I Strive To Underachieve (they/him)

Black AF Peeps are good y’all are just haters

[obiwon-shenobi]

No one prepared Lil ol 14 yr old me how significant Ranma 1/2 was gonna be. I still think on it till this day so fondly cuz yup. That’s it.

YOU GUYS A REMAKE HAS JUST HIT NETFLIX?!

[teaboot]

I just reada really good fic but halfway through I realized "oh shit this is really familiar.... didn't I write something like this once?" And as I kept reading I kept predicting what happened next and the further I went the more convinced I was that they'd ripped off my story-

like, copied the ENTIRE plot and re-written it, just better than I had? The characters were more fleshed-out than mine were, and the POV was more interesting, and the pace made more sense- but it was MY STORY?

So close to the end I was like "holy shit.. do I message them? Ask if my story inspired theirs? Should I be angry? Flattered?" Cause their tags and description didn't mention me AT ALL, which, sure, it's fanfiction to begin with, but if you're using my work than at least credit me as inspo, right? Just to be courteous?

But I get to the end of the final chapter, and it's not finished, and I'm kind of disappointed cause I never finished my story and I was really immersed in their version now and had been looking forwards to seeing how they tied up my loose ends- so I scroll to the bottom to leave a comment, and.

It's MY URL.

IT WAS MY STORY THE WHOLE TIME.

THE ONE *I WROTE*.

In *2013*.

And FORGOT ABOUT

BECAUSE I WAS SO INSECURE ABOUT MY SLOPPY, SHALLOW, AMETEUR WRITING

And I'm just sitting here now staring into space thinking about every shitty story I've ever written now like

IT WAS ALL GOOD?

IT WAS GOOD THIS WHOLE DAMN TIME??

I'M A GOOD WRITER?????

[seven-oh-four]

you didn't ONCE think to check the url?

[teaboot]

I WANTED TO FINISH READING IT FIRST

[theconcealedweapon]

Homes are expensive because of landlords hoarding them for profit, not because of regulations.

[gmbeowulf]

Time to bring back my favorite picture: The reason there have been so many food and consumer good recalls in the past few years. (If you got listeria from cold cuts? Direct result of Trump's actions!) Regulations exist to protect consumers from profit-hungry corporations.

[inhumaninterest]

Remember, there is no "lesson learned" from those regulations. They aren't safety procedures where now that people know putting lead in cinnamon is a bad thing that they won't do it even if you take the regulation away. The regulations were created because, when given a chance, these people leapt at the chance to destroy housing, poison food, and blight the planet.

Everytime a regulation like that is removed you should be concerned about who was being "held back" by a law preventing them from selling disease riddled meat.

[thatgirlonstage]

A salient example, since lead got brought up specifically—

A while ago it occurred to me to wonder how long we’ve known lead is poisonous, since it was so ubiquitous in paint and construction and so many other places until just a few decades ago, so I went on a wiki dive to see when the first alarm bells were sounded about the health hazards of lead.

Want to guess?

Ancient Rome.

People have known lead is poisonous since at least Ancient Rome.

It didn’t stop people using it.

Your safety regulations are written in blood, not by accident, not because people didn’t know there were dangers, but because without them, blood is cheap.

[headspace-hotel]

Lead was used as a pesticide in the early 20th century, so I reckon we knew it was poison

[bogleech]

Let's not forget that a chunk of workplace safety regulations are owed to the coal wars, when Appalachian miners had to wage an actual civil war against their bosses, police, military and hired goons just to get any rights at all on the job; their employers preferred to hire militias and kill people rather than agree to pay for better safety equipment and give people breaks.

Then there were the "radium girls" in the 1920s who worked at factories assembling products that used radium in order to glow in the dark. They were told to use their mouths to wet their brushes so the company could save more time and material. Their bodies began falling apart, literally, their tissues were dying and breaking off, and the retaliation they led - while any of them were still alive - resulted in a set of laws addressing workplace related illness, setting in motion waves of additional regulation and scrutiny we all still benefit from.

There's more events like these all through history, industries willing to kill people to save money, and all that ever ended any of it was the "government interference" hated so much by conservatives. Almost every single regulation they fight against or already destroyed was a response to a big business damaging human beings over as little as a few cents at a time.

Meanwhile, the rules and red tape conservatives enjoy and enforce are the kind that limit where homeless people can sleep or what food stamps can buy.

[fantabulisticity]

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire - Wikipedia

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, on Saturday, March 25, 1911, was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in U.S. history.[1] The fire caused the deaths of 146 garment workers – 123 women and girls and 23 men[2] – who died from the fire, smoke inhalation, falling, or jumping to their deaths. Most of the victims were recent Italian or Jewish immigrant women and girls aged 14 to 23;[3][4] of the victims whose ages are known, the oldest victim was 43-year-old Providenza Panno and the youngest were 14-year-olds Kate Leone and Rosaria "Sara" Maltese.[5]

...

Because the doors to the stairwells and exits were locked[1][8] – a common practice at the time to prevent workers from taking unauthorized breaks and to reduce theft[9] – many of the workers could not escape from the burning building and jumped from the high windows. There were no sprinklers in the building.[10] The fire led to legislation requiring improved factory safety standards and helped spur the growth of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU), which fought for better working conditions for sweatshop workers.

[bogleech]

THEY WERE LOCKED IN, UNABLE TO ESCAPE THE FIRE, IN ORDER TO "DISCOURAGE UNAUTHORIZED BREAKS AND REDUCE THEFTS."

Businesses like Amazon are doing absolutely everything they can within the law to "discourage" breaks and thefts, but the law says you can't fucking lock your workers in like prisoners. They currently would if they could, and they'd love those rules to disappear.

[guessed-starred-deactivated2025]

god. i didnt even know about that part

[slavetomyheadcanon]

REGULATIONS ARE WRITTEN IN BLOOD.

Not the blood of the shareholders or the executives, but the workers. Ordinary people just trying to make a living.

[official-lucifers-child]

every time i think, i take 10 damage

[biglawbear]

And every time we kiss I swear I could fly

[hellbabyfromhell]

umm awesome ad i just got wtf

[trans-girl-nausicaa]

[wellwaterhysteria]

i’m so fucking happy for you and your northern lights no i’m being serious congratulations man that’s awesome you really (clenching my fist so hard my bones creak) deserve it

[thedeathdeelers]

every time i get a new follower who isn’t a porn bot:

[writing-prompt-s]

Most immortals become the angsty “everyone I have ever loved is gone” kind of immortal. You, on the other hand, instead took it upon yourself to be a loving presence to entire generations of your chosen family, because they are descended from someone you once loved long ago.

[pocketseizure]

Light Dragon concept art

[pocketss]

freaky little scavenger

[pocketss]

was delighted to see people enjoying the scavenger's design :'D

[idiotdotdotdot]

[transarsonist]

disturbingly average customer service experience

[archivegeo-deactivated20260222]

got a major pest problem this year actually

[sangcore]

[obiwon-shenobi]

The funniest (laugh else you go crazy haha) thing about Azulon and The Phoenix King of Getting His Butt Whooped™️ is that… they just thought the avatar was dead?

Yall assumed by massacring ALL the airbenders “fixed” your avatar problem? Did it not dawn on them when they weren’t reborn that perhaps, just maybe, the fire nation FAILED its mission?

“But what if the cycle was broken—” you heard useless ass Roku, gotta be in the avatar state to kill Raava. Or as Korra demonstrated—Raava pulled from you.

At no point did it mention killing an infant baby or young child human as ways to break the cycle.

Bigotry makes you forget the avatar is an ever occurring phenomenon. Cuz why did they assume “no airbenders? No avatar!”

Yes ofc they took northern water tribespeople, but not for the expressed purpose of avatar farming.

N the earth kingdom??!! lol. Took em this long to get in, and earth avatar would have BEEN fucking their shit up depending on where they were raised (BSS? No. Omashu? Likely!)

They knew they could go after the air nation, no army, no military strategists, Kelsang the only air bender recorded up till now with the chops to save the air nation. An air avatar? Bet, like screaming mountain lions—a false sense of security washes over the fire nation. 100 years?! Yeah! We MURKED that ever-lasting-

I bet the fire lord was not expecting a 12 year old boy to lay waste to his empire off pure shenanigans and vibes alone.

Bigotry makes you forget the avatar is an ever occurring phenomenon. Cuz why did they assume “no airbenders? No avatar!”

If I were Zuko, like truly, the way I’d defect—like you got me out here searching for a DEAD person? 100 years n you want ME TO FIND HIM?! You must have lost your goddamn mind.

I mean look at Iroh, he treated that shit like a vacation 😂

Gahhhhhhhleeeeeeeee, searching for a 100 year old corpse?

Yeah war over, killed my own genocidal father with my own two hands. No, not for glory, cuz he told me earn my honor back via mythological creature. The abuse is crazy but you’re sending me on a wild goose—I hope you n Azulon are kekeing it down in hell, whew bitch. The mf avatar.

This was way longer than intended, but my black ass gotta lot of feelings about Zuko being tasked with finding a 100 year old man with an unconfirmed living status. 😭 woulda been my last straw.

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[viking-raider]

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