#so i get a freebie on it ;)

[humming-fly]

This 4th of July I’m stealing the patriotism euphoria that’s usually associated with assholes idolizing the worst attributes of this country because fuck ‘em I live here too and remembering the things this country actually got Right is an important exercise when trying to rally anyone to want to defend it in November SO putting my money where my mouth is I’ll start easy and say I really like National Parks!! It’s rad how many of them there are and how they’re actual set up to preserve some of the most beautiful wild areas in our country while still letting people visit to enjoy and experience nature!! (Less important but I love how they put national parks on the quarters I think that’s real fun)

Feel free to add on if something speaks to ya!

[icantalk710]

Very glad my team gets the option to work from home for quarter-end week 😌☕🥐

[heartorbit]

WAOT WERE U THE ONE TSUKASA COSPLAYER AT MIKUEXPO GIVING OUT MIKU STICKERS TO THE PJSK FANS

THATS ME!!!!! i didn't mean to just give them to pjsk fans help but i severely underestimated how many i should've made and cut out .. so i just ended up giving them to cosplayers or people who said hi to me .... T_T

THERE'S ALSO THIS SUPER CUTE BRACELET SOMEBODY RAN UP TO ME AND GAVE ME AND I TREASURE IT SO I NEED TO ADD IT TO THE POST AND SHOW IT OFF .. WAH!!!! ITS SO CUTE LOOK!!!!!!

[kitkatsgalore]

you have my soul, you have my heart ♡

[moeblob]

"Dan Heng was right." - the trailblazer

[linoyes]

GOOD MORNING IM GONNA SEE SKZ TODAY!!!!!!!!!!

[cringengl]

I honestly think that the biggest problem the percy jackson show has, which is basically where the trio manage to figure out everything, such as the lotus casino, crusty's waterbeds, medusa etc is because the showrunners wanted to fit all of these little details and point of the journey into the show to appease all the fans and be different from the movies, but with only 8 episodes and 30-40 mins per episode, they really don't have time to have the trio be tricked by all these things, get into serious danger, then figure it out

I really think the show would benefit from like 5-7 more episodes because the book is too long for the length of show they are making

[smolstarthief]

Persona 5 Royal Crossover events stop calling Sumire, "Kasumi" challenge (Impossible). 😮‍💨😭

[vidumavi]

ok listen. i know a lot of people prefer Eluréd and Elurín dying the mortal way and i understand why. however nimloth is my blorbo and i will cheerfully ignore the more impactful version of the story to give her a happier ending rentfree in my brain lives a scenario where the twins are re-embodied along with Nimloth, so Elwing one day opens her door to find her mother (who is now younger than she is) and her brothers (who are the exact same age Elrond and Elros were when she lost them). the potential for angst here is so multilayered. Nimloth trying to raise her kids (who died, which has to come with its own challenges) while the kid she didn't get to raise is right there. Elwing doing her best to help while trying not to see her own twins in them and being constantly afraid she's replacing them. One of them lost her children and kept her husband and vice versa. They both feel so guilty about so many things. They both try not to feel resentful about so many things. They're both so traumatized and trying to hide it because they don't want to put even more on the other (they both think the other had it worse). the messy bittersweetness of it all

[norcumii]

I read the Twilight books once – I think it was some time after the third one came out, and a very nice lady who shared a bus stop with me had nothing else to talk about except her new favorite books. She even gave me a copy, and I was willing to read ‘em. It was a nice gesture, and I was pretty deep into the realms of depression and such where anything that might be a distraction was welcome.

I honestly don’t recall much of the stalking and other classic bits people reference as horrible – I’m sure that’s a direct result of said depression. The thing I remember most is the part that enraged me, the one thing that often made me toss my kindle aside and pace about in utter frustration.

Y’see, at that time I had also JUST been learning how to drive stick. Something like within two years at most, I had gone from a what was only technically a driver to having to know how to drive a manual – with training, at least. (Though mainly in Pittsburgh. That was more the trial by fire.) And the thing you need to understand is that I do remember Stephanie Myer went into excessive detail about cars.

And apparently the sparkly vampires liked their fellow antiques old cars. Or fancy speedy bullshit, where manual gearing is considered classy, more precise and more high brow (I also used to have a friend who was really into cars who told me these things). Bella *checks notes to make sure that’s the right name* goes into MASSIVE detail about how her dad got her HER VERY OWN VEHICLE and it was suuuuuuch a let down because it was an old clunker of a truck.

Me? I was ecstatic. I was going to see a character learning to drive stick! Or at least a nod would have to be made towards “Good thing I learned to drive that tractor that one summer!” or some such excuse and that would make me feel awesome about how yes, this is a relatable element of Growing Up and Adulting!

N O T H I N G.

Not.

ONE.

Single.

Word.

I was baffled. Then I was furious. It wasn’t even that I felt cheated, it was that this was such a basic thing that nevermind sparkly vampires or werewolves, an utter lack of mentioning the challenges of driving stick for a new driver, even in the slightest passing, was utterly world breaking to me. No immersion for me, it was just GONE.

Oh, I read all of the first two books (though the second one was more because I had Theories about the weird maybe telepathy and shit that was really just depressive hallucinations or something bizarrely lame like that?). Or, more accurately, I speed-read through those bastards, desperate to get to the next part where cars were described in excessive detail BUT THE ACTUAL EXPERIENCE OF DRIVING STICK – OR NOT, SINCE SHE’D BE USED TO A MANUAL DUE TO HER SUPPOSED SHITTY PICKUP – WAS NEVER EVER ONCE MENTIONED.

I didn’t bother reading the third book, because it was clear by then that it just wasn’t gonna happen.

Anyway. Give this somewhat irrational obsession pet peeve of mine, I suppose it shouldn’t surprise me that I just ragequit a book where a bunch of superheroes were on a runaway train without sufficient e-brakes only ELECTRONICALLY CONTROLLED from a mere three points across a WHOLE DAMN COMMUTER TRAIN which is your most significant form of travel in the Near Future.

I DON’T CARE HOW FAR IN THE POST-APOCALYPTIC FUTURE YOU ARE, THERE’S STILL GONNA BE SOME KIND OF NTSB EQUIVALENT ESPECIALLY IF YOU STILL HAVE ENOUGH OF A MURICA TO HAVE A CIVIL WAR FOR GODS’ SAKE AND THEY’RE STILL GONNA HAVE REGULATIONS SO THIS SORT OF SHIT DON’T HAPPEN! That’s not how vehicles should fail! Yes I checked wikipedia to make sure this wasn’t somehow a horrific failure in current design I didn’t want to imagine! And for crying out loud, I understand that the characters are teenagers and panicking, but teenagers are vicious (affectionate), and if your friend has an adaptive mutation that evolves depending on the danger of a situation then you learn to step up and shove your friend off the speeding train.

[vamp-a-day]

day 73

no energie :(

[penultimate-step]

My one contribution to the US election discourse is that in the future, I think people of all political affiliations should probably prioritize swaying public opinion more.

I think discussion about using the voting system to push candidates further left, either through voting compromise candidates or through withholding votes to try and force the candidates to listen to their left advocates, are somewhat misguided. In the past the administration has barely budged on many of these issues, so I am skeptical that "push them left" works quite in that manner. However I think part of the reason this is ineffective is that they are aware that for however many people protest it is never going to be an unignorable part of their base.

But people who argue for more direct action face the same problem - any organized movement for non-vote based political change that attempts to oppose the government will need massive popular support if it hopes to succeed. Done by a small minority they will simply be suppressed.

I don't know, I generally find most of this discourse as fundamentally kind of glossing over the fact that a great deal of the US citizenry is opposed to leftist policies. And as someone who supports many of these policies that does depress me. But I think at some point we do have to grapple with the fact that there isn't really a bureaucratic or military way to avoid the problem of 80% of the country being opposed to what we want to do. This is perhaps the root issue here, that we must address. Regardless on if we're discussing electoral or non-electoral solutions I generally think a campaign of educating, convincing, and adjustment to public opinion is a prerequisite to broader change.

[frankthesnek]

Tony *pointing at Strange*: he slapped my ass once.

Steve *glaring possessively*: excuse me?

Strange: it wasn't me it was the cloak!

Steve *grabbing the cloak off strange*: i'm gonna throw it in the wash with my dirty uniforms....on the heavy cycle.

[queerstudiesnatural]

Hi besties <3 

So. to put it plainly, I am Struggling. Mentally, and financially, because I just quit my job for mental health reasons. I’m still gonna be working full time for a couple months because I didn't want to abandon my students, but then I’ll only keep a part time job that’s gonna allow me to pay rent, but not much else. 

I kinda need your help, but instead of making a donation post, I made a Patreon.

If you become a patron, first of all I’ll love you forever. You’ll also get to commission things like edits, amvs, art, and even handmade things and objects. Also you can always unsubscribe after a month, I won’t get mad <3

But if one-time tips are more your vibe I also have a Ko-fi. 

And finally here’s a link to my Etsy shop 🌸

I hope you’ll consider checking these out. I love you best friends. Mwah <3

[technovillain]

*rubs my evil hands together* <-just realized that i can have another story stickers printed and not only have them for my own evil purposes but spread by agenda by sticking them in my etsy ordersss...

[ayushipop]

Hi guys u need to know i saw my beautiful angel princess pookie bear today