#cmon poverty

[lickithrice]

I wanted this purse but I don’t wear purses 👜

[mercymornsimpathizer]

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[spikybanana]

on why obi wan kenobi is not a remus lupin variant

cmon guys. honestly.

(this is a shitpost)

obi wan actually rocked a beard. remus lupin could never.

on that note: I don't know how long remus' buzz cut phase lasted, but I'm pretty sure he never had a rattail

being a jedi master probably required more mental stability and competence than a boarding school prefect. at least you'd think.

obi wan wouldn't have actually fallen asleep in a jedi council meeting. I don't think I could say the same for PoA remus. the man probably barely remembered he's a teacher

despite hating flying, obi wan could actually fly a ship. now you try wrestling remus lupin onto a broom

to be fair despite all the war and death obi wan probably didn't have to deal with monthly body horror

oh and, obi wan was only ostracised for being a jedi in the second half of his life. so he at least had a chance of establishing a stable sense of identity in a stable community of, say, beyond four-ish friends.

only one of obi wan's students turned into a war criminal. remus lupin, on the other hand, taught more than a handful of bad wizard wannabes

let's be honest. remus would not have won in a duel against sirius black.

yes yes of course. obi wan's ex boyfriend was actually a mass murderer. remus was just gaslit and delusional

also r.e. the notorious mass-murderer ex boyfriend: obi wan thought his ex was dead. remus knew he was alive and just wished he were dead

oh oh oh. obi wan actually watched over their son!!!! despite being damp and sad and working poverty wage jobs?! obi wan was there!! and where were you huh remus?? where were you???

obi wan, unlike remus lupin, does not visibly lose all his shit when said ex boyfriend is mentioned.

though he did have twenty years in the desert to calm down about it lmao remus never lived that long

okay so maybe he'd teach the boy and refuse to tell him anything about his parents. but at least he stuck around and did everything he can for the boy! even after he died!! remus just half-arsed it for a year then disappeared again.

obi wan would not have knocked up his ex boyfriend's cousin. he had Good Space Monk morals.

damn I'm running out of things to say. oh yes. obi wan died first. and then got to reunite with the ex in the afterlife so canonical happy ending am I right? wolfstar could never.

[papakhan]

I think in game it's kind of presented that Julie Farkas thinks poorly of, if not outright dislikes, the Great Khans which I guess is fair enough but also reeks of the attitude of the writers viewing drug addicts and raiders as subhuman. And I don't think really it lines up with either the Khan/Follower relationship depicted in game nor does it Follow Julie's reestablished personality. I think she's a little exasperated with them but not enough to warrent the "who? Oh you mean those raiders who used to clash with the vegas tribes 🙄" line that she has about them like cmon girl 1) people are like your only allies outside of Freeside and 2) why are you taking the Three Families side in this??? They're causing just as many if not more issues than the Khans even Arcade has lines about how the Families are exploiting Freeside and I can't think who else she means by "vegas tribes" Anyway. It does make sense for her to be annoyed with how they're causing more drug problems in Freeside but i don't think it makes sense for her to be written in a way that makes it sounds like she's angry with the Khans for *using their precious medical knowledge to make the evil morphine rather than the morally good morphine* when really she should be more angry with House/The Families for causing the poverty in Freeside and the NCR for forcing the Khans into the precarious position they're in while disallowing the Followers from truly helping them. The fact that by the time that Fnv comes around the Followers and NCR's relationship has broken down should be enough for the Followers to revisit relations with the Khans since, as I said, the Khans have been the only truly consistent allies of the Followers and more importantly, the NCR JUST MURDERED ALL THEIR CHILDREN. In this essay I will

[aesterblaster]

Ik you said to send hot takes but what about your hot takes 👀👀

NYAHAHAHA THANKS FOR ASKING

*clears throat*

IsagiRin as a ship just doesn't work for me. Odk why just. Sorry I can NOT see your vision bestie. Half of the Blue Lock ships don't work for me especially when centered around Isagi because that boy switches side characters like they're pairs of shoes. In Blue Lock one or two sus or even sweet moments doesn't really amount to much to me because everyone has them here. That doesn't automatically mean date on a riverside resturant. On the other hand I totally could see Bachira x Isagi but I just think of them as really close friends because that's what gives me the most comfort being as some of the people who really saved my life were friends. I think it would be better if Bachira had a friend first and focused on himself before getting into any big relationship. Idk I guess that's more of a personal preferance

SPEAKING OF, I hate people who write Blue Lock smut w a burning passion. I'm not even gonna hit the whole iTS IMMorAL train it just usually sucks all the fun and personality out of the chosen character and is just trying to be as gross ans shocking as possible and twist them into somehow being pervs just bc they get all hyperactive when they play soccer. Like GET THERAPY. Half the time I go to the bllk tag im just scrolling like HE WOULD NOT FUCKING SAY THAT.

The anime gets a lot of slack but like... It's very difficult to transfer things from one medium to the other especially things as philisophical as Blue Lock

Fandom interpretations of Shidou are usually weirdly ooc because they wittle him down to like how cray cray he is or whatever and completely ignore for example, his respect for people who are also creative and out of the box or his ability to deal with lonliness and being othered by everyone

Characters that shouldn't be hated nearly as much as they are: NOA NOEL. You heard it here folks. I genuinely believe he's just trying his best and honestly most coaches would've asked to drop half the player he has to deal with by now like cmon you got an emo gymrat who was forced to become like you, you got a playee whos EYESIGHT IS FAILING but will literally start falling apart if you bench him, you got..kaiser and his lapdog ass cronie who dont listen to your plans at all, you got an entire rift between new and old players. Like how do you even fix that when you can't send people home (i think)? He gives good advice sometimes ngl and they're winning games so like...

Cont. Sure he isn't as funny or amusing to read as Lavinho or Chris and he isn't as open as Snuffy but DAMN IT he's doing his job ok? And all the dad son moments between him and Isagi are to die for.

Naruhayas little miniarc is honestly has the saddest backstory implications to me. THERE I SAID IT. Rin's is indeed tragic and heartwrenching but can be fixed, he can move on and heal if he so chooses. Bachira...ok nvm bachira's ties with it. Hiori's is an absolute tear jerker but he is still in Blue Lock. He still has some time to grow. Naruhaya? There's nothing that could be done to fix his position or bring him up or cut him from the weights dragging him down. We see so many characters in the Blue Lock universe rise from their poverty through soccer but DAMN IT NARUHAYA EXISTED TO SHOW THAT THAT IS A LUCKY AND FEW 2 PERCENT. HE PROBABLY HAD TO GIVE UP ON EVERY SINGLE ONE OF HIS DREAMS JUST TO SUPPORT THE VERY FAMILY HE LOVES SO MUCH. HIS PARENTS LITERALLY DIED. DO YOU UNDERSTAND? BACHIRA STILL HAS HIS MOM, RIN AT LEAST HAS HOPES OF RECONCILING WITH HIS BROTHER AND HIORI MIGHT ONE DAY SAFELY CUT HIS PARENTS OFF BUT HIS ARE IMPLIED TO BE GOOD PEOPLE JUST..STRAIGHT UP DEAD. AND THE WAY HE STOLE FOOD ALL THE TIME???? IM GOING INSANE.

Ok thats all for now LMAO

[alelelesimz]

bold the facts

The rules are simple! Tag people and name a character you want to know more about! If you want to let the person you tagged decide who to showcase, then don’t name a character and they can pick somebody. Easy! The person who is tagged will then bold the remarks below which apply to their character &, if they want to, include a picture with their reply!

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[ PERSONAL]

$ Financial: wealthy / moderate / poor / in poverty

✚ Medical: fit / moderate / sickly / disabled / disadvantaged / non applicable

✪ Class or Caste: upper / middle / working / unsure / other

✔ Education: qualified / unqualified / studying / other (did like four years of engineering and then dropped out so technically not qualified but cmon)

✖ Criminal Record: yes, for major crimes / yes, for minor crimes / no / has committed crimes, but not caught yet / yes, but charges were dismissed

[ FAMILY ]

◒ Children: had a child or children / has no children / wants children

◑ Relationship with Family: close with sibling(s) / not close with sibling(s) / has no siblings / sibling(s) is deceased

◔ Affiliation: orphaned / adopted / disowned / raised by birth parent / not applicable

[ TRAITS + TENDENCIES]

♦ extroverted / introverted / in between

♦ disorganized / organized / in between

♦ close minded / open-minded / in between

♦ calm / anxious / in between

♦ disagreeable / agreeable / in between

♦ cautious / reckless / in between

♦ patient / impatient / in between

♦ outspoken / reserved / in between

♦ leader / follower / in between

♦ empathetic / vicious bastard / in between

♦ optimistic / pessimistic / in between

♦ traditional / modern / in between

♦ hard-working / lazy / in between

♦ cultured / uncultured / in between / unknown

♦ loyal / disloyal / unknown

♦ faithful / unfaithful / unknown

[ BELIEFS]

★ Faith: monotheist / polytheist / atheist / agnostic / spiritual

☆ Belief in Ghosts or Spirits: yes / no / don’t know / don’t care

✮ Belief in an Afterlife: yes / no / don’t know / don’t care

✯ Belief in Reincarnation: yes / no / don’t know / don’t care

❃ Belief in Aliens: yes / no / don’t know / don’t care

✧ Religious: orthodox / liberal / in between / not religious

❀ Philosophical: yes / no

[ SEXUALITY & ROMANTIC INCLINATION ]

❤ Sexuality: heterosexual / homosexual / bisexual / asexual / pansexual

❥ Sex: sex repulsed / sex neutral / sex favorable / naive and clueless

♥ Romance: romance repulsed / romance neutral / romance favorable / naive and clueless / romance suspicious

❣ Sexually: adventurous / experienced / naive / inexperienced / curious

⚧ Potential Sexual Partners: male / female / agender / other / none / all

⚧ Potential Romantic Partners: male / female / agender / other / none / all

[ ABILITIES ]

☠ Combat Skills: excellent / good / moderate / poor / none

≡ Literacy Skills: excellent / good / moderate / poor / none

✍ Artistic Skills: excellent / good / moderate / poor / none

✂ Technical Skills: excellent / good / moderate / poor / none

[ HABITS ]

☕ Drinking Alcohol: never / special occasions / sometimes / frequently / alcoholic

☁ Smoking: tried it / trying to quit / quit / never / rarely / sometimes / frequently / chain-smoker

✿ Recreational Drugs: never / special occasions / sometimes / frequently / addict

✌ Medicinal Drugs: never / no longer needs medication / some medication needed / frequently / to excess

☻ Unhealthy Food: never / special occasions / sometimes / frequently / binge eater

$ Splurge Spending: never / sometimes / frequently / shopaholic

♣ Gambling: never / rarely / sometimes / frequently / compulsive gambler

[egipci]

thank you for bringing awareness to this grievous issue. how is there possibly not more huntercorp content out there?? the overlap between the succession freaks and spn freaks on here is practically a circle. then supernatural does a literal canon succession au and… crickets. i don’t understand. cmon ladies we can do better

Thank you for your solidarity! I agree: we CAN do better!

To be fair, I totally understand the paucity of content in the field, simply because those guys are just not really recognizable as Sam and Dean. They're vacuous spoiled dudes for us to laugh at for the five minutes they're on screen, unlike our very serious special Winchesters Prime, God's favorites, etc. We don’t really even know anything about them, other than they still live with their dad into their late thirties? And Sam is like "haha Dad is the best guy I wanna live with him in the same house forever cheers," which makes me think the CTE finally caught up with him. So fanon interest doesn't really extend beyond heehee silly wincest-twincest foursome business, or maybe there's some cracky Daddycestuous harem going on that I haven't heard about--- which is great if you're into that sort of thing.

What I think is more interesting though is to use that world as a springboard to construct a more canon-feeling AU that retains the characters' personalities and dynamics. Like, just take all the deeply traumatizing shit that comes with hunting from a young age and add to it all the fucked-up-ness of excessive wealth and access.

Say, John, at some point when Dean and Sam are much younger, decides it would be better to work with other people for resources and efficiency (lol), and doesn’t burn quite as many bridges as he could, and whenever someone offers to pay a little something to show their gratitude he agrees. Along the way that turns into a hunting business, recruiting hunters, etc, and it picks up, and it's lucrative enough obviously because monsters are plentiful, and so the kids grow up with money, comfortable. There's the old "I want you to go to school and I want Dean to have a home," so he probably did buy a home base, extra fortified, and there were babysitters to watch after Sam, a little less pressure on Dean with the co-parenting. More creature comforts and safety and stability available, but maybe even more emotional distance between John and Sam than in canon. Dad's trips last for months and months, Sam is fine, he goes to the same nice private school for most of his life, gets with Jessica in high school or something, whatever, you can fill in the blanks here. Maybe he goes to a military school or something, in this strange world where people know about monsters, but his dad is still very much distant and mysterious.

Depending on when the transition towards more financial stability happens, Dean would have more vivid memories of serious poverty that he shares with his dad that Sam might not fully remember/appreciate, and as he gets older Dean’s off with Dad more and more, staying away longer and longer, etc, and that in itself is an interesting question, I think: if Dean doesn't have to parent Sam as much, what does that mean for their relationship? There's always the baseline of the older brother duty/younger brother admiration going on, but maybe it's more like 2x20 than canon--- or not, maybe it translates into more closeness than the canon pre-canon! A good writer can convince you of anything, but it's essential that their relationship only flourishes in the absence of their dad, not only physical absence/death, but also his absence in Dean's emotional life, and all of that is deferred for as long as you keep the old man around. the idea of 60's John/40's Dean makes me....

Anyway, the Succession comparison in particular is really compelling here because 1. in a world where people know about monsters, and monster-hunting is a lucrative empire-building business, the Winchesters (assuming they are actually as good as they are in the main timeline) would hold huge influence. Like, serious political influence. Depending on the size and boundaries of his operation John Winchester could be the owner of an extremely powerful militia trained to kill both people and monsters? And that's... kind of insane! (And with that power and influence, did Sam and Dean grow up in the public eye to some degree, like president’s kids and various d-listers? What sort of rich people vices were they exposed to? Are hunters seen as celebrities or as soldiers, or something in between like in, eg, The Boys?”)

Therefore 2. the stakes of succession are extremely important, and also 3. as an au-explorer, that's how you get to keep some semblance of the John-Dean-Sam dynamic from canon. Say, Sam goes to Stanford on Dad's dime, no need for a scholarship, he fits in with the other kids fine, at least along socioeconomic lines. But obviously he's still very well trained as a hunter, and he may or may not be dealing with demon blood-induced uncleanliness. And let's say Dean is groomed into both hunting but also the business side of things, slated to run the family business when the time comes, maybe he goes to college too and studies something soul-sucking he thinks would be useful for the business and would make Dad proud. Or not, he already has charm and looks in spades, no need for a fancy degree.

But what if at some point John changes his mind? It's not Dean, but Sam who should be king. Or Sam and Dean together as partners. Sam of course doesn't want it. He wants to be a lawyer, or whatever it is the Lebanon alt!Sam does. Adam doesn't want it, he doesn't know anything about hunting, he's probably only seen his dad a total of five times since college, and no one showed up to his engagement party. Who knows, maybe he's already been eaten by the ghoul and no one has noticed yet. Obviously Dean doesn't want to run anything, either, but no one cares about that. He'll do it if he has to, because he's a good son, and in that way this is the weird inverse world of Succession where no one actually wants the inheritance. They do want the elusive kiss from daddy, they're just not under any illusions that the family business is an adequate substitute.

So, like, you can take those two weirdo throwaways and make them infinitely more interesting. You can kill John, you can throw in the Azazel hunt, or introduce the Heaven mega-bureaucrats, or whatever. Maybe Sam gets on the demon blood in his fancy private school and is surrounded by demons for years and it’s John’s fault because he sent him there, thinking he'd be safe. Or maybe none of that other mytharc stuff comes in and at the heart of the story is just the family drama. Sprinkle in some more sex, drugs, and rock n roll, etc— so many little choices to make for people who like the work of intricate world building and crossovers! Good for them, whenever they get their hands on this.

Of course the thing that matters to me most is the J/D of it all and Dean's feelings about it--- like he is daddy's golden boy in pretty panties and a cock cage, but what I've been thinking about (like, actually thinking about, for fic writing purposes) is why is he in the cock cage? What if he likes it? What if he wants it and likes it and hates that he likes it? Succession is part of a huge tradition of works preoccupied with wealth and moral decadence and corruption, and those things can only be compounded by the reality of not only wide-spread knowledge of monsters, but also the existence of an industry dedicated to the sanctioned extrajudicial killing of "creatures" that look and live just like normal people 99% of the time. It's extremely fucking bleak, more so in some ways than canon, and it's the kind of world where dad/son incest is possible, where alcoholism/addiction would be much closer to the surface, where Dean is rewarded for Dad’s parasitic dependence in different, slightly more complicated ways than canon, where Dean's baitboy duties probably extend to various unsavory human actors, men and women, starting when he was way too young. And it's not necessarily always the sort of seduction/manipulation/self-objectification that ends with Dean on his back, and John is not a mustache-twirling villain who's looking it in the face and ambivalently sending his kid to the slaughter, but shit happens and it's part of life and it's for the greater good and it's for the family business and Dean's a man and he can handle it and when he comes back tongue-tied and flushed, wearing his cute little panties under his slacks and holding a matching cage in his hand John will tease him first, always, and then he will put his hands on the kid and make it better.

[g0rechan]

741-741

That’s the number you gave me when I was posting similar things like your last post.

Use it.

I love you. Ik this sounds parasocial but idc. You’re my only friend. I have no friends irl and chatting and vibing with you online has got me through incredibly difficult times for me. I was so lonely and still am, I had strong urges to commit suicide but you got me through it.

Please, use it. You’re an incredible person who’s funny and pretty and creative.

Call me a parasocial bitch all you want but I really want you to get help.

I did, I did call that number. I cried so hard and -aside from the time my dog died- it was genuinely the first time I’ve cried in such a long time.

I’ve been in such a dark place for god knows how long. It’s been so damn stressful and insane. The only thing preventing me from killing myself is friends, my art, fashion, and the events I get to attend with people. I love hanging out with friends, it distracts me from all my worries and all the bad that I know about.

I didn’t start feeling this way until I had to start adulthood with no preparation whatsoever and worry about paying bills and break my back to put a payment on my car that shouldn’t even be that ridiculously high (seriously, fuck capitalism).

And my parents tell me that I need to get over it bc I’m an adult and that stress is a part of life and that I’m not mentally ill, I’m a spoiled brat. Like WTF?! Yeah ik life is stressful, but I’m not allowed to be stressed??

I’m sure they were just as stressful as I am when they started adulthood. Especially since my mom was a fucking teenager when she had me and had to work jobs while my father was attending night school at the time since he had to drop out to support his family.

Ig they just don’t remember? Or maybe because they’re both in the upper middle class quadrant that they feel like they’re so much better than people who are struggling- Yes, I still live with them but I can’t consider myself as part of their family with how fucking irritatingly unhelpful they are.

I wanna go back to who I was as a teenager. Not caring, loving everyone… not being the bitter, angry, vindictive bitch that I am now. Before I used to be so happy when others were happy, but now whenever I get a manic episode and I see, like, idk a rich person or rich and upper middle class kids who didn’t have to grow up in poverty like I did, I feel bitter. Like, physically. I can feel it building up inside me and spewing into my mouth.

And once I get out of my episode, I feel so fucking stupid. It’s so childish and terrible, the last time I felt this way was when I was like, what? 12-13?? I’m like, “cmon, Miliani. Really?”.

I tell myself I should be happy, I have many friends and everyone is always telling me I’m so pretty, and artistic, and so many boys and even girls have crushes on me and try to get me stuff for free sometimes.

And I’m upset because, what? I don’t have money?? One minor thing that won’t make more of a person if I did??

… I don’t want to be rich. I just want to be financially comfortable. That is fucking all. And if I can’t be financially stable, I’d at least want people to care. I want people to understand.

I also just wanna have a connection with my mommy again instead of her being angry at me. I want to just be happy with what I have.

It sucks bc I can feel happy sometimes, but the bad thoughts always come back. It’s like my brain doesn’t want me to be happy. I talked to the suicide hotline and they recommended that I’d see my school counselor to get free accommodations for getting a proper mental diagnosis…

Overall, I don’t hate myself or my life. It’s just mental illness and the stress of this new stage in life is taking an absolute fucking toll on me.

I’m just glad that I finally know the root cause of my problems now instead of attacking myself and others in blind rage.

I’ll help myself, like I did with you. I feel good that I was able to help you through all the sad and stressful things in your life.

As of now, the thoughts are gone. They’ve come and gone all day, everyday. I know the thoughts will come back but til then. I want to strive to be the best version of myself. I want to learn to love and again. I want to be that caring, selfless, sweet girl again. And I know I can do it, with the help of friends and therapy.

When I learn to love myself, I can learn to love others again.

Thank you.

[0ystercatcher]

most interesting part of the conservative documentary im watching abt poverty in the us is how unsubtle it is about trying to make it seem like men always have the instinct to provide for their families and the current conditions make them sadly unable to and make them have emotional crisis that turn them into criminals and man whores (that last one is my addition but cmon they lowkey show it) and its all about how we must make america great again by "fixing people from the inside out". theres this little thing about how men should be employed bc work dignifies them etc etc but the same thing is never ever ever said of women. every woman in this doc is a mother. most are teen moms. most cannot work formally because they take care of their kids usually without a baby daddy in the picture which is directly related to their poverty. but every single one of them Works. every single one of them wants to provide for their family. sure they dont work at The Factory (what factory are they gonna work in anyway?? half the cause of this is america de industrialized and killed thousands of valuable jobs...), but they have part time / service industry jobs, or informal jobs like cooking meals for workers from their own homes. its just cute how much is said about mens inherent desire to provide and while there are very real problems men face w mass unemployment and feeling poopy because they feel theyve lost their value once unable to work, its never directly pointed out that they neglect and basically look down on on the work women Have to keep doing no matter what.

very annoying this mf (director) can correctly point to big awful problems but cannot move past the age old and mistaken idea that when conditions are bad, the solution is to find men "spiritual" fulfillment and jobs, and for women to just marry these "spriritually" fulfilled employed men. because women could never want these things for themselves i guess. and its crazy bc theres definitely problems and mistakes women make over and over w this bc many of us are taught we Cant want those things and so we never reach out for them. but its obviously a lie. its obviously wrong. every other problem gets pointed out ... but not that one. because i guess its easier to believe women are simpleminded fools who just go along with what were told to want. but thats a lie! and it should be our job to show other women its obviously a lie and they can and should change those attitudes in themselves

[kudzucataclysm]

wip themes ask

ty for the tag @vacantgodling !!!

Rules: Bold the themes that appear in your WIP (and italicize those that are loosely covered) then tag 10 people.

doing this for SE cuz…cmon now :p

addiction | beauty | betrayal | change vs. tradition | chaos vs. order | circle of life | coming of age | communication | convention vs. rebellion | corruption | courage | crime and law | dangers of ignorance | darkness and light | death | desire to escape | dreams | displacement | empowerment | facing darkness | facing reality | faith vs. doubt | fall from grace | fame and fortune | family | fate | fear | fear of failure | free will | friendship | fulfillment | good vs. bad | government | greed | guilt and forgiveness | hard work | heroism | hierarchy | honesty | hope | identity crisis | immortality | independence | individual vs. society | inner vs. outer strength | innocence | injustice | isolation | knowledge vs. ignorance | life | loneliness | lost love | love | man vs. nature | manipulation | materialism | motherhood | nature | nature vs. nurture | oppression | optimism | peer pressure | poverty | power | power of words | prejudice | pride | progress | quest | racism | rebirth | relationships | religion | responsibility | revenge | sacrifice | secrets | self-awareness | self-preservation | self-reliance | sexuality | social class structure | survival | technology | temptation and destruction | time | totalitarianism | weakness | vanity | war | wealth | wisdom of experience | youth

i think i got everything right. tagging...whoever wants to do this >:0 and if u do it you're honor-bound to to tag me in it gahdammit

[withacapitalp]

you have to know this was coming: eddie, for the question game! <3

favorite thing about them

Oh my god Eddie so many good things!!! Eddie's passion is really amazing to me. He cares so much (part of why he and Steve work so well!) But like Eddie runs because ANYONE would run in that situation with Chrissy but he spends every last moment after that making up for it and wanting to do different and trying to be there for the Party HES SO GOOD ALSO HOW SOFT HE CAN BE AND HOW GENTLE HE CAN BE!!!! Him trying to comfort Chrissy, him and the boys, him and Steve walking in the Upside Down I LOVE HIM

least favorite thing about them

Oooof the hypocrisy kinda gets to me. He can't claim to be like this champion for the different, and then force Lucas to choose between his game and Hellfire. Like bud cmon!!!!

favorite line

"86 BABY"

"Never change, Dustin Henderson"

"I wouldn't remember me either"

"Harrington's got her, dontcha big boy!!"

SO MANY ICONIC LINES

brOTP

EDDIE AND NANCY BEING BESTIES IS SOMETHING THAT CAN BE SO PERSONAL TO ME

OTP

Steddie obvi but I also really love Eddie and Argyle? I think stoner bfs is so much fun!!! I also really adore Hellcheer in every aspect but romantic they were my first!! Also hellcheer was the first fic I ever wrote I have a soft spot for them

nOTP

Mungrove, Eddie and death lol

random headcanon

Eddie is a jealous little guy!!!!! he's not just an only child, but he also spent so much of his life in poverty and ostracized. His things are His Things (including His People) and anytime he has to share he gets a lil twitchy

unpopular opinion

Okay I don't want Eddie to come back in s5. I think the duffers would fuck it up, I think it would be unsatisfying, and I'm just not here for watching a mediocre version of what fanfic has done better. The duffers need to learn how to just kill someone

song i associate with them

SO MANY Obviously 'I wouldn't remember me either' and Master of Puppets but also Vienna by Billy Joel and Jackie and Wilson by Hozier!

favorite picture of them

HES SUCH A SILLY GOOSE

[heylinfanclub]

Okay. Potential. Thingies to do that probably got me in that decision overwhelm hrmhrmhrm.

- Chillin watchin vids or playin games

- cat art project (the soul YEARNS AND ACHES for creative project)

- take a shower

- organizing / moving shit around / makin choices (I’ve already moved some stuff around. Feels good. I don’t have to do it all in one day and I can. Write down my ideas for other stuff [like moving my posable lamp and attempting the foil trick to keep the cat from getting up somewhere instead of stacking boxes there (having heavy stuff high up increases my STRESS— also it’s inaccessible since it’s being used as a blocking item. I need to ask my roomie to spot me when I take the boxes down just in case there’s spoders or something and I spazz out (I also have to move things out of the way etc etc)

- I cleaned the litter box Yeah

- I gotta take out some trashes.

- I refilled my meds case

- it’s the transitional week of the month (end of month/beginning of next month), so that’s stressful already, it probably contributes to being worked up

- most bills paid, though waiting for a PayPal deposit through both a weekend and a holiday is stressful.

- kitty is being so sweet and I am for once admissible to her fussy need to crawl on me. But if she does it hampers my ability to move cause I am EMOTIONALLY SOFT.

- I haven’t fed the crows today. I could do that when I take out the trash.

- Monday Monday Monday

- picked up the floor a lil.

- would REALY appreciate the ability to focus on my phone in places OTHER THAN TUMBLR AND YOUTUBE. I need to use PicCollage to compartmentalize certain groups of photos so I can continue shrinking my photo count (if it breaches 17k, which it is so close to doing, I will be sad cause my goal was gettin DOWN TO 15k cMON HANDS, delete screenshots after u share!) / I have considered moving the apps to another page so I am forced to consider before I swipe. But. Change is. Icky. My fingers are comfy. I GOTTA LEARN TO. MANAGE DISCOMFORT THAT ISNT KILLING ME. AHH.

- I wanna wash a bunch of blankets but. Alas. Poverty discourages me to use the fuckin laundromat for anything but When I’m Out Of Clothes cause it costs nearly $2 per load, in QUARTERS. Also it’s Monday. Laundry is a weekend chore.

- writing things down is gooood but WILL I RETURN TO THIS? Maybe tomorrow cause I have therapy. I will remember. Maybe! Fjdjsh.

- another reason I need to organize: the maximalism of my room make notes to myself blend in. I need. Places of Performance and Designated Spots for Items. Hfhfkgl. I have some I’ve already had but. As life adds new things. I am often at a loss how to integrate them. Naturalistically. Hfhfhf.

- I did laundry a while back but I never hung up my shirts I just hung them over my bed frame. I should put them up.

- looking it over I can probably do the Trash, Feed the Crows, Put up my Shirts, Take a Shower, then do cat drawin. Cause I’ve done enough today. And I rly wanna draw.

[oswednesday]

i hope incubus gets a little relief like hes like nasty evil slime guy but its kinda dog he never stood a chance like yeah the others were preyed upon but they werent sentence to death at birth by caste through untouchable poverty like, cmon,,,,,,,,

[v0idtalking]

April 14, 2023

Well I'll tell you what, I regret everything and I don't know how much more of this I can take. The poverty and the isolation is going to kill me and the illusion of significance I place on myself by distracting depression with academic achievement can only last so long and I'm so fucking tired and angry and there's nothing I can do but keep being miserable and even when it gets better there will be something worse that makes me yearn for a past life which at the time was equally miserable. I'm so fucking tired im so tired I cant do it but I have to and I havent been happy since I was a small child and even then i had a terrible fucking time when will it get easier cmon just marginally easier FUCK FUCK

[fawndleme]

1. fun fact on this actually! it was NOT hillary that started it, in fact she actively shut down that argument / ignored it. i will give you credit that it was her party that was bitter and attempted to, but after obamas people showed his birth certificate, those rumours started dying down. THEN, trump started them up again and kept them going hard up until 2011, where he suddenly shifted his stance and said “nuhuh. hillary started this! I’m ending it!” (paraphrased).

2. this point is an interesting one, simply because of HOW he worded it. most people would agree that saying "When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best," he said. "They're sending people that have lots of problems...they're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people." IS racist because it generalises a group of people and with no proof to back his claims up. i think that is a big part of it, actually. the fact that he calls them rapists/murders but offers basically no proof ever.

3. he did not ban muslims (mostly because something like that would simply not be possible) but he pushed forward a stereotype and put fear in peoples hearts. that muslims were people yo be afraid of. that they needed to be banned from america.

4. she was his rival, he absolutely says “pochahantas” in an insulting way. moreover, the Native American leaders even agreed that it was racist, and insulting, but that didnt make him stop. trumps behaviours do not exist in a vaccum, these things are considered racist and bad BECAUSE of the context. also it’s funny you say this because hes actually had a lot of issues within the Native American communities

5. i do apologise for that!

https://x.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1150381394234941448?s=46&t=hJ6GdTAjgrKVtKCh4JelLg this gives more context on why this specifically is bad. these people are US Citizens. basically telling them “go back to your country!” is shitty and racist.

6. fun fact! it is!! because even experts actively stated that labelling the virus specifically in relation to china would JUST lead to xenophobia and cause people to lash out at Asians when they arent even at fault. as a prominent leader with a large following, he KNEW the impact he would have when he actively referred to it in that way. I guess you could make the argument that he isn’t racist, hes just dim and socially inept, but even then like. cmon.

7. THIS IS CRAZY WORK. classifying specific countries as “shit holes” IS RACIST BRO. yes, 60% of haiti lives in poverty, but it is still a country with a rich culture and history. again though, he had no reason to call it a shithole??

(skipping point 8, theres not much to say on it)

9. there are emails and recordings that talk about delivering the fake elector certificates. this information literally comes from a pro-trump attorney that was a part of it, and pled guilty. trump himself was charged on four felony counts for the shit in 2020.

at the end of the day, if you look at these situations as single, completely unrelated events, you could possibly argue that they arent that bad. if you actually put all of his behaviours together, you can tell just what a racist person he is. on top of that, hes got a horrible character, is a literal pedophile, rapist, liar that doesnt actually care about the American people.

Objections to Donald Trump and it's idiocy

Response to @fawndleme 1. I have literally now clue what you were talking about, so I did some research... Apparently Hillary Clinton started rumors that Obama wasn't born in the USA and Trump repeated it, before backing off publicly. You were very vague though, so that may not be it. 2. In 2016, his platform was built off of realizing the common sense that if the border is insecure, criminals can come over from Mexico or other countries to escape prosecution. Due to the inefficiencies and malpractice in the court systems, many times these criminals stay in our streets. Misrepresenting what he was saying by saying Trump called mexicans "rapists and murderers". 3. This is an example of Trump being hyperbolic - He did not, in fact, ban muslims, but only from several countries that had links to terrorist activities. Funnily enough, comments were turned off on that video so I had to do my own research.

4. There's quite literally no negative connotation in calling someone Pocahantas - and yeah the trails of tears joke is kinda funny, but that's Trump, calling names. He's not being racist towards a race, though, he's making a joke at the expense of an individual - if he was racist, would he not be racist towards all native americans (or at least the majority)? why has he been kind and cordial to many before?

5. You linked the middle part of a post, which I couldn't really understand without context (never even mentioned the names of the individuals in the post you made). Besides that, you can easily see the point he's making in a joking format - They haven't proved themselves as leaders yet.

6. Calling a virus from China the "Kung-Flu" isn't racist. I will fight you on this. It is blatantly moronic to say that, it's called a pun you moron.

7. You think Haiti isn't a crap country? Or the very many African nations often thrown into revolt by hungry warlords? You think this is false? Also, there is no racism here - he's naming countries, many African countries are Arab and Berber, some closer to white than Semite/Black as well.

8. So on this one, in the end it was settled and there was never an admission of guilt. There was evidence for and against it, and I won't say that the Trumps didn't do it, but I will say that it never went to court and it was never ruled that they did that.

9. The "fake electors" scandal, as far as I'm aware, was an issue that while Trump struggled to contest the election results, they attempted to halt for a while as they were confirming the results. They attempted to get alternative electors, not fake electors. The "fake electors" is a headline-making title, intended to clickbait.

So yeah, these are my thoughts. Honestly 4 and 5 are your best points, had some difficulty in refuting those. However, this was quite fun - i look forward to your reply or reblog..

[brilliant-soul]

I'm sorry, I cannot read stories about people making 65K a year telling me they're poor, I can't do it

Like idk maybe I was more poor than average (..yeah) but if you don't have ANY of the obvious downsides of being poor (going hungry, no power, no water, homelessness, *the usual???*) then you weren't poor. You just weren't.

This is like finding out I prolly won't qualify for low income housing bc I don't make enough...