#why did i choose this field

[tvckerwash]

you know, an interpretation of ct that I don't see that I personally really love is that she's a fuck up. like yes she's cool and she has some good fight scenes, but a huge part of her character is that she makes mistakes. the mistakes that she makes are ones that on their own aren't the end of the world, but she keeps making these little mistakes, and they eventually add up until she's out of room to make any more.

a really good example of this phenomenon in action is the actions she took leading up to her final confrontation with carolina and tex.

strike one, she thought she saw something in the water, but when asked by the leader what it was, she brushed it off as nothing when even if it had been nothing, it would've been smart to tell him what she thought she saw.

strike two, she didn't sense or notice florida's presence when the leader did, and she looks at the leader twice, once as she pulled out her magnums, and again after she did a scan of the room, almost like she was looking at him for guidance before he finds florida and takes him out with one good axe throw.

strike three, she couldn't convince the leader to leave when they had the chance to get away, and her cheap tricks were not enough to hold off either tex or carolina in a fight. they were only good for incapacitating her opponents enough for her to get away, which doesn't work when she has no escape.

ct is not tex, or carolina, or south. she is not a one woman army who can get herself out of trouble when she's stuck in tough situations. she needs people who can watch her back, she need a team who can cover her when she does mess up, and the leader and his team were not those people. she couldn't bring herself to trust them, and they couldn't bring themselves to trust her, and that cost all of them their lives.

[pluggedintosaverockandroll]

you know it's exam season because i'm questioning all my life choices

[mantisgodsdomain]

On the rare occasions when we talk about the spectre of veganism you can probably physically tell the amount of psychic damage that we take from seeing people throw out any part of a carcass.

[i-have-insane-that-i-am-paper]

I AM VERY PROUD OF MYSELF.

So.

I have exam tomorrow. I should have started preparing two-three months ago buuut.... Well my procrastinating ass decided to stall and was left with only month time to do it. I had 1000 pages of text to memorize. AND I DID IT.

Somehow...

Idk and idc how. BUT I DID IT.

Now only thing left is to actually hold my brain together for more than five seconds and pass!

[godsweakestsoldier]

Fuck Chicago Manual Style 17th Edition. That’s it that’s the post.

[amberdawn]

im nervous about future :( will it be my destiny to move around every 6 months to a year in search of seasonal positions before im lucky enough to snag something permanent

[commissionsdarian]

My dreams keep getting too realistic. I agreed to a deal with someone. It wasn't even a good one, just two thousand per person. Should be smarter in my dreams and charge more

[wizardnuke]

the shadowgast pacific rim au that exists in my brain.

[numinousnic]

truly homophobic that i have to go to grad school part-time and work full-time when there's video games to play and drawing to do and fic to write and --

[vamptastic]

fuck it all maybe i should quit college and get paid by an understaffed small towns municipal government to go through a training course and become a water treatment facility floor manager for subpar pay but decent benefits and work there until i'm 65 and then retire on a pension.

[inneedofsupervision]

Poke poke

Heya! I really enjoy the long stories you write — talking about them, are you planning on anything? :D how are you?

Hi, thanks for telling me your opinion. After uploading the last story, the lack of responses and feedback got to me, so I thought maybe people didn't feel comfortable with the length. From what I gathered, tickle fics tend to be about 2-3k and not much longer. From that, there came the conclusion that I went a bit overboard. I felt nowhere as motivated compared to the time after posting the first two stories, but I guess I should have expected there would be times when people don't like something as much as before. Work has been pretty hectic, and feeling less motivated, I didn't feel like writing after ten hours of working (I work full-time, so I got the most time for writing on the weekends). But I got back to it and am working on the second (third) chapter of "An Enemy? A Friend? No, just your friendly neighborhood Spiderman", and I'm having fun working on it again. Thanks for checking in, btw. Wish you a nice day :)

[sleeplessphantom-0]

The imposter syndrome is always at its strongest at the start of something new

[moonlightcrossesonyourbody]

To the guy on the subway that cut in very confidently and firmly to stop another dude that was jonesing from trying to touch me and making grabs at my titts, who went on to demand when i was getting off and was deadass fully prepared to wait with me and then procceeded to groan about being DONE with men this week and meaning it 100%, apologising for his gender and sending me off to my next stop i want you to know these:

-I was perfectly safe and defended, i have been boxing for a decade and working nightshifts in the ER and could have handled it myself if need be but thank you for cutting in when you saw something bad happening while everyone else around us ignored it, women included

-You handled it magnificently, you were incredibly firm and said that's enough and cut it out NOW instead of trying to talk things down or telling me to get up and shit

-I was having a very bad day and your kindness and consideration made in end on a high note

-Thank you

-I'll always be a little bit in love with you in the way people fall in love with strangers and will always wonder what the book you were reading was and what the hell you were srcibbling in the margins

[calypsobulbasaur]

my old boss is visiting my new work in half an hour and i haven't seen her since i left that job by just. Not doing the work and then moving across the country

[stick2sherlock]

I feel like at some point when Damian is in his late teens, someone from batfam or JL, lets say Tim, would say something like "We are not judge, jury and executioner, we get the evidence, and pass it on"

Damian: "That is a great point, it gives me a lot to think about."

Tim: You are being sarcastic, aren't you.

Damian: Oh no, I just realized the fatal flaw of our operation. We do all the work and then pass it on to some incompetent buffoon. Why are we NOT the judge?

Tim: what

Damian: Thanks to you, Drake, I shall pursue the law as my chosen career path, and thus I will ensure the proper follow-up to the cases Batman solves.

And thus begins the story of prosecutor Wayne, and much, much later, judge Wayne, to the joy of his family and friends who were waiting for Damian to understand that 'Batman' is not an occupation... Even if Bruce was a little disappointed, deep inside, that Damian did not pursue art or maybe veterinary studies, because he could have worked in the field that calmed him down a little, instead of choosing the one occupation that would make Damian even BETTER at arguing.

[fiercynn]

okay, if you have ever made or reblogged a “hold your nose and vote for biden” post, this is for you.

here’s the fucking thing about these kinds of posts. i've been seeing them since i first returned to tumblr in, I think, late 2022? they've certainly increased in frequency since october 7, but they were there before too, ready to counter any kind of opposition to biden that has cropped up. many of them are not just trying to educate people about what positive things biden has done, which, like, at least I can understand the motivation behind those ones? but so many of them are directly in response to people criticizing biden, and their only real point is “sure you’re upset at this thing biden did, but have you considered the election?” starting YEARS before the next presidential election, mind you.

and october 7 only made that clearer. i don’t think it had been a week before i saw these posts cropping up. can you not see how fucking ghoulish that is? to look at the rightful pain and anger of those whose relatives and communities are being slaughtered with active american support, to respond to one of the few pieces of agency most americans have in influencing what their governments do – their vote – by saying “yes but trump would be worse.” as if the primary people you’re lecturing – palestinians, muslims, arabs, black people, indigenous people, disabled people, other marginalized people – don’t remember exactly how bad it was under trump!

and even if you think not voting is an empty gesture – something i, who studied political science at a mainstream american lib college, who has worked as a field organizer on a previous democratic presidential campaign and for several policy campaigns, who currently works in public policy in america, used to believe, but have absolutely changed my mind on – what is in no way an empty gesture is saying publicly that you will not vote for someone. the arguments people usually have about why simply not voting is bad are that you can’t tell why someone is not voting, so it is as likely to be apathy or disenfranchisement as it is a political statement. but saying publicly that you will not vote for someone, and why you will not vote for them, absolutely is a political statement, and potentially a powerful one! but you choose to negate and/or ignore that by trotting out the “lesser of two evils” bullshit.

and then there’s the whole “yes but people will DIE under trump”. PEOPLE ARE DYING NOW. even if you’re fucking racist and have decided that palestinian lives don’t count, have you forgotten biden’s ongoing covid minimalism and dismantling of the CDC’s covid research and prevention infrastructure? have you forgotten his increase in spending for law enforcement scant years after the murder of george floyd and his administration's surveillance of protesters, including cop city protesters? have you forgotten his recent ramp-up in deportations of undocumented immigrants, including the active continuation of many trump-era policies?

maybe you have forgotten all those things and do purport to care about palestinians, but you just think that biden is doing his best to influence netanyahu and is getting nowhere! but then you must have forgotten all of the things that biden and his administration themselves have done to further this fucking genocide, including:

continuing to send arms to israel

putting together a military task force within days of yemen’s red sea blockade and attacking yemeni ships

bombing yemen

bombing syria

bombing iraq

vetoing three ceasefire resolutions at the united nations

testifying to defend israel and its genocide and occupation at the international court of justice

refusing to rescue palestinian-americans stuck in gaza

halting funding to the united nations relief and works agency for palestinian refugees (UNRWA) based on israeli claims that 12 of UNRWA’s over 30,000 staff were hamas agents, even though u.s. intelligence has not been able to independently verify this

lying that he’s personally seen photos of babies beheaded by hamas when he hadn’t because they didn’t exist (and even when his own staff cautioned him that reports of beheaded babies may not be credible)

questioning the number of palestinian deaths reported by the gaza ministry of health (when even israel has not questioned them, since they are in fact proud of those numbers)

perpetuating lies about hamas having committed the attack on al-aqsa hospital

questioning united nations reports of adults and children raped by israeli soldiers while claiming to have proof (that no one else has seen) of hamas doing the same

honestly so many more things that i can’t remember them all but others feel free to add

or maybe you haven’t forgotten any of that, and think that you’re still justified in lecturing people about why they should vote for biden, because you genuinely believe trump would still be worse. if that is the case, you have still failed to see that by saying you will vote for biden no matter what, you are part of the problem of biden continuing to act like this. because biden is counting on fear of trump to win him this next election no matter what else he does. despite his appalling polling numbers, despite the knowledge that he is losing the palestinian-american vote, the arab-american vote, the muslim-american vote, the black american vote, the youth vote – despite all of that, he is secure in the idea that he will still win because he is better than trump. can you not see how that allows him to act without impunity? how it becomes increasingly impossible for his base to influence what he’s doing if he thinks that they will be with him no matter what? this is how you make yourself complicit to biden’s actions, by not affording anyone even the slightest power to hold him accountable for anything.

and in most cases, the “hold your nose and vote for biden” thing is the response of people who aren’t even being instructed by others not to vote for biden. it is their response to people saying they themselves are choosing not to vote for biden. fucking ghoulish.