#Intense Solutions

[bumblingbabooshka]

Every time I watch the cold open of Memorial and B'Elanna tells Tom about how she ASSEMBLED a 50's television set from SCRATCH just to surprise him (there's no reason beyond that - just an incredibly sweet and thoughtful gesture) and replicated popcorn for him to eat while he watches and Tom says "They didn't have remote controls in the 50's ♥ Also where's my beer?" I contemplate murder ESPECIALLY because B'Elanna responds cheerfully to it - GIRL!!! LEAVE HIM!!!!!! IS HE SUPPOSED TO BE CHARMING IN THIS SCENE????

[annabelle--cane]

staring down this wip doc like I'm the county sheriff and this town ain't big enough for the both of us

[lorelune]

i have moved!!!

[fluffydeoxys]

the urge to talk about OCs unfiltered superseded by various degrees of shame and the overwhelming internal voice of booooo be quiet (throws tomato)

[thedrotter]

taking 15$ chibi comms!!! I'm in a bit of a tight spot and need to afford my chronic pain meds so I'll be taking commissions for now www

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[onewomancitadel]

It is fun and interesting when even heroes do bad things or do bad things with good intentions because it makes them more human and psychologically complex and makes more story happen. I'll never understand members of the audience who want to live in moral paradise where nothing ever goes wrong and only evil people ever do the wrong thing and once you kill all the evil people evil stops existing and to ever dare insinuate heroes could do wrong is blasphemy and "shifting the blame". I'm not playing that game. It's not about which character has the mandate of heaven.

I just don't get it and I will never get it. Is it fear? Is it a desire for absolute simplicity? Is it my fantasy bristling against theirs? Is it the inability to win an online argument about your character being the most moral and pure in the whole world? Because it seems to me it often comes down to "xyz villain is more evil, stop coping" which is like... okay... if you have a flat view of storytelling, sure (oh God, I used to get into so many arguments about daring to compare Cinder-Pyrrha and Jaune-Penny). Of course, the most fun thing about I/ronwood's character arc is that is exactly his whole deal in relation to Salem, and exactly how he justifies what he does, which is kind of ironic in how people miss the point. But I wasn't even vagueing about him in the first place! I just remembered why I love R/WBY because this is an actual idea explored in the story. I love storytelling.

[noisytenant]

i am a person who believes that a "good therapist" can be a meaningful part of someone's efforts toward wellbeing, but it's occurring to me that i feel like a lot of people simply don't know what to look for in a therapist, and don't feel comfortable talking about their relationship to their therapist.

i feel like the way that therapy is commonly treated as a "quarantine" of emotionality means that a lot of people are hesitant to reflect on and discuss interactions with their therapist to trusted outside parties. (of course, sometimes we seek therapy because we have no trusted outside parties). and there is a societal assumption that therapeutic authority is well-earned, which doesn't necessarily align with reality.

but i guess i'm wondering if it wouldn't be helpful to just... talk a lot more, blab about your experiences with your therapist. complain more about uncomfortable interactions and figure out if it's something you can set a boundary over or if it's a dealbreaker. for people who actually feel helped by their therapists to explain what's so good about them.

like compared to the friends and mentors that comprise our support networks, there are so few social consequences for discussing our emotional responses To therapy, because they're not a person woven into the fabric of your social sphere. they're removed from it, intentionally. so i feel like we should really take advantage of that to loudly talk about What theyre telling us and How it makes us feel.

(my partner says one of the things about psychoanalysis that they prefer over conventional therapy is that it's understood that you might feel various ways about your analyst, and you aren't expected to have this... neutral-pleasant relationship. it's understood as an emotionally involved relationship with two parties who have their own biases. without analysis experience myself i can't speak to how that shows up in practice, but i think it's a compelling angle)

i guess i feel like a lot of the everyday posts about therapy are either quite personal and limited in scope, or really general trends, or zoomed-out posts on therapy as a theory and practice. perhaps i sense a gap in personal anecdotes that center emotional experience while providing some guidance in ways to move forward. maybe im just not following the right people but i guess i think it's a societal trend that could be changed

[iamthepulta]

Making my own post because now capitalism is just revolving in my brain and I want to respond, but I've intruded more than enough. ^^"

I do think capitalism can be solved, and history actually gives me hope because it shows the fundamental need of society. Humans aren't inherently greedy or cruel. The greed and the cruelty are symptoms of a long-standing human need to make things better than they were before: to live comfortably, and without fear.

Capitalism is merely the current expression of this need that we live in.

Solving the need is absolutely possible by establishing a baseline standard of living and resource allotment. And that's comparable to an amount of 'work' that we deem acceptable in our daily lives. Because if you think about it, making coffee every morning with a Keurig gets you a similar product to making coffee every morning with a hand grinder and cold press: one just takes more resources and time than the other.

However, this needs to be flexible because humans are individuals with different needs, and the premise is also questionable because who's setting this baseline anyway?

I personally think it has more to do with government setting a cap on resource imports. (I think it should be stronger than tariffs, personally. Just a hard cap for the year.)

You can't really control demand. That's what most socialists do, and it always fails because humans fundamentally want to make their lives easier. But you can control resource management. If the government says we can only import 20 tons of cotton this year, and we produce 80 tons of cotton, so companies get 100 tons of cotton to do whatever with, and that's it. If we want more cotton, we have to axe some other import.

It 1) makes management visual. 2) gives citizens a personal reason to be invested in their government. 3) will not allocate resources fairly, but will show the true value of a product for the region it's in and prioritize local resources [i.e. if your country does not produce garnets, garnets will be more expensive than gold]. 4) increases jobs since there's far less incentive to outsource work, overall decreasing inequality. 5) encourages a circular economy.

In which case, I suppose I'm for some form of socialist autarky and I think that would solve a decent number of capitalist problems. Companies could no longer overrun workers and there's individual choice behind jobs, work, and some form of style of living.

It IS bad in like- fifty million other ways though. You can't just go from a country used to living in a capitalist society to imposing tariffs and screaming about autarky. Natural resources WILL be destroyed on your own soil and the biggest nation will have the highest quality of living. Imports have to be on a factor of population growth and this might only be possible with nations for a declining population rate. If at all. You also have to add a judicial angle for the people who will inevitably try to take over that system. And, most of all, you have to commit to not going to fucking war over state expansion for resources. Looking at you, Russia.

So I suppose we COULD solve capitalism, at the expense of a whole lot of other problems that are equally meh-to-bad.

Governments are fundamentally resource management machines though, and it's really stupid to pretend they aren't. With resource management, comes capping the fuck out of companies (specialists) that abuse the system (monopolies/oligarchies). When a government doesn't do that (whatever the method), it's failed its purpose as a government and also needs to be put down (revolution).

[microwavetoaster-selfships]

Wow I have an odd amount of energy and feel indefinitely understimulated I sure wonder what I should do to fix this. Slow head turn towards the camera

[movedtoacolorlessworld]

that mantis one is the most shittiest thing i could have ever drawn on paper

[broodsys]

okay okay I gotta stop saying I gotta do this and actually do this

gotta, idk... set gaming alarms or smth... so weird that I just don't get bored!!!

[smoocheys]

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[mimiyanna]

Me when I've been left alone with my thoughts at work and none of my friends are responding to my messages for more than five seconds: I have GOT to kill myself. I need to set myself on fire. My MAIN goal. Is to BLOW UP. And take everyone else in this building down with me. Ahahahah

[llumimoon]

me pulling out a whiteboard: okay so here's how us sparrow apologists can still win-

[prettyflyshyguy]

I got so unhinged about supernatural i've been actually working on Virtual Ground because I have a perfectly good messed up pair of freaks from the early 2000s who don't get along and holy shit I want to tell that story

[soviet-siscon]

my mental health has been so funny lol, so many things going on and feeling insane about this girl (who isn't even related to me!!!) isn't exactly helping.