#that's a WIN

[nekohrine]

rip the fun dialogue/pun I forgot to write down while daydreaming you will never be forg-- oh fuck

[fitnessgeekandcoffeefreak]

Workout ✔️

Nutritious meals ✔️

Coffee ✔️

Sanity. . . . Uhhhh. . .

Welp. 3 outta 4 is pretty good, I guess.

[white-bow-tie]

Visited both of my grandmothers today.

Feels like they kinda swapped personalities in past few years. It was always easier to talk with one and harder with another. Now it feels vise versa.

Talked with sister 'till 1am today. We had some beer and "scrubs" on the background. That's nice.

Talked about our government and how much we hate all of them for showing our country from the worst side possible. How they are it's worst part. Simply disgusting. I told my sister I can't even listen to our "president"s voice for years already bc it makes me stressed.

Talked about our lives and family again. How our parents love us but never deeply care (?) or hear us. We are not truly close. And we never were. I don't think we will ever be tbh. I sincerely tried to be closer with them. Ended up being another mistake.

What's worse? I don't even want to get closer. I'm just tired.

I'm tired of always trying to figure out whatever relationship in my life or, at very least, be a comfortable person to talk to.

My mistake.

This year it feels like I care less and less. Either about pleasing others or trying to get closer.

At some point in our dialogue I thought to myself "I feel alone". I nearly cried. Probably bc of beer.

I know I'm not alone. Yet, this feeling keeps following me. Bc I'm an idiot probably.

[cuddlyclover]

Got distracted by my own boobs in the mirror today...

[islandfate]

rewatching with elsie and – something i noticed is that on this particular rewatch, my two least favorite episodes actually turned out ... kind of being my favorites! in terms of drama and how disturbing they were to me. ep three having the u.s. marshal's slow death is just really painful to watch. and jack not putting him out of his misery is just cruel. and in episode eight, sayid torturing the shit out of sawyer, everyone blaming him when they didn't even bother to truly ask about the inhaler? makes me so upset on his behalf!! and sawyer's antagonized and self-destructive so ofc he's going to play this role everyone's pushed on to him. idk, i just think these two specific incidents were so boring to me before but watching them in a new light with someone else really changed the way i view them. which is why i love watching this show with another person, bc i get to see other opinions and possibly even change some of my own! i thought sawyer's character was going to be a lot harder to swallow this entire first season, but he really kills it in episode eight. sayid was in my favs list but he kinda pissed me off doing that so ... not feeling too hot about him now.

currently, i think my favorite characters are : michael, sawyer, locke, charlie, hurley, shannon, and sun. i'm liking claire a lot here too! she's sweet. jack can go fuck himself for all i care and kate annoys me so <3 the whole A Team / B Team is just really a thing this season and it's so fun to watch how it grows and manifests. i'll have to touch upon that sometime. i absolutely cannot wait for my man ben, but i'm also excited for desmond !!!! juliet! miles!!! EKO!! so many fun characters we don't get to meet for a while. so, this rewatch is super fun and it's ... honestly the most fun i've had in a long time. that being said, i may make a little tag for it bc i already know i'll have more thoughts in the future lol. oh, yeah. and i've already cried like ... three times watching the first ten episodes. this show really gets me like no other.

[dudefrommywesterns]

has drinking more water helped my skin at all? no

[lustertyun]

Only ate one cracker and tea today and my mom started making passive agressive comments about it but it's okay it means I'm actually a lot less than I used to

[euphoricmood]

when a (racist) old lady says you remind her of her son's "hippie loving punk phase"

[dyclerc]

HSMTMTS better deliver this time...

[kiwichaeng]

alright good night humans

[memendoemori]

Good morning everybody

[arctic-hands]

When I was a teenager and still on Neopets I was part of a pretty big Star Trek guild and eventually became part of its council, with the solemn duty of creating weekly polls. Well one day I created the poll "Which would win in a fight? Borg Cube or Death Star?". Naturally, since this was a Star Trek guild, the answer was overwhelmingly "Borg Cube", but someone did have the rationality to point out we were biased.

So I look up a pretty prominent Star Wars guild and message one of their council and ask them to poll the same question and get back to me in a week. They do, and naturally the fuckin geeks said "Death Star".

So then I look up a Stargate guild and messaged the lead council member, saying the same thing, and they get back to me almost immediately saying that the Death Star would immediately one-shot a Borg Cube but they would never be able to do it again to another Cube. And I took that wisdom back to my guild and we were mollified, and for one moment the Nerd World was peaceful.

[higgsfigs]

When I was little I had an irrational fear of when you tried to turn off your Windows XP and the screen would gradually turn Grey as you choose which power option to enter

That shit was SCARY!!!

[mckinlily]

Plot armor but it’s Bruce Wayne’s wealth.

Bruce is one of the richest men in the world. Bruce does not want to be one of the richest men in world.

He starts by implementing high starting salaries and full health care coverages for all levels at Wayne Enterprises. This in vastly improves retention and worker productivity, and WE profits soar. He increases PTO, grants generous parental and family leave, funds diversity initiatives, boosts salaries again. WE is ranked “#1 worker-friendly corporation”, and productively and profits soar again.

Ok, so clearly investing his workers isn’t the profit-destroying doomed strategy his peers claim it is. Bruce is going to keep doing it obviously (his next initiative is to ensure all part-time and contractors get the same benefits and pay as full time employees), but he is going to have to find a different way to dump his money.

But you know what else is supposed to be prohibitively expensive? Green and ethical initiatives. Yes, Bruce can do that. He creates and fund a 10 year plan to covert all Wayne facilities to renewable energy. He overhauls all factories to employ the best environmentally friendly practices and technologies. He cuts contracts with all suppliers that engage in unethical employment practices and pays for other to upgrade their equipment and facilities to meet WE’s new environmental and safety requirements. He spares no expense.

Yeah, Wayne Enterprises is so successful that they spin off an entire new business arm focused on helping other companies convert to environmentally friendly and safe practices like they did in an efficient, cost effective, successful way.

Admittedly, investing in his own company was probably never going to be the best way to get rid of his wealth. He slashes his own salary to a pittance (god knows he has more money than he could possibly know what to do with already) and keeps investing the profits back into the workers, and WE keeps responding with nearly terrifying success.

So WE is a no-go, and Bruce now has numerous angry billionaires on his back because they’ve been claiming all these measures he’s implementing are too expensive to justify for decades and they’re finding it a little hard to keep the wool over everyone’s eyes when Idiot Softheart Bruice Wayne has money spilling out his ears. BUT Bruce can invest in Gotham. That’ll go well, right?

Gotham’s infrastructure is the OSHA anti-Christ and even what little is up to code is constantly getting destroyed by Rogue attacks. Surely THAT will be a money sink.

Except the only non-corrupt employer in Gotham city is….Wayne Enterprises. Or contractors or companies or businesses that somehow, in some way or other, feed back to WE. Paying wholesale for improvement to Gotham’s infrastructure somehow increases WE’s profits.

Bruce funds a full system overhaul of Gotham hospital (it’s not his fault the best administrative system software is WE—he looked), he sets up foundations and trusts for shelters, free clinics, schools, meal plans, day care, literally anything he can think of.

Gotham continues to be a shithole. Bruce Wayne continues to be richer than god against his Batman-ingrained will.

Oh, and Bruice Wayne is no longer viewed as solely a spoiled idiot nepo baby. The public responds by investing in WE and anything else he owns, and stop doing this, please.

Bruce sets up a foundation to pay the college tuition of every Gotham citizen who applies. It’s so successful that within 10 years, donations from previous recipients more than cover incoming need, and Bruce can’t even donate to his own charity.

But by this time, Bruce has children. If he can’t get rid of his wealth, he can at least distribute it, right?

Except Dick Grayson absolutely refuses to receive any of his money, won’t touch his trust fund, and in fact has never been so successful and creative with his hacking skills as he is in dumping the money BACK on Bruce. Jason died and won’t legally resurrect to take his trust fund. Tim has his own inherited wealth, refuses to inherit more, and in fact happily joins forces with Dick to hack accounts and return whatever money he tries to give them. Cass has no concept of monetary wealth and gives him panicked, overwhelmed eyes whenever he so much as implies offering more than $100 at once. Damian is showing worrying signs of following in his precious Richard’s footsteps, and Babs barely allows him to fund tech for the Clocktower. At least Steph lets him pay for her tuition and uses his credit card to buy unholy amounts of Batburger. But that is hardly a drop in the ocean of Bruce’s wealth. And she won’t even accept a trust fund of only one million.

Jason wins for best-worst child though because he currently runs a very lucrative crime empire. And although he pours the vast, vast majority of his profits back into Crime Alley, whenever he gets a little too rich for his tastes, he dumps the money on Bruce. At this point, Bruce almost wishes he was being used for money laundering because then he’s at least not have the money.

So children—generous, kindhearted, stubborn till the day they die the little shits, children—are also out.

Bruce was funding the Justice League. But then finances were leaked, and the public had an outcry over one man holding so much sway over the world’s superheroes (nevermind Bruce is one of those superheroes—but the public can’t know that). So Bruce had to do some fancy PR trickery, concede to a policy of not receiving a majority of funds from one individual, and significantly decrease his contributions because no one could match his donations.

At his wits end, Bruce hires a team of accounts to search through every crinkle and crevice of tax law to find what loopholes or shortcuts can be avoided in order to pay his damn taxes to the MAX.

The results are horrifying. According to the strictest definition of the law, the government owes him money.

Bruce burns the report, buries any evidence as deeply as he can, and organizes a foundation to lobby for FAR higher taxation of the upper class.

All this, and Wayne Enterprises is happily chugging along, churning profit, expanding into new markets, growing in the stock market, and trying to force the credit and proportionate compensation on their increasingly horrified CEO.

Bruce Wayne is one of the richest men in the world. Bruce Wayne will never not be one of the richest men in the world.

But by GOD is he trying.

[layzeal]

i figured it out

[aikaikaik]

THE TUMBLR HORSE DERBY

WELCOME TO THE FIRST TUMBLR HORSE DERBY (that i know of, anyway)

HOW TO HORSE: 🐎🐎🐎 - Vote for your FAVOURITE horse to make them go faster! (yknow, like those carnival horse derby games!) MAY THE BEST HORSE WIN

(also sample size reblog yadda yadda yadda HORSE)