#and mom wouldn't help me

[amberkendslacy]

Buffy: I have regained consciousness from death less than a week ago. The very act of my organs functioning must feel like torture.

Willow: you have debt and also the pipes in the house are fucked. Better start applying for loans and jobs and interacting with the world like nothing happened.

Buffy: ...

[leupagus]

On Voting in America

So one of the most profound comments on routine chores that I've ever encountered was, hilariously, the Pickle Rick episode of "Rick & Morty," where (after a lot of shenanigans have already ensued) this therapist absolutely lays Rick out:

"I have no doubt that you would be bored senseless by therapy, the same way I'm bored when I brush my teeth and wipe my ass. Because the thing about repairing, maintaining, and cleaning is: it's not an adventure. There's no way to do it so wrong you might die. It's just work. And the bottom line is some people are okay going to work and some people, well, some people would rather die. Each of us gets to choose."

I think about this at least once a week — usually while I'm doing my laundry or sweeping or some other task that needs doing and won't get me anything more than clean clothing or a dog-hair-free floor. There's no Pulitzer for wiping down your microwave or scrubbing your toilet; no one's awarding you for getting all the dishes out of the sink. At best you have the satisfaction of crossing it off your list.

Voting is very much the same (and I'm talking about the US here, as an American). Sure, you sometimes get a sticker; but nobody's going to cheer for you. There's no adventure here, no potential for anything more than crossing something off of a list. It's a chore, something that needs doing in order to repair, maintain, and yes even clean. So I get why people don't like doing it.

And I've decided I don't give a shit.

Do it anyway. Your country takes astonishingly little from you — taxes, the once-in-a-blue-moon jury duty, and a theoretical draft that hasn't been used in over half a century and likely will never be again — but it asks you (asks! not requires! not demands!) to vote once or twice a year. It's not always easy; especially in conservative states, the impediments to vote can be ridiculous. But it is once a year and unlike in our nation's all-too-recent past, you will not die if you do it.

In fact, the worst outcome from voting these days is that the person or issue that you vote for loses — but you won't know if they lose until after the election. Polls are less accurate now, for a whole host of reasons; you cannot know until after the election who or what will win. This makes your vote more valuable than possibly ever before.

Use that power. Not because it's exciting or even rewarding, but because your vote is what keeps our country's metaphorical teeth from falling out and our metaphorical ass from stinking.

Brush, wipe, vote.

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

lets call 'kids' from like. just above toddlers to preteens. if you're neutral about kids you like them. i'm conducting what people call science. help me do science.

[molalom]

oh uhh. happy pride btw,,, shoutout to the time my coming out was met with a "yeah i figured as much." like wow, mom... not even gonna pretend to be surprised?

[duusu-peacock-kwami]

Do you think I could file for custody of all the human-like Sentis that have been created on the basis of "I made them so I'm technically one of their parents"?

[expressionless-fr]

having delusions you KNOW are not real is some wild experience only people who experience it can understand

[trashyandtiredsol]

I think I just pinched a nerve on accident-

Twas moving my right hand around then when I was moving my thumb and pointer finger (I think those 2???) really quickly it just caused a sorta static sensation??? Idk if it was really staticy but it definitely wasn't normal audaydyshdhsidufy

[bacchianas]

I'm nothing but a ghost.

[breadwheathead]

gotta go harvest my celery or whatever I planted in tunnel town

[alienhunteranonymous]

Who's the guy cut off in your photo?

That's an old friend of mine actually! We don't talk much anymore but he was super cool lol

[snekdood]

i dont wanna hear anyone bitch about the frequency with which i upload my comic for a myriad of reasons but one of which being that I essentially post 2-3 pages at once to begin with- like I do not need to make the strips as long as i do but i do it anyways and you're welcome.

[lovphobic]

the universe is playing such a cruel trick on me i swear to god

[therewillbenoromance]

genuinely can't tell if i have a personality disorder of some type or if this is just teenage angst phase or if it might be a trauma response

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

I decided that I like one of my dresses better without sleeves so I took a seam ripper to it not realizing that I don't have the capability to bind the edges again 😭

[carnage-cathedral]

should be worth mentioning that I was overwhelmed and overstimulated to the point of being actively suicidal last night and I'm kinda reaching that again now

[werewolfdog]

I really do appreciate our mutuals supporting me with my rambles about M as I go terribly insane over him, honestly. 😭 Part of me still feels awful being like this because um, That's My Coworker™️,,, but I can't help it with my emotional attachments. Also, it's not fully my fault being like this when he says and does so many things to + for me that makes me feel and think more intensely...