#why we can't have nice things

[theficpusher]

Know What You Need by nonsensedarling | E | 3805 Harry always thinks he knows what he needs, but Louis knows better.

Fellowship of Eroda by SadaVeniren | E | 5367 “Join our DnD game,” Niall had said. “It’ll be fun,” Liam had said. Neither of them had thought about the fact their DM was Harry Fucking Styles. Though in fairness they didn’t know the full history behind him and Harry Fucking Styles. aka Louis may have had a four night stand with Harry and now he's stuck in a DND campaign with him

Three Cheers for Involuntary Attraction by checkthemargins | E | 7870 The one where Nick is accidentally dating Louis.

Allegro/Adagio by coffinofachimera | E | 9082 Harry sets out to provoke Louis when he fails to give him sufficient attention.

Fuck U Betta by jacaranda_bloom | E | 11438 There’s something about having Louis like this, exposed and desperate, that makes a primal urge bubble up from deep inside Harry’s chest. Desire mixed with something else, something unquantifiable. It’s the thing that makes them want this, need this. Nothing else will satisfy them or quench their thirst. OR the one where Harry likes the thrill of the chase, Louis likes to be chased, and everyone gets what they need… in the end.

Why we can't have nice things by SilverStuff50 | E | 12100 "Lou has gone home," he muttered. "I tried to persuade him to come back but he's fed up of being constantly whined at." He looked pointedly at Harry, who huffed and shrugged. "Excuse me Liam, I wasn't whining," Harry whined. "He had a dig at me remember." Liam shook his head tiredly, and guided a now slightly limp Zayn over to the sofa. "It wasn't a dig Harry," he said quietly as Zayn snuggled into him and glared at Harry again, before nuzzling into his boyfriend's chest. "You were complaining about your ex and all Louis said was that he Dommed you badly. You were literally saying the same yourself a second before. He was agreeing with you." "He said I was brat!" Harry shouted, standing up now, indignant. "You are a fucking brat!" Zayn's voice was a bit muffled into Liam's chest but Harry could hear the anger in his voice. OR Harry is being a brat. He knows it, his friends know it, and most of all, Louis Tomlinson knows it.

Kiss Me Once, Kiss Me Twice by harriblou | M | 13487 “You’re a fucking brat, you know that,” Harry muttered through clenched teeth, bones already burning with the pure desire and hatred mixing in his body. It was an intoxicating rush of adrenaline and something else that probably came with fucking Louis Tomlinson. He squeezed his neck just a little tighter. “I can’t stand it.” Their lips were brushing against each other, just moving with the ragged movements of their mouths and harsh breathing. “You’re a lying piece of shit dickhead,” Louis muttered right back. That was all he did, challenge and nag. He loved to have the last word and Harry let him because he used all his energy to fuck him mindless.

Death Wish by Speechless | E | 22067 Louis hates vampires, he lives his life trying to kill as many as he can, night after night, year after year. He hates them. Then why the fuck is he kissing one? Again. “I mean it, Harry.” Louis says, into his mouth this time. “You need to get the fuck away from me.”

PA [Series] by whoknows | E | 59243 Harry doesn’t think of himself as a womanizer, not at all. Sure, he enjoys sex, enjoys how women feel underneath him, and by some people’s standards he has sex with quite a lot of people, but that’s no reason to tell him that he can’t have a female PA anymore. It’s especially no excuse for giving him a male PA who’s possibly the most gorgeous boy in the world who won’t even let Harry look at him for too long. Sometimes Harry hates his life.

[rgemma]

[bleeding-star-heart]

"Your body, my choice" men are total losers, let's make fun of that

[kettouryuujin]

Look, I get that the Gaza crisis is a real thing and a big deal. But sending me DMs asking for money is not the way to go - you just come off as a potential scammer. There’s way too many red flags from this.

I know your cause may be legitimate, but people could very well be using this to scam money for themselves. It’s scum of the earth behavior, but it exists, so yeah.

When I make a charitable donation of any sort, I’ll do it thru verified channels I can trust, not some random GoFundMe I get sent a link to.

[viirazu]

We all know Tron 3 is going to be the biggest shit ever Will we still go to the theaters? Yes we will, we will....

[darhknight]

X-Men 97 Reaction

Reacting to Episode 7. Bright Eyes

• WARNING •

Spoliers under the cut. Do not read unless you seen the episode or don't care about spoilers. I warned you.

The gravestone and speech from Nightcrawler broke my heart

"He say it was just in the cards" my heartstrings

Every gambler has a tell. Modesty was Gambit's.

Not Jubliee crying. Someone give her a hug

Dad Wolverine to the rescue

Jubliee is right tho. Where the crap is Rogue?

Found her

Love how Nightcrawler knew Rogue was f*cking stuff up. Like that's a good brother.

HULK NAME DROP

General Ross? Sir she might kill you be nice

CAP'S SHIELD. CAP'S SHIELD

STEVEN ROGERS BOIIIIIIIS

Love how Rogue was like five seconds from fighting Steve and Steve was like 'nah let me just show you what I found and maybe we can work together once I get the ok.'

she said no

then she proceeded to throw his shield into the mountains somewhere

Big Boss Energy

A resort ... mmm Kay. Who's paying his bill guys?

Kick his butt. Kick his butt. Kick his butt

Annnnnd we are back to the other X-men

Is that BEAST'S GIRLFRIEND THE LOVELY CARLY OR CARY I CANT SPELL HER NAME THE REPORTER LADY

Love how the same mutants show up everytime in the background

Not the statue heads of Magneto and Charles 😢

Jubliee convincing Reberto to tell his parents. I'm so proud of him. 👏

BEAST IS ANGRY 😡

A little Jean and Scott moment. Good for them they need it.

Why am I not surprised EMMA FROST is the first survivor they find

Also sorry Scott. We know you love Jean and Madelyn. (That's not how her names spelt my bad)

Back to Rogue

Nightcrawler being a good brother

Him KNOWING ABOUT HER AND MAGNETO

No she's crying.

Their all there for her. I'm so happy

IS THAT BASTION?!

EVIL NASTY MAN. EVIL NASTY MAN

HE Killed Him. He killed Gyrich.

I skipped over Jubliee and Roberto. My bad.

Love how his mom knew

Shes like honey if your weren't a mutant I be concerned

'It was your secret to tell.'

'Spriters anyone?' Like ma'am. You just made a reference to him maybe not seeing Jubliee anymore and your offering drinks?

Back to the other X-men

Forgot to mention how much I enjoyed watching Trask tell them the truth

Also Morph being like 'He created the master mold let's like not trust him.' Aka he's evillll. 😈

Sleeping GAS

(Notice as I was typing this that I have the scenes backwards. Whoops)

Is it me or do those robots kinda look like ultron?

Trask really be losing his mind right now. I actually feel bad for him.

Love how Trask is ratting out Sinister tho

Like he took one look at what Sinsiter did and went NOPE. Gonna go rat him out to the group of mutants I have been trying to kill since season one of the original show.

ROGUE DROPPING HIM

GIRRRRRRRL

SHE DEADLY

'Is this what we are now?' A great question Morph. The answer is ... complicated.

HUMAN SENTINEL!!

Dude he knocked Rogue OUT

Love the little Nightcrawler saving Rogue moment. Thank you creators for my fill of sweet siblings.

Morph getting hurt and Wolverine yelling his name

I ship it

You GET YOUR HAND OFF SCOTT

Never in my life have I liked Cyclops but this show has changed me

SO GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY SON

CABLE. CABLE. CABLE.

Jean reading his mind to figure it out

'Let's skip the reunion dad.' I'm dying

My son is meeting his son guys. Their meeting!

BASTION IS BACK

EVIL HUMAN SENTINEL CYBORG.

NASTY MAN

Oh Sinister is here too I guess.

rip the human race. Bastion gonna turn them all into sentinels. bet.

THEY KNOW ABOUT XAVIER

OH NO

XAVIER YOU DONE MESSED UP

That Song. I don't know if I hate it or love it.

MAGNETO!

ERIK MAGNUS LESNHARR

MY HUSBAND?!

BASTION YOU GET YOUR NASTY HANDS OFF MY MAGNETIC HUSBAND

I don't care if he has facial hair you don't touch him

Also love how Magneto has the mutant collar AND tape over his mouth

Plus cuffs around his hands sticking him to the chair

Like I understand the collar and the chair but like the tape?

This man is the master of magnetism not screaming really loud

Also you be in the middle of nowhere

Who's gonna hear him?

But once again

GET YOUR HANDS AND THAT BLADE AWAY FROM MY HUSBAND YOU D*CK

'Just obey. Just listen. You were made for this.'

Leave Erik alone.

• Maybe a few unfavorable opinions •

Erik is a holocaust victim. And jewish/german. Was treated like crap and Bastion is out here telling him that he was made to obey to be Bastion's plaything?

That he was made to be a Slave

cause I don't know if you all got that vibe from that scene but I definitely did

Especially if you know ANYTHING about Bastion

The guy makes Red Skull look sane

Bro I hope Rogue finds you and tears you a new one

Or Charles.

Or any of the X-men for that matter

Actually in my honest opinion it probably be Wolverine. Like I'm gonna call it right now. If Charles doesn't find Magento telepathically. Five bucks says somehow Wolverine does.

Or Bastion turns Magento into a sentinel

Actually don't do that

Please

Leave my somewhat questionable but trying his best to play nice with humans master of magnetism husband alone.

He deserves better

They all do

Expect Sinister.

He can die in a ditch for all I care

And Bastion ... sadly

For plot reasons we gotta sacrifice Bastion

Sorry bud

Gonna say also that Cable might have to go back in time cause I don't feel like they are going to keep Gambit dead.

But that's just me.

Thanks for reading my ranting

[ferdifz]

I can't figure out what my dizziness is about.

It's not lack of coffee. It's not overconsumption of coffee. I drink about a cup or two of coffee per day on average.

I drink 3 liters of plain water daily, sometimes 4.

I eat 3 times a day, not including snacks.

I exercise just about 3 times per week, 30 minutes each session and on separate days. Mostly dumbbels but sometimes bicycling around the neighborhood at distances of around 3 to 4 kilometers doing errands.

I pretty much eat a balanced meal of animal protein, bean carbs, and vegetable greens.

---

Maybe it's all the fucked up humans being fucked up humans and shit.

[kharmii]

I don't get americans...

Always screeching about injustice of black people and all. But it feels like they ALWAYS miss the fact that Black folks have a much higher tendency to be criminal.

Don't get me wrong crime and injustice is color blind. It comes in all colors and all genders (even if some deny that). But compared right next to each other the rates are usually higher among those who screech the loudest of being a victim of the society.

The cases like the one are, dare I say, exceptions? Because Cops have become terrified of being torn apart by the mob for doing their job and are forced to let certain people get away with a lot more.

Racism is bad. It happens to everyone and maybe we would do better if we stop using the color of our skin to determine the value of someone. A wise man once said that to stop racism is to stop talking about it. But since skin color has become a free-victim card people bathe in their victimhood and enjoy the attention they get because they get positive attention for doing nothing. They haven't earn anything yet the world bows around them...

It's sad.

This is not what the people who fought for equality wanted...

It's the opposite...

The ideal is to judge people by the content of their character instead of their skin color, nationality, religion, etc. I try to get that across to my (mostly white) coworkers, that one shouldn't constantly put someone down for a minor personality quirk when (this office) the world is full of low lives who two-time their spouses, run away from their bills and/or brag about picking up prostitutes on vacation.

I get told I'm not allowed to put down low lives because 'you don't know their walk of life! You don't know what sort of adversity they've been through!' (Even though I've been through traumatic events but don't use it as an excuse to waste my life and contribute nothing to society). Because of victimhood ideology, society gets taken hostage by the lowest common denominator. Someone on other social media called it the 'cult of indiscriminateness' where no crime is considered terrible except for the crime of judging people.

That 'judge not lest you be judged' bs makes sense in a spiritual sense, but in a worldly sense, refusing to judge criminal behavior will eventually cause civilizational collapse.

[danu2203]

THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL PRISON COMPLEX...THE REAL WELFARE QUEENS

[barakaiel]

I’m still waiting for a lesbian comedy tv show (if it has fantasy or supernatural themes even better) bonus points if they are middle aged

[super-furet]

Allez bien manger vos morts cordialement

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[miriam-heddy]

And now, for the very worst BuckTommy tumblr post I've *ever* seen. It made 🔥 shoot out of my eyes. It made me want to hit things.

It reminds me of this embarrassment/teachable moment from 2014:

(yeah, I had to look it up to find the links).

First, the essay by Sierra Mannie that was printed in Time Magazine and started it all:

and this "but we're allies!" response by Steve Friess, an ignorant white gay man and Time regular columnist:

and this follow up dialogue bbetween Steve Friess and Courtney Jones-Stevens, which is worth reading if you got this far:

[jeff-davis]

WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS

WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS (Feed generated with FetchRSS) via Just A Thought September 16, 2024 at 03:09PM

[moontyger]

Electricity supply is the stuff that comes from power plants. Those plants might be powered by coal or natural gas, or by renewables, like wind and solar. The cost of delivery, or transmission and distribution, reflects the many moving parts it takes to get that supply from the power plant to your living room. This includes operating and maintaining the grid as well as any big investments to repair or upgrade the grid by, for example, installing new high-voltage transmission lines that could be used to connect renewable energy sources to the grid.

That said, clean energy is not the culprit when it comes to rising electricity prices, according to the recent report from Energy Innovation. Volatility in natural gas prices, including the huge spikes following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, has certainly contributed to some price increases on the supply side. But the transmission and distribution costs have actually been going up at twice the rate of inflation nationwide, the report’s author, Brendan Pierpont, told me.

“That trend of increasing transmission and distribution costs is something that is noticeable all across the country, and so I think it’s an underlying factor in rate increases everywhere,” Pierpont said.

Utility companies have a lot of freedom in setting rates for transmission and distribution — and that directly contributes to how much profit they make. Utilities get to pick what gets upgraded when, and they also have an incentive to spend heavily, thanks to regulations that allow them to collect return on investment, usually around 10 percent, for those expenditures. This is actually built into the price most people pay for electricity.

Here’s how it works: Every year, utility companies ask regulators to approve a “revenue requirement,” which is basically a budget for what the utilities think it will cost to deliver enough electricity to their customers. Those estimates include spending on new equipment but not the cost of repairing old equipment. It also includes that return on investment, or profit, which regulators regularly approve. In Pierpont’s words, “That rate of return has a direct link to the costs that customers pay for electricity.”

What utilities don’t seem to be doing, however, is expanding the grid in a way that would benefit clean energy producers, the Energy Innovation report finds. Investments tend to cover local upgrades, like installing new metering equipment, rather than installing the high-voltage transmission lines that renewable energy sources need to connect to the grid. Meanwhile, consumers are facing more frequent outages that last longer, while utilities keep making more money for installing new, potentially unnecessary equipment.

“It’s like the utilities have a rewards credit card,” said Joel Rosenberg of Rewiring America, a nonprofit focused on electrification. “And they get to keep the rewards for how much they spend, and the [customers] have to pay off the bill, even if that bill takes 80 years to pay off.”

[jennifergarlen]

This tracks with what just happened here in the US, too.

Why are British teenage girls so unhappy? Here’s the answer (Caitlin Moran, The Times, Sep 13 2024)

"The report, by the Children’s Society, found that British 15-year-old girls are the most unhappy in Europe.

British girls aged 10-15 are “significantly less happy” with their life, appearance, family and school than the average boy — and their happiness is still declining.

Boys’ life satisfaction, meanwhile, remains broadly stable. (…)

But I still didn’t have an “aha!” moment about why this so disproportionately affects girls until… I talked to some teenage girls.

It was at a party, and I went to vape with them on the patio. Because I take my nicotine like children do.

“Duh — it’s the boys,” one said when I brought it up, as all the others agreed.

“The boys?” I asked.

My last book, What About Men?, had been all about how much boys struggle these days: their loneliness; their suicide rates. I’d spent the past year feeling very sympathetic towards boys.

“Yeah, well, who do you think they’re taking out their unhappiness on? It’s us,” another girl said.

“One boy at school used to draw a picture every day of how ugly I was,” a third girl said. “Every day for two years.”

“They’ve all got ‘Rate The Girls’ polls on their WhatsApps,” the first said. “They mark you down for weight gain, haircuts, what you say.”

“But then, if you’re hot, it’s just as bad, in a different way, because they’ll be talking about how they want to f*** you.”

The girls discussed coping techniques. Bad news: none of them worked.

“The only way you can stop them is if you become ‘one of the boys’ and hang out with them. But then,” the second girl said with a sigh, “all the other girls call you a slut. Because you’ve gone over to the boys’ side.”

“Surely it’s not all the boys?” I said. “There must be some nice boys?”

“Oh, yeah,” one girl said. “But they keep their heads down. Because… well, look.”

She showed me the Instagram account of her friend. Under every picture she posted of herself — smiling in a new dress; with her dog — dozens of anonymous accounts had replied with the most rank abuse.

“Fat.” “Slut.” “You gonna try and kill yourself again, for attention?”

“They’re all boys from her school,” she said. “And look, this one boy tried to defend her.”

I saw a series of messages from a brave teenage boy, posting things like, “You’re all big men, leaving these replies under anonymous accounts.”

As I could see, this boy immediately became a target too. Mainly accusations that he was “white knighting” this girl: “You wanna f*** her, bro?”

“So,” I asked, “you don’t think it’s social media pressure to be beautiful, or the economy, that’s making girls so sad?”

“Well, yeah, them too,” the first girl said. “But, Monday-Friday, 9-3, I’m not on social media. I’m not… in the economy. I’m just with these boys. And no one talks about how horrible they are.”

I thought about another recent report, showing a 30 per cent ideological gap between Gen Z men, who are increasingly conservative, and Gen Z women, who are increasingly progressive.

I thought about Andrew Tate, who has nine million mostly young male followers — and faces human trafficking charges, which he denies.

And I thought: maybe these girls are on to something. Maybe more people need to vape with teenage girls and ask them for the school gossip."