#I don't even...

[s0m3b0dy2u]

so i started talking to a new guy (platonically) he's super cute and funny uhm.. but he just got broken up with? and his ex(?) is being a bitch and uh..

🧍‍♂️

do not get me wrong, i'm glad i can comfort him. it seems i really just walked into his life at the wrongest of times. i'm thinking it could be important, but maybe not? anyway. but also.. i don't know what i am and am not in the right to say.. uh.. because, again, we just like.. met a few hours ago.

anyway he is really sweet though. he doesn't deserve anything he's going through or gone through.

i can't tell if when i'm like "i could do better than that prick (his ex)" it's.. because i like him (i am known to fall too fast), because i want to make him feel better (people pleaser core), or i want to prove that i can be a good boyfriend..?

anyway..

that's how i'm doing today!

[theirloveisgross]

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[rjalker]

*Rod Sterling voice*

Imagine if you will, me, in whatever form you imagine me, sitting at a fancy, solid wood desk. I am leaning forward with my forehead resting on the wood of the desk with my hand holding the edge. Beisde me i a copy of Dragonblood, by Todd McCaffrey. You hear the repeated, loud, solid thudding as I repeatedly hit my head against the wood of the desk. This goes on forever.

[the-void-laid-bare]

Ah yes, the season before [checks notes] All Saints Day. With all of its famously Satanic Implications.

[loveridden1999]

[pumpkinhrat]

[mctreeleth]

I keep seeing the leather/pleather vs denim jacket poll over and over again with all different sorts of discourse about how there is no plastic-free pleather and like, that's TRUE, there isn't, but honestly I DO think people who don't want to use animal products* also deserve to look cool

and so my suggestion is that y'all google "waxed cotton jacket" or "waxed canvas jacket" plus like, "motorcycle" or whatever style you think is cool, because there's a plastic free leather-look material that is strong and durable and waterproof and doesn't use animal products** AND is plastic free already out there and some of the clothes that you can get made out of it look sick as hell.

*ignoring the fact that most leather is meat by-product that would be going to waste anyway

**except beeswax but if you're going to object to that then honestly there's no helping you

[sabertoothwalrus]

let's get ✨vulnerable✨

[unashamedly-enthusiastic]

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but with a banger

VeryVeryVinny

[keymintt]

projection

[inkskinned]

it's extremely critical that you see the photo of the perp walk for luigi mangione as being propaganda. i've seen so many people wave it off and instead fawn over his looks. and trust me, i know it ended up being kind of pathetic and weird - but please don't brush it off as a "modelling opportunity" for him. it's a fucking terrifying message the police are sending.

i want to make a few comparisons here, in case you're not from the US or familiar with why the perp walk thing is something to pay attention to. just to set the groundwork for why this is a purposeful, unusual, and cruel act by the nyc police - for why this is not a common occurrence and for why that matters.

the prosecution alleges the show of force is due to the charge of "terrorism." for comparison, in june 2015, tsarnaev was found guilty for the boston marathon bombing, which killed 3 people and injured hundreds. his actions are considered to be an act of domestic terrorism. i have spent the last hour looking through google for pictures of similar to mangione's perp walk - and so far, i have found zero. i also just do not personally remember a moment like that, despite living in boston at the time.

they allege that luigi is a stone-cold killer who carried out a longterm plan, making him particularly dangerous. again for comparison: in nyc, recently cory martin was found guilty of the killing of brandy odom. the murder was planned and premeditated to steal insurance money. and yet no staged perp walk. why didn't her life matter enough for a "show of force"?

but mangione gets paraded by a veritable army of police officers as if he is a rabid animal. for a single citizen who allegedly killed one other single citizen, the "largest perp walk ever" occurs.

so what is the "strong message" that the mayor and the police were trying to send here? the mayor speaks as if mangione is already convicted of terrorism. there is a very thin number of people who feel threatened by the CEO's death. none of us felt like mangione needs to be under massive armed guard.

the message is that you shouldn't resist. they are trying to "make an example" of him - that if you behave badly and kill a single rich person, you'll be treated as if you killed hundreds of people. you will be treated worse than a man who was found guilty of terrorism. you will be considered guilty without trial. the message is that the rich are a protected class, and you cannot touch them without massive punishment. they are trying to prevent a revolution by showing dominance and force against you.

the message is that the police are a puppet of the wealthy and that the law is not equally applied across class disparity. it is "some are more equal than others." it is "one life is more precious than another."

the show of force wasn't for luigi. it was for us. it was a warning. they are trying to remind us who is really in control.

[skullunter]

??????????

[hemaris]

three thousand seven hundred euros. the stupidest size for a bag i've ever seen. "clutch" yeah you better clutch this thing with both arms because it appears to be roughly the size of a human torso. NO straps NO handles ALL your stuff is gonna be rattling around in there. HOWEVER it is shaped like a celery. so i want it 💖

[le-velo-pour-dru]

Mutuals who I don't know very personally yet I am holding a sugarcube out in my hand in the hopes that you will approach me like the noble horse

[beaft]

it is legit bizarre to me how hard video game creators and film directors and showrunners try to pretend that fat people don't exist. can you think of the last time you saw a fat person in a lead role? god forbid a fat woman? i can walk down the street or go into a shop or restaurant and see fat people everywhere but then i switch on the tv and suddenly it's like a glimpse into an alternate universe where no one has a bmi over 24. insidious and weird

[transpeterparkcr]

honestly kudos to Elementary for gender swapping John Watson in what we all thought was an attempt to make johnlock palatable to the masses and then proceeding to not only make them entirely platonic but also become the ONLY modern adaptation where i actually feel like them being platonic makes complete sense