#three months to go!

[degendog]

god i cannot wait to get top surgery.

[ljussangen]

I have been back for a few days now but I’m still trying to get used to it. I don’t really have the energy for anything. Just waiting for the day I get to go back home.

I have a bunch of pretty winter pictures to upload, as soon as I have the energy.

[newttxt]

leashes for zosan

[cairafea]

my favourite genre of seventeen is when they're straight up lying

ref:

[keymintt]

as i stand plainly in the shade, unseen

[xxplastic-cubexx]

[right to left]

STILL thinking about drunk chess actually

stupid as hell bonus:

[obsob]

oooooooooough i love you i love you i love you!!!! hand in loving hand !!!!!!

[egophiliac]

this is basically what happened, right?

(these guys are very lucky that everyone at NRC 1) has the combined intelligence of a sack of bricks, and 2) is easily distracted by shiny things.)

[sophfandoms53]

Shadow fans,,,, how are we possibly still alive right now like this is absolutely insane

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

With the end of season two comes a second redraw!

[Nov 2022] [June 2023] [June 2024]

[benevolenterrancy]

(Unseen Academicals, Terry Pratchett) I think Shang Qinghua and Ponder Stibbons should have tea and compare notes about somehow accumulating so much behind-the-scenes power by doing menial jobs no one else wants that they could basically run the show if they wanted...

meanwhile we have Shen "meh good enough" Qingqiu

[demaparbat-hp]

Almost

[mowu-moment]

good fucking gravy scryfall you really had to take that opportunity

[contact-guy]

(cw drugs)

sign of the four is far from my favorite Holmes story but it's got a HELL of an opening. Watson watching Holmes meticulously inject himself with cocaine. The quasi-romantic description of his 'long, white, nervous fingers'. Describing it as a 'performance' done with 'extreme deliberation', presumably for Watson's benefit. The reveal that he's been doing it three times a day for months. Watson being intensely worried for his friend, but not having said ANYTHING for months because Holmes is too 'cool and nonchalant'. Finally only speaking up because he got accidentally drunk at lunch, and then desperately trying to sound casual as he asks if Holmes is doing morphine or cocaine. And then Holmes offers him some. toxic situationship of all time.

[naamahdarling]

You know what? You know what I think?

I think that if we lived as we were meant to, in larger intimate ("extended family") groups and with more shared labor and time to do it (UBI NOW) people like me would not feel so useless and burdensome because there would be people around to help and to do what neurodivergent people can't while making valuable space for the neurodivergent to do what they ARE good at.

The way we live right now, all right, the way we live right now forces units of two adults to be able to do EVERYTHING or PAY to have someone come do it for them. I have to do the housework. I have to do it! But I am having to do a million different things and most of them I am not good at. I suck at them.

I wouldn't feel like shit, okay, if I had more than one other person around who was not a child and who could do the things I can't, like do the yard and cook and do repairs and basic maintenance; and someone else to split everything else that I like but is too much for me. It would free me to do what I am good at and enjoy. Cleaning, as in the sink and toilet, the windows, the blinds. Taking out trash. Folding, hanging, and sorting laundry.

But because all the shit I can do often relies on other shit being done first, and I can't do or have trouble doing those things, the shit I can do often can't be done. And even the shit I can do, I can't do ALL of it. So I can't keep up, and things get very bad.

We aren't meant to live like this. We are not meant to live like this.

That thought hurts so much because being able to flee the birth family is integral to survival for so many people. I'm so afraid that living in larger family groups would create more opportunities for, say, queer kids to be isolated, rejected, bullied, and abused. But if we gave people enough money to survive, and stopped considering children the property of their parents with no system in place to help them escape bad situations except a system that is often just as bad, just different.

I'm aware that communes and collectives aren't all that successful and are kind of a joke. I don't mean that. I mean a fundamental shift to multigenerational families where taking in "strays" (which my family did) is also normalized so people escaping abuse into existing households was accepted, with these families centered in maybe a couple of different larger residences so not everyone has to buy and maintain their own fucking washing machine and vacuum cleaner, and so people can benefit from large group meals that yield leftovers, and so child and elder care can also be centralized.

Then disabled people and the neurodivergent and sick and injured people, and pregnant people, and grieving people, would not have to either labor through all those stressors or consign themselves to living off an unlivable pittance or being put under legal guardianship.

I'm not saying anything new. People live like this in other parts of the world and maybe it sucks and I am wrong. But I'm just really mad right now because I can either do laundry or clean the sink but not both, and I really think we could improve society somewhat by making it so I did not have to choose one without sacrificing the other.

[horsechestnut]

Anyway, if you're a fan of Bruce and Steph having a father/daughter relationship you should probably go read about Oliver and Mia.