Disaster Zone

Xy || 24 || asexual/greyromantic, nonbinary/genderfluid || they/she/he fic blog: @sociallyawkward--fics || gif blog: @sociallyawkward--gifs icon by @podcastsandcoffee there is no tagging system here please dont expect anything of me

[pastafossa]

"If only there was a way other than AI to talk to my favorite characters and OCs!"

[right-2-rebel-deactivated202210]

[beardedmrbean]

[supreme-leader-stoat]

In front of you , a trolley is barrelling towards one of two tracks, both of them partially obscured by a large, denim curtain. On the track it is currently rolling towards, you can just barely see the head of one person sticking out, though the rest of the track still cannot be seen. The other track in entirely blocked from your view, and you have no way of knowing if anyone is on it. A lever capable of switching the tracks sits to your right. Do you pull it?

[rohirric-hunter]

Once you make your decision whether or not to switch it, the game show host will pull back the denim curtain to reveal either the track you didn't pick or a third, heretofore unrevealed track, to which will be tied either a goat, a car, a man you don't know, a bear --

[rohirric-hunter]

It occurs to me that by introducing a third, secret track that it would be impossible to pick in the first part of the game I have accidentally invoked the Monty Hall Problem that makes the secret track always the correct pick. I have decided to remedy this by adding a rule where if you pick the secret track they untie the bear and let it maul you

[weirdplutoprince]

Well, well, well. If it isn't the consequences of someone else's actions that I am directly impacted and severely affected by

[animentality]

[yellow-cat]

FUCK. i think i have to learn blender

[hamblimp]

the humble manual smoothie maker after they break their hands:

[yellow-cat]

every day i log in here and get beat up by genies

[yellow-cat]

HEY !!!!

[endlace]

the horse when asked what he would like for dinner

[yellow-cat]

put a bullet in me already why dont you

[yellow-cat]

hold on. everyone shut up. i need to cry about the concept of a touch-starved gun

[erdenmaedchen]

STAR TREK II The Wrath of Khan

[1nayaa-deactivated20260711]

nobody is more stressed than a 24-29yo thinking they are running out of time lol

[lollytea]

My cow had a baby IF YOU CARE!!!!

[lollytea]

Lets glare at the intruder with Mama

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

getting mad at ao3 for being against censorship and allowing all kinds of dark and fucked up fics to be on their platform is like getting mad at a library for not banning books

[inbabylontheywept]

People are so much more sad, and desparate, and lonely than you think. I have had three incidents in the last four months were a technician I was working with was being either dangerously unfocused (we work with high voltage), or just flat out angry with their coworkers, and every time when I just pulled them aside to say hey, this isn't you, you're nice, and you're competent, so something must be up - what can I do to help - they have responded by bursting into tears. One guy was struggling to get his wife moved into a care home, one guy just got served divorce papers, and the other hadn't slept a wink the night before because his daughter had the pukes.

I haven't spent my whole life responding to people being rude, or stupid, or dangerous with knee jerk compassion. It's a new habit. The first time I did that as the lead for my lab, it was because the guy genuinely was so good natured that I knew something had to be off. But the other two times were just me going, alright, lets see if it always goes this well, and so far, it has. I'm almost 30, and I just figured out that the #1 reason people are shitty are because they are going through shit.

I don't think you have, like, a moral obligation to respond to people being jerks with knee jerk compassion. But it has made my life so much easier the last four months that I would recommend trying. For your own sake. Please.

(I'll step off my soapbox now. Enjoy your Sunday.)

[anarchopuppy]

practice soft skills. shit is going to keep getting worse for a good while before it starts getting better. we need to be making an active effort to show ppl grace and kindness and understanding now, bc were all going thru it, and maintaining community is only gonna get more and more important from here on out. this isnt optional, its a survival skill

[featherybucket]

ao3 is down in my prime binge reading hours god how am I supposed to survive

[niraves]

[decamarks]

AFTER NEARLY 19 YEARS OF THIS STUPID WEBSITE

[blowery]

also, on web, we just launched an advanced search dialog that should help folks use all the new operators we added.

[sybilius]

So true....

[theanishimori]

[papayajuan2019]

cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it

[derelicthousefootage]

[chilewithcarnage]

"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain."

-Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

[wizardnuke]

"Evil is boring. Right? I kinda believe in the banality and mundaneness of evil. Evil is just selfish impulses, which at the end of the day are really easy to understand. It’s easy to understand why people do bad things. It’s like “yeah, ok, you’re selfish and scared and cruel, I get it”. Being good is complex and beautiful and hard." - Brennan Lee Mulligan

[oldshrewsburyian]

"How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints." --C.S. Lewis

[fairycosmos]

im not complaining because i expect you to fix anything im complaining to bond with you. omggggg find your hater spirit

[mityenka]

when you grew up as a lonely uncool girl it will never stop haunting you by the way. you will meet a cool person at a bar or the train station or at a friend's party and you can wear your most stylish outfit and striking eye makeup and you will swear that they can see through all of the facade and see the lonely terribly insecure teenage girl you used to be who desperately wanted to connect and you will swear that they know that there is like an insurmountable gap between you. this will happen forever