#rambles i guess

[kflayspecialist]

Finally breaking away from old habits, so scared that things will go back the way they were.

[hand-painted-5tars]

And the thing here is. You are vivid light at flickering peace frail and honest to god trying and im an all-devouring chasm of jealousy and regret desperately wondering why do my efforts bear nothing and why is my love deemed insignificant.

No dramatic glass of wine and scented candles in a sofa no. Its still the stale old shower layers of cal and mold that wont recede no matter how much chlorine and chemicals i pour and scrub till my hands peel, the rust stains down the tap i cant seem to find where is it coming from the entire shower a disgusting old washed green tile and aluminium noise doors. sweaty sitting on a plastic chair im the room of the rented excuse of a house chugging rum coke that should be drank in parties and it does nothing because ive never found the trick of alcohol.

The only way to fix the bathroom is to tear the entire thing apart and go from scratch.

But the house is rented. Property of someone else, and until the day the house isnt rented, until the day we leave. The bathroom remains as it is.

[nixalegos]

I didn't put enough to paper. It's about vision as a vehicle of consumption. Being studied by something you can't just get rid of. It's rude. It's saying something you want to hear. It's offering information you need. Or worse, getting rid of it means a warlock who's going to be a much bigger problem then the eye ever was is going to show up down the line. To be stared at, judged, diminished by gaze, vivisected visually down to all your base elements. It's the Sherlock Scan and the Eye of God and looking into someones soul all at once and it's all coming from just SOME GUY who might not even be there, but he made damn sure you knew it was him who was staring. Nix acts/thinks/believes he's the main character of the story, but the story is badly told if he isn't keeping an eye on it and making sure he's in the spotlight and commanding the stage at all times. Changing his point of view to other actors on his stage a blink at a time, checking their marks, watching the second hand click down. Nothing else in your limelight. It's possession. Wanting to see, to know, constantly justifying everything with perfectly self-centered terms that 'keeping an eye out' is the same level of burden or curse an obsessive stalker would be.

[kel-mp4]

hey asking for myself what would it be called when two characters in the same media are pretty much fundamentally the same in their actions and personality but the shared traits are seen in a drastically different light (e.g. in one blind devotion is revered while in the other it's called pathetic, in one the willingness to kill is a display of strength while the other is instead seen as barbaric, so on so forth)

[carboysandbikemen]

Shocking announcement to make but I've recently become a Lando girlie (but also specifically sub Lando like roughhouse that baby boy up and listen to the little noises and giggles he makes and then also the whimpers when you...) anyways I will be doing a Lando headcanon post to state my case and also maybe forcing 🐻 to add Lando to our list of drivers - 🐝

[possiblyatransgirl]

Sometimes(very often) I just want to be a cool ass adventurous bitch with wild hair and cool ass colourful clothes that scream ‘I do whatever the fuck I want and I have fun doing it’ really bad

[amugenshinadventures]

I have been neglecting Genshin for a while now....It's been a mix of uni, playing other games and and some genshin burnout I think....

During the Lantern rite I was so excited to do the story but actually ended up doing it all the last day together with the minigames. I did manage to find everybody afterwards

Unsurpraisingly enough I forgot to take sc with all of them eventhough it took me a lot of time to find some people. i'm also very salty that Keqing and Ganyu were nowhere to be found

I loved the faces and I gotta say that MiHoyoverse is getting better with the animations. Poor Xiao was suffering during that whole dinner scene, I felt bad for him.

In all honesty I would have had so much fun if I had taken it seriously but for some reason I found it really hard to sit down and play...

[goldensunset]

[happylandfill23]

i've had this garfield panel saved forever and i even marked in my calendar today as "the monday that wouldn't die" so uh. happy(?) monday the 22nd aka the monday that wouldn't die

[kflayspecialist]

When that one person keeps you on track without even knowing it

( @the-wondrous-wizard ,I appreciate you buddy)

[xx-tellmewhatyoudtake-xx]

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[secondbeatsongs]

for anyone too young to know this: watching The Truman Show is a vastly different experience now, compared to how it was before youtube and social media influencers became normal

before it was like, "what a horrifying thing to do to a human being! to take away their autonomy and privacy, all for the sake of profits! to create fake scenarios for them to react to, just to retain viewership! to ruin their happiness just so some corporate entity could harvest money from their very humanity! how could anyone do something so evil?"

and now it's like, "ah, yeah. this is still deeply fucked up, but it's pretty much what every influencer has been doing to their kids for a decade now. probably bad that we've normalized this experience"

[alexythimya]

Yesterday my friend was texting me to complain about people who [they don't believe really] have did, which is something neither of us are cm experts in, and saying how it's so common in queer dating circles to come across systems (????) And how they aren't really did they're just theater kids making stuff up and like I don't get it

I was like idk hopefully this self conceptualization is benefiting those doing this and my friend was like how could it help and also that ppl [me?] see its a problem when ppl pretend they have bipolar or ocd but not did

[i personally dk what the stereotype for claiming ur bipolar if ur "not" is but as far as ocd all that I'm aware of is when people classify liking to have the house tidy as ocd which seems different in its relationship to ocd to if people have Fake DID by Coming Up With A System That Represents Their Experience]

Now I have no idea what ppl with did think on this but the question to me is just is the theoretical Fake DID causing harm y/n and idk it feels so niche to me ???? I myself don't see the harm

And on tiktok i keep seeing autism discourse about late/self dx autistics who project their experience onto the autism community writ large and they are self dx autistic and I keep thinking that somehow there's a parallel there that might make me understand their headspace better

All this to say I secretly think it might not be so much about some perceived harm to people with Real DID but more about a knee-jerk disgust reaction to some Freak Shit that they want to justify instead of deconstruct

[tina-rocket]

Uh oh it’s the problem women!

[doomdoomofdoom]

Kamala Harris does want "transgender surgery on illegal aliens that are in prison", btw.

So since Trumpists are getting mad enough about the jokes to actually cite their sources, I thought I'd put the source out into my left extremist commie faggot echo chamber, too.

The claim originates from an ACLU questionnaire she filled out for her 2020 presidential candidacy, specifically this section:

She wasn't given a new questionnaire for 2024, and has stated that while her policy on some things may have changed, her values had not. (This most likely means she moved more to the center to appease larger demographics and cut corners to reach compromises. The basic politician stuff.)

It boils down to this: If you're in prison, whether for "illegal" immigration or other crimes, you rely on the state to provide you with necessary amenities, like food and health care. Her argument isn't "hell yeah everyone in prison should get sex changes for free". It's "gender affirming surgery is a necessary medical procedure. If you are in the states care while this becomes necessary, the state should provide it." If you're outraged by your tax money being used on this, consider the massive amount of people being incarcerated in for-profit prisons, on your dime. Then ask yourself if maybe a prison reform might be in order.

Worth noting: In 2015, while Attorney General, Kamala Harris actually argued against providing gender-affirming surgery to an incarcerated trans woman, claiming that HRT and psychotherapy were sufficiently covering her medical needs. She has since obviously changed her stance and assumed responsibility. (I would like to take this moment to remind my fellow left extremist commie faggots that "willingness to learn and rethink your views" is infinitely more valuable than "perfect from the start and unwilling to listen to anyone")

Also found in the source: This image of Kamala Harris participating in the 2019 San Francisco Pride Parade, wearing what I believe to be a sequin rainbow embroidered denim jacket.

I encourage you to read the provided CNN article and the answers to the ACLU questionnaire, as they give great insight into her values.

TLDR: Based.

[darlingofdots]

the vast majority of fanworks are bad, and that's fine, actually. they are bad for the same reason that the average number of legs for a human person to have is less than two: statistics. like with all endeavours and especially creative ones, most people who write fanfiction or draw art of their favourite characters are bad at it. if you line up all the crochet projects in the world, most of them will be, well, bad. some are bad because they're the first thing a person ever made, or the second or third or tenth, and this kind of thing takes practice. others are bad because the person who made them is just not very good at it. maybe they just learned how to make granny squares and they're perfectly happy to never expand or improve on that. most people who dance or bake or garden or braid hair are not amazing at it! and you'd never go to your kid's dance recital or eat your friend's homemade carrot cake and expect the same experience as you'd have at a professional ballet performance or award-winning bakery. And that's if we assume there is an objective measure of Good Art, which there isn't! Some art is just "bad" because you don't like it!

I think though that specifically with fanfiction, we sometimes forget that when we read a book or watch a movie, dozens of people have looked at it and given feedback and made changes and done quality control before the final product reaches our shelves or screens, and that's not counting the original writer's learning process and past experience. A published book is not anyone's first crochet project, even if it is their debut novel. But with fanfiction, the barrier to entry is so low (on purpose! this is a good thing!) that we do get to see a lot of wonky granny squares, and on sites like AO3 they're sitting on the same shelf as the hand-made silk lace wedding dress and you can't always tell just by looking at it which is which. The consequence of this is that we encounter fic that we think is unpolished, has bad punctuation, is out of character, and we are tempted to think "well, this is awful! how dare this person put this wonky granny square on the same shelf as the lace wedding dress!" But that's not how fandom is supposed to work! That wonky granny square is somebody who is really excited about this TV show they just watched and they are reaching out into the void to share their excitement with you. To scoff at them for not making a lace wedding dress is really, really rude. Even if they did make a lace wedding dress, maybe it's just really not your style, or you think they should have used a different pattern, and it's still their wedding dress. You don't have to wear the dress and you don't have to read the fic.

We all know that there is some fanfic out there that is incredible. I think it's important to talk about that! But the vast majority of people who post their writing online are just sharing their little hobby projects that they make for fun and I also think it's important to remember that.