May get some heat for this but honestly a lot of modern Beatles discourse makes more sense when you realize we're essentially viewing things through Paul's eyes now and experiencing his emotional truth. Which I don't think is by choice, I think it's just that Paul (paraphrasing Marc Maron here) has almost become a human theme park where people relive their memories of the Beatles. And I think because he's so giving and people pleasing by nature he's more or less resigned himself to that fate and resigned himself to -- for better or worse -- being the one to spin this narrative for us and, given the type of person that he is, to spin a narrative we can enjoy and feel ourselves reflected in.
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It will be selfish of me to not put my full effort into university.
It will be selfish of me to take the easy route in life without giving away some of my power.
I must complete my studies and exit with high marks to pad my credentials and establish myself as a respectable figure.
I am an entrepreneur. I am an idealist. I am empathetic and creative.
I will train myself to have the discipline of a soldier, the resolve of a lawyer and the tactical prowess of a professional chess player.
I will assess any chanllenges I have and face them head onwards instead of seeking for self affirmation from my friends and other activities.
People will know me for my resolve.
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Oopsie daisy, I thought too hard about the fact that I'll never have the relationships with my family that I desperately crave and that even if I did invite them to my wedding they would ruin it for me because they're awful and now I'm having a mental breakdown. UwU
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"well, i GUESS. but every time that you say belos is like your dad, it gives me psychic damage."
-rafi, 2023, aloud, in bed, responding to my own irl commentary on a tumblr text post. that describes both belos and my dad.
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Lol out of curiosity I looked up my old job on Indeed and yes they ARE urgently hiring for the position and if I didn't get treated like dog shit for expecting a stress free work environment with reasonable expectations and not wildly cunty management who seemed to be under the impression they were doing THE most important job at THE most important store ever maybe I wouldn't have just not shown up one day 🤷🏻♀️ asshole thing to do to my poor coworkers but I didn't even have the energy to quit right after spending a month and a half feeling deeply surveilled at every aspect of my job lest I get another frivolous writeup no one else got for doing their jobs worse than me so fine. You want me gone enough to threaten my livelihood and SHRUG when I point out I have rent to pay, fine, but I wouldn't put up with that behavior from anyone in my life generally and I LIKE those people so my JOB pulling bullshit? Oh hell no, if I wouldn't take it from people I CHOOSE to be around on purpose I ain't taking shit from a fucking JOB. I refuse to be in a work environment that's unaware it's a GROCERY STORE, not a 5 star establishment frequented exclusively by world leaders or some shit. Like Sam, my job is cooking food at a fucking sobeys and you're acting as if I'm disarming bombs it's so important get reasonable priorities and standards for employees and then apply them equally to managers and not EXCLUSIVELY minimum wage staff 🙄
Which is funny because my new job everyone seems surprised with how fast I've caught on to stuff down to a coworker yesterday telling me he thought I worked in a shoppers prior to the pharmacy I'm in because Im catching on so quick. This isn't unusual for me either, some time in the last five or so years I've found every workplace I'm at I end up being heavily relied on because I'm good at my job, so fucking sucks to suck for sobeys because it took me some week or so to be consistently praised for being better at the job than the guy I replaced only for them to throw that out because they think management should be able to do whatever the fuck they want while they shove minimum wage staff under a fucking microscope to ensure they're doing their shit right and even that isn't consistent. They punished me exclusively because I did not lay down to be treated as a door mat and dished the treatment I got handed. If you treat me like shit I WILL treat you the way you treat me, no worse, and sometimes a little better because I don't lose my moral standards in that treatment either. Just because I'm being an ass doesn't mean I'm willing to do whatever the fuck, just enough to ensure that the person who's decided I'm their new plaything knows that'll be going both ways so fuck off. I've never had a job so willing to keep on shit management they had at LEAST a dozen meetings with regarding performance and I was the one who got punished for being frustrated about that. But I will take a new significantly less stressful job 🙌🏻
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The most bewildering like deeply ideological and not at all real-world realistic applicable I ever see expressed in fandom and which throws me for a loop every single time is like...
‘It’s bad when the Chosen One or Royal Heir (or whatever) has some kind of actual physical or magical superiority over normal people because it means that they really do deserve their position :/ and undermines any message the story might tell that oppression is Bad :/’
Like. Am I wrong or is this just. Actual uncritical might makes right thinking...???
A person having magical powers does not grant them a moral right to rule over others. Nor the same with fighting ability or general physical fitness or whatever. People are every bit as equally valuable and meaningful regardless of how ‘fit’ they are.
Like am I wrong or are the non-magical people in these scenarios basically just the in-world equivalent of disabled people. And so... obviously it should go without saying that these people aren’t necessarily incapable of having a say in the running of the kingdom or whatever. Like. There is just no logical reason why that should be the case.
And yet over and over I see this assumption made, that ‘hero has special magic’ somehow DOES imply, inevitably, that societal castes are right and good. That the only way to actually tell a story where people all have equal value is to make them all equally physically or magically capable (i.e., make nobody disabled).
IDK maybe it’s just me but it makes perfect sense that in a world where some people have special powers, they’d tend to oppress those who don’t. And that it would be harder for those who don’t to succeed or be able to triumph as heroes. Isn’t... isn’t that just literally how oppression works, IRL...?!
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I called to get an update on the peer-to-peer appeal for the $1200 infusions and my rheumatologist basically acted like we never had a lengthy phone conversation at the infusion center through the NPs direct office line that established I was only going to agree to an out of pocket short term basis if my rheumatologist was going to use the denial letter as an opening for a peer-to-peer since it has literally been a successful method for other patients on my same insurance, medication, and were forced through the same bullshit switch to the non-working new medicine.
The peer-to-peer was supposed to be started over a month ago and I'm being treated like an idiot expecting that another appeal would be attempted. "We already got 1 denial letter so.."👁️👁️ are you kidding me you work w these types of expensive drugs all day how are you not aware that it takes 5 denials before they approve expensive treatments. My neurologist fought for my expensive medication for over 6 months and was denied at least 5 or 6 times before he finally twisted their arm enough to force them to cover literally the only medication option I had. Anyway my rheumatologist makes me want to just kill myself instead of fight for the basic ability to function without blinding body-wide agony.
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