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venus | evil jihadi marxist

[nicolodigenovas]

Alabaster………………. Alabaster grown up alone basically creating a new horizon of possibilities of what orogeny can do Alabaster who has kids he didn’t want lost in the most horrible way Alabaster!!!! So powerful he can stop venom inside of him from killing him yet Alabaster who is already crazy (maybe) and broken, broken under pressure. Alabaster who was happy just looking at the sea, at things, one kid with him who did not know pain, two people who loved him and held him, a village who knew that he wanted to be comforted and touched without him asking because he has grown up learning to cry silently and alone… what could he do after he was hurt again? At that point he was already hurt beyond repair

[virgilean]

The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

“We aren't human." "Yes. We. Are." His voice turns fierce. "I don't give a shit what the something-somethingth council of big important farts decreed, or how the geomests classify things, or any of that. That we're not human is just the lie they tell themselves so they don't have to feel bad about how they treat us.”

[horce-divorce]

Alabaster pauses. "Did you like being in the Fulcrum so much?"

The question startles her, and angers her further. "I could at least be myself there. I didnt have to hide what I am."

He nods slowly, something in his expression telling her that he understands all too well what she's feeling. "And what are you when you're there?"

"Fuck. You." She's too angry, all of a sudden, to know why she's angry...

[...]

"...Sorry," he says. He genuinely sounds it, so she doesnt storm off right then. "I was just trying to make a point."

He's made it. Not that she hadn't known it before: that she is a slave, that all roggas are slaves, that the security and sense of self-worth the Fulcrum offers is wrapped in the chain of her right to live, and even the right to control her own body. Its one thing to know this, to admit it to herself, but its the sort of truth that none of them use against each other--not even to make a point--because doing so is cruel and unnecessary.

This is why she hates Alabaster: not because he is more powerful, not even because he is crazy, but because he refuses to allow her any of the polite fictions and unspoken truths that have kept her comfortable, and safe, for years."

-- N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

[sophiesuncatcher]

stone eaters and their humans

[abrillustrates]

Damaya, Syenite and Essun from N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Series!!

[paolo-streito-1264]

Karunchai Treetrong. Hong Kong.

[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.

[animentality]

[suffering-and-misery]

adhd executive dysfunction sucks bcuz im just sitting there and my brain is like

YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME

no work done no rest gained. literally no point of this at all

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[heyscaredycat]

some pages from my 2024 zine 'neurodivergent pop-ups'

[animentality]

[byoldervine]

Fanfic is a great way to practice self-indulgence while writing. It doesn’t even have to be good, it just exists purely for your pleasure, be a little freak about it. Worry about quality and what other people think when it comes to works you intend to publish in a formal setting

[br1ghteyed]

i think i tend to forget how good boredom is for creativity because we're all so addicted to numbing ourselves with screens and stimulation. but standing in the shower or going for a walk with no music or just sitting in your bedroom without being allowed to touch any screens & all of a sudden i have multiple new projects to start, a solution to a months-long plot problem & 4 new original characters

[theinternetarchive]

from 'bird by bird: some instructions on writing and life,' anne lamott, pub. 1994.

[vintage-tigre]

[the-quasar-hero]

Very many white LGBT people understand the idea that the societal concept that CisHet is the ‘standard’ or ‘default’ state of a human, at best, is a flattened look at the human experience, and worse a dangerous idea that leads to discrimination. Yet not very many of them seem to grasp the similar concept that thinking white people are the ‘default’ or ‘standard’ version of a person also leads to the same thing.

[jessaerys]

i think it's beautiful that cats eat you if you die in your apartment and nobody finds you for a while. i don't know why it's used as anti-kitty cat propaganda as if eating you means they don't love u. if i died and no one found me for a while i would want my kitty cat to eat me bc i love her so much and i don't want her to starve. it's not her fault i'm too dead to give her her fancy feasts. she's going thru something scary ok. i don't know a single cat owner who doesn't feel the same way