escape fare

scrapbooking and publicly struggling on my blog

[whatisyourchildhoodtrauma]

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER | 2.17 “Passion”

[jester-nonconforming]

btw i love when dubcon is used in fiction as a way to explore characters. i love when characters don’t understand how to “properly” ask for consent because they have never had their consent respected in their lives. i love when traumatized adult characters make potentially unwise choices about what to do with their bodies because they have the autonomy to do so. i love when characters make choices that i personally wouldn’t make, but i can totally understand how they got there. i love when characters have complex, fucked up, unhealthy dynamics, but still care about each other and want to do better. i love when writers trust audience members to read between the lines instead of spoon feeding them moral lessons. i love when characters are allowed to actually fuck up and have mistakes to learn from!

[anarchistmemedistro]

[coffeecalliope]

A lot of companies that make things have two separate lines: consumer and enterprise. Consumer is for us poors that the company doesn't need to respect. You can buy more expensive, higher tier consumer items but it's just as fragile. You're paying for more bells and whistles. Enterprise grade is stuff that will actually last because it is often sold in a lot as part of a contract and the contract won't be renewed if the items suck. These things are often just not sold to consumers because why would you ever buy consumer-grade garbage if you could buy this?

For something like computers, this looks like how pricey "gAmiNG" laptops look all fancy but fall apart in about the same timeframe as the lower end laptops for students. But if you've ever handled the sort of laptops for banks or businesses, you'd wonder why laptops can't all be like this. People swear by Lenovo Thinkpads for a reason. Dell's Latitude (general productivity) and Precision (has the power of a gaming laptop but far less bs) lines, HP's probooks, all feel really nice and last for-fucking-ever. But you can't buy them in a store even if you wanted one.

So the trick is to buy what big organizations are buying, but you likely gotta get 'em secondhand when the orgs are done with them. For basic clothes, mil surplus might be a good port of call, for technology see an e-waste recycler or sometimes government auction (you just gotta know what to ask for; ThinkPads, Dell Latitude/Precision, HP Probook/Zbook). Otherwise try to thrift old, pre-enshitification items. The blanket I had as a kid is still going strong and has lived to bury multiple sets of newer bedding (which have worn thin and torn). Kitchen items, see if you can shop at a restaurant supplier.

TL;DR: if you need an item, think "which business needs these to function" and see where they 1) buy theirs (suppliers) or 2) sell their old ones (surplus) and buy that. If you can't do that, look at older, pre-enshitification things.

[aggot]

weather so nice i've decided to free a hostage

[segamascott]

[frogdivorce]

ok you asked for it (nobody asked for this)

[hummingbird-hunter]

Why is this tagged bbc merlin? Is this bbc merlin? Was there an alien in bbc merlin? Is there a second bbc merlin that I don't know about that is about aliens and not arthuriana? Is this photoshop? Can anybody hear me? It's so dark in here

[wintersmitth]

Baby, BBC Merlin has everything you can ask for and more. And aliens.

[lilithsplace]

Untitled (rain drops), 2017 - Paul Manes (b. 1948) oil on canvas  |  source:

[mclennonyaoi]

i feel like those posts thatre like “REAL gay people don’t talk about yaoi discourse they go to gay clubs and do ket” are crazy like i understand they’re critiquing a hyper specific genre of online queer but babe they can do both… i know people who are ravers and are always on shrooms and read mcr rpf like i feel like we draw a big line between the online queer community and the in person one but that girls at gay bars have tumblr accounts it’s really not that seperate

[mclennonyaoi]

[mclennonyaoi]

[morganathewitch]

Green leaves in May, Botkyrka 2026.

[punkrock-bottom]

I do have an angel and a devil on my shoulder but they’re both perverts

[nanasaki]

the clouds were so pretty this evening

[anyasbunny]

20th anniversary buffy birthweek:

day two → 6 characters ( 1 of 2 trios ) 

「willow & dawn & tara 」

[forest-woman]

[laurierrose]

we need to start legally protecting these like make this kind of bathroom part of the national park system

[machinot]

Nobody calls each other “terminally online” anymore. I think that’s because everyone is terminally online now. Jobless too. And ugly as fuck. Stains all over our shirts. Stupid as well

[bunniboiz]

"it's ok to show (x) in fiction as long as the bad guy gets punished!" the bad guy doesn't have to get punished. in fact the bad guy can win altogether. the bad guy can entirely get away with it. hope this helps

[bunniboiz]

and this part might make some people's head explode but: characters can be written to forgive things you personally wouldn't ever forgive. not everything is written as what you'd perceive to be the right choice. not everything is a self-insert & protagonists don't have to be relatable.

[expressions-of-nature]

by Adrian Swancar

[wizardissues]

my latest hot take btw is that i kinda hate when people point to giles saying “spike’s like a son to me” in restless and say that this is actually an insightful observation about their dynamic? i feel like to do that takes away from how excellent that is as a character beat for xander. it’s very important that this is in xander’s dream! the reading i always got from that is really clear – xander feels like giles doesn’t love him. he’s seen giles and spike’s mutual enmity and antipathy in season four and gone “if given the choice, giles would make spike a watcher – they’re bound together by britishness and weird rituals.” the abject absurdity and playfulness of giles and spike’s dynamic within that scene emphasizes that xander doesn’t totally understand what’s going on there but they look like they’re having fun! and he wants to be a part of it but giles would never consider him for that! it’s so so important TO the metaphor that giles and spike don’t actually get along irl and don’t actually have that father-son bond, because it is specifically about this being someone that giles doesn’t like. it’s about the fact that giles doesn’t like spike, but would still pick spike over xander.