Just Kateblr

Welcome to my little corner of Tumblr for what runs through my head or heart at any given moment. I'm a middle-aged pre-transition trans woman figuring out how I need to express myself to be me. She/her pronouns.

[aidashakur]

[chernozemm]

I'm sorry but vaccines are so fucking cool. You're telling me that I just need to drop by my doctor, feel a pinprick, maaaybe feel a bit off for a day and then I have statistically significant, incredible chances of either completely avoiding getting a certain illness or at the very least have a pretty string guarantee my body will kick its ass swiftly??? Fucking magic potion.

[just-kateblr]

You are given access to a time machine that will enable you to stop an individual from gaining their powerful position. The challenge is that you can only use it once and you are forced to pick from Ronald Reagan, Roger Ailes, Mitch McConnell, or Donald Trump. Who do you choose?

[just-kateblr]

If something bad happens to you, that doesn't give you free license to take it out on other people.

[just-kateblr]

[sandmandaddy69]

[harzilla]

Reblog to cast healing for your homies.

[just-kateblr]

Hey all! I hope everyone is doing well. As the GIF suggests, I'm not dead yet.

I'd been trying to be online a little bit less and, frankly, got out of the habit of checking on Tumblr. Lo and behold, a whole bunch of time passed and I didn't even log in. Short version of things are that despite some weird and unexpected health stuff at the beginning of the year, I'm doing well. Keeping overly busy with work and am otherwise happily plugging along.

How are you all doing?

[just-kateblr]

I am at a bit of a loss with a professional colleague. He's been going through a rough patch mentally and emotionally. He is a divorced single dad with 4 kids and splits custody. By his own admission he's been struggling with depression. I very much empathize with his challenges.

On the other hand, he's completely unreliable as a colleague. He regularly misses meetings with no notice. He is constantly blowing deadlines. When he does do things, it is 50/50 that it isn't half assed. (This is the Cliff's Notes version of things; the list of problems is really quite long.)

I want to be able to respect and support him in his challenges, but he doesn't appear to be taking any steps to help himself. Moreover, when he gets called out for some challenge, his response is often defensive and he comes across as entitled.

He's burned through every ounce of goodwill that anyone has had for him. Our supervisor is wanting to get rid of him. We've had several frank conversations and while he recognizes there are problems, he doesn't do much about it.

He appears to be stymied by his mental health issues. They are definitely impacting what he does, but there is no change after years. I really can't figure out the boundaries of providing support versus feeling like the goodwill is being taken advantage of. It is like watching a slow motion car crash. Any brilliant ideas?

[sighinastorm]

Go to a furry convention dressed as an 18th century fur trapper. Longrifle, jawtraps, chains, fur hat, big coat made of sewn-together pelts of different polyester neons...

[the-hollow-quiet]

Marie knows that harming someone is one of the fastest ways to become permanent in them. How terrible. The worst days are so tended to, visited and revisited in memory, put on an altar with the harshest lighting.

—Catharine Lacey

The Möbius Book

[for-the-sake-of-fuck]

I don’t know how to embed a video on here, but this quote so poetically explained a concept I couldn’t put into words.

[coconutshipwreck]

Josh Johnson is very wise.

[hotvampireadjacent]

As , the United States, potentially heads into another forever war I can only think of this quote.

[rebel-ala-mode]

[topdiaz]

what’s your “odd” comfort movie? a movie that isn’t stereotypically comforting but does comfort YOU? mine’s conclave (2024)

[thaliawashere]

The Hunt for Red October (1990)

[just-kateblr]

Runaway Train (1985)

[goldcrescent]

like damn I thought I had self esteem issues but elon musk is fifty years old eleventy seven children infinite money and he spends all hours of the lord’s day and night making sock puppet accounts to defend his own posts this is being a loser on a scale that can only be measured with a geiger counter

[sailor-crusader-deactivated2025]

That trans woman doesn't go outside? She's chronically online? Hmm I wonder if there's a reason she doesn't feel safe or comfortable in the outside world... Nah, she's just a loser and we should all make fun of her.

[triskeleaficionado]

[just-kateblr]

My mother was fond of saying "this too shall pass" and "time and tide fix all hurts." There is truth in both