i am a person, thats all you need to know

[facelessart101]

Mono and Six art dump as it’s been a while since I posted sndjsjjxx

[ageha-sds]

That look Riku gives you when he's about to upend your entire god damn life.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I follow some non-consumer and pro-recycling facebook pages and like. I'm not sure how to explain this exactly, but some of them have a frankly unhealthy relationship with preservation and recycling. People will photograph an ancient threadbare shirt that's full of massive holes and 30% mould by volume and say "this was in my mum's basement and she wanted to throw it out! How do I save it?" People will show a stack of thirty empty margarine containers and say "what use can I find for these? I don't want to throw them out." Someone detailed their strategies for making sure that they only walk around their house barefoot or with slippers, never walking int heir socks, in order to make sure the socks wear out as slowly as possible.

Responsible reuse and care of your belongings is one thing, but for some of these groups, if they monitored food and exercise the way they monitored general consumption it would be an eating disorder.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

This isn't a healthy relationship with possessions.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Right after this post was somebody bragging about how they're freeing themselves from consumerism by giving up manicures and pedicures so it's. A very mixed bag of standards.

[unfortunate-beetle-and-friends]

Mood.

I walk a very thin line between recycling/anti-consumerism and my hoarding tendencies (don't think it's ever reached the point of full blown disorder but I'm very aware it's a constant lowkey battle to keep it that way) and my perfectionism paralysing me into keeping stuff until I can dispose of it in the Absolute Most Optimal Least Polluting way.

Any obsession can become disordered (I don't necessarily mean pathologically, but extreme to the point where it does you more harm than good or more harm than is safe/justifiable), and I think we forget that.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Unless it's made of easily recyclable or compostable materials like metals, glass or organics (NOT recyclable plastic, that doesn't count), it's basically all landfill. Dispose of chemicals and electronics in the appropriate way, put the glass and metal in the bins appropriate for whatever your local area's recycling system is, and everything else is landfill. "Oh, I can save this boot" it's still landfill, just a bit later than it would otherwise be. "Oh, I can recycle this old shirt into a bag" still landfill, just in your cupboard for a bit first.

For products for which a large-scale, practical and economic recycling system does not exist (recyclable plastic doesn't have such a system, it's a grift; recyclable metals and glass very often do have such a system but it depends on the material and product and where you live), there is no such thing as optimal disposal. There is only optimal production. Your environmental impact is measured in the effect you have on new things being produced and shipped. Once it is made in a factory, it is already landfill, it's just staying in your house for a bit first.

Trying to repair old boots at home doesn't save them from landfill -- the question is, did your repairing the boots stop you from having to buy new ones, and if so, did that stop new ones from being produced and shipped to your country? Does buying a new pair instead help because you don't have to buy the materials you'd use to repair them, and if so, did that have any effect on whether those materials were produced and sent to your country? In a modern economy, your effect re: repair vs. new is likely to have absolutely no environmental effect at all for most goods, though it does depend on specifically where you live and what the good is and how it's made. Either your old boots go to landfill and you buy a new pair, or you fix your old ones and the new pair goes straight from the warehouse to landfill because the company bought one too many pairs to sell. (It'll probably go on sale and mope around warehouses for a few years first, same as it otherwise would in your closet; this is a completely irrelevant temporary stop).

Depending on the industry, your individual shopping choices can have an impact, especially if it's part of a larger organised movement like a proper boycott (or even just an unorganised drop in sales as lots of people simply decide to stop buying so much). Your individual shopping choices can also have a big effect on your own budget; repairing old shoes is usually much cheaper than buying new ones. But if you're focusing on the optimal way to dispose of something (again, unless it's something dangerous that requires specific disposal methods or something that's part of an existing large-scale recycling network), you're focusing on something way too late in the game to be environmentally relevant. What matters is the impact on production and shipping; once it's produced, it is already landfill.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Important side note, because this is the piss on the poor website: there's nothing wrong with having a recycling or upcycling hobby. It's not bad to repair the boots, even if you can afford new ones. It's just not practical environmentalism. If environmentalism is the goal then a focus on reducing the wastage of things you already own is a waste of time and energy and often counterproductive; if your goal is environmentalism, then focusing on limiting the impacts of production and transportation of goods is far more useful. But lots of people just prefer to make, repair or upcycle stuff.

Sometimes those old torn sheets would make a nice rug, not because that would have any practical impact, but because you feel like making a rug and have a cool idea for a pattern. Sometimes mending that shirt is better than replacing it because you like the aesthetic of visible mending. Sometimes collecting coffee jars to store your pasta in doesn't have any effect on throwing out the packaging the pasta came in or save the jars in the long term, but you think it looks nicer in the pantry. It's not bad to do these things (indeed the skills you can develop and the general mindfulness towards waste might have positive effects on other things you do), it's just not a moral obligation for environmental reasons. And like anything, if you get anywhere near as obsessive over it as laundry basket person in the picture, that's probably not great for your own wellbeing.

[paper-mache-stars]

still thinking about these guys

[infizero]

bringing back my too woke opinion that you should be allowed to change labels without the previous one being incorrect

[infizero]

i think you should be allowed to identify as trans without retroactively saying you were also trans in the past. i think the "born this way" rhetoric is limiting and you should be able say stuff like "i was fully a girl when i was a kid and now im a boy" without it invalidating your current identity but maybe that's just me

[zer0brainc3lls]

Rocky dumbing down his speech for Grace only reinforces the idea that Grace is a kid in the other Eridians eyes and multiple conversations are happening at once..

Eridian scientist: why did they send a baby to space?!

Rocky: Grace is not a baby. He’s a fully grown human and you all need to respect that-

At the same time another Eridian: the human is thirty!! Are you COMPLETELY sure he’s not a child? He’s barely coordinated!

Rocky: Grace is very sick!! Of course he’s not coordinated you fucking idiot-

ALSO at the same time: did you not think to teach him how to understand us properly?? Let alone communicate with us.

Rocky: he doesn’t have the vocal cords for most of our sounds!! And we were WORKING on him being able to understand proper speech but he’s delirious?! The fact he’s conscious is a miracle-

Grace who is visible stressed and half covering his ears but also trying to listen: what’s going on?? I can’t hear you guys it’s too loud- Rocky what’s going on?!

Rocky: apology apology other Eridians ask dumb dumb dumb questions, Rocky tell Grace later. Grace sleep now Rocky handle.

Grace just nods with bleary eyes and knocks out almost immediately, and the other Eridians are giving Rocky the equivalent of a raised eyebrow in unison.

[sandersstudies]

Choosing a character in a sexyman-style poll when you are familiar with both options: obviously you are the intended audience of the op, the intention of the poll was to judge based on the audience’s familiarity with both characters

Choosing a character in a sexyman-style poll because they’re the only one you know: obviously biased

Choosing a character in a sexyman-style poll because they’re the only one you don’t know: arguably also biased but in a different and funnier way

Choosing a character in a sexyman-style poll when you don’t know any of them: The Truely Just and Honorable Way to Select, Entirely On Vibes

[sandersstudies]

Scrolling past a sexyman-style poll when you are familiar with both options: Achieved Nirvana

[foxes-in-love]

[animentality]

[thebibliosphere]

POV: you are a tiny tan and white Shih Tzu with dark ears and big brown eyes, and your Mama has been crying in bed for days, but you’ve just had a haircut and the groomer gave you a pretty, new bandanna and you know Mama likes it when you have a new bandanna so you run through the house at Mach speed and launch yourself into the bed, eager to show it off with a big goofy grin and a helicopter tail.

Your Mama starts crying harder. Papa gives you string cheese as a reward. Mission failed successfully.

[ajking73]

been busy playing a lot of both 'Ori and the blind forest' and 'Ori and the will of the Wisps' which both are really good, play them some time!

drew a from a screenshot i got of the thing i found funniest to do which was hop on a pole

i say i did quite well, other then the orb. i love the silly creature

[pocketss]

It was important to me that she puts emphasis on the TOK

[penheadie]

this is basically their relationship from what i remember right?

[pris-cas]

Lesson #22 spit

Full idea credit goes to @the-asexual-winter

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Thank you to my splendid beta readers!

@xushibeetle

@stelosia

[april]

women are like diamonds: synthetically-produced women are not meaningfully different from naturally-formed women, and anyone trying to tell you otherwise is probably trying to justify keeping their women mines open

[steelheart-redux]

dog compilation

[prokopetz]

I had an appointment with my doctor today, and for the full twenty-odd minutes I was sitting in the waiting room they had a song on loop whose chorus was just someone repeatedly chanting the phrase "run from the sunlight, Dracula". I think this experience has altered my brain chemistry.