#we have to put that in now.

[batcavescolony]

Katniss is such an unreliable narrator. She says "Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don't expect it because I don't think of District 12 as a place that cares about me" girl you deliver strawberries to the Mayor, you hunt and trade for the district, when you fell at Prim being chosen someone caught you, when you went to Prim people parted for you, when you volunteered EVERYONE stopped. Idk how to tell you but I think you're a pillar of the community.

[stemmmm]

the scene people keep screaming about from chapter 5 of theseus' guide

[indigo6f00ff]

need to share an experience i had 30 minutes ago

(edit: thanks to @walks-the-ages for providing and reminding me to put alt text, sorry it slips my mind alot lol)

[creekfiend]

something that drives me insane on a relatively regular basis as a body jewelry understander is talking to people who have sensitive skin who are like "oh well I just can't wear any earrings without my ears getting inflamed" and I say "well what have you tried" and they say "well I've tried sterling silver and I've tried gold..." and it's like. ok. I don't know how gold and sterling somehow got spun by the jewelry industry as being especially good for sensitive skin but whenever I'm like "well have you tried implant grade titanium" they're always like "no....... but I've tried sterling silver... and it didn't work ..." like. I don't know how this narrative about sterling silver somehow got so strong but when they put pins in your fucking legs when you snap your leg in half are those pins made of sterling silver or are they made of implant grade titanium or surgical steel????????? HELLO. HI. YOU MIGHT BENEFIT FROM TRYING IMPLANT GRADE TITANIUM I AM JUST SAYING

[egophiliac]

can't believe that skeleman has turned on us, and Halloween Prom is tomorrow.

(what a top-tier UM...we are about to be just totally obliterated in the absolute silliest way. what possible use could this power have outside of bringing us to the brink of utter holiday disaster.)

[xxplastic-cubexx]

obligatory beach divorce doodling

bonus rough cover redraw of x-men #41 (1995) But Beach Divorce below cut

[floccinaucinihilipilificationa]

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

...Turns out gay sex actually was the solution.

(This is basically a redraw, come read the real deal over at Tiger Tiger)

[choccy-milky]

@foundthatoldzeppelinshirt what did u do to me...what in the wattpad is this... i only planned to do a few doodles but then i kept getting more brainrotted and things got out of hand LMAOO (and ofc i HAD to draw hockey player seb at SOME POINT bc its my duty as a canadian citizen🫡🍁🍁 O CANADA!!!)

[cthulhum]

does anyone realize how crazy it is to have the actor of a mostly headcanoned queer ship say the fans were never crazy and they were right all along after 10+ years of everyone just absolutely going nuts over the said queerbaited ship

[teaboot]

I feel like if you're using a lot of disposable plastic bags in your day to day life, you've gotta do something sustainable to make up for it. Like using bamboo toilet paper or eco friendly cat litter or something, yknow

Honestly I exaggerate for comedic effect, while I DO routinely use ziplock bags to hold spaghetti I cook maybe once a month and the bag itself is usually for freezer storage. I actually throw out maybe one bag a week? I DO hate washing plates and tupperware and junk but that usually just means I eat sandwiches without a plate.

I agree though that needless waste should be avoided, and I do avoid it- biodegradable bags and recyclables, empty butter tubs used to store leftovers, etc.

This said, though, not applicable necessarily for myself but for a lot of others- I feel that it's importat to remember that there are many people who legitimately NEED things like plastic straws, or catheters, or pre-packaged foods

And the idea that that's a moral failing that individuals need to personally make up for when a single billionaire blows out more CO2 in a long weekend than I will in my whole life on a superjet meet-cute in the Bolivian rainforest between humvee drag races funded by the river-polluting textiles plants they planted in a third world country to avoid EPA laws and give an entire village stillbirths and stomach cancer is an idea that those very same bigwigs have spent a LOT of time and money investing in planting in the public psyche.

Like- Glass bottles are infinitely recyclable, so why are so many drinks in plastic now? Loads of drinks manufacturers used to buy them back and clean them for re-use, so why did they stop? If they chose to make something out of a limited and environmentally irresponsible material, why is it my failing to track down a correct process of disposal for them? What if there are none in my area? Do I lobby for more recycling plants in my area? Do I set aside some of my limited time outside the pain factory of my job- which I have more than one of, thanks to rising costs of things just like that drink I just emptied- to properly dispose of this company's waste FOR them?

Say coca-cola just rolled up to your town and started dumping millions of empty plastic bottles in the street, going, "wow, you should really think about building and staffing a recycling depot, it would be really shameful of you to just put these in the trash." When companies purposefully use materials with limited lifespans- because yes, even plastic can only be reused so many times- and tell you it's your own fault if it harms the environment- that's essentially what they're doing, just with more steps.

Yes, its important to be as environmentally concious as we can in our day to day life, but responsible sustainability is not catholicism. We don't get good boy points from our lord and savior Captain Planet every time the average low-income household gathers together to hold hands and repent for a single-use plastic that allows them to access something they need.

Entire families could eat trees and shit dead lithium batteries for years and still not do as much damage to the planet as an average dye plant or braindead celebrity does in a week just for fun, and I'm mad about it

...this went on longer than intended.

TL/DR: DO recycle and minimize waste, but don't beat yourself up over the little waste you can't avoid, and follow the money.

EDIT: Part 2

[myriadxofxmuses]

Sydney agreed with silent nods as she spoke. Given her upbringing, she hadn’t been one to cherish memories.  There were so few that she was beginning to have a hard time recalling them. Only bits and pieces remained. But here talking with Ky was bringing up a lot of long forgotten emotions tied to the most important ones.  She was surprisingly enjoying the reminiscing.

The mention of comics caught her attention. Now she knew Ky and D would hit it off. The short, two years they spent as friends had ingrained itself so deeply that those were memories she would never forget. Including when she’d caught him reading comics and subsequently how much he’d enjoyed them once she convinced him he wasn’t a nerd for it. 

“Thanks,” she said with a tip of her bottle and a small huff of a chuckle. “And you’re one of the first people I haven’t wanted to put a bullet through your eyes,” she added playfully, taking a drink.

------

Two weeks later.

"So have you talked to Ky yet?" Syd asked Daryl as they loaded up a truck for about upcoming run.

Immediately a soft blush tried to make its way to his cheeks. "Yea. A little," he told her of their concersation at his place a few nights ago. And the few times they'd managed to catch a few words in between duties. "Why? S'she said somethin'?"

Sydney shrugged and shook her head. "Just curious," she half lied as she shut the truck bed and leaned against it. "But I still think you guys would hit it off."

"Yea. You n'Carol. She's been tellin' me tha same," he admitted, now leaning against the back bumper himself. He pulled a smoke from his pocket and lit up. "You two better cut it out. Ky s'too good for a guy like me," he told her with slight disappointment.

"You mean a good guy who actually gives a shit?" she asked rhetorically. "You gotta stop being so hard on yourself D. You'd be great for her and I really think you should take the chance."

Daryl silently smoke and took in her urging, even if he didn't agree.

"Tell you what. I'll give you an easy in. I found out she has a penchant for comics too," she told him.

He looked her way with what she could assume was hope he might be wrong like she said. In reality he was both surprised with the information and terrified she'd told Ky how much he enjoyed them too.

"Don't worry. I didn't tell her you're a geek for them too," she both assured and teased him. "But maybe you'll find something on the run." She pulled a folded up map out of her pocket. "Here," she told him, pointing to a marked spot.

He took it from her and looked it over. The spot was right on their route. "What's this?" he asked with a shrug, sliding the map in his back pocket.

"Comic store I saw on my way in here. I used it as a marker to find my way if I had to," ahw explained just as she caught sight of Ky coming their way. "Speak of the devil," she said with a knowing grin his way.

“Oh loads,” she joked back. “My social calendar is full up. Guess Negan’ll have to wait his turn,” she added with a smirk, taking a drink of her beer.

Nice, huh? Syd smirked into her bottle as she drank, Ky’s word swirling through her mind. She had found Daryl nice of all things. Not gruff. Or standoffish. Or the most popular first impression - the lone wolf type. Which he very much was, but she had found him nice. Interesting.

“He can be quite the chatterbox once you get to know him,” she told her, finishing off her slice and dusting off her fingers on her pants. “Or you get him drunk,” she teased him with a wiggle of her bottle.

She left the kitchen and headed into the living room. While she was grateful for what they had there, and also back at her place, she sure wished there was t.v. to kick back and watch. Anything at all. She’d even watch the news - even if it would have been the usual reports of death and destruction.

“You know what I miss?” she asked aloud. “Did you ever watch that gross, cryptkeeper guy that used to tell scary stories on t.v.? That. Of all the shows I remember as a kid, that’s the one I wish I could watch right now,” she continued. “Sort of ironic considering the walking dead would have been a great episode back then. Never thought life would be like getting sucked into one,” she added with a small chuckle before taking another drink. “Well, that, and Three Stooges. Its corny as fuck, but my grandma used to love that show. We would watch reruns late at night whenever she watched me,” she reminisced mostly to herself to keep the silence at bay.

Was it surprising that she had described Daryl as nice? The look on Syd’s face kind of led Kyleigh to believe it was but that was how he had been with her. Oh she saw how he was with the others, very short answers to their questions, right to the point. She couldn’t blame him for that. With the way the world was these days why let that many people get to know you when they could be gone the next morning? Maybe she was the one being too nice to him, but damn it was hard to find people she could stand and she could definitely stand to be around Daryl more often.

Tucking away that little bit of information and the fact that she was going to do her best to find some liquor while she was out on her next run, the half lycan finished off her beer as well and tossed the empty bottle in the trash. She wondered where the hell they were putting it all, shrugging it off quickly after. As long as it wasn’t near her why bother to even care?

The pretty living room of the house seemed so empty without a television in it, but even with electricity there still was no shows to binge watch or even just have the damn thing on in the background while doing something else. Kyleigh missed the days when she would lay in bed during the night when she couldn’t sleep and read her comic books while something played away on her small TV. Reruns of something that she kind of wished she had paid attention to now. Grabbing another bottle for herself Kyleigh made her way over towards where Syd was sitting and plopped herself down. Where in the hell had they found these damn couches? Better yet all of the furniture that was around them. Yes she had been made aware that this community existed before the world ended, but with more and more people finding it how did they manage to keep up with the demand?

“Oh shit I loved that show! My Aunt didn’t want me watching it because she thought it would give me nightmares but I still did. Some of the graphic novels I used to read were so much worse than what they showed. I think that’s what started my love of horror. Of course I never would have picked this to be my future either. Thought I was going to have to live the rest of my life slinging food and fixing cars. Not that there’s anything wrong with either one of those but having to deal with the people that come along with it? Yeah, not the fun part.” Pausing to open her new drink Kyleigh took a swig before she paused, hating herself already for what she was about to say. “Current company excluded from that. You’re one of the first people I’ve met that I haven’t wanted to throw a pot of hot coffee in their face.”

[luminous-orb]

i’ve been doodling them…the frin…

bonus:

there he goes

[gemgdynamight0]

Idc what anyone says but Katsuki had the BEST and most interesting mentor-student relationships in the entire series. The set up and the developments are just perfect.

[creekfiend]

when items which claim to be made of linen are like "hand wash gentle only do not use machines" it's soooo. guys linen is like. the durable fiber. I should be able to fucking boil this and hit it with rocks biweekly. you are doing something wrong

[egophiliac]

LEON

LEON YOUR EYEBALLS