#YOUVE GOT TO BE KIDDING

[codecicle]

if it turns out I've just been having a really really bad med-induced psychotic break im gonna lose my mind. Again

[veedoesntknow]

No.. surely not..

So I have this odd pain in my legs and back currently that was oddly familiar but I wasn’t able to pinpoint why I was feeling this pain.

That’s when I realized one thing it could be…

Growing pains…

[personaglitch]

Penalty for being there

[selfishwife]

The Sisyphus Effect, or One Way to Ensure You May Get Kicked in the Taco

Today I would like to tackle the phrase "one day at a time", especially in its relationship to cancer. This is an important PSA, and one you should take to heart.

"One day at a time," in theory, is a lovely idea. As a person who made it through exactly 1.5 AA meetings, I can tell it brings comfort to many. To others (raises hand), it can cause distress and the desire to kick someone in the taco. If you have personally said "one day at a time" to me, don't worry, I didn't want to kick you in the taco. This is because I love you, and why we are not discussing a restraining order. You said it from a place of love and complete compassion.I may have even repeated it back to you to end the conversation. But please, for the love of God and all that is holy, never again.

Cancer is obviously one day at a time. It's a very "no shit, Sherlock" statement. You mean I can't push a fast-forward button to the end of this nonsense and suddenly I'm singing Miley Cyrus' "The Climb" at karaoke and people tear up while the credits roll and my partner has all their hair back? It's like living in the Matrix and realizing you could have taken the blue pill the entire time and avoided a lot of bullshit.

There are, however, worse things than "one day at a time." It's not nearly as bad as "everything happens for a reason," which would absolutely ensure the speaker receives a kick to the taco. There is also "thoughts and prayers," which should be regulated to times of avoidable horrific public tragedies. However, "one day at a time" is their cousin. It's a needlepoint pillow phrase your basic friend would buy at a boutique that also sells "Mommy's Juice" wine sippy cups. It's what you say when you don't know what to say. It's fine to not know what to say. "Fuck everything" is a suitable alternative.

The final reason is that today really sucks. The chemo's poison isn't leaving my partner's body, our children are insatiable puddles of need. I would not like this to be my one day at a time. I don't need this to be a Hawaiian sunset day, it can be a "rainy ass my kids are bugging the shit out of me" day. I am not picky. But I will trade you this one day at a time and you may have it with my compliments.

This one day at a time is not going anywhere anytime soon. It's also going to get worse before it gets better. I can handle that. It's the Sisyphus effect. Or maybe the Kate Bush effect. I don't know. But this day is a nightmare. Don't remind me of it.

<a little too on the nose, but whatever>

[fanaticalthings]

Broke: "Dick Grayson was upset at a new kid taking over his mantle because he doesn't think Jason will be good enough as Robin"

Woke: "Dick is upset at Jason, not because he's suddenly taking over the mantle he created, but because Jason isn't nearly feral enough of a child to drive Bruce insane in Dick's place"

Dick: You wanna be my successor? Go swing from that chandelier right now.

Jason:

Dick: As a matter of fact, I need to see you crawling all over the walls. Make a ruckus, break some furniture

Jason: But Bruce-

Dick: SCREW Bruce. Your job as my new brother is to make his life HELL. Why are you so polite? Why are you so calm? Where's your DRIVE, your PASSION, huh? You may be worthy of the title of Robin, but are you WORTHY of being my disaster brother?

Jason, a little scared: I dont-

Dick, scoffing: The youth these days just don't rebel like they used to.

[dathen]

Holds head in hands. Now we’ve got “Well to show a girl you’re romantically interested in her you should say the things that Jeeves regularly says to me.” How is this not a fanfic.

[crittertalez]

berryheart getting a comparatively happy end where sunbeam is satisfied to know berryheart despite being a horrible fascist loved her (and not any other family member) and all of berryhearts remaining family come together to bury here as sunbeam thinks about wishing berryheart was still alive while curlfeather is reduced to just stubborn and power hungry and unwilling to even apologize to frostpaw/dawn is just so. so

erin hunters' vc i can excuse fascism but i draw the line at atheism

[shyaringan]

on a scale of one to ten how homosexual is gerry keay to tou

this man has never had a straight thought in his life

[here-comes-the-moose]

*in the Rebellion inside Echo’s minivan ship*

Rebel, showing Echo some photos: Yeah these are my kids. A boy and a girl. I do this all for them. How many do you have?

Echo: I have five.

Rebel: Aw you must have your hands full! How old are they?

Echo: Four are 312 months and the youngest is 156 months.

Rebel: …

Echo: …

Rebel, trying to do the math: How old did you say you were again?

[hang-on-lil-tomato]

spirk!

from Gene Roddenberry’s 1979 novel of Star Trek The Motion Sickness Picture.

I’ve been a Trekkie since 1966! I’m amused by Kirk/Spock, the original slash. I must have read this book back in the day. But this just hit me today. 😂🖖

[lxlsposts]

You are not doing anything wrong, be kinder to yourself <3

[chisfics]

Daniel looking at Johnny the same way he looked at him when Johnny fucked him against a wall last night

[selfishwife]

Welcome to the Thunderdome

Welcome, friends, to the Thunderdome that is cancer. Don't worry, it's not my cancer. It's my partner's. A lot of time people will make sites like CaringBridge or update their partner's status via the Social Media Outlet of Your Choice. This... is not that kind of blog.

In theory, it's because I want to protect my partner's privacy, but in reality, this is the Veruca Salt edition of updates. This is how I'm dealing with it and why I want to punch cancer in the face (but for not the reasons you may think). So as we go down this rabbit hole together, let's think of what matters: me.

[weebsinstash]

(bnha/mha spoilers) i've still got attachments to the characters and still think of certain concepts and stuff for them and all that but like, are any of you feeling like BNHA is just going the exact same route as Naruto did where they spent the entire series talking about how cool heroes/ninjas are, then started discussing "but wait, not everything is as it seems! There's evil afoot, and not just any evil, SOCIALLY SYSTEMIC evil!" and then just completely shelved those discussions so the Hero could punch the Bad Guy in the face and then the series ends with everything being fundamentally exactly the same if not in some ways objectively worse

Like im sorry but looking at things thematically, if you told me Endeavor got off completely scott-free and his family still talks to him and he never even went to prison and still gets to keep his job as hero, but Shigaraki who was failed by society and literally poached and groomed as a child to become a villain while still forming bonds with his found family of other abused people and minorities is just KILLED AND DIES SMILING, I would say something like "oh is Horikoshi trying to make satirical commentary on how the broken corrupt system will fight like hell to uphold itself and this is actually metaphorical?" but nah it's just legitimately presented as a good thing and a good outcome

Genuinely? The way the series is ending is making me agree with Overhaul. If you think of Heroes and Quirks as a service or product, then tools can be invented to serve those same purposes. The way that Quirks developed in the universe of MHA is that they became used almost exclusively for combat based purposes, and to even use your quirk, which is also a part of your body or identity, you need special permissions and a license which I bet you costs money to apply for, so now you have the government regulating integral parts of people's identities, and also Quirks that change people's appearances are discriminated against and there aren't really any laws protecting against that

In a way, Overhaul was and still is entirely justified for thinking Quirks should be disposed of because the series is literally ending showing that Quirks are just being used to uphold government and corporate interests rather than actually do what's right? Quirks are literally increasing the severity with which humans can harm each other to the point it completely overshadows the good? Oh yeah I'm really glad we have a hero with super speed to help stop robberies, meanwhile the government has like a secret agent who is creating like nuke strikes on foreign countries, like... the good that Heroes can do? Can be easily done by humanity with tools

Like the way BNHA is ending is in my opinion, extremely dark? Deku was kind of just a clueless foot soldier upholding the dark government of his country and now All Might has no powers, Deku is gonna be Quirkless again, and everything is exactly the same? You could argue the only "win" that's coming out of the ending is that AFO is dead, but like.... someone with AFOs exact same powers could just be born again? Except maybe this time he can be, like, a government employee or a cop or something to really fit in with the core themes of the series :)

[kkoct-ik]

is it bad that i think hes the most gorgeous man in the world

[calamitys-child]

My purpose and singular mission in life is to make sure queer and/or neurodivergent kids know that sometimes it really is their parents who are stupid and other adults are on their side. This, unfortunately, does not make me popular with their parents. Gonnae keep doing it though.