#not bad all things considered

[genbabureki]

just got out my last post op appointment everything's healing okay but I'll have to go back every 6mo for the foreseeable future to make sure there's no recurrence of the cancer

[altruistic-meme]

looking at my paystubs HURTS

[podcastwizard]

"knight posting" this and "guard posting" that. i'm the princess's trusted handmaid who provides her advice and comfort in my soothing, low-class style. i am saying things like "if you don't mind me speaking out of turn, my lady..." and sharing fairy tales and lullabies my sad mother taught me. also i am fucking the jester.

[palatial-monstrosity]

at least it has a nice beat

[mumblesplash]

part 2!!!! [read part one here]

transcript below the cut arranged into stanzas to help show where the rhymes are:

“that’s why they brought gem in? as a failsafe?” as a pawn. we were told to point her at whoever we need gone

“gem won’t hurt her allies. …yet.” the curse she carries will it’s had its eye on her since she lost the other eye she was specially selected for her hunting skill it’s quite the high honor. “wow. how generous.” we try

think about it: why does almost no one fight the curse? “given how fast scott killed skizz last season, i can guess.” [“any pain you spare your friends, you’ll have to suffer worse”?] it’s designed to shut down higher reasoning with stress

[frodo-a-gogo]

Let us be brutally honest with ourselves and with eachother for a moment. If he weren't obese you motherfuckers would be capable of percieving evrart claires sexy sexy moral ambiguity and complex charms

[letsplaythermalnuclearwar]

love how Would You Fall In Love With Me Again emphasised that Penelope is just as in love with Odysseus is he is with her. she doesn't tell him to move the olive tree as a trick, she says it to prove that he is still the same man who left twenty years ago--that he's still her husband. she is crying and desperate and tired of waiting. she doesn't care about the blood on his hands, because they are his hands and that is all that matters

[lazylittledragon]

forgot to post this the other day but i gave myself a little nameless ghoul :3

[buggachat]

honestly just in general it's very exhausting to try to analyze media that is literally meant to be analyzed, only for the replies to be filled with people arguing not against your analysis, but against the premise that the media can be analyzed at all.

i don't even know what to say about it without starting to really betray my frustration, so i'll just settle with— just don't engage with analysis posts? I'm serious. if you're typing a response to a media analysis post, reread what you've written and ask yourself "is this comment/response against the very concept of analyzing the media at all?" and if the answer is yes then delete it all and go sit in the shame corner. throw your curtains away if you want to so bad and stop telling me that I'm not allowed to hum and haw at the fact mine are blue

[archiepelago]

alternate surface au inspired by a few ive seen around on tumblr :3

[nightmanatee]

imagine you're a girl who died for her crush but the said crush rejected your sacrifice and instead decided to get a lobotomy to keep you semi-alive?? only for your father to (also you now have a father congratulations (derogatory)) put your soul in your dead body and now you also have to be friends with your crush's one-sided (not her side tho) situationship. and your most recent 24 hours are:

+your crush is alive????? and is with a friend???

+ you now have to like try to look good (as good as a dead person can be) but hey you're dead and she's into dead people so you might have a chance??? just gotta show her all your wounds and brush your teeth+your new bestie is on the same planet, she'll distract them while you prepare for this

- this is NOT your crush?

- who IS in her body?

- worst first kiss EVER

- they throw your bestie out of her dead cavalier's body

- everybody is mean to you

- needles

- you now have to come back to your hometown

- someone else gets to have a perfect symbiosis between 2 people in 1 body and it's not you and your crush??

- who tf is in your crush's body?

- you come back to your hometown and 1 person you liked is presumably dead and another one is dying

+ hey the person you like is NOT dead (one good thing wow)

+ your bestie is HERE YAY

- she's mean to you too tho

- your plan to save your crush sucks 😔

- your crush's body is literally getting torn apart in your hands

- you can't even die for her again

- you kill someone you DIDN'T like and it didn't feel good 😔✌️

- your crush comes back and her FUCKING LOVE OF HER FUCKING LIFE kisses her (BITCH), swears to work for her and tells her she loves her (like meat loves meat??)

- also everybody dead names you (you kinda don't care tho)

yeah this all happened to my good friend gideon nav

[cosmicvaca]

Modern au Duwang Gang

Josuke

University freshman, wants to go into the nursing program. Lives in the dorms. Roommates with Koichi.

He was about 4 years old when Joseph's infidelity was found out. Immediately brought into the family as one of their own.

Gay, not out to his family (they all know; he's not subtle). Dating Okuyasu.

Literally thrives on embarrassing Jotaro about his slow burn with Noriaki.

Okuyasu

University freshman. Undecided major. Lives at home to take care of his sick father.

Has a part-time job as a busboy at Tonio's.

His brother Keicho was in the marines but is now in federal prison for attempted manslaughter and gang activities. Okuyasu does the hour-and-a-half drive to visit him every two weeks.

He was also involved in the same gang as Keicho in high school but went straight when his brother went to prison. He moved back home to care for his father.

Bisexual. Dating Josake.

Koichi

University freshman. Biology major.

Dormmates with Josake.

Dating Yukako. The others think it's against his will, but it's not.

Chill dude

Yukako

University freshman. Unknown major.

Terrifying.

Dating Koichi

Rohan

Art grad student. In the same cohort as Noriaki.

Literally the worst person you know. He is always pushing Noriaki's buttons. (He says it's part of a strategy to learn who people really are. It's just bullshit and he's just a bitch).

Thinks Jotaro is hot and is not shy about letting him know this.

Stuck up artist. Literally take three times longer to do crit because he has so much say (jury is still out on whether or not it's actually helpful.

Stray Cat

Okuyasu's cat

Was the cat of some creepy guy that was causing them problems (murder??)

Real name is Tama but Okuyasu exclusively calls him "stray cat" like it's his legal name.

Polnareff | Kakyoin | Avdol | Jotaro | Joseph | Duwang Gang

[sillyabtmusic]

carefully monitoring ♡

[blizardstar]

Me when Ashton Greymoore is denied honorable and meaningful self-sacrifice, and now must face the reality that they MUST keep living after it’s All Over

[serpentface]

Wardin provincial tax magistrate on the annual Apomalo Tlinya (phrase close in meaning to 'journey of the late (autumn) sun'), which is a tax collection tour.

His station is marked by his white cloak, royal blue belt, gullfeather khattanocuy, the ability to bear a sword, and a scroll containing documents stamped with the Usoma's seal confirming his identity and authority. He does not travel alone, but is accompanied by a large retinue of scribes, soldiers, advisors, and servants.

All citizens have tax obligations regardless of class, and these are owed primarily in grain and livestock. This is based in this internal economy being predominantly a barter system (with its coin currency having direct value as precious metals and serving as a means of establishing fixed values for various trade goods) and heavily reliant on agricultural goods. It is significantly more difficult to evade or cheat on taxes when what you owe can be established by sight, measured in hard to miss livestock and fields of crops.

As such, taxes are collected via annual tours in which these magistrates (personally appointed by the Usoma and collecting in his name) tour their lands in person. The Apomalo Tlinya serves multiple purposes. It is primarily a method of collecting tax, but also doubles as a way to assess a province's agricultural wealth and well-being as a whole and to take an official census of the population.

This routine act of taxation has been integrated into official religious practice, being looped in with the bounty of the harvest season and thanksgiving to the face Inyamache for having provided the necessary long summer sunlight as the days grow shorter. The actual Apomalo Tlinya begins upon the official celebrations of the New Maize day in each capital city (usually observed on a separate day at the actual end of the harvest for each village), where the festival ends with the tax party leaving the city in procession. The magistrate always ceremonially rides a red bull khait, bearing a solar disk framed by royal dual-viper insignia on its horns. The bull's journey is compared to the ideal seasonal behavior of the sun, generating new life out of rain-fertile earth and then 'dying' after the harvest to allow for the rains to come. Villages who host the Apomalo Tlinya entourage each night experience a fringe benefit via permission to introduce any receptive mares to the bull and possibly get some (very valuable) calves out of it. The bull will be sacrificed at the end of the journey in a final act of thanksgiving, in hopes this offering will help ensure the next year is bountiful.

The attempted veneer of solar thanksgiving and harvest cheer aside, the Apomalo Tlinya visit is enjoyed by just about no one (except for perhaps the people lucky enough to get a pretty khait calf out of it), as it entails the personal loss of some of this aforementioned harvest. Nobility owe SUBSTANTIALLY higher taxes than commoners (given that they are considered to Own the majority of the crops/livestock, which is only Tended by their land's peasants), though the actual tax burden is proportionately steeper on the peasantry (whose tax obligations will come primarily out of their allotted share of the harvest, and/or any livestock they raise on the side). Taxes don't tend to be outright devastating in years with average crop yields, but an already bad year can be made ruinous by this visit. The timing also coincides with seasonal harvest festivities. A few unlucky villages every year may have their New Maize feast day interrupted by the sound of horns and a small legion of white-clad taxmen bearing down to collect.

Each province has only one tax magistrate, making this a lengthy and logistically complicated undertaking. It begins at the end of the harvest season (late summer), and the rounds may not finish until early winter. While it might be easier to divide these duties among a greater number of less-powerful officials, this allows taxation to remain Relatively centralized and performed by trusted appointees (often friends or relatives of the Usoma himself). This has had side effects of these officials becoming especially powerful individuals within each province, with very little checks in place to prevent corruption (beyond hope for sustained loyalty, often reinforced with special privileges and favors). Flagrant abuse of this system is rare, but more unpopular magistrates are commonly suspected to leverage additional off-the-books taxes for their own personal gain.

[hilacopter]

I have given up at trying to get people to treat us with any sort of basic human decency. I'll see people wishing for Israelis to get killed, raped, tortured etc, people telling us to "go back where we came from" yet simultaneously talking about how violence and hate crimes are justified for any filthy Israelis who dare step foot in another country, people telling us we don't deserve a single moment of security or peace in our lives because we dared be born in the one country that's safe for us, and people ON JUMBLR will go "they're clearly using Israeli as a dogwhistle for Jew so it's fucked up" "half of the world's Jews are there so it's antisemitic and therefore fucked up" as if it wouldn't be otherwise. I've given up at this point because I've realised no matter how much we try we can't justify our existences to anyone. All I can really do is lean into the argument in the ridiculous hope people will at least see us alongside diaspora Jews, as a part of the Jewish community as a whole, because sure people don't really like Jews anymore but at least they have to pretend like they do.