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"You know what the werewolf genre needs?"

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Use tools that make your life easier if you have access to them.

Doing things on hard mode on purpose is not noble or badass or something to punish yourself with. It means you have internalized some unfortunate shit: maybe ableism, maybe sexism, maybe capitalism, maybe the way other people have treated you. Life is hard enough as-is and you should be nicer to yourself.

I have always struggled with thinking I don't "deserve" things that make life easier for me, and whenever I start slipping back to that mentality, I just think of how any other tool using species would think my behavior was ludicrous.

Imagining a crow being really disappointed in me has been surprisingly effective. I don't want corvids to think I'm uncool.

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I had an early childhood friend named Morgan who wound up becoming a horse girl. Nominative determinism.

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Living up to the "a vegan diet leads to health issues" stereotype, but it's not malnutrition, I just dropped the can of beans I was about to eat on my already broken foot.

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I genuinely cannot comprehend the hoarding of wealth if one's needs are met and even exceeded. If I am financially stable, and have savings to fall back on, any surplus money kept in my hand is essentially worthless. If I give that money to someone who is struggling financially, it suddenly has value; it is gas in their car, food for their children, a vet visit for their pet, the last $20 dollars needed to make rent. What absurd nonsense are these millionaires and billionaires on that makes them endlessly accumulate more money than they could spend in a lifetime, when money is useless until it is used?

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Capitalism is antithetical to compassion, and can crush it out of workers by exerting constant pressure on them to put company demands before human beings. Either this is a great example of that phenomenon, or OP never had much empathy to begin with, because fucking yikes.

i work in a call center and u can always tell who's an unmedicated schizophrenic calling in

not because they think "they" are after them, but because every time they pause to take a breath the let out this unhinged little giggle and it's the most annoying shit.

like okay, sure, the aliens are reading your mind, can you PLEASE get to what your issue with your credit card is and stop telling me a make-believe story for 40 minutes of my life that i'll never get back?

and like, i know this is the website where everyone says to be kind to people with mental illness, but i don't fucking carrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeee i don't care i don't care

i don't care that you say you're being stalked i don't care that you're hallucinating demons i don't care that you think there's ants under your skin

i care that i'm on a time limit for my phonecalls and you're DESTROYING MY STATS because you CANNOT STOP MAKING YOUR PROBLEMS EVERYONE ELSES

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Today in "I am a writer, a wordsmith, the use of language is my craft:" I could not think of the phrase "out of business" and my brain's feedback on this matter was "idk corporation extinct?"

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Confession: I pointed out a dead Katydid on one of our feed bins to my spouse and joked, "Katydid? More like KatyDONE." But then I realized how shitty that was because the poor little bugger was dead, and I got really sad. Anyway, that's a pretty good summary of how I am/what living with me is like.

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I stepped off of a trail today to take a leak behind a tree, and while I was relieving myself, I looked to my left and saw this HUGE mushroom. I was so excited that I did not even pull my pants up in my haste to snap a photo, just ass out for all of nature to behold, grinning about this absolute unit of a fungus. I'm disappointingly ignorant about mycology, but I do greatly *admire* mushrooms and other fungi.

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Re-sharing with the added image description. Thank you, 'twas shitty of me to not consider accessibility. I appreciate you.

no actually i don't think antivaxxers' kids should die from a disease. i don't think gun advocates' kids should die in school shooting. children dying is bad actually, even if they're children of people you don't like.

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I am constantly doing things on autopilot, sometimes to the point of redundancy or unnecessary action, and my spouse vastly overestimates the amount of thought involved when I'm doing menial tasks. I am always thinking, just generally not about what I'm actually doing. You think I made a conscious decision to put the lid back on the goat food container prematurely? Babe I was thinking about big ol stacks of railroad ties.

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I need to see BDSM haters go on rants about the evils of capsaicin

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Adding to this, it's fucking ghoulish and shitty to see people laughing right now about red states losing important benefits and funding because "haha you got what you voted for." Why? Because those policies disproportionally impact children, and kids sure as shit didn't vote for this. 49% of kids in the US are covered through Medicaid or CHIP. Roughly 40% of SNAP participants are children, 20% of US children overall. Over 29 million children use the National School Lunch Program, and for the 14 million children who are food insecure in the US, that may be their only meal for the day.

On the flip side of the political coin, no one should be cheering for children being separated from immigrant parents because "their parents should have come here legally." You shouldn't be gleeful about terrified kids being rounded up at school graduations and ball games, being thrown in detention centers, being separated from their families, deported to countries that have never been their home, or losing their parents to deportation.

You should care about kids and want them to be safe, healthy, happy, and thriving, regardless of the political affiliations, beliefs, and actions of their parents. All kids. Every. Single. Kid. No exceptions. No qualifiers. James Baldwin said it perfectly:

no actually i don't think antivaxxers' kids should die from a disease. i don't think gun advocates' kids should die in school shooting. children dying is bad actually, even if they're children of people you don't like.

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I would find it annoying, but I would also allow it if it brings them joy. Within reason. The second they put on the Beastie Boys we're gonna need to have a talk.

Wait. Personality test. Reblog with whether you hate it when someone sings along to the music in the car or you think singing along is cool. Personally, I HATE it.

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If you ever see me zoned out, please don't ask me what I'm thinking about unless you are prepared to get hit with something like, "Oh, you know, the types of hand injuries sustained from wheat threshers."

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He has cat trees, beds, couch cushions, and two human laps, but where is he loafing tonight? Miter saw.

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What is the ideal amount of "reflecting on grasshopper diversity" in a werewolf novel? I hope the answer is "a few meaty paragraphs" because that's what my readers are getting if I ever finish Vol 2.