#cheese and whine

[mousegirlheart]

really fun being disabled but still having to do shit yourself. spent all day trying to finish packing my house, disassemble furniture, pick belongings to chuck out to make moving easier. now im in INCREDIBLE pain and have to move VERY slowly cos my legs and spine hurt STUPID bad, like verge of tears bad. im giving myself a short break but i still got shit to do now and tomorrow. I can tell im gonna flare to hell for a week when this is all done. i hate being disabled. it feels like i barely did anything but it still feels like i got run over and smacked in the back with a bat. dont even have time to talk to my friends cos i got too much to do

[hoochieblues]

I'm currently working on a ms that has some significant classism issues, and it's making me want to chew off my own arms.

Writers. Please. Whatever historical period you're writing, whatever genre, whatever the makeup of your worldbuilding... poverty doesn't make people immoral. Lack of education doesn't make people stupid.

I think the vast majority of people know this, but "The Poors" should not exist in your story to either be "content with their lot" and whimsically prop up wealthier characters' privilege, or to be handwaved or judged as venal, desperate, or cruel by those wealthier characters, especially with the condescending veneer of pity.

Sure, poverty is cruel and can change how you think. It can veer you towards sketchy decisions, limit your options, and embitter you. It can normalise certain things in a community that you don't see in wealthier places. But a lazy caricature of the type of person who is poor is a bullshit avoidance of those issues, and it's pure classism.

By all means, write antagonists or unpleasant characters who are poor. But, for the love of fuck, give them some interior motivation beyond being poor. Contextualise them. Show some variety.

If you've never lived under the poverty line, if you're not sure how to write it, do some research. You have the sum of human knowledge in a tiny computer in your pocket. It can show you worlds you never knew existed, and viewpoints far outside your own.

[beingatoaster]

pro tip for fanfic commenters: if you are going to comment on a fic requesting that the author write a completely different fic for you, consider at least, I don't know, opening with a compliment for the fic you're actually commenting on or something

[onlyzhuyilong]

“But why do you have to look like my Black Robe Envoy?”

[laomelettedufromage]

When Xiao Fei is trying to save Seven towards the end of season one and is making those sad little noises….ough

[spiritundaunted]

“It is terrifying to think how little I learned at Oxford. I suppose because I never wanted to go there – my heart was in travel. I was no longer hankering for the Navy, but had this desire for travel. My next brother, now King George VI, was in the Navy and by that time he had gone to sea and was making trips around the world. That irritated me very much because I wanted to be traveling too. I couldn’t think why he should be so lucky to do these things and not me.”

- The Duke of Windsor, reflecting on his time at Oxford.

- from Once a King: the Lost Memoir of Edward VIII, by Jane Marguerite Tippett

[destinationtoast]

chronic pain is the fucking worst.

[collegeoflore]

accurate height difference

[anghraine]

I have accomplished almost nothing today, but in my defense, I haven't slept more than a few hours a night for five days and I feel like I have a cinder block on my chest.

*prods immune system* work harder

[ace-spacedog]

It's honestly so brave of me to be a fucking adult sometimes it really is

[leenfiend]

dont mind me im just gonna whine in the tags

[mihrsuri]

Apparently now clicking on a username on a post just takes you to the persons blog not the specific post and also tumblr no longer remembers most of my tags I am UPSET. /whine.

[beingatoaster]

me on the way to the doctor for a collection of individually unremarkable Symptoms that each could theoretically "just be anxiety": please let her take this seriously

me as the doctor runs me through a bunch of reflex and eye tests, frowning more and more, and then takes half my blood: oh fuck I didn't want her to take this this seriously

[meglet1]

Me: Ready for the last three battles of Act 3, let’s do this. Bring the pain.

Larian Studios: 2.5 hr update

Me:…………but…..I’m ready……..now?

[cumberbangers]

Wow, I didn't realize I hadn't posted here for almost 2 weeks. I've been busy and tired, plus a little preoccupied. Also I spent the last week trying to adjust to new glasses after not seeing the optometrist since before the pandemic. I have a lazy eye so my prescription includes prisms that pull my left eye into place so I don't have double vision. Well, the prisms in the new glasses aren't correct so I was seeing double, plus having intense eye strain and headaches. After giving it a few days, I went to the optometrist's office yesterday and now have an appointment for an Rx recheck next week, which will cost me nothing and then the glasses will be remade. Hopefully they'll get them right this time.

[galwaygremlin]

i lied i'm still bitching about work i didn't take a lunch until FIVE today