#it is not true
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I wanna say something and all I ask is that you read the whole thing before burning me at the stake.
There are always horrible things happening. There are always ppl who are suffering and dying. There are always corrupt politicians. There are always human rights violations. There are always tragedies. There is always misinformation and exploitation. War is always looming on the horizon or busting in the back gate. The world is always fucked up.
That fact does not mean that the lives affected matter any less than our own. It does not mean that we don't do what we can to help. It does mean that we cannot afford to put our lives on hold while a horrible thing consumes us.
I'm sure that, if your parent/sibling/partner/best friend had a medical emergency, you would gladly do whatever you needed to do to be there. I'm sure that you would sacrifice sleep, skip meals, call in to work, and be by their side until they were stable. You can afford to do that when those emergencies are infrequent and relatively brief.
You cannot do that with the world's emergencies. They are not infrequent. They are not relatively brief. You have to sleep, eat and shower. You have to pay your bills. You have to survive.
Daily life goes on.
It feels unjust. Of course it does. How can you possibly go about the mundane like nothing's going on? You Don't. You go about the mundane like there are horrible things happening. You make the adjustments you can sustain without sacrificing your well-being. You make drastic changes for as long as you can, when you simply can't take it anymore, and then you step back, take a breath, and go grocery shopping. You have to. If you don't, you won't survive the horrible thing.
No one who is going thru a horrible thing wants you to self-destruct. There's so much good you can do over the course of your life if you maintain that life. Adding your name to the list of casualties will prevent all of that good from happening. You have to survive.
And that includes the things that seem optional, bc those things aren't actually optional at all. You need to laugh. You need to watch movies and love your pets and go for walks. You need food that tastes good and clothes that make you feel confident. You need that show you'll regret not seeing. You need to get takeout and take naps. You need to have the weight lifted frequently, so you can heal the parts of you that get worn.
If you aren't living as well as you can, while making adjustments you can afford to make, you will not survive.
Please survive.
#zesty take#i guess?#idk i just feel so sad#theres so much guilt going around#so much judgement of ppl for continuing to live#the horrible things are constant and overlapping#if we waited until they were over we would starve in every way#survival btw isnt just breathing its living as well as you can#if you only chuck gas in your car when you abdolutely have to and put off the maintenance and cobble it together when it needs a real fix#it may still turn over but it will not be able to function well#pls do not buy into the bullshit that gas is enough and if you do any more youre selfish or evil or whatever#it is not true
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A friendly reminder that Zuko lost to Katara only once, and that was at the North Pole, when he got tired of long fights, dragged Aang on himself in a snowstorm and swam across the ice caves under the palace. Well, people, not only the loss of Azula can be justified. Oh gods, Zuko is such an idiot, he fought with the water bending master at the North Pole, at night, in the spiritual place of water magic. And he won. It traumatizes the hell out of me. What a pity that Zuko is not so weak. In Ba Sing Se, Katara almost took Azula, not Zuko. They were on equal terms. If someone uses false facts to underestimate Zuko again, I will eat that person. You all really should stop talking about him as a terrible weakling.
#book 1 water#atla#atla zuko#katara#Zuko is not an awkward turtleduck#I don't usually get involved in arguments like this but that the fuck#I don't give a fuck that Zuko isn't the strongest#Stop making him weak#It is not true#Hot takes?#pro zuko#where all zuko stans?#oh sorry not blind people#I'm really sick of it
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name dropping my friends one at a time like "my friend [name]" so my parents know i am happy, healthy, normal, and socially thriving
#text#it is not true#but i will let them think it is#Well i mean i do have friends who i love hbut i would not describe myself as happy healthy normal and socially thriving
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JAMIE DRYSDALE IS NOT INJURED
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At the company retreat, one extremely drunk girl asked what my pronouns were. (Eventually, it took her a while to word the question.) After the whole conversation was done, she goes- "YEAHHH GURL, Get on with--with THY bad self! See what I did?? They/them/thy."
I was almost holding back tears from trying not to laugh as I told her yes that's great you nailed it honey. Thank you very much I am feeling the love.
Anyway I've been assigned Thee/Thine at Supportive Drunk Girl
#she was the epitome of ''he a little confused but he got the spirit''#everyone at this company retreat was drunk as a skunk#it was wild#all of them were very sweet don't get me wrong#but as someone who never went to college parties this was my first Experience with a true party
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I hate it when people ask me what genre of music i listen to because i genuinely have no clue. It's called Music I Like genre. The best genre out there
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I love it when people use "shrimp" to mean "beyond the human range". like "shrimp colors" but applied to other things. "shrimp emotions" "shrimp sounds" "shrimp morality", as if shrimp are living some kind of transcendent existence that humans can never comprehend
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#willabee#stealing this caption from hyojin onf#it's true though willabee is very gentle and kind she never uses violence
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speculative fiction writers i am going to give you a really urgent piece of advice: don't say numbers. don't give your readers any numbers. how heavy is the sword? lots. how old is that city? plenty. how big is the fort? massive. how fast is the spaceship? not very, it's secondhand.
the minute you say a number your readers can check your math and you cannot do math better than your most autistic critic. i guarantee. don't let your readers do any math. when did something happen? awhile ago. how many bullets can that gun fire? trick question, it shoots lasers, and it shoots em HARD.
you are lying to people for fun. if you let them do math at you the lie collapses and it's no fun anymore.
#there are things that are true mathematically#and things that are true because the guy writing the book says so#you do not want to mix up these truths
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"You Missed the Point by Idolizing Them" Starter Pack
#filmedit#filmgifs#memes#moviegifs#dailyflicks#chewieblog#bblecher#fight club#userrobin#usergal#nessa007#userbrittany#userlera#useraurore#american psycho#dune#breaking bad#taxi driver#a clockwork orange#scarface#joker#true detective#new jack city#training day#the boys#paddington#gifs#movie#tv#kane52630
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It didn’t hit me until recently that people genuinely think Kamala Harris was a police officer because of all the people who call her a cop online.
Like I think maybe it’s important people should know she was a prosecutor. She was once a district attorney and later an attorney general for the state of California. And we can discuss how related that is to police work and how tied she is to the carceral system etc etc (but for fairness would have to include her record of pushing for lowering incarceration rates through programs helping former prisoners + her office refusing to jail folks for low level weed offense). But she was never a police officer. Like people should get that clear. Kamala Harris was never a police officer. She was a district attorney. She was never a police officer.
#Kamala Harris#us politics#like genuinely seeing people say she was an actual cop#that was never true#and it’s kind of embarrassing#like please her wiki page is right there
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Me, after forgetting to cut the top off an onion before dicing it: “Aw dammit”
The Gordon Ramsey that lives in my head: “Don’t worry there, this mistake isn’t going to ruin anything. No need to be too hard on yourself”
Me: “Wow, that’s…not what I was expecting”
Gordon: “Of course, you ought to know by now that I don’t shout at cooks just to do so. I do it because the people in hit television show Kitchen Nightmares are putting their services out into the public and claim to be good enough to have the title of head chef. You’re just some guy in your twenties making beef stroganoff for yourself and your roommate. I’m kind of a dick, yeah, but I’m not gonna scream at you for a minor mistake like this”
Me: “Oh….well…thanks”
Gordon: “You’re welcome…cunt…”
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#god i hope this is true#imane khelif#olympics#fuck jk rowling#twitter#tweets#tweet#meme#memes#funny#lol#humor
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#it's true but you shouldn't say it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯#gravity falls#stanley pines#stanford pines#the book of bill
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Amaury "Chocolate Guy" Guichon is undoubtedly an extremely skilled sculptor in chocolate but I think my favorite thing about a lot of his videos is the effort he puts into putting actual dessert food under the sculpture work
So many of his desserts & pastries have at least 5 layers of different textures & flavors. Fruit jams, caramel, cake, creams, mousse, cookies, meringue, crumb layers etc
That's what makes his work truly impressive to me, especially as someone who quickly got tired of the "knife that turns everything into cake" thing, where it was all basic chocolate cake buried under 13 layers of fondant
It takes amaury's work from an impressive stunt to "if I ate that, it would probably be the best thing I'd eat in my whole life"
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