#minor victories

[lordsardine]

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[cyallowitz]

Goal Post: Stressed and Tired

I was tempted to skip doing a goal post for the first time since I began them.  Then, I realized that I had nothing else to talk about. This was just an exhausting, rough week that has life me incredibly stressed.  It’s gotten to the point where I’m getting body itches and feeling sick.  No fever, oxygen issues, or anything more than being tired.  There’s a cough that only shows up when I start…

[thejoyofviolentmovement]

New Audio: Slowdive Shares Woozy and Slow-Burning "skin in the game"

New Audio: Slowdive Shares Woozy and Slow-Burning "skin in the game" @slowdiveband @neilhalstead @RachelAGoswell @DeadOceans @pitchperfectpr

Deriving their name from a dream that that their co-founder Neil Halstead (vocals, guitar) had once had, and “Slowdive,” a single written and recorded by co-founder Rachel Goswell’s (vocals, guitars) favorite band, Siouxsie and the Banshees, the Reading, Berkshire, UK-based shoegazer band Slowdive, which is currently comprised of its co-founders Halstead and Goswell, along with Nick Chaplin…

[lyssq]

If I had a penny for every book about a boy of noble birth who watched his whole family be killed in front of him and narrowly avoided death himself, ran away and hid in an orphanage before someone unaware of his true identity recruits him into the regime that murdered his family (said regime presents the idea of everyone being equal while in reality being deeply flawed) and now has to work alongside people who would likely kill him if they knew who he really was, I’d have two pennies, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice

[d3r-d4s-di3-dex]

☭ Communist colorful posters about peace and victory day ☭

Dear comrades,

building a socialist world is our goal

where everyone is equal and has their human rights

where children play on playgrounds without fear of someone pointing a gun at them

where gender is a social construct that is variable

and being gay is legal

a socialist world is a place where capitalists do not have access and do not enslave us to work and we recieve minimal pay

and if someone tries to destroy our world, we will stick together and win over evil, discrimination and slavery!

[qqueenofhades]

Going to hazard it's not a great sign for your obvious party nominee when a substantially non-zero portion of your own party's voters come out to make a point of informing everyone that they are not voting for you, even if they have done so multiple times previously, and pledge to support the incumbent president of the opposite party if/when you win the nomination.

[brambletakato]

MINOR WIN: no layton game but in exchange sebastian debeste has the worst localized name and its unchangeable

[mariathechosen1]

“Sweden didn’t deserve to win-“

Literally shut the fuck up.

[wonder-worker]

A.J Pollard’s biography on Edward IV was so cringe lol (generic; minor but frustrating inaccuracies; intensely judgmental at times and oddly dismissive at others while never considering the broader context; entirely diminished and trivialized Elizabeth Woodville as both queen and wife of his main subject in the name of "defending" her; created a false dichotomy between Edward and Henry VII’s styles of ruling and lauded the latter at the former’s expense even though Henry literally followed Edward’s example for the very things Pollard was criticizing Edward for; had a downright nonsensical and thoroughly misleading conclusion about Edward’s legacy & Richard’s usurpation that was based entirely on hindsight, Pollard's own assumptions, and the complete downplaying Richard’s agency and actions to emphasize what Pollard wrongly and misleadingly claimed were Edward's so-called 'failings', etc, etc)

I wanted to buy his book on Henry V but after reading this shitshow and the synopsis of that book, im guessing it's going to be 10x worse, so...no thanks

[tutyayilmazz]

🚨 from january 1st 2024, russian and belarussian gymnasts will be able to complete if they are authorized according to these criteria

very intrigued how they will evaluate the criteria

surely this must have been in motion before but announcing this now is very much like oh we don't wanna ban israelis WHICH ARE ACTIVELY MILITARY PERSONEL so maybe some russians can compete lmao

full pdf stating that they must wear light blue, music must not contain references to their country, etc. is here

[sodaliteskull]

Monday M'Update: The Third

LOL WHOOPS ALMOST FORGOT TO DO THIS BEFORE I GO TO BED!

On the plus side, I have just 9 stories left to finish! The final story count has also ballooned up to 170, because more of these bitches needed to be split up, and I also found a couple stories on an old USB I thought I'd lost. And then one story was added to provide context for a reoccurring bit across a bunch of stories.

Marvin! - story added in for context, 3001 words

The History Of Ivanova And Ryle - found story that was thought lost, 1405 words

Spell Check - found story that was thought lost, 254 words

The Return - went from 27,227 words to 28,254 (up 1027)

Creepy!!! A - renamed to X-Ray-Ted, 6792 words

Creepy!!! B - renamed to Cake Fight, 4840 words

Creepy!!! C - renamed to Babysitting, 2555 words

Creepy!!! D - renamed to SUGAR YETIS! 1626 words

And So The Adventure Begins…AGAIN! A - renamed to Annoyances, 3126 words

And So The Adventure Begins…AGAIN! B - renamed to Road Trip, 8555 words

R-A-B! p2 A - renamed to Matrix Cave Rave, 638 words

R-A-B! p2 B - renamed to Game Day, 2033 words

R-A-B! p2 C - renamed to Thunderstruck, 3570 words

R-A-B! p2 D - renamed to Day Trip, 4475 words

Co-writer is still finishing up her story, so I'm going to see about powering through the four rando threads (who knows if those are going to need to be broken up!), and then it'll just be writing the back half of two stories, and then fully writing out two others, so there's still the potential that I can get through them before the year ends!

If nothing else, I'll definitely be done some time in January! And then I can take a break from all this fucking editing!!!!

But now I am going to sleep, because I gotta be up at six in the morning 😭

[justanotherfanfolks]

I feel like the anti-prediction machine, everything I theorize is sure to not come true

[pippin-pippout]

Laboon’s story transitioned beautifully into the tale of the Rumbar pirates.

They didn’t even make it halfway round. They’re all dead by two years.

The death of Yorkie, their captain, by plague was not what I was expecting. Sailing him off on their ship, turned funeral boat, in the light of the setting sun to the tune of the sailors song.

And then the crew, knowing they’re dying of poison, surrounded by the bodies of those already dead, recording the same song to give to Laboon so he remembers them happily. As the voices fade out as they die one by one.

“Quartet. Trio. Duet. Solo… why is the accompaniment the last to go?”

Cutting between them, the party in the present day, and Brook stranded where he hallucinates their happy times in his loneliness.

The Rumbar pirates who make crying children laugh.

Why do these side stories break my heart?

[vivenecii]

I'm oh so bad at being back

At least now my side hobby is bookbinding Bridgman's Constructive Anatomy with no proper tools and prior bookbinding experience, so we're going in the right direction

[pirunika]

can I make this bag look good..is the question

[cynically-optomistic]

I don’t actually believe there is equal blame between a government who keeps coming back to the negotiating table and a government that executes its “leverage” (human beings, children and siblings and parents) out of spite. I will never judge someone for how they choose to express or direct their anger but there cannot be equal blame, and pretending there is does nothing.