#and i won't have any other choice

[sonofwhales]

Based on prev

Cw sh

I't so ironic thet whenever i feel powerless like this, the more it happens the more i want to start self harming

I used to flaunt those who cut themselves (years ago) but i think I get it now, it's to have some sort of control isn't it? To have some power? I know it helps with the emotional pain, i think. But at the end of the day it's also to get back some sort of authority over the self isn't it?

[abbeyofcyn]

i know it defeats the point but would you ever elaborate on the other options on the comic? i really wanted to see donnie in the future and im really curious as to what your plans were

I might drop some sketches here and there if there's interest and I sure don't mind rambling about any ideas either!

Sending him to the past would also have been fun, but alas...no terrible babysitter Dee

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

I know we skirt around and sometimes talk about the ~trauma~ of it all, but I think seeing how loudly Taylor and Travis support each other on main (while still carving out a private life together) really starts to illuminate to an even clearer degree how many of Taylor's choices and actions were a response to all of ~that~ in the last decade or so (and particularly since 2016).

Again, which is not to say it's all bad, and many of them were choices she needed to make at the time for her own health and I'm sure there are some things from the time period she's continued to keep with her, but it's just really striking that she's, like, in full bloom now. And as a lot of people here are saying, she's probably more like herself these days than she'd been in the last decade. It's getting to the point (at least for me) that sometimes I can't even imagine her the way she was in the last few years because she just seems soooooo much more comfortable in her own skin. Which is silly, because that was as much her as the person she is now, she is an amalgamation of all those parts of her (just like any other person is).

But you just see *how much* she just loves so freely -- not just romantically but in everything she does -- and it's even sadder to think about how she felt like she had to slice off all these parts of her and like she had to accept a certain way of living (and being loved) in order to survive and have a life of her own.

I'm just really happy for her that she seems to be healing every passing day and is just embracing everything coming her way.

ok gonna word vomit more in the tags

[brittlebutch]

actually it's kind of funny how people will say Alex's fatal flaw is that he 'doesn't ask for help' and that it's his determination to handle things on his own that leads to his deterioration and eventual death when his whole introduction to the present-day timeline was a very literal cry for help that simply went ignored

[lilac-rose-writes]

huxley oc brainrot has reached an all time high </3 i fear i may not survive the fallout

(ft. my hugo, sylvia & tami, @c4rl4-k1nn13's ivy, @ketchupandpickles' aaron, and @charismabee's william <3)

[longagoitwastuesday]

Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie as Heathcliff and Cathy seems like out of The Onion

[blu-bat]

Nothing like listing out your expenses vs how much you get paid and seeing how that sure isn't close to adding up to a livable anything.

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

idk if I have any people following me who make a living on their art alone, but if you have any tax and legal tips (e.g. what's one thing you wish you knew before you started?), I am all ears

[politedemon]

just finished reading the haunting of hill house not sure what it says about me that this is the most strongly i've ever related to a protagonist

[icewindandboringhorror]

Everytime I face a new character limit on a website that didn't have them before/used to have really long ones... AUGHHhhh the modern social media world was not made for people like me (lovers of details, rambling, elaboration, thorough explanation, and nuance)

[symbioticsimplicity]

The only way the soul lore works for me as a source of guilt is if vampires can choose *not* to be evil. If they're just mindless demons who take over a host's body after they die, it makes no sense to feel guilty about the actions taken after that.

The demon isn't a separate thing, the person is still who they were when they died, demons just don't have inhibitions. So whatever it is they *want*, they do. Whatever it is that is the core of that person wants most is what is exemplified most in their demon form.

So in Angel's case, the guilt comes from not only having wanted those things and having done them, but from *having had the option not to.*

[ryanthedemiboy]

Fuck monopolies, fuck artificial scarcity, fuck kroger.

[lei1600]

After 15 long years TODAY WAS MY LAST DAY OF HIGH SCHOOOLLLL WOOOOOOO!

TIME TO BRING OUT THE ROOT BEER TO CELEBRATE!

[parasite-core]

OK so I've been thinking about it since I reblogged that time loop murder post, and I have more thoughts.

I wouldn't murder someone in a time loop, period, for the reasons I put in the tags of that post. But I would definitely try to see if I could steal something really expensive, and perfect my method though multiple timeloops until I'm able to do it perfectly and get away with it. Not because an expensive thing would be any use in a timeloop, just because it seems like it would be fun to set up a timeloop heist.

I'd go to every escape room in the area and play all their rooms until I can get out of all of them.

If the timeloop day wasn't a D&D day, I'd just roll dice a bunch or play the lottery a few times to see if random chance is still random or if it changes, and if it consistently goes the same each loop I'd change little things until I can figure out what will change the outcome.

I'd read every book in existence within the area I'd be able to get to in a day. I'd binge every show I have even a little interest in seeing. Won't matter if I sign up for Netflix, they aren't actually getting my money because timeloop bby. I'd learn to make jewelry, and any other art/craft I might find interesting. Sure, my end results will disappear, but by the end of it I'll have mastered so many hobbies.

Finally, I would break into the zoo and pet a tiger and probably a bunch of other animals I'll never get a chance to interact with normally, because if I get mauled either the timeloop restarts or I'm dead and no longer trapped in a timeloop. This would probably be after I'm really bored of a few thousand timeloops.

[camil0ncha]

You art so good how 👁️👁️💍

b- bearz ?

you're making me blush over here

[medicinemane]

And maybe you'll be like "but if you don't trust businesses, how can you trust welfare?"

I fucking don't. My mom trying to get on food stamps fucked me up because a lady I never met without my permission got my SSN from my mom and started editing my files. My heart still races to this very second whenever I think about it, it kinda messed me up bad and I'll never ever ever see any kind of recourse

And I'm terrified that I'm gonna lose my medicaid just cause I inherited some money from my grandpa

And I've never even applied for disability cause it kinda doesn't matter finding out if I'd qualify or not cause of my depression, when the rules are so restrictive I don't know if I've even be allowed to keep my house

I do not fucking trust these things on a personal level. I feel like out of a lot of people I have the most to fear from them cause I'm on the edge of having things work, and that gets you punished

...but I need medicaid in order to have insurance (and when you strip out the finance side of medicaid, I love medicaid... they're honestly incredible insurance... I just... I just... dental is like 90% of why medicaid is so important to me, ever since I found out this state pays for it I've actually been able to do cleanings which is important to me cause I can't always get myself to brush)

And I think things like disability and food stamps are pretty damn important on a personal level, and honestly are also good for the economy cause they get people spending... it's practically a free cash infusion into the economy, cause these are people who need to buy stuff

There's just so much important stuff welfare does that it's worth dealing with government

No, what I want is more accountability so if someone gets my SSN from a 3rd party like my mom they're held to HIPPA styles standards where that's not ok to access my files without my permission (She changed my fucking address and tried to get medicaid to investigate me for fraud! Never even met me)

Like have some accountability there and in every situation

Secondly I want less punitive focused rules. I'd frankly prefer bezos get on disability than smack down some poor sod cause they got $2000 in the bank or cause their friend lets them live with them for free

If there's gonna be a cut off on these programs, it needs to be a solid step above the poverty line, cause... by definition I assume poverty line denotes kinda the minimum expected income people can reasonably live off of, and if you take away benefits people are gonna lose a chunk of money to covering that stuff themself, so you need a buffer before you kick people off

I don't fucking trust the government for a second, I've actively been fucked by them and on a personal level I avoid everything but medicaid and only that cause everything but the money is pleasant to deal with and I kinda need it (honestly if I was rich I'm not even kidding that I'd rather give medicaid like $400 a month than some insurance company, I sincerely like them as insurance)

But I'd trust them a lot more if they were less punitive, less out to hunt me down and gut me cause someone handed me a fiver or cause I started to get on my feet, and if government employees had concrete rules they had to follow that were actually transparent and enforced

Like 90% of my problems with welfare go away if they're held accountable and there's less "catch the welfare cheats" mentality going around

I don't trust the government in the slightest, but sadly there some jobs it kinda has to do, so I'd just rather force it to be an open book where the public can keep an eye on it and if they step out of line there's consequences (sort of like I don't trust most mega corps but happen to sometimes need stuff from them... did you know literally every cell service provider has been illegally selling shit like your location data to random people like bounty hunters, and the FCC just slapped them with a fine that's 0.02% of their yearly incomes and debated even doing that? I even can offer a source on that)

...I don't trust much of any authority cause they constantly fail me and kinda screw me. Don't trust doctors either, but I still gotta go to them, you know? ...they're just... they're real bad at listening... so many systems need systemic change

(You know who I really don't trust is the cops. I could point to so many examples. My uncle doesn't trust cops either, and he's an ex Fire and SWAT paramedic, he worked with them and we still got into a long conversation where he basically tore into them far better than I can)

(I don't trust authority that's not accountable)