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Elliot | they/them | 29 | hyperfocus lockdown moment

[ginawankenobi]

Oh King Gus

A man who never wanted to be king but got saddled with it because he was too damn good at his job,

A man who was rejected by his father, lost the man who raised him, lost his uncles, lost his lover, and yet has never lost his hope or his kindness,

A man who gets called a tyrant for trying to do right by his people, and yet still loves and fights for all of his people including the ones who oppose him,

A man whose first and only thought after nearly dying and then witnessing what looked like an actual divine miracle was, “I need to tend to my fallen knight,”

What a man you are

[valtsv]

my problem is if i enjoy something enough i will be nitpicking. i Will have things to say about where and how it failed. out of nothing but love straight from my heart. unfortunately this often makes me indistinguishable from a hater who has never experienced joy or kindness. such is the amateur critic's burden.

[valtsv]

all of my favourite things are like beautiful racehorses that trip over their own feet a hundred times. but they get back up again. and goddamn, you should see them run.

[kaylmao]

[kitmarlowe]

And next to me, a man who says we should go back to a more simple time when children had manners, there was a bobby on every street, and women were, let's just say, a little more hirsute downstairs. His words. I don't know what he meant, either. It's little Alex Horne!

[hylianengineer]

There is one very important thing I need people without major dietary restrictions to understand: the distress caused by allergies, celiac disease, and other food restrictions is largely not about the food.

Do I miss some foods I can't eat anymore without getting sick? Sure, but that's not what really bothers me. What bothers me is being excluded from a huge portion of human social life of which food is a crucial component. What bothers me is the stress and social stigma of trying to figure out what I can safely eat. What bothers me is the amount of extra work and cost that is required of me to identify, obtain, and prepare safe foods. What bothers me is people treating my needs like a nuisance, as though I chose to be like this - as though their brief inconvenience to check an ingredients list is unreasonable, when I deal with this every day of my life forever.

I don't miss the food that much. I miss not having to worry about what I eat. I miss freedom. I miss when trying new foods and new restaurants was fun instead of a minefield. I miss not having to plan my entire life around the need for safe foods.

Food is such a basic human need, and a lot of people don't really need to think about it. When your danger foods can be anywhere and everywhere, suddenly your entire life revolves around avoiding them, and it massively sucks. You get used to it and it's not a big deal most of the time, but then you go to a new restaurant, or your office has a potluck, or you've been invited to a party and suddenly it feels just as miserable and exhausting as it ever has.

[toskarin]

imagine seinfeld but if jerry had.... an inquisitive mind..

[toskarin]

I just meant if jerry wanted more information but I can see how you might have understood this as me proposing a bicurious seinfeld

[porcelain-siscon]

Not that there's anything wrong with that

[toskarin]

not that there's anything wrong with that

[faunlord]

This is such a specific thing but I just realized part of the reason the ice cream thing was hitting weird for me is that. When I worked at Girl Scout camp one of the strategies they had us use when kids were having a meltdown was to distract them with a question like “what’s your favorite pizza topping”.

Bc as a camp counselor your primary goal in that situation is to stop them from freaking out until someone who’s actually qualified can step in. And I was shocked at how well it works, even when the “kid” is a 17 year old going through something very serious. In my experience, the older kids do seem like they’re going along with it to humor you, but it still works! At the very least it gives them a second to catch their breath.

And it’s this specific feeling of like. Transparent, benevolent manipulation? It’s a way to say “Hey buddy I love you but you gotta calm down because I’m not equipped to actually deal with All That”. And Murray says it, and she feels guilt and shame. It’s not enough, and he knows it’s not enough and she knows that he knows, but what the fuck else is she supposed to say?

[faunlord]

The whole trope of girl love interest to supportive bestie for her gay friend in fanfic normally yucks me out pretty bad at this point HOWEVER the canonical swerve of Gus being specifically gay opens up so many beautiful possibilities.

Murray, debriefing after this meeting: yea so I thought he had the hots for me but then I had a vision of him kissing a knight gay style so guess not :/

Azune, so horny he’s about to black out: I think I hauve bellows fever

[faunlord]

And of course this is all silly funny haha Murray teasing Azune about his crush and being like Go Get Him Girl You Deserve It!!!

But also. There’s an undertone of, dang it would be really convenient for all our plans if we had someone close to Gus huh.

Azune emotionally fraught seduction mission when!!!!

[faunlord]

Im still thinking about this. Azunes whole arc at the moment is him sorting through his own actual desires and the person he wants to be. He doesn’t WANT to play the manipulator anymore, but at this point it’s second nature to him. My personal take on the breakdown is relevant here, I think that the emotions were genuine but the exact way he presented them and the context in which he did it was intentional. Because I don’t think he can turn that part of his brain off even if he wants to.

So hes stuck, because the fact that he is legitimately interested in Gus means that pursuing him for schemer reasons would feel awful, but also without there being those ulterior motives i think he’d dismiss it as just a fantasy anyway because Gus is a king and Azune is Some Guy.

But also, deepening the alliance with Gus/Timmony would be a boon to everyone! And I don’t think anyone else would suggest that Azune go on a seduction mission if he *wasn’t* interested in Gus, but like, if he wants to do it anyway, why not go for it?

And of course Gus isn’t stupid, gotta keep your head on a swivel when you’ve been a king this long. I think even if he knew azune was legitimately interested (which would take some persuading, and so far the dice have failed him TWICE in convincing Gus of his own sincerity), the fact that it’s also politically convenient would still cause some friction. But alsoooo Azunes hot and Gus is not the best at making prudent political choices!

[maplemaplemaplemaplemaple]

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[cloudabserk]

rocky is both touched by the sentiment and disturbed by human medical practices

inspired by this grace quote:

[helenvaughans]

Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass.

–Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

[systlin]

In 38 years of life I have learned 1 thing;

If anyone is ever training you to replace them in a position and tells you 'its an easy job I don't do much' what this means is that you are about to spend six months to a year catching up on all the stuff they didn't do and sorting out the stuff they did poorly.

In related news I finally managed to finish un fucking my predecessor's lack of a filing system.

[systlin]

Apparently this post is wildly Jon from Magnus Archives coded but I regret to inform everyone that there were no weird sketchy paranormal occurences. There were only ten banker boxes full of unsorted training records, incident reports, uniform recipts, daily activity reports, and similar quite ordinary and boring paperwork. There have been zero flesh worms or NotEntities. I did find a stash of paper clips in one box under the papers but that's it.

[changes]

Deleted accounts can now be recovered up to 30 days later

We’re making a big change to how account deletion works on Tumblr, and we’re really excited about it, because this is something that some of you have been requesting for… well… a literal decade.

Before today, when you deleted your Tumblr account, it was immediate and permanent. Occasionally, this resulted in Very Sad Times. Even though we’ve tried to make it super difficult to accidentally delete your account, this is something that still happens a lot. Like, a lot. There’s also plenty of folks who delete their account on purpose, but then regret it shortly afterward. Worst of all, if your account was hacked, and then deleted by the hacker, there was no way to get it back. 

All of these problems are *poof* no more. As of today, when you delete your account, we will keep your data for 30 days. Your account will remain recoverable during that time, and you can contact us within that 30 day window if you’d like us to restore your account.

Eventually, we hope to make this process a bit easier, and allow you to restore your account with a single click of a button. For right now, though, you’ll need to contact us via tumblr.com/support and choose the category “Account Access” > “I have deleted my account or blog by accident”. 

FAQs

How do I delete my account? Does that process look different now?

You can follow the steps here to delete your account on the web or through the mobile app, which works pretty much the same way as before. You’ll notice we’ve updated the confirmation screen to reflect the new process, though.

Does a deleted account still appear on Tumblr during this 30 day window?

Nope. As soon as you submit the request to delete your account, all of your blogs will no longer be accessible (they’ll 404), no one will be able to message you, your posts will no longer appear in search results, and you won’t be able to log in anymore. This happens right away, not 30 days later. Deleted accounts still behave exactly as they always have.

What about my email address and username? Will those become available again immediately after account deletion, like they did before?

Notably, no, they will not. In order to make it possible for the account to be restored during the 30 day window, the username and email address must remain associated with the account during that time. So they won’t be available to register again until 30 days after you’ve deleted your account.

If you’re deleting your account, and you already know that you’d like to use the same username or email address on a new account immediately afterward, we recommend that you change your username and email address before deleting the account. That way, they will become available right away, instead of being on hold for 30 days. 

What if I’ve accidentally deleted one of my sideblogs, but not my entire account?

If you delete a sideblog, it will be deleted right away, and cannot be restored. We can only restore an entire account (which will restore all of its blogs along with it). 

Is this feature retroactive? Can you restore the account I deleted two years ago?

As much as we would like this to be possible, the answer is no. We still haven’t perfected the art of time travel, so all accounts deleted before today are still deleted for good. This new change will only apply to accounts which are deleted after this announcement is posted.

Where can I learn more about the account deletion process?

You can check out our support documentation and Privacy Policy. Both have been updated to reflect these changes.

[bodyofdeath]

It’s important to learn to avoid people who are solely focused on destroying lives, when you find somebody who has interests outside of destroying lives you can do fun stuff like go swimming and visit a cheese cave. people who aren’t into destroying lives sometimes cultivate idiosyncratic personal interests and preferences for things like the different frequencies of bells ringing, because they haven’t been preoccupied with destruction

[umbershift]

Aabria/Thaisha setting up Ingrid to propose to Julien while Matt can do nothing but sit and watch is killing me. You've heard of PVP now get ready for DMVDM

[hungwy]

one final cadaveric spasm for the idiot pigiron husk that was prototype "pjackk" jack

[pjackk]

Ok but why are the suckers and losers trying to kill me today