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alexander skarsgård on murderbot (via newsweek)

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Fighting art block 🫩(🫦)

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i’m sick and tired of people pretending that burger isn’t delicious just to clown on americans. america deserves the ridicule, but why’s burger catching strays? burger did nothing wrong

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ⓘ A sewing machine is a device that provides a several-fold increase of the speed at which you can make mistakes

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Saw this in my weather news. Seriously, y'all, I beg of you to take care of yourself and those around you in these hellish days.

@thatdisasterauthor This feels up your alley, any tips on dealing with extreme heat?

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men love to make fun of women for overreacting in emergencies when they are, in fact, massively under-reacting

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So this is just a PSA, y'all should never sign a contract until you read it. I’m talking in rl right now. I just got through reading my employee handbook/service contract and my bosses slipped in a lot of bullshit like telling me I can’t complain about my job on social media, demanding I work off the clock in the name of good service, expects me to show up on time during inclimate weather, and considered disability or religious accommodation a direct threat to the company.

These are all things I took issue with and brought to my employer for further discussion before signing the contract. Most of my coworkers signed without reading, treating it like an internet terms of service contract.

Tl;dr real life is serious shit, lawyers write contracts to protect your employer FROM YOU, read contracts before you sign them - fucking ARGUE about contracts before you sign them

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In my opinion it's a lot more healthy to be able to own that you dislike someone for petty reasons than to do all kinds of mental gymnastics to make everyone you don't really vibe with out to be a bad person actually

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learning that addiction is a progressive narrowing of the range of things that make one happy was kinda life changing for me. i apply it to everything not even just addiction i am always checking to ask if i am narrowing my range of happiness or widening it

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They should let Disney make a House of Leaves adaptation but instead of actually adapting the plot, it's a seven minute animated short about Donald Duck purchasing and attempting to live in the House

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Proposal for new fandom etiquette:

If you read a fic because it was linked/recced somewhere, you leave a comment saying "came from XXX" and that comment doesn't need to include anything else.

Because when all of a sudden there's a lot of activity on one particular fic I WANNA KNOW WHY!!!!!

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NEVER GIVE UP

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My ethics professor once told our class that society justifies hating fat people by saying they overburden the healthcare system but no one uses that excuse to hate high level athletes who also disproportionately use the healthcare system

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Among prequel fans, Han is such an underrated great character. He's selfish & selfless, scared & brave, lonely & he has so many friends. He really completely turns his life around and finds a family in the Skywalkers (who have SO many family members) after having no family except for Chewie almost all his life.

There's a really good monologue Han has in the ROTJ novelization where he rallies the Ewoks by telling them how important having friends is.

Han really loves Leia & Luke so much more than he lets on. He acts like he's so cool, but he's really a good guy who was scared that Leia wouldn't miss him or give him a reason to stay when he was leaving Hoth.

I love how we think of him as so cool, but it's all an act, really. He is much more sentimental and touchy-feely than he lets on.

Han, more than anyone else in the original trilogy, is who finds a found family.

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Writing Motivation

The Inspirational Jar

Grab some pieces of paper and write down any prompts you found online, favourite song lyrics, characters you enjoy writing about, quotes from books or films, or random words or situations. Fold them up and put them in a jar or box. You can then open the jar or box and grab one of the pieces of paper to use as the basis for your writing that day. This is a great way to get back into writing and find your own style by experimenting with different forms and topics.

It doesn't have to be a real story - try other forms of writing, such as a poem, stream of consciousness, fan fiction, dialogue only, texting only, retelling with no dialogue, a song, diary entry or character description. Also, try to spice things up by using two or more inspirational slips of paper!

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these are KILLING me