#for some reason!

[flamingowithlagoons]

something about dream eater riku is just so important and personal to me

[episims]

Ruby "-let me think... hmm. I wish to get a kiss from my beautiful wife."

Becca "You're letting me off the hook too easily."

Ruby "Probably! But, um. I don't really need anything."

Becca "I invited Sara, at least. She asked if Felix could join too, but I wanted your opinion-"

Ruby "Of course!! He's practically family."

[joannerowling]

my fave online phenomenon is when people are like "jkr is a TERRIBLE writer!!! anyone could write harry potter!!!! she's a fraud!!!!" and then you click on their profile and discover they're the author of a hideous modern day rewrite of a fairytale, like "what if thumbelina was a demisexual with pots and adhd" or "what if the muffin man did not live on drury lane but was instead homeless and one of his DID alters was jewish".

Average Marauder fan

[spiceberrie]

like you can work the jobs and go to dates and study for tests and do voluntary work and have a beer every once in a while and stop smoking and go right back and then write articles and volunteer some more and that still won’t change the fact that at ur core you’re kind of an weird guy… who’s into hockey rpf…

[sezja]

Neirin expected Urha'to to vanish into Sharlayan libraries and never re-emerge in this lifetime

Nope

Island Caretaker

[ravenkings]

[heywriters]

btw the majority of your life will be lived as a adult. yeah i don't make the rules. go have fun in your 40s or 70s or whatever. no one expects you to accomplish everything at 17 or 27. you've got time and in the meantime get some life experience, it will pay off

[dr-rato]

GET ROTATED

[straightlightyagami]

u ever see someone with extremely fucked up views (or actions) and think wowww if a couple of things in my life went the tiniest bit differently that would have been me

[great-and-small]

Apparently the local university’s undergraduate entomology course sends students to catch insect specimens at the same place I like to go birdwatching, which explains why I saw three enormous frat looking dudes with tiny bug nets and overheard one emphatically say “bro BRO I told you we already have enough lepidopterans”

[slothliart]

You are my affliction 🪻

Prints!

[critter-creature-or-beast]

The third one looks cool

[ingravinoveritas]

"We've all got to be fighting that fight every day."

Happy Pride, everyone...

[humming-fly]

I love how Gerald was trying to keep Shadow from spoiling anything about the future meanwhile literally everything Shadow says and does around Maria is the biggest death flag ever

[silverjirachi]

Hey, look at me. Look at me. I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again: you need to condition yourself to being okay with being inconvenienced by things. The first time I spoke about this I meant it in a mental health way- it is good to go out to the store and see people versus just ordering alone at home- but there is another more pressing societal issue you should be more concerned about as well.

Any service you rely on for convenience can be weaponized against you the moment you begin to rely on it. Streaming used to be a cheap and convenient way to see movies at home. It is now exorbitantly expensive, you need multiple accounts just to get what you want, and any of those movies can be taken from you at any time. And unless you have gotten used to going through the “inconvenience” of owning physical media, you can do nothing about it. Same goes for buying things on Amazon. Same goes for any service like DoorDash etc. These companies WANT you to be reliant on them for convenience so they can do whatever they want to you because, well, what else are you gonna do?

Same thing goes for the uptick in AI. If you train yourself to become reliant on AI for doing basic things, you will be taken advantage of. It is only a matter of a couple years before there are no free AI services. Not only that, but in the usage of AI’s case, it is robbing you of valuable skills that you need to curate that you will be helpless without the moment the AI companies drive in the knife the way they have done with streaming. Delivery. Cable. Internet. Etc. It will happen to AI too. And if you are not practicing skills such as. Writing. You are not only going to be at the mercy of AI companies in the digital world, but you are going to be extremely easy to take advantage of in real life too.

I am begging you to let go of learned helplessness. I am begging you to stop letting these companies TEACH you helplessness. Do something like learn to pirate. It is way more inconvenient at the beginning, but once you know how, it is one less way companies can take advantage of you. Garden. Go to the thrift store (older clothes hold up better anyway). These things take more time and effort, yes, but using time and effort are muscles you need to stretch to keep yourself from being flattened under the weight of our capitalist hellscape.

Inconvenience yourself. Please. Start with only the ways you are able. Do a little bit at a time. But do something.