#the basic minimum

[ushstuff]

I'm being productive but I feel like I'm not

[arsenicflame]

Bonus round! Do you use a queue tag?

[wheelchairtetris]

Every disabled person deserves several million dollars to build or renovate their perfectly accessible ideal home I am not even joking. I would dismantle the us military in a heartbeat and give millions of dollars to every disabled and/or unhoused person so that they can have a home they love.

[vellichorsdesire]

being horrified at your f/o’s acceptance of the bere minimum or even below that in a relationship and wanting to treat them how they deserve to be treated, full of respect and love and so much more— if they ever end up admitting that they believe they don’t deserve the work you put into being with them, or any other insecurity they might bring up, they’re always comforted by your reassurances even if you might not feel like enough for them, either. it’ll take time for them to get used to your love or really feel at peace with the fact that they deserve this, deserve you, but right now they’re sure of one thing: they love you immensely.

[ghostedtea]

life series people colored w/ randomly generated color palettes

[aerequets]

I have no excuses

[significant-narratives]

i’m going to rip hockey canada to shreds with my bare hands the fact that we’re THIS GOOD when that organization is THAT DYSFUNCTIONAL is crazy. imagine how much young potential is being wasted right now because hockey canada can’t get its shit together.

[wannabemasterofwindintraining]

Following up on the story didn't take me a whole year this time yippee

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[andhumanslovedstories]

Does anyone have advice for getting over the embarrassment of speaking a language you aren’t good at with other people? I’ve studied Spanish, I know a little bit of Spanish, I am trying to learn more Spanish specifically for healthcare providers, but when I’m faced with an actual primarily Spanish speaking patient at my job, I get so nervous and tongue tied I’m like “maybe ‘buenos noches actually means I’m gonna kill you with morphine….i better stick entirely to English.” I know it’s the embarrassment! I don’t wanna sound stupid! And because so many of my patients understand a little English, I can usually muddle thru basic conversations relying on them. Which sucks! I feel bad about that! I’m like “I don’t want to talk in a language I’m not fluent in, so I’ll make them talk in a language I’m not fluent in.”

Also to be clear, this is all for stuff like “do you need the bathroom” or “do you want a pepsi from the kitchen.” I will always use an interpreter for anything more complicated than basic needs. But it’s a pain in the ass to use the interpreter ipad, and no one likes it, including the patients. It’d be nice to use it less and to be able to have more of a rapport with my patients. The foundation of my whole nursing practice is casual small talk with patients to learn more about them and their needs, and my Spanish speaking patients don’t get that.

(Neither do my patients who speak Russian or Taishanese or Vietnamese or but like. I don’t expect myself to learn every language in the world. Right now I just want to learn the language I theoretically kinda learned.)

I’ve been really working on pushing myself to try to speak more Spanish, at least a little bit, but I just have this mental block that I can’t push thru. It’s like all the social anxiety I’ve learned to otherwise cope with or moved on from settled entirely in my insecurity about my language skills. It’s nuts. Then I feel guilty about it which makes the block bigger which I feel guilty about, do you see the pattern here. Has anyone have any advice or resources? Not just for learning the language—I would also really appreciate those—but specifically dealing with this language embarrassment?

[shakingparadigm]

Guardian Urak after ROUND 6 (his fuckass pet that he barely invested in beat another guy's overly-invested in pet)

[barksbog]

one of my favorite games to play with my friends is called "find him"

the way it works is:

i pull up austrian houses for sale

stream it to friends (photos are fine but 3D tours are obviously the best)

than we just look through trying to find the cruzifix boy.

when we locate him we all yell "THERE HE IS" "I FOUND HIM" ect.

optional: i will wiggle my mouse cursor over him while my friends point at their screens

that´s it. that´s the game!

a word of warning tho: you may encounter weird houses that haunt you like the "barn cube" and "red roof/wall/gutters kitchen utensil nightmare"

[l0veyourselfirst]

Austin rewind

[valewritessss]

Why is it that most of the time they either make Annabeth seem like Percy’s mother or they make her a tool for him to be more angsty and dark and disregard all of her character and trauma? Can we normalize making them equals

[baldwinheights]

[disappearinginq]

I thought I was writing 5+ different Slow Horses fic, and I have come to realize I am instead writing one long AU where River and Lamb meet when River is seven and recently dumped at David's house, and they continue to see each other (begrudgingly) throughout the years until River winds up in MI5.

It's basically the same as canon. Truly. The only difference is context to their conversations, like in season one when Lamb is the one to break the news about Sid to River in the car, and then proceeds to give him a glimpse into his own past about how surviving is the short straw, and abruptly wonders why he's telling River anything.

And River never corrects people when they assume it's his granddad pulling strings, when it's really Lamb, because both of them will vehemently deny it, because having connections is dangerous. But Lamb has always liked the fact that River, fundamentally, causes trouble wherever he goes, to the point that Lamb refers to him as a Black Cat. But his favorite River Fuck Up is when River is 12 and David brings him to work, and River promptly wanders off, nosing into places he doesn't belong, which just cements his future ability to continuously break into and steal from MI5 in canon.

Which then leads to my current scenario which is (heavily) inspired by @altschmerzes version of events for their fic Driving the Wedge, and the above gifset, where River is kidnapped by Frank, and Frank is absolutely ripshit that no matter what he does to River, River's loyalty isn't to any family member at all (even if he does love his grandfather), and that is something that Frank just won't tolerate.

[doggosomniac]

hang on i need to post

post my christmas falsie oc first