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aro culture is getting so fucking tired of people using the fact that there's a queer romance in something as a reason you should watch it. like haven't allos had enough of romance? queer or otherwise? I'm not saying queer representation is bad, of course, I'm just fed up with asking what a book is about and in response all I get is "oh it has queer people in it" cool! what is it about? having queer representation is not the be all end all of media can we please have ONE thing without romance in it. please.
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#electroniccollectiondonut#aro culture is#aro#aromantic#actually aro#actually aromantic#ask#mod phoenix#yeah... it's like. this is a bad metaphor but it's all i got right now:#i'm vegetarian. it's not uncommon that if an event is hosted 'with food' that every single main dish contains a fair amount of meat#and most of the side dishes too#maybe the salad has chicken. the soup is a meat broth soup. the main course is steak. i literally cannot tell you how often this happens.#and if you're lucky there's like... bread rolls and butter. sometimes there's the Cheap Salad that's just tossed lettuce#and i promise you from experience: if i ask beforehand i am always told there will be something for me to eat#but like. believe it or not 1) that's not filling 2) it's usually the two poorest quality items on the line 3) i prefer salads as SIDES#i see similar stuff on the occasion i'm told there's any sort of 'rep' for aro folks#it's like... okay but the vast majority of the media is still very romance focused and the elements that aren't are usually... hm#not comparably interesting in how they're executed?#or it's like. kids media. which can be good - but i'd like to be allowed to have content that can be both for an adult audience#and NOT romance
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I visited a certain haunted house yesterday 👻
As a little belated birthday treat, my family and I went on a trip to Kerpen and Bergheim to visit Burg Bergerhausen (where the first series of the German adaption of BBC Ghosts was shot earlier this month) and Schloss Paffendorf.
Burg Bergerhausen - or Burg Donnerhall as it will be called in the show - is gorgeous. A wedding reception was held there yesterday so I did not take a lot of pictures but you can walk around the whole house which is surrounded by a beautiful moat and observe the local wildlife living there. It is smaller and more compact than West Horsley Place but definitely feels like the kind of place you could inherit and be overwhelmed by. As I mentioned in this post before, the house is not open to the public but the park area around it is.
And because it's only 15 minutes away, we also visited Schloss Paffendorf which is quite a bit larger and more impressive than Burg Bergerhausen. It's also not open to the public but there is a little café there and you can walk through the park behind the property which features huge ginkgo trees, sequoias and magnolias and is breath-takingly beautiful, even in the pouring rain. My whole family agreed we have to come back when it's not raining one day.
So if you're planning on visiting Burg Bergerhausen, make sure you go to Schloss Paffendorf as well because it's really close by and well worth a visit (even little Thomas thought it was nice 😉).
#die geister#burg bergerhausen#mp die geister#thomas travels#my travels 2024#does this make me the first person who has visited two ghosts locations? The US version is filmed at a studio isn't it?#anyway german ghosts fans do yourselves a favour and visit these castles if you have the chance because they're both beautiful#also the pictures are receiving because it was raining quite heavily the whole day and we got lucky with maybe 15 mins of drizzle in betwee
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Only Friends hierarchy of needs
(and then they need to end up together in the most mutually unhinged and codependent relationship possible a la HIStory 1: Obsessed)
#I think I like Nick so much that his delusions have started rubbing off on me fr#like I fully believe that Boston really was on the verge of falling in love with Nick in a truly possessive and unhinged way#and I too hope that BostonNick is endgame#and probably the worst of Nick's delusions that I've picked up is that Boston isn't awful and maybe his hotness really does cancel out#the fact that he's done some really problematic shit#most people have seen the HIStory series right? I feel like I was like the last one to watch them#remember history 1 obsession?? that was some good and also really insane stuff#that's the vibes that I want for BostonNick#like damn those two are so lucky that the other one is into that particular brand of crazy because if not holy shit#like Jiang Jing Teng pretending that he has memory loss to get close to Shao Yi Chen and then saying#that if he couldn't be with SYC then he would have killed him#and SYC was so into it because he felt the same way like wow these two are perfect for e/o and really shouldn't be with anyone else#b/c they're crazy fr#anyway#only friends the series#ofts
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SRK!Don girlies pack it up and take it home we're all f*cked after 84 years we finally get official news about Don 3 coming in 2025 or so and there's uh. i can't believe i'm saying this this is actually coming out of my mouth but there's no Shah Rukh
#film: don 3#don#don 2006#don: the chase begins again#don 2#don 3#shah rukh khan#srk#farhan akhtar#bollywood#local gay watches Bollywood.txt#Farhan posts on his Instagram about how lucky he was to have both Amitabh and Shah Rukh as part of the franchise#and now they're passing on the mantle to another actor bitch!!!!! you robbed me of older DILF!Don bitch!!!!!#i was rooting for you we were all rooting for you we saw the rumors and then had them credibly refuted so what is this. wtf is this#istg if we get an announcement about the successor and it's Ranveer i'm going to throw something#i love the man but i cannot see him as Don. if you wanted to do sh*t like this you should have just made Don 3 earlier#and done a spinoff ffs#i'm grieving rn. literally grieving i only get two films with SRK in what is possibly his sexiest role to date??? you're f*cking kidding me#ykw maybe this is for the better. maybe Shah Rukh will have a project in 2025 that will blow the Don franchise out of the water#and have me thinking that it might have been a good idea to leave it alone. let's think happy thoughts happy thoughts—#*screeches*#Farhan i'm coming to your house. i'm in your walls Farhan
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why is applying for jobs the worst thing on the planet
#''you should apply as soon as a position opens! within two days tops!''#my sibling in christ. how are you even just customizing and tweaking resumes and cover letters and other docs you already have#while also still going to work and eating and all that#maybe it's the adhd but i can do *maybe* 2-3 applications on a day I don't work#especially if they're academic or gov jobs with extensive and varied applications#I'm lucky to get one done if it's very extensive#*screams*
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"That's a sexy session if i know one"
One of my players after we had, in one hour and a half of gameplay, 6 critical roles and 4 critical failures, 2 of which were theirs
#roleplay#lysara#ttrpg#it was a blast#we are still in session rn and i swear to god it has everything#romance#stupid shit#eldritch horrors#nihilism#crossdressing#explosions#the death of god's will#maybe even a death or two if they're not lucky enough
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day 3 of posting out of context Justice pics until Hyperdrama release
#justice band#I really want to know the context behind this picture#About to reset the universe (Jojo reference)#Maybe they're gonna summon a Persona#Anyways#i need context#Two pictures today#lucky bastard
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I just spent like 20 minutes thinking about soup
#i need to move out!!!!#i love my parents to be clear they're great#i just want to be in charge of my own meals again#it's not that they're bad at feeding me stuff i want to eat it's just we like different things#when it's just me i can make my soup however i want and no one's gonna say anything#Because It's My Soup#i can eat japanese chicken curry for a week straight! no one cares!#i just need to get better at eating vegetables#i want my own kitchen soooo baaad.....#my mom's sensitive to garlic. do you know how much recipes fuck if you add garlic? severely. and i can't if she's gonna eat it#i need my own kitchen so bad so so bad pleeaase#really hoping that i get my degree within like two months#and then i have to. urgh. find a job. but then i find a job and i go there#and i get Paid! money!#and once i have some money in the bank and a long term job i can try and get a flat#and once i have a flat i have my own kitchen i can order stuff online if i want and i can adopt a cat#i can have friends over i can decorate#and if i can swing it i'll be a civil servant#and if i'm lucky enough i can perhaps. give up the next 30 years of my life to a bank so i can own my own flat#god i hope. i fucking hope. i really really want to own#like not for landlord bullshit. just so i don't have to worry about where to go in a year two years five years#i want a civil servant job because that's for life and i would love to do the same thing forever#and i want to own a flat because i could make the space fit my needs and wants perfectly#and i wouldn't have to worry about where to live or old age or whatever#good luck to me finding a well situated 2 bedroom flat in one of the if not the worst city of france in terms of housing :)#but hey i've been lucky in life. maybe it'll keep going#i know what i want early! that's good#i shouldn't have a realisation that i want kids at 30yo or whatever. I Shall Not Become My Mom#ANYWAY i need my own kitchen!!!!!#wow i have a ramble tag now
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not to be ungrateful but i don't get paid enough at my job lol
#the problem with jobs that people do bc they love the work is that it doesn't pay well and you will be overworked to death#genuinely couldn't quit bc i love the kids too much already but 15 an hour is....not ideal tbh....#how am i supposed to make future plans in these conditions#i cant ask for a raise ive only worked here 3 months but ugh#the only reason i got hired is i finally broke my rule abt the minimum hourly rate i was willing to accept#i applied to the two 14-16 an hour jobs and used the one i already accepted to get this one to gove me 15 instead of 14#but that's still not a lot tbh#need to buy an oven since we havent had a working one since january#and i keep gping ok next time i get paid i will buy an oven#and it hasnt happened yet#and i need.....17k to invest in starting my own business and i will not see a return on that for a very long time 😭#and i have no idea where that money will be coming from lol#fortunately its not that time sensitive except it kind of needs to happen in the next year or two probably but idk#if i dont do what i need to do idk what will happen but i think the issue will become more expensive but also maybe less expensive#but also uglier and make my neighbors mad#but i have no choice but to wait bc i have no money for that lol#anyway#17k is my immediate expense but i also need to come up with the money to eventually buy my parents house somehow#and i dont even make enough to pay the mortgage 😭#fortunately i dont need to do that for a long time but...eventually#anywayssss#how am i supposed to live laugh love in these conditions#i do love working with kids but jts hard work and all my coworkers are petty and hate eachother so its a lot#and i dont make enough money to live fr#im so lucky i live w my parents bc nobody at my job makes enough to live on their own lol#also the sheep that are supposed to be clearing brush got sick and went back to their farm and they're not coming back this year at all#so we need to brush hog it#or contract another farm#im not sure if its even safe w their poop all over the place snd im not getting any communication from the farmers#but it lowkey might be better to get our own sheep but thats so much work i dont want to think abt doing livestock
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Wait, aww does dipper sometimes cook for bill? (Well saying making spicy instant noodles is cooking is a little far fetched but still)
I mean, sometimes!
In the Familiar AU, Dipper and Mabel basically grew up with Stan - and experienced the cooking skills thereof. When faced with choosing a life of glitter in his digestive tract, or earnest but burnt waffles, Dipper figured he might as well learn to cook. He's not winning any culinary awards or anything, but he can follow a recipe and make a decent pasta dish.
Besides. The alternative to Dipper cooking for Bill - is Bill cooking for Dipper. And since Bill's idea of delicacies involve terms like 'unholy abomination', 'unbearably spicy', or 'still squirming', Dipper's more likely than not to shove him out of the kitchen.
They mostly get lot of takeout.
#answers#Technically Bill's the more *skilled* cook. He's super old and eternally knowledgeable and all#Seen everything and learned so much. Probably would watch British Bakeoff while really drunk and make rude commentary#In theory he could make incredible human-edible meals - but where's the fun in that??? They're so BORING#He likes to get Experimental instead!#Good thing Dipper's experienced with less than optimal cooking. He's got a strong stomach#Mostly Bill's uninterested in cooking. When he *does* cook it's best not to ingest the contents unless you're feeling really lucky#So mostly Dipper doesn't#Bill may not *intentionally* poison Dipper - but he's risk-averse#Seriously there's a lot of microwave meals and takeout for these two#Dipper's not gonna spend time to cook when he could be doing other things. Something he takes after Ford in#The upside of Bill having very - shall we say - *expansive* tastes in his dining is that even when Dipper messes up a recipe#Bill eats it without complaint. Maybe some mockery! But not like. Bitching about it.#Dipper just shrugs and is glad the food's not going to waste#Time for instant noodles again#I will add the single exception for Bill's culinary contributions - If Dipper's really sick. Or achingly injured#Bill *might* make a pretty decent soup
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i have no fucking clue how the cro.ss gui.ld polycule even gets together. i think i've already established that kittay and bu.ggy get together pretty soon after marine.ford, and for the purpose of [gestures vaguely] this i'd like to think that croco.dile and mi.hawk already had their own thing together by the time cro.ss gui.ld happened. but i have no idea how to connect those two. i KNOW i'll need to fix the shit that bu.ggy's followers do (the things that piss croco.dile and mi.hawk off like the poster and the ship) but i don't know what will work or how much changing those things will affect later events because i BARELY have anything to WORK WITH
#i want to say keep the poster (therefore keep emperor bu.ggy) but fix the ship#but them beating bu.ggy up over the ship is what leads to bu.ggy's whole speech and declaring that they're gonna go after the o.ne pie.ce#so like that seems important. i don't know if that could happen if i fix the ship#maybe if i'm lucky croco.dile and mi.hawk will eventually start to respect bu.ggy for whatever reason in canon#and then i won't HAVE to change anything if canon's already going my way#but like i said right now i barely have anything to work with. we have a grand total of Two cro.ss gui.ld chapters atm#and we have absolutely no idea when we'll get another chapter with them especially since there'll be a big break after the next one#kittay.post
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All the #RyouSweep propaganda got me thinking like. Yeah we all criticize Ryou for STILL FUCKING GOING BACK FOR THE DAMN RING in Battle City (and every other time lbr), and rightfully so, but if we’re being honest. In his defense it WAS kind of horrendously irresponsible of the Yugis to just leave two wholeass Millennium Items just sitting on a table and then leave the room. Why did they do that
#LIKE DID THEY NOT JUST SPEND THE ENTIRE ARC TRYING TO GET THOSE SHITS OUT OF THE HANDS OF EVILDOERS OR WHATEVER#YOU KNOW THE IMPORTANT PLOT ITEMS THAT THEY NEED FOR YAMI TO GET HIS MEMORIES BACK AND ALSO THAT ARE VERY DANGEROUS#And I guess they were just like. 'Surely nothing bad will happen if we leave these unsupervised in plain sight of all the former bad guys'#HOW THEY FITTING TWO KIDS IN THERE WHEN THEY CLEARLY DON'T EVEN HAVE ENOUGH BRAIN CELLS FOR ONE#Either one of them could have said hmm we probably should not leave these lying around#Let's put them in our pocket or maybe even idk under the bed or some shit where people can't see them!!!#BUT NOOOOOOO#OF COURSE RYOU TOOK THE DAMN RING AND WHY NOT JUST GIVE HIM YOUR WALLET TOO WHILE YOU'RE AT IT#THEY'RE LUCKY HE DIDN'T TAKE THE MILLENNIUM ROD#THEY'RE LUCKY THE RING GOT STOLEN BY THEIR FRIEND AND NOT SOME RANDOM ASS KAIBACORP EMPLOYEE#Puts my head in my hands. I guess Yami truly is a suitable nemesis to Yami Bakura#Seeing as Yami Bakura is constantly possessing Yugi's classmate/friend and yet at no point has he thought to simply stab Yugi#I love Yugioh no one in this series has ever thought about anything other than games in their fucking life
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the thing about Strong Female Characters is I actually like them
#I think the sfc discourse can have a lot of nuance and often it's boiled down to either#all sfcs are just two-dimensional caricatures#or all sfcs are good and if you hate them you hate women#and it's being condemned more and more as a phrase#but the thing is all the discussion about what about women who aren't strong what about women who are annoying or cowardly or#*insert other characteristic here*#is that it does lowkey leave women with more traditionally masculine traits out in the cold#which sucks because I think they're cool and rad as hell#on the other hand I also think they should be written as people#there is the danger of them being flattened for sure#and there is the danger of them being the only kind of female character written#but actually the worry that the're the only kind of female character ever written? literally isn't true#like I've never found myself in a situation where I haven't had access to lots of different kinds of female characters#although who knows maybe I'm particularly lucky in that sense#anyway the issue has layers and nuance meaning I refuse to discuss it in depth on the internet#AND ANOTHER THING then there's the discussion of how sfc means female character who's strongly written which is a whole thing#but also once again runs the risk of leaving the more typically masculine women out in the cold#anyway what this boils down to is I love seeing a woman punch someone I think it's fun and I support it fully and if that's her entire#character arc if her whole arc is learning how to punch someone better frankly there are days when I'm on board with that
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ok the concert and recital schedule has been announced... orchestra has managed to dodge my rage by only very narrowly avoiding putting a performance during yom kippur this year
#we have a performance on 9/24 BUT it's at 2pm (since when do we do 2pm concerts?) and yom kippur doesn't actually start until sundown#they're fuckin lucky abt that i know their asses didn't look at a hebrew calendar before scheduling#and we've had performances on the HHDs before. lol#sasha speaks#anyway why do we only have like two chamber orch concerts listed on the schedule?#we normally do a chamber orch concert to start the semester and then a bigger program later in the semester#but the schedule only lists our chamber orch concerts and the xmas concert#maybe the assumption is we'll be playing more of the theater shows so we'll be giving fewer of our own concerts?#or maybe they've just left things off the schedule which would not be unexpected for this fucking school tbh#i wanna talk about me#maybe we're playing with the lacm more this year...?
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you know as much as being Tumblr Famous™ is a curse, I do really envy people who can just make a request for asks and then like, get them
#meanwhile i reblog an ask meme like three times and get maybe one or two asks if i'm lucky#like i really like asks because they're a nice comfortable (relatively) low-effort and introvert-friendly way to interact with people#so never getting them kinda feels lonely
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I fucking knew it, I SAID it: they're making ADHD people the next culture war targets. They will 'just ask questions' until we lose every scrap of ground we've gained in the last decade and more. We may not quite inspire the same level of hatred as a sexual minority, but we can very easily be made to inspire disdain and that also works.
They will strip us of our accomodations and our medications and try to stifle any sense of shared identity, and if that kills some of us, oh well. So long as it fuels another outrage cycle, fine.
So many of the tropes they've been using on trans people work extremely well on ADHD people too! "There are too many of these people suddenly! It must be a fad! It spreads through friend groups! And online! People are going private for diagnoses and that's bad! They are using pOwERfUl medical interventions and we think it's freaky!"
I saw the first ripples of this in terf circles about two years ago. And of course it's spread.
6% of British ADHD people lost their jobs in the last year thanks to the meds shortage. SIX PER CENT! And that just made these ghouls go "ooh, tasty, what else can we do?"
Recently an 'expert' was on the BBC saying people see ADHD diagnosis as a "golden ticket." Laurence Fox has been ranting that the condition doesn't exist and threatening "'you won't poison my child's body [with ADHD meds] against my consent"
People need to be aware this is going to get worse. Maybe, if we're lucky, it won't get really bad. But it's going to get worse than it is now.
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