THE HERMIT

Hope lies in the rubble of this rich fortress. [ 30+ y/o justifiably paranoid trans woman ]

[maletolion]

kind of feel like listening to slowdive and wearing women's clothing today

[maletolion]

kind of feel like listening to slowdive and wearing women's clothing today

[maletolion]

kind of feel like listening to slowdive and wearing women's clothing today

[maletolion]

kind of feel like listening to slowdive and wearing women's clothing today

[maletolion]

kind of feel like listening to slowdive and wearing women's clothing today

[chirasul]

we got a full redbox and now we're playing go fish with the redbox movies

[chirasul]

I would never pay money for a redbox. if you ask politely and are very very persistent (i.e. annoying) they will let you take it away

here's my dad and i taking it away

a redbox makes a wonderful addition to your patio

[fishmech]

for those wondering why they're free to take now, it's because the company that made those "chicken soup for the soul" books bought them a few years ago and then completely collapsed so bad they couldn't afford to dispose of or even take the blu rays and dvds out of their kiosks all over.

so any of them is free game because they're all located on other business' property and they usually don't want to have to pay to get rid of them either. so asking the store manager usually gets you the ok to pull it out and keep it.

[chirasul]

there was a period of time right after their bankruptcy where you could put in any debit or credit card and it would spit out movies without charging you. you could even put in like an expired or deactivated card, or a visa gift card with a $0 balance, didnt matter, they'd just start spitting discs out. a lotta people raided redboxes for movies for a couple months, with some people doing what me and my brother and my dad did here, taking the whole box and signs and marquees as well. because managers sure as hell don't want a big abandoned piece of trash on their sidewalk disappointing customers. BUT they're also often too cheap to pay someone to remove it. so they just sit there.

luckily there are no shortage of freaks like us who will just take them away on our own volition. we did it all "by the book", too: we set up cones and caution tape, disconnected electricity properly, used an angle grinder to grind down the bolts in the concrete so nobody would trip on them, then cleaned everything up afterward and sealed off the electrical panel so the store would know everything is safe and tidy. though they were hesitant when we were first contacting them, they were honestly very relieved and grateful when we finally took it away, especially once they saw that we "knew what we were doing" (we don't) and look like we've "done this before" (we haven't).

the fun part: the reason why this redbox, in particular, was completely full and unraided is because the computer hardware inside had failed some months before the bankruptcy, and a failing company sure as hell wasn't gonna send a tech out to our podunk dipshit city to fix it, so it was impossible to rent movies or take any discs out. plus, for who knows how long, people were returning old redbox discs to this machine and not taking any out, leading to a much higher variety of movies than your average redbox.

there is a thriving community of redbox hackers and modders out there, as well, creating open-source software for repurposing the machines and not letting their very interesting and robust disc-management hardware go to waste. this one belongs to my brother (who was very annoying persistent and did all the legwork of contacting managers and securing permission) who is a programmer by trade and will be hacking it into a family-access movie library, with whatever discs we want. i mean the machine is completely weatherproof and has a built-in AC unit, it would be such a waste to not try to turn it into something cool.

if we get another one, i'm gonna try to mod it into some sort of art or zine vending machine. the disc boxes are just the right size for small print art or stickers. would make a great "little free library" too.

remember: the rules are made up. act like you belong there and you can get away with anything. this applies to your own life

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

WIP… “Burial of a Princess”

not sure if I want to just extend the stippling out to the borders or add some rocks and dirt walls to really suggest “excavated burial site”

[girl-bytes]

you can explain the material things that could be done to make trans women's lives easier, and someone who thinks misandry is real will show up like "that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, abolishing gender". and then they wont abolish gender

[uhuh100]

they only ever want to abolish trans women's gender

[swordoftheberserkgutsrage]

[wizard0rb]

it is eleven o’ clock. reblog problems clown

[wizard0rb]

11:45. there’s still time

[heedra]

really losing my patience for any 'feminist' statement to the tune of 'we need feminism because women fill a fundamentally different and necessary role than men and will be better at doing x y or z'. like actually i think we need feminism because it is an unbearable death of the spirit by inches to exist in a world where you are not seen as a fully realized human being because of a single cultural determination, and because a world that enshrines such things creates systems that are fundamentally sick to the core

[yanwangdijunfensi]

western media's moral outrage about china's ethnic unity law is really The Onion levels of laughable

You have your own indigenous americans who cannot speak their own languages due to genocidal and ongoing suppressions and immigrant children are taught to ONLY speak English in school, often bullied if they use their mother tongues, not just in the usa. The Chinese policy now simply mandates that education needs to be in BOTH putonghua AS WELL AS their ethnic language, which gives everyone an economic edge and preserves their traditions at the same time, but that's "cultural genocide"

we all know their true intentions are a broken up china full of chaos and internal strife, but what gets me is just how they're soooo good at twisting everything into weapons that at the same time makes them look like the caring, humane good guys. And liberals just gobble it up bc brownie points and vibes over critical thinking

[captain-price-returns]

lmao the dog clocks the gunman right away and follows the shooter into another room twice and the dumb ass guard just walks away. 1/2 a second later the shooter run out of the same room with a gun in his hand.

[gunsandfireandshit]

WHAT LMAO

[plasmalogical]

"must have been the wind..."

[bobbole]

Carrie Liao, Alien visitor

[chrliekclly]

confuse spell

[neverwonderneverremember]

[cyberpunkpavlichenko]

Fascism isn’t caused by long COVID or lead exposure or mental illness or brain damage that’s magical thinking. We have to be materialists about this. Fascism is caused by an excess of both yellow bile AND black bile in the blood disrupting the regular functioning of the humors, all the medical literature proves this. Let’s not spread misinformation or pseudoscience.

[brxwn-sxgxr]

[thatblewateverystrand]

She's back! Her name is Marician Dedeux Brown btw