#bitching and complaining

[headspace-hotel]

so I was running the first paragraph of this essay I hate through google translate, for reasons that are too long to explain, and became very thoughtful about these lines:

Most North American places have shed wolves, elk, moose, brown bears, panthers, bison, and a variety of fish and wild plants, which were all abundant four hundred years ago. Before those species were driven out, there was the slaughter of the mammoth, the ground sloth, the wild horse. The squirrels, rabbits, and sparrows that surround my North Carolina porch are less signs of burgeoning life than survivors of an apocalypse; so are the revenant coyotes that poach chickens and puppies from the neo-hippie farmsteads outside town. 

I was interested that the author mentioned living in North Carolina, a place that is such a stunning jewel of biodiversity. The world capital of salamanders, home to numerous endemic plants including the Venus flytrap, the most biodiverse temperate forest in the world.

I detest nature writing by people who do not engage with nature around them, and worse, denigrate it for being worthless compared to some imagined pristine pre-human Wilderness.

The author grieves the loss of the animals missing in the environment around him, but he does not love or revere the animals that still exist or newly arrive.

The essay goes on to further discuss the extermination of wilderness, the elimination of the human connection to nature, and his longing for a primitive, spiritual sort of connection to land and nature. He presents brief reviews of several books of nature writing, all of which he judges as incomplete for addressing this primitive spiritual yearning. His review of Landmarks by Robert MacFarlane is insultingly egotistical, dismissing the meaning within Gaelic vocabulary because it doesn't give him the sense of "animistic" connection to the land that he wants.

But the author reveals the reason his yearning remains unsatisfied in the first few lines of his essay! He is isolated from the natural world because he has decided the Nature around him, the Nature he can see, touch, experience, and commune with, is "already destroyed" and no longer Nature at all. He refuses to see wildness in the sparrows, therefore wildness is inaccessible to him.

When he thinks of ecological tragedies of the past, or ecological threats of the future, it is all generic: destruction of bison, climate change, losses of species. No sign of intimate communion with the devastating wounds of the land on which he lives: the killing of millions of salamanders in logging, the perishing of the spruce-fir forest due to acid rain... he is tormented by abstractions of ecological tragedy, not the suffering of the land that is his home.

He wants to be deeply spiritually grounded in place....but no, not the place he lives in, some Other place that fulfills all his fantasies of "wildness."

[spite-made-me]

The amount of negativity today on my dash is killing me, from Gale/Wyll fans shitting on Astarion fans, to gay Astarion fans shitting on hetero Astarion fans (basically Astarion fans shitting on each other), to people arguing over content stealing, Larian saying deuces to further developement on BG3, like what the shit is happening today 😭

[spinsterennui]

It’s 73 degrees outside. Seventy-three. That’s almost 23 C. It’s February 4th. It’s sunny, so it feels like 75.

It’s February 4th.

[fcku-justletmelook]

bleghhhhh

i woke up, spent 4 hours helping mum with her tax return (and she's only getting back $19 from the feds, jfc)... spent an hour de-stressing*... now have to do all my homework for this week. and i'm already a day late on half on it. yay me (/s)

* had a massive lil cry even which is. a fun new thing i've been trying (/s) because i've been missing fully half my meds all month, and won't get more until next week

[ladysalamander]

The Dawntrail msq just had zero idea what to do with the scions, which I think was a real huge missed opportunity to explore their personalities outside of what they do when the world is ending. Especially Estinien, holllyy. Overall the writing in the first half was frustratingly basic, one note, like, the least you could do is sprinkle them in for some fun. Idk, maybe a trial involves a hunt and you play MonHan with Estinien, or G'raha helps you solve a puzzle and once you put the pieces together thats what tells you the history of the people and each piece is also part of the taco recipie, or the dungeons involve more of you and Thancred actively playing a game of thwarting one another until you have to face him and Urianger as a boss. I get what they are going for but I think when yoy design a game you have to remember that games first and foremost involve action and yet so many characters just talked and talked and talked. And it was repetetive talk! There was so much room for other shit!

And as cool as the second half was I dislike a hard pivot. Sprinkle in hints. Clues. Foreshadowing. Please. Something got lost as hell in edits.

[blue-berry-is-a-star-sans]

got accused of using AI to help me answer social problems yesterday and I've never been so offended in my life. an AI wouldn't be so frustrated about a snack making me unable to eat a delicious meal I don't think! I'm just autistic!

[eyeballs-in-my-head]

I swear to fucking god if I'll end up being sick again because of my mother I'll blow up this entire fucking neighborhood and then kill the prime minister....

[premise29]

Tumblr's been running so badly on my computer.

-Well yeah it's Tumblr.

No, even worse than usual.

[captain-krow-drozdov]

Danny Is An Alternate Version Of Ra's Al Ghul And Flash Already Called Dibs On Adopting Him

Danny In All His Sleep Deprived Slightly Scuffed Up From A Fight Glory Is On His Way To Clockworks Tower To Hopefully Get A Nap And Maybe Some Homework Done When A Natural Portal Opens Up In Front Of Him And Proceeds To Unceremoniously Drop Him In The DC Verse Just Outside Of Central City Before Promptly Closing Leaving A Tired Danny Behind In A Run Down Abandoned Parking Lot.

It's Times Like This When Danny Regrets Putting Off Learning How To Make His Own Portals, Cause Now He Is Very Much Stuck For The Foreseeable Future And He Has No Idea Where Or When He Is. Luckily For Him However Central City Isn't Too Far Away, Unlucky For Him However Is That Once In The City He Realizes This Isn't His Dimension. He's Pretty Sure He'd Remember Something Called The Justice League.

So What Do You Do When Supernatural Bullshit Fails You? You Fall Back On Your Mad Scientist Roots And You Make A Portal Gun. So That's Exactly What Danny Plans To Do.

Unfortunately Staying Alive And Building Questionably Safe Portal Technology Requires Money And Supplies, So He Ends Up Wandering From City To City Doing Odd Jobs/Fixing Up Busted Tech For Cash Or Unwanted Electronics For His "Operation: Get Home" Needs. This Obviously Ends In A Few Superhero Encounter Shenanigans.

Though He Always Ends Up Back Near Central City, Both On The Off Chance The Natural Portal Will Open Up Again And Because Out Of All The Superheroes That Apparently Exist In This Universe The Speedsters Are His Favorite (Red Robin Is Solidly His Second Favorite Ever Since The Gotham Vigilante Gave Him A Large Coffee Filled With Enough Caffeine To Kill A Man).

Unbeknownst To Danny However Is That Every Hero/Vigilante He Has Encountered Has Come To At Least One Of The Following Conclusions; 1. Run Away Meta Who Is In Desperate Need Of A Good Meal/Adoption Bait. 2. Possibly Red Robin/Tim Drake Clone 3. A Good Kid But Could Possibly Be A Future Rouge If Left Unsupervised. 4. Did Bats Get A New Kid And Why Is He Here?

All Flash Knows Is That He Saw The Kid First And Therefore Has Dibs. Suck It Bruce.

Fast-forward A Few Months And Danny Gets Hurt During A Rogue Attack While Trying To Help Some Civilians Get To Safety (Old Hero Habits Die Hard (Ha Die Hard) And All That Jazz) And He Nopes Out Once Everyone Is Safe And When The Paramedics Are Busy With Other People Unaware He Left A Blood Sample Behind.

One DNA Test Brought To You By Paranoid Bat Concerns Of A Possible Red Robin Clone Later And They Find Out That Dannys DNA Matches One Ra's Al Ghul.

They Now Think Danny Is An Escaped Ra's Al Ghul Clone.

Memes For The Vibes:

[buggachat]

legitimate question ....... why do people like to tell me all the reasons they don't like miraculous ladybug? i know i complain about the fact a lot, and i find myself on the defensive a lot, and i keep telling myself i'll stop and let it go, but it really is hard when people are always coming onto my posts, in my replies, in my comments, on my art and my fics and my text posts and anything i make, and telling me blatantly all the ways that they don't like the thing that i so blatantly find enjoyment in. "the show is bad". okay? good for you? why are you on my post about it? why don't you make your own? why are you telling me, specifically, this, on the art/fic/analysis i made that i assume you found by searching through the tag?

it's kind of a behavior that i legitimately don't understand. I'm a human being and I hate a lot of things, too. there are things i've loved at first and been disappointed by and have strong opinions about. there are things i like to complain about. so i'll complain about them to my friends or my family or my cat. but i have never, once, not even for a single moment, thought, "oh let me go into the tags of this media, find a positive post about it written by someone who's having fun with it, and make it that random stranger's problem". never once.

i just don't get it. i really don't get it. i sometimes worry that i come across like i'm heavily critical of people who just personally don't like the show, when really i'm just trying to defend my interests to the droves of strangers who are always coming specifically to me to tell me all the ways they hate the thing that makes me happy.

just.......... why? where does the urge come from? what do you get out of this?

[wispurring-moss]

no thoughts just These TwoTM touch-starved losers gradually evolving into the epitome of casual touching/cuddling for absolutely no reason and they probably don't even realize they're doing it lol <'3

[mikewheelerscloset]

ravenclaw barty crouch jr who refuses to go all the way down to the dungeons so regulus has to answer some batshit crazy riddle at 3am to see his stupid boyfriend

[fcku-justletmelook]

my sister is in the habit of having hours long Bible studies almost every day. that's fine with me, tho i disagree with her interpretation of a LOT of scripture. but it involves her reading aloud and she gets extremely emotional about it. she also is just generally a loud person. so she's basically just,,, shouting and intermittently sobbing, about God.

result is that every day i'm stuck in my room with her shouting scripture like 20 feet away. i could go downstairs but that would just reduce the volume slightly, since her room is in the exact center of the house. i can't ask her to be quieter or go downstairs bc then she'll get pissy. so i have to listen to music all day long (via headphones bc i'm not an asshole), or else i'm just stuck listening to religious zeal all day long.

EDIT: so in the process of writing this i got distracted by her voice so much that i forgot to say my actual point. which was that my head hurts and i'm overstimulated by the constant music that i have to listen to in order to drown her out

[kawaiialeisha]

ELLO!

✨How would it look like it in your own art if Beta Wally, Reboot Wally and OG Wally interacted? ✨

-Also rate my profile picture from -0 to 100.

I actually vaguely remember Red saying something about how Reboot Wally would be intimidated by Beta Wally, sooo...

HHJDSGK Reboot is PISSING HIMSELF

Anyways, I love them both. I think I've actually only drawn Beta Wally once until now which is.. kind of insane HJDKSLG

IT'S FOR THE SPECIAL OCCASSION!!

✨ REBOOT AU BY:

@bloodrediscream

also I rate your pfp ok/100

[lesbianrobin]

ok related to the last poll because everybody had fun tags:

[mohntilyet]

actually sorry dav reads like a game that was written by people who think da2 is about found family. in every other game my ending feels earned and my choices are my own and then veilguard asks the bold question what if we could bring the hr mandatory team bonding experience into a video game?