#which sucks.

[sheepstiel]

either way they still killed dean

[kirby-the-gorb]

[tillman]

i miss being a classics major and by that i mean i miss having the brain power to read. work drains me so fucking much i just cant do it anymore

[euclydya]

ok we're back. what the fuck

[lillylvjy]

No because if I see one more person hate on their body and say one more mean thing about it I will break down sobbing.

[byksigmatruther]

i love the word queer as something uncanny or a little bit strange and peculiar. we should use it for that as well again

[eyepatchdate]

ive reached the ‘message a rando on the internet to ask him for files’ level of desperation here

[apocalyptic-dancehall]

i am forcing myself to stay awake and i've been awake since last night

[cesium-sheep]

like I don't know whether to buckle down and strap in to ride it out for the long haul now, before it gets even worse, or wait until the new med gets approved on the premise that things might genuinely be easier later.

like I need a haircut, but the way it is now is too difficult for me to maintain on my own. so I could just cut it all off and make it easy again, but I've been growing the long part out for nearly 2 years. and I don't like how it looks now, but that might be because I'm not able to maintain it and I'll like it better when I can.

and I did make good progress on christmas presents over the summer, but I made almost no progress all september because of so many other things going on, and I worry that if I let it slide now I still might not get done in time. but I also don't like making things for others when I feel miserable because it's Bad Vibes, although I suppose the vibes might suit a couple specific pieces, and it will be much harder now than it might be if this med works, even though it may also be harder later than it is now if we're unlucky.

so I don't know whether to push myself now because it might be harder later, or scale back and coast as best as I can because it might be easier later.

[firefrightfic]

to anyone missing my writing please know i am also missing my writing

[sixth-light]

I have had these thoughts bubbling away in my head for like...eighteen months or so now (it will become very obvious why shortly) but the discussion in this post has pushed me to write them down: I think societally we HUGELY underestimate how motherhood for primary caregivers, particularly first-time motherhood, can be a source of vulnerability to radicalisation.

There is obviously huge cultural variance here, but for a lot of cis women becoming primary caregiver to an infant in a capitalist Western society represents a time of immense vulnerability because in general you are:

Incredibly sleep-deprived (which has well-documented knock-on effects for your judgement, mental health, etc)

If you gave birth, recovering from a significant challenge to your physical health (even in the best-case scenario)

Isolated from your previous networks and communities of people in full-time work

Completely separated from the context of your prior career goals and achievements

Under huge amounts of stress to learn how to care for an infant (don't get me started on breastfeeding)

And on top of this, you are also be experiencing a huge amount of messaging about how all this is natural, wonderful, something you're meant to do, something you should love doing, and something that you must do for the welfare of their child. It's a huge amount of pressure and life change even when everything goes right and there's very little cultural space to express negative feelings about it.

Any group of people who offer community, support, and affirmation to cis women in this situation are going to have a really good shot at radicalising them into some very weird and dangerous headspaces and in fact we see this happen all the time - think antivaxxers and TERFs. It flies under the radar because of the hazy positive glow that associates with motherhood and babies and also because we don't take the radicalisation of women seriously I guess because they rarely shoot anybody, but...yeah. It is such a vulnerable time!

[boringkate]

Person 1: Not to complain about capitalism again and obv wear sunscreen, but most skin care products really just seem like snake oil.

Person 2 (there is somehow ALWAYS a person 2): So true! People go so overboard! You really only need about 20 products! Here's a 50 part thread explaining my daily process!

[helpallthenamesaretaken]

i hate how sometimes people make out rachel to be this tragic heartbroken mess. WELL FRIENDLY REMINDER THAT

she was the one who dumped percy in the first place

and the scene after that she said "I don't have to tell you what you have to do now, right?" with the next scene being percy confessing to annabeth

she genuinely CHOSE to be the oracle, if she was really serious about percy she would have not have gone along with the whole thing without being a tiny bit sad about not dating percy

she flat out admitted percy was just a vehicle for her to be involved with the greek world

she is not august by taylor swift. she is not driver's license by olivia rodrigo. she did not care less about percy once he didn't reciprocate pls 😭

[hellenhighwater]

My furnace broke this morning and I managed to get a repair guy in right away. I called to remember that Vice has an inexplicable phobia of furnace repairmen.

I've spent the last 45 minutes looking for Vice and was literally starting to worry that he'd somehow made it outside or into the walls somehow. In a last ditch effort to communicate to him that the world had not ended and it was safe to come out, I climbed into bed, knowing that he never misses an opportunity to cuddle, even when it's far from the usual time for it.

Five minutes later...

I still don't know where he's been. I swear he can dematerialize.

[chalkrub]

various art trades from the past month! had FUN as usual

[ghoulbats]

well….it finally happened