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This is Money Snake. She only appears every 312 years.
If you reblog her picture within the next twenty-five seconds you will have good luck and fortune for the rest of your life.
I reblogged her late last year and my 2024 has been very satisfying work-wise and (secure enough to not stress out) money-wise so far. Money Snake is wise and good.
“good Christian honk” sounds like a euphemism
you cant ever let yourself forget what it felt like to be 15. how adults treated you. being treated without a shred of respect because people think youre too young to have thoughts and feelings of your own. the lack of autonomy. you cant ever forget that because if you do you might become the kind of adult who treats kids like theyre not people
It's important to remember both how you were treated like a child in order to deny your autonomy and how you were treated like an adult when it was convenient for adults.
Crazy how I started learning Welsh before I even realized that my last name is both Polish and Welsh in origin. Like I began studying the language not even knowing that it's possibly an ancestral one. :0
That being said of all the fuckin languages my ancestors could have spoken, of course they had to be Polish, Czech, Scots Gaelic and Welsh. Sure makes connecting with them a lot harder. I'm like if Europe's most unpronounceable languages had a baby
Gonna need yall to stop putting Biden is Just As Bad propaganda on my dash. Had to unfollow someone because I don’t want to a start a fight with them over it, but I’m about to bite the next person who puts that shit in front of me.
If you don’t like Biden, vote in your god damn local and mid term elections for third party or further left candidates so that we get better democratic candidates for future elections. But this one is already fucking decided, and I’m NOT ending up under a Trump led dictatorship because yall value protecting your personal sense of moral purity over the collective good. Whether it offends your personal morals to vote for Biden is IRRELEVANT in the face of the alternative.
This isn’t a lesser of two evils situation. One guy sucks. The other guy is LITERALLY PLANNING TO OVERTHROW OUR DEMOCRACY AND INSTALL HIMSELF AS A PUTIN STYLE DICTATOR.
PLEASE look up Project 2025 and stop acting like abstaining is some kind of personal ethical decision!
REBLOGGING THIS BECAUSE IT FUCKING HAPPENED AGAIN.
You give me a single goddamn scenario where not voting does less harm then voting for Biden.
You give me a SINGLE goddamn scenario where Trump being elected does LESS harm than Biden.
You give me even the BAREST WHISPER of an ACTUAL, ACTIONABLE FUCKING ALTERNATIVE to just VOTING FOR HARM REDUCTION.
Jesus Christ. Even if you think Biden and Trump are 100% the same, which is a fucking asinine and ignorant goddamn position to take but sure, in that case voting, at absolute worst, makes no difference!
The ONLY reason to deliberately encourage people to NOT VOTE AT ALL is to SUPPORT TRUMP.
You are blindly spreading Actual Goddamn Propaganda for a man who is frothing at the mouth to become a christofascist dictator!!
CUT IT THE FUCK OUT.
I fucking knew it, I SAID it: they're making ADHD people the next culture war targets. They will 'just ask questions' until we lose every scrap of ground we've gained in the last decade and more. We may not quite inspire the same level of hatred as a sexual minority, but we can very easily be made to inspire disdain and that also works.
They will strip us of our accomodations and our medications and try to stifle any sense of shared identity, and if that kills some of us, oh well. So long as it fuels another outrage cycle, fine.
So many of the tropes they've been using on trans people work extremely well on ADHD people too! "There are too many of these people suddenly! It must be a fad! It spreads through friend groups! And online! People are going private for diagnoses and that's bad! They are using pOwERfUl medical interventions and we think it's freaky!"
I saw the first ripples of this in terf circles about two years ago. And of course it's spread.
6% of British ADHD people lost their jobs in the last year thanks to the meds shortage. SIX PER CENT! And that just made these ghouls go "ooh, tasty, what else can we do?"
Recently an 'expert' was on the BBC saying people see ADHD diagnosis as a "golden ticket." Laurence Fox has been ranting that the condition doesn't exist and threatening "'you won't poison my child's body [with ADHD meds] against my consent"
People need to be aware this is going to get worse. Maybe, if we're lucky, it won't get really bad. But it's going to get worse than it is now.
Make sure you get your meds EVERY time. Every SINGLE time you see yout perscriber
#y’all should see the wild shit people say in the lawschooladmissions subreddit#about the ~insanely high~ number of people that doctorshop to get an ADHD diagnosis just to get accommodations for extra time on the LSAT#to get a better score so they can get into a T14 law school#like…no#it’s just that more people are getting a late diagnosis after having trouble their whole lives#and learning more about it thanks to the internet#and that’s why it seems like more people need accommodations#are there people that scam the system?#sure#but it’s never nearly as many as you think#just look at how republicans talk about food stamps and ssdi#it’s basically the same concept
Okay so.
Republicans didn't start caring about the opiod epidemic?
Until their sweet Republican children and their poor Republican Voters?
STARTED DYING.
What you need to understand about this?
Is that if the Republicans are smart? (which they are not)
They would lean, very hard, into allowing ADHD drugs to flow freely.
Because ADHD affects Republicans too.
And there are going to be a lot of very angry, very rich Republicans with a lot of very unhinged ADHD children who need meds and accommodations in their offices VERY soon.
I also want yall to know that, as a therapist who works with ADHD clients?
WE AS CLINICIANS DO NOT AGREE on why there is a boom and if it is valid.
Seriously. I've talked to clinicians who think it's an over perscription.
I've talked to therapists who think it's people finally realizing what is happening to them.
I've talked to people who blame the DEA.
Like...this is...more than a single issue - it REALLY is
So I tell you, AGAIN, get your meds. EVERY SINGLE TIME.
Not to be dark and pragmatic, but the number one benefit of ADHD medication is being able to survive the soul-crushing Capitalism Machine. It literally translates to more workers that work harder. It makes the "laziness" they complain about disappear over night.
If they had something that did that to everyone, it would be in tap water.
Being a young adult is so strange. You enter a coffee shop. The 20 year old girl waiting behind you cried all night because she just came to a new city for university and she feels so alone. That 27 year old guy over there works a job he is overqualified for, he lives with his parents and wants to move out but doesn't know what to do about it. That one 24 year old dude already has a car, a house, and a job waiting for him once he graduates thanks to his dad's connections. The 26 year old barista couldn't complete his higher education because he has to work and take care of his family. The 28 year old girl sitting next to you has no friends to go out with so she is texting her mother. That couple (both 25 years old) are married and the girl is pregnant. The 29 year old writing something on her laptop has realized that she chose the wrong major so she is trying to start all over. We are not alone in this, but we are actually so alone. Do you feel me
More luck! Bring it on!
tomorrow
Always reblog NSYNC the day before May
Queueing this for next year
the true asylum is even worse than this, how did we all survive it
Jew here with a friendly reminder that:
Criticizing Isreal ≠ antisemetic
Supporting Palestine ≠ antisemitic
Believing in the Free Palestine cause ≠ antisemitic
BUT ALSO
A random ass Jew just living their life oceans away has nothing to do with the Isreal-Palestine conflict
Palestinian Jews exist
Jews that support Palestine exist (I am one of them)
Calling out ACTUAL antisemitism ≠ supporting Isreal
Felt that it’s important to share videos like this too.
it has been like at least eight years and sometimes I still think to myself, when I am tired, “but I am le tired… well then take a nap! AND THEN FIRE ZE MISSILES” even though in retrospect that is like one of the most embarrassingly unfunny videos to ever come out of the internet
tbh i still start sentences with “hokay, so” at least 3 times a day
same, aggressively so. I also still use “wtf, mate.”
#i have no idea what this is referring to#but i’m relieved to know i’m not the only one out there randomly quoting old internet videos#some shit is always hilarious to me (x)
OH MAN
LET ME LEARN YOU A THING
who doesn’t think this is STILL AS HILARIOUS as it was when we all watched it over and over and over again 15 years ago?
I’ve reblogged this before and will doubtless reblog this again because MY ENTIRE GROUP OF FRIENDS WAS SO OBSESSED WITH THIS VIDEO IN 2002/2003 THAT WE COLLECTIVELY BANNED ANY MENTION OF IT EVER AGAIN
AND YET
WE ARE NOW GROWN-ASS ADULTS IN OUR THIRTIES
AND IT STILL GETS QUOTED FROM TIME TO TIME
I HAVE THE WHOLE THING MEMORISED
TO THIS DAY, MY MOTHER REGULARLY SAYS “BUT I AM LE TIRED” BECAUSE OF A VIDEO I SHOWED HER IN FUCKING HIGH SCHOOL
THIS IS AN ICONIC PIECE OF INTERNET HISTORY AND I WILL FIGHT ANYONE WHO SAYS OTHERS
my wife and I still regularly say “hokay so”, “but I am le tired” and “and some big meteor’s like ‘well fuck that’.” Fucking iconic.
I HAVE NEVER SEEN THIS BEFORE AND I’M SO GRATEFUL FOR THIS POST BECAUSE I’VE SEEN IT NOW AND I CAN’T STOP FUCKING LAUGHING
God how has it been that long
Happy Anniversary to this twenty year old flash epic!
Firehouses literally don’t need the pole anymore because the reason they evolved into having the pole in the first place isn’t an issue anymore but they keep it because “fuck it if we’re going to a potentially life threatening situation might as well have some unrestrained workplace fun before we go”
What was the presumably not stripping-related reason they evolved into having the pole in the first place?
I’M GLAD YOU ASKED and were totally not prompted to
They changed to poles from spiral staircases! Presumably it was a little difficult, a little dizzying, and a lot cramped for grown men to run down a tight spiral staircase from the living quarters down to the equipment rooms/garages, so they took out the staircase, saw the hole in the floor/ceiling, and decided a pole would do just fine.
As to why they had a spiral staircase instead of a regular one? Well, turns out that regular staircases are super easy for horses to walk up and then you just had horses hanging out in your bunk. And they had horses because at some point, engines didn’t exist but fire brigades still had a wagon of stuff to take to a scene!
and horses are why Dalmatians are associated with firehouses, they were kept to keep to run ahead of the wagon and clear the way, and also guard the horses on site from thieves. Dalmatians and horses get along very well
“If anyone needs to go camping in my state…” “If anyone needs to visit their aunt/cousin/friend…”
STOP. STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP.
FOR YOUR SAFETY, S T O P.
DO NOT VOLUNTEER TO HOST RANDOM STRANGERS. DO NOT AGREE TO BE HOSTED BY A RANDOM STRANGER.
DO NOT PUBLICLY POST THAT YOUR HOUSE WILL BE AN ABORTION SAVE HAVEN. OFFICIAL NETWORKS TO DO THIS ALREADY EXIST, NETWORKS THAT HAVE THE ABILITY TO BACKGROUND CHECK, AND SHIELD THEIR VOLUNTEERS FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT
I know how obnoxious this is to say, but please: reblog this. I see these posts a lot, and I know most of you have good intentions. But these unoffical auntie networks are dangerous, both for those trying to help, and those seeking help. Law enforcement sees you. Violent anti-abortion extremists see you.
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Fic authors deserve more credit.
Story time: I started a book about 23 hours ago and just finished it. Also in that time I slept for 10 hours, spent time with family, was at work, etc. Anyway, I enjoyed the book (Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda). But it felt like it flew by, so after I finished I looked up the word count because what are pages? Pages are meaningless. I only function in word counts anymore.
The estimate I found was 58,580. My immediate reaction was “oh, that’s why. That’s nothing!” But what a shitty response. Because no. That’s not nothing. That’s a whole. Damn. Book. An entire novel! And Fic authors regularly bust out 30k, 50k, 100k, 150k words. AND THEY DO IT FOR FREE. WHILE WORKING AND LIVING THEIR LIVES.
So anyway, thank your favorite fic author today because they deserve it. Because they’re amazing. They’re the MVPs.
Some rough word count equivalencies for you, via famous novels, just to give you an idea of what OP is saying:
30k fic = Animal Farm by George Orwell
50k fic = The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
75k fic = Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
100k fic = To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
150k fic = The Two Towers by JRR Tolkien
200k fic = Moby Dick by Herman Melville
250k fic = Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling
300k fic = A Feast for Crows by George RR Martin
350k fic = Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
400k fic = Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
I WROTE SOMETHING AS LONG AS MOBY DICK AND I DIDN’T EVEN KNOW
I can’t believe I’ve surpassed Animal Farm.
Holy shit.
This is awesome. With that said, huge appreciation also to fic writers who write shorter fics - 10k, 5k, 1k, 500 words. Because yeah, huge long fics get a lot of love, and a lot of labour goes into them, but the same is true for tiny fics as well. Not everyone is banging out huge great novels, but little ficlets are fantastic and still bring readers a ton of joy.
So if you’re feeling a bit downcast because you can’t write that 50 chapter epic or your latest WIP is “only” 2k and it still took you ages - that’s amazing. Seriously. Not everyone is naturally wordy or prolific. And you can say a ton with just a few hundred or thousand words.
Props to short fic creators - you guys are awesome.
The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe = 38k fic
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory = 30k fic
Of Mice and Men = 30k fic
Breakfast At Tiffany’s = 24k fic
For those writers who discredit themselves because they feel they aren’t writing the novels that others might, you’re still writing a novella, my dears. You’re still putting time, effort, and passion into something. Well done.
(honestly shout out to all fuckin fic writers. You didn’t have to give us shit and still y'all out here living ya best life and doin something you love. Bravo.)
in conclusion: all you fic writers are amazing and deserve more love
The most amazing, disturbing, heartrending, worldview-shaking story I have ever read (There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury): three pages long. It can be read in fifteen minutes.
I can’t find a word count online. But DuckDuckGo tells me that in English, you get an average of 500 words per page.
So it’s about 1500 words, give or take. I cry every fucking time I read it, and I have read it many times.
Novels and novellas and fanfics of that length are great. But if you’re the shorter type—
—know that part of my heart stands forever on an empty hill in a fictitious city in California in the year 2026, crying for a fictitious child who never caught a ball, and it has been crying on that hill for over twenty years.
Your few words have more impact than you know.
