the game is...something

[mysharona1987]

[lynati]

If the trash pickup people stop doing their job for two weeks you'd be throwing a fucking tantrum. Same for the janitors who keep your office spaces and bathrooms clean. (And that's before the various illnesses start to spread all over your city from the build up of pathogens.)

The people responsible keeping our spaces clean (and thus, mostly disease-free) should both be paid more AND thanked more.

[bogleech]

Garbage service is one of the ten deadliest jobs in the United States.

And police work isn't even on that list.

[goth-queen]

[sawthatmountainburn]

i love how sinners was basically like “the cunnilingus was there. it didnt change anything. it didnt save anyone. there were just too many forces against it. but it still matters that the cunnilingus was there”

[larpingasapoet]

Anything can be an essay

an essay documenting my evolution of thinking

I think anything can be an essay if you really tried. An essay, in my humble opinion, is a writing dedicated to some topic, long enough to make a point or answer a meaningful question. An essay is a documentation of the process of thinking, and the reader evolves with the essay. Often when writing an essay we come in with one or a few thoughts, and need to put them together. Rarely does one ever have a full essay ready as they sit down to write. The essay evolves as the writer evolves. In every step of an essay, you are discovering your thoughts and feelings and opinions about this topic. Do you like this topic? Do you hate it? And then you discover the why, or the how. A documentation of thinking. For many, the inner monologue is a difficult thing to describe to others, and the essay is a way to put an inner monologue into writing. And then you ask others, hello! Read this essay that documents my thoughts! It is a form of human connection.

I think that formatted essays in school perhaps made the idea of essays not fun or engaging. The pressure of doing things for a grade makes it hard to associate it with joy or pleasure. For me at least, one of the things that took pleasure out of an essay was not being able to say "I think" or "I feel." I cannot quote myself. I cannot write an essay about myself. The first time I had to write an essay about myself since perhaps elementary school was in my examination to determine if I should skip my junior year of high school and graduate early. It took me by surprise, as I had been writing mla format argumentative essays since maybe sixth grade. I struggled a lot, because I wasn't used to ever having to write about myself without a source point. Since then, I have had to encounter the college and internship and scholarship essay nightmare: the personal statement.

I am definitely a person who loves to talk about myself. I definitely have a lot of I,I,I,me,me,me talking points, but I feel that I often don't actually reflect on my substance. Why do I do the things that I do? What challenges have I faced and how did I overcome them? How have those things affected how I think and act? I think these are all important questions that we often do not ask ourselves. Because we don't think about them, we often don't know the answer. Who are you? The personal statement forces you to answer these things, but under a time crunch and the pressure of someone judging whether your story is good enough or not. You can make personal statements in your own time. Answer these important questions for yourself, and often people do, usually those suburban moms who buy self-help journal prompts from Marshall's. I would argue that many of those journals are essays. Find the main point and slap a cohesive title on it and you've got a solid personal statement.

If I really wanted to make this a good essay, I would add some quotes. Maybe I'll come back in the future and rewrite this, with quotes and good research. I think we should all start rewriting our old essay prompts, and comparing how much our thinking has evolved. I need to start writing more essays. Start documenting your thoughts more.

If I was a really good writer I would have a good ending, but I'm not really there yet. I have never known how to end personal statements.

Bye I love you

[mysticalcoffeequeen]

When you thought it would be easy peasy lemon squeezy but it turns out to be difficult difficult lemon difficult.

[switchnx]

Wait that’s actually really good, gonna pop this out of the tags

[itsreallystupid]

[teaboot]

[strawberrycatcrowbar]

[thinfatfit]

My ethics professor once told our class that society justifies hating fat people by saying they overburden the healthcare system but no one uses that excuse to hate high level athletes who also disproportionately use the healthcare system

[parentheticalaside]

They don’t even need to be high-level. Active people who are just regular folks are some of the most expensive people for health care systems. When I lived in Boulder, a professor pointed out that the city had some of the highest orthopedic costs in the country, just from the bicyclists, runners and joggers, hikers, mountain climbers and others breaking bones during recreational pursuits.

[fred-the-dinosaur]

not to mention it is impossible to overburden a health system, given that its entire purpose is to provide care proportionately to those who need it. From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs. More health issues, more healthcare.

The only way to overburden a health system is to provide poor or restricted enough healthcare that it causes more health problems due to neglect and malpractice. Doctors neglecting fat people into health crises creates far more of a burden on health services than fat people existing does.

[giant-runt-winter]

No better feeling in the world than when your pet comes to hang out with you 💙

[thehotgirlproject]

Moved to tears by the size of the lass

[maybethings]

*slaps back of pidge* this good bird can fit so much cooing in it

[naamahdarling]

Put sound on the cooing is delightful and the SPAP sound of thumping this giant bird is incredible.

[depsidase]

[shut-up-gwen]

Ilya: this guy is cute, I should start a stationary bike race so he knows I want to get sweaty together

Ilya: that didn’t quite work. Maybe I should just give him the eye? While I tell him I hope he likes his new city?

Ilya: okay. But surely if I make him drink from my water bottle and brush his fingers when passing it over…?

Ilya: call him pretty. To his face. No way he can miss that

Ilya: desperate measures, I’ll have to tell him I orchestrated this whole ad campaign just so I could see him again

Ilya: WHAT IF I STARTED JERKING OFF IN THESE COMUNAL SHOWERS?

[livingasaghost]

genuinely i do think it's crazy how this show hit every single mark for no reason other than pure love of the game. like this wasn't a money grab and it didn't think it would be a big success, jacob just read a book he enjoyed and thought huh i think that would be a cool thing to make into a tv show. and then he brought on hudson and connor and they're fresh and passionate and not bogged down by the industry yet and they instantly became best friends and wanted to just have fun bringing these characters to life. and they didn't have a huge budget but they did the most with what they had and everybody took the show seriously and everybody took the book seriously. the cinematographer worked his magic. the music supervisor managed to snag a well-known queer hit and an up and coming new release and old school gems that have been around since the 2000s. it's canadian to the core, built from the ground up. it takes russians and the russian language seriously. it uses sex in such a specific, meaningful way that almost no other show has done thus far, and especially not in a queer context like this. they interlaced every episode with callbacks and parallelism and self-references. they didn't take themselves too seriously. they took everything so seriously. there is love and care baked into the core of this show and it's deeply queer and it doesn't shy away from the horrors of toxic masculinity and hockey culture but it is also, always, a story of joy and love and happiness. and on top of everything, it's almost word for word, the original source material from the book.

like damn it's no wonder this thing has made us all insufferable and become a huge fucking success! so few productions in hollywood are doing it like this!!!

[heymacy]

HEATED RIVALRY SEASON ONE + hall of fame text posts

[sheisraging]

i'm not crying, you're crying.

[hrgifs]

ilya 'needy top' rozanov

[lumi-of-the-universe]

Love how Martha cleans the church and the rectory, sews the testaments, files the paperwork, and even feeds Jefferson Wick.

That Vera took over handling his legal matters, and then (unknowingly) raised his son even as people spread rumors about it.

How Simone’s donated money is “his” church’s main source of funding.

Even Grace provides the bedrock myth his distorted church stood on.

But Jefferson Wick is so incredibly misogynistic he doesn’t even have a statue of the Mother Mary.

[agentmilayawithshield]

"Wake Up Dead Man", and the thankless labor of women

One of the things that stayed with me the most, was reflecting on traditional gender roles in the Our Lady of Perpetual Fortitude congregation and how it relates to religion in general.

Vera halts her life to raise a child she has no moral obligations towards. Simone is the church's biggest donor, keeping it operable basically by herself. Martha is the only employee handling administrative work in the church, keeping the treasure a secret her whole life. They are all endlessly devoted. They are all meant to be contrasts of Grace, the real "women of God," and in the end, it's thankless labor from all of them.

Vera's adopted brother is a selfish jackass who appreciates nothing about what she did for him. He saw her as just a free nanny to be "dumped" once his real father showed up.

Simone is being prayed on at her weakest and used as a cash cow, only to be told she can't be healed because she's a faithless woman.

And Martha only realises at the tail end of her life that her selfless devotion to a man and his teachings meant nothing to him. That he betrayed her the first chance he gets.

Wicks sees himself as blameless, has no standard for his own behavior. He's a disgusting, horrible man, who deserves none of their devotion.

When Vera and Martha realize that their whole life they trusted the story of the "harlot whore", only to experience the exact same treatment even after doing everything in their power not to be like her, that's the first time they can reflect on her, and when they finally realize:

"That poor girl."

[galvanickeychain]

Thank you for breaking down your analysis like this. I didn't know how to put it so clearly.

[serendipitous-posts]

oh, Wake Up Dead Man the messages you carry. "Religion is used to radicalize spread hate by preying on the vulnerable" and "religion can be used to uplift others by giving them a community and offering them acceptance and a second chance if they're willing to take it." and "it doesn't matter if your belief is no belief you should still love others" and "those puritanical women you see where raised in an environment where they were told to hate others and that they had to follow and serve a man for their entire lives"

[violentoffender]