Swooping is bad

Ready for the sweet embrace of death

[achesspiece]

in chess the queens can kill each other which is toxic yuri and the kings can never get within a square of each other which is doomed yaoi

[billclintonwrotebackhewrotethej]

[vbartilucci]

OK, just stop.

I’ll lay odds that a fair number of the people who decided to mock and pillory her “you can only have 30 books” idea (myself included) had no idea who she was, what nationality she was, or even what she looked like. Her name isn’t particularly obviously Asian, and it’s not like the various articles of comment specified her ethnicity in the headline, which let’s be honest, is all any of us read before w started crafting our comedy.

All I knew was there was another tidiness guru trying to tell us to simplify.

And Henry David Thoreau notwithstanding, the whole modern minimalist movement is aimed at the wealthy.  They’re the ones who make claims like “You don’t need to have all these plates, just keep a few, and if you’re having a big party, buy more”.  It all centers on the idea of you’re rich enough not to have to hang on to all this stuff till you need it, you can just buy more.  

Well,no, sorry, that ain’t the case.  And so us poor and middle class people hang on to that half a bottle of antibiotics we didn’t finish, cause they cost money, and maybe the next time we get sick we can take those and save the cost of going to the doctor.

And we keep all those books and DVDs because, again, they cost money, and maybe we won’t watch that movie again for a couple years, but we don’t have the money (or the interest to spend the money we have) to throw it out and buy it again when we want to have it, just so we can have room on our shelves for one more Longaberger basket filled with potpourri.

So put your faux offense away, stop trying to get us to apologize for things that weren’t even under consideration, and let us have our rage about one more person who telling us to get rid of our stuff.

She’s not out Mom, and neither are you.

[thisloveforyourmom]

You just admitted that you have no idea what her philosphy is.

First of all, she never said “you can only have 30 books.” She said that if having BOOKSHELVES UPON BOOKSHELVES of books sparks joy, leave it be. HER PERSONAL bookshelf has 30 books.

Secondly, Marie Kondo’s advice has NEVER been about getting rid of plates and dvds for the sake of having less. Plates have use. They spark joy by being there when you need them. A DVD or a book sparks joy for a poor person because it’s there, and you don’t have to spend any more money than you already did for a little R&R. Antibiotics, under her philosphy, would spark joy for you the same way as plates: by being there when you need them (even though your stance on antibiotics is medically unsafe and dangerous for both you and those you meet AT BEST).

You obviously don’t know shit about Marie Kondo because if you did, you would know that she literally isn’t anything you described. Her method is tailored to the person she’s helping. If you can find any reason an object is useful to you, including “it makes me feel secure to know its there” or “i cant afford another one so i need this one” you keep it. The fact that you hate her so much is a product of you buying into the media shitstorm that has surrounded her and distorted her message.

Kondo isn’t trying to tell poor people to eat off of one fucking plate and own one plant and thats it. She’s helping hoarders and people who feel guilty about getting rid of things. She’s helping people get rid of gifts they never used, shirts they never wore, and above all she is helping people who WANT to declutter. For fuck’s sake, she’s not holding a gun to your head and telling you to keep a single spaghetti noodle in your pantry.

All you’re “raging” at is a woman who genuinely wants people to feel less overwhelmed in their life and to develop healthy levels of attachment and inattachment. If you don’t feel overwhelmed or want to declutter, she’s not asking you to. The media is twisting her words so heavily as an act of racism, and decrying her cultural reasons behind her philsophy as “asian woo woo”. By mindlessly buying into her recharacterization as a stupid western minimalist, you’re buying into everything else as well.

She’s not your Mom? Then ignore her. She has 0 relevance to you. Stop contributing to the mob hatred of a woman who’s done literally nothing to deserve it besides say “Hey, if you want me to help you, I will.”

[phoenixiancrystallist]

So, in conclusion

[smalltownboymp3]

[princesseblade]

They aren’t ready to hear that Marie

[victorsatoru]

Grandma… It’s me, Anastasia!

[thatidomagirl]

I hate you all

[ultralaser]

gandalf wins for dramatically removing his cape to reveal a second cape.

[kimuracarter]

God bless this post

[tanthesuperman]

I’ve been pretty ok with being single but damn I want a cute guy to kiss

[8th-note-boulevard]

[jonghyunkazoo]

Granny: No printer, just fax!

[md-admissions]

I know this is for a kdrama show but like fuck this speaks to the patient population I care for and my frustration with the US right now. 

[bubblegum-pwussay]

This will always ring true

[theclassiccake]

You promised those children Sweet Victory, but all I saw out there was…

14 seconds of cheap flash animation!

[fuckyeah2000s]

[carnival-phantasm]

Can you guess what’s my favorite seal pic?

[officialfist]

No, please show us.

[carnival-phantasm]

With pleasure:

HIM

[latex-salesman]

[literalforklift]

🎉🎉 HAPPY 1985 EVERYBODY!! 🎉🎉

[astrolatte]

I still can't believe how compatible Lance and Keith are. Lance wasn't meant for Allura because he held her back, but was meant for Keith because Lance needs to hold Keith back sometimes, and stabilize him when he needs it, and Allura wasn't meant for Lance because she couldn't reassure him, but Keith always reassured Lance no matter what. Allura needed what Lotor gave her, Lance isn't Lotor, and that is why people ship both of them, because both of these pairs are soulmates, and thats the truth

I talked about this on my Twitter: https://twitter.com/Astro_Latte/status/1088145463491129344?s=19

[arianagrandenet]

[gahdamnpunk]

Christian Soriano is bae

[wingedrivers-deactivated2019081]

AND DO YOU KNOW WHERE HE GOT THAT FROM

I remember the season Christian was in. And he had a problem (because he was fresh out of fashion school) with understanding how to dress bigger women. And Tim Gunn, who has always been a proponent of needing to design fashion for more natural sizes, helped him to get out of that mind set by planting the seed. That growth we see is from this amazing fashion teacher! 

[lumberzachary]

I would lay down my life for Tim Gunn

[your-fave-dandy-deactivated2019]

Tim Gunn is the fashion equivalent of Bob Ross

[fakehistory]

Baby boomers pass on the Earth to future generations, 2018

[kazoo-goddess]

Visit Original Link

YEEHAW

Requested by @marassagirl. @portaltwo, hope you don’t mind!

[memyselfandmynonbinaryass]

I don’t think Winry gets enough credit as a genius. Like, automail would need her to understand engineering, robotics, anatomy, and particularly how nervous systems work, and she’s technically a surgeon. She was already a regular helper at Pinako’s shop when she was 11. At 15, she walked into a town full of top automail experts and impressed all but one of them with a rush-order arm she’d made. Then, she took over one person’s shop so thoroughly, her customers won’t even let someone else make the outer casings. On top of that, she read medical books as a child and not only understood them, but retained enough of it to successfully deliver a baby years later even though that had nothing to do with her preferred field. And she didn’t have any help from the Truth.

Winry might not be an alchemist, but she’s a medical and engineering genius and somebody needs to tell her that right now.

[kvotheunkvothe]