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Eso | 27 y/o | They/them | personal blog | trying to get a queue set up hee hoo

[bugshroom]

we found bugs in a hopeless place

[agarthanguide]

Link to the article

We regret to inform you that the sunshine and friendship app is actually a children killing app.

[jeffgerstmann]

I have been telling people for years that the company behind Pokemon Go had no-shit, for-realsies ties to the CIA and people never really took it that seriously. Anyway.

Gilman Louie - Wikipedia

[saprophilous]

Becoming the cosmic dragon (commission for ardchair on twitter, thank you!) happy lunar new year!

[pariambod]

my favorite 10 artworks from start of this year! :)

[spicycheeser]

"A marriage ending isn't a failure at all. I spent eleven years with her. We were so in love that we couldn't image life apart from each other. We got our own place, adopted a dog, and supported each other through school. I thought if tow people loved each other enough the rest would fall into place, except... love isn't everything.

And I didn't want to believe that, but we were sitting in counseling one day, talking about our future and I realized we were describing two completely different lives. Where we'd live, what kind of life we wanted, what made us happy. And it hit me that- I love this woman and this woman loved me. And after eleven years of loss, grief, career changes, we were so deeply in love... but we weren't aligned. And I kept thinking 'We just need to try harder. We can find some compromise to make this work,' because that's what you're supposed to do when you love someone, right?

But the reality was, we had just become different people. Her trade school took her in one direction, my graduate degree in another and trying to force us back into who we were five years ago wasn't coming from a place of love. It was coming from a place of fear. Fear that, if this ended, it meant we wasted eleven years. But sitting there across from her, I realized: That's not how love works.

Those eleven years happened. They were real. The dog, our home, showing up for each other through grad school and trade school. I wouldn't change a single thing because loving someone doesn't mean you're meant to stay with them forever. And letting go doesn't erase what you had. We measure marriage by whether it lasts forever or not, but what if we measured it by whether it mattered?

What if we measured it by the love we gave, the life we built, and the people we became? Because love's job isn't to last forever, it's to help you become fully completely yourself, and sometimes the most loving thing you can do is give each other permission to be yourselves, separately. But the dog doesn't know were' divorced. He just gets two Christmases now."

Pulled this from this guy Preston Rakovsky's Instagram (@prestonrack) because it is a beautiful perspective on love, marriage, and relationships in general.

[touteytout]

[saprophilous]

OC Sylphie commission for @nocctis! Thank you <3

[vickisigh]

calling 🐚

✧ limited edition print ✧

[bimstown]

they grow stronger

[iliothermia]

Trans Day of Visibility

So.. Hi, I'm Rachamim and I make culturally rooted queer fantasy work, drawing inspiration from my Greek-Sephardi background. I seek to marry the elements of the queer body and love with ornate detail and a lexicon of personal symbolism 💗

[marella-moon]

My Father's House by Bruce Springsteen

lyrics below the cut:

Last night I dreamed that I was a child Out where the pines grow wild and tall I was trying to make it home through the forest Before the darkness falls

I heard the wind rustling through the trees And ghostly voices rose from the fields I ran with my heart pounding down that broken path With the devil snapping at my heels

I broke through the trees and there in the night My father's house stood shining hard and bright The branches and brambles tore my clothes and scratched my arms But I ran 'til I fell shaking in his arms

I awoke and I imagined, the hard things that pulled us apart Will never again, sir, tear us from each other's hearts I got dressed and to that house, I did ride From out on the road I could see its windows shining in light

I walked up the steps and stood on the porch A woman I didn't recognize came and spoke to me through a chained door I told her my story and who I'd come for She said "I'm sorry son but no one by that name lives here anymore"

My father's house shines hard and bright It stands like a beacon calling me in the night Calling and calling, so cold and alone Shining 'cross this dark highway where our sins lie unatoned

[arcandoria-archived]

crossposting from bsky - glad I stopped using spotify when I did and that I unlinked it from my discord, but still

[ reddit thread | bsky post ]

[artistformerlyknownasbutttrumpet]

i keep seeing ppl being like "just get an id, what's the big deal?" about the potential voter registration restrictions, and let me tell you a story i am actively dealing with

i work with unhoused people fleeing domestic violence, and i have a client rn whose driver's license expired in 2024, and she needs a new id to apply for apartments. ok, cool. problem is, she lost all her documents due to the domestic violence

so we call the dmv. dmv needs a birth certificate. like i said, she lost her birth certificate. she needs a new one. her birth certificate is from out of state

we look up how to get a new birth certificate. the birth certificate needs an id to order it. cool cool cool

ok then what about secondary options? well, she needs two secondary sources of identification to order a replacement birth certificate, and she only has one, because for everything else she needs an id. fishing license? need an id. fucking park pass? id. she could have her 18+ child use their birth certificate to vouch for her, except her abuser won't let her talk to her children, so that's a no go

ultimately we land on social security card. this is where we're at in the process rn. ofc she doesn't have her ss card, so we need to order that. social security also requires an id to request a new card, but they'll take a health insurance card with a picture attached (god fucking bless them). she has medicaid but doesn't have a physical copy of the card, so we have to figure out how to get that. then once we do that we have to upload it to the social security website, and if that doesn't work, we have to, god forbid, call the social security office (takes literal hours) and then make an appointment. she doesn't have transportation or cell service, so we would have to figure out a way to coordinate me getting her to the appointment in order to present the document

then we wait 10+ days for the replacement, that has to be mailed to me bc she is unhoused and doesn't have an address

then we need to submit her request for a new birth certificate, which we have to figure out how to pay for, bc it is not free. they're at least a month behind on requests, btw, so we are probably looking at may at the earliest for that to arrive

then we need to take the birth certificate to the dmv

dmv also requires two pieces of mail not from a po box. she doesn't have an address, she is unhoused. she can use the homeless shelter in town, but we will need to mail her stuff there and have her receive it first, and also then the homeless shelter address will now be on her new id, which landlords will recognize and may discriminate against her for

during all of this she is sleeping in a garage. it was negative one degrees this morning. also, forgot to mention, she is terminally ill. some days i legitimately don't know if she lived through the night. every day is a toss up

the absolute soonest she will have an id is probably late may. forget voter registration--most rentals won't let her apply without it. she won't be offered section 8 housing without it. she can't apply for ssdi without it. she is blocked at literally every corner without it, and the absolute soonest she can get it is late may. the dmv literally has her old card on file, and she knows the number by heart, but it doesn't matter. it doesn't count if it's expired, as if she's somehow become someone new

and that's all with the help of someone whose job it is to do this shit. imagine if she didn't have a caseworker. she has a ten year old donated iphone that only works on wifi, she can't even do her own research bc she doesn't have internet half the time. how the hell is she supposed to get anything done on her own?

so yeah, fuck you if you think requiring an id isn't voter discrimination. "just get an id" is privileged af thinking and it infuriates me every time i hear it. lawmakers know exactly what they're doing with that restriction, and it's absolute bullshit

[momopatchi]

pokemon doodles for a donation drive

[vaard]

Spiral Staircase Breakdown!

I've had so many questions and asks about the spiral staircase in my house, I figured it would be easiest to do a quick breakdown of it.

It's only two items. A pillar if your choice, and a beam style of your choice. For mine, I used the Sturdy Wood Pillar and Stormwind beams, both available from your basic neighborhood's furniture vendors.

The room type I used to connect the two levels is the empty stairwell room.

With a central pillar to curve your steps around, start placing the beams at the height you need for the size of your race, rotating one click for each additional beam. You might need to shuffle the center beam a few times to keep the curve from clipping through once it starts to take shape

And that's pretty much it! From there I just walled in around the stairs at the width I wanted and fabricated some hand rails from more basic beams. Very quick, very easy!

Enjoy!

[wintergardenscribe]

List of Lord Huron lyrics they were wild for writing: Cosmic Selector Vol 1 edition

"We haven't met, but I wrote this song for you."

"I fell asleep and when I woke up, I was old. I said goodbye to my youth, and my blood ran cold."

"People die and planets turn and empire rise and fall and burn. Nothing lasts and no one stays. You just spiral off into outer space."

"I saw a ghost; he looked the same as me."

"I heard your words, but none of them were true. I'd rather die than lie to you."

"What's the worth of a lone soul? Don't they count them by two?"

"If no one lives forever, who laughs last?"

"I'm a ghost, so it seems, drowning in my squandered dreams, haunting the night till the sun comes up on the city."

"I made a deal with the devil, but I never got paid."

"I'm living infinite lives. Are they mine? I can't be sure, but I've seen this before."

"If I ever come back from the graveyard, tell me I remind you of someone you used to know."

"How your memory lives inside me; how you trouble my dreams."

"Guess I'll join the ghouls and have a laugh beside your grave."

"Let's dream till we drown, till our tears swallow us down... is it true that you really don't dream anymore?"

"I'd give up everything I've got just to have what used to be."

[mintaii]

belated valentines day drawing 💌💘