#were draining

[tbh-entp]

ok so i don’t think we should feel bad for literally feeling our souls leave us while talking to people who we don’t find stimulating-- we just can’t blame it on them

[hinamie]

summer is coming so i'm giving them the beach day they deserve

[collegeboysam]

do we think armand looks so bothered when daniel tells him "i don't forgive you. you were going to drain me, pal" because the whole time armand's remembering how daniel did not only forgive him back in the day, he used to beg on his fucking knees for armand to use his powers and feed from him during sex. and now he has to stand in front of amnesia-induced daniel decades later and act guilty about it while bitterly thinking "boy, drinking your blood and throwing you around with my mind used to be our foreplay. you would whine for it like a puppy and behave like a brat whenever i didn't indulge you with it. but yeah sure NOOOW you want me to be sorry 😒"

[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.

[canisalbus]

just read my own blood test results, haven't spoken to my doctor yet so this is conjecture, but my hemoglobin & b12 are low and my thought process was immediately: oh that's anemia -> ah, machete

me 🤝 the beloved crumpled tissue

(in all seriousness, i am not too worried, but it did weirdly make me feel better to think about the gay dog)

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[ruporas]

studies from the finale

[zvaigzdelasas]

Good corrective on narratives on Tibet common among Anglo leftists

[sandflakedraws]

For trolls request, either Floyd interacting with Veneer, OR Reigan Troll-Sona (love your art!)

hilariously ... i actually had one of these on hand from when i first watched TBT mnbdkjnkdjb.

behold! Reigen, the sweatiest troll this side of Pop Village.

i also. had drawn this one.

[biscuitboba]

Luffy's Adventure at the Bottom of the Ocean (2000)

Ok but the way zoro's grip never left his captain's waist for quite a very looong time?? Like he really has a strong grip... (wbk!)

[emblazons]

So—got to thinking (and talking with @magentamee) about the “it doesn’t have to be a one way” line that @chirpsythismorning posted about and realized that yes, it’s likely an implicit ref to Mike’s queerness…but perhaps less as a comment on the specifics of Mike’s sexuality (gay, bi, etc), and more on Jonathan’s inability to figure out what Mike’s sexuality is given his actions.

I already pointed out in that post that the “one way” alludes to the one way sign into Mike’s closet (aka his hidden queerness), but: given it’s Jonathan who says the line, I think it’s more important to look at his experience with Mike + queerness across the season at that point...namely how (at the time he says this) he’s officially the only witness to the convo where his brother all but confesses to his feelings for Mike—

—aka something which Jonathan is clearly perceptive to the subtextual queerness of, and that we see him respond to (at least in the case of his brother) with gentleness and openness:

Now, given that he sees Will’s queerness so plainly, it would be naive to write him off as not being suspicious of Mike’s sexuality as well (both having seen their relationship up close / wanting to protect his brother, on top of just knowing Mike)—and the subtext makes clear that he is suspious, which we can glean from the repeat “dual meaning” lines from him when talking to and referencing Mike (not Will) after the van scene:

It’s Jonathan who comes at us with the “straight? It doesn’t make sense” and this “it doesn’t have to be one way” lines, both clearly referring to Mike (subtextually, though Mike is in frame/convo both times), rather than Will—intimating that it’s Jonathan, not Mike, who is (at least in these scenes) struggling to understand why Mike is acting the way he is, esp in regards to the way he behaves around his all but confirmed gay brother.

Basically: I think this line refers not to Mike’s experience with his own queerness (liking girls or not) and a lot more to Jonathan’s attempts to make sense of the Mike he's seeing (dating El but flirting with his brother)—

—especially given that Jonathan “people don’t always say what they’re really thinking but when you capture the right moment, is says more” Byers has an open (minded) sign over his head in the infamous boys "on el's mind" shot not seconds after this line is said.

TL;DR: the “one way” line is talking about Mike’s queerness yes—but likely from Jonathan’s “wtf is going on” perspective. The wider context shows the “but what about his attraction to girls” aspect of it all is likely Jonathan’s line of questioning, rather than Mike’s own.

[agentc0rn]

 Níðhǫggr and Yggdrasil - ZA

Worked on this late last night lol…here’s my take on the A pokemon...I tried to mimic the logo style but it went a bit off than expected.

-> Arbordrasil (concept art, typing, formes, inspiration behind the design)

Disclaimer: this original pokemon was made simply for enjoyment in entertaining the idea of what legends z-a might be. Not meant to be "legitimate" or serious prediction.

Dark bg below:

[findmeinthefallair]

I still wish there had been a Hunter moment like this

[cloudwasdead]

HEATHERRA EDIT HELL YEAH

Im so proud of this one :3

[t3chborb]

This Mass Murder Machine is living in my brain rent-free so I'm making y'all Suffer™ as I have.

[cuntmand]

hitting 639 lines of finest vampire yuri tonight 🧡🤍🩷

[goatpaste]

I know a sorta made a small post along these lines the other day, but something a lil more official of!!

im kinda broke rn, between the recent stuff with losing my car and having to get a new one and work literally scheduling me 13 hrs a week. Im slowly losing money and it got really bad this month after paying my bills and everything and realizing I had just 300 bucks in my bank account.

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