#the knowledge to succeed

[notbecauseofvictories]

in terms of my other hobbies, I feel like every warm sunny afternoon finds me with my forehead pressed up against my back window, muttering ".......planting time? time for plants? plant?????" to myself as I stare at my empty tomato cages.

[lucky-clover-gazette]

always funny seeing zelda fans discuss shadow link as the same character as dark link, and characterizing him as intimidating and scary and a serious threat… like once you’ve read the four swords manga you can only ever perceive him as the cringefail gay loser he is

[duncans-idahoe]

There is only one person who would call those homes “domiciles” and my worst fear has in fact been confirmed

[taegularities]

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[vammieposts]

AP SCORES RELEASED IN A COUPLE DAYS IM SCARED

[ante--meridiem]

Well. Potentially inadvisable message I sent a few days ago not really expecting a reply to did, in fact, get a reply.

[tea-earl-grey]

ok so one of the weird tardiswiki articles that gets circulated around tumblr a lot is an article on prostates that has a single line about the First Doctor not having a prostate:

and i know a lot of weird shit happens in Doctor Who books. trust me, i've read many of them. but i just could not imagine how the Doctor's lack of a prostate could possibly be relevant to a 2006 short story so curiosity won over and i read the story which was pretty standard short trips fair about a holiday town being stuck in the 1930s while people from the 1990s start to accidentally come in and experience racism (i guess?) and after a few pages i start to get more confused about how a prostate is relevant here and then we open a scene with this:

and i mean... i don't know why we needed to know that but thanks? i feel like this line meant to drive in the fact that the Doctor is an alien and yadda yadda but it really just reads like the First Doctor is trans. good for him i guess.

[thousand-sunnies]

Killing Ace off after the whole Marineford arc is such a fascinating choice narratively. Like, it’s not a bad one per se, but man, I wish I could’ve been there when the manga was first coming out to see the readers’ reactions. Because after how important saving him has been built up to be – all the people dying in his name, not to mention Luffy’s whole thing – the fact that he dies anyway is just so interesting.

[caiusmarciuscoriolanus]

Idk if I was blinded a little bit by mads mikkelsen or this is just an unpopular opinion. Hear me out: Tonny in pusher 2 isn’t a complete pile of garbage 🤷🏻‍♂️. Like I get that he spent most of the movie doing progressively bad shit but I don’t think some people are actually taking into account the gravity of his situation or how the circumstances of his environment has affected his life. Like im of the full understanding that most people have full control over their actions and should be held accountable. Like I said, Tonny made bad choices and did bad things. But there’s such an important topic in this film that I don’t see a ton of people talk about. He mentions to the mother of his child in one scene that the events of the first movie with frank left him with a traumatic brain injury and that it affects his memory. But (through mads’s acting choices) we see time and time again as he tries to prove himself to others, he has a difficult time thinking critically about his actions before he does them. This shows itself every time he tries to prove himself to his father. It shows everytime “the cunt” takes advantage of him and manipulates him into helping him. And even towards the end when he takes his son and runs. It even shows in tiny moments, like when he’s having a convo with the mother of his child and she tries to hand him off the baby to smoke a cigarette. He looks at her confused and she says “ take his legs”. For the most part, people know not to grab a baby by the legs. But he does it because he’s so focused on his own awkward nature that his brain tells him to grab the babies legs almost on autopilot. It’s only after she calls him stupid (as almost everyone else in the film has repeatedly called him as well) that he realizes he wasn’t actually suppose to grab the babies legs. There’s more instances where it’s made apparent that the general physical brain trauma and the trauma that has been built up by his father (which we can assume has been a long time thing) has caused issues for him in the long run. You could argue that his father was done with his sons antics,but based on the fact that his father owns what is basically a car theft business and also later asks that tonny be the one to kill his ex wife, it’s made evident that his father isn’t necessarily a good person either. Not to mention the fact that his father had no intention to feel even the slightest bit of compassion after tonny finds out about his own mother and repeatedly expresses how she was crazy and in turn, lumping her in as another reason for him to hate his own son. I see all the time people say “well I was raised in a similar fashion and I know better than to fuck up like that and do bad stuff like that”. And that’s fine. But your story and how you handle it doesn’t dictate how others do. Everyone is dealt a certain hand and has to use whatever skills are given to them to decide how they go about it. If your decision making skills are off and you have no support system, and you think everyone is a against you, how can you possibly heal or make things better for yourself. You can argue “but it’s fiction, it’s not a realistic scenario” and you’d be wrong. I know personally a couple of people in similar boats. Sometimes, the system isn’t set up for people. And sometimes they struggle their whole lives to figure it out. And sometimes they don’t. Most of all it’s genuinely depressing and sad. But that doesn’t mean that tonny didn’t have the ability to be a good person. Or that he was inherently a bad person. He was just a human in a state of making bad decisions and doing bad things. I think you see that in the way he treats the baby despite the hand the of his raising. He could easily decide to be a bad father, to neglect the baby at times. But really it’s the only time we see him genuinely gentle and at ease. He knows how it feels to be small and to have bigger beings in your face. They decide if you’re worthy of their time and affection. So he tries to make it a point to take on being a dad even if he’s not sure how.

[lateseptemberdawn]

No but like. Men could be the lowest of the low, not be knowing the most basic shit, inept at wit or anything else pertaining to the brain or mind or conscious, and yet the audacity be there. Like. How.

[landoffreaksandfrogs]

any homestuck blog worth their boonbonds has a designated trollsona.

this is mine, a page of light limeyblood who lives in a tidepool brooding cavern posing as a jade. his lusus is a huge fuckin snail. because. effervescent.......

he uses poolnoodleKind because when he was setting up his sylladex and strife specibus he. was more focused on trying to be funny and dumb than strategize and now hes stuck with it.

[thecodeveronica]

You know, I'm gonna justify my decision to replay Code Veronica again rather than any of the many games in my backlog by saying it's research for fic writing

[ktempestbradford]

We believe Powell’s workers deserve a living wage and affordable healthcare, but the Company has yet to bring a proposal to the bargaining table that would ensure every Powell’s worker has access to both. Their most generous proposal thus far included a base wage more than $5 below the living wage for an individual in the Portland metro area; annual wage increases that wouldn’t keep pace with inflation (and are a substantial decrease from the previous contract); and healthcare options that would be out of reach for most workers under their wage proposal.

Booksellers cannot subsist on their love for the job, and neither Powell's nor their customers benefit from a workforce that's constantly turning over because the workers can't afford food, housing, or medical care. Powell's leadership has a responsibility to both their workers and their community to do better.

Let Powell’s leadership know you support a fair contract for Powell’s workers, with a living wage and access to affordable healthcare! It’s important that they know workers have the support of the community in these demands.

[tanjir0se]

Sk8 inspired me to go back to the skate park with Cam and call me Langa I ride Goofy, am illiterate, and have a crush on my skating partner

[crippledanarchy]

Maybe it's the anarchism in me but Something that never makes sense, but I see happening constantly, is new people joining a community and Day One establishing themselves as The Authority And Spokesperson

You see it in young queer kids, baby leftists, etc

What's with the hesitation to just listen and absorb for a few years? Why not get some experience under your belt before you start making universal statements that you can't even begin to back up?

You don't know what you don't know

[velocityinstitute]