#accumulate

[markscherz]

you’re super good at taking selfies congrats

and we haven't even scratched the surface

[economicsresearch]

page 557 - there, do you see?

Now remove a layer.

[dk-thrive]

Like pebbles on a blanket at the beach they stop it from drifting away or flying up in your face. Having nice things makes you feel like you’re doing a good job and shuts everybody else up.

Possibly because when my parents got married and I was born—the two events happening in quick succession—they didn’t have any things. Nothing at all and as far as I know nobody gave them anything. Nothing they wanted in any case. They started absolutely from scratch. And so naturally it became important to have things. It helps make unexpected circumstances seem planned and even desirable. Things hold life in place. Like pebbles on a blanket at the beach they stop it from drifting away or flying up in your face. Having nice things makes you feel like you’re doing a good job and shuts everybody else up. There’s nothing anybody can say to you so long as you have nice things all around you. They can’t touch you. And as time went on there were more and more nice things, lovely things.

― Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19: A Novel (Riverhead Books, March 1, 2022) 

[curiosity-killed]

24, 32, 34

VICTORY OVER THE HORRORS ACHIEVED!!

24. what’s one thing you’re proud of yourself for?

oh hm. I guess this is kind of cliche but I've worked really hard to know what's right for me at a given time and build a life that I love? From things like my apartment and how it's set up to like continuing to pursue dance professionally while working at a job I mostly like a lot and care about and continuing to grow as a writer and artist and pianist and building a community around me of people I love and admire.

Like it's easy for me to get bogged down in what's not great (e.g., frustration with dance. a lot. lol) and to joke about how my younger self wouldn't be impressed at all because I was a judgmental lil shit, but in reality, I think if a younger version of myself saw me now it would both be very validating in that I am becoming more and more myself every year and hopeful in the knowledge that like...this life is possible and I get to have it. So I guess I'm like proud of the work I've done and continue to do for that and I'm just really grateful to have this life.

ahem okay sappiness over!!

32. how many tabs do you have open right now?

HA! I shut down my laptop last night for updates so I currently only have 4 open 😎

(...and 34 on my phone and let's just not talk about my work laptop)

34. any pet peeves?

oh man so many! I am. a little bit of a cranky old man at heart lol but I think my biggest pet peeve is probably just when someone I'm talking to doesn't actually listen to me

fun questions >:D

[wordofthehour]

Word of The Hour: accumulate

English: accumulate 1. to heap up in a mass 2. to collect or bring together 3. to grow or increase in quantity or number ------------ - Chinese: 积累 - French: accumule - German: anhäufen - Hindi: जमा कर - Portuguese: acumular - Spanish: acumula ------------ See previous words @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/past

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[cemeterything]

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[ourobororos]

ds9 dump 3.... (falls over)

[dateko]

a/n: another rando drabble... twas hiding amidst the dust in my drafts... i will never get to see the four of these silly geese happy ever again and they only exist in my google docs where nothing bad ever happens to them...

“Sensei, what is Sensei to you?” Yuuji asks suddenly, causing Gojo to stop in his tracks.

“Huh? Me?”

This time, Nobara groans. “No, you blindfolded idiot! That Sensei!” 

Gojo follows his young student’s gaze as she tilts her chin towards the field where the second-years are training. 

There, standing beside the ever-adorable Panda, is you. You watch with a proud smile on your face as the second years spar with one another, calling out praises along with death threats coming from Maki. It doesn’t take long for you to notice the first years and their slender mentor watching you from the steps. Your lips fight to bite down a smile as you throw out a wave, watching Satoru lift his mask to wink at you.

“See! See! Like that!” Nobara starts again excitedly, pointing at her teacher. “What is that woman to you?”

“Eh?” Gojo raises an eyebrow before lowering his mask. “She’s… A close friend of mine.”

“Sensei, you’re being secretive.” Yuuji offers him a skeptical look, to which Nobara nods along with adamantly. “Fushiguro, what do you think?”

Megumi glances at your figure with a dragging sigh before walking in front of his classmates. “If you ask me, she’s the one.”

Thing 1 and Thing 2 erupt with rowdy exclamations, practically bouncing off their teacher. Megumi continues to walk with a somewhat satisfied expression. The boy’s known you his entire life. Especially how much you mean to his blue-eyed benefactor. 

“B-but how do you know she’s really the one?” Yuuji asks this time, fully invested in his teacher’s love life.

Gojo shrugs nonchalantly. “I have good eyes, you know.”

“Well, now I just feel sorry for her. She has to deal with you every day!” Nobara deflates immediately, unsure of how to feel knowing someone she respects is romantically affiliated with her headache-inducing instructor.

“Hey! It’s a blessing to deal with me!” 

A pair of footsteps sneak up behind the group. “Deal with who?”

With a hand on your hip, you stop to tilt your head at the pairs of wide eyes looking at you. Even beneath his mask, you can tell Satoru looks more than guilty. 

“Something on my face?” You pat a hand on your cheek, wondering why no one’s said anything to you. 

Nobara breaks the silence by walking up to you with her head down, a downcast expression on her face. “Sensei… I’m so sorry for you…”

Confused and admittedly very concerned, you shoot Gojo a look before patting Nobara’s head reassuringly. And your lover holds a sheepish expression as he holds his hands clasped behind his back, an old habit he used to do when he knew he was in the wrong. 

“Alright, I might as well just say it,” Gojo starts, fixing the collar of his jacket. “I told them about us.”

Your eye widen at his words, lips sputtering for a normal response. “You told them we’re married?”

“Wait, married?! Meeting each other with good feelings is one thing, but married… Sensei, I thought you were better than this…" Nobara shakes her head dramatically before walking off, flashing you a disapproving look before dragging Yuuji along with her.

You watch the younger student walk off with a confused brow before returning to face your lover, who is grinning wildly at you. He's clearly over feeling guilty about exposing your little secret. Your questionable silence comes to Gojo as a queue to pull you into a loving embrace, a quiet apology for blowing your cover.

Without skipping a beat, you return the hug, giving up on trying to scold him. You squeak when Gojo rocks the two of you back and forth, pressing never-ending kisses on your jaw. “Just an FYI, Megumi was the one who told them.” He mutters, nose pressing itself into the crook of your neck.

You gasp, holding his face while you step back to look at him. “He wouldn’t do such a thing!”

“He said that you were the one.”

“Isn’t that what you said?”

“Shut up.”

You let out a giggle, a sound Gojo could listen to for hours on repeat. “You used to be so corny when we dated. Still now.”

“I don't think I could ever stop being corny. Only when it comes to you.”

[steamclouds]

20's Ineffable flapper wives!

They're having a fun time :)

[economicsresearch]

page 557 - can you imagine commodifying nature? Stamping your imprimatur on a seed or a gene? As if you were responsible for the thousands upon millions of generations of evolution that preceded your arrival. Heck, I'm not a hater, as if you were responsible for the creation of the seed, as if you were a Creator.

But those who harvest knowledge in this way aren't creators. They're scoundrels and thieves. Eager to gather the works of others, put them behind fences and hoard them. Men on walls with guns and all that only we usually just see the lawsuits.

Things behind walls; metaphorical walls, real walls, things, people.

[extrashortshorts]

..or not

[luminarai]

dog owners vs cat owners: the immortal gay edition

[wordofthehour]

Word of The Hour: accumulate

English: accumulate 1. to heap up in a mass 2. to collect or bring together 3. to grow or increase in quantity or number ------------ - Chinese: 积累 - French: accumule - German: anhäufen - Hindi: जमा कर - Portuguese: acumular - Spanish: acumula ------------ See previous words @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/past