Paradox Myth

This is a personal blog. You'll see a lot of Kingdom Hearts, Steven Universe, Star Wars, Pokemon, and whatever else catches my fancy. She/They/He. Queer as in fuck you.

[dankmemeuniversity]

[elbdot]

Only in Legends Arceus can you have a 10 feet tall Garchomp scold the mighty Dialga you just caught for being a big bully 😤💖

[queerautism]

I didn't feel it was appropriate for me to add to that last post but it's related so - Please, for the love of God, learn to manage your own emotional responses to media on your own.

Maybe it's because I started reading horror at a young age, but I learned pretty quickly that if a book is too heavy or graphic or whatever for you, it's alright to recognise those feelings, and either stop reading it entirely, or take a break. Do something that helps you calm down. Re-engage with comfort media. Give your pets a lil kiss.

It's not a moral failing on the author for a book to upset you. It's not a moral failing for you to be upset. It's just a fact of life we all have to learn to cope with.

[madfishmonger]

If you don’t know how to handle discomfort in a book you’re not going to enjoy Life™.

Maybe this sounds dismissive to you but stop for a moment and think about it. If you’re losing your mind at a minor inconvenience, a serious incident will destroy you. I had to learn to triage my emotions by severity, and it made my anxiety far more manageable and given the pile of shit life has handed me lately and I’m still here it seems to have worked.

[rederiswrites]

I don't know yet how to clearly express this but this is something I think about from a different angle: young children. Who, obviously, become adults, so it's still directly related.

So many parents I've encountered, when discussing what media they show their children, have this standard: if it upsets the child, they weren't ready for it. Ah, they cried watching the Lion King, so I should have waited until they were older. It's SO STRANGE to me and I'm at a loss to know when we got like this. You are supposed to cry watching the Lion King. I do.

One Crazy Summer is supposed to upset you and challenge you, shock you and make you angry. When we were reading it, and the kids needed extra time to process something, we'd just pause and either discuss it or just wait until we could all collect ourselves again, and then continue. My son struggled with the subject of anti-black racism for weeks afterwards. I took that as a sign that he HAD been old enough to grapple with the themes of the book, and connected well.

I think the cultural tendency to shield children from any painful emotion a piece of media might create leads pretty obviously and directly to the stuff discussed above. The ability to process, discuss, and analyze media, or just to sit with your pain and then collect yourself and move past it, is a skill and must be practiced.

[redredredacted]

she’s fuckin SLEPPY

[horreurscopes]

[lovecore]

[cipheramnesia]

I like when they have the little whisker freckles.

[hellofromtheshadowrealm]

ICONIC

[professor-doc-emeritus]

I worry that the omnipresence of ygotas and just ygo shitposting in general will mislead some less informed viewers into believing this is a little fan joke/edit. He actually said this. This is canon dialogue for kaiba that Eric Stuart was paid money to perform.

[legsdemandias]

no one writes love stories better than aromantics send 

[careful-knives]

The amount of care and detail aroaces put into writing steamy romances is unreal.

[legsdemandias]

The thing is we can’t rely on “love at first sight” or “it just is” logic because we don’t have that button, so instead we build relationships up and up and up, realistically, the only way we could imagine love happening 

[holybikinisbatman]

us 👏 aro 👏 aces 👏 make 👏 it 👏 happen 👏

[sailsofsalt]

Aroaces writing romance:

[mikkeneko]

listen asexuals have written some of THE kinkiest hot shit and i can testify that that is because they do not find the mechanics of sex interesting in and of itself, so they look at the scene and say “how can I make this spicy”

[crazy-pages]

Same reason queer romance stories are so often better than straight ones. When the standard literary shortcuts don’t work all that’s left is to knuckle down and actually put in the work.

[evilbuildingsblog]

Taipei 101 is THE MOST EVIL building on the planet

[the-smiling-pony]

Look at this fucking Judge Dredd-level shit, god damn.

[thebuttkingpost-deactivated2021]

This is where the final boss is

[kushblazer666]

it has a gigantic counterweight towards the top to reduce swaying, which is kind of necessary for any very tall building, but its out in public view and painted gold and you can see it like, swinging around

[retroactivebakeries]

#this whips ass youre all just weak

[fall-out-girlboy]

Is it brilliant architecture? Yes. Is it glaringly obvious that this is a supervillain aesthetic? Also yes.

[adoxographist]

Maybe if someone posted a photo of this building not covered in dark fog and shot from an ominous angle, you would see that actually she is very friendly and beautiful.

You could certainly make all buildings look evil given that angle and lighting. Observe this, brother.

[acitywithoutwalls]

All you are proving is that all tall buildings are evil, which we already knew

[sayaberry]

yas meguca slay! 💅✨

[jack-atlass]

[black-lodge-gatekeeper]

Bestie English - best friend Bestie Czech - beast, brute, monster

[bnq]

synonyms

[lindstromm]

Okay, USA followers, you know how we all hate bank fees? I mean, you overdraw your account by $1.23 and you get charged $25.00? That's evil.

As of Jan 26, 2022, the Biden Administration CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) is bringing the hammer down on junk fees. This is more than just bank fees - this is going after the junk fees on things like prepaid cards, loans, bank transfers, credit card late fees, even closing costs on a mortgage.

The CFPB needs public comments, like the opinions of real people who are affected by these fees, to build a case about telling financial organizations that THEY CAN'T CHARGE THEM ANYMORE.

The CFPB says it’s particularly interested in hearing from older and lower-income consumers, students, service members and people of color.

There's some good detail about the comments in this investopedia article. The easiest way to comment is to send an email to [email protected]. Include Docket No. CFPB-2022-0003 in the subject line of the message.

Note that these are public comments. They will be published online through the CFPB website. Don't include account numbers, social security numbers, or full names. Tell a story - tell about the time you overdrew your account by $1.23 and the bank took $35. Tell about how you signed up for a credit card and the company charged you a bunch of fees you didn't even know about. Tell about how you transferred money from your savings account to a checking account and the bank charged you $2.50.

These junk fees are a slap in the face of ordinary people who can't refuse to pay, and the CFBP is taking aim at the banks that charge them. To read what CFPB director Rohit Chopra had to say about this call to action, click here.

You have until March 31, 2022 to submit comments.

[astraldemise]

just found out that stoats hunt twice the size of them like rabbits by aggressively and eccentrically dancing around it with their little slinky rigatoni bodies so it can confuse the absolute fuck out of its prey until it can get close enough to jump on its back like some shadow of the colossus shit and take it down

[astraldemise]

oh my god its called the weasel war dance and they just go off the shits apeshit little animals

[theweight]

it’s caramelising absolute onion

[cherryholley]

it's caramelising absolute dansen

[lenbian-moved-deactivated202601]

you’re telling me a gay coded this

[thepariahcontinuum]

Yes and his name was Alan Turing

[justintaco]

[justintaco]

[hearty-an0n]

reblog this to put a valentines card on the person you reblogged this from desk

[huffylemon]

[sigynpenniman]

“Sunset over the Grocery Box,” by me. The view from my father’s front yard in January 2014.