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"if rescuing you is a sin, I'll gladly become a sinner" is the sapphic way to say "I love you"

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#texterna #I am thinking about sapphics again :pensive:#made this last year and is still very very true #also while I know very few thinks about honkai impact 3rd I have watched The cutscene and Mei's line altered my brain chemistry irreversibl #can you tell?

Me reviewing my own code: who the hell let this guy code?

#texterna #coding #i should not be allowed near code editors within a 10 mile radius #I am not the same coder i was 1000 lines of code ago

one time i weaponised my autism so hard I got all my classmates, even the ones who never read books, to read my then favourite book ("Ο Θεός αγαπά τα πουλιά" by Aggeliki Varella).

I guess you could call it my hyperfixation for like a solid 3 months. I loved that book so much, I was obsessed with it, I would not stop talking about it in class, to the point some of my classmates decided to read it as well, and they liked it too, and then the teacher started encouraging everyone else to read it as well- to the point we made a class project for the book (we were in fourth grade). It was a really nice moment and memory for me.

#texterna #my elementary school had so many initiatives to get kids to read books #like i remember that once a year we would have a book sales on school grounds where bookshops and authors could sell books on discounted-#prices. We would also have one author speak to the students and maybe promote a book #it was so cool #i hope they still do it though I doubt :(#man I used to read so many books- now I can't really do it anymore sobb

I live in hell country

#texterna #I am sick of hearing about natural disasters or climate catastrophes and the immediate reaction-#Of media AND PEOPLE alike being “is this going to affect tourism?” FUCK OFF #HOMES ARE DESTROYED - INFRASTRUCTURE HELL SOMETIMES PEOPLE DIE #AND ALL YOU CARE ABOUT IS HOW IT AFFECTS TOURISM?!?!?#greece is a hell country i stg #Like I get the media and stupid politicians caring about that since they are all soulless husks serving capital #BUT THE PEOPLE AS WELL?!?!?!????#anti tourism

Been playing nier: automata after my brother has been nerding about it for years and has had it sitting on my computer for years (his is not as good so he was like "when I get a controller I am playing it on your pc") and like the more i play it the more I go "oh. This game is about to change the way I write stories for years to come. It's going to influence me in really deep ways that I will never be able to come back from"

#texterna #i love the banter so much #why are the “unfeeling robots” so much fucking fun #why is “emotions are unnecessary” 2B so unintentionally hilarious actually #anyways my favourite character is by far 6O i love that girlfail

Age up your characters. It's always the morally good thing to do.

#texterna #this is about me reworking Gondeil Aspirations #When I first made the Lagilia council most of the members were 20-35 years old. Which does not make sense #so I am aging them up. And it is an upgrade honestly. Heracles and Yari going from 30 to 50 is a glow up #Adila from 27 year old to a badass 120 year old woman who still kicks ass is an upgrade #it's a fantasy setting so there is no reason for me to be super conservative with the ages of mages

I am starting to think that being a tourist visiting Greek islands is completely unethical.

In a similar way as buying fast fashion is unethical.

This problem is very prevalent in the islands which is why I am specifically talking about them and not tourism throughout the country (though in specific areas that are tourism heavy the problem still stands).

Very coincidentally, along with Greece's economic protections of the working class collapsing, the new lucrative industry of tourism arose, after the economic crisis. With labour laws becoming more lax to "help the economy" we've seen the rise of seasonal work. What's that you might ask. Young adults with no working experience working in tourist heavy areas in service at restaurants and cafés and what not. Sometimes for 12 hours a day if not more, no benefits, sometimes they don't even provide you with housing, barely any days off. I've had cousins and friends who worked the summer season, it is hell and dehumanising. Especially with how many tourists there just are. Just earlier this month there was a story about how a sea side cafe bar owner had his waiters serve their patrons *in the sea*. THE WAITERS HAD TO WALK INTO THE SEA WITH THE DRINKS TO SERVE THE CUSTOMERS WHO WERE SWIMMING. "But tourists give good tips" AND THAT FIXES THINGS???? YOU THINK THIS MAKES THINGS BETTER??

But it's not just worker exploitation. It's how tourism becomes hostile to the locals themselves. How tourism is actively destroying the local environment. A friend of mine who comes from an island talks about how because of AirBnB locals are outpriced out of their rented homes. How students are kicked out of their apartments as soon as May enters because that's when thr tourism season starts. We gotta rent those apartments to our lovely tourists! How in islands even as big as Crete, every summer the locals have no access to water because it is all used up by hotels and tourists. All greek islands have limited access to drinking water and this is made worse through tourism. But you see you can't have the tourists not use water in abundance! How over the years I have seen my local beach become commercialised. How the public umbrellas crumbled and were replaced by privately owned by a sea side cafe bar umbrellas and sunbeds, making it so you have to pay to have access to that beach. How tourists have no beach etiquette, which ends up littering the area. How businesses' desire to get more tourist customers leaves to natural landmarks just altered beyond recognition, local fauna driven out.

Our government has over relied on tourism to rebuild its economy. When covid happened this showed how vulnerable an economy is if it relies on tourism alone. It feels like even our government treats us more like a tourist attraction than an actual nation. Obviously the issue is capitalism. Some might say it's unregulated capitalism. Whatever. The whole tourism industry was set up so that its vulnerable workers cannot even organise nor fight back. They are only contracted to work 3-4 months a year after all.

If you ever decide to visit Greece for vacation, I don't know, maybe think about all this.