#one in two hundred fifty???

[pocketramblr]

Ok so, three years of teaching, each year got about 110 kids, every single year there is a pair of identical twins in that

[justanotherdrfan]

Little pookie made a 250 video! 🥹

[anachronistic-falsehood]

SO. ON THE TOPIC OF LOSS OF AUTONOMY. i am having the analysis brainworms now i hope u dont mind me going off in ur inbox. hi :]

there is something to be said about how vash's name is used against him constantly. that loss of who he even is as a person. i think about this so much. his name, his very identity is taken away from him. just the mere mention of the name vash the stampede is enough to send an ENTIRE town into a panic. it happens so much and its DEVASTATING to me. hes been labelled a monster across the entire world, and people who stick by his side after hearing his name are few and far between. theres been so much fear tacked onto his name, so much so that OTHER outlaws have used it on multiple occasions to make themselves more powerful. using his name to commit crimes that the real vash would be horrified to even consider. power in names and all that.

vash even. leans into it himself at a certain point. in order to protect the people of augusta he runs through the city shooting bullets into the air and solidifying his image of a deranged killer in the pursuit of. saving everyone. the only way theyll listen to him is if they think hes going to kill them all. if theyre afraid of him. theres also the part in hang fire (? i think its that one) where hes walking through the halls of the sand steamer singing about killing people in order to scare the bandits into not hurting the hostages.

and then you think about. eriks. how lina and her grandma took him in and accepted them as part of his family. how the town around them accepted him only because they had no idea who he actually was. he was a good guy... up until they learned he was vash. and then we get the conversation between the two men in the bar talking about how they should chase him out of town, despite living around him and knowinf him and seeing how good he is for . two years.

but lina and her grandma still accept him after that. theyre one of the only people besides milly/meryl/wolfwood who genuinely love and care abt him despite his name. they still want to keep him safe, grandma asks wolfwood to protect him and keep him out of trouble, even after learning hes the legendary outlaw gunman. because shes seen the true vash ans doesnt let the name scare her.

aughhh im rambling now i probably should have made this into my own post but this makes me SO fuckign crazy dude . give me ur thoughts id love to hear them.

I. YEAH. YEAH. OH MY GOD. Like. nothing is his own anymore. His name is used against him, his face is plastered on wanted posters. There is nothing about himself that he can truly call his. Not even his Plant powers! Because those are used against him time and time again by Knives in EVERY ADAPTATION!!!!

Like. Vash is no longer the name of a kid who once argued with his brother and laughed with his mother and celebrated his birthday and rolled around in grassy fields. It's the name of an outlaw who will kill at the drop of a hat. It's the name of an out-of-control human natural disaster who's leveled cities. If he doesn't even have his name, then what part of himself is really himself anymore?

AND THAT'S WHY I LOVE ERIKS! He finally has something of his own! He's got a name that attached to no one, and a life where he can settle down and stay out of the public eye. He finally has something that is truly his. And no one lets him keep that except for Lina and her grandma.

This guy really has no control over his own life doesn't he!!! He's a passive character in the story of his own life!!! He has nothing of his own, no identity past "humanoid typhoon" because everything about his identity has been stripped from him and morphed into something he's not. He has no say in anything in his life, not even who he is as a person, AND IT DRIVES ME BONKERS N FUCKING YONKERS!!!!

[manybrokenquills]

I 100% will continue to think that people are echos of those around them

Like, I know people talk about this, but I don't think it works the same way for anyone else the way it works in my mind.

I'm like a pie chart of everyone I've met, and some people only take .02% of the chart, and other people take 34%.

My accent was learned by copying the way people move their mouth, because I can't hear well out of my left ear.

It's a mix of my home town, a British accent, sometimes a little Russian, and so many other parts of the world.

And it all culminates because I met people who talked with that accent and I copied how they talk.

I read a lot, and I mean a lot of books when I was a child, and so my writing style is all of those writers mashed into one.

Some of my mannerisms were learned by going to school in such a large school district, and others were learned by being in and out of the doctors so much, even nowadays.

I am learning and growing and being who I am.

And everyone contributed to making me.

It takes a world to raise a child.

[tethered-heartstrings]

if you told me two years ago i'd be nearing 1k memes for a gay cannibal show.... i would honestly not say much because i avoid talking to people as much as possible irl

[theoldworldsrunnerup]

Realised recently that I never draw characters smiling. Also realised in the middle of drawing this that the reason I never draw characters smiling is because I have no fucking clue how

[a-drama-addict]

halsin (naturally) propositioned naerra and im just thinking about it. im more thinking ‘shadowheart being squished between two big beefy druids’ than whether or not naerra’s even poly

[look-at-the-stars-tonight]

don't want to declare victory for the war on ants quite yet but i think i did win a battle...

[187days]

Day One Hundred Fifty-Two

I taught the same Global Studies lesson that I'd taught yesterday, but it didn't go quite as well with the two sections I had today. It wasn't terrible, and they actually had more background knowledge of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict than my first two sections, but they kept getting off-task. It wore my patience a little thin.

Some days, that happens.

My APGOV students finished their final practice test with some FRQs, which I graded and handed back before the bell. We'll go over anything they got wrong tomorrow, and they'll be able to spend the rest of the block reviewing however they see fit.

Track practice was quick because there was a middle school meet, and out athletes helped officiate, which is cool because it builds connections between our programs. It gives the young kids a chance to interact with their future teammates. I was clerking, so I was herding cats, but- again- it's good fun. Everyone's happy to be competing.

[thechaoscryptid]

Once again I am here to complain about the last 500 words of something being the hardest to write. I wrote all the rest of this? For free? And I have to END it in a meaningful and insightful way???

God I am not your strongest soldier pls stop giving me your hardest battles

[sarah-dipitous]

The number of dumb pranks I’ve wanted to play on clients today…embarrassing

[renee-writer]

Out of Time Chapter One Hundred and Fifty-two

AO3

She goes to Jenny first. There is something about the woman’s straight forwardness that allows her to trust her.

 

“I have something to confess.” Jenny’s  eyes open wide and she frowns.

 

“Aye?”

 

“You know I am hiding something.” Jenny nods. She is sternly looking at her but, there is also a softness in her eyes. It gives Tara the strength to continue. “It isn’t anything bad, or at least I don’t think so.”

 

“I shall judge that. Out with it then.”

 

“I like ladies. I am a lesbian.” She holds her breath waiting on her reaction. She is still holding it when Jenny throws her arms around her and hugs her.

 

“My goodness dear,” she says as Tara starts to relax against her, “is that all? That isn’t an issue for me. I assure you that it won’t be for my family either. Any one who has an issue will have to deal with me.”

 

She is still hugging her when the lass starts to sob. Jenny makes soothing sounds as the defenses Tara was surrounded with, start to fall.

 

“I didn’t,” a hiccup, “know with breeding being…” Jenny pulls her away to see her face.

 

“You are a human being, not breeding livestock.” She smiles, “we don’t  need uterus ‘ and cocks but men and women to rebuild society. You are strong and brave. Exactly the type of woman needed in this family.”

 

Her sobs, that had been tapering down, start fresh again. “My family…”

 

“Not accepting, eh? I am sorry Tara. They were wrong. This family will accept you. I swear it.”

 

That night, with Jenny by her side, she announces it to everyone. Jenny is right. It is not a big deal. A huge weight lifts off her and she is a more open and giving lady from that point on.

[lexalovesbooks]

The massive size difference between the key and every other book in the engelsfors trilogy continues to crack me up

[catcatb0y]

They changed the Show Missions to eighty percent coins (pretty much useless) and the Premium Pass to Wish Pieces?? What the hell??

Like, it's not just the layout, these rewards are worse, right?

They're also spaced out so much worse please tell me this isn't the new norm.

[i-count-potatoes]

Words: One (potato)

Whole potato: Two hundred and fifty four (254)

Partial potato: zero

Total potatoes: Two hundred and fifty five (255)

mutual did not see the post i reblogged specifically for them. 13 dead, 65 injured.

[chucklechampion]