We'll Figure Something Out

But right now I have no idea. |Alora| on AO3 & FF.net as aladyofsarcasm |Semi-inactive account while I sort out my mental health

[loversandantiheroes]

Fandom in a time of moral panic is so maddening. You don't need to claim something is bad or wrong to justify not liking it. You sure as shit don't need to prove something is good or correct to justify liking it. Stop trying to moralize your fiction, especially if you haven't even figured out how to interpret it properly.

[loversandantiheroes]

Like I cannot stress enough how much you do not need a 5k word essay to "prove" that Glup Shitto's Turbo Asshole Mass Murder route is secretly empowering and actually probably even more healing than the alternative that sends him to fantasy therapy for wayward blorbos. You can just say "bad guy power fantasy tickles my pickle" and go on with your goddamn day. That's all you need. It saves you loads of time and saves me the headache of having to think about how badly you've missed the fucking point of the goddamn narrative.

[surviving-the-next-4-years]

How do people not understand that the reason why we call people Nazis is because they hold Nazi Ideologies. Not because we think they’re the Nazis of early 1900s Germany.

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

me normally: i'm not personally a huge fan of modern art

me around right wingers: I love modern art sooooo much and I think there should be litter boxes in schools also

[theonlycabbage]

fucking obliterated lmao

[angstbotfic]

[depsidase]

[biocheminpics]

I want to expand here.

The whole point of an economy is to facilitate the human experience. Economies are a forum to exchange goods and services for society to operate etc.

If the economy has to run at the expense of human experience, that system has failed in its only purpose and must be replaced.

[salvadorbonaparte]

my mum has severe knee problems and needs a replacement. Today she was told she's too fat to be operated on and the knee specialist suggested she gets a gastric band - which also involves surgery. So my mum was like first of all you didn't read my file because it explains that I'm not fat because I eat too much second of all you said it's impossible for me to get surgery and then suggested I get a surgery about it? He then asked her her weight and height, didn't believe her answer, and made her prove it to him because she "looks fatter than that". So she was like so you also just entirely based this on looks instead of actual numbers?

[undead-moth]

My mom went through something similar. She needed a knee replacement and her doctor wouldn’t okay it until she lost weight, which was difficult given the whole knee problem preventing her from walking thing. He told her she was too dangerous to operate on and that there were just too many risks.

My mom tried to lose weight in vain for months before she finally gave into my begging her to get a second opinion. The first doctor she saw next scheduled her for surgery the same day she met him. When my mom asked about the risk of operating on her he told her that there was some minor risks for complication and that all she would need to do to alleviate the risk was spend an extra night in the hospital so that they could keep a look out for any complications.

There were zero. There were also zero complications when she had her other knee done, her hip replaced and her gallbladder removed.

Almost like the first doctor was entirely full of shit and just trying to coerce his patient to lose weight by scaring her for fucking nothing, even when she was living day to day in excruciating pain and desperately needed a surgery.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

[thisisthinprivilege]

Thin privilege, once again, is getting proper medical treatment.

[wheezecheese]

[strawhatsufi]

sex and gender are different in that gender is an elaborate series of superstitions that arises around the reproductive process in the context of class society, while sex is a form of pop science that arose to legitimise those superstitions

[narcissistcookbook]

an underrecognised tragedy of AI slop isn't just that any piece of contemporary art could be AI, any news reel could be AI, it's that now just any video of something vaguely nice and whimsical happening in the world could be AI

this is about the trampoline bunnies

[narcissistcookbook]

"lol if you just look closely you can tell when somethi--" silence nerd, the problem is that i don't want to have to approach everything nice wondering if the devil is trying to deceive me

[nakajimeow]

BOOK TROPES (TO GIVE YOU IDEAS)

some book tropes to choose from so you can have inspiration for the plot of your story !!

ROMANCE:

amnesia/forgetting your actual lover and remembering another person

stuck together: elevator/locked together in a room

forbidden love

housemates/roommates

immortal x mortal

the older brother gets the girl

the villain gets the girl

bodyguard crush x stubborn (or not) girl

love triangle turned into a reverse harem instead

time travel/lover from the past

supernatural creature x human

MYSTERY/THRILLER/HORROR:

cannibalism

main character is the actual killer

accidentally summoning evil

infection/apocalypse

villains that do not die

secret government facilities/secrets you weren't supposed to know

creepy children

cosmic horror/fear of the unknown

psychological/hallucinations/delusions/brainwashing/"am i going crazy?"

stalker that can follow you ANYWHERE

red herring (fooling/tricking the audience to dislike/feel suspicious about a certain character as a distraction)

final girl

failed human experiments/mad scientist

kidnapped by a cult

nobody actually killed anyone, the victim killed (or accidentally) killed their self

clever serial killer

FANTASY/SCI-FI:

acquiring superpowers from a successful experiment or other ways

parallel/multi-universe

humans are the actual aliens

dystopian/post-apocalyptic

higher celestial power

a portal to another/magical world

badass female main characters

being a descendant of a powerful clan

discovering hidden supernatural powers

villain and hero teaming up to defeat a bigger threat

misunderstood prophecy

reblog to spread inspiration for writers !!

[strangeracrossthestreet]

@mariyyum twitter post: Recipes that have been passed down to me by my Palestinian mother 🇵🇸, and I've had the honor of sharing them with all of you. #freepalestine

1: Cheese Manakeesh (cheese pies)

2: Homemade Hummus w/ chicken koufta

3: Msakhan (the National dish of Palestine)

4: Sfeeha (meet pies)

Follow her on: twitter instagram youtube tiktok and her own blog for more.

[death-to-the-usa]

You would not BELIEVE how popular sfeehas are in Brazil

[whilomm]

"doesnt israel have a right to exist too??" well its an apartheid ethnostate so no

"what about the people dont the PEOPLE have a right to exist??" yes! they do! however, they do not have a right to an apartheid ethnostate

"what about the holocaust survivors in israel dont they-" yes they have a right to exist too, however surviving one genocide does not give you the right to commit another, nor does it give you the right to an apartheid ethnostate

[akajustmerry]

"omg you're an arab CHRISTIAN??!?" girl where do you think jesus and his bois were from?? fuckin new jersey?

[akajustmerry]

"wait, there are Jewish Arabs?!?!?!?!" dude jesus was literally born a Palestinian Jewish man to Palestinian Jewish parents.

[akajustmerry]

Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA) is one of, if not the, most religiously diverse regions in the world; with governments and communities made up of every major faith as well as Indigenous ones like the Amazigh. In Western media, the region tends to be homogenised as Islamic to fuel Islamophobia and racism that justifies Western imperialism in the region. I am begging people to be more aware of propaganda that homogenises, dehumanises, and oversimplifies SWANA people.

[edscuntyeyeshadow]

the way some people reacted to David Jenkins and Neil Gaiman saying their shows would only have 3 seasons is so funny because I saw so many feeling devastated while I am so relieved and relaxed about it. don’t get me wrong I love getting more content with the characters I love but… normalize cohesive storytelling. normalize ENDINGS. do you REALLY want another s*pernatural????

[padawan-historian]

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[my-neuroglia]

This is overwhelmingly my feeling about every single 9/11 news article I've seen this week. It's like people dying at work (killed by terrorism) is something we should "never forget" but people dying at work (killed by Covid because the people were nurses or short order cooks or retail workers) is something we should "get over already".

We got a whole new federal agency and the Patriot Act after 9/11, but we can't even get guaranteed free shots or free tests after Covid, because it's no longer an "emergency".

[scramratz]

Definite banners and possible bumper stickers for the shop

[feels-of-wheeles]

So sick of people seeing "silly" gadgets in videos and claiming whoever uses them are lazy.

Disabled people exist.

Most of those "silly" gadgets are for us.

Just because you don't have use for it doesn't mean it's not important for someone. You may find it stupid but it may give someone freedom in a way they haven't had for who knows how long.

"Why don't you just (task that's hard for disabled people to do)!" Why don't you shut the fuck up.

Stop making fun of gadgets that are for disabled people.

[makaylajade-author]

Being a writer is really just having this one scene in your head that you want to write and then crying about the 50 thousand other words you have to write to get to that scene