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#my family does this thing#when we've majorly unfucked a room or done chore that we were putting off#or whatever. Any sort of household Improvement.#'Come brag on me.'#I means come look I cleaned/rearranged/did dishes/put away the laundry#and the scripted response is 'oh nice it looks SO much better in here now'#like my mom did this when we were kids.#'girls comr brag on the garage I finally organized it so I can get my car in there'#and we go and 'ooh' and 'aah' and tell her how nice it looked and how she did a good job#and we could have her 'come brag on' us for like doing the dishes or cleaning our rooms#I do it to my wife now too#it's a dialogue that means#'I did a chore and it feels like an Accomplishment even if it objectively wasn't a big thing. Please acknowledge this.'#and#'Wow you sure did do a thing. It has improved our material circumstance even if only in a small way. Thank you for doing it.'#like yeah scrubbing the pans is my Job and it's a Little Task but sometimes it feels like a Big Task#and it's nice to have an Accepted Script where I can just demand 'I have functioned as an independent adult praise me with great praise' - by @thepioden

aishiteru-kenshin

Rain on Lilypads | LW Lau

2022dirt

Things worn down by people.

succubusboyfriend

practicing self care less out of self love and more for the sheer logical reasoning of it’d be kinda stupid of me to expect myself to be able to function without proper maintenance

succubusboyfriend

“oh i don’t deserve rest and relaxation, i haven’t done enough, i haven’t earned it” and my car’s breaks don’t deserve break fluid because they aren’t breaking well enough to earn it. that’s what you sound like!!!!!

reasonsforhope

If you do not schedule time for maintenance, your equipment will schedule it for you

cleaverqueer

petition to change LGBT to DFTQ (Dykes Faggots Trannies and Queers, naturally)

cleaverqueer

AMENDED

cleaverqueer

happy pride everyone

sightofsea

You know your drunk art post about love and personhood from 2019? Every night at bedtime my late cat would lie on my chest, and her little heartbeat would be right on top of mine, and I'd think about that piece of art you made, and have a similar sort of image in my head. Anyway, yesterday I finally put the image to paper, and idk where this is going, just that that piece of art you created means a lot to me. Have a cool day ✌️

OHHHH MY GOD!!!!! EVERYBODY SHUT THE FUCK UP AND LOOK AT THIS. ITS ALL BEEN WORTH IT

badassdemonsword

plaguedocboi

I remember when I was younger, anytime I watched a movie where the characters have to kill a scary monster/alien, I always thought the act of killing it was intended to be part of the horror. Like there’s this amazing creature that we’ve never seen before, and maybe under different circumstances we could’ve coexisted with it, but it’s trying to attack you and you have to defend yourself, but by destroying it you also destroy the ability to ever understand it and that’s sad and is supposed to make you feel conflicted.

It was not until well into my adulthood that I realized most people do not have complicated feelings about movies where people have to kill a scary alien monster, nor is that necessarily meant to be part of the narrative (unless it very obviously is). They just want the scary thing to die because it’s scary. I don’t have a real conclusion to this I just started thinking about it for some reason.

plaguedocboi

1. This reply is two words and they managed to misspell both of then

2. Yeah. Duh.

anglaised

how it feels being a stern humanist seeing ppl irl and online be ok with all kinds of unwarranted unjustified cruelty with no introspection and no interest of whom the only planet we all have to share is built on the suffering of

bigtittygothmom666

draizetrain

i think when u clean your house it should stay clean forever. what do u mean i have to do it again

reverendrowdy

Use your PTO

interestingmistakes

Reblogging this manually. Op doesn't want credit for fear of being terminated.

asteroidtroglodyte

You can’t Abstain your way to a Better World.

asteroidtroglodyte

The Burger still gets made, even if you go Vegan. If you don’t buy it, it just winds up in the trash. If you want to do something meaningful about waste, you need legislation: It must become a crime to waste food in those ways.

If you care about Animal Cruelty in Factory Farms, you need to get legislation passed. It must become a crime to mistreat animals in those ways, and when malfeasances occurs, the onus of responsibility for those crimes must fall upon wealthy shoulders. That, also, requires legislation. It requires regulations, and regulators.

The largest source of Microplastics is wear and tear on automobile tires. It doesn’t matter what brand of shampoo you buy. It doesn’t matter which company you support with your dollar. The issue of Public Transit is too large-scale to be handled at anything less than the municipal level.

It’s not enough to just not participate in society

If you want the world to Change, you must leverage the mechanisms of political power.

You need Government.

asteroidtroglodyte

STOP PROPOSING INDIVIDUAL SOLUTIONS TO COLLECTIVE PROBLEMS

lady-lazarus-13

Reminds me of this essay I just watched

It's not that we should stop trying as an individual and go oh well guess I'll just litter anyway. Instead it should be a "yes and" situation. Yes, you recycle and reuse, and now you've gotta advocate and push for legislation to stop the creation of more plastics.

We can't lose sight of the big picture when we are successful on an individual level. We can't just say well I'm doing my part so that's good enough. No, we need to hold these corporations accountable. We need to make our governments actually work for us and toward the betterment of this world.

It can and has to be "yes and" for us to see meaningful long lasting change.