I– I...

30s. She/Her. I don't know what I'm doing.

[millidew]

an empty creature

[drememoto]

idk if i’ll finish this

[peanutsandbitterstep]

"We recently had our Yule celebration. This is often one of my favorite celebrations of the year with also some of my least favorite components. It is a working celebration for me. Just like the wait staff, I am on the clock. Unlike the wait staff, I am required to touch you if you ask. Primarily with a big bundle of thorny sticks while dressed as a Krampus monster. If you believe that you have been naughty enough, and that punishment is deserved, then you are allowed to get in line to be spanked by the krampus monster. Of course, some of you make this a simple routine, we catch up a little bit about your last year, we do the thwacking, and you’re on your merry way. This year, there were some of you who were super awkward, and I feel like we need to talk about it. If you enter the makeshift barn where I’m doing the thwacking, don’t play coy. Don’t be shy. We have a thing we need to do, and it needs to get done in a timely fashion. Don’t ask me if I think you’ve been Evil enough. I don’t know you. I don’t get information. Don’t hem and haw. Don’t hesitate. This is not mandatory. The line is long. You came to me. If you say, “wait, I don’t know,” then you have to leave. Don’t try to extract the thwacking from me by being annoying or bratty. You have to ask. We’re going to have to provide the people working the line with some better education."

-Kakos Industries Episode 176: Risen

[airc0nned]

[ruriihime]

#casually getting war-flashbacks to FMA:B ep 4

[dragontamer05]

[andstuffsketches]

Ralpunzel part 3: The Snuggly Duckling... Diner?

[mabelsguidetolife]

apparently shaq was using his sponsorship with sora to make pictures and videos of his imagined romantic life with marilyn monroe and the children they would have together……. and then posting it where the entire world, including his real actual children, can see it 🫠🫠🫠

[mabelsguidetolife]

no bc how else are you supposed to react when your dad is proudly presenting a clip of himself and a dead celebrity, frozen in time, creating an ostensibly perfect nuclear family on valentine’s day…… and tagging papa john’s in it……..

[bakedbananners]

krystem part 3

[destiel-news-channel]

[Image ID: The Destiel confession meme edited so that Dean answers 'JK Rowling posted upskirt photos of a woman on Twitter' to Cas 'I love you'. /End ID]

No one doing this should be allowed to call themselves a feminist.

JK Rowling deadnamed and posted 'upskirt' photo of trans woman on X

The wealthy author escalated a social media spat that resulted in posting a photo from a 2023 event at the Institute of Economic Affairs in

[solarishashernoseinabook]

Let's not beat around the bush: Children's author JK Rowling sexually harassed someone. In some jurisdictions, this would count as sexual abuse. JK Rowling has committed a sex crime against a woman and fell back on the old rape apologist standby of "she was asking for it".

I hope your nostalgia is worth it

[femalegothic]

men just love to run their fucking mouth about what women do or do not want without even once considering consulting any actual women on the matter

How Women’s Sports Uniforms Became So Controversial, Long Before The Paris Olympics

Nike’s viral track kit is just one part of the story.

Faced with restrictive and uncomfortable uniforms, these women athletes fought to change their gear

(cnn) — When Olympian Tess Howard put on her new uniform for Great Britain’s women’s field hockey team in 2021, she

Women’s beach handball team fined for choosing shorts over bikini bottoms | CNN

The Norwegian women’s beach handball team has been fined after players opted to wear shorts instead of bikini bottoms during a European cham

Top female athletes speak out amid Olympics, defy convention through their uniforms

Female athletes are breaking with their sports' apparel conventions -- if not regulations -- to prioritize their comfort during competitions

Women’s Uniforms: judgement of women clutters sports front

Sports Commentary Historically, women in sports have not garnered the same respect as men, though they perform the same tasks and play the s

An Olympic medalist who refused to compete in bikini bottoms says skimpy outfits are putting women off athletics

Pole vaulter Holly Bradshaw refused to wear the customary bikini bottoms and crop tops favored by the majority of female athletes.

Underlying Injustices: Female Athlete Uniforms

According to Women in Sport, 78 percent of girls avoid participating in sports while on their period. 78 percent.  CEO of Women in Sport, St

[luna-azzurra]

Real thing that changed how i write: I started asking "what does this character think is wrong with them" and separately "what is actually wrong with them." Those two things are almost never the same. She thinks she's too much. She's actually terrified of being too little. He thinks he's bad at commitment. He's actually just never met someone he trusted enough. The gap between their diagnosis of themselves and the real thing, that's your character arc right there. you don't have to explain it. just write both.

[mapswithoutwyoming]

It’s the want vs need of it all.

[belleyells]

Sonic and Blaze are such interesting foils.

Blaze starts off as someone who doesn’t have to do it alone but chooses to do so, pushing everyone away to take a lonesome path. She takes it clawing and biting and forcefully.

Sonic is someone who started things alone because he had to do it alone at first — he didn’t know anyone. Then as soon as people want to get to know him and join him, he lets them! He goes from a one man band to part of a group bc he lets people in with open arms.

Blaze was born with responsibility. Not the trait, but the task. She’s responsible for an entire kingdom’s wellbeing. She didn’t choose this path, but she wholeheartedly embraces it. (And when she learns of more dimensions, she takes up the responsibility to help them too.)

Sonic was born with no responsibility. He was an ordinary guy. But when he saw wrongdoing, he decided someone’s gotta step up and hey he’s here so it might as well be him! Whether it’s for a flicky, or an island, or the whole world — Sonic just continuously picks up the responsibility to protect and helps others. He wasn’t born with it. He chose it, and he’ll keep choosing it.

Blaze is royalty, the crown princess of a kingdom. She is one of their most important figures.

Sonic is quite literally just a dude. He’s an ordinary citizen, with no status or wealth.

Blaze is afraid of heights, and Sonic free falls off of planes with whoops and laughter.

It doesn’t matter if you view Blaze and Sonic platonically, romantically, antagonistically, or some other thing. They’re so interesting when you put them side by side.

[tboy-trash]

straight men enduring 24/7 sexual assault each other in order to not be labeled faggots is honestly the best example of how masculinity operates. the other day before work a coworker fr shoved a finger in another coworker's ass (above pants) as one of their little "ha ha you're gay" jokes. fuck is wrong with them. equal parts disgusted and fascinated by their behaviour.

[tboy-trash]

of course these people are fucked up and unable to hold healthy relationships grounded in mutual respect! they're constantly assaulting and being assaulted by their friends just to Not Be Gay/Like A Girl!!!

[tboy-trash]

the biggest reason men refuse to recognize a lot of what they do to women as sexual harassment/assault is bc of their misogyny and wanting to maintain our power over women, 100%. BUT can i just point out that maybe a smaller but not-insignificant reason might also be that they can't even recognize sexual assault when other men do it to them???? i didn't tell that coworker bc he's an asshole, but i have had to tell other guys at work "hey what they're doing to you is terrible and you shouldn't have to put up with it you know" which most of them hadn't ever been told before because """""roughhousing""""" is part of that "boys will be boys" thing that makes everyone ignore our abuse

[tboy-trash]

"boys will be boys" okay well maybe boys should be shot

[molabuddy]

really specific trope i like that i feel like can only be explained in a diagram

[desmolbean404]

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[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I love youtube off-grid/homesteading videos because they're always like "living the simple life" and then depict a life ten times more complicated than mine

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Like I'm sure it's way more rewarding to grow and can your own tomatoes and they're probably healthier or whatever but is it simpler than me giving Coles one dollar to bring a much more safely canned can of tomatoes to my house? No. No it is not.

[spark1eheartemoji]

growing your own tomatoes is a fuck load more simple than having a job and keeping a job plus paying all the fees of living in society.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Most homesteaders still need to have a job and keep a job and pay all the fees of living in a society. There seem to be a lucky handful who have reduced their costs by homesteading (usually due to the free labour of friends and family) but there were easier ways to reduce those cost. In the vast majority of cases, homesteading is a lot more expensive than not homesteading. And where people are saving money, the amount of labour per dollar works out to well below minimum wage in savings.

From what I've seen, successful homesteaders do it because they find it rewarding. Rewarding does NOT mean simple.

[rosstmcd]

I can't speak to Australia, but at least in the US there is another group of homesteaders who are trying to live self-sufficiently off-grid because they expect the imminent total collapse of civilization, and they have fantasies of themselves living happily on home-grown produce while everyone else is killing each other for the last can of tomatoes at the store.

[alex51324]

Another thing about this subset of homesteaders* is that they are insistent--proud, even!--of doing things that are unsafe, and encouraging others to also do those things.

One example is canning dairy products (milk, butter, cheese). They'll show up in a canning group and say something like, "Look how I canned all this milk that the store was getting rid of this milk for 50 cents a gallon because it's the last day!"

Sane and responsible members of the group will say things like, "Dairy isn't safe for home canning; if you have fresh milk that you need to save for later, you can freeze it or make cheese!" And, "If you need shelf-stable milk you can buy powdered milk," or "You can dehydrate it at home, but you need a really good dehydrator, plenty of trays, and it takes forever; you're usually better off just buying it."

And then the person who just canned 20 quarts of botulism will start frothing at the mouth about how when the shit hits the fan--

And yeah, I'll grant that if grocery stores cease to exist, and you are entirely reliant for your winter survival on what you can put up during times of plenty, the risk-benefit analysis would be different. But in the actual world that we currently live in, it's false economy at best, and at worst a stupid flex that could end up killing somebody.

Anyway, TL;DR, "simple" often refers to an imagined past when the problems of modernity did not exist--yet somehow, the problems of that era have been left behind--which in turn is often a racist dogwhistle.

(*Besides their substantial overlap with weapons stockpilers/"militia" types.)

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

The Can/Dehydrate Absolutely Everything people baffle me. Most homesteaders (sensibly) have personal solar panels, because they want to live off-grid and still have electricity. When Shit Hits The Fan, their solar panels will not stop working. Their freezers would work fine. Canning or dehydrating or salting is great for certain foods (especially if you want to ferment, pickle or flavour something) but for so much stuff the best thing you can do to preserve nutrients and preserve it safely is chuck it in the freezer.

Freezers just aren't homesteady enough I guess.

[reikiajakoiranruohoja]

The simplest, but also the most immature, answer is that solar panels are 'cheating.' These people base their doomsday images on Fallout and zombie apocalypse movies. But not even on them but this lone wolf stereotype of a stereotype. If you can just create electricity from the sun, then it means you can bypass the gritty survival of eating canned goods and just live like you used to. And that kills the fantasy.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I haven't seen that kind, all the ones I've seen get solar panels as soon as they can afford them because living off generator power is expensive and sucks (and, unlike solar panels, would not serve you well in an apocalypse because you need to keep buying petrol for them). I don't think I've ever seen these anti-solar-panel homesteaders that you deal with. Variety in every community I suppose.

[ineffectualdemon]

Whenever I hear homesteaders and trad wife people talk about how much better it is to do your own canning I remember my grandmother telling me about the canning days from her childhood and how she would help her grandmother can fresh fruit (we lived in orchard country) in a hot canning shed built for that purpose for days at a time in the middle of summer

Specifically about how it was hell on fucking earth and how her grandmother fucking hated every single second of it

The moment her grandmother could buy canned fruit easily in the supermarket? Never fucking canned a thing herself again and was so relieved and grateful that she would never have to again

Canning as a hobby in your kitchen? I can see that being fun

Canning because you have a fuck ton of fresh fruit coming off of your trees and if you don't can it all NOW you won't have any fruit for winter and it's all you do from sun up to sun down in the middle of summer?

That isn't a cute fun rewarding time. It's hard fucking labour

[experiment41]

we are NOT bringing 4chan incel terminology to this site, take that "foid" out of your post and go wash your blog out with soap

[cognitohazardous]

the memeification of fascism is a proven method of perpetuating and instilling it in other people. Layers of irony will not protect you once you adopt racist, sexist, ableist, transphobic terminology into your lexicon. you'll be acknowledging and nursing the mindsets and connotations borne of those words.

[sylvanus-cypher]

A very astute observation by prev which should not be relegated to the tags