#it's fucked up

[armandauntie]

So glad everyone is jumping on the endeavour hate. Bnha is literally like what if cops were also influencers and the people they abused were ontologically evil also we made one of them a gnc trans woman and the rest are mentally ill. Billions of copies sold.

fucking EXACTLY like they set up a situation that actually had potential for some serious commentary on how institutions and celebrity can enable people to act like absolute pieces of shit and still get fame and praise and marginalized people are forced out of 'acceptable society' and into roles seen as blanket evil (but also look they're still people with friends and dreams) but then they fucking smashed it to bits and reinforced the actual in-universe status quo like HOW DO YOU EVEN DO THAT POORLY I'M STILL SO MAD ABOUT THIS THE FUCK

it also makes a lot of sense that all these objectively correct takes are coming from iwtv fans like if we aren't the ultimate mentally ill villain stans who is

[sillygoofyqueer]

Bored, so part two of the Proper Cryptid AU™

The Burial Mounds whispers to Wei Wuxian. It learns that screaming and shouting just angers him - and that didn't bother It at first, until he begins learning how to use the resentful energy twisting through his body without having to ask the Burial Mounds. That makes him dangerous, but it's too late to pull away from the mortal turned...whatever he has become. So, It tries to appease him, keep him happy and content so that he doesn't notice how the power has shifted. It whispers instead of screams, asks instead of demands, suggests instead of simply taking control and puppeteering the dead body with a cracked soul. He won't notice how powerful he could be even without Its help. (He notices.) It whispers of revenge, and only revenge, at first. At first It floods his brain with the knowledge necessary to find and hunt his killer down. Even if that is simple things such as reading and writing, fighting, cultivating (a twisted, dirty version of it), anything to remove any and all obstacles in his path and then take the revenge that his blood (sluggish, coagulated blood) sings for when he remembers the unbothered face of his killer. Or would-be killer. He argues with himself about it, at first - is he dead? He was alive when he invited the Burial Mounds in, on the verge of death but still alive, but had he died in those few moments between him and it? Soon, it doesn't matter to him, because he knows that he isn't human anymore. He just wants to take his revenge, and soothe the spirits that cry at night, wishing and begging for freedom. (If setting them free means using them, then he will fashion a flute and use them.) As he hones himself to become a perfect weapon, an extension of the Burial Mounds and Its master all in one, the whispers of revenge turn to whispers of warning. The golden-clad man from the day of Wei Wuxian's death rebirth wishes to copy the ritual, the curse, after seeing how powerful the other man is becoming. (Who cares if it could be coincidental? Power is power.) Wei Wuxian wishes to help, but the Burial Mounds won't tell him anything more. He is not at the stage where he scares the information out of It instead, so he continues to learn, keeping an eye on the boundaries of the Burial Mounds that he made much clearer, more formal, when he learned how to. He learns, he frees, and he waits. When a child runs to the boundaries, screaming and crying and bleeding, with golden clad men in pursuit, Wei Wuxian shoves down the urge to make them feel how he this child feels ('too soon,' It whispers to him, 'too soon to reveal yourself.'). Instead, he reaches out and snatches the sobbing child into his arms, across the boundaries, and presses them close to his chest. The Burial Mounds screams in delight at the new sacrifice, the fresh blood being spilled, another weapon, a weaker-willed one this time- Wei Wuxian does not let It have the child. He carves a place in the Burial Mounds that is fit for a child, for a normal human, and he makes It bend to his will for the first time. (This time will not be the last.)

[iwasbored777]

You know when that random guy sexually assaulted Barbie by slapping her behind and she punched him in the face for that and SHE was the one who got arrested? Yeah.

[mswyrr]

I've got 4k words of the new chapter of my snowbaird "fix-it" canon divergence fic, "cri de coeur," done so far! It's going to be another long chapter, though, so it's about half complete lol

I love that I can openly admit it's a "fix-it" story with a happy ending now - i legit got mocked and even screamed at by someone for even my carefully stated "hopeful ending" promise a year ago ����‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

But with sotr now it's like - if love can endure like that even in the darkest timeline, more hopeful timelines are entirely possible.

[pseudowho]

I've seen a slew of mean posts this week that are very "neurotypical/NTs are all xxxxx", and I can't say they're particularly pleasant. Some are downright nasty.

While I'm not looking to dismiss the lived experience of many neurodivergent people, any generalisation post about a group of people as large as 'the neurodivergent' or 'the neurotypical' perpetuates the attitude that it's okay to stereotype a group of people for having historically made you feel unhappy.

Discussion is not the same as belittling or insulting.

For example, I would never make a disparaging or nasty post about people of a certain ethnicity, or people of a certain upbringing, or people of a certain psychological differentiation to myself.

A continued "Us VS Them" attitude and generalisation of a frankly enormous and varied group of people, makes it sound like it's okay to generalise people like this. And it's not the solution. Education and genuine discussion with an intent to learn, are the solutions.

[oh-no-bummer]

It kind of sucks that so many things force us to like compress our humanity. You can have the worst breakdown of your life and doubt your existence and also there's an 8a.m deadline so you gotta pack it up.

[taffy-glitch]

people who say "oh you're aroace? must be nice not having to deal with all that nonsense (sex and romance)" are so misinformed honestly like human relationships are complicated regardless of whether they are romantic, sexual, platonic, familial, etc. like when i get a platonic crush on someone and start giggling and twirling my hair and kicking my feet when they give me positive attention do you think it's any less embarrassing just because my feelings are not romantic in nature??? grow up.

[shinondraws]

man i just read an article about how architecture as a field seems to be on its way to become a "women's field" and i'm fuming no one can exactly say what is driving women to study architecture so much more than men. It used to be pretty much 50-50 for a long time and now it has tipped over to 70-30 im maybe guessing that it's not that more women are applying but less men are that would be a logical explanation and personally i think that it is mostly rooted in money there is a quote from decades ago from some man who was afraid that the salaries in the field would plummet because more women are entering architecture and lo and behold, architecture IS the lowest paying technical field job at the moment, in finland at least and fewer women are running companies or are even in leadership roles women are STILL facing sexism in the field, getting called "girls" and they are sometimes given a lower starting salary (happened in my first office job) and "tasks appropriate to women" also 100 years ago or so it was thought that architecture and chemistry were pretty much the only suitable more technical careers for women because "architecture is just drawing in a tidy office environment and chemistry is just cooking with bigger pots in a bigger kitchen" so im like it's a self fulfilling prophecy are architects really getting paid less because women a) still don't have the guts to ask for a raise and b) the value of an architects job is being reduced to "easy drawing in a tidy office that even *gasp* women can do" im just fgkjgdfhkdfjhdfkhkdfhkdhgkdfgf

[dreamforrest]

It’s not just the break up, that came out of nowhere. It’s the years of character development seemly ignored and Tommy just dropping him like that. Buck not fighting for him and Tommy. Tommy calling him Buck.

[thursdaygrl]

got sidetracked from writing cause i remembered i'm mad these dont exist?? so i'm making them....

[flooding-your-timeline]

if you go to a place where dead people are resting and decide to film it for a video I don't know what to tell you

would you do that in a graveyard??

[hisnhers]

i think my apartment is cursed

[idk-why-am-i-her3]

Vent

Ok, actually I'm tired of injustice and unfair that I look, At the end of the day I don't understand...

I can follow a little the idea of ​​where it "came", everything, but it's tiring and doesn't justify anything...

The xenophobia and racism that Checo experience is absurd, it would literally be considered illegal in more than one country (Idk which one exactly, but I know there will be a country that dictates this), It's just tiring...

Not only from fans, but from accounts specialized in "informing", "experts" and even from "F1" itself. That's what tires me the most because... Seriously, there are people who justify this??? I would really say, if you think Checo can't living this or deny this, Don't really talk to me and save your discriminatory comment somewhere else, srs.

It really gets to the point where I say... Please, really no hate, I hope that damn F1 realices That his game literally sucks... Really...

I would say (from my POV), that Checo's hatred has reached a point where it is unfortunate to see and people who are not even fans raise their voices for injustice, bc I see that...

I'm really just waiting for the very bomb that F1 formed/created to "explode" and for him to receive the consequences of his actions.

""It's asking a lot" I don't give a damn, I'm a Checo fan, I think you know I'm not going to give up on this...

[raynbow-shimmer]

Listen to me, as someone who used to work in health insurance billing and customer service, I have seen some fucked up things. My best paid claim from insurance was over a million dollars billed. You know how much worker's compensation insurance paid? 700k. The rest of 300k+ was a write off. I don't want to think about what would have happened if my patient didn't get hurt on the job. I wish they hadn't gotten injured given what happened to them, but it is what it is sadly. If that patient would have had a copay and coinsurance, I am sure the bill would have been outrageous. That's fucked up. I don't want to think about what would happen if the ACA is walked back. Lifetime maximums? Go fuck yourself.

I also worked for a company that made custom prosthetics for children. I actively watched them hike their prices so that they could get more out of parents/renegotiate prices with insurance. The prosthetics weren't always covered by the insurance either. Texas Medicaid? You better have a generous relative because the prosthetic was not covered under any circumstance. That would leave parents with a bill of 1600 to 3400 depending on the state to get a prosthetic that their child really might need. Fucked up.

Don't get me started on supplemental insurance either. Worked there too doing customer service. I got really good at looking at the billing codes to see what was covered and what wasn't. Observation for 23 hours and 59 minutes in the ER? Too bad, you need 24 hours to get paid out. And cancers and heart attacks, oh my god. Carcinoma in SITU? Welp, it's not classified as malignant yet, so no cancer payout for you. Minor heart attack? It has to be a major heart attack for that to be covered. Someone died in a car wreck with a BAC over like 0.08? Sorry, you're not getting that life insurance payout. It's fucked up. Soul sucking work.

I get why someone would have done something about it. (Luigi is still innocent until proven guilty, so I am not blaming him at this time.) For profit healthcare is a scam. It's not just the insurances, it's the for profit healthcare systems too, including hospital systems, pharmaceutical companies owned by the insraunces, and the medical equipment supply companies. It's the for profit hospitals who bill an elastic bandage at 35 dollars (!!! Just looked this up on my local for profit hospital system's chargemaster, jesus christ!) so they can get the tiniest bit of a higher payout than what it is worth from people who lack insurance. It's the drug companies owned by the insurances who hike up prices. It's the durable medical equipment companies who think they can get away with charging outrageous prices for any sort of assistance device. It's not the independent doctors who are trying to run an office (usually). It's not the nurses who are just trying to do the best they can while being underpaid and overworked so that the for profit system can do it's job for the shareholders. And it certainly is not the poor customer service agent you are screaming at over the phone. Policies are policies, which means that the customer service agent's hands are basically tied. All the red tape. It's insane. It's the bloated for profit healthcare system that is to blame for our problems.

Elizabeth Warren and other Senators have currently proposed a bill that would break up healthcare conglomerates and force them to sell off their stakes in pharmaceuticals. This would possibly be a game changer. Health insurances would have to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies to get the best prices on drugs. Because we know they don't want to pay. It wouldn't benefit them to recommend a higher cost drug anymore. That money wouldn't be going in their pockets. I highly suggest you look at the information behind the bill as it develops. I have also read there is a similar bill that was just proposed by the House too.

Please, contact your representatives. Tell them about the Senate's Patients Before Monopolies Act. Get impassioned and tell them what it would do for you. You voted for them, tell them what you want. These are your representatives. And if they don't care, try your hardest to fire them next go around. Healthcare is of the utmost importance to the people. It's literally a life or death situation at times. More people should care because it affects everyone. The time is now, it's time to push for a better future.

P.S. Please don't yell at the customer service workers. It's not their fault. It's a shitty job with shitty moments. I've cried with people because something wasn't covered before. The for profit healthcare industry is fucked up.

[poetess-trobadour]

I want a taste of older times,

To bathe in remnants of its ease,

Where in the high grass there I lie,

Lulled in by crickets and cool breeze,

Where kitten sleeps in my long sleeve,

Where calf nibbles gently at my hand,

Where I am kin to flock of geese,

There, where in quarry I, young, stand,

As swallows nest in slopes of chalk,

Skies are azure and ever vast,

Where village is alive with buzz and jokes,

Where future hasn't come to pass.

I want a glimpse of simpler times,

To breathe in lungfulls of its expanse,

Where I lean onto the trunk of ancient pine,

Caught up in butterflies' dance,

Where clovers grace my flower crown,

Where Nana shares her lore on celandine,

Where I am ace of mushroom hunts,

There, where I crown me queen of life

That spreads as far as glade would last,

Alight with tender piercing sunrays,

Where dozing city renders stark contrast,

Where yet ahead lie countless days.

I want a hold of better times,

To build in roots of it to weather,

Where best of prime lives outside my rhymes,

For you and I delivered it, together.

Times, August 2024