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hate when people think the only archetype possible for a male sidekick to a female protagonist is a soft boi and/or himbo. like the implication there is that the only reason a man would ever defer to a woman’s authority is if he was a bumbling idiot. love male supporting characters who are smart and strong and confident and can step up when necessary but still kind and humble enough to let someone else take the lead most of the time

goldensunset

ok another good point here

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jessebloom

this summer if you don’t hold at least one rpf ship close to your heart they’re gonna get you. they’re gonna do it hard and they’re gonna do it fast.

chemicalico

me and the no one i pulled by doing nothing

portugal can't decide what season it wants to be in so it decided to be all of them at once

#what do you even wear

moonlitmartyr

I hate ruminating on what could have been. Out here thinking "if only I locked in when I was 13" are we serious

kosmogrl

fox-bright

hi any life advice for 21yo

Don't date thirty-year-olds until you are at least 25.

Having a glass of water for every glass of alcohol will give you a 50% reduction in hangover viciousness.

Bad people will use your willingness to be quiet as a weapon against you. If someone's being awful to you and trusting you'll be quiet to keep from making waves, surprise them.

There is no physical object in the world that is worth as much as your honor.

Honor is not the same as dignity. Retaining one sometimes means leaving the other aside.

Don't have any sex you don't want to have; have as much as you want of the sex that you do, whether that's a lot, a little, or none at all. Nothing you can do to your own body is immoral, unless you're doing it as an act of self-punishment.

Food is morally neutral. You do not have to earn the right to eat calories. Fat and sugar keep your brain from eating itself.

Learning to sit still and breathe--in, in, in, hold, hold, hold, out, out, out, out, out, out--can give you five feet of clear space around yourself in a maelstrom.

Find out how to make three good meals: A comfort meal you can make for just yourself relatively easily, a fancy meal you can use to wow a date, and a meal you can feed a bunch of people. All the other cooking can come later, but you can build a community on those three meals.

If you ever get to the point that things are so bleak you can see no other way forward but to die, make any other choice. If that means leaving everything you own and being a beach bum, or quitting your career, or taking up or leaving a religion, or deciding to bicycle across the country, so be it; living means more chances, dying means everything stops and you don't get to see any more interesting things. As you have not yet seen all the things that can interest you, it is better to live.

thedreadvampy

Whenever America starts a war with a nuclear power everyone starts yelling about WW3 and it's only just occurred to me that when Americans say 'WW3' they are at least partially expressing an anxiety that this time their government's blind aggression might have hit somebody who'll actually hit back.

I was gonna say 'like WW2' but then rapidly remembered that neither of the existing world wars involved like. much of any direct damage to civilian populations either because America's eternal wars haven't touched its own soil since like the 1860s. except for Pearl Harbour, which was literally One Attack in the whole of WW2 (and which was also primarily targeting a military base. and was in a colonized nation far from the mainland USA). I am not kidding if you look up 'attacks on American soil' every single thing since 1900 except individual attacks (Pearl Harbour and 9/11, basically plus a couple of border skirmishes with Mexico) is like 'America was attacked In The Gulf States' or 'America was attacked In Asia'. like mate where is the US? you can't count attacks on military bases as 'attacks on US soil' unless you need to bulk out the list which. look at the history.

Like imo one of the reasons the US is so comfortable being leisurely belligerent against Literally Any Country In The World is that it's been literally well over a century since the fight actually came to them. why WOULD the US government stop being blindly aggressive when the only costs are financial?

and instead of being primarily concerned about like. the actual thousands of people who are actually gonna die in these strikes. every time the US's unprovoked aggression hits a nuclear state of a state with a measure of international heft, the loudest concern from Americans is OH NO WHAT IF THIS ONE'S WW3

because. war is so abstract and foreign. because it's spent 150 years constantly happening Over There and only involving Americans who are in the military. foreign wars don't register as a threat because they're NOT a threat to Americans (the only Real People) and the way in which they're frightening is the abstract possibility that the other party might at some point bring America actually into the war. which has basically never happened so it's this vast unknown threat.

(the UK btw is also not immune to this but it's a wee bit different. our economy was permanently crippled by direct damage in WW2 and the Irish republicans got a lot of hits in so there's still some memory that War Has Consequences. but by and large we still approach war as something that Happens Elsewhere and are scandalised by the idea it might directly affect us at home. this is still a fairly abstracted and fictionalised threat to us which we treat as More Worrying than the actual bombings currently happening, but I just don't think it's as completely abstracted as the American relationship to foreign wars)

ralfmaximus

The Black Tom explosion in 1916 was a German terrorist attack on US soil and resulted in 7 deaths, hundreds of injuries, about half a billion dollars in adjusted damages, and complete annihilation of an island in New Jersey.

Also, WWII was a nuclear war.

thedreadvampy

SEVEN. SEVEN DEATHS. A CENTURY AGO. is the 'war has come to US soil' you wanted to pull?

Preliminary figures today (4 March) is 787 Iranians killed since 28 February. so forgive me if I say you're proving my point pretty effectively.

similarly yes you are correct WWII was a nuclear war. so far the only one. a war in which the US made the decision to kill over 200,000 people Over There on a different continent and then spent the next 80 years making sure nobody else would be able to either retaliate or do anything similar. And the American (and Western) relationship to nuclear arms remains primarily not 'Jesus Christ I cannot believe America killed close to a quarter of a million people in a civilian centre with one set of orders' but 'oh noooooo what if this means we have to mitigate our aggression in case they do something like this BACK TO US'.

so. again. my point. war in the American cultural imagination remains an abstract thing that THEY do to OTHER PEOPLE where the concept of any enemy action reaching people in civilian centres is so completely abstracted it just becomes a boogeyman and apparently we should still be talking about the 7 American civilians that were killed in a war that claimed in the region of 6-13 million civilian lives in Europe, Africa and Asia.

Seven. Fuck me. I thought I was being needlessly shitty when I wrote this post but you have really helped clarify that this actually is how warped American perspectives on civilian casualties are.

just remembered olympo got cancelled. day ruined

yuri on ice

lowkey a perder a paciência com o gabinete de mobilidade da minha faculdade

dal-segnos

mano

então estou em risco de não conseguir fazer a mobilidade porque tenho até ao final desta semana para submeter um formulário cujo preenchimento já em nada depende de mim :)))

eis a situação. primeiro não explicam direito o que é para fazer e for the most part tenho de ser eu a adivinhar. eu achava que tinha de mandar uma coisa por email, mandei, aguardei resposta. nada. fui ao gabinete. ah pois mas não era assim que tinha de mandar. ok. então eles viram o meu email, viram que estava mal e estavam à espera que eu recebesse essa informação telepaticamente. se eu não tivesse ido lá não me diziam nada. mas ok. literalmente NA MANHÃ SEGUINTE mando aquilo que queriam. um mês sem resposta. ok devem estar a contactar os professores por causa do reconhecimento académico, whatever. entretanto recebo email da universidade de acolhimento. tenho de preencher um formulário e enviar uns documentos até 10 de maio. ok. o preenchimento do formulário depende do reconhecimento académico e da assinatura da universidade de origem E da universidade de acolhimento. ok. finalmente respondem ao meu email. falta informação. ok. eu arranjo a informação que falta e DOIS DIAS DEPOIS envio. ninguém mais responde. falta uma semana para ser dia 10 de maio e ainda nada. vou ao gabinete. pois, parece que da parte deles nâo houve progresso nenhum. nem os professores responderam em relação ao reconhecimento académico. faltam SEIS DIAS para ser 10 de maio. QUATRO DIAS até sexta feira.

tipo eu não sabia que tinha de andar em cima deles para eles fazerem alguma coisa??? isto não é normal??? eu não fiz nada de errado, a minha situação não tem nenhuma particularidade que faça com que o processo seja mais complexo, e estou em risco de não conseguir fazer erasmus porque...?????????????????

#eu tou genuinamente flabbergasted #tipo qual é a necessidade disto????? qual é a dificuldade????? é que se houvesse algum problema a sério ou assim mas não há eu não entendo

lowkey a perder a paciência com o gabinete de mobilidade da minha faculdade

#para eles os prazos são uma mera sugestão 💆‍♀️