Ramblings And Such

I have a lot to say and I'd like to say it here. I have a lot to learn and a lot to discover, you're welcome to come along.

[aurvxina]

the arm scene but it’s gideon’s heart

[bottled-passions]

Going back to work post inauguration and having to wrestle with the reality of the bullshit this administration is trying to pull is so demoralizing. The president is a criminal, an asshole, an idiot, and actively trying to make the world worse and I still don’t understand how he got elected again. Fuck him and everybody who voted for him. When this country burns you have no right to act surprised.

[romeoandjulietyouwish]

that's my goddamn girl, standing alone in front of a giant fucking dragon. you know her mom would be so fucking proud of her

[bottled-passions]

My brother lost his best friend in a car crash today. This is the second time in 5 years this has happened and I don’t know how to help him any better than I did last time. I didn’t know him well, I’d only met him maybe three or four times, but I knew how close they were. I know that this man was going to be the best man in my brothers wedding some day. I knew that he introduced my brother to hobbies and places that made him happy. I know he’s the reason my brother made it through college. I know he had wild adventures and lived life with all the freedom that I could never imagine. I know he was exuberant and excited and never said no to crazy adventures and ludicrous ideas.

I know he was an only child. I know his parents are devastated and that their first call was to my brother because they didn’t know if their son had wanted to be an organ donor.

I know he should have lived a long, long life and I know he was loved by so many.

But I didn’t know him. And I don’t know what to do now. I feel lost. I would move mountains for my brother if I thought it would help but in the face of this there is nothing I can do. There is no mountain I can move that will bring him back or make this any less painful. I have nothing to offer and it is the worst feeling.

[bottled-passions]

I want to enjoy Pride but really it just makes me feel more lonely than I did before.

[bottled-passions]

I lost an old friend to suicide this weekend. We hadn’t been close in years but she was a huge part of my childhood. We’d known each other since we were 4. We had a complicated relationship. She was my best friend but I wasn’t hers and that was hard for me to reconcile with for a while.

We grew up, we grew apart, and while I missed her, I thought I just didn’t belong in the life she was building now. And I probably didn’t.

But her death hit me hard and I’m playing through a lot of what ifs in my head right now. She still meant a lot to me even if we mostly just followed each other on social media these days. I love her still for the person she was to me all those years ago but I didn’t honestly know the person she became beyond what she put online.

There are many thoughts going through my head today. Of her, of the people who knew us both, of the friends I wish I had kept in touch with. I don’t know what I’m going to do with all of this. I don’t know where to go from here.

I loved her. And I miss her more today than I did yesterday.

[itsclydebitches]

How do you prefer to write ships?

The Slash (Kirk/Spock - origin of the term "slash")

The X (Kirk x Spock - order can be important here)

The Portmanteau (Spirk - creating a new name by combining "Kirk" and "Spock")

The Idiosyncrasy (Swan Queen - Emma/Regina from OUAT; refers to specific traits)

Other (Explain in the tags!)

It varies from fandom to fandom

IDK. I just want to see the results

Voting ended onFeb 21, 2023

Please help this escape containment I'm really interested in the results!!

[zaynfag]

i’m doing research reblog this and tell me if you want kids or not

[lowpolycas]

Reblog to have something lgbt happen to you this summer

[studentlifeproblems]

[teaboot]

20+40=60, 5+5=10, 3+2=5, 60+10=70, 70+5= [75]

[shymagnolia]

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

[shymagnolia]

okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post

[flagellant]

…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment

likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post

[coffee-or-hot-cocoa]

i need all the help i can get for finals

[finnglas]

Hey so

the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like. 

So you know. 

This might be the real one, y’all.

[drheartstealer]

Give salary increase and wfh plz

[homoquartz]

we just had the biggest COVID spike so far, we’re reaching ONE MILLION deaths in the US, and mask mandates are disappearing and people are telling me it’s all ending and going back to normal, i feel fucking insane. i can’t handle this. i’m going to have a fucking break.

it’s not even that i’m afraid of covid (or death, or long covid, or spreading it to my elderly parents), it’s that i genuinely feel out of my fucking skull because everyone else seems to be operating on another plane of reality where wishes make things real. my dad today just told me to have sympathy because people are “exhausted” like it’s such a fucking hassle to wear a MASK??? A MASK???

[guerrillatech]

[seawitchkaraoke]

I don’t trust you

You say you support me, my sisters, my brothers

Turn around, throw money at the woman who hates us

She’d call me and my brothers confused, stupid, lost

Claim my sisters are rapists, predators, the lot

You know this. You say you don’t like her anymore

But not buying merch, that’s too much to ask for

Can’t resist the anniversary edition

Or the new netflix special

Can’t stop talking about all this shit in my presence

Like it’s fine, like there’s no elephant in the room

It’s too much to ask that you just don’t consume

Her work,her words, her will, her war

Just gotta know every tiny bit of new lore.

[mokopirirakaugalaxias]

https://www.google.co.nz/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/culture/21449215/troubled-blood-review-jk-rowling-transphobia-controversy

J.K. Rowling’s transphobic new novel sees her at the mercy of all her worst impulses

In the detective novel Troubled Blood, Rowling spends most of her time explaining why she’s mad at modern feminism.

I used to really enjoy Harry Potter and I found it hopeful and encouraging. But after reading about JKR’s more recent literary works, I don’t think I’ll ever be able to read Harry Potter in a positive light again. It leaves a really bad taste in my mouth, reading about love and friendship and light and then seeing the same damn author write weird, hurtful, messed-up vitriolic nonsense.

The lovely chutneys and preserves in my fridge that my trans friend made me, however, have quite the opposite effect. They taste great and are genuinely full of love. I’d much rather support their maker. She’s delightful, and a really excellent, kind and thoughtful friend that I love dearly. For her sake, and the sake of other trans folk, all of whom inherently deserve respect and dignity, Harry Potter is a worthy loss.

I’m not sure what’s going on in JKR’s head but it’s neither rational nor good.

[seawitchkaraoke]

This ^ is a really good article explaining exactly how transphobic she is (won’t show up in the notes bc link). And yeah same, I used to love HP too! But these days it just leaves a really bad taste in my mouth, I don’t think I could ever reread or rewatch it these days, even though I already own the books, it’s not like it’d be giving her more money or anything

[orriculum]

"Nobody wants to work anymore!!!! >:("

So far, jobs I've applied to have lied to me about:

- where the job was. The posting listed a town a few minutes away from me, but the interviewer said I needed to commute to NYC 5 days a week, an hour plus for me.

- remote options. They promise remote work until the interview, when they tell you remote is no longer supported.

-the hours. A number have listed full time only to tell me they could only offer part time, but the worst offended told me I could only have 8hrs a week

- how much the job paid. Posting promised 20$hr, the interviewer said it was minimum wage, 12$ in NJ.

- that the job was paid at all. It listed something like 50k a year at the top, but reading the job description, revealed it was an unpaid internship

- the job itself. I applied for a graphic design position, but during the interview they told me that I had to work as a door to door salesman for their product for a year before I could be "promoted" into the job I actually applied for.

-hiding the fact that that it was a military job and that you have to enlist. Nope nope nope.

I dont know how much of it is employers just don't know how to use job posting websites properly (like the guy in South Africa who listed his location in nj) but I think if you post the pertinent information people are looking for and then contradict it later, you make it clear you don't respect the people you need to hire

[colubrina]

[deviousthinkers]

yes please.  this would be a great day for this to come true

[jackironsides]

When I was a kid, I couldn’t imagine how ‘May you live in interesting times’ could be a curse. But now I would so love to not have a year’s worth of news happen every week. PLEASE.

[tygermama]

likes to charge, reblog to cast

[thunderboltfire]

And a kicking shetland pony! :)