#uuuuuggggHHHHHHH -_____-

[teslacoils-and-hubris]

In my lab inventing a gender that is modular

[waylouder]

You should post the link to that toy you have, I'm sure plenty of us would love a chance to control your orgasm~

I'M NOT EVEN KIDDING I'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT THIS FOR HOURRRRSSSSS

mutuals can ask for a link at any time <3 everyone may get a link after I've played with it for a while ;)

[werebutch]

No oh my god no fuck off sun do not fucking come out now. I planned on having a quiet day. Please don’t do this ☹️

[lesbianslovebts]

Idk if I can make it to program today without shitting my pants. 💀

[admiralara]

Made a therapy appointment two weeks ago. A week later got a new opportunity. Thought good things were starting to happen to me and thought “wait lol maybe this is what I needed and I’ll be fine!”

Got reminded the purpose of my life this week. And yeah I’m gonna need that appointment

[mizuhandpics]

reminder to everyone that this is what she looked like when she was calling her wife a fucking brat

adrenaline junkie mizu…..

[555-burg]

my laptop battery is swelling so i have to buy a new one and replace it 🫠

[banannabethchase]

With Battle in the Valley and Elimination Chamber on the same night, I'm gonna be so many different levels of bisexual my broken body might implode.

[orangearancialord]

Uuuuugggghhhhhhh... Its too quiet... Where are sadness and annoyance? They've been awfully quiet since purple mentioned the whole "Christmas" thing

-Arancia

[queen-mabs-revenge]

oh no no no 100% agree with you on all of this, and yes omg pls lets interrogate! i think you're so right in all the points you bring up, but i think that gets into more granular detail of what i was trying to say about modern mainstream story telling -- it's constrained by the accepting the system as it is and so is only able to present the 'best possible' but ultimately inadequate solutions within that system. i think that's why at some level it's never going 100% feel fulfilling to the audience as a complete and wholesome solution to the problems its setting up to be solved. the bittersweetness of the narrative is in that underlying political contradiction and presenting, if that makes sense?

like obv i'm kind of brute force looking at it from the political position that the whole shebang is fucked up and needs a systematic overhaul lol. but bc of that i think even the solutions the show presents, that address all of the things you correctly bring up, ultimately feel unfulfilling and upsetting because if the show's world is a reflection of our world, we either consciously or subconsciously understand that the entire situation is deeply fucked up on a level much deeper than those pat solutions can ever address? i think stories like this expose to a tiny extent the contradictions of putting the moral onus on fixing these problems of systematic alienation and exploitation on the atomized individual/nuclear family unit (even if that just manifests in feeling kind of iffy about a dumbass football tv show lmao).

(courtesy read more bc i'm chronically long-winded)

like absolutely the story is showing the problem that both henry and ted are harmed by both their distance from each other and ted's unresolved trauma from his own father dying by suicide. but i think the solution of him moving back to the US to be a present and healing parent is challenged in a lot of ways by the entire arc of the show so far. the past three seasons of development kind of demand the question of how ted can actually be a good parent if that's contradictory shown community bonds that help make ted a more fulfilled human? and i don't think the show can answer that question satisfactorily within the boundaries it's functioning in... which are the boundaries of the reality of the capitalist world in which the story is set (that we're being asked to interact with as a reflection of the world in which we live). and the solutions to these problems in our reality are just as impossible and anti-human to everyone in the nuclear family.

and yes yes yes 100% the gendered aspect of the uncompensated labor and its rigid feminization (as both cause and justification for not compensating that labor) can't be ignored bc it's essential to the story! but that's the contradiction exactly exposed imo? the bourgeois family is literally designed to further demarcate and fossilize the idea of strictly gendered labor that's been carved since the beginning of class society! that michelle was more than likely left with the brunt of the uncompensated reproductive labor even when ted was there, and that now she's close to 100% responsible for it is absolutely true. and yes, ted going back to help shoulder a share of that uncompensated reproductive labor does present the possibility of that being made less of a gendered burden of feminized reproductive labor for her.

but like... holy shit that's bleak!!! even going back to the disintegration of their marriage -- like... michelle has to compromise to maintain a relationship that no longer fulfills her and/or that's causing her harm just bc it's the way she can have some of her uncompensated labor relieved? her financial burden shared?? and even ending that relationship means she's got to start a new one to have those issues addressed bc there's no systematic solution??? it's so so so fucked up bc it's actually reflecting the reality of our irl relationships being forced into transactions to bridge the chasms of exploitation! and again, i think that even if ppl aren't clocking it consciously, we've all lived this shit our entire lives so ofc it's gonna feel like a bitter pill when it's reflected back to us in our media as moral correctness and nobility.

i think the reason why it feels like a pretty upsetting conclusion (even for people not watching the show like a fucking unhinged maniac with marxist goggles lmao) is bc it's the classic thing of presenting the inadequate and individualized solution to the systematic problem as the noble and morally correct thing to do, and more problematically as the only ever possible solution to the problem bc there's is no alternative (that's compatible with capitalism lmao hmmmm🤔).

and like...i think both things can be true at the same time -- it's only human that we to try and ease each others alienation and exploitation under this system and that narratives reflect that, but i think a lot of modern narratives just kind of parrot back (without even a little interrogation) the idea of the nuclear family arrangement as the only way to ease that burden, and present themselves as a morality play of why that arrangement is your noble duty, when actually it's the cause and execution of so much of that alienation, exploitation, and violence to begin with?

i think ultimately the solution presented of ted going back to the us does its best to solve the problems presented by the story within the limitations of the system it's accepting as inevitable, but i think the underlying reason why it feels so itchily unsatisfying and unwholistic is bc the audience at some level understands that it's just presenting and valorizing the usual bandaids on the bullet wounds of the real roiling contradictions under the surface of the story that's being told but not acknowledged. the contradictions we all live with and suffer under every day.

and no i'm not expecting mainstream stories to all of a sudden be revolutionary manifestos (altho ted baby maybe you should believe in communism xoxo) but i'm just rly interested in digging into why ppl react the way they do to those mainstream capitalism-steeped narratives (whether positively or negatively) and what that exposes!

always on my marxist bullshit, but the idea that a parent must be solely devoted to their child to the wholesale detriment and complete exhaustion of themselves is exactly why the bourgeois family is an act of universal violence. no one gets the care they need in that situation, and the ruling class continues to profit off of unpaid reproductive labor through the propaganda that parental exhaustion and monomaniacal devotion is pure, noble, and the only way a child can be raised without harm.

blended families, extended families, and other forms of borderless communal childcare have been the norm for the majority of human existence. the bourgeois family is an unnatural, alienating imposition completely geared towards justifying ruling class generational wealth consolidation, and beatifying a system that compensates 0% of the labor it takes to provide care, comfort, safety, hygiene, etc. for the reproduction of both tomorrow's and the next generation's labor.

anyway real facts this is why mainstream storytelling never can hit just right when it tries to tell the stories of parents and children with both being fulfilled and complete human beings. it literally can't propose a resolution to those contradictions unless it wants to start asking a whoooooole lot of other questions about families and social reproduction under capitalism....

[gluttonygirls]

widestwaistlines

still cute

chubbykanmuses

ADORABLE LET ME PAMPER HER

“Uuuuugggghhhhhhh....”

[subuwu-dyke]

Maybe broke my toe right before a whole week of baking shifts uuuuugggghhhhhhh

[bulliness]

Uuuuugggghhhhhhh i don't want to do anything 😫

[purplelordstudios]

Uuuuugggghhhhhhh

-Arancia

Somebody's got a hangover

-Purple

Shut up

-Arancia

But ya do, this is what you get for chugging two gallons of apple juice

-purple

The room is spinning and I think I'm gonna throw up-

-Arancia

Aaannnnnddddd back to bed with you, come on let's get you back to your dorm and in bed

-Purple

But it's quiet and empty in there

-Arancia

I'm right next door, and I got the room with the wall door so you don't get in shit for wandering the halls

-Purple

Thank you... My stomach hurts

-Arancia

I know stupid, I know

-Purple

[Arancia spends the rest of the day in bed with a pounding headache and a displeased stomach]

[tiltedstoner]

Uuuuugggghhhhhhh

[auntbibby]

“Decay Is An Extant Form Of Life”

i once looked up the word “Extant” becuz of this common internet line, and discovered to my horror that it’s a synonym of “existing”. it means “not extinct”.

as in, IT DOESNT ADD ANYTHING TO THE LINE. YOU MIGHT AS WELL SAY “DECAY IS A FORM OF LIFE”

UUUUUGGGGHHHHHHH (dies from hatred of unearned pretentiousness)