swiftly flowing dreams.

roses and ravens and stars in the sky, oceans and echoes and hearts that can't lie. river | she/they | an adult. sometimes still a fandom blog but honestly whatever these days.

[minotauri]

[louder than everyone] MAN I THINK IT DEPENDS!

[queer-as-city-folk]

Even in a post-capitalist, post-consumerist world, you still need to produce goods, as a result of this, you need factories because it is more effective to have a few people making a lot of clothes in a factory than every woman being forced to sit down and spin wool all day.

[queer-as-city-folk]

The issue with factories is poor wages, unsafe working conditions and environmental impact, all of which can be fixed through things like regulatory bodies and unions, the issue is not the fact that goods are no longer all made at home

[astra-the-dragon]

you can have a guild-owned, guild-run, sustainable and ethical small- to mid-size clothing factory. or laundromat. or kitchen. all of these once-domestic tasks can become industrialized without the capitalism and greed.

the factory isn't evil. it's a building full of machines and materials.

[cherrydanish]

a picture that’s worth a thousand words

[parkchanwoohoo]

[whitebear-ofthe-watertribe]

[makingtrouble]

It's my cat's birthday (anniversary of me getting him) so I told him the story of his life while petting him real good

Highlights include:

For your first two years (when you were small) you lived in a foster home with people who raised you into a very polite young man. Two is like you plus me, that's what two is.

Some people adopted you before me and they called you Timmy (which is a stupid name) and they returned your ass almost immediately because you were so annoying at that age.

Like think about how annoying you are right now at seven years old, but way worse.

I'm better than them though, I don't call you Timmy and I wore earplugs to bed for three years because you love to scream at bedtime. Earplugs are like when I roll over and go back to sleep even when you are yelling so so so loud.

I got you at a time in my life when I was really sick (being sick is like when I'm up late because I'm throwing up and you are a very handsome good boy who sits with me) and they had to put me asleep for a procedure. A procedure is like what happened to you when they put you asleep and took your balls away.

Now you've lived with me for five years. Five is like the number of toe beans on one of your feet. When I clip your nails five is when we're halfway done. But we're hopefully not even halfway done with how long we get to be together. I'm gonna have to figure out new ways to help you count.

[makingtrouble]

Actually I've decided this is a poem

[merinnan]

[gothiccharmschool]

Yes, this is my circus, those are my monkeys, and yes I deliberately gave them those flamethrowers.

[sapphicautistic]

I'm so fucking grateful I get to be a lesbian

[porcelain-rob0t]

the european mind cannot comprehend the 48 oz dunkin bucket

[derryderrydown]

Excuse me while I look something up...

1.4 litres????

[politenotice]

[interestingmistakes]

[cyber-newtype]

YOU MEAN FUCKING VISUAL KEI

[woolydemon]

I actually went ahead to look up "angelpunk" and found the promotion of the video on r/evangelion and the only 4 comments on it are from this single guy that ruthlessly rips into how poorly researched this video is in scathing, heavily worded criticism (I couldn't even fit it into a single screenshot and they definitely couldn't fit it into a single comment)

[teaboot]

[gaytanic-panic]

[egberts]

also part of growing up is realizing that the embarrassing music you liked in your early teen years still goes hard as hell

[vhen-harel]

[queerautism]

Hey so as the economy continues to get worse in the next few years, gambling companies are going to go extra hardcore predatory as people become more desperate. Yes, even more than they already are. You have to promise me right now you're not going to fall for it. No gambling, okay?

This is going to be especially bad with prediction markets and sports gambling, and it's already really fucking bad. But it also goes for loot boxes, blind box collectables, trading card games, and ESPECIALLY gacha games.

[english-mace]

yes labubus are gambling

[thissweetenamor]

[susanoos-wife]

Irises, by Ohara Koson, 1925-1936

[fleysh]

[bluesardine]

Some great additions from the comments.