#i hate ticks

[m00ngbin]

I'm trying to pick a major that I would be the most interested in just because it would make my life so much easier and right now I have like three ideas and they all have a million problems

[skyloftian-nutcase]

Cheering you on from here and hoping you have lots of patience to get through your meeting XD

(Also I found three more ticks on me those suckers are trying to eat me alive o_o)

-Sky Floor

Thank you, I was ready to lose my mind lol. A coworker took me out for drinks afterward 😂

THREE MORE?? Gosh, ticks freaking suck

[smudgedeyeshadow]

found a tick on me in bed and now i cant sleep cuz i keep thinking i feel one crawl on me

[lynxgirlpaws]

In bed. I am tick bait. The monsters (1 bug the size of a small seed) are going to destroy me. Very Sad!

[keyboardsblog]

Welcome Summer Solstice! (6/21/23). How Do I Safely Find Ticks On My Pet To Help Prevent Lyme Disease? #SummerSolstice

[benreyfaggot]

Me : man I feel a lil sick idk why though

The tick that has been sucking my blood for the past around 48 hours :

[yeenkingart]

based on real experience (am geologist), except I only forgot my mapboard dont judge me

Irks me that they just ... rawdog the outdoors, like, my guy you must be miserable in that science coat and trenchcoat. yall good??

[simandy]

TICKS ON MY VERY BEAUTIFUL FLUFFY SON.

[casscainmainly]

If you ever need a reason to prefer canon over fanon, just remember that in canon, Alfred Pennyworth is dead 🥰.

[oysters-aint-for-me]

EWWWW. I JUST FOUND ANOTHER IN THE TUB

last week i pulled a tick off my cat and my dad had a deer tick bite (that’s the kind that causes lyme disease). yesterday my dad found a tick, i got bitten by another tick, and now my dad has another tick stuck on him. wtf!!! i’ve lived in massachusetts most of my life, tick season has never been this bad before! if you’re in a ticky area, be careful out there and check yourself for ticks, even if you don’t go outside much (like me), even if you wear long pants and long sleeves (like me)!

[a-sad-mage]

Sometimes, I think about how Betrayus is the literal definition of:

"The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth "

Granted, all we know of his backstory before the Pac-World War is what Betrayus himself says, and that can be considered unreliable as Betrayus, as a villain, can be an unreliable narrator.

But as far as I remember, when the past is brought up in the presence of his brother Stratos and Mom, neither of them seem to deny how he was treated growing up.

(Correct me if I'm wrong)

Heck, the Easter Egg Island episode, the Easter Peep goes as far as to kidnappe all the Ghosts as revenge for a prank Betrayus pulled as a kid one year because he couldn't get a single egg the year before-

(And let's be real for a moment. If Stratos was a good brother, he could have shared at least one(1) egg with Betrayus)

Sure, she waited till when he was an adult, but he was an adult long before the war and being stripped of his body.

He gets coal every Pac-mas(Christmas)

If that statement is taken literally, does that mean he's been getting it since he was a baby? Because if so, that's kinda messed up, and if not, and just when he was a kid, that's still messed up because Skeebo doesn't get coal, and he's a jerk to the Team, and Inky, Pinky and Blinky still get gifts even though they still cause trouble every now and then, Santa-Pac admits as much.

Betrayus became the villain because everyone, even his own family, made him out to be one.

No one really respected or cared for him, even now that he rules the Nether World. It's clear the Ghosts just follow what he says because the majority are scared of him.

And in an ironic twist of fate, I think that's what his Ghost Power represents.

Betrayus is a fire ghost, and as we see with a munch of Ghosts, not all of them get other abilities. Some train to improve the existing ghost abilities like possession so it lasts longer.

Because of this, ghost powers/elemental ghosts can be seen as individuals with high levels of resentment/trauma. As in the real world, we have adopted that there are different kind of Ghosts all over the world, and the way the form in the afterlife and what they are able to do is influenced on how they where treated and lived.

Betrayus quite literally burned every bridge while living, especially when the first Pac-World War happened.

He was going to take over Pac-World, become its leader and be 'appreciated' and 'acknowledge' for once in his life, to be remembered as something other than the screw up of the family.

He wanted to feel the warmth of being someone worth something, and when all previous attempts failed, when his cries for attention, acknowledgment, and help were ignored as him being a troublemaker, he decided if no one would willingly give him that warmth he craved, he would take it by force any means necessary.

So when he was stripped of his body with the Repository, his desire to feel warmth was granted by giving him fire powers as a ghost and being sent to live and subsequently rule the Nether Realm.

He has warmth, but not the kind he hoped for.

Am I saying Betrayus is justified, completely 100% off the hook for everything he's done?

No, absolutely not, but understanding all the 'little' things, helps one understand a villain and their motivation to why they turned out the way they did.

Im not denying that pure evil doesn't exist. It does, and those individuals are beyond reason.

But in a case like Betrayus?

I can't help but feel like he was unjustly turned into someone he didn't want to be.

The ghost has talents. He used to be a pattle ball pro, while we don't see much of Fluffy anymore, we know he loves his three-headed doggy and dose actually care about the other ghosts he rules over to some extent.

So, in short, Betrayus was just some guy that was delt a shit hand at life and has a slightly better one in the afterlife.

He's not totally justified in what he does, but it's understandable, to an extent.

Betrayus was and still is one of my favorite villains of all time, simply because we, as the audience, can collectively laugh at and sympathize with him.

He's not a good individual, but he's not 100% evil either.

He's just Betrayus

[nerdrooikat]

drabbles about the deer imagery in The Secret History (specifically in relation 2 Camilla) because her becoming a deer/believing that she did stuck in my mind (although this post will mostly take Camilla and the other's recollection of events to be as they recount it – if i examine it in it's effect as an incorrect account, that would be in a separate post)

Obviously there's, on a meta level, an irony to it – Camilla and Charles are named to make fun of the Princess Diana scandal that was happening at the time, and so ironically Camilla transforms into an animal sacred to Diana.

There's also a parallel that I think could be interesting to make between Camilla and Taygete, who for anyone unfamiliar, was turned into a deer by Artemis to protect her from Zeus' sexual advances. Although I think that what happened in the Bacchae was concensual sexually, I think it could possible be indicative in Camilla's narrative role as the "wanted"/"desired" one within the greek class – by Charles, Henry, Richard (although he wasnt there) and even Francis, although he wants to be her more so than actually wanting her.

Additionally, outside of how it actually functions within the story, her transformation into a creature associated so closely with innocence, especially in relation to Diana/Artemis' virginity, might perhaps be tied to Richards view of her as this "pure" and "virginal" person – obviously we know this is far from the truth, and he himself learns this later, but I think it definitely ties into this flawed angelic idea of her he so covets.

I think this interpretation ties into the myth of Actaeon (in terms of "deer transformation myths") although its very interesting to me that they different at key points – Camilla, the "virginual" character, is the one transformed, rather than the sexual transgressor (Charles) or the one who introduces miasma (Henry). But, like Actaeon, she is pursued and hunted – which, another key point – Actaeon is pursued and killed by his own hunting dogs, and Charles returns from the ritual with a bite mark, perhaps tying him into the myth thurther?

[sleepyhouse2art]

when i see cute little reminders on social media to "take your meds" i feel so hateful. the commodification of mental illness and its growing popularity as a sort of astrological shorthand for an actual personality by mostly healthy people is mad depressing and annoying

dont tell me to take my meds, you creepy weird motherfuckers! the only people allowed to say that shit to me are my doctor & my husband & my friends. do you think i want to be treated like a baby because i have mental illness? why do YOU seem to want to be treated like a baby? youre on paxil sharon

like my mental illness makes people watch me and check on me and not trust my perception of reality or my memory of things. sometimes i do get straight up treated like a kid by people. if i remember an event differently, i am always wrong. its really frustrating

so no, i don't find it very nice when people infantalize me and i don't like watching people needlessly infantalize themselves. it is mad creepy. it feels like observing a diaper fetishist or something. the whole thing gives me the heebie jeebies

i wonder if it is life being so hard and mean that motivates people to adopt the "sick role"? i understand wanting care but i genuinely think people are hamstringing themselves by pathologizing normal feelings and behaviors because it's making them think they're sick when they really aren't that sick. often people aren't even sick at all and instead just going through the human experience, which is fraught and difficult all on its own without any augmentation by a brain on the fritz, no mental illness needed.

nobody should want to be a patient. its nothing to aspire to. there's no joy in it. it is uncomfortable and the medicine is not safe. i have to take it but it's not like i want to and i feel sour when somebody reminds me. please don't remind me of my shit when it already dominates like my whole life

no, sharon, i do not need a bedazzled pill basket. no, sharon, i do not want "peer support", you are creepy. i hate to inform you that you are not a tubercular 18th beauty languishing in a gorgeous sickbed. you are in a fandom that prizes sickness and this is shameful to me.

your sickness makes you binge watch tv and eat bonbons and passively ideate about scratching your thigh up with a pin. i know pain is relative but like, i used to store my own blood in ziploc bags to protect my home and every painting in my house has told me to kill myself. i have not left my house in over a year. i am on three antipsychotics right now and i am still having frequent hallucinations and they scare me so bad i can't help but react sometimes and that scares my husband and makes him want me to go somewhere just like everybody else wants me to. im trying to stay OUT of the fucking hospital, not WANTING TO GO. im terrified of being raped and killed and i know it will happen to me next time i go. everyone says no, but they don't have my knowledge.

what im saying is this stuff fucks my life up. i cannot live normally. i cant even really take care of myself on my own if im telling the truth. i know im sick. i get reminded all the time. i don't need validation. i wouldn't touch a psych or a therapist or a pharmacy with a fucking ten foot pole if i had the choice. i know im kind of going off rn but who the fuck would want to be a consumer of this boring, tedious, control-abdicating, bad for your body bullshit? i do not understand people like this. i want to be free. be free, sharon!! and stop telling me to take my fucking meds!!!!

[spouseoftherisingsun]

What if i told you there's a world where hair parts are a myth. Take my hand

[pynkhues]

When black people tell you that some of your talking points are racist, you should probably sit up and listen rather than slinging accusations of terfism back at them. Just a suggestion.

I mean, I have been listening, anon, and I've actually been reading pretty widely, and as I said yesterday in this post, which I assume is the one you're replying to, my talking points aren't being addressed at all. What's happening is that strawman arguments are being created for people to demonstrate my apparent racism which are built on things that I never said and would never argue, because it's easier to do that than actually engage with the nuances of what masculinity is and has been.

One of the ways that I've been listening was in regards actually to that post I was linked to yesterday which talked about the fact that Louis doesn't embody Black masculinity in 1910, which was genuinely an argument I was really curious to know more about, but because it was a stated point and no argument was actually mounted, I did / am doing my own research - I read Michele Mitchell's The Black Man's Burden: African Americans, Imperialism, and Notions of Racial Manhood 1890-1910 last night and I've read parts of Alexa Dagan's These Hard Times Gon' Kill You: Black masculinity, racial and intimate violence, and the blues in the Mississippi Delta, 1918-1945 with the intention of reading it in full over the next few weeks - and those have provided really useful context, so I'm very glad to have read the former and be reading the latter, but they don't support the argument that Louis doesn't mark traditional Black masculinity for the era. In fact they argue the opposite - particularly the first one that specifically goes into Black men being emasculated by white supremacy and the impact that had on Black masculinity, and the effect of class mobility being Black men would distance themselves from lower class Black men when they attained wealth, both things which I think are really present in Jacob's astonishing performance.

I've also previously read Jesmyn Ward's The Men We Reaped, Maxine Beneba Clarke's The Hate Race, and Clint Smith's excellent poetry collection, Counting Descent, among many others, which all explore topics of contemporary Black masculinity (although are broader explorations of Black history, life and identity), and yeah, obviously I don't have lived experience - I'm open about being white and Australian - but y'know. I'm not completely ignorant, and I am listening to voices. A lot of them actually. I just don't agree with you, and I'm not sure why that offends you so much that you've come into my inbox a couple of times now to say words to this effect (calling me a racist before saying 'just saying' / 'just a suggestion' is kind of a tell, anon), but I would say that when you send me asks like this that you're being disingenuous. I don't think you're asking me to listen, I think you're telling me to shut up, which really goes back to that point about this whole thing being an exercise in control, not conversation, which I made in that last post.

I'd also just pose a question to you too, if that's alright. Why is this request for self-reflection never one that goes both ways? I am interrogating my internal biases, are you? Do you ask yourself the question of why TERF rhetoric is really, really pervasive in these talking points? Do you think about why it is you try to apply heteronormative gender essentialism to a queer character / couple? Do you ask yourself why it's so important to you that this character be 'female-coded'? I can appreciate the challenge of that - trust me, working internally in this sort of way is a lot, I know how hard it can be to unpack this sort of thing, and I really do mean that genuinely, so I hope that you take it that way - and look, it can be really hard to know where to start, so here are a few resources, just in case you do want to explore this and maybe start tackling your own biases, because it's not enough to put TERFs DNI in your bio, and it's not enough to only be listening to the terminally online on tumblr.com (I say as someone who's often on here, haha):

Archer Magazine is a great magazine that explores gender and sexuality, with a really big focus on trans and non-binary identity and queer sexuality. There's a physical magazine, but they post a lot online for free. Here's the gender tag, if you want to have a look. I'd really recommend signing up for their e-news though.

TeenVogue's On Queer Fandom and the Radicalization of the Underdog

Who's Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler

The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson is a really interesting read on her romantic relationship with the trans artist, Harry Dodge, and merges memoir and philosophy. It talks also about gender and parenthood in ways that might be interesting in regards to these particular conversations.

Of course, the documentary Paris is Burning, which is available to watch free on YouTube here.

I also haven't read this one yet, but a few friends have recently recommended Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender by Oyeronke Oyewumi that sounds genuinely pretty fascinating.

So, yes! Anyway. Not really sure how to close this one out, but again, just to reiterate, I've got no issue with you enjoying femme!Louis. Good for you, have fun, we interpret the character and the show differently. That's okay, anon, there are lots of people who like your interpretation more than mine, and I hope you guys have a great time with that in the hiatus and over the next season, but I'm gonna keep doing my thing over here.

[iam-zim49]

I’m leaving Mimi with you.

She’s been annoying me for days.

Hope you suffer.

@tak-the-invader

Why

WHY

WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS

ZIM THOUGHT MIMI WAS CALM WHAT HAPPENED