#would if I could

[possiblyawesometmblr]

are you ever on Tumblr during lore? since we've seen that Connor and Ghosty are

i have.....a single monitor

running streamlabs, the game, my music, AND discord all at the same time from one monitor is stressful enough /lh

[alectoperdita]

actually i don't wish you'd shup up, i wish you had more confidence in yourself :(

you got me to read yugioh fanfic, even though i've never seen or read yugioh, (and actually hated the artstyle for a long while) doesn't that count for something?? that your writting got someone invested in a piece of media that they had never once seen in their life??

i hope this makes you feel at least a bit better. I absolutely love your writting, and i love you.

Thank you for the supportive message, anon.

Perhaps not surprising to say I often struggle with feeling like my writing has any worth/meaning besides a mean to pass the time or spin my wheels on something outside of work. So it's nice to hear otherwise.

I am grateful for your kindness, and for giving my stories a chance when the source material doesn't appeal to you. Hope you're having a swell day, anon.

[dickgreyson]

W all the love in my heart I just cried 2 my parents for more than two hours n the solution to all of my problems is literally just money

[mechanicussyenjoyer]

I genuinely believe wings would fix me

[justalpharosthings]

Real

[hug-your-face]

via @swatercolour here on Tumblr and also on [insta]

EDIT: I do not interpret "just managing" as "just suffering, just enduring, curling into a fetal position and waiting for it to be over." Managing is an active process.

So I'm using this post as a platform to make the reminder that "the power of the people is greater than the people in power," and we all are cordially invited to:

Take good care of ourselves. Mental, physical, emotional health. Hydrate. Move if we can, get outside if we can.

Keep up a routine. Remember quarantine and we all had to find a routine? This is the same.

Be intentional in our news consumption. Let's not stick our heads in the sand but let's not doomscroll either. Get an RSS aggregator. Subscribe to WTF Just Happened Today, Yoour Local Epidemiologist, Fix The News (for some inspiring hopeful news!). We'll check our feeds a few times a week, but no more than once a day.

Connect with friends and loved ones. Remind ourselves that while SOME people are horrible, for the most part people are awesome... if complicated. Share our fears but also our hopes. Eat together.

Now that we're keeping healthy, safe, sane, and hopeful... now we also fight. Quietly if we prefer, loudly if we prefer. But sustainably. I hate that I had to live through three rounds of this nonsense where a few people use half of us as tools to fuck over ALL of us, but here we are again. So let us take just one moment every week or so to...

Use 5calls to keep blowing up our reps phones. Tell them to either break ranks with the Orange Administration, or to stand up louder than just matching outfits and signs. Or to THANK them for standing up.

Use Vote411 to find elections before the midterms. A lot of villages, cities, townships etc have local elections that will affect where we live... and more importantly, the people in office there will affect things upwards too.

Use Ballotpedia to know exactly what's on our ballots ahead of time.

Protest, because it actually works.

Use Vote.org to make a plan to vote in the midterms. Make a plan that is immune to voter suppression tactics. Get our documents in order. Reach out to our friends to go to the polls as a group. Plan to livestream our visit, up until the point we have to turn our cameras off.

Make and share memes that promote hope, organizing, solidarity, and/or resistance.

Get involved with an action network like Indivisible, MoveOn, or Working Families Party.

Go to a local town hall meeting. Speak up.

Heck, start our own local activism networks, letter campaigns, call campaigns, or fundraisers with Action Network.

And we will remember our self-care. We will remind ourselves and each other that they want us scattered, focus is how we resist.

It IS coming back. Things ARE going to get worse. The world has become a place where a very few people are pulling levers and pushing buttons that are actively destroying much of what is good about living in a society where people care for each other.

Many others are in shock, sputtering "but can they do that?" MANY many others are waiting for someone to come save us.

But there are those who are actively, loudly, opposing.

And there are more people speaking up, acting up, every day. More people saying it's time to get scrappy. It's time to get into some good trouble. The shock is wearing off.

Yes, it's gonna get worse before it gets better (the long-term damage of the acts of the past momentum of all the damage that has been done will take that long to be felt -- but it WILL get better.

If WE will it.

[yaknowlikenyah]

I'm keeping an eye out for heat stroke in my area and I can't figure out what a full body flush would look like on dark skin since all the pictures are just fake training pictures. Anyone have video/pics of a heat stroke flush on black skin?

[inbabylontheywept]

so once me and my wife were watching a documentary where a snake ate like a million eggs. that snake just went to fucking town on eggs. and the snake made the eggs look so good that i kept thinking about it, and thinking about it, and thinking about it, and eventually it was 11pm and i ran out of willpower and decided to eat one (1) singular raw egg just to prove to myself that the snake was surely a liar.

the snake was not a liar. texture is like, super important to me and raw eggs are very Texture so i had another one, and then another one, and then another one, and eventually i ran out of eggs.

i had like, fifteen raw eggs.

i didnt really know how to explain this momentary madness to my wife, so my Plan was to put all the eggshells into a grocey bag, and then throw that grocery bag in the dumpster, and if she never noticed that would be Excellent and if she noticed immediately i could lie and say that the eggs went bad.

except i cant lie very good, and of course with murphys law being such, i got salmonella.

so i threw up a lot and my wife asked me what poisoned me so and i tried very hard to dodge the question but i was oozing shame like oil from a room temperature cheese and eventaully i gave in and told her everything and to her enormous credit she was more flabbergasted than actually upset. she did make me promise to not eat any more raw eggs, which i have stuck to, and she gives me weird looks during nature documentaries now as if desire was the only thing keeping me from eating thousands of pounds of krill anyway i made a joke earlier about being able to eat my age in eggs and my sister in law in law made a drawing to comemorate the moment and also because it was my birthday. she's excellent. thank you 10000000% @cintailed. you should all visit her page and admire her work.

[planetmercurydrinker]

can't wait for these to be sent out so I can watch videos of beautiful women railing them

so in other news Pokemon is releasing life-sized Eeveelution (+ Eevee) plushies. this would not be particularly noteworthy except for the fact that the plushies are FUCKING HUGE

[icewindandboringhorror]

(also feel free in the tags to clarify Why you made the choice you made!! :0c)

[kensatou]

felt sad. caught up on baseball from the past week. now i'm not that sad anymore.

[thepresidentstolemyfuckingsafe]

Unfortunately there's no trick or treating going on at my campus and some asshole scheduled a midterm for Halloween evening

"i'm too old to trick-or-treat" what the HELL are u talking about. that is FREE candy. in this economy. "i'm too old to make responsible financial decisions" you sound like a goddamn lunatic

[fox-bright]

I am never going to be able to leave Reddit.

[unsung-idiot]

don't show him modern technology; it won't end well

bonus under the cut:

[mydogatemymotivation]

i live where warrior cats took place btw (i dont actually know where they were) but there are so, so many stray cats running around my neighborhood. i just passed TWO of them around the corner from each other and they use the sewer grates to get around without being seen and at night you can hear the battles in the streets. they're screaming. its insane. i just know its two clans battling each other. i know there are unknowable politics just outside my bedroom window. i bet they call us twolegs behind our backs. when i was a kid i thought warrior cats was fiction but its not. i believe it.