#Defining decade

[roncy89]

3 Books Every Twenty-Something Should Read (By a Twenty-Something)

(In no particular order)

The Defining Decade by Dr. Meg Jay

This book has been my go-to for various points of my college (and now post-grad) career. Whenever I felt that I was "lost" or had a "mid-life crisis", this book always came to the rescue.

In this book, Meg Jay goes through how to best use your 20s. Whether that be through relationships, hobbies, education and career choices. She also expands on the concept of developing identity capital which is a collection of things that make you, you. One of my favourite quotes by Meg is, "“Twentysomething is like airplanes, planes just leaving New York City-bound somewhere west. Right after takeoff, a slight course change is a difference between landing in either Seattle or San Diego. But once a plane is nearly in San Diego, only a big detour will redirect it to the northwest.”

2. Quit Like a Millionaire by Bryce Leung and Kristy Shen

This is a personal finance book that details how a Canadian couple, Bryce and Kristy, retired in their thirties. Both working as software engineers, they sought to buy a home in Toronto but found that getting into the housing market was out of reach. Instead, they opted to use the money that could have gone towards a house into the stock market where they were both able to retire and travel the world.

Reading this opened my eyes to the various possibilities and routes to financial independence. One that isn't defeatist about the current housing market, but rather optimistic about other possibilities!

3. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

The writer, Naval Ravikant, is the founder of various companies in Silicon Valley and wrote a guide to building wealth and emotional well-being unlike anything else I've seen. Most books I read surrounding generating wealth are pretty redundant, but what I found by reading this book was that everything written was unique yet so simple.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

maddening that there is a common medical condition whose symptoms consist of massive long-term loss of mental and physical functions, due to the incredibly damaging effects of prolonged stress overextending the mind and body by pushing it into survival mode beyond endurance—and that there is no medical term for it. despite the fact it's so damn common that everyone knows of someone suffering from "burnout."

[lady-corrine]

I will never be normal about them I fear 🥲💔

[introspectivememories]

i need everyone to know that in all versions of shuggy, they are divorced. 10 yr olds? divorced. cross guild era? divorced. buggy accidentally ate a devil fruit? divorced. shanks gives up on the one piece to tenderly care for his buggy? divorced like you wouldn't believe. loguetown? divorced². there is no iteration of shuggy that is not divorced. even when shanks was in that treasure chest and buggy was, idk, getting orphaned, they were divorced. in the womb they were divorced. and truly, that is what defines and makes up the core of all of their interactions, their divorceness.

[lee-v5x]

hello hearts from pandora fans i woke up and wasted my day on this (yes it’s a belated work but i’ve been wanting to do a redraw of this stupid image for a good while now). happy birthday to my unsuspecting traumatized aristocrat (reminds me of someone else, truly…) x

[asexualjedi]

Still so iconic of Matt fraction to start his run like anyways off screen Clint and Kate who have met a few times before this run have become besties and are fundamentally now intertwined characters. Like and that’s just canon now. I think more comic writers should be willing to kinda just decide a new status quo like that especially with characters that have been under utilized

[katabay]

trains :)

this is a very rough and scribbly comic, but sometimes that's all a comic is going to end up being lmao. the guy with the jacket is darren, glasses is andy. not featured, andy's dead brother who nevertheless insists on haunting the subtext

the main thing I wanted to draw was the train tho

bsky ⭐ pixiv ⭐ pillowfort ⭐ cohost ⭐ cara.app

[momentomori24]

For a character that has virtually said nothing (impressive feat considering Mark Berskii exists) and has been dead since the start, Cara is so SO intriguing to me. Her complete lack of humanity in the midst of a cast brimming with it stands out in such a fucked up way.

Take her appearance, for example. Outside of the fact that she's much paler than the group, her having redish hair feels so intentional. It physically ties her to two characters: Diana and Wolfgang's mum. By extension, that ties her to Wolfgang and Eva as well. I don't believe that she's directly tied to them, or anyone in our group really (which I think is the point). However, the links that can be tied-- that we as the audience are encouraged to tie-- still exist.

We are introduced to her as a murder victim, a girl who was brutally ambushed and stabbed to death by who is assumed to be a man. That serves as a parallel by what is implied to have happened to Wolfgang's mum; a woman who was murdered by her husband. Coupled with their vague resemblance, it explains why Wolfgang was so emotional during the trial. He's a lawyer, and it's both his job and moral code to have empathy for everyone, but it seems obvious that there was a lot of projection on his part related to this specific case. He doesn't just see a person, he sees a blameless woman, an innocent girl undeserving of her fate. A victim who had to have been sadistically murdered by a man, and "self-defence" was never on the table. He clearly cared about the case-- he cared THE MOST about the case. He was the only one to actually acknowledge that it's based on a real murder case, that the victim was a real person, and treat it with that same amount of appropriate care. But that care is rooted in his strong sense of justice for victims as a lawyer, in his own issues and warped view on gender due to his parents-- it's not entirely for her because he never actually KNEW her.

And we see her again in the execution. Quite literally like a puppet on strings, she mechanically reaches out towards Eva and offers her a hand. In my eyes, this is 100% a parallel to Diana. There's the obvious of a vaguely red haired girl being the only one to offer her support during her lowest moments, but the way Cara reaches to pull Eva up only for her to fall to her death is comparable to the way Diana reaches to pull Wolfgang up only for him to still get electrocuted to death. Here she is again, playing a different role, open to the interpretation of others. Here she is, twisting the knife about Eva's feelings about Diana. She looms over her, standing tall where Eva was at her lowest in every sense of the word. She's a girl offering help, but not out of the goodness of her heart, and the strings puppeteering her every movement emphasise that reality. Where Eva had rejected her advances before, in her desperation she actually reaches back for her, and the act of allowing herself to trust that kindness is what has her plummeting to her doom the way she was always of, the arm giving and tearing at the farce of it all.

Take her talent, for example. She's the Ultimate Teacher's Aide. By her very nature, she exists for the service of others. Uplifting others rather than uplifting herself. She's the Ultimate Teacher's Aide, and she fulfils that role by being Tozu's literal puppet in the killing game, her servitude entirely at his disposal and her autonomy nonexistant.

Take her motif, for example. She's the only character without an animal motif. Her motif, ironically enough, is a human. Two humans, in fact. And I think that's significant cuz we never actually learn anything about Cara herself when she appears. Her existence is always symbolically tied to someone else on appearance alone (Wolfgang's mum or Diana). Her motif is a human because it's the closest thing to what she looks like, but just like the Tree of Ignorance being a hollow imitation of the Tree of Wisdom, she's anything but. What do we know about her, really? What was she like? Was she a cheerful soul or a gloomy one? Was she aggressive or pacifistic? Was she someone who had confidence or none at all? Was she a perfect victim or a failed yet complicit perpetrator? The sad thing about that question is that it really doesn't matter. Her murder case is only proof of her existence that exists; history has taken this girl and reduced her to nothing else and it doesn't matter. In a group of individuals she's exists solely as a blank slate, a passive party, an entity they can project on. She's a girl. She's a victim. She's a doll. She's a reason. But make no mistake-- she was never meant to be a person.

(Cerise's made a great art piece on this idea go check it out!)

[the-blossica-fan]

Lucy: I heard that 'Marriage' is an excellent way to share financial burden. Given you have come under heavy burdens, would you like to partake in this with me, Ms. Simone?

Ms. Simone: ...

Everyone else at the cafeteria: ...

Woe, Simone/Lucy be upon thee

LUSIMONE 🙏🙏🙏🙏

Lucy would be the kind that 20 years after marriage she asks Simone to be her life partner. She genuinely thought all of this was to avoid taxes.

It has dawned on me that she called Simone poor/financially struggling and asked to marry her in the same breath. Icon.

[starsandaces24]

love doing research on 1910s fashion for Edwin's outfit because it's broken into the Titanic era and the WW1 era, so you can really see how great things were going in England for those years

[archi-pelago]

ive been with this job for 5 years. i got a warning last year for calling out sick too much - but i get sick so often. i had a fever yesterday, i call out - today the boss gives me such funny long looks. avoids me when i try to talk. strikes convos only a handful of times. my co-manager's schedule has been shifted to cover my area if i were to be fired - i dont want to be. i dont like being sick. i hate that eventually everyone's sympathy runs dry. on wednesday i was so sick at the counter i accidentally knocked my drink onto the ground and didnt notice for about five seconds as it was gushing onto the mats. i just stared. i couldnt see what was in front of me. im finally arranging to have a proper primary doctor, but i think its too late.

the worst part is feeling apologetic about it all. i guess it comes from being raised in a guilt-riddled cult. im so stressed, the damn fever is back - no one's said anything to me, but when one of my co-managers was fired last year, no one said anything to him, either. i want to pretend im just being paranoid but i feel like im falling backwards in a smooth glass tunnel with nothing to cling to.

i have a little savings. i try to have enough for rent and utilities for a month, if this happened, but its not nearly enough for a normal person, i think. everyone else was acting normal, but they always act normal, because they're coworkers. im sensitive and like to think some of them are friends, but, im a little too dull to tell the difference sometimes.

im going to make myself sick with worry. i anxiety spiraled myself so hard the fever is back. and i wont even know until next week, after my weekend, what the verdict is. if there's any verdict. (i think there is. i think by next week i will be unemployed)

i like to think if i was on the chopping block, my boss would've told me today. but then again, he might've been waiting until the owners are in to hear their stance on it.

but there's nothing i can do but wait, and keep working what shifts i have. there's a pit in my stomach. i live in a small town and actually work in ANOTHER, richer town, to make ends meet. i dont want to be a liability. i want to be dependable. but my body is slowly falling apart around me, in such disgusting, concerning ways, i wish i could just inhabit a mannequin and keep going about my daily life without having to worry about being sick so often.

i kind of just want to cry. theres not a lot of joy in my life right now to begin with, and my job is all stress, but ive been there long enough that i got comfortable. i dont wanna leave. i dont want to have No Job, im scared of being adrift at sea, begging people for help. being homeless once makes me clam up at the thought of having no solid income. i can still remember the sensation of walking miles and miles on foot, in my house slippers, to get to a store, and rubbing my feet raw. i hated the sensation of living in free-fall.

i guess for other people its probably easier? fun, even? not being tied down to any job. i try not to define myself by my job but its hard when you spend all day every day at it.

i read that its sort of like... career grieving. im just sort of waiting for the final bullet. waiting for the bile in my stomach to stop churning. waiting for the noose to get cut. this is an anxiety filled ramble if you couldnt tell

[yeah-w-r-i-t-e]

what if hunley was right and the syndicate was a figment of ethan's imagination and his team spent the entirety of rogue nation attempting to bring him in and make him see reason with as little damage as possible

[vaguely-concerned]

can't wait for adaar to come back to cassandra after a decade of being best friends with dorian 'thedas' nr 1 mortaboo necrostan' pavus and then hanging out with a bunch of mourn watchers through all of veilguard and embracing her like 'I love and support you more than anyone in this world and whatever you needed from them that you didn't get I'll wrestle dragons and fight gods to give you now, my love, my lighthouse, my safest place to stand. but I must regretfully report that your folks fucking ROCK actually I think dorian was right about this one'

[t4transsexual]

"when they find your bones theyll know youre really a [sex assignment]" thats not true actually im gonna get buried beside my wife and our headstones are gonna read "evan" and "caspian" and our shared last name and im gonna be buried in a suit and shes gonna be buried in a dress and maybe we'll throw in a trans flag for funsies and they may learn we were trans but more importantly they will know that we were in love

[onesnoopyaday]

becoming unrecognisable to oneself

Snoopy #13

14/10/2024

[wonder-worker]

"[Elizabeth Woodville] was the only member of [Crown Prince Edward of Westminster's] original 1471 council not already on the king’s council and her name headed the list of those appointed as administrators in Wales during Edward’s minority. [She remained on the council after it was expanded in 1473 and granted additional governing and judicial powers]."

"In 1478 Prince Richard married the Mowbray heiress. Like his elder brother he had a chancellor, seal, household and council to manage his estates. His council, like that of Prince Edward, comprised the queen [Elizabeth Woodville] and a group of magnates and bishops, few of whom were Woodville supporters. [...] It was Elizabeth who mattered, for Richard resided with her and Rivers treated his affairs as their own."

— J.L. Laynesmith, The Last Medieval Queens: English Queenship 1445-1503 / Michael Hicks, Richard III and his Rivals: Magnates and their Motives in the Wars of the Roses