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Genies can only grant wishes that are things that an ordinary person could do, just better and faster. The jinn are the creations of a divine being, and so they are part of the divine plan and cannot defy the natural order of things; a wish granted by a jinni can’t turn the day into night or the sea into yogurt, but if you wish for a temple to be built, a jinni will build it by hand, the way men do, and have it done in a day.

If you need a wish granted that defies the natural order you gotta catch a leprechaun, because no god was involved in their creation whatsoever. They just kinda showed up one day in the nineteenth century. The Aos Sí have no idea what their deal is

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I’m about to save you thousands of dollars in therapy by teaching you what I learned paying thousands of dollars for therapy:

It may sound woo woo but it’s an important skill capitalism and hyper individualism have robbed us of as human beings.

Learn to process your emotions. It will improve your mental health and quality of life. Emotions serve a biological purpose, they aren’t just things that happen for no reason.

1. Pause and notice you’re having a big feeling or reaching for a distraction to maybe avoid a feeling. Notice what triggered the feeling or need for a distraction without judgement. Just note that it’s there. Don’t label it as good or bad.

2. Find it in your body. Where do you feel it? Your chest? Your head? Your stomach? Does it feel like a weight everywhere? Does it feel like you’re vibrating? Does it feel like you’re numb all over?

3. Name the feeling. Look up an emotion chart if you need to. Find the feeling that resonates the most with what you’re feeling. Is it disappointment? Heartbreak? Anxiety? Anger? Humiliation?

4. Validate the feeling. Sometimes feelings misfire or are disproportionately big, but they’re still valid. You don’t have to justify what you’re feeling, it’s just valid. Tell yourself “yeah it makes sense that you feel that right now.” Or something as simple as “I hear you.” For example: If I get really big feelings of humiliation when I lose at a game of chess, the feeling may not be necessary, but it is valid and makes sense if I grew up with parents who berated me every time I did something wrong. So I could say “Yeah I understand why we are feeling that way given how we were treated growing up. That’s valid.”

5. Do something with your body that’s not a mental distraction from the feeling. Something where you can still think. Go on a walk. Do something with your hands like art or crochet or baking. Journal. Clean a room. Figure out what works best for you.

6. Repeat, it takes practice but is a skill you can learn :)

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when I say “Let me ask my husband”, one (or both) of these things is taking place:

1. I am in a loving, happy relationship where we value and respect each other’s opinion

2. I am using this as an excuse to get out of something I don’t want to do (sorry habibi)

what is not happening here: I am being oppressed

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say nice things about her or i will commit a federal crime

i am going the fuck through it so i want everyone here to appreciate my beautiful cat

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i am going the fuck through it so i want everyone here to appreciate my beautiful cat

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I like the idea of a Vulcan character who constantly does very reckless things so her human crewmates think she's strange but then she always has a logical explanation she delivers with absolute confidence.

"No, it was perfectly logical for me to jump out of the shuttle at that time. I had a breathing apparatus, and I was certain I could seal the subspace rift by hand before the Romulans opened fire. This was the only solution that would result in zero casualties. I might have died, but giving up is illogical."

She's known as one of the most fearless members of the crew.

Other Vulcans try not to acknowledge her.

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Fandom terms have to sound silly, like blorbo or squick, because fandom needs humbling. Not a lot. But just every so often you need a good grounding reminder that all of this is literally made up nonsense for fun.

If you take a fictional thing so seriously that silly words genuinely annoy you, you've gone too far and you need to dial it back.

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On TikTok, a burly Gen Z New Yorker who goes by “Rizz Carlton” earned outsize attention for a February video that he captioned, in part, “I’ve sent over 1,500 applications and haven’t gotten 1 offer in 2 years … even with a masters degree & internships.” Now, the caption continues, he’s “doing social media to pay the bills.” “Unless you’ve been on a job search the last two years, you do not know how bad it is out here,” a Chicago-based techie named Syd wrote in the caption for a March TikTok that’s racked up nearly 10 million views. “The job market is trash, basura, it’s been bad!” A 24-year-old Los Angeles–based writer, teacher, and comedian who goes by Femcel1836 began sharing dispatches from her “job search hell” late last year before pouring out her frustrations in a January Substack essay titled “WHY ARE THERE NO FUCKING JOBS?” That post went viral, garnering hundreds of comments from like-minded users. One bemoaned that she’d been “suffering through this find a job shit for the past 2 years”; another called this a “crisis” that was even “more severe” than the 2008 recession—otherwise known as the worst financial meltdown of the 21st century. Even experienced workers share the perception that this is the worst job market of their lifetime. “I’ve been laid off before,” Dave told me, sighing as he acknowledged that periods of looking for work are part of having a career. “But it’s never been this hard to just get interest on a résumé. Even during the Great Recession and COVID, there were fewer postings, but it was never this quiet.” If you’re looking for a job right now, it might feel hard to convey people who are happily employed just how rough things are. That’s because the topline numbers about the job market are, for all the chaos in America, pretty rosy. The federal jobs report for April shows that unemployment is historically, persistently low, that jobs are being added almost continuously, and that there are hundreds of thousands of openings waiting to be filled. Even the measured percentage of “discouraged” and underemployed workers fell last month, as labor force participation increased overall.

Gonna be fun with those medicaid job requirements

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not to politics on main, but, fuck

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working at an escape room will expose you to so many types of guys incapable of using their imaginations or committing to the bit

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I'm still salty about them changing his design after the first movie.

EDIT: Since people keep saying the changes are subtle/not really there, I'm putting this in the main post.