#I'm just serious

[poetry-protest-pornography]

We are not going to let that fuckwad DeSantis gain a foothold in the 2024 election.

You are going to fucking vote for Joe Biden, and you are going to give us a fucking chance to save our country from fascism, and you aren't going to fucking complain about it, because there is literally no other choice.

We will not let another election be a close call. Are you listening?

Vote for Biden. Vote for whatever Democrat is most popular in your local elections. Our system sucks, but this is what we're working with. Just fucking vote.

[jorality]

Another day, another reminder that my mother was definitely the only reason I haven't become a homicidal maniac.

I am now taking applications for the job of "Keep a short Black girl from becoming a serial killer".

Your duties will include: Being positive, laughing at my jokes, going to the movies or other fun places with me, reminding me to take my meds, give hugs when I'm having a depressive episode, reminding me that my father only has bad ideas and I need to stop taking his advice. (VERY IMPORTANT I HAVE ISSUES WITH SAYING NO TO MY AUTHORITY FIGURES AND ITS THE SOURCE OF 70% OF MY PROBKEMS, EVEN THOUGH I'M A GROWN WOMAN) Also, you will need to drive me to my doctor's appointments because I have no license #probablylegallyblind

Benefits include:

Pet friendly home, your own room, your own bathroom, living with someone who is usually funny, just can't afford therapy. No curfews! I can only reach the bottom shelves in the kitchen and fridge, you'll literally be able to hide all your snacks cuz I will not have the energy to get a step stool to reach them.

Cons: You'll probably hear me ranting and raving at random times as I am a writer, voice actor and streamer. My chronic illness finds new ways to fuck me up so the chances of needing to take me to the ER is high. I would like it if we could split the power and utility bills.

Major con: I live in Texas

Non negotiable: I do not turn on central heating in the winter you will be given a space heater.

TLDR: Please be my new emotional support human. NO TERFS

If your feminism isn't intersections then don't talk to me.

[valc0]

Rogue is Jack

Rogue is the Master

Rogue is a pre-Hartnell doctor

[shevr]

workout mix

[the-crooked-library]

does anyone else think about Spike and Giles looking at each other and seeing a personification of the most despised and vulnerable aspects of their own past or is it just me

[msbarrows]

Argh... so I've been reading in Scum Villain's Self-Saving System (SVSSS) fandom recently. And it's given me a new pet peeve about formatting and TTS. A bunch of the authors in that fandom are using black lens brackets to indicate the 'system' voice, 【like this】, because the original novels do, and, yeah... unfortunately that's not always compatible with TTS (definitely not with google's TTS engine, and testing with various other online TTS engines gives mixed results).

Guess how I know they're called black lens brackets.

…

Go on, guess.

…

YUP! They get read aloud! Every. Single. Time. They. Appear. Open black lens bracket like this close black lens bracket.

Please resist using the novel's formatting and just use regular square brackets instead! Which do not get read aloud unless there's a space in a bad position, [ like this ]. If you want to be fancy, maybe use <tt>...</tt> formatting or a monospaced font such as courier to make it stand out more as something mechanical.

[Like this]

Which reminds me, another bad formatting choice I've bumped into multiple times (and I can't remember if I've mentioned this one before) is where authors use something <like this> to indicate things like speaking mind-to-mind, or that someone is speaking a foreign language (despite the actual text still being in English). Cool. Neat. Also not TTS compatible, unless you like repeatedly hearing less than and greater than mixed into the text. But guess what - there are already perfectly serviceable ‹single› and «double» angled quotation marks that could be used instead - and since they're recognized as actual quotation marks, they don't get read aloud! Shocking, I know.

Those angled quotation marks could also be another decent option for indication of things like the system voice, obviously.

«Like this»

Thanks to everyone who is already using more TTS-compatible formatting, and to anyone who decides to make some changes to theirs after reading this :)

[ladeldee]

I just like the idea that once Missa hears Phil has another "kid" he'd try and do whatever he can to help and Phil feels emotions about it

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

putting my prediction on record now that the coming decade is going to see the rise of viral-marketed fancy at-home water filtration systems, driving and driven by a drastic reduction in the quality of U.S. tap water (given that we are in a 'replacement era' where our current infrastructure is reaching the end of its lifespan--but isn't being replaced). also guessing that by the 2030s access to drinkable tap water will be a mainstream class issue, with low-income & unstably housed people increasingly forced to rely on expensive bottled water when they can't afford the up-front cost of at-home filtration--and with this being portrayed in media as a "moral failing" and short-sighted "choice," rather than a basic failure of our political & economic systems. really hope i'm just being alarmist, but plenty of this already happens in other countries, and the U.S. is in a state of decline, so. here's praying this post ages into irrelevance. timestamped April 2023

[anurarana]

Every time someone calls Falin not a full-fledged character, or just a plot device, or whatever, I honestly get so annoyed. If you can make up a whole personality and backstory for some random man in any other story, let me be obsessed with a woman the the entire narrative is literally centered around!! She is so interesting and I love her shut up shut up shut up

[future-crab]

It's been said before, it will be said again, but it's still worth saying: the fact that art centering on straight romance is allowed to just be bad, but art with queer romance in it always has to be indicative of A Serious Problem With the Way We Tell Queer Stories makes being a queer person making queer art deeply stressful

[k4pp4-8]

Adding the spot to my babygirl collection

[raptorrobot]

i feel like i'm fighting for my fucking life here

[yrsonpurpose]

NICHOLAS GALITZINE & CHARLES LECLERC // Monaco GP 2024

[solroskajan]

The solver is gone (?) They put Bizcuit in a normal worker body. They really didn’t expect him to grow sharp teeth or a tail. He doesn't need to drink oil to live but that won't stop him from trying. (cw: vomiting)

(I actually drew most of this before episode 7, but I felt like cleaning it up a bit and posting it now)

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Cruel and Unusual Punishments (the PSA episode).

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