#but today wasn't all terrible!

[cementcornfield]

Mike and Charlie being back on the field is ALSO good news!!

[catkin-morgs-kookaburralover]

questioning sexuality is so exhausting

[sciderman]

How do you feel about the increase in really weird NSFW ads on here (advertising panels that look like sexual encounters, and AI art apps that pride themselves on porn) but will take down NSFW posts from their users, even if it isn't technically sexual.

i hate all social media and it's consistent prioritising the advertisers over the users and the internet simply was a better place before capitalism sunk its hooks into it

[akutagawa-daily]

Akutagawa daily 881/★

[lovesodeepandwideandwell]

Oh yeah and in further tragic occurrences our hot water is out

[the-badger-mole]

(Katara doesn't appreciate sharing her kitchen with surprise culinary savant, Zuko. He takes over making dinner one night, and Katara insists on making a salad at least)

Katara: (tasting the sauce Zuko's working on) It needs salt.

Zuko: It does not! It's perfect!

Zuko turns away and Katara sneaks a dash of salt into the sauce.

Zuko: (returning to taste the sauce) You added salt!

Katara: I did not!

Zuko: You did! You ruined it.

Katara: I fixed it!

Zuko: Oh, yeah? Well, fix this! (Dumps entire bottle of dressing on Katara's salad.)

Katara: (with forced calm) No problem. It just needs a different presentation. (Dumps salad on Zuko's head.)

Zuko: (with even more forced calm) I see what you mean. Maybe you can give me a few pointers on my side dish. (scoops up a handful of mashed potatoes and smears them in Katara's face)

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

I think people watch those things as punishment because they don't have the means, time, extra money, etc, to do anything meaningful to help. So at least they can acknowledge and bear witness to the horror, even if they're not able to actually help.

right but like. "at least they can do this" makes it sound like doing that is actually materially useful, and i'm not convinced it is. i think in many cases it is only increasing the number of people suffering in the world. i agree that people are doing it because they feel powerless in other regards but in the majority of cases i think it's harming more than helping

[ginkovskij]

so i knew i was doing bad but i just realized i haven't been eating much these days. after my parents left i didn't bother to get any food to eat at all. oh. oh well...

[honestmouse20]

More complaining lol

since it was raining earlier i had to roll th windows up on my car. this is only a problem cause the doors are broken and it can't open on the outside. so now that the windowsa are up i gotta climb in through the trunk.

and even That i wouldn't mind but like i vented earlier, i hurt my neck/back today and it's gonna hurt like hell to climb into my car

hence why i called out today. but i need coffee so i might say fuck it and just suffer through climbing into my car to get some iced coffee

[powderrblue]

today was so full of hope for me. life is okay sometimes

[guinevereslancelot]

my worst trait is the need to get 12 hours of sleep every night. if i have to get up at 6am well i should be in bed by 6pm. combine this with my natural inclination to stay up really late and you get me waking up past noon because i was up past midnight. if there is no external force like school or a job keeping me on my early bedtime schedule i will revert to sleeping til noon within a few days

[nylarac]

suffering

[falling-hand-in-unlovable-hand]

briefly forgot drinking and driving was illegal today 😶

[kiribread]

Someone spare serotonin pls i did not live laugh love today 😭.

[malachitezmeyka]

I know it's useless to get mad at the dog, she's just a hyperactive little thing who doesn't know how to behave yet. She's left home alone for at least 6 hours every day and she's bored, I can't blame her for tearing apart her training pads or shitting all over the place. Even if I did, she must have done it hours ago, dogs don't get that actions that happened so long ago have consequences and all me yelling at her will result in is her being scared of me. I know all that, I do

So WHY am I still so angry at her?? Why does it feel satisfying to lash out and see her scurry away??? She doesn't deserve to be treated like that, she doesn't know any better. And I don't know how to teach her to know better, I don't have the patience for it. She deserves better than me

[artemisdesari-blog]

A writer friend told me something that broke my heart a little bit today; they're going to quit publishing their fanfic.

My instant thought was that they had been trolled or attacked or that something terrible had happened in their life because this person is so passionate about their writing. It wasn't any of that. Engagement with their works has been going down, as it has for many of us. Comments are like gold dust a lot of the time, and just looking through the historical comment counts on old fics on ao3 demonstrates this trend very clearly. It was not simply the comments dropping off which caused them to decide to stop posting, however.

My friend came across a discord server for their fandom (I should point out here that their fandom interest and mine diverged a couple of years ago, we stay in touch but don't currently read each other's posts because I'm not into their fandom and they would rather gouge their eyes out with a wooden spoon than read anything Star Wars) and specifically to share fic in that fandom. They joined, because we all love a good fic rec, only to discover that their latest multichapter fic, which has almost no comments and very few kudos, is being hotly discussed in this server as one of the best stories ever. Not one of these people has bothered to say this to them on the fic. When they asked, none of participants could see the point in telling the author of the fic they apparently loved so much that they love it.

This discovery has absolutely destroyed my friend's love of sharing fic. They share because they love seeing other people's enjoyment, and fic writers do that through comments and kudos/reblogs/likes because we don't get paid. There is no literary critic writing a blog post/article about how amazing the story is for us to copy and keep/frame. There is no money from royalties. All we have are the words of the people reading our works.

Those people on that server could have taken five minutes of the time they spent gushing about how amazing my friend's story was to other people and used it to tell the one person guaranteed to want to hear that praise how much they loved it. They could have taken a moment to express their opinion to the person who spent hours upon hours plotting, writing, editing, and posting those chapters. Instead, they deprived my friend of thing that keeps them sharing their writing, and in the process have killed their love of it. My friend now feels used and unmotivated.

I won't be sharing a link to their fic, they said I could share their experience but not their identity. I know they plan to post one final chapter. I know they intend to express their hurt at being excluded from the praise for the thing they created, and I know they intend to announce that as a consequence they will not be posting for a long while, if at all.

So please, I beg you, don't hide your love of a story from the writer. It's just about the only thing we have.