#don't take any of them for granted

[bacchuschucklefuck]

while teen while goblin while aroace while injured while doing your best

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2025: THE LUMINOUS DEAD by Caitlin Starling.

Well! I did not mean to binge read this in less than 24 hours, but Here We Are. Once I started, I had a hell of a time stopping, because I just HAD TO KNOW.

From the very first page, we know something is not right about this solitary caving expedition on a shitty alien mining planet, and we know that 22-year-old Gyre is in it for an enormous amount of money. We know significantly less about her enigmatic and controlling handler, Em, who's Gyre's literal only lifeline out of the cave system.

Or about what's down there with her.

The tension and ratcheting dread are propulsive--lot of mysteries here, lots to pick apart and unravel (including Gyre's and Em's psyches, apparently). Hugely tense and claustrophobic (I kept taking micro phone breaks to calm myself down), enormously isolating and twisty. This is We Support Women's Wrongs: Sci-Fi Horror Edition, and I'm in a complicated situationship with a hypermanipulative voice in my helmet about it--love it, hate it, love/hate it at the same time, what a deeply fucked up ride.

[swirlingyouintomypoems]

today in therapy I was talking about my chronic illness and how for months this summer (the best summer of my life so far) I was completely symptom free and doing amazing and then in fall I caught covid and for months my symptoms have been so bad that I've had to take a gap year off school. Anyways I've just recently begun to process this trauma - because it truly was the most traumatic experience I've ever had in my life - and I was talking about how terrifying it is to work to get better because now I know how terrible it is to have it all taken from me again. And obviously this isn't a direct quote but basically my therapist asked me if I would have avoided doing everything I did this summer if I had known I might end up where I am right now. My answer was absolutely not. And she said that even if I fall in a hole and have to claw myself out of that hole only to walk a hundred feet and fall in another hole, those hundred feet may be amazing and beautiful and for those hundred feet I'm going to appreciate the good in life so much more than anyone who has never been in my position. And to some people that may not be very helpful but for me it completely changed my perspective because I was so focused on the hole I'm currently in and worried about the possible hole that I may fall in to next I've been completely ignoring the possibility that however many feet that are in between me and that next hole may be absolutely beautiful, and that has to be worth getting better for

[transfagholmes]

i enjoy my degree but it is funny how they gave us a greek beginner's course on the basics for one year and then in every class since then they'll be like "so we've all studied homer. we've all read the odyssey in its original language." can you all stop making me feel like i shouldn't be here 😭

[sallykie]

I've decided. I don't like the HTTYD movie sequels' xenophobia era. I don't think the themes should have gone that way.

[jimmyusoz]

tony khan wouldn't treat me like this </3

[catkin-morgs-kookaburralover]

i feel like if i got my hands on an upper of some kind, things would be improved because i'd be able to get things done. at the same time i do have downers actually prescribed. trouble is, if you take a small enough dose to keep yourself actually functional in any way, it just means you feel less stressed but also less... everything. like the stress is still there because it isn't physiological stress, it's knowing you've not done everything stress. but if i took a dose that would actually help, a) i'd run out (i only have the one script) and b) take all week to recover from it. so there is no good answer, because if i'm gonna take a downer, it's gonna be enough to actually help, i.e. enough to make me crash out. unfortunately 'actually help' is synonymous with 'loss of consciousness', because being conscious is hell, you know?

[thelilylav]

Crashed out about the Prime Minister calling a snap election in the reblogs and ended up getting blocked LMAOOO

[essektheylyss]

for the readers at home: I absolutely did not leave the bookstore without purchasing a book.

[elprupneerg]

been looking a little bit into what people are saying on here about lupus (seeing if anybody is posting advice, sharing experiences similar to mine, etc) and it kinda bummed me out tbh. like i'm gonna be honest i was excited when the doctor said what i have cuz it meant i have an answer and i can get treatment and i can stop hurting all the fucking time (or at least take the hurt down a notch from current levels). so it was really weird to see people talk about how heartbroken they are to have it.

and maybe its the brainfog meaning i'm still not quite grasping what's going on here. but also like, i've been in pain for months and kinda assumed i wasn't gonna be Cured(TM) right away or even ever again. i've spent the majority of my life depressed as hell, to the point where i genuinely didn't think i was gonna live to see my high school graduation. i'm trans and i wanna go on hrt once i get my shit figured out.

"you're gonna be sick for the rest of your life! you're gonna have to take meds for decades that are gonna do weird shit to your heart!" omg you mean i Get a "rest of my life"? you mean i Get to be around for years and years? you mean i Get to be around long enough to see weird long term effects of the pills/gel on my cardiovascular system? you mean i'm gonna be alive? you mean there's a way to manage my symptoms so that i can do things again, even if its not a perfect fix that brings me up to abled standards?

Sign Me The Fuck Up

[betweenlands]

if i see that "villagers are antisemitic because big nose and purely fanon greed so i turned them into literal sheeple instead" post one more fucking time i am actually going to lose it

[boyeurism]

any kind of friendship is so important to me. some years ago an online friend passed away at a very young age, I was way younger and it actually changed me. I think about her all the time

[onepiece-polls]

I thought we weren't supposed to be doing fan casts during the writers strike?

??? First time I've heard of it. Honestly, I don't see why? I mean, it's not like it's affecting the actors or writers on strike, as far as I can think of.

Please, if you have a source for this explaining it, let me know. But this is literally the first time I've heard of this.

[holocene-sims]

next // previous

july 8, 2021 5:00 p.m. cherry blossom sushi bar

[alienpistol]

persona 5 fanbase: royal is canon! royal is canon! you have to accept it!!

strikers: who is Kasumire. what the fuck is a Maruki. Akechi who?

tactica: here they are in DLC. these characters are only available in NG+ which means they aren't canon to the ongoing story and therefore questionably canon at all. what is a Maruki. Wolf? Sophie? who?

[qqueenofhades]

Okay all -- few quick thoughts about the Elon Muskifying of the government, especially the takeover of the Treasury and associated financial data for every single US citizen and organization, that we are learning about in detail today.

Don't panic. This sounds bad, because it is bad. It's really, really bad. It's outrageously fascist bad. But we've still gotta take a deep breath and get through it.

This is the kind of shock-and-awe exercise of untrammeled fascist power where they are absolutely counting on gleefully terrorizing, paralyzing, and stunning you into mounting no resistance, or just giving up and giving in. They are literally live-tweeting it in real time and boasting about all the access and influence they have right now. They want you to know about it and feel like you can't do anything, so you might as well let it happen.

We have to show them that's not true.

TIME TO MAKE SOME NOISE. Because it's Sunday night, I've gone ahead and contacted my state Attorney General and both senators by email (but come Monday morning, we should all be calling). Here is the email that I wrote to my AG:

Dear Mr. [AG],

As you will be aware, today (February 2, 2025) the Trump administration has granted wide-ranging access to sensitive US Treasury data, including the personal and private information of [state] citizens, to Elon Musk's so-called "Department of Government Efficiency." Musk is an unelected private citizen who has no legal right to access this data, and is engaging in extensive intimidation and coercion to fulfill his personal and harmful ideological agenda. The present and material harm that this causes to US citizens, [state] residents, and basic laws of government, privacy, and financial security is direct, unconscionable, and actionable. I strongly urge you, in your capacity as [state] Attorney General, to file direct suit against the Trump administration, Elon Musk, the "DOGE" office, and any identifiable individuals who have taken part in this action, in order to protect consumer data, citizen privacy, and basic faith and trust in government.

All the best,

[Qqueenofhades]

Short! To the point! Doesn't waste time, tells him what I want him to do, how Elmo's nonsense directly harms the residents of my state, and why he should take action to stop it! And frankly, given how on-the-ball blue-state AGs have been thus far, they're probably already working on it. You are very welcome to copy-and-paste this message and fill in your AG's last name and your state as appropriate. Super easy to do. Takes five minutes. Call tomorrow.

If you are in a red state, your voice is particularly important right now. The Trumpsters are counting on and are even emboldened by blue state pushback, but you really need to make it start coming from Republican strongholds. Congressional Republicans will only feel the slightest amount of unease about docilely enabling this BS when it starts threatening their own personal power. Hit them where it hurts.

Other lawsuits are coming. Marc Elias, Democratic lawyer extraordinaire, is well aware of this situation and has noted on Bluesky that more lawsuits are in the works. He often wins his cases. This does not mean that you shouldn't loudly make noise elsewhere, but please remember that this is one of those 24-hour periods where, as noted, they are counting on demoralizing you with a nonstop blizzard of bullshit. It does not say anything about how this will play out long-term or the opposition that can and will be mobilized to stop it.

Once again: courage. Take the small steps that you can do today. Then take a breath and get off social media for a little while. Try to take the long view. One step at a time, we will get through this.

Courage.