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@aureutr
Hi, I’m Reu! (she/her) I write Star Wars fanfiction, reblog shitposts, and sometimes draw. Feel free to drop me an ask or a message. I accept prompts and headcanons and I like chatting but am shy about starting conversations on my own.
I’m on AO3 as Aureutr_Accoredge and Twitter @aureutr (not very active)
I also made the Star Wars Randomizer (with help from Caro with data curation)
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I am so tired of short-attention-span, trim-the-fat culture. All writing advice these days is for how to write like Chuck Palahniuk. "Cut 'think', cut 'feel', cut 'wonder' - only action, only pushing forward, show and move and move and move." What if I could emulate this style, and still don't want to? What if I want to write like Henry James, with three paragraphs of introspective musings between each dialogue line? The music advice is, "make it shortform, make it Tik-Tok compatible, make it punchy, hit the refrain as soon as possible." What if I want that 10-minute prog rock piece? What if I want that symphony? What if I want it slow and luxurious and lazy? Movies. Series. Poetry. Bodies. Everything is "trimmed trimmed trimmed trimmed, stripped bare, you have three seconds to win me over, make it airport chic." I don't want to win you over, then, I guess. I want the fat left it. I want the pleasure and the indolence and the indulgence. Fuck this art-advice that's always "your art needs Ozempic."
it’s sooo funny when rude customers encounter employees who can deny them service for the first time.
i was working at a little cafe where I could deny service over bad behavior, harassment etc. & mask mandates had just ended a week before & already people were being weird about me still wearing mine—an N95, the kind shaped kinda like a duckbill.
so this man walked in, looked at me sooo scathingly, laughed at me, and said “damn. never known a woman to choose…practicality over looks.”
And I just said, “oh. you can go, you’re not getting a drink.” And he said, “what???”
I said, “sir, you just walked in at 6 am & called women impractical and me ugly in one sentence.”
And he was so astonished he didn’t even argue he just turned around and left 💀🙏🏻 it was like he suddenly became self aware
One summer I was running ferry rides across a lake so people could see the waterfalls without walking 6 miles when a guy snapped my bra strap as he was boarding the boat. So i immediately threw him off, he started yelling for my manager, my boss cheerfully informed him that, yeah, she’s the captain of the boat and she can kick off anyone she wants. He goes to storm off, looks expectantly at his girlfriend, and she just goes, “Well, I’M not walking six miles, Michael! I’ll meet you back at the car!” and sits right back down!!!!
The expression on his face when he was told that he couldn’t get on the boat, then immediately told that his girlfriend was ditching him? PRICELESS. he just blinked at her and then stormed off like a child. I gave her a free hat and was like maybe rethink this relationship…….
i once had this fucker come up to order a beer. while i pour it he shows me the wanky fucking chemical structure tattoo on his arm and he’s like “hey. you know what this is” i was like “nah sorry” (never cared abt chemistry in school, plus having to look at a some rando’s pretentious tattoo gives me the douche chills). he decides to respond with “heh. you must not read many books”
i immediately stop pouring his beer. i reply: “heh. you must not want this beer.” thirsty boy immediately starts groveling like a worm “please please no i do want the beer im sorry im sorry” believe me when i say it was one of the most pathetic things ive ever witnessed
gotta love people immediately backpedaling when they realise that there are Consequences To Being Mean
I genuinely believe that part of why it has become so normalized to be openly callous and evil in politics is that customer service culture has trained affluent people that they can treat everyone they consider beneath them however they want and still be treated kindly.
It's also crazy how much more polite people are when they know they are talking to a government employee. Once a week I staff a state "wildlife support" phone line, and very rarely do I ever have a negative interaction, even though MOST of my job is telling people "no we don't perform that service, and there is no agency that does." "no, we can't help that animal, and neither can you, as that is illegal." I tell people "no" up to 30 times per day and I've only had a prickly customer about 3-4 times, and properly yelled at only once. (And if I get yelled at I am allowed to end the conversation.)
Meanwhile, when I worked at PetSmart grooming, I got yelled at MULTIPLE times EVERY day. Over a dog's haircut that I didn't even do.
PSA that has been given 100 times already but needs to be said again:
The reason you, gen Z queers, need to be kink positive isn't because you support those kinks. It is okay to be disgusted by them, actually.
The reason you need to support kinksters is because "these kinks are disgusting" is the framework the alt-right is using and will continue to use to outlaw you. They don't think you're any different from the guys at Pride in leather puppy suits. They think your ENTIRE EXISTENCE is sexual. They think you holding hands with someone of the same gender, or existing as a trans person at all, is the same as a straight couple playing tonsil hockey in public.
YOU ARE A FETISH TO THEM. That is all you will ever be to the alt-right. They will never see you as human. When they talk about "our children being exposed to sexual perversion" they don't mean BDSM like you think they do. They mean YOU.
The only way to preserve your own existence is to fight for the right of kink to exist, because the instant kink becomes taboo or outlawed again*, rest assured, the alt-right will become MUCH more transparent about just what they think about your existence.
When you harp on about disgusting kinks and how they need to be hidden or outlawed and how they're harmful and everyone who does them is (insert thing here), you are giving the alt-right the tools they will use to imprison you as soon as they have unchecked power to do so.
THAT is why kinksters have been part of the queer community, part of Pride, from the start. Because the only way to keep our community safe is by truly ensuring everyone has unlimited sexual autonomy so long as the activity is taking place between consenting adults. It's just like how abortion-related laws are the lynchpin for all manner of medical autonomy laws.
The queer community can't stand without kinksters and vice versa. Even if you yourself aren't a kinkster and find them disgusting, like it or not, that is just how it is.
*Sodomy was illegal in Texas until 2003 and the law is still on the books, just not allowed to be enforced thanks to Lawrence v Texas, which SCOTUS has said they have an interest in striking down
hey you. teenage girl writing in her diary. quit talking about the boy you have a crush on and start writing about the current political situation, the valuation of currencies, and the level of technology your people hold. your diary might be the only piece of evidence our society existed after nuclear war fries all of our data backups. future historians don't need to know about damian, they need at least a secondhand accounts of the great water wars and whether or not your leaders truly did worship a deity called "the free hand of the market"
Keep writing about your crush Teenaged Girl. About your clothes, and how that other girl wore the same dress as you. Paint me a picture of what you were like.
Historians are going to hear about Damian and they're gonna LIKE IT
Make those future Historians reverse engineer the socioeconomic hierarchies of the 21st century from dreamy descriptions of Damian's current fashions. It's giving them enrichment.
Talk about the things you want to talk about. You never know what mysteries your diary might solve in future generations bc you are the only person who talks about something that other people thought was too obvious to talk about, like whatever that third condiment dish that used to be on the table with salt and pepper was for.
At the risk of sounding anti-intellectual, I think that college should be free and also not a requirement for employment outside of highly specialized career fields
At the risk of sounding like an effete intellectual, I do actually think you should be allowed to just take college courses indefinitely
technically you can, if you don't care about degrees.
Free Harvard courses. Free Courses from Stanford. Free Courses from MIT. Free courses from Yale. Free courses from Princeton.
Free courses on Coursera.
Free Courses on EDx Free Courses on Alison
For paid, there's The Great Courses+/Wonderium. 20$ a month for unlimited courses.
When searching, the phrases you're looking for are Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), or you can do a general search of say, "free online college courses." Oh, and so you don't get surprised like I did, have an avoid: Hillsdale College is a conservative Christian site and not a valid MOOC place. Sign up with them and you will get things like THIS IS WHY THE LEFT IS TURNING YOUR KIDS TRANS AND GAY in your inbox.
@yourunderwaterskies I wanted to say thank you so much for adding these links, seriously, they've been life-changingly helpful to me-
And I also wanted to mention that humanitarian organisations have free courses too, like the Red Cross on international humanitarian law.
Learn more about the Red Cross International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Program to train policy professionals, government officials, academics,
Kaya is a free humanitarian learning platform which offers hundreds of training opportunities across a range of key topics, including the hu
I love jaywalking with another pedestrian lol we’re unionized
"this is unbecoming of me" is genuinely a useful thing to have in your mental toolbox
"It's stupid that men are allowed to be shirtless in public while women aren't" yes true✅️ "it's also gross when men do it they should also have to cover up" what. no. no. wrong conclusion❌️
Okay so. I know this is correct. And I agree with you.
But. I know. I promise I know but I don’t like seeing anyone shirtless. And I get it on a beach or sth. Sure. I get it. There. Absolutely go wild. Go nude if you want. It’s a beach. And if you’re in a space like a sauna or somewhere where shirtlessness and even nudity is allowed. Go nuts man. Twerk nude. Idc.
But when I am out in the city in summer. Why are you taking your shirt off. You’re in public. Public indecency. Why. No. Put it back on. No. I know it’s hot outside. But have some decorum please.
I bet this is some puritan bullshit I’ve internalized. I bet this is probably something bad. But I will die on this hill. Public indecency is entirely unwarranted. Men in normal spaces should be fully clothed like everyone else. At least wear a fucking crop top. Thats what they were invented for.
Hey prev, your addition to this post is something I see ppl do all the time, and I'd just like to suggest that if, in response to something you see on tumblr.com (or in real life!), you have a thought that you know and understand comes from some bullshit you've internalized, bullshit that you yourself have an inkling is probably 'bad', your next step should not be to voice the shitty opinion that comes from that thought, but to take a moment to reflect on where that shitty thought came from and perhaps to start to dismantle the shitty scaffolding in your brain that is holding that thought up.
Just publically declaring, "I know this is a shitty thing to say and think," doesn't make it fine and good to then go on and declare the shitty thing. Not to other people, and not to yourself. All you're doing is continuing to live your life unexamined, clinging to ideas you suspect are probably harmful to you and others, instead of trying to do some self reflection and growth.
Don't let learned disgust override that nascent suspicion I see you having - that maybe your feelings about the semi-clothed human body have been shaped by fucked up Christian ideas, and that maybe you need to do some work to overcome them instead of automatically reinforcing them in public because ew, men's chests are indecent!
My problem is. I don’t think my opinion is wrong.
The only reason I keep saying it’s probably wrong is because I know about all that and how christianity did permanent damage to peoples view of human bodies. I know all that. And I know that maybe it would be “better” if I didn’t think the way that I did.
But I don’t feel like my opinion is wrong. I think my opinion is valid. Thats why I voiced my opinion. I feel like I’m okay. I feel okay in my stance. I believe in it.
I know it is probably in many people’s opinions “a bad thing to say and think” I know. I know. But I feel this way. And I don’t think I’m wrong. That doesn’t mean I think my opinion should be the only one. Or that I am universally correct or whatever.
I just wanted to say what I think. I’m sorry I did. I should just shut up I know. I don’t understand why you were so passive aggressive. I apologize.
I wasn't being passive aggressive, I was earnestly pointing out that you might want to rethink saying stuff that you feel you need to qualify with "I bet this is some puritan bullshit I've internalized. I bet this is something bad." Because you're right! It is puritan bullshit you've internalized and it does suck, especially when you say it on a post that's trying to break down some of that puritan bullshit.
I don't know how you rationalize to yourself that you can be right about this and that your opinion is valid, while at the same time understanding it's based on an ideology you don't seem to subscribe to (sorry if you actually are a puritan Christian - if that's the case I don't think my advice to try to unpack your own opinion more critically will be helpful).
You're either a troll, or you're 22 and you need to spend a little more time learning about how biases work before you engage in critical discussion on a public platform. Either way, I didn't mean to pick on you specifically, but the way you phrased your reply is something I've seen a lot of people do - prefacing a shitty opinion with, "I know it's probably some internalized bullshit, but I think [...]" and I wish people would stop doing that. Examine what you're internalizing and either commit to that opinion whole hog, or change your mind based on said examination. Are you a puritan or are you not? I hope you're not, and I hope that being asked to reflect on what you've written makes you rethink your opinion.
why is it so hard for people to grasp that disabilities disable and chronic illnesses are chronic. yes even when it inconveniences you. yes even when your patience runs out
"Shimmering night" by Inaslind.
your mental illness is mean and it’s a liar. You are never as horrible as you think. People love you. You are worthy
Sometimes this is really hard to remember.
