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e-the-village-cryptid · 2 months ago

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every time i speak to my parents and grandparents i learn new buckwild pieces of family lore

#there's secret children (multiple) there's murders (multiple) there's truly wild lives lived by both my grandmothers #one lived as a boy for 5 years in her tweens/teens #the other left home at 16 with no plan and no money to go be an actress in nyc. actually managed it for 5 years #then moved back in with her grandmother and got a shopkeeping job till she saved enough money for a one way ticket to europe #where she just showed up again with no plan and no money and just bounced around getting taken in by random strangers #as she wandered across the continent #insane decisions to make as a young jewish woman alone in europe in the 1960s with not much safety net from a background of little money #eventually she moved back home and became a professional hypnotist #an e original

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userautumn · 1 month ago

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"not all men" but not in a men's rights way, in a "it's important to remember that men aren't the only perpetrators of cruelty, abuse, and evil and that subconsciously or consciously training yourself to view men as inherently evil and everyone else as inherently safe inadvertently puts you in a position where you're both vulnerable to attack or harm from people you otherwise wouldn't suspect, AND causes you to limit the number of allies you might have in a time of need" kind of way.

#This is why I worry a lot about young women (teens and twenties) who seek comfort and validation in r//adf//em circles. Many of them have #been hurt through rape or abuse—commonly at the hands of fathers/brothers/uncles or otherwise trusted adults—and have decided that men must #be cruel because both they and their female/female + queer friends have similar stories of abuse. So they seek out others who share this #belief but in doing so they make themselves vulnerable to further abuse and manipulation. I haven't really observed r//adf//em circles long #enough to be able to say what I'm about to say with certainty but I would put money on the idea that being a RF on social media shares the #same hallmarks as being in a cult because the behavior of the adherents is far too similar than that of tradwives or any other modern cult.#Other RF's use the hurt and abuse these young women have experienced and twist and manipulate their truth to foster a sense of #us-against-them cruelty against a population that could in actuality be their fiercest allies. It's such a vicious and relentless cycle.#That's why when I see RF's on here all I feel is pity — both for the cruelty and abuse they've witnessed and suffered but ALSO for the way #they've allowed that abuse to be weaponized against them... many before they were too young to realize it was even happening. We as a #society have got to get better at protecting our young girls and women from r//adf//em ideology. I don't even mean that in a #“destroy the patriarchy” kind of way because that's such a lofty and disorganized goal. I mean it in a “we have to go into uncomfortable #spaces and show these girls love and empathy because right now the only people validating them are people who use their hate and mistrust #against them and if we want to save our young girls and Queer sisters from this pipeline we have to do the dirty work“ kind of way.#But anyway.#jack.txt

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euthymiya · 3 months ago

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Good morning I just spent 54 real human dollars on a cup of all things to surprise my younger sister with a stanley

#riv rambles #she’s been talking about getting one for ages but she’s a teen you know #and she only works summer jobs so #she favors saving her money to go out with friends and whatnot #so she’s always back and forth about spending on a cup #I was like sigh. fine. let me pull out the older sister wallet and do something nice 🙄#I got a rly cute flower straw cover to go with it though it’s actually very adorable

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bunnihearted · 10 months ago

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things i want but cant ever afford; tattoos, certain books, noise cancelling headphones, a few plushies, a polaroid camera.... yeh thats it those r my dream things to buy if i ever have money :((

#ngl it's starting to get to me #im 25...... and i've never been able to buy anything i want (or need sometimes)#and like im 25!!!! and i dont even have money so that i can save up to things or anything #ig thats why i buy so many necklaces even if i dont need them.... its the only thing i can afford sksksksk #:(((#i dont even want a lot of things but like it sucks to have gone my entire teens not being able to afford anything #and now im halfway thru my 20s and i cant even buy new shoes even if i rlly need them #let alone saving up for a polaroid. it's like $100 nd i'd easily buy one if i had a job #but the money i get now is $300 and all of that goes to food but barely covers that :D #anyway whatever im just feeling a bot sad

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destroyalovesu · 2 months ago

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"yeah your book has queer characters in it but is it interesting?"

i agree with the sentiment but these kinds of takes always make me think abt myself at age 14, desperately trawling the local small town library for any books with any mention of gay people (there werent many, at least that i could find at the time). i scoured internet forums for lists of queer books, but i didnt know the right key words and what i did find our library or local book stores usually didnt have and wouldve been really expensive to ship to finland. back then i wouldve read the phone book if youd told me there was a queer character in it.

i guess its just hard to get my head around how much more access there is nowadays. just looking for gay books is infinitely easier, theres a million lists online. if i walk into my local bookshop there will always be a gay romance book on the "trending on tiktok" shelf.

ofc these days the popular sentiment is "who cares if theres queer characters in a book, what matters is that its good". and thats a good thing!! its what we deserve!! but damn it sends my head spinning how much things have changed in just a decade

#ofc the fact that its easier to access english books now is a game changer as well #back then in my towns library they had one row of english books consisting of lotr a couple sherlock holmes books and eat prey love #ofc theres infinitely more finnish queer lit out there too. but the access to english lit feels like almost an equally massive change #and idk i this idea that all books are so accessible now does feel. very american #bc while its true for me too as a finnish adult with my own savings and a bank card to do with as a please #its not true for everyone everywhere. like if i was a kid with homophobic parents and no money in a country without well stocked libraries #id be just as screwed as i was as a teen 10+ years ago if not more so #idk im just rambling now #this is just a topic ive been thinking abt a lot since seeing all those glib posts abt how theres no excuse to pretend not to have access #to certain books #i lost the thread of this post a while ago #my post #queer tag

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that-one-personartist · 1 month ago

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I no longer can play TFT on my computer :,)

My PC is really crappy to be honest with you-since at the beginning, it low storage it and every time I would play TF2 I would have glitches that either kept on stopping my character and every thing around me or it would just be so bad it would take me out of TF2, even if I was in a battle or not

So I have to wait(for who knows long) to get a new computer one of my friends told me I should get a gaming computer, but we all know how expensive those are and I do poor for one …

:,D

The only thing I had downloaded on my computer was steam and team fortress nothing , I know I have nothing else on there like no apps or anything. It’s because I delete them so many times because I just wanted to play TF2 and I had low storage so yeah …. I’m going to try my best to stay up some money since currently I do not have a job because my mother does not want me to be stressed by having a job and having school to do so I have to slowly collect money or somewhat find a way for me to sell some sort of art that I make .

I would sell drawings and stuff like that, but I don’t have a card that I can put money on and I do not know how to really do any of that stuff like PayPal at the moment probably when I’m more older and I have more control over my finances is when I’m going to Open up PayPal or something.

I know people will not care about this, but I just wanted to get this off my chest or wanted to talk about this to at least someone that can someone understand my situation and I know that they’re will not be a zombie people reacting to this and to be honest, I’m perfectly fine with that-I just wanted to tell someone or people or whatever about my situation

Anyways, I hope all of you have a wonderful day and night or whatever time it is that you’re reading this

#teen fortress 2 #tf2 #i can’t play no more #need to save that money

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fish-at-fish-fish-resort · 8 months ago

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getting emotional about splatoon again. god. that fucking squid makes me feel things about my own life im crying all over my yogurt

#pov youve been into splatoon since the first game and in splatoon 3 theres the new capn and thats YOU. thats you those years ago.#thats the kid that saved up their money to buy a wii u. opening it up the first time digging for the splatoon download code hoping it works #ans then it does and then youre in this new colorful world full of whimsy and. and then you got splatoon 2 and a switch for Christmas #and now this lonely teen gets to experience that joy again.#of opening up the switch and putting in the cardridge and inputting the online subscription code hoping it works. and then it does.#and youre back in inkopolis.#and you get yourself octo expansion after watching a playthrough while abroad visiting your family. and you get to pick the looks of agent 3 #and the game asks you because thats you. thats the kid those years ago. thats the teen playing right now. thats you.#and now youre an adult. you preordered splatoon three. you played it on the bus drive home. and you enter the story mode.#and youre faced again with yourself.#that kid finding joy in this world when home wasnt the best.#that teen finding community and frienedship n this game when they had noone to talk to #and you realize how far youve come. and youre proud of yourself. and youre happy youre alive #and now youre an adult who doesnt know exactly where to go from here. but will keep trying.#if not for yourself now. then maybe for a future you who will remember this. then maybe for the past you that you look back to.#and im not even mentioning all the transgender stuff #im not normal about this game guys #fishbrain thoughts

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lem0nademouth · 2 months ago

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im a firm believer that the holier than thou attitude of people, usually not from the southeast, loudly projecting how they don’t eat chick fil a as some sort of proof that they are Morally Correct is rooted in classism and lost cause rhetoric but also it shows me y’all have never been to a chick fil a. your local chick fil a is employed by the gayest people in a 50 mile radius. cfa is the number one queer hotspot of your town’s main drag. and i’ll bet you dollars to fucking donuts those employees will say its actually a great place to work because they pay their employees well and are almost never understaffed.

#cfa is usually a southern teen’s first Real JobTM #i was one of the only people in my high school who didn’t work at cfa #because i made just as much money babysitting #but everyone i know who has ever worked at cfa save for one (1) person has had nothing but good things to say abt it #and the one dude who hated it is a shithead anarchocommunist who hates everything

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my-thoughts-and-junk · 2 months ago

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thinking about nora again

#fallout #okay first of all her full maiden name is lenore dubrovhsky #she's somehow related to the russian diplomat who is the grandfather of natalia dubrovhsky #maybe his niece? idk but she immigrated to the us after meeting nate during his tour because she claimed she was IN LOVE #i imagine she was in her late teens and nate was in his early 20s #and she falls for him and he promises he'll help her with going to college in the US and they'll have an equal marriage yadda yadda #so they get married and nora becomes a lawyer #so they've been married around seven years and she's doing her training as a legal secretary when oops! she becomes pregnant #(nate sabotaged her birth control but shhh she doesn't know that)#so nate persuades her into putting her career on hold just for a little while until they can start putting their son in daycare #(shaun takes heavily after nora's side of the family to the point nate jokes about whether his DNA had any say at all)#(he also later joins the army and dies in action)#so nora's being kept at home all the time. taking care of the kid. cooking all the meals. cleaning the house. barely any time for herself #and she gets so frazzled she gets into a minor car accident while taking shaun home from the doctor #nate freaks out and confiscates her car keys so now she can barely get out of the house without him on her arm #barely any adult social interaction and any family she could have had keeping her company was all the way over in russia #so she has a quickie with a door-to-door salesman and when her next kid pops out with red hair #the lack of resemblance to nate stops being funny #he agrees not to leave her but says he can't trust her at home alone anymore so he gets her a job at shaun's elementary school as a teacher #this happened around when shaun was 11 and he's harbored a hatred for his mom and his sister ever since #nate promised to raise the girl like his own but he's distant with her which rubbed off on shaun #so the girl. i'm calling her annabelle. TOTAL mommy's girl. wants to be just like her #so when shaun's seventeen he fakes his enlistment papers so he can be enlisted early and dies in combat #i imagine nora misses the baby boy she raised and is utterly upset he turned out this way #and by 'this way' i mean i imagine him as a patriotic misogynist and nora does not hold kind feelings towards the US for various reasons #nate was proud of his son for dying for a cause he believed in #so when annabelle's six nora gets pregnant again and that's when i imagine the bombs drop #the school nora works for is a really privileged private school (nate comes from old money) and that's where the cryo pods come in!#i imagine it would be like a 'saving america's youth for a brighter tomorrow' thing idk #also the day the bombs dropped nora killed nate before heading off to work. woulda been totally caught had the bombs not dropped HEYOOOO

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slightly-nerdy-rambles · 2 months ago

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I said I'd eventually get back to it, and I did! Just don't pay any mind to how long it took

The latest chapter of Postcards from Tokyo is now up on Ao3 and Fanfiction.net! Beast Boy finally gets his long-awaited tour of Wakamono Shukan, but these being the Titans, shenanigans are pretty much inevitable.

#Teen Titans #writing #fanfiction #Postcards from Tokyo #got to indulge with the “using Beast Boy's shapeshifting to low-key nerd out about animals” writing again #Also somehow ended up with two different references in one chapter #I never watched more than a few random episodes of Yu-Gi-Oh #but I distinctly remember this one part where the two bffs have to duel each other in a tournament that they both need to win #except only one actually needs to win and the other guy just needs the prize money for his sick sister or something #and I was like “guys”#“just let the guy who has to save his grandpa win and give the prize money he doesn't need to his friend”#and I'm pretty sure that's how it was resolved but there was all this angst with them fighting each other first

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piplupod · 4 months ago

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this girl at the centre is rly frivolous with her spending and it's driving me fucking insane because she complains about having no money but then somehow buys DQ lunch every day (a meal there is like $10+ ????) and buys a s.quishmallow or brand new fancy-covered book (not just paperbacks... the ones w embossed covers and cool stuff like that) or other fairly expensive trinkets almost daily ???? and then treats me like I'm being a party pooper if I decline buying food from DQ myself or if I say that I cannot afford some random thing that she tells me I should buy 🧍<- shaking with barely concealed frustrated irritation and tears