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I always love the video for this:

https://youtu.be/zhOIEe4xP3E?si=RcshJV64PKVptbRD

tv shows with time travel organizations/bureaus/police/agencies/whatever should have a department with instead of a tech genius eating candy, it’s a harried seamstress or fashion designer who is like

“1450 italy? does it look like I have the time to dye you wool? nO. YOU’RE GOING TO THE 1980s”

and throws shoulder pads at the hapless time agent

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I will get over this and be normal tomorrow but reading the reviews of this album makes me feel a little better about the statement that people (including me) must be bad at media literacy and dumb for hating s/wift's lyrics

Honestly paste magazine? Go the fuck off lmfaooo

THE OPENING LINE IS:

Sylvia Plath did not stick her head in an oven for this!

Cackling

I could quote a million things but this is chefs kiss

We are now left at a crossroads. Women can’t critique Swift because they’ll run the risk of being labeled a “gender traitor” for doing so. Men can’t critique her because they’ll be touted as “sexist.” And, sure, Swift is probably too easy a punching bag in this case—and most of the time, I would argue she is undeserving of being a victim of such barbs. But, you cannot write about someone being a “tattooed golden retriever” and get away with it and still retain your title as the best songwriter of your generation. You just cannot.

Paste magazine staff thank you.

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I got home today and had to unwillingly overhear one of my roommates rhapsodize on about how if you don't get T/swift's lyrics or see how clever they are then maybe you're not very smart/are stupid and aren't good at media comprehension or w/e

and also how brilliant the corporate suit lyric is because not LITERAL, it's about the tragedy of artists who only care about making money (....uh...we're talking about the same woman who keeps releasing albums with like one or two different bonus song variants right?), and why do haters talk about it so much why do they give so much energy to something they hate? Just let people have fun!!!

Obviously she did not realize I had come home and they forget all the time sound carries downstairs right into the living room.

But like okay.

1) i literally cannot avoid thinking about this woman because her face is next to the fridge and you keep playing her music all the time and I have always been "keep it to the bops only, skip everything else. I have strong criticisms about the technical depth of her talent and years worth of criticism about her white feminism and the way some of her fans perpetuate that." My sometimes pleasant "oh I like this single" was never love of her, the person. But I stuck to apathy as an adult because people weren't forcing her in my face constantly irl and I had zero reason to think about her.

Now that I CANNOT escape it, I bring back haterade, especially the more someone insists they can ALWAYS turn someone into a s/wiftie or that people who don't agree are dumb or media illiterate. I cannot believe we're adults and I have to be reminded that people actually believe it is media illiteracy to think that sometimes her lyrics are really stupid, and that people who dislike something must only be sad haters and dumb.

I don't have to like the thing, I don't have to worship her lyrics or find them all that clever, and it doesn't make me stupid to not like it!!! I could think about this less if her fandom wasn't full of obnoxious white women evangelizing her singular greatness.

aughhhhhh

Immediately had to pull up reviews and remind myself even critics had problems with this album

I wish. I could. Escape this.

I can't wait to move. I will be ABLE to not think about this ever again.

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The fan is to prevent heat stroke!! As someone who hails from Arizona originally, dry heat at 95 with a fan or breeze is lovely weather! Grab a nice glass of water or lemonade or sun tea, plop yourself into a hammock and you'll be fine. Angle to be in some shade, slap on some sunscreen and just sway in the hammock until naptime is over.

Elementary school didn't ban us from playing outside for recess until it hit 100 outside!!

...also why did you fall asleep in a snow drift.

I thank you for the coat offer lolol.

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The cold people are wrong but I accept their wrongness if they let me huddle for warmth when outside. And also if they build a fire. Or I will freeze.

Otoh I can fall asleep in a hammock outside if it's only 95 with a breeze or a fan and some sunscreen, but you can't take a lazy weekend nap outdoors at 21F.

The key here is "hanging out OUTSIDE" and while sledding in snow can be fun, it's also cold and wet and makes your bones and joints hurt. I gotta put on long johns!! I'll be wearing layers of wool and still be cold!! (Meanwhile swimming relieves joint pressure!)

anyways this isn't a question for me, hanging out in 95 degree weather was just my entire childhood up until I was like...22. 95 is nice. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Happy April 25th

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Looool original post 2017 and I'm still right about this

The reason look what u made me do by tswift sucks is because we all already heard Britney’s far superior “piece of me” years agoooo

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The follow up video is great too

gross and obsessive and weird

Writing a song that is blatantly un-self aware

I feel like I'm reading bad sexual fanfic on Tumblr

Also lmfao these lyrics are in the same song and I cannot take this seriously:

Quick, quick, tell me something awful — Like you are a poet trapped inside the body of a finance guy

And

My friends used to play a game where We would pick a decade We wished we could live in instead of this I'd say the 1830s but without all the racists And getting married off for the highest bid

This is just....so.... Like I'm glad Taylor is finally able to say "racism bad" but it remains the funniest unaware attempt at white feminism presented in the most painful (tortured) lyrics possible. Like...ma'am you are the finance guy, fyi. That's you. You have sooo much money. You would have still been a privileged white woman in the 1830's and your marriage would have been far less like an auction block than you seem to think because you're white and your family has money.

...also in the 1830's real people were still being auctioned into slavery so...

wanna make a bet that Taylor knows racism = bad but also hasn't fully realized or ever thought about how much of the 1830's aesthetics she loves were frequently only really possible because of plantations of unpaid slave labor? Her ridiculous private jet flights killing the environment says "yeah she doesn't actually think about anything beyond the surface," to me.

Taylor remains the epitome of straight white feminism that maybe passingly says "racism and homophobia is bad!" (After years and years of people asking her to say that) but frankly only ever considers herself and what impacts her directly when it comes down to it. Her feminism is mostly about her capitalism — what's good for her, and what makes her money.

Her music is banal and trite and i can't believe people think she's like....a greatest lyricist/poet of the generation.

As someone who has been saying this for years about how boring t/swift's lyrics are God this review is so satisfying and funny lmfao

I've had to forcibly listen to a large chunk of this new album and I swear to god this made me CACKLE:

You said normal girls were boring

But you were gone by morning

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As someone who has been saying this for years about how boring t/swift's lyrics are God this review is so satisfying and funny lmfao

I've had to forcibly listen to a large chunk of this new album and I swear to god this made me CACKLE:

You said normal girls were boring

But you were gone by morning

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The ette is like Bernadette, Claudette.

Just checking.... We all pronounce Miette like My-TAY in our heads, right?

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so this is the problem:

Thing is, with tumblr, one tends to assume the advice being given is there on the face of the post

that advice WAS RIGHT THERE in the post. on the face. what i replied to you with is literally picture #6. so it's not that you didn't get told this on the face of the post. it was indeed right there. that's why i'm exasperated, because like... none of what was said there was "immediately go out and buy something!" if you already have a ton of storage units, obviously you can use what you already own?

i get that the yellow post-it isn't contextually shown in the entire page, but it's a call-out text box.

spatially it looks like this:

this is from the free amazon preview page, i highlighted 2 parts:

"during every organizing project [....] purge with absolute abandon."

"from here on out, you must not undertake an organizing or cleaning project without first setting out two bags (or boxes). These bags are designated as "trash" and "charity" respectively.

I didn't post these parts bc they're already free preview online. and bc i wanted to encourage ppl to buy the book.

additionally the person above you like, claimed this was implying it expected people to have a coat closet, and was condescending about...needing coat closets or something? it literally textually doesn't, though. I cut out the Parent Question section to just highlight the solution/answer.

even *only* looking at the answer, it includes key clues to indicate this is addressing a specific person:

"Your daughter knows that..."

so the existence of a coat closet is related to the person being addressed who has a daughter lol. it is not a first world condescending assumption everyone has a coat closet. it is talking to a parent about their daughter to lay off about harping about using the coat closet they have. and then it explained what to do in lieu of using a coat closet.

so they were mad that it was first world condescending expecting coat closets and you were upset it was telling you to buy things you already own or have too much of (instead of say, moving things around, or only buying things as needed after purging excess stuff), and the text actually did none of those things in the images i posted.

you can imagine my confusion here!

genuinely - i understand you crumpled, and i get the overwhelm feeling, i do! but it didn't actually explicitly command what you leapt to assume it must mean. and i push back on that partly because it's something i've also done to myself and realizing that doing that is actually self-sabotaging and/or making the overwhelm WORSE, and keeping me miserable for no reason, was really important.

so that's my message. you doom spiralled a little here and assumed the worst and that it was advice working against you. it wasn't though. you translated "Add" as "You Need To Buy" but that's not what was said. if you have too many storage unit solutions then the advice of "Add" is telling you to look for what you own and see if it can be moved to fulfill this purpose IF it is helpful to do that.

all that post-it note is really saying is: "if you're constantly cluttering your dining room table with your craft supplies because you use it for projects, try adding your craft supply storage to the dining room so you can more easily clear the table."

(it isn't saying "surely you obviously have a dining room with plenty of space and need to run out and buy more things" but i've had people even before this specific reblog chain imply that and it's like...no the advice is if you have a dining table in a dining room....)

anyways i really do recommend the book, if "buying things" is recommended at all, it's "because you have nothing and need this" and usually "the thing you need is usually available for cheap or second hand, and it just needs to be simple, flexible, and easy."

also i get that not everyone has money to spare but if you have any ability to save some extra money, eventually hiring a personal organizer (esp one who has worked with adhd clients before) is a pretty good way to help with the overwhelm cycles. and barring that, like...bribe a friend to read the book, carry it around and direct you with it as you try to work. seriously just getting another human to help propeller us through our overstimulated "ahhh a mess" brain fry is really helpful.

From the book Organizing Solutions for People with ADHD:

Putting a coat on the back of a chair by the door is fine, but if you prefer, use coat hooks and a large catch-all basket for dropping keys, hats, gloves.

Small bookcase end-table next to the couch to store craft projects, books, and other things being worked on for easy access.

Add a storage unit near the dining room table to transition between eating and working there.

Daily toiletry items should be stored in a basket that you can move easily

Extra toiletries and medicine cabinet items go in open shelf/basket storage so they can be seen and used easily. If items no longer fit, purge the excess. Don't obscure the view!

If you disrobe in the bathroom, place a tall hamper in there.

Keep a set of cleaning supplies in each bathroom

Edit: I also have this post on budgeting with ADHD + feel free to check my tags, coz I am trying to remember to tag as needed for this stuff. :)

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THAT IS HER HOUSE

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ok but honestly shout out to one of my old medieval art history professors who had us watch Kingdom of Heaven specifically so that we could write basically stuff like the second post

it was deeply satisfying to write that critical short essay on medievalism for class, especially wrt post-9/11 Islamophobic medievalism, and we got to watch other films to do the same thing with. 10/10.

the actual worst Stock Medieval Character Film is the variety where the narrator is an Aspiring Hero who goes on a holy pilgrimage to whereverthefuck only to find that all the men around him are french bloodthirsty and violent brutes driven only by greed, savagery, and wealth, unlike his holier-than-thou pious devotion. this journey breaks his belief in christianity as he becomes disillusioned with the men around him and how they have strayed far from the supposed kindness of jesus christ. the Cynical (Post-9/11) Atheist arrives to tell him "look at the truth of what your religion is, the destruction it causes, stop believing in sky daddy sir underdog of downtrodden" and then he saves the day by stopping believing. and he gets the girl obviously

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fuck it we ball *turns off my work alarm and goes back to sleep*

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It really does help to read what you're talking about.

The advice to purchase something specific to fulfill a LACK of options or LACK of sufficient storage comes AFTER several other steps..

For instance:

It identifies a pain point: "medicine/toiletries"

It tells you to categorize the items the way they exist in the drug store to make it easy. You don't have to think about the perfect method, you just follow what the pharmacy does.

It tells you to throw out old/used up/unneeded stuff.

It tells you that IF you NEED to create a(dditional) storage space as a place to put your toiletries and medicines, which doesn't already exist in your home, then you can buy x storage thing for that specific purpose.

It doesn't just tell you "go buy a ton of new storage!" It doesn't even say "start by buying something!"

It DOES start with "grab a large trash bag to get rid of stuff with."

If you have too many items that you can't see what you own, throw more stuff out. Get rid of excess stuff if it gets too hard to see everything.

Also the book is full of suggestions. Like most organizational books, it gives you options and suggested solutions to use or discard as works for you.

From the book Organizing Solutions for People with ADHD:

Putting a coat on the back of a chair by the door is fine, but if you prefer, use coat hooks and a large catch-all basket for dropping keys, hats, gloves.

Small bookcase end-table next to the couch to store craft projects, books, and other things being worked on for easy access.

Add a storage unit near the dining room table to transition between eating and working there.

Daily toiletry items should be stored in a basket that you can move easily

Extra toiletries and medicine cabinet items go in open shelf/basket storage so they can be seen and used easily. If items no longer fit, purge the excess. Don't obscure the view!

If you disrobe in the bathroom, place a tall hamper in there.

Keep a set of cleaning supplies in each bathroom

Edit: I also have this post on budgeting with ADHD + feel free to check my tags, coz I am trying to remember to tag as needed for this stuff. :)

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With all due exhaustion:

@edutainer2022 a few selected photos I took of a bigger organization book aimed at a WIDE variety of living situations, including advice for people in single family homes, or multi-generation homes, or larger apartments —

Is neither:

first world

nor is it

condescending

It is simply including some advice that doesn't apply to your personal living situation.

Also none of the advice was "get a second closet." When you read the actual text, the major things are:

A) a case study q&a answer to a specific client's question mentioning THEY have a coat closet that their CHILD does not use. The advice is begins with "your family member—" and then goes on to be like: "you don't actually need a coat closet to store coats neatly, so instead do this thing that doesn't need that." That's not condescending, it's telling the neurotypical parent that their child is not wrong to not use that coat closet storage because it doesn't work for them. It's also a specific scenario being addressed??

B) "if your home doesn't have a medicine/linen closet or has an inadequate amount of storage in a medicine cabinet for your needs, do THIS THING which DOESN'T require a whole dedicated closet."

hello???

Also please explain what cannot be used in an open floor plan studio:

Bookshelves (case or floating/wall installation whichever!)

Storage furniture units to divide space

Furniture that has dual purposes inclusive of storage

Over the door storage for a bathroom or cupboard door to store your things

Over the door laundry hamper

Btw my closet currently is what I have explained to countless people is "Oliver twist sized."

Behold my gilded age USA closet:

This closet has no hanging rack and no shelves. It is just barely 2 feet inside but the door frame blocks part of it, and it is somewhere between 12.5 and 14 inches deep, depending on where I'm measuring because THE WALLS ARE NOT THE SAME DEPTH INSIDE.

I removed the door because with a door there is even less storage space because of the folding door slide frame.

The average garment hanger, by the way, is like, 16-18 inches wide, so my closet literally cannot fit hanging clothes in it.

In the bottom right corner is the wooden clothes rack I eventually saved up and bought to help store my clothes. But prior to that I was only using my very bougie and first world uh....

Ikea Mulig for $8.99 USD, because the metal & plastic rack I bought from Aldi's broke.

...I am still using the Mulig btw.

If you don't even have the floor space for that, the wall-mounted Mulig is.... $4.99: USD

This book also recommended clothing storage (which isn't pictured above) that doesn't even need to be in a closet. The wooden rack I bought has two tiny drawers, so I used the space on top of the drawers to implement the book's advice, and I bought these things:

Plastic stacking/slide open front storage bins. I bought a set of them. They can go on a bookshelf. On the floor. Under the bed. On top of any extra surface you have!

That's my clothes storage. A closet based on 1901 dimensions and no built in rods, racks, or shelves. And some bins and free standing clothing racks. I tried to thrift a dresser and now I have not enough space so I'm getting rid of it.

Also: If you already have a coat rack and a pile of coats you forget you have, the problem isn't that you don't have a place to store your coats.

The problem is you have too many coats. Start getting rid of the ones you forget you even have because you're not wearing them and they aren't useful if they're not being worn.

I also had too many coats. so I got rid of most of them. This helped immensely. Now, I have a spring/fall coat. A winter coat. And a rain coat. And that's it. Those are my coats. I can probably even get rid of the rain coat because I have a lot of umbrellas and am unlikely to have the rain coat with me during a sudden rain.

All my other layering pieces (bc I get cold super easy!) fit on the Mulig (cardigans, hoodies, light jackets, work blazers) and are maybe like... 1/4th or 1/3rd of the rack.

There are tons and tons of well designed laundry hampers that can be hung from the wall, (including by adhesive sticker), hung by magnets from a metal surface, hung over the door, or are slim but deep. Or are inside a cabinet that can double as other storage. Or are collapsible! Some are laundry hampers, plus shelf, plus a clothing rod above the shelf/folding space.

My actually "bougie" upgrade was buying a vertical hamper set, which gives me 2 laundry hampers in a 1-hamper footprint.

(I bought a shitty hamper that didn't put together properly, let a bad review, got a refund, then bought this. And y'know what? It's REALLY NICE and very sturdy. The cushioned handles are genius.)

This company also does two horizontal hanging baskets with an ironing board over top which can be used to fold clothes. But I went with vertical.

Anyways.....maybe just buy the book lol

From the book Organizing Solutions for People with ADHD:

Putting a coat on the back of a chair by the door is fine, but if you prefer, use coat hooks and a large catch-all basket for dropping keys, hats, gloves.

Small bookcase end-table next to the couch to store craft projects, books, and other things being worked on for easy access.

Add a storage unit near the dining room table to transition between eating and working there.

Daily toiletry items should be stored in a basket that you can move easily

Extra toiletries and medicine cabinet items go in open shelf/basket storage so they can be seen and used easily. If items no longer fit, purge the excess. Don't obscure the view!

If you disrobe in the bathroom, place a tall hamper in there.

Keep a set of cleaning supplies in each bathroom

Edit: I also have this post on budgeting with ADHD + feel free to check my tags, coz I am trying to remember to tag as needed for this stuff. :)

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....found it:

(The last one includes part of my reply losing my mind over this.)

The white dude can murder people in cold blood and ppl still do this. 😂

Character: is a white man. That’s it.

Fandom: how dare you dislike this femme-coded female-coded gay-coded disabled-coded mentally ill-coded icon