Kirin's Thoughts

The baggage handler who tosses everyone's suitcase into Long Island Sound. Follows from the-world-of-the-bestiary. Blogs about Queen, critters, art, Game Grumps, NSP, politics, and everything in between. 30+|Ace|She/Her

[chaoskirin]

I'm not gonna tell you how to vote, BUT...

Here are some truths about the upcoming United States election.

Either Trump or Biden will win.

Our political system is designed around ensuring that either the Democrat or the Republican win. There is no "but if everyone rallies around a third party candidate..." argument, because...

Grassroots campaigns can't work. There are areas of the country that don't have internet or television. Congress just allowed the Affordable Connectivity Program to lapse, denying internet to even more people. There is literally no way for some candidates to get their message to huge parts of the country.

The Republican and Democrat candidates are backed by huge donor machines that enable them to tour a campaign trail. Independent candidates do not have this luxury.

Our country still uses a First Past the Post (FPTP) voting system, which is specifically designed to support only two candidates.

Our country uses an electoral (all or none) system, which is why you hear that voting for a third party candidate "takes votes away" from one of the major party candidates. For example, if Trump gets 48,999 votes, Biden gets 50,000 votes, and a third party candidate gets one single vote, Biden takes all the electoral votes in the state. All of them.

I really hope you make your peace with this now. Please, vote how you want, but with one candidate saying he will essentially outlaw transgender people, I can't imagine NOT voting for the only other candidate who can possibly win. Right now the polls are 50/50, which is absolutely insane to me.

In my experience, it's usually younger people who talk about either voting their conscience, or not voting at all to "send a message." I assure you, not voting doesn't send a message to the candidate who loses. Your message is only received by the millions of Americans who will suffer as a result.

I don't want to argue. I have no desire to fight with anyone over this anymore. And if you want to ask me "so I have to choose between two killers?" as a gotcha, then I'm sorry to say... The answer is yes. Those are the choices we've been given. And because the United States is no longer a true democratic republic, there's not a whole lot we can do to change that right now.

[canine-t33th]

if this post reaches 100k notes by Halloween I will read Homestuck

[makerofmadness]

Everyone step on it quick GO GO GO

[cum-villain]

Ok so, doing math we have a bit over 91 days to get 100k notes. This can be accomplished through a little under 1010 notes per day, or 45.8 notes per hour. given that one single person can spam 40 comments in 5 minutes (as i just did), this goal is easily doable.

[hollowboobtheory]

idk when we decided that explaining yourself shouldn't be part of an apology but like. if someone was a dick to me and apologizes but I still don't understand why they did it I'm not gonna feel any better

[hollowboobtheory]

"Sorry for hurting your feelings earlier. I was trying to say x, but I guess it came across wrong. I don't think you're stupid."

or

"Sorry I snapped at you. I didn't get enough sleep last night so my patience is a little low today."

is a better apology than

"I want you to know that I am sorry that my actions offended you. I take full accountability for my actions and I am listening and learning. I hear you."

[chrispineofficial]

explanations aren’t bad or wrong. it’s when people try to use them as excuses for how they behaved that it becomes an issue. there’s a very important distinction between an honest explanation about vs. an attempt to be excused for bad behavior

[chaoskirin2]

The culture that apologies must not include explanations is so insane to me, and I hate it. Seeing the thought process of a person who's done harm actually helps you see whether or not the apology is genuine.

I think there ARE harmful apologies, and most of those come with meaningless explanations.

But like. I had a psychotic break a few years back because my anti-psychotics stopped metabolizing. I feel like most people would want that explanation with the apology because it adds a whole lot of context to the paranoid delusions I was having. Had I said "I'm sorry I accused you of plotting against me. I promise to do better in the future," uh... That is completely hollow.

[sneakyfeets]

Me, plunking Stinky Bastard Man’s carrier on the counter: hi he’s here for shots and a nail trim and he’ll need to be sedated

Nurse: Are you sure? We can try-

Me: he needs to be sedated

Nurse: Well, it’ll take longer-

Me: he needs to be sedated, he will try to rip your face off

Nurse: Well we’ll try without first and we’ll let you know if we need to sedate

Me, watching her carry him away: you will need to sedate him

Nurse, coming back 10 minutes later clutching her hand: so, we will need to sedate him

Me:

[sneakyfeets]

A man with 3 caution stickers on his med file

[sneakyfeets]

Since this post blew up and people have asked for this villain’s record, here are some of Stinky Bastard Man’s more heinous crimes:

Screamed so loudly with such unbridled fury the one time he wasn’t sedated at the vet that he caused a little girl in the waiting room to burst into tears

Ripped an escape hole in the patio screen door in a single night

Snuck into the garage overnight where he managed to pull down his massive food bag from the top shelves, ripped it open and ate so much he couldn’t/wouldn’t move when we found him in the morning  

Learned how to open the laundry cabinet to sleep on the clean towels

Learned how to open doors, thus allowing the dog to follow in after who then eats from the trash

Bats off anything on our windowsills that gets in the way of his sitting. Current succulent casualty count: 4

Thankfully cannot open the bedroom door due to rusty mechanisms, but managed to slip in one night when it wasn’t fully closed. Jumped down from my windowsill squarely onto my stomach, leaving me to bolt awake screaming from the blow and convinced I was under attack

Tricked me into loving him forever anyway

[the-haiku-bot]

Ripped an escape hole

in the patio screen door

in a single night

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[thedorkdionysia]

oh my god he’s THIS Stinky Bastard Man!!!!

[anais-ninja-bitch]

[bebe-benzenheimer]

the stinky bastard man, the stinky bastard myth, the stinky bastard legend

[rubiatinctorum]

Poll:

Pluto is a planet; opalite is a crystal

Pluto is a planet; opalite is NOT a crystal

Pluto is NOT a planet; opalite is a crystal

Pluto is NOT a planet; opalite is NOT a crystal

Voting ended onJun 6, 2023

Where in the context of this poll, the words opalite and Pluto refer specifically to the following concepts:

[hawkatana]

[transviktortalis]

ok also michael’s plan to torture them for a thousand years wouldve worked if he’d just paired chidi and jason together and eleanor and tahani together as soul mates. eleanor and tahani.. hoo boy they’re self-explanatory but chidi and jason? chidi would have broken down day 1 from ‘wait my soulmate is a man? im attracted to men? wait is it homophobic of me to be surprised that my soulmate is a man? am i bisexual? am i gay? oh my god is that why none of my girlfriends worked out? did i lead women on bc i was too homophobic to realise my own sexuality? have i been in denial my whole life?’ and jason would have to contend with a beautiful jacked academic begging him for wisdom using words he’s never heard before in his life. and then they (chidi+jason and eleanor+tahani) kiss

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Also Chidi would get over his emotional crisis re: having a dude as his soulmate, talk himself into the idea that he’s super attracted to Jason, and then Jason would open his mouth for the first time and Chidi would learn what kind of man he actually is. Just ongoing crisis after crisis interrupted by the constant high-stress parties that their incredibly insecure and passive aggressive neighbours keep throwing. Michael was such a fool.

[chaoskirin2]

Michael tried to pair Eleanor and Tahani and it STILL didn't work.

[minero-tan]

Can I interest you in Fushigi Neko no Kyuu-chan

[videogomez]

[videogomez]

[moveslikekeithrichards]

the role of the person in the passenger seat is not only navigator but secretary as well. you have to type up the drivers messages to random ladies on facebook about cbd cream & google whether that billy joel song was the theme song for that show or not

[moveslikekeithrichards]

you also have to provide a henchmans disdainful scowl at whoever the driver is flipping off in the target parking lot

[the-apocrypha]

other assorted roles may include

retrieval team for objects in the backseat

custodian of the parking garage tickets

"All clear my way"

en-route dining concierge

announcing "Horses!" when there are horses

[lynx-girl]

Don't forget the Tommy Gun

[help-my-ocs-breached-containmen]

You should never forget the Tommy Gun

[eldritchidiot]

the whole squad

[kalichnikov]

Thanks I hate it: sarcastic disdain, you don't enjoy this at all that's insufferable, I love it: prankster solidarity. A compliment for mischief. You gotta try this dude, it sucks: solidarity through communal self-flagellation It's terrible, watch it immediately: Your classic so-bad-it's-good media

[simplyclockwork]

@annecumberbatch

Can’t forget, ‘gross, I love it’

[rosetta-stoned-bitch]

Not to forget the iconic

[severedned]

How could people forget Data?

[lindleland]

[ampervadasz]

[unashamedly-enthusiastic]

[anneemay]

[tiktoksformyfriends]

[video by soupygarbagejuice. original caption: stuie]

[bitemeilovewaffles]

“I guess I would scream too if I knew a God could hear me” is too much of a raw line to come from a tik tok about a cat

[captain-snark]

the best part is the line is “i guess i would scream too-ie”

[ivywing]

[memeclassheroes]

[moonprismpowernomakeup]

[chaoskirin2]

Have you ever drawn Dan Avidan and Brian May together? I think they’d enjoy each others hair!

I have, actually! Back when I was juuust kinda learning how to draw Danny, someone commented that he looked like Brian. XD Here you go.

Also, bonus. Here's Brian and Brian:

[catmask]

just so you know, you have some followers who enjoy/write fanfiction. not saying their urls rn bc i don’t wanna air out dirty laundry in public but if you want them so you can block and report, just say the word and i’ll dm you a list

[catmask]

BRO?

[batsarebetterthanpeople]

Reblog if you're self indulgent and perverted lmao

[bemusedlybespectacled]

fellas is it perverted to think happy thoughts

[dabwax-deactivated20250410]

Anne Rice lives on in this anon

[summersspike]

is anon catholic

[biglawbear]

Rb if you do things cuz it makes you feel good or you enjoy it