#and frustrated

[hina-has-no-life]

Understanding Stolas is easy, it's expected. Understanding Blitz is horrifying and makes you sad. Understanding both makes you want to dropkick both of them while screaming "FUCKING COMMUNICATE"

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

Hey hi hello to any fellow Brits reading this.

You probably know we have a general election coming up, which by the way, make sure you're registered to vote and have the qualifying photo ID.

And hey maybe you're a fence-sitter who doesn't want to vote for Labour for whatever reason.

Well, this post is giving you a reason to vote for Labour (or any party other than Tory if the candidate actually has a chance to win the seat).

You might have noticed that a lot of local and city councils have either gone bankrupt recently or are teetering on the edge, and that officially, it's the councils themselves that have been blamed, and uh yeah, that's horseshit.

The majority of a local council's funding comes from core grants given out by Westminster.

There's actually a limit on funding that local councils can raise via taxes, and like a whole lot of issues in the UK, that comes down to Margaret fucking Thatcher. It's also thanks to her that local councils don't have as much power over the local area as you'd ideally want them to.

(That's been eased a little since, but if a local council ain't got the money, they can't exercise that power.)

Suffice to say, local councils are very much dependent on funding from the central government.

And as you might imagine, 14 years of Tory government has just made it worse. From 2010 to 2020, that funding was cut by 40%.

Wanna know why hundreds of libraries have closed down? Or why public services like bin collections are almost entirely ran by corporations? Or why bin collections are now once a fortnight rather than once a week? Or why council houses haven't been built? Or why public toilets are being closed? Or why you have to Tokyo Drift on the drive to work because it's been 2 years and no one's done shit about that goddamn pothole? Or why parks seem to now be maintained by Big Foot and by the way Big Foot has also declared bankruptcy? Or why local arts have had their budget of 17 paperclips and a whistle reduced down to 10 paperclips and no whistle? Or why your local museum is effectively a mausoleum?

It is all down to this.

Your local council runs on a shoestring budget because Tory rule has deprived local councils of the funding that they need.

If the Tories win in July, this problem is just gonna get worse and worse and worse.

More councils are going to go bankrupt; more public services are going to be cut or underfunded; more vulnerable kids are going to fall through the cracks; more local services will be privatised; more pressing issues will be ignored because there's no money left over to fix it.

You might not like the current Labour party, but hi hello welcome to harm reduction politics. Maybe a Labour government won't fix this, but another 5 years of Tory rule is going to break this country.

So for god's sake, get over yourself and your leftist purity bullshit, and just fucking vote for Labour as a vote against the Tories.

[Information for this post comes from this video by Tom Nicholas]

[here-there-be-fics]

Thinking about how even if Buck now goes out and hooks up with people to 'find himself'....again. How do they approach that without it seeming like he is doing so to take away from the shadow and pain of his relationship with Tommy? He was in love or on the verge of loving Tommy in a way we've not seen before, those feeling don't go away because you fall into bed with someone or mutliple someones. How does that affect his ability to actually discover anything about himself without it being tinged with the love he still has for someone else? How does it not just look like he is using sex to heal a wound or empty part of himself like he did in Season 1? Doesn't that kinda skew his journey of discovery of his bisexual identity he supposedly needs by making it somewhat self destructive? He's just confirmed within himself with the help of people he trusts that what he wants is a future with Tommy, and we're suppose to buy into him doing a 180 into sleeping around and he is suppose to sudden really want this outcome instead?

[lukachupacabra]

I really really REALLY hate that the release of MK1 made the Kuai Liang, Scorpion and Sub-Zero tags all literally unusable if you want to see the original versions of these characters. When I ask for Scorpion I want Hanzo Hasashi. When I ask for Kuai Liang I want the younger Sub-Zero formerly known as Tundra. Bi-Han is obviously fine, but jfc the other two bring me great pain. Worse that there are still people who tag incest under the SubScorp tag. I block on sight for that.

[sky-is-the-limit]

I ride at dawn for Thomas Müller. That cannot be his last match with the NT. Tell that engl*sh cunt to hide.

[wandixx]

okey, hey guys, it's a bit different from what i usually post but i really kinda need help

how do i stop procrastrinating?

i have big exams coming and i need to study for them because i don't know shit but now i'm stuck in the "can't study 'cause too stressed" -> "stressed 'cause still not studying" cycle and i have no clue how to get out

and it's not even that i don't want to learn stuff that i'm supposed to study, it's all quite interesting. i just can't force myself to actually open a textbook and write down the notes or whatever instead of doom scroling/reading fics/watching random shit on yt

[goldyluna]

Did you ever had to bullshit through an essay with actual legit information? I do right now, I try to explain something that never was explained but the thesis I write rn has a lot of criteria and one of them is that I can't have an original thought (mostly) because thesis is a "recycled work" with lots and lots of sources and names and dates. You want to write that sky is blue? Ok, but who wrote that first. And if nobody ever came to the conclusion that the sky is blue, but your research showed clearly that it is, then you have to prove it... still with other people work and opinions.

[corpsephrog]

i understand wanting more from humanity, but we unfortunately can rarely expect it from people. voting third party was never going to work, and i don't blame people for trying, but we had TWO realistic options, where one was OBVIOUSLY better than the other.

and yes, i think this is what democrats want. i think they want us to have no other options, but we would've had so much more opportunity for progress under a democratic office and that has been made CLEAR.

now people are going to have their reproductive rights taken away. he wants to take away healthcare insurance. he's going to fuck the education system. harris was NEVER the exact same.

we could have still been holding her accountable under her presidency and now we won't get the chance to do that for anyone because of the self-centered, fascist fuck we're now stuck with.

[sonotpractical]

Vent post

I feel humiliated. I'm getting timed for my bathroom breaks again. I just want to cry because nothing is more embarrassing than knowing that people are timing me. Sometimes, I need a moment to reset since working retail can be really draining and overwhelming. Almost all of my longer breaks coincide with the days that we are short staffed and I'm running around like a chicken with its head cut off.

I just want to cry, and I guess now I'm going to only take bathroom breaks during my paid 15-minute breaks, so I can't be reprimanded about it.

[sokkas-therapist]

So I’ve gotten through the first 5 episodes of the live action….and while I want to wait until I finish everything to share any opinions (giving the show the benefit of the doubt)…I feel like they absolutely destroyed the Warriors of Kyoshi episode 💀💀

That was one of my favorite episodes in the entire series before, now they completely butchered it with a fundamental lack of understanding for the reasoning behind the original characterization of like….everyone

[rumandcigaretes]

I've been having very intense thoughts lately about starting to watch Peaky Blinders again, partly because my fanfic isn't canon and that's making it so difficult to finish.

The thing is, it's not that simple for me because of my neophobia and hyperfixation problems. I know that starting this series will be equivalent to living this series.

It's so messed up...

Like, I stopped watching or getting interested in new things because I can't approach them healthily. I get so immersed in the action that it cuts me off and then affects my relationships.

I once talked to my therapist about trying to write down all my feelings after each episode and so on...

I don't know, maybe that will really help somehow.

I'm trying to regain some normalcy in "enjoying pop culture," but it's so damn hard for me.

Sometimes I feel like I'm broken.

[greghatecrimes]

all things considered, I'm very very fortunate. however. I am feeling very tired of being sick

[songofwizardry]

starting to get a little frustrated at how so many of the last several Ramadans have been varying degrees of Pretty Rough. and some of that (particularly this year) is bad timing and external stuff happening but some of that is possibly that I don’t Know how to handle what I want/need to do during Ramadan and what feels like it’s an essential part of the month without completely exhausting myself. and like this has happened before but it’s been really Something the last couple years. idk I’m aware I have issues and I need to find better ways of balancing things and dealing with my body (which has been deciding to change its mind about what it can and can’t handle with no regard for my planning) but I have been *trying* for the last several months and yet I turn up here again in Ramadan, which is. a little frustrating. but oh well.

[esmecuckoo]

On my grocery runs, I've run into someone a few times, while walking up the mountain, and they've offered me a ride up the hill. I've accepted a few times, usually due to weather, and the thought kept lingering over me, at SOME point, they're gonna ask me what my name is.

And I may be mostly out as trans, I'm still only kinda peeking out around the closet door, and don't LOOK like my preferred gender, so my brain just kinda scrambles in circles not knowing WHAT to say. I want to say Esme or whatever, but good lord the conversations that leads to, when I'm essentially trapped in a car. Not being helped that, even though Vermont is a trans friendly state, it's still very rural where I am, and I have NO idea this person's politics. But I also hate the idea of saying my old name, THEN having to go back on it at a hopefully later date when I'm more comfortable.

This also just makes me frustrated at how little progress I've made outside the safety of my house, and how little progress I probably will ever make, for one reason or another. I just feel *stuck* and it sucks and I want to scream.

But anyways, the most recent trip, got another ride, and it finally happened. My brain quickly screamed internally, and played it safe and said my name was Jason. Because I'm a coward.

[sketchyorsomething]

"Wenn ichs wüsste würd ich's anders machen"

"Dann flieg's halt nicht und dann ist Scheiße"

"Der erste Weltcup war auch beschissen"