transport. We could have better and safer sidewalks, or sidewalks in general. We could make sure people are more prepared for emergencies or for life in general. We could make sure community members know how to get creative in how to repair items for short and long term.

Big or small it’s possible, but I really don’t think that Americans are able to do it.

[creepy-scrawl]

Not even having a barely low wage, and not having social live hurts me as much as the way my boss treats me as stupid over and over again. And it fucking hurts even more that my boss is my dad...

[0bsc3ne]

bitching abt my partner again so i can get it out of my system and not let it fester

had a Discussion yesterday and i said how i didn't like that i, someone who naturally wakes up early and has to go to bed around 11-midnight to get decent sleep, have been spending the last few months either sleep deprived or forced to use sleeping pills to sleep, when he sleeps in til fucking noon, even on the two days we both have off and can, yk, spend time doing things in the morning together, and then he complains that we never do anything outside (bc we live in florida. anything after noon is just a fucking sauna.)

anyways. i ask if he can start waking up earlier. he says he'll wake up at 10 today. i go, ok, thank you, but what does that prove? that you can do it once? i've been changing my schedule for months. i want to hear that you'll try to do it consistently. (And 10 isn't early anyways, but i didn't say that). he insists he's going to do it. makes sure i see him set an alarm in front of me and everything. so anyways. 10:01 i get a text that he's going to sleep a little more.

man.

[hella1975]

i don’t think my mum appreciates my bargain hunting

[artemismatchalatte]

Wow. Sometimes I'm very lucky and my bipolar doesn't always affect me much. But no such luck lately. I'm worried that I might have to retake my modern lit course because I was so late with many of my assignments. I've been mentally messed up more or less with a mixed mood episode since last September. I'm currently on the line of passing and not passing the class (granted there are a few ungraded assignments, including my final so it's still possible that I'm overreacting). I'm usually a good student too so it's a point of pride for me. I went from the honor roll to this all due to me fighting with an illness... :/ (It is my fault for not managing things better so I'm not looking for pity here- just talking).

I cannot imagine how horrible this disorder is for people who didn't have the option of medication (I am medicated, believe it or not). I think about that about that a lot since I study history and look into many writer's and artist's biographies in my spare time. I feel very bad for them since they basically had to live with this disorder without the fixes I have simply because I was born late enough for treatments to exist.

Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath both haunt me. Other people too. Yes, Lord Byron was extremely shocking but consider- we don't actually know what he would have been like if he could have been treated. He wouldn't have died at 36, I'm almost certain of that. I am highly aware of what this disorder has done to people before me. It doesn't make it better. But I keep looking back any way, to see that many of them did incredible things, in spite of it all.

I just keep thinking that if they could do so much without any treatment- that I should be able to function with treatment??? I know: don't compare yourself to other people but I'm desperate to know that I can be successful even with this illness. That it's not going to force me to leave school (the one thing I have been historically good at) and waste my life toiling away for nothing.

So if it seems as if I have been hitting my head against something lately, you aren't wrong. The fall is not generally my friend, pretty as the leaves are. I have not been having a good time of it but we must go on any way because what other option is there? None, I tell you.

[arwainian]

The F@tT Fic Marathon: 41-60

*says he'll be back at the end of the week because the beginning is very busy. reads a full 20 anyway* WELL. anyways, I have proven to myself that the fake-dating trope just does not work for me.

other fun details: all of these fics, with the exception of a cross-season ficlet anthology are set in Hieron, likely because i'm in the early 2017 fics, and winter in hieron was in full swing at this point

moth to the flame/pray for guidance by confidencealive (dazzler) - short, but I really enjoyed the comparison this fic drew between Ephrim and Hadrian both struggling with faith. and also naming it after their moves

Fall on Your Knees by Hierodule - the summary sells this as a fic about Hella and Hadrian's friendship, but imo it's just as much if not more about Rosana. or is at least half about Rosana and her frustrations and resilience as a wife left behind, and also she and Emmanuel bond. i liked it!

Always So Loud by SHAYCH___xxvii - the last smut I recommended because it was extremely funny. I am recommending this on pure pornographic value. hella is sexy. goodbye.

words read: 47,457 (115,876 total)

works remaining: 1840

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