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[gtzel]

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i really should stop looking at all the awesome things others in the community are making and comparing myself. i recently got diagnosed with depression and comparing myself to others only makes thigs worse.

[jdramastuff]

[onewomancitadel]

It is really genuinely very very very very weird to be told that of all villains Kylo Ren is the most evil and baddest ever and Reylo is the evillest ship ever and you're just supposed to go along with that, and people who stan objectively worse in every way characters/ships are also saying these things at you, and you're also supposed to take that lying down.

I don't understand - I mean I do, but I don't - how Reylo/Kylo Ren became a theatre where all the worst 'shipping as activism' bullshit came to the fore. Like if you're going to take 'shipping as activism' seriously the only logical answer is that you don't at all, because there is no winning formula, and we have better things to do than argue about romance online. So then we circulate back around to the fact that that 'shipping as activism' stuff is political anxiety.

I get being someone who doesn't like villain romance or simply overall has different preferences/expectations but there's a difference between that (and I'm being very generous) and outright hypocrisy. Even in its own canon Anakin is considerably 'worse' with Padmé, and Rey and Kylo are actual enemies and unmarried. Say what you really mean, I guess.

[badgal-noriri]

It’s so draining being the one everyone leans on for support cause they don’t ever ask if you need it in return. Fuck what I’m going through as long as I got you right?

[therealnoodleman]

L -💰

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[krysmcscience]

I have some questions about karaoke night, Alex Hirsch. Very Important Questions. Which I will happily scream at a poor hapless baby triangle who can have no answers for me, and possibly also does not have object permanence yet.

Follow-up that is I guess suggestive, but let's be real here, Bill's a fucking triangle:

Dude slipped right into his birthday suit, lmao

this is so stupid :D

Anyway, I don't care what anyone says, this brilliant individual knows what's up - Bill is absolutely way more of a monsterfucker than Ford could or ever will be, full stop.

[schfiftytwo]

friday thoughts

busy week, lots of moving parts, but we'll keep this train rolling. for a long time, probably for as long as i can remember, i've always put a priority on work. not so much work for work's sake, but work as the single best tool to transform yourself, your skills, your perspective, your everything, into something you can be proud of. i guess you can call it a value, maybe an aspiration, even a hope of mine, to be someone i can be proud of because of what i've done, what i know i can do.

i suppose that attitude is one that is only really harnessed in a place like DC (sorry NYC, I'll get to you another time) - oftentimes i feel young people here pad around our little rhomboid city, waxing poetic to nobody and everybody about the proximity to power, how they wish to be "there" where "things" happen, without really knowing where "there" is or what those "things" are.

obviously anyone can take a stab at it - that unassuming office on the corner is a thinktank that writes legislative proposals for billion-dollar (trillion-dollar?) drug pricing. that glass box employs a lawyer who used to be the attorney general of the united states who now likes to fight against the current attorney general of the united states. that concrete monstrosity has a secret court inside of it that prints authorizations for domestic surveillance like an insipid, cloaked xerox machine of horrors gilded by laws born of overt fear. that other concrete monstrosity houses a collection of folks who like to point fingers and exclaim virtues (sweet nothings?) that nobody really cares to understand.

are all of these examples (real or imagined, you decide) the "there[s]" where "things" happen? probably, and i'd agree for the most part. important "things" abound in DC, and they take place everywhere. and there are plenty of people here who do wield influence (again, real or imagined, you decide).

but to me, the real work, the real impacts, the efforts that go into keeping the gears running and the sun (metaphorically) shining? i'd say all of that is largely unseen and unnoticed, unbound to a "there" or a "thing" that you can readily sense, and acknowledged only with silent nods, handshakes, and pats on the back in unmarked hallways and conference rooms.

maybe that's a bit dramatic, and maybe the folks that staff those "theres" and figure out those "things" would scoff if any of them ever read this - what do you mean? cogs are cogs, work is work, keep your head down and keep on keeping on, collect that $$$, blah blah.

i get it. i was there once. its nice, its comfortable, its equal parts pleasure and pain, and the suit options are fan-fucking-tastic. i argue (maybe facetiously - look at me, i'm writing to the void on tumblr in 2024) there's something more to it than that. i started this drivel with a sentence or three on work as a virtue, and i suppose my point in all of this is that working to work is useful, but there has to be something more to it to make it last - to make it meaningful to you. something noble, something exciting, something intangible. call it inspiration, call it...well, a calling to something bigger than yourself. that's what transforms the cog into something...i don't know, different. there's a beauty to that, i think. makes what can be dull just a little bit brighter.

why all that for that simple revelation - finding meaning in your work can be a good thing, big whoop.

the thing is, i'm just now learning how important that is. how much it means to me. and how much i treasure the moments where I can appreciate not just the product of one's meaningful work, but what that meaning is, and putting it to words instead of letting those moments fade to hazy memory. law is not always a creative endeavor, and oftentimes rocking the boat is discouraged (what if you destroy the fabric of society!?). but to find my moments of meaning, and to have a chance to see, revel, and reflect on + in other people and their work - nonlawyers especially, the ones who write with their hearts, minds, souls, and imaginations - is something i will never fail to tip my hat to and offer my sincerest thanks and praise. you all better yourselves every day (even if you don't know it).

anyway. that's a long way of saying something, i don't even know what. back to it for now, that whole work thing. one day we'll be better, hopefully, maybe. cheers, folks.

[heedzhee-art]

nice redstone gremlin

[profoundlyyvanilla]

[knifecat111]

“my ship is sailing on and on.” not one episode where they gotta be doing all that

[mroddmod]

quick fiddlestan ft two extremely touch starved morons

[petshopbutch]

there is nothing hotter on this earth than backhanded, patronizing, layered-with-degradation praise. "the only thing you're good at is taking my cock, but god you're so good at it" "you're doing so well stretching around my strap - i know it's too much & it hurts right now, but just relax - i'll help you since you cant do it yourself" "its pathetic how you can't take me into your mouth without choking, but – shhh shh it's okay, you look so cute with tears in your eyes and drool on your face" like. if you are comforting me while we fuck while also making sure to remind me how stupid and needy i am. literally i will do anything that you ask

[spocksjuul]

My baby here on earth!!! Showed me what my heart was worth!!!!!

[twottie-m8]

this was funnier in my head

[bbq-potato-chip]

get loved idiot

[hannakdraws]

drew this for fun in 2019 while writing Obsidian