Never quit, never lie, never apologize

I need no introduction, when you knock me down I get the fuck back up again Aspiring author, non-professional ninja, fandom trash, aggressive feminist 34 years old. She/her/them. Always angry. Finally getting respect for my hair. Living with my husband, our daughter, a dog named Sauron, and a shitload of plants.

[jethroq]

[ladyshinga]

[allieinarden]

I haven’t seen a Despicable Me movie since the first one so to me Gru is like someone I knew years ago whose Christmas card list I’m happy to inexplicably be on. Oh wow, I forgot he got married. What a nice thing for the girls. Oh, he and his wife had a baby! How lovely!

[ristay]

Sorry if it’s a little cramped- had to make this all fit in ten photos. Hope you guys like it….. and again…. sorry Andrew

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[ruby-white-rabbit]

The window visual did me in I’m wheezing

[floralpopie]

NO

[greatmountainfloofsquatch]

WELP

[doctor-seamonster]

I haven’t seen this in years and yet it is burned into my memory forever.

[sistertaxon]

can we just have, like, any feminist movement whatsoever. did everyone just stop caring?

[sistertaxon]

feminism became a declawed commodified marketable trend and then trends changed and everyone just decided to pretend we won feminism despite nothing changing? despite things actively getting worse? is that what happened?

[kelseykingillustration]

The moment I discovered there's a practical application for all the running I've been doing

[queer-as-city-folk]

There be devils at work here

[queer-as-city-folk]

That happens in every American city, it's called an American downtown

[dragonflea]

Why is everything else squares?

[queer-as-city-folk]

That's a good old fashioned American Grid System

[yeah-thats-probably-it]

“liking something in fiction doesn’t mean you condone it in real life” but instead of dark fanfiction tropes it’s about liking jeeves and wooster while being a socialist

[ironmyrmidon]

Reading Lord of the Rings, but shaking my head so people know I don't support the divine right of kings.

[hellenhighwater]

How did you train your cats to not wake you up?

By rolling over and stubbornly feigning sleep if they did.

Their brains are little cause-effect engines. If standing next to your face and yelling until you feed them doesn't actually produce that result, they'll eventually stop doing it. You just have to outlast them.

[tafkarfanfic]

So, we tried doing this with a cat we were looking after. We would not get up until the alarm clock went off.

One morning, he was standing by my head and screaming, but not in my ear. I looked up and saw that he had his little face one inch from the alarm clock. Because we only woke up when the alarm clock went off, he decided that it was the alarm clock that he needed to scream at until it woke up.

[evag-geloi-a]

[inthefallofasparrow]

[epilepticsaints]

[nonbinarypolitics]

None of those things have anything to do with each other

[spirulin4]

vice news writers have not been to college

[nonbinarypolitics]

Me either, but I still know how to write an article

[cancersyndrome]

Reading comprehension quiz

1. Why has the author chosen to contrast these two ideas in one sentence? What is the effect this contrast has to the reader?

2. Can we determine the authors opinion on Zuckerberg from the work? What impression of Zukerberg is this work meant to evoke?

[mollyjames]

It's really important when you're at work to go out there and really give it your 60%. Maybe 35%.

[valtsv]

obsessed with the concept of being haunted by yourself

[valtsv]

maybe you were someone you hate now, and that person remains a cold hand on your shoulder that says you do not deserve this. perhaps you had to destroy yourself and become someone else to escape something worse - but now they hang over you like a shroud. you abandoned me. everyone did, but you - you were all i had. and you left me to rot. maybe the life you could have had was taken from you - and isn’t that a death of sorts? - and now it shadows your every step. you keep moving further away, but it follows. there’s a ghost after you, and it wears a frighteningly familiar face.

[reasonandempathy]

One of the most personal, saddest things about living in America is the summertime.

There is 0 reason for American adults not to have a summer break. I can only say this with a full throat so loud, but other countries have policies and laws that give adults summertime.

It is not a joke to say France is kind of shutdown for August. There are over a dozen countries that have enough mandatory, legally required leave available to take an entire month off, or more. PLUS mandatory PAID holidays.

It's Brazil and Russia (ooh scary BRIC countries outgrowing the US and coming for us). India AND China give up to 2 weeks mandatory vacation leave, plus sick leave on top.

It's Afghanistan (20 days). It's Angola (22). It's Argentina(25) and Armenia (25) and Australia (20). It's Cambodia (technically unlimited; you can eventually get 15 or 17 days per month vacation).

That us on top of mandatory PAID public holidays. Cambodia can somehow manage 27 mandatory paid holidays plus upwards of 18 vacation days per year and going up from there, and we in the US can't even manage mandatory paid holidays.

We don't even get paid on Christmas and Memorial Day. And even trying to convince some people, let alone politicians, that everyone should get paid on Christmas is unfair to compare to pulling teeth.

Please. Please. I want to have a better life. I want you to have a better life.

I want you to not miss Summer Break. Because France and Cambodia don't.

[reasonandempathy]

I want to say this with a full and sad heart.

No it's not.

[rainstormcolors]

Even if the world can be benumbed, cold, and stingy, it's adorable that an employee brought out a little water dish for Jenny's plushie Skippy with the standard drinks. Be the bit of magic you want to see in the world.

[steampunkforever]

I would still use my turn signals in the Mad Max Wasteland. They'd call me "Signal" because I'd hit my blinker before ramming the enemy hot rods into the side of a desert ravine. I'd use my turn signal every time. They would respect me for this.

[gingersnapsvhs]

we're you born prematurely, late, or on time?

premature

on time

late

Voting ended onJun 2, 2024