it's his tone, right?

annie | 30s | i have a lot of feelings and lately they're all about hellcheer

[claudia-lioncourt]

JACOB ANDERSON for The Vampire Lestat Backstage Pass, Episode 1: "Detroit"

[transpondster]

[libraford]

Knowing how stuff works at the municipal level is a fucking curse because you can do your best to relay information to the community and they still assume the worst of you.

To the average person, it looks like we're just tearing up all the parks for development. But there were meetings and posts and announcements, and there was community input and awareness programs and we did our absolute best to keep everyone in the loop but some people still fell through the cracks.

So they think we're destroying all the parks.

"Why did parks and rec get rid of the fence at this park??? All parks should have fences!"

The fence was damaged and we thought it might be more convenient to open up the area so that people using the shelter didnt have to walk all the way around to get into the playground. The fence was damaged because people would climb it as a shortcut. (I personally disagree that all parks should have fences.)

"Why did they tear down the playground at Miller Park? It was perfectly fine- they wouldn't have to tear it all down if they bothered to maintenance it like they're supposed to."

Playgrounds are suggested to be replaced every ten years to keep up with accessibility updates. Likewise, it was decided that while we're updating the playground it would be a good opportunity to address the safety concerns brought to our attention in the past decade.

"THEYVE COMPLETELY TORN APART WILLOW RIDGE PARK! How dare they take away our precious few greenspaces and line their pockets with kickbacks from high density housing???"

-deep breath-

If you had bothered to go to any of the four public meetings, read the announcements, or looked at the giant sign in front of the park, you would notice that we are remodeling the park to include a wetland restoration area to address the flooding issues, which was voted on by the neighborhood it is adjacent to.

Yall are gonna feel real silly when these projects turn out to be massive improvements.

[libraford]

"Why doesnt our town have a community garden?"

Well the answer is very simple: we do.

[aropride]

[praguegirl]

HHFDHSJAFFFFF

[bireggiemantle]

the thing about riverdale is that its laura palmer is both jason and archie. and while jason gets to be this personal that is both preserved in teenage innocence and dissected for his secrets because he is dead, archie is subjected to the same treatment alive. his personality is reduced to the traits others force onto him (to jughead for example he is the pinnacle of heroism and selflessness and therefore he must live up to those standards) or the secrets they tear him apart for (cheating, organized crime affiliation, violent tendencies). every action he takes is grandiose and reveals more about the town at large/the people surrounding him than it necessarily reveals about himself because archie is more of a concept than a person to the other characters. archie died at sixteen, preserved as the sexually motivated but pure-hearted center of the town, and every thing he does is either in service of that image or a direct betrayal of it, causing him to question his own identity/self-worth and letting down all of his friends and family. archie and jason occupy similar roles in the narrative, but archie is alive to endure the pain that comes with this forced archetyping.

[bireggiemantle]

and everybody thinks they know archie best and will make grand claims about what is good for him and what his intentions and desires are but rarely if ever do they ask him any of these things. his voice does not matter because a corpse cannot speak. a corpse does not want anything beyond what other people want for it. a corpse cannot know itself. but the people around it can know it. and can claim increasing degrees of closeness and understanding to it. riverdale is about what other people want for archie. the threat they see in archie. the hero they admire in archie. he can be romanticized, idolized, vilified, etc because in death you do not need to have nuance. and oftentimes you are not afforded nuance.

[russianblush]

oh! okay!

[sparklejamesysparkle]

Patrick Swayze by Lance Staedler, 1993.

[maelancoli]

trinity santos is a study in fandom misogyny because they gave her all the characteristics fandoms usually salivate for in men, being gruff, quippy and misunderstood with a tragic backstory but a heart of gold beneath it all. they put all this into her AND let her be a lesbian. she's everything you could ever want in a character but she's not a man so half the fandom either hates her or constantly mischaracterizes her as petty, callous and aggressive while doing mental gymnastics to baby the male characters around her

[monsoonsummer]

[corpsecoded-deactivated20250106]

in the club getting psychosexual

[sovietunion]

[sharkfish]

→ THE EXPANSE SEASON 2

PRIORITIES DURING AN INTERSYSTEM INCIDENT 😋

[orpheusilver]

masturbation is evil not for any puritan anti-fun reason but because it has permanently claimed so many verbs

[orpheusilver]

nobody can crank anything anymore. and god forbid you jerk

[orpheusilver]

turning off rbs at 75k btw so get your last reblogs in now

[abalisk]

😞

A travesty

[thepaisleyelf]

There’s a liquor store near my house that seems to be run exclusively by frat boys. They lovingly curate these bags, which I browsed today while “Oops I Did It Again” played through the store speakers. This is art to me, there is beauty everywhere for those with eyes to see it

[mbrainspaz]

idk what neurodivergent young adult needs to hear this but you are NOT supposed to give 100% at your job. I've gotten more promotions and raises since I started giving 40-60%, which my evil CEO uncle informed me is what bosses actually expect when they say 110%. My mental health has improved tremendously. I've spent 2 out of 5 workdays secretly writing my novel for the last 2 years and I've never been more respected and appreciated. Also--when you see glaring wasteful errors in the company's operating systems, say absolutely nothing! Embrace inefficiency. It is your friend in this capitalist hellscape.

[fadedlovemp3]

Jenny Holzer vs. Wallace Stegner

[danhumphrey]

politely asking that you drop a rant on how mischaracterized eddie is ♡ I love reading your opinions on stranger things it's like opening a really well written magazine (also i see so much . eddie bs on the daily I would like one (1) person to just be normal about him . please)

my biggest gripe is that ppl do not acknowledge that eddie’s confidence is performative and he isn’t naturally just 🔥⚔️a cool guy⚔️🔥 yk? like we have all seen the character that eddie presents himself as in 4.01 a billion fucking times. zany misfit who doesn’t like sports and parties and clearly views himself as being better than other people because of it (we’ve even seen it in stranger things already). eddie appears to be another carbon copy presentation of those traits untillll the supernatural factors in and he almost instantly loses all his gusto, all his confidence, and has to rely on the kids who he refers to as sheep and a former partyboy jock and honor roll student nancy wheeler. and aside from holding the bottle to steve’s throat, which i think was just an instinctual fight or flight response to someone finding him while he’s a wanted man, eddie never pops off on them or tries to whip out his cafeteria schtick ever again. 4.01 eddie is long gone. and this is because 4.01 eddie wasn’t his true self!! it wasn’t his actual personality!! it’s a show, an act of being like “no one in this high school can hurt me because i don’t care what any of you think aaaa look how crazy i am!!!” when in reality eddie goes about his day clearly….afraid! his first scene is literally him giving an impassioned rant to his trusted group of friends about how people don’t understand people like himself and he’s obviously genuinely frustrated by this. when he realizes everyone in hawkins is after him, he understands immediately that it’s an act of hunting the freak, and he’s visibly relieved when he realizes the group doesn’t suspect him like he assumed they would. idk i see so much fanon interpretation of eddie as this badass who doesn’t give a fuck what anyone thinks and goes about his day laughing in the faces of anyone who looks at him wrong and like, yeah on the surface maybe he appears that way but that isn’t who he is. not at his core. at his core he does care very deeply and he fears the assumptions others have about him and that makes him an interesting character and it’s sooooooo frustrating to see people just be like hmm whatever let’s over simplify his ass