#sophie rambles

[ohthewhomanity]

Here’s the thing though I don’t think we need an upper age limit on holding public office. What we need are term limits - firm term limits, for every office, across the board. Once you’ve held power for X amount of years, you can’t have that office anymore, ever.

Elderly people are not our enemy. Elderly people deserve the same chance to be represented among our leaders as any other adult or any other minority. What’s gone wrong here is that career politicians care more about keeping power than about doing their job. Everything is about rallying your base to vote for you in the next election, not about doing your part to make the country function.

If you know that you only have X amount of time to do your job, you do your job. And that means that we, the voters, get to choose the person who is right for this moment, not the person who has always been there. That’s democracy.

[soapymarvelcomics]

I’m just saying… y’all love yourselves some Kurt Wagner. 😂 Not like that’s a bad thing, but I got a lot of requests for him. I got some Kurt super fans up in this joint! 🤣

[fairchilds-glasses]

Gizmo

TW: Pet loss (just so you know what you’re getting into)

So this is a post I’ve been trying to avoid making but I’ll get it over and done with now.

As a few of you are aware the beginning of last month was extremely hard for me.

Basically on July 5th at about 12:30am I was doing my usual routine of feeding my pets but when I got to Gizmo something seemed a little off with the way he was walking, he ate as normal but as a precaution I picked him up to check on him, turns out he had a cloacal prolapse (Google that if you wanna know what that is) so I looked it up and it said that classed as an emergency so I rushed him to the nearest emergency exotic vet.

Now according to Google this was an easy fix, short vet visit, maybe leave him there for a few hours, ya know? Average stuff. Unfortunately that wasn’t the case, turns out that Gizmo had an aggressive colon cancer tumour which was causing the prolapse, according to the vet he was hiding his pain for my sake. They mentioned they could try surgery to see if they could remove the tumour but “weren’t hopeful” and they didn’t think that he’d recover even if they were able to remove the tumour.

So I had to make the hardest decision I’ve ever made.

Gizmo was euthanised at roughly 5:30am because as much as it hurt me that was the best thing for him. I usually handle death quite well but since I wasn’t prepared for this one it hit me hard. The next day we buried him in a mug box that had the words “Lord Twat of Knobbington Manor” on it, which I thought was perfect considering how often I’d affectionately call him a twat.

Now something awkward about the timing, literally a week before all of this went down I bought a female leopard gecko from a breeder which I intended to breed with Gizmo and I gave her a name to match his. (Gadget. Gizmo and Gadget). And the breeder was going to send her to me in mid July. I did consider telling the breeder I could no longer take her but things felt way too empty with an empty enclosure in my room. So she’s here and honestly she’s really helped, so have my other pets. I’ll make a post introducing her soon but I had to get this one done first.

I’d just like to thank @sigyn-foxyposts for offering to help me pay for Gizmo’s surgery if I’d gone through with it, that was really sweet of you and I’ll be forever grateful that you offered to do that.

Below I’ve attached a few videos and pictures of Gizmo for you guys to see. Thank you all for reading ❤️ Cancer sucks.

[joelsgoldrush]

hi i’d like to discuss my WIPs with you real quick if you don’t mind my rambling

SOOO i have 2 ideas in mind at the moment:

1) dbf!joel. the good ol’ trope, and my personal favorite. would fucking him in your dad’s old bedroom be too much? idk. perhaps.

2) this one is inspired in “eternal sunshine of the spotless mind.” i can’t get over this idea of going back to that person you love OVER AND OVER AGAIN despite having your memory erased. i sort of picture X1!logan for this one, but it’d be angsty. like a never ending cycle.

is this over sharing? maybe. i’ve just been feeling so discouraged to write lately that whenever i get an idea i want to squeeze the creative juice out of my brain ❤️

anyway, that’s it. let’s keep booping each other. i still can’t distinguish a normal boop from an evil or super one. i just boop. to be loved is to be booped.

[beaconfeels]

My very sick self to my sister: So I realized yesterday that there truly is nothing anyone can do for me when I’m really sick because I realized I don’t even have a go-to fantasy about it. Like, there’s nothing money could buy if I don’t need to go to the doctor, or like something a sexy lover could fix so…

My sister: lol

Me after a pause: except like maybe if I could have a werewolf or some other mythical creature who doesn’t get sick as a partner? Then they could like stroke my hair or whatever and I wouldn’t have to worry about making them sick.

My sister: ???

Me: and like, the werewolves in Teen Wolf can drain pain? so I did think that it would’ve been really nice to have one to do that yesterday when my throat hurt so bad.

My sister: … guess I need to hunt down a werewolf for you

[morticiasplayground]

guys…what if jupiter makes a basketball player!abby audio

[sophielovesbooks]

Oopsie, I was Little Miss Moneyspendy today...

Had my phone's cracked screen repaired for an outrageous sum and bought a 100 quid fancy kettle with temperature settings.

[inessencedevided]

Hey there (an update)

So in my last post I called my recent absence from tumblr an "unofficial hiatus" and it honestly made me realise for the first time that I'd just kinda up and vanished a few ... months ago (i think? At this point?) And I owe whoever cares enough to have noticed an explanation

So for a time now, I haven't been feeling well. Sometime during the hight of the pandemic, things started going downhill with my mental health. It was pretty gradual and slow and not exactly linear so for a time i found it easy to ignore. Sure, the bad days outnumbered the good but i was still functional, i did my work and all that and i even found some joy in fandom spaces, so it couldn’t have been that bad right?

Wrong. I'll spare you the details but around march/april of this year the "functioning" bit and the "found some joy" bit ceased being true and i was in a depressive episode for some weeks during which my biggest achievement was just making it through to the other side

Things got better. I found a therapist (turns out I've got depression triggered by burn out), I got the deadlines on my univeristy papers extended, i tried to take breaks (that's fucking hard), i tried changing my habits and to give myself time (that's harder), i went on a solo trip to ireland (about a month ago. worth every penny and so needed).

It was honestly an unconscious decision, but I think I also needed to take a break from tumblr and online fandom in general. For a while, I could not feel joy at the things that used to be my bright spots on dark days. interacting with them and not feeling that just reminded me of how empty I felt in general. It made me feel afraid that I'd lost something vital to myself and so I avoided fandom altogether

Again, it wasn't a conscious decision but still, I now regret that I didn't at least write this message way earlier to tell the people I've met over this website that I'd be gone for a while. I've met so many great people here and sometimes even worked with them on fandom projects and I'm very sorry I abandoned those friendships for a while (if you think this might be directed at you, it is!)

Going forward, I will still be less active than I used to be. I'm still recovering and I've noticed that offline activities (mostly just taking long-ass walks and sewing) are more conductive to my mental health than online stuff, especially because I'm working on my degree again and that already means I've got a lot of screentime each day. But I won't be completely MIA anymore

If you've read this far, thank you! Feel free to shoot me a message. Even if it takes me a few days to answer, i promise i will! 💚