the ocean rolls us away

I climbed up a mountain and looked off the edge At all of the lives that I never have led

[mousegirlheart]

weird how abled people don't want you to have supports because it may Annoy Them. no, you can't have a shower chair, it'll get in my way. no, you can't put subtitles on, im here to watch a movie not read. because the needs of the disabled are somehow lesser than the wants of the abled.

[mousegirlheart]

they really expect disabled people to suffer, be in physical pain and be excluded just so they don't have to experience a teeny tiny slight inconvenience and think this is a reasonable expectation.

[thejulyflame]

I let someone who I thought was a friend move in to help them out. Out of many other issues with them, he reorganized my kitchen on me and put so many things I regularly use for cooking and baking out of my reach.

When I pointed this out, he said they didn't like how it looked before and that I could just use a stool.

I have a bad knee and a bad shoulder. This makes it hard to balance on things and hold onto things and grab things safely.

The kicker?

He doesn't cook or bake. This was purely a matter of aesthetics for him and he made it harder for me to use my own kitchen just because he didn't like the way it looked.

[64mpg]

u can just do whatever at any age all of the time nobody cares except teenagers

[64mpg]

teenager will be like ur 40 with a hobby ? 💀 that’s sad <- nobody else thinks this way though they are just going through some stuff

[distorted--mermaids-blog]

Say it with me kids:

A 👏BISEXUAL 👏 PERSON 👏 SHOULD 👏 NOT 👏 HAVE 👏 TO 👏 PRESENT 👏 THEIR 👏ROMANTIC 👏HISTORY 👏TO 👏PROVE 👏TO 👏YOU👏 THEY 👏ARE 👏BISEXUAL

[gatesofminrathous]

there will never be anything as funny as the mutual disbelief between long form and short form fic writers about each other's style.

short form writers look at people writing 100k+ fics as though this is some sort of talent given as part of a fae bargain, that the commitment required shows some sort of ungodly mental fortitude.

meanwhile long form writers look at people writing 1000 word one shots like god I would cut off my left nipple to be able to say anything concisely. i would love to play with multiple ideas. free me from the shackles of this child I have birthed. i love them but I now must take them to t-ball and doctor's appointments and they're going to destroy everything I own.

[ticklefighthockey]

“In working with writers, I’ve learned it’s not talent that gets books written, it’s hard, slow, steady work. But it’s not only hard work—almost every student I’ve taught works hard. It’s learning to understand that the process of writing isn’t linear but filled with peaks and valleys; that sometimes we don’t know what we’re doing but we need to work anyway; that we must stay with the process through uncertainty, indecision, anxiety and feeling our work is failing; that we must have tenacity when we feel like walking away from a project. My most important job is helping writers endure the tough stages of the process. And I’ve learned that often the toughest stage comes just before the biggest breakthroughs. But that’s when many writers decide their work is a failure and put it down. Sometimes they think because the work is a failure, they’re failures and not meant to be writers.

The short story writer and memoirist Tobias Wolff describes how, when writing a long work, ‘a kind of anxious wonder sets in as to whether or not you’ll really finish it, whether it will be any good, whether all this time will have been wasted—and we all hate to waste our time.’ Wolff feels this way every time; completing one successful work doesn’t mean he has more courage or conviction when he writes the next. ‘Everything I’ve written... has seemed to me, at one point or another, something I probably ought to abandon. Even the best things I’ve written have seemed to me at some point very unlikely to be worth the effort I had already put into them. But I know I have to push through.’ Wolff completes every work he begins: ‘For me, it’s more important to keep the discipline of finishing things than to be assured at every moment that it’s worth doing.’”

— Louise DeSalvo, The Art of Slow Writing

[theconcealedweapon]

[maarvarq]

Always bear in mind that there is absolutely no legitimate evidence that Luigi was actually the one who killed the insurance company guy.

[theconcealedweapon]

Of course he wasn't. He was at a party with me that day.

[tiny-space-whale]

No but like literally, actually. All bits aside.

He didn't do it.

The cops very clearly planted evidence on him because they had to make an arrest because all eyes were on them and whoever actually did the deed was making them look stupid.

Why would the real killer hero have kept the weapon on his person and traveled two states over while carrying it and a manifesto in his bag, conveniently turning the crime into a federal matter? The same guy whose bag they found in a park, filled with monopoly money? Why did the police turn off their bodycams, take Luigi's stuff, drive a block away, turn their bodycams back on, go back into the restaurant, and then arrest him?

From the moment of his arrest, even left-of-center media has been presuming his guilt without examining anything (e.g. calling him "the killer" instead of "alleged" or "accused") and then when I say he didn't do it, the nearest person chimes in with some quip that tells me they think he did do it but should go free anyway. Don't get me wrong, I would have the same attitude if he had done it. But he didn't. It makes me feel like the only sane person in the world, even among my staunchly leftist friends.

[donniehaspronouns]

this might piss some people off but I don’t think some of you actually ever tried to unlearn your hatefulness. you just came out as queer and decided your new targets really truly deserve it this time.

[donniehaspronouns]

you. you get it.

[overdoso]

Uma torre.... digo, família de tamanduás 🐾

[queerofthedagger]

the fun thing about having a mental health crashout in your thirties is that sure yeah you're crashing out, but at the same time there's a part of you standing across the room smoking ben affleck style, going yeah yeah you're crashing out. you crashed out before you will crash out again can we wrap this up yet. and the most annoying part about it is that they're right, and that that does Not stop you from crashing out even a little. love and light on planet earth.

[queerofthedagger]

me, strongly dissociating, staring into space:

cunt-ass part of my brain swigging whiskey from across the room: yeah yeah you're not real we get it. that's not gonna get the dishes done and the trash taken out tho is it 🤨

[welcometothehole]

this trend of shitting on peer-reviewed academic studies in favor of tweeting “we already knew this was happening” is so soul-crushing. not to be an elitist cunt, but we have got to open the schools again. people genuinely seem to have forgotten that their personal lived experience isn’t indicative of the larger population, AND IF IT IS…… then you need researchers to support these assertions from a relevant data pool instead of a blog post from 2013 💀

[tr-shb-g]

*this meeting could have been an email voice* this cgi could have been a puppet

[clementine-kesh]

the problem of fandom reducing characters who are women and/or people of colour to sexist/racist stereotypes is definitely aggravated by the fact that a lot of fans simply do not pay very much attention to these characters in the first place then subconsciously paper over the gaps in their perception with things they’ve been culturally conditioned to believe are true about people in the same category as said character

[clementine-kesh]

many cases where you’ll see someone say something about a character and it’s like hmm i don’t think that idea is supported anywhere in canon but i can tell exactly which stereotype you got it from

[bpdnanaseharuka]

tags from tofixtheshadows: #I keep saying that fandoms will always flatten characters into shallow versions of themselves#because they will just sort of skim the surface of the media and let their expectations fill in the blanks#which are usually easy stereotypes#and this will inevitably hit marginalized characters harder; particularly people of color#and these stereotypes will more often be benevolent for the white characters#and more unfair towards the nonwhite ones

[thulium]

[emperor-gaozu-of-han]

pov

you are a sheriff who accidentally lets prisoners loose. You will be condemned to death as a punishment.

will you…

get killed and be loyal to qin

hell no, it’s peasant uprising time 😎

Voting ended onMay 12

[epidaleacalamita]

in the mission control room hearing my veteran pilot snarl "I won't go down to some nobody!" into the comms and putting my head in my hands because now that he said that he's absolutely going to die to this oddly skilled random upstart in a standard issue infantry mech

[jadeharleyinc]

OP it is absolutely vital that you open comms with your pilot and say his name. maybe mention something about the ace up his sleeve or whatever. that should buy him enough time to set his mech to self-destruct or launch his signature weapon. if he can time it right he'll be able to eject just as the explosion covers his escape.

he might survive with an evil-looking scar and a new thirst for revenge. better than nothing.

[curlicuecal]

[alexanderwales]

It's absolutely crazy that intellectual labor can wipe you out. It seems like it shouldn't be a thing, like your stores of brain juice shouldn't be able to be depleted in that way.

I feel like a wizard that's out of spell slots, and to me that's a hackish mechanical limitation put in place to try to balance the classes.

[metanarrates]

also to be clear i don't actually think there's anything wrong with enjoying m/m. it's fine. i enjoy some of that myself. I just think any argument that "actually it's secretly feminist to like m/m" immediately falls apart under scrutiny and perhaps instead of playing defense all the time about it, it would maybe be healthier to challenge the ways that misogyny actually flourishes in m/m fan spaces and to acknowledge the fact that the attention m/m gets compared to f/f Is Perhaps A Result Of Misogyny