#achieving financial

[katabay]

bayek, doing some exploring :)

[notbecauseofvictories]

as much as I love history and Chicago history especially, I do sometimes forget how recent everything here is. I was at the Hull House Museum with a friend of mine the other day, and we had a wonderful time listening to the curator talk about the birth of social work, the women who drove it forward, and the ghost stories that haunt their stomping grounds despite no one really dying there.

As we were walking around after the tour, my friend pointed out that Jane Addams' dress (the one on display in that room, black and small and otherwise unremarkable) had an uneven hem. "Oh, good eye!" the curator, who was walking alongside us, exclaimed. "Addams' tuberculosis left her with some spinal curvature, even after corrective surgery. She had most of her dresses altered to ensure the hem would be straight when she wore them---but on a standard dress form, the hem looks uneven."

"I always forget that having a tailor or dressmaker was considered typical back then," I said.

"No, by that point it was much more common to buy a dress from Sears and have it altered," the curator replied cheerfully. "That's what Addams did."

The whole exchange was maybe a few seconds, but it sticks with me even now. The idea that Jane Addams bought a dress from Sears---where I have also bought dresses, where my mother bought dresses---makes me feel insane. And yet, we're only talking about a hundred years ago or so. Is it so unreasonable that I, as a disaffected teen, was drifting through racks of mass-produced garments, just as Jane Addams did a century before? The exact location of the hands making those garments has changed of course; the workers' protections that Addams' contemporaries fought for have resulted in offshoring that work to less-guarded parts of the world. But it gives me a strange sort of fellow feeling to think about it, all these many decades later.

[gideonisms]

Does a podcast ever release a take you disagree with so strongly it makes you question everything you heard on it up to that point

[ellipsiseffervescent]

Oliver's "I loved him but I hated him" speech is so monumental because the camera work tells another story in the second half of the speech.

Note: all pictures are listed chronologically as the speech shows them

At first, when he talks about Felix, we're reminded of the moments the camera just love him:

Then Oliver admits that he loved Felix

And as he continues to confess his feelings, we ruminate in Felix's loveliest moments:

What Oliver describes as Love are the images of Felix in what tumblrs conveniently defined as his 'princess moments'. The camera is in love with him. He's like Aphrodite with loveliness so abundant that it's godly (Felix is often remembered with those golden rays of light shining on him). Felix is on a pedastool to Oliver.

But then Oliver starts to introduce the ambivalence of his feelings

and this is the last we will see of Felix in this speech

Look at how the camera finally introduces Oliver. Oliver was never a part of those magical memories of Felix. Oliver loves Felix superficially, those memories are of Felix as an idealozed object.

The hatred he supposedly has of Felix is paired with shots of Oliver. I don't think Oliver hates Felix's unwillingness to let Oliver in his inner circle/refusal to accept Oliver's devotion so much. I think Oliver just hates himself.

He hates himself because he could never been successful in truly infiltrating the inner circle of a noble/Britain's uppermost class. He wasn't born right. The camera focus's on all of the times Oliver was right at the barrier of Felix:

On top of that, Oliver falls to his knees and grovels at Felix's grave once again before sinking even deeper:

Finally he's not just groveling at the drain of Felix: he goes below the surface, into the water to retreive the only essence of Felix he can gather. He keeps trying to push barriers, the barrier of time, space, dirt, death, drains, leaving nothing left of the object of his obsession but their essence.

Sure you did buddy.

[arendaes]

Sometimes I think back on the time from ages 24 to 28 where I wasn't really active on social media with nostalgia.

Then I remember I also spent most of that time working multiple jobs and was depressed and tired all the time from working said jobs, and it goes away.

[thepersonalwords]

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[sforzesco]

it’s been a minute since I’ve made a desk post!

tbh I don’t have much to say, I finished chapter one of Trikaranos and the cave in chapter 2 is kicking my ass. every day I get closer and closer to a long form comic about whatever the fuck was going on with Ascanio and Della Rovere, but the emperor Valens is coming in hot ngl. When I got to the part of the biography that talked about how he and his brother were both ill at the same time, I spent the rest of my time reading it with the looming ghost of Caligula lurking in the back of my mind and it was a delightful experience, but I also can’t stop thinking about Valens now 🫠 RIP to my writing notebook that is rapidly running out of pages lmao

also happy lunar new year (or day before lunar new year, depending on your time zone)!! 🍊🍊🍊

[chibishortdeath]

Great googley moogley it’s all going to shit! Every day becomes exponentially more terrifying!

And all perfectly timed to just right at the start of what’s supposed to be my adult life where I get my shit together and be useful and productive!

[mishkakagehishka]

I'm being forced to visit my abusive grandma to deal with my childhood traumas and grow up as person(already ended crying and visiting the clinic because of that) so with that said

What is it to be an adult for you ? One of the expectations is for me to be able to become an adult since I will be 23 when I get back so...

I think you shouldn't need to confront your trauma Like That to grow up as a person tbh i'm no psychologist but it feels counterproductive. Abusive people should be put behind you, not at your side. Stay safe, and stay strong, bestie, i'll be keeping you in my thoughts🫂

As for me, being an adult is a subjective thing. I'm not sure? I think "responsibility". Having more of them, and being okay-ish at keeping the strings together. -ish, i emphasise. Nobody can keep all the strings together, but trying your best is part of it. You gain a bit more independence, but you end up losing a lot of that freedom you gain to responsibilities. But i'd still say adulthood comes with additional freedoms. I hope the expectations placed on you aren't some shit like "get a (good) job" or "become fully independent, financially and otherwise" bc for me that's awfully individualist and might not be feasible for every adult (like, a disabled adult might not be able to keep a job that is exhausting, whatever "exhausting" might mean to them - could be the medical profession known for a lot of overtime and sleepless nights, could be an office job where you have to stare at screens that cause eyestrain for too long etc etc).

But i think it does include some independency. Dependant on the person. YMMV. I think i'd leave it up to the individual to define, beyond the biological "maturity/end of puberty" or sociological "minor/adult" divide

[cherrychapati]

idk why i spent so long being stressed about doing everything correctly and trying to be the best instead of just letting myself be. life got so much better once i stopped trying to force myself to want things that i thought were society's idea of success and focused on the things i wanted to do. the road is long and i have time

[jjinpang]

child jj thought they'd be living off their spouse's income by now.

maybe child jj should have planned better when they romanced absolutely no one.

[koko2unite]

haha i swear i like my hobbies but im so traumatized by my peers and parents conditioning me that i don't deserve happiness unless i have good grades at school so now i seek any numeral achievement i can get and the closest is notes on tumblr and if i cant achieve that i start punching myself down haha

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[justposting1]

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[roumainzzzz]

There are women who thrive being a housewife. Enjoying all the time that she has pursuing passions in life whilst being in the sanctity of marriage. However I could see that women in my lineage are ambitious. We don't want to settle being at home all day, being the caretaker, and serving our family. What's worse is that its something you can't take a day off of. We wanted to pursue our own careers, put ourselves out there, and have the avenue to make our own money. And failing to accomplish this not only bring intense anguish to the women long-term, but it also affects them in their day-to-day life. These are the women, in my observation, that becomes bitter as they enter old age.

So lesson learned as a 5th gen, is to strive hard and accomplish dreams previous women in my lineage weren't able to fulfill. And if success ever bless me in my journey, I am not the only one succeeding, but also to the women who came before me. My journey is for all of you. To pave the path of not only for myself, but also for the future generations to come.

[kasumingo]

I keep thinking what is it exactly that made me forget Mutant Mayhem at an instant

And the word is it playing it too safe

Rise was such a bold, innovative take on the franchise that compared to MM, Mayhem pales in comparison