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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
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I will always take the cat's side. "she's drooling on me" you're so lucky "he always wants to be petted" then pet him "he's mad I won't let him on my desk" make room on your desk for him. I am your cat's defense lawyer and the cat is always innocent on the grounds of them being A Little Kitty Cat.
god the promised bride is still one of the best short stories ever. not even as part of larger canon
story about how capitalism and patriarchy prey similarly on you. how you cannot escape your fate without becoming unrecognizable to yourself
why should their outcomes be natural and mine obscene !!!!!
this too is about rgu
and everyone keeps telling me how happy I must be at last. (excerpt from sara ahmed, the promise of happiness)
"The problem is people don't read classics anymore"
No I think the problem is people don't read WIDELY. The ONLY ya and/or fantasy romance crowd is just as insufferable as the ONLY classics crowd or the ONLY litfic crowd or the ONLY nonfiction crowd and vice versa.
You gotta get some variety in there my guys
Upon this post I have seen people assert that nobody needs to read 'books by dead white guys' to be widely read with the context that they believe only dead white guys wrote classics,
People saying that because classics are in fact written not only by dead white guys you can get by on only reading classics,
And the classic (hah), people are just always going to be insufferable.
All of these have missed the point and are examples of why people should in fact read widely.
Read widely. Read beyond what you've been told are 'the classics'. Read works by authors from other times and places. Read works by authors who are different from yourself.
dare i add: read a bad book once in a while too. flex your critique muscles a bit
Actually yes this last point is an extremely valid addition
Not only does it help you learn and hash out your critique skills, you might be surprised
I don't know whether any of you guys have looked outside lately but it's leaves as hell out there
Shit man, this trojan war is fucked. I just saw a guy raise his hands to the sky and say âgrey-eyed athena, strengthen my spearâ or some similar shit, and he felled 27 men at once before being whisked away by divine mist. The narrator didnât even mention him, thatâs how common shit like this is. My ass is stuck with a bow and 2 arrows. I think I just heard âwould to god my rage, my fury would drive me now to hack your flesh away and eat you rawâ two groups over. I gotta get the fuck outta here.
It turns out that actually standing by "men and women are not inherently very different" is a reliable way to bother absolutely everyone. Left or right, cis or trans, feminist or misogynist, all cling to the binary for dear life.
From the replies on this post:
WHY YOU SHOULD WRITE HORRIBLY:
1. Youâll never write anything if you donât
listen I know it's heartbreaking that Claudia dies and it's understandable to wish she didn't, but let's please not accuse the writers of fridging her. to do so is a fundamental misunderstanding of the story and is frankly insulting to the intelligence and skill of the writers of the show.
Claudia's death, and the overwhelming grief and regret her parents experience because of it, is quite literally the point of the entire story. she dies because Anne's daughter Michele died of leukemia when she was five years old and there was nothing she or her husband could do to prevent it.
writing IWTV was how Anne coped with the unimaginable loss of a parent losing her child. she created a story about a little girl that could not die and then killed her anyway. Claudia's death is a senseless, unavoidable tragedy, just like Michele's was. the grief that haunts Louis and Lestat for the rest of their lives is the same grief that haunted Anne and her husband.
so when you're accusing people of killing Claudia off to benefit a story about two men, please remember that in real life sometimes parents lose their children. please remember Michele Rice.
she's the reason Claudia exists.
she's also the reason Claudia cannot be saved.
(Anne Rice's journal, 1996)
i wish i had the post on hand but a read i really like is vampirism as disability. you cant work a regular day job, in fact you physically cannot leave your home most hours of the day, you have specific dietary restrictions that alienate you from the social act of breaking bread, you feel condemned to navigate the world at its fringes, maybe your body wont change and develop the way it does for your peers, maybe your body is changing very rapidly into something that frightens people.
its tricky territory because i feel like the trope of the vampire as parasite is very dominant in the cultural consciousness and thats obviously not a connection i wish to draw, but like, you know who else the capitalist ableist world treats as drains on Normal society? in a narrative where the vampire character(s) arent being played as villains i think theres a lot of fertile ground here.
Take what you need and pass it on:
A hug
A smile
A joke that makes you belly laugh
A snack
A butterfly in the sunshine
A grilled cheese cut diagonal and a forehead kiss
An encouragement: âYouâve got this!â
A nap
A high five
"I know chatgpt is bad but you just don't really have any choice" you literally do. Don't use it. Have some moral backbone.
it's been like 2 years. i havent touched it. never needed to. "you don't really have a choice," are you so swift to forget the recent past? Bitch i still use itunes to download mp3s to so i have them forever and any song i want, then my sister burns them to CDs. When boycotts rolled out my other sister got no thanks to scan what products we shouldn't buy. i still use corded headphones not because "its older" but because it's easier. a fool criticizes those who buy candles 200 years after the invention of the electric light until the power goes out. become ungovernable. you are not immune to propaganda. you've never had Chatgpt forced upon you, the only thing forced upon you is the idea that Chatgpt is forced upon you. why claim you need something today that you didn't need yesterday. little bitch.
can you think of anything better than dragons. no you can't. this is because dragons are the best thing ever forever.
What really ticks me off when talking about ai is when people are like "it's unavoidable" or "you'll have to learn to use it someday" or "its going to be part of the future" like no it's plenty avoidable actually if you have a spine stronger than a dandelion. You simply say "no" and continue to use your own goddamn brain.
Btw, that idea that privilege makes you morally evil and suffering makes you morally good is just repackaged versions of the Christian concepts of the evils of luxury and the holiness of martyrdom. Hope this helps!
What a pitiable cant to say 'She will live forever in my memory.' Live? That is exactly what she won't do.
âC. S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
I love kids theyâre all like.. âwhen i grow up iâm gonna be an astronaut and a chef and a doctor and an olympic swimmerâ like that self confidence! That drive! That optimism! Where does it go
It gets destroyed by adults not believing in you and telling you to pick a realistic career. And by society creating all these obstacles to the point that youâre too tired to try.
But theyâre not really unrealistic, SOMEBODY is going to be an olympic swimmer and it might as well be you.
Actually I want to talk about this a little more than I did, because olympic swimming is incredible and works perfectly to talk about attaining goals.
I used to be a varsity swimmer, and I was damn good, but I was forced into it by my parents and completely lost my love for it and therein my drive. But in high school I was swimming against such talented swimmers like Olympic Swimmer Missy Franklin. Iâve met her, and the main difference between her and me was that I was strong but had no passion, but she was strong BECAUSE she had passion.Â
And I could have been good, really good, maybe even Olympic good. I even have the predisposition for it, been swimming since I was 2 years old, have a mom who was almost an olympic swimmer. Missy didnât have either of those things, she just wanted it, loved it, had been doing it for a long time, and decided she was going to kick ass at it.
Right, thatâs great and all, but I completely missed my opportunity to be an olympic swimmer, yeah? and can never achieve those dreams I had as a kid? No, not even though. There was this whole thought that female athletes peak when theyâre 17 years old and lose their skills quickly after that, and male athletes peak around 19. But then Olympic Swimmer Dara Torres shows up. She was an olympic swimmer when she was 17, 21 and 25. Pretty normal age for retirement. She had a few kids. She kicked butt at being a mom.Â
And then at 33 years old she decides sheâs bored or something gets back in shape and kicks so much ass at the trials that she lands herself on the Olympic Team ONCE AGAIN. And then 8 years later, she decides, heck Iâm 41 now, no one has ever made the olympic swim team as old as I am, I want to get in shape yet again and teach these children how sports work.
And she still has the record for oldest US Olympic Swimmer, not even any men have beat out that record.
So basically what Iâm saying is you could be an olympic swimmer, you really could be. And there are obviously a lot of things stopping you and trying to get in your way: your brain, society, too much chocolate cake for example. But if you really dedicate yourself to it and love it with all of your heart you could, you really could.
And lets say olympic swimming isnât your jam? Thatâs cool too. There isnât a single skill in this world that you canât learn if you absolutely love it and want to. Any skill you want is going to take time. There are countless famous people who started learning a skill after 20, 30, 40, or even 50. Not a single person has even been president under age 35 (most likely because youâre not allowed to be, but thereâs a reason for that). Whatever you want to do youâre probably going to be bad at first, and Iâm talking really shitty.
Van Gogh got started in his 20â˛s and was thought to have no artistic talent at first and was forced to sit in the back of classrooms where the worst artists in the class sat. So yeah youâll probably be bad, like really bad and everyone including you will think youâre bad. If you stick with it though, if youâre willing to work for years and years, if you keep loving it after all the pain itâs given you,Â
then you might just paint Starry Night.
#looks like thereâs still time for me to learn how to draw ⌠YES. As someone who started drawing at 35 and who always was like: âeh, I canât draw a stick figure to save my life, but I would love to be able toâ this is near and dear to my heart. If you want to draw, start drawing. Keep drawing. Be shit at drawing at first. Keep it up, doodle things on scraps but also draw stuff you donât think you can draw. Challenge yourself, you will be surprised what you can do. It will be frustrating at times, but it will also be awesome. It is SO much a matter of practice and dedication, not talent.
This applies for writing, too. Â
Donât ever think for a second that it doesnât! Want to start writing? Then write! You will get better the more you write, the more often, and you will improve, all of the time, as long as you dedicate yourself. Â
The worst lie we tell ourselves is âitâs too late.â
Talent is a pursued interest.
Humanâs are pursuit predators.
Be awesome.
the older i get and the closer i am to reaching 30, the more the people around me try to deny me my age. itâs a constant âoh youâre just turning 29 again teehee đ¤â or âdont tell your SO that, heâll leave you for a younger model đâ and i just???? hate it?????????
i spent my entire teenaged years fighting for my life. i crawled through the deepest pits of my depression to cling to the promise of a life beyond that pain. i was so convinced that i was going to die young, that i would never see the grace of my age starting with a 2, let alone 3.
so im going to turn 30, and thereâs not a damn thing anyone can do to stop me from loving it.
this post was up for like five minutes and already im being told how wrong i am
fuck you, you can kiss my 30 year old ass
You know what? I needed to read this today
Fuck ageism! I'm middle-aged and it kicks ass. Random dudes don't hit on me anymore and I have more self-confidence and financial security than ever. I still think the world is going to hell in a handbasket, but I'm not about to kill myself over it anymore. I've survived some shit and learned that I'll survive this shit, too.
My 30s were my favorite decade. I knew who I was, what I wanted, and how to advocate for it better than any previous point in my life, and it made my life demonstrably better.
You are right OP, own this time! Happy birthday, and may you have many more, equally joyful.
