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when my family first moved to Texas they splurged on a house with a backyard pool (admittedly every house in the neighborhood was bougie as fuck -- my parents were interested in the school district more than anything else, and being a good school, housing in the area was expensive). the first year we lived there we all had a good time in the backyard pool, even my mom who couldn't swim enjoyed hanging out in the shallow end.
we bought the house around 2006-07, the housing crash happened in 08. mom lost her job. dad had to work longer hours and the company dumped shitty work on him. as my parents and myself got busier, we stopped using the pool. i went to middle school and my flippant "I don't need to study and can still pass the tests" attitude, which worked in elementary school, stopped working, and I wouldn't be diagnosed with ADHD until 15 years later. dad was working twelve hour days, six days a week. mom still couldn't swim.
to keep costs down dad fired the mowers and the poolboy service (we didn't contract them, they served the previous residents and when we moved in they were like "should we keep coming" and my dad said "sure why not"). taking care of the pool consisted of skimming the leaves and big debris off the top, running the pool vac for dust, checking the pump, taking leaves out of the basket filter, refilling the water, refilling the chlorine, refilling the other pool chemicals that kept the chlorine stable, and occasionally powerwashing the main filter.
some fun facts about pool chemistry: you can either use saltwater or chlorinated water to keep algae out of the water. keeping algae out is important cause dead algae clog up the pumps and shit (and are also toxic, depending on the algae), and also you don't want a live ecosystem in your pool cause bacteria and stuff. i'm not familiar with saltwater pool chemistry; we did chlorine. now raw chlorine under the hot sun (well UV light specifically) breaks down pretty fast, so you want to bind it to something so it doesn't break down as fast, but binding the chlorine also makes it unavailable for breaking down bacteria, so it's a balancing act between keeping chlorine available and keeping chlorine durable. you have to manage the pH, partially for chlorine stability and partially just because swimming around in something acidic is bad for the health. theres actually some pretty fun chemistry that goes into this, but basically if shit looks wrong (or just every season) you take out your pH strips and sample tubes and check chlorine levels, pH, etc.
this was, as you'd imagine, a non-trivial amount of work, and my dad spent his precious time off work tending to this pool no one used: an hour or sometimes two, sliding the pool vac around the plaster floor, skimming the leaves, as the shadows grew longer and the sun slid lower. i would watch him out the window from the living room, where my computer was, glancing over my shoulder now and then to make sure my mom wasn't watching me procrastinate. sunset was behind the fence, so i couldn't see the sun dip below the horizon. but i could see it getting darker.
the previous residents kept a garden in the backyard, full of flowers i couldn't name but still vaguely remember: these big two-three foot tall things that bloomed red and orange, and some flowering vines crawling up arch-shaped trellises. none of us had a green thumb; the tall flowers died on their own. the vines persisted, though without bloom, until one day my dad decided they were a nuisance and cut them all down. so the flowerbeds were all empty dirt and the trellises laid bare, slowly rusting.
worst part is that you can't even get rid of it. well, we couldn't get rid of ours, specifically. you'd think "why not just drain the pool", but you can't, is the thing. it's embedded in the ground, it's not one of those aboveground ones. it had a curved bottom and plaster casing and, apparently, was only designed to work under water pressure. draining the pool meant the pressure would be too low, and the plaster would crack. (you'd think "okay why not just put a tarp over the filled pool" and, uh, i don't know honestly? my first guess: it's not a rectangular pool, it's got this weird eggplant shape with a circular jacuzzi raised and to the side, and laying tarp over that would be difficult. second: texas gets deep freezes sometimes and still water would freeze and crack the plaster. suffice it to say, at any rate, that we neither drained nor tarped over the pool, and thus had to take care of it.) of course, removing the pool entirely would be nontrivially expensive, cause you'd have to dig the whole damn thing up, disconnect the water lines, the power too (for the pumps, the lights, etc).
i moved out a few years ago. my dad used to say that when i moved out, he'd sell the house and move to a smaller apartment. but he kept the house, and the pool, and is trying to run the whole property by himself, under the stubborn belief that if he prays hard enough i'll come back to him, and he wants to keep the house ready for my return. i don't plan on doing so.
so, unused backyard pools as a symbol of upper-middle-class wastefulness, conformity, and posturing ... i can believe that.
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i was going to post just a screenshot of the title as a joke but i kept reading and now i’m completely floored by this theory
#dw about me im ok#i went to therapy for a few years so its not like these are fresh wounds or anything#if anything im worried about oversharing lol#like that one mcdonalds drivethru meme#i mean i AM overhharsing. but im like pseudanonymous here so who cares#uhhhhhh#creative writing exercise i guess?#also infodumping about pools i guess#uhh#man fuck it whatever. send it#listen one of you is gonna be like “i saw this and i wanted to send you a hug”#i can probably guess which specific one of you#i appreciate it but im okay
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Happy Val Day theyre in love with each other i like when the tall scary one throws the tv around 😍🥰😍🥰😍✨📺🦋✨
#kiss the tv moth man#vox being a good dancer sends me into orbit i love when hes good at something#you cant tell me that valentines day osnt vals birthday#old man yaoi or whatever#voxval#staticmoth#i fell for the fucking tv#hazbin art#hazbin hotel#hazbin hotel fanart#hazbin valentino#hazbin vox#vox#valentino#the vees#my art
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"You must know: I love you, Rook. Ar lath ma, ma'sule. Ar las'a."
Elven Translation: "I love you, my soul. I give you myself."
The translation is rough/partial because much of the available lexicon from the wiki doesn't have all the smaller, prefix/suffix Elven words' translations available, and I do not agree with use of the other popular reference material (iykyk)! My barbies, my say so!
This will not be the last DreadRook Cameo I commission, so best believe there will be more coming your way in the next few weeks!
Also: GDL is a DreadRook shipper confirmed! (Yes, he did say this unprompted and yes, my cameo was longer than these two small clips. But that is for me and the DreadRook server to freak out about :>)
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#yes i did pay $55 for 14 words#what about it#i am a grown up with grown up money#i can do whatever i want and i say SOLAS LOVE CONFESSION#best believe i am sending a SCRIPT NOW#i only sent something so short this time around because we were not positive if he was allowed to do romantic DreadRook content#BUT NOW THAT IT'S CONFIRMED HE WILL?#gods yall better watch out fr#going to make GDL a RICH man#he said my NAME and blew me a KISS#is this what a parasocial relationship feels like#is this why people do cameos all the time??? fucking hell#<-find it necessary to add those are JOKES i do not agree w parasocial behavior PLS#dreadrook#solrook#rooklas#rook x solas#solas x rook#solas#rook#dread wolf#fen harel#dragon age#dragon age veilguard#dav#veilguard#datv#da veilguard#dragon age the veilguard#gareth david lloyd
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joe kicking one of the bubbles into patrick’s face (x)
#that’s my man he did that for me cuz patrick picked this setlist or whatever the fuck HDMSBDKJDLWJEKDJDKSJ#i think that’s what they said idk i couldn’t hear on the stream#patrick stump#joe trohman#btw the phrasing on the original tweet is sending me into orbit#2ourdust#also i’m thinking some things but i wont say#my post#fall out boy
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https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS6DqqjKE/
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the way he fuckjsing STUDTTEREDDDDRD MIKE BROWNNNN DUKE TOSSBIN WHOEVER THE FUCKKKKKK WHEN I CATCH YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
i can't do this.
#ask#now why would you send me this..........#from the emojis i thought you were sending me a thirst edit 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭#saw it was buffering on tees face didnt perceive anything else got so pumped and THEN FUCKING TAYLORS NEW YEARS DAY??????????#god i just ate lunch everythings coming back up#also like mike brown usually sits by the sidelines during practice or whatever and duke too like#i didn't know that!#all those higher ups usually are present /sometimes/ during practices etc#baffles me#pisses me off#fucking fight me.#last game in stripes i need everyone who has ever had that though to knock on wood and spit that shit OUT right the fuck now. NOWWWWWWWWWW.#every shot of joe smiling at tee so fondly hugging him man what if i just die.#joe burrow#tee higgins#third (?) time negotiating his fucking contract with this team i feel so sick to my stomach
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The way Maxwell says “And if he can get a look at the personnel reports to see what Kepler really thinks of him” about Jacobi in ep33 (Don’t Poke the Bear) has so many layers of implication that I can’t even being to unravel it
#and his response is so fucking funny too#wolf 359#si 5#she really just said “yeah he’s just a fag with a massive man crush on our boss” and she’s RIGHT#she’s an icon and jacobi I’d a massive loser send post#cw f slur#<-just in case but whatever
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when i started taking philosophy, I never imagined I'd be having a breakdown over fucking apples
#plato i hate you#i hate you so much#plato youre an ass#philosophy#theory of forms can go to hell#APPLENESS IS THE TRUE ESSENCE OF APPLES????#what fucking shit was he smoking#give me some of whatever he was on#apples man#fucking apples#im going insane#who knew apples would be my breaking point#tayas had to deal with this for half an hour#sorry taya#taya#a levels#a level philosophy sucks (it doesnt it just sends me into existential crisises)#existential crisis
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i don't follow dungeon Meshi discussions closely and also haven't seen much in depth analysis of the marginalization of halflings specifically but I feel like the Infantilization aspect is focused on without acknowledging the ways they are often also Dehumanized (little weird considering the usage of "human" in the context of the story but I think it fits well enough). Like they are considered unskilled and immature due to their appearance + shorter relative lifespans, but also they are considered shady, used as literal bait (for sirens and succubi), and fucking disappeared when they come into contact with dangerous artifacts. Like both are significantly negative, but one is a bit more Obviously Violent in a way that I feel like is under discussed.
#Dungeon Meshi#I got two theories for why. One is that the short lives races in general struggle with infantilization and halflings are more obviously#Visibly childlike esp to dwarves/tallmen so it's the more obvious and easier lense to analyze their marginalization thru#The second is I think sometimes ppl focus on justifying the shipping (listen. I don't fucking care chilchuck is a divorced adult man#Who gives a shit.) so people tend to bring up the fact that the infantilization of halflings is a form of marginalization to highlight#How despite chronological age gaps they are equivalent in maturity to tall men/dwarves/elves whatever the fuck. Again I don't care#But. I feel like this makes it take precedence over the other forms of marginalization they face that aren't really explained by them being#Viewed as childish (for example being used as bait. I don't think that's happening to tall men children.)#Anyway Chilchuck is a flawed character but also has to be understood thru the lense of him being a member of a marginalized group#So like. Some of him being mean is probably connected to that and not just him being A Hater (he is that too)#Sending this post into the world and straight into a blender also. Goodbye
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the ancient share thing i've seen a couple people doing :] some ancients i've currently only got as part of the flight rep collection, and because of that i don't have a cool finished dusthide to show off yet since i'm waiting on them getting rockbreaker [pour one out lmao], but i'm still proud of my little collection!
voxel 91032038 | gravity 94212138 | flora 99083620
inferno 91322995 | seaglass 98992969 | blizzard 95430869
masu 92950190 | koi 89497960 | rosalina 91646535
#me choosing an everlux [easiest shit of my life i only have seaglass and he is my most specialest little 70 year old man in the world]#vs me choosing an auraboa [well considering everyone else is a half finished project or fodder breeder it'll have to be flora]#vs me choosing an abby [i only have 2 but asking me to choose between voxel and kudzu is like asking a parent to pick a favourite child]#vs me choosing an aether [I HAVE TOO MANY AETHERS AND I LOVE ALL OF THEM EQUALLY SEND HELP </3]#vs me choosing an undertide [koi sweep. bottom text.]#just fucking whatever#fr ancient assembly#flight rising
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What if. What if I made my sole survivor trans. House wife lawyer turned themself in the wasteland. What if. What if I did that.
Like you’re no longer burdened by your pre-war self. A miserable person, though loving of her husband, who never got to be who they wanted to be. Or maybe never thought about it to begin with. But the wasteland? well all the structures of society that held her back before aren’t there anymore. No one knows who you are, only that you’re someone looking for your lost son and maybe that you were cryogenically frozen. Your husband is dead. Your kid wouldn’t know whether or not you’re his mom or dad, he’s a baby! It’s a clean slate isn’t it? Codsworth wouldn’t give a damn, if anything he’d put on that cheery voice qnd be proud of you…
Might make you seem less frail to the people who stole your son? Maybe they don’t recognize you, or rather, maybe they see the wasteland hasn’t killed you so much as hardened you to a fine point. I mean there’s a film noir detective running around, a zombie as mayor of an entire town, huge green dudes, and giant fucking murder lizards around. You’re only going to be half the freakiest thing around. Besides! People are getting swapped out for fakes, you’re all starving and dehydrated, radiation poisoning is constant threat, and people constantly attack each other to get any resources they can. You’re hardly their biggest worry at the moment, right?
Now that I think about it, the sole survivor is a fun character to make trans. Hmmmm.
#also as an aside why the fuck does Nora have power armor training. the game didn’t think too hard about that.#MacCready needs a boyfriend#and Kieran. well Kieran would make an excellent man#fo4#fallout 4#the sole survivor#sole survivor#fuck you. makes your house wife a man#also as an extra aside#I get why people don’t like it#but I do like the theory that the sole survivor is a synth#like inevitably it is entirely your personal preference wether or not you like the idea#but I got it started in my head when I saw some of the skeletons in vault 111 are in the same place they were as you entered#and some of your neighbors are already in the vault. despite the fact that elevator is too slow for it to have made two whole trips#the entire other section of the vault is full of dead frozen people ! how the fuck did they get there#you were in a rush to get down there as soon as it started happening#like I KNOW Bethesda isn’t that thought out#and that there are just as many weird details with that line of thinking as a plain old human sole survivor#but it’s a really fun concept#don’t know if it fits Kieran but y’know#like I know there’s not many reasons for the institute to do that#but they also don’t really get a defined#reasons for sending synths out in the first place as far as I remember#all I remember is tinker Tom talking about terraforming and maybe being right???#whatever#I like it. I’m having fun. even if I don’t super buy into it#I love the idea of it#anyways#I’m done#fallout
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Narratively, I don't think Zenos should come back from the dead because FFXIV has already had way too many death fakeouts/back from the dead storylines and he has already had one of them. But I would still be more than willing to accept it because a) I really love Zenos and will always want more Zenos content and b) the idea that this motherfucker just absolutely will not die is hilarious to me.
#also I just think the people I have literally seen say 'I will unsub if Zenos comes back' are gigantic dramatic whiny babies#and I'd love to see them either have to go back on their words or put their money where their mouth is#and ALSO I kinda hate the obvious favoritism for certain characters in ishikawa's writing because like#zenos got a pretty poor send off compared to how much she milked the fuck out of emet-selch#who imo is an even worse person and responsible for infinitely more atrocities but hey whatever let's woobify that man canonically#ooc#ffxiv#ffxiv spoilers#spoiler#spoilers
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I found out that there are apparently some Luigi fangirls that are sending him like a letter a day, five letters a day etc. I'm sure because they've convinced themselves that if they send enough letters he'll fall in love with them or something but I'm sure that if he's getting like 20 letters from the same stranger his reaction to seeing their name is probably just "ugh not this creep again"
#i don't like the way the media equates Luigi supporters with fangirls but in this case that's absolutely what they are#can we please be normal about Luigi Mangione please I'm begging you#you don't know this man please be normal about him#I'm not even saying you can't write to him but don't send him like 20 fucking letters#and don't send him these like parasocial letters about how you feel like you know his soul or whatever#apparently some woman sent a bunch of letters to Luigi and then posted a medium article sharing what she posted and uh it's cringe#actually cringe might be a bit too nice#if I can track them down I'll share here because they're insane#anyway be normal about Luigi Mangione challenge 2025
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unzipping your boyfriend*'s outfit to give them a boob window 👌
#xiv: rory foster#caesia montresor#proxi draws#roraesia#caesia just does whatever the fuck she wants man i dont make the rules. but like i dont blame her. rory's boobs. send tweet.
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Not to keep beating dead horses like I so much love to do but I am still completely Flabbergasted and Astonished at how you (Merle Ambrose) could discover the most terrifying fact that a child that is essentially under your care has been indoctrinated into a cult (which, by the way, a process that has taken over the course of years) ((by an agent that has been stationed in a direct position to make it easier to access and manipulate children, that has easily escaped your notice for such a long time)) that worships a nihilistic entity whose ultimate goal is the absolute and total destruction of Everything and Everyone around you, and your one, single, simple-sentenced response to that is to say "Oh, that's a shame. He (Duncan) always was pretty terrible. Hope he gets better someday." And then to move on from those extremely worrying and dangerous bundle of issues permanently without taking any sort of action to protect the vulnerable and make sure nothing like this ever happens again
#i love ambrose as a character but the things he does makes me clench my fists so hard blood circulation gets cut off#the absolute.... lack of care ambrose has for certain things literally render me speechless#and like okay in his uh. in his uh “defense”. there was like. other stuff going on at the time. i get that#like the end of the world for the 7th time yeah there were other things on ambrose's plate#but i dont know how many different ways to put “your children are being manipulated and kidnapped into a cult that means them harm under-#-your nose and it can absolutely happen again“ and make that stick#you... i#that is a horrifying fact to learn and the response is dismissive at BEST#like im not saying ambrose should adopt all 800 children that go to his school or whatever#but like... DO SOMETHING#you have COMPLETE AND UTTER INFLUENCE OVER THE NATIONAL GUARD. DO YOU REMEMBER THAT? USE THAT#send out watch parties! hold stranger danger assemblies! have adults regularly check in with kids! install a curfew! ANY OF THOSE THINGS?#like even if ambrose couldnt single-handedly stop a powerful cult he could at least make an effort.... AN EFFORT#ONE ATTEMPT. TO MAKE SURE ****HIS**** SCHOOL AND STUDENTS ARE SAFE........#and the fact that he says something along the lines of “well duncan was always fucked up” ☹️☹️☹️☹️#this shouldt surprise me fir the man who for 1. some reason refuses to fix the death school#2. does not care about dworgyn or mortis in the least#3. keeps trying to pressure necromancers to change schools#4. kidnapped US from earth and used us.#it really shouldnt but........ but#im gonna say it and idc (/lh) if its unpopular. ambrose should not be in power#he is incompetent at best. he is harmful at worst.#he does NOTHING 99.9% of the time and the one Tuesday where he takes action it makes something worse. he should not be in power#this post is /lh but idk. im a little angry#NOT SERIOUSLY ANGRY BUT CMON MAN. CMON BRO#if the game utilized ambrose's potential more and pointed out how useless/paranoid/rash he can be i would ascend to heaven#i would like literally one person (who isnt a villain) in the game to look at ambrose and say “wow hes kinda fucked up”#THATS THE BARE MINIMUM BUT I WILL ACCEPT THAT I WILL.#kind of unrelated but im kinda mad that the only person to correctly point out how weird ambrose is is morganthe#the murderous tyrant. the person we're not supposed to listen to. because she's evil. she couldnt POSSIBLY be right about Good Guy Ambrose!
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i just know as soon as solas stepped into the fade at the end of veilguard my hawke was on his ass. unfortunately all that work for nothing, the veil is still coming down because she is killing that man for what he did to varric she doesn't give a fuck
#even better if he got dragged in. already having a bad day and she's going to make it worse#like kinda crazy tbh you hinge the entire veil on one man. what if he just killed himself out of spite#i dont actually think he would i do think he's too proud (ha) to do that. but come on lmao#and if u send him into the black city??? what if he fucking dies???????#he's not unkillable like the other gods were??? he doesnt have an archdemon?? hello is this thing on#also i really wish we knew how he planned to contain the blight (and the gods) originally#were they just going to remain in one single little pocket. like wrapped in a veil bubble or whatever#alas. we'll never know i guess lol#also hawke's coming after rook and co next what do u mean she's been stuck in the fade for 10 years but rook walked out in like a week#GET HER OUT OF HTERE.....#i pretend my hawke is still alive in the fade the way people pretend the hof is somehow still alive despite the calling#da posting#datv spoilers
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In the wake of the IA situation, I've seen a lot more posts circulating about using your local library and I just. Sigh
#i dont know whether these people are thinking of Big City libraries#or their local is the most well stocked most accommodating library known to man#but my library consists of mostly kids books and ww2 skinned romance lites and james patterson thrillers#if youre lucky theres some pop history books on the tiny shelf in the back#oh also the opening times? 0930 to 1700 of course. yknow. when most ppl are at work :)#oh except sunday. when were just closed ;)#trying to get the library to bring in a specific book? sorry that'll be nine months and we'll send it to the library#in booksbury-upon-tyne which will cost you a £30 round train ticket (if the trains are running ;)) and a three hour journey#(cause were swr and life is a fucking nightmare)#im not doing that for a book im not even sure will be relevant to what im looking for yknow#i guess what im saying is that while i love the concept of libraries#they havent really evolved with the times. theyve been what theyve been for a millenia#and the intellectual value they were built to provide hasnt kept up with the funds theyre actually allocated#now i will say these are kinda complaints specific to me cause im not the biggest fiction reader#and if i am theyre mainly classics so my gripe is more with the proviso of non fiction books#and the variety of them which is incredibly narrow#and i dont drive so the intersection of this with the hellscape that is south englands public transport network also sucks dick and balls#like i realise the library provides a lot of necessary resources for older people and kids and those without internet access etc.#but that does leave a large swathe of people with little to no reason or time to visit the library yknow.#i dont blame the library workers of course but i also dont think its the visitors (customers?) fault#that there isnt a great incentive for them to visit#especially since i have found most of my fave nonfiction books in second hand stores#which would have either cost £80 new or would have been locked ina university library out of reach of the common folk#whatever. ramble ramble yada yada. ev complains again whats new
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