#we deserve better than this

[desiredrealityx]

I WILL NOT ACCEPT A LIFE I DO NOT DESERVE

I WILL NOT ACCEPT A LIFE I DO NOT DESERVE

I WILL NOT ACCEPT A LIFE I DO NOT DESERVE

Stop settling for less than you deserve. You don't like your life? Manifest a better one or SHIFT. Stop accepting a life you don't like.

You can be grateful for what you have but gratitude shouldn't stop you from wanting more.

"My CR isn't that bad"

Would you shift here if it wasn't your CR?

No? I thought so.

If you answered yes, I'm fucking jealous.

Now go shift and live the life you deserve. You can shift. You deserve to shift and live a life you enjoy. Live, not just survive.

[lapis-lazuliie]

how was it queerbaiting? Chas was openly gay. plus Joe never said he was straight. he just said he was married. bisexuality exists.

joe was straight; he'd been with a woman for years, and outright tells chas that he's marrying another woman very soon. he hated chas, and admitted to him that he "did things he wasn't proud of" with him to earn his love and trust. suggesting he's bisexual just makes this more gross, so thanks anon

[magsinhiding]

My mood currently is deeply angry about climate change and US healthcare, alternating with fantasies of seizing every health insurer’s money or hostile takeover of BP and then divesting of all fossil fuels at once to cope. And binging all the Bridgerton novels on audiobook. And repeat. No wonder I haven’t wanted to leave my apartment this weekend.

Please enjoy two photos of my cats who are living their best lives.

[cardassiansunrise]

i cannot bring myself to delete the original twitter thread of my fotc fic but like,, i also cannot just have it at large on my profile, unpinned. the Dilemma

if editing tweets was allowed beyond the 30min after posting window, the solution would be so simple. alas, musk hates gays who can’t type

[inthecityofgoodabode]

January 2023: Tyre Nichols

It is a sad time in The City. If you don’t know about Tyre Nichols’s murder, here is some local reporting. My heart goes out to Mr. Nichols’s family & friends. This moment should be about them & Mr. Nichol’s but I know some people will make a talking point out of the fact that the 5 police officers involved are African-American in an attempt to absolve all officers of racist bias. 

The reality is that policing in America has its roots in systemic racism & white supremacy. Anyone trained in such a system will be corrupted regardless of background & intentions. Add to that, the fact that giving human beings power over their fellow human beings has always led to corruption & abuse. The United States has, with few exceptions, responded to the symptoms of its systemic racism & economic inequality by increasing spending on law enforcement rather than spending that money on programs that would address some of those disparities and, in turn, alleviate the symptoms. I don’t know about elsewhere in the world but, in the United States, the police are trained to see the citizenry, who pay the taxes that employ & insure them, as potential criminals & they treat us accordingly. I say that as someone who, simply because of his skin tone, has survived encounters with law enforcement that have left other men & women dead. For a reality check, the local police academy takes 21 weeks to complete but, in order to get a license to do natural hair in Tennessee requires no less that 300 hours. Let that sink in, the girl doing your locs had more hours of training than the cop on the street with a gun.  

I’ve said this before but I once thought the kind of social justice I talked about would be some antiquated thing that young people would simply look at me about & say in a reassuring, although slightly patronizing, way, “Sure, pops. Everyone know that these days.” On subjects like this, I wish I had outlived any usefulness I might have. I would rather be a relic than relevant. 

[agathaharkness-simp]

currently balling because of the cancellation of warrior nun

[livingasaghost]

i feel like johanna mason being like "they can't hurt me, there's no one left i love" except it's capitalism taking away my favorite shows and making shittier movies and ruining the music industry with tiktok and just overall stealing true joy and expression from every part of the entertainment industry

[chloesimaginationthings]

The tragedy of being William Afton’s daughter in FNAF..

[youchangedmedestiel]

Imo the best ending to Supernatural would have been to just stop with them alive on a random hunt or them finding jobs and living the life they just wanted or whatever.

And then the story just fucking STOP, because Chuck is not here anymore, so they are no longer part of a story they are finally free. And we could still write and read fanfic about how they live after they won.

[hazzasultimatekiwi]

there is no shirt for my residency 😭

[mcr-heritage-posts]

hey everyone - i know there’s a lot going on in the world right now, a lot of causes that need support and visibility now more than ever.

i’d like to take an opportunity to highlight a cause that’s very literally close to home for me: i live very, very close to springfield, ohio. the haitian community there has always needed help and support but now, with white supremacist rhetoric and bold faced lies being circulated nationally, with threats of violence and heightened ignorance being more common than ever, they need it perhaps more than they ever have.

there has been a lot of hate since trump and his little bootlicker attack dog jd vance have started this shit, but there’s also been an outpouring of love and community outreach in the weeks since springfield was thrust into the worst kind of spotlight.

the hatian community support and help center has been invaluable in helping hatian refugees get what they need to start a new life here. they are headed by a team of haitian immigrants that are personally familiar with what their fellow immigrants need. they have been instrumental in keeping their community from falling through the cracks.

i’m humbly asking, if any of you can - please, please consider donating to the HCSHC. every bit helps. and if you can’t donate, please, please share this around. if you’ve ever reblogged one of my posts or found them funny, if you’ve ever scrolled through and liked and reblogged what i’ve put here, i implore you to share this too. this is a very personal cause for me; i want to see these people who are new here, who enrich our community but are met with too much derision and spite, receive the help, respect, and dignity they deserve.

[racewinnerlandonorris]

it actually really bothers me how it was always “daniel to red bull” now it’s “liam to red bull” but it’s never once been “yuki to red bull” when he’s been driving the life out of that car for years

[inkskinned]

you were raised in comparison.

it wasn't always obvious (well. except for the times that it was), but you internalized it young. you had to eat what you didn't like, other people are going hungry, and you should be grateful. you had to suck it up and walk on the twisted ankle, it wasn't broken, you were just being a baby. you were never actually suffering, people obviously had it worse than you did.

you had a roof over your head - imagine! with the way you behaved, with how you talked back to your parents? you're lucky they didn't kick you out on your ass. they had friends who had to deal with that. hell, you have friends who had to deal with that. and how dare you imply your father isn't there for you - just because he doesn't ever actually talk to you and just because he's completely emotionally checked out of your life doesn't mean you're not fucking lucky. think about your cousins, who don't even get to speak to their dad. so what if yours has a mean streak; is aggressive and rude. at least you have a father to be rude to you.

you really think you're hurting? you were raised in a home! you had access to clean water! you never so much as came close to experiencing a real problem. sure, okay. you have this "mental illness" thing, but teenagers are always depressed, right. it's a phase, you'll move on with your life.

what do you mean you feel burnt out at work. what do you mean you mean you never "formed healthy coping mechanisms?" we raised you better than that. you were supposed to just shoulder through things. to hold yourself to high expectations. "burning out" is for people with real jobs and real stress. burnout is for people who have sick kids and people who have high-paying jobs and people who are actually experiencing something difficult. recently you almost cried because you couldn't find your fucking car keys. you just have lost your sense of gratitude, and honestly, we're kind of hurt. we tell you we love you, isn't that enough? if you want us to stick around, you need to be better about proving it. you need to shut up about how your mental health is ruined.

it could be worse! what if you were actually experiencing executive dysfunction. if you were really actually sick, would you even be able to look at things on the internet about it? you just spend too much time on webMD. you just like to freak yourself out and feel like you belong to something. you just like playing the victim. this is always how you have been - you've always been so fucking dramatic. you have no idea how good you have it - you're too fucking sensitive.

you were like, maybe too good of a kid. unwilling to make a real fuss. and the whole time - the little points, the little validations - they went unnoticed. it isn't that you were looking for love, specifically - more like you'd just wanted any one person to actually listen. that was all you'd really need. you just needed to be witnessed. it wasn't that you couldn't withstand the burden, but you did want to know that anyone was watching. these days, you are so accustomed to the idea of comparison - you don't even think you belong in your own communities. someone always fits better than you do. you're always the outlier. they made these places safe, and then you go in, and you are just not... quite the same way that would actually-fit.

you watch the little white ocean of your numbness lap at your ankles. the tide has been coming in for a while, you need to do something about it. what you want to do is take a nap. what you want to do is develop some kind of time machine - it's not like you want your life to stop, not completely, but it would really nice if you could just get everything to freeze, just for a little while, just until you're finished resting. but at least you're not the worst you've been. at least you have anything. you're so fucking lucky. do you have any concept of the amount of global suffering?

a little ant dies at the side of your kitchen sink. you look at its strange chitinous body and think - if you could just somehow convince yourself it is enough, it will finally be enough and you can be happy. no changes will have to be made. you just need to remember what you could lose. what is still precious to you.

you can't stop staring at the ant. you could be an ant instead of a person, that is how lucky you are. it's just - you didn't know the name of the ant, did you. it's just - ants spend their whole life working, and never complain. never pull the car over to weep.

it's just - when it died, it curled up into a tight little ball.

something kind of uncomfortable: you do that when you sleep.

[tainebot01]

So… how we feeling about these new names?

[ohrackham]

what was the point of lila thinking home was a feeling she didn't deserve and could never earn until she found diego. what was the point of them finding deep, meaningful love in each other. what was the point of lila opening her heart and confessing that all she really wanted was a family with him.

what was the point of developing diego and lila over two seasons, creating such a beautiful, chaotic bond, just to destroy it for no reason.

[victorie552]

My hot take is that Maedhros and Maglor would not be all that suprised that Silmarils burned them - they know what they did.

But. They would, completely irrationally, be suprised that Silmarils burned their brother.