Music is life, the rest are details

Yo! My name is Kira. I am in my 20s and currently reside in the state of Iowa! I love music, books, swimming, my friends, my animals and my family. This blog is a way for me to connect with other people who are as strange as I am and it's been great! (Header pic is from the official video for the WangXian song)

[funbearer]

[rosavaya]

“Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, ‘What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.’ Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope.”

— Vincent Van Gogh

[anarchistmemedistro]

[mentalhealthmemesofficial]

[notthegrouch]

“If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.” 

- Vincent van Gogh

[bed-bath-and-bazinga]

A story in three parts

[nasturbate]

“nice blog”

thank you im really good at clicking reblog

[sensiblereblogifposts]

Reblog if you are really good at clicking reblog

[sawbuckplus]

[voidspacecowboy]

Not only should it be law that anything AI generated on the internet should be labelled as such but every website, app, and digital service should have a button I can click that removes any AI from my interactions with that site/service. I don't want your AI assistant I don't want your AI-generated ad copy I don't want this insidious little thing that has crept into so much of the internet that I can be using it without even realising or knowing. If you couldn't be bothered to have a human make it I can't be bothered to look at it sorry bye

[jardinssteve]

[scrumptiousdreamerruins]

[miss-nerd-alert]

“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”

— G. K. Chesterton

[kaity--did]

The problem with having a child with an attorney that has spoken to the child like an adult since birth is that she's 4 years old and she's negotiating the order in which we're going to complete tasks as a family to best suit her idea of an ideal day.

[kaity--did]

Penny: We go home, we play the mirror game, we have dessert, we play more games, we have fun deal?

Me: Okay well actually we're going to go home, have dinner, then dessert, then we can play your video game, then tubby then bed

Penny: Okay no tubby, games first, deal?

Me: This is not - what is happening right now?

Penny: Dada?

Dada: Arbitration?

Penny: DEALS!

[kaity--did]

Every single thing in our lives has become a negotiation and it is frankly ridiculous as it is hilarious.

Penny: I want to use bare foot when we go outside

Me: I didn't know we were going outside but you have to wear shoes girl

Penny: okay but what about I use bare foot's but at Penny's house? This deal?

Me: you know what yeah fine if you agree to not fight about shoes when we leave the house you can be barefoot in the back yard, deal.

Penny: -sticks her hand out expectantly- we deal?

I think I just made a verbal contract with a 4 year old.

[kaity--did]

She's attempting to establish evidence I think

Penny: but I want to go shool pwease

Dada: okay well it is 8pm, so you have to go to sleep now

Penny: okay but I see my fwiends at shool now please, deal?

Dada: Darling no one is at school, all your friends are asleep as well.

Penny: all Penny's fwiends are sweep? What about we... get in Dadas car and check to see watch them sweep, yes deal?

Dada: I cannot begin to explain to you why that can not happen

[kaity--did]

The great thing about being beholden to Penny the Deals Warlock is that she is also beholden to the art of the deal

Me: (watching Penny scoot her step stool over to where we keep the candy jar): hey honey we're literally walking out the door to go get dinner, maybe we wait on the candy okay?

Penny: Oh but I will have some candy?

Me: Why don't you come have some mac and cheese and then when we get home you can have some candy, deal?

Penny: (running out the door) oh, yes this is deals!

[kaity--did]

We are visiting my family and Papa has quickly had to pay patronage to Penny the Deals Warlock

Papa: (yesterday morning, when Penny was a little grumpy) What about you come downstairs and we'll have some waffles and then tomorrow Papa will take you to the Diner in town for breakfast?

Penny: (extending her tiny hand to a VERY confused man) this is deal?

Papa: (not knowing hes entering a literal contract) uhm yeah deal.

-smash cut to 6:30 AM this morning-

Penny (running down the hallway in bare feet) 👹BREAKFAST DEALS👹

[kaity--did]

Penny has a canker sore to end all canker sores, to the point where she hasn't been able to eat so we had to make some deals surrounding getting some medicine on it because a hungry Penny Rose is like a angry demon queen

Me: Okay baby this is going to suck. This is going to hurt real bad for a second and then it's going to feel weird and then it's going to feel good. You're going to hate it. But if you let Mama get these three medicines in and on you [Listerine, Antacid, Tylenol] you can scream it out and then we'll go get some ice cream! Deal?

Penny: (obviously not thrilled with this idea) okay, three big shreams, three medicines, ice cream ... it will suck... ice cream ... deal. (Sticks out hand and we shake on it)

Me: okay let's do this I'm so sorry (starts the process)

Penny: ( In between her big screams ) IM GONNA GET LOTS OF FRINKLES

[kaity--did]

My husband is trying to make a deal with Penny to get upstairs and get in the bath tub

Penny: I will go upstairs and get my body clean but you hafta titch me, deal?

Dada: I would love to make this deal with you kid but I literally have no idea what you are saying- I don't know what the terms are, you're speaking a language I don't speak

Penny: you have to titch me like mama does okay DEAL!? (Sticks tiny hand out aggressively)

Dada: (looks at me bewildered for help)

Me: ( starts making a quick tick tick tick sound imitating a stop watch like I'm timing her, while penny jumps around yelling YES TITCH ME LIKE THAT)

Dada: In what world was I ever going to figure that out, thank you for acting as our legal interpreter yes deal let's go!

and off she sprints.

[kaity--did]

Penny does not want to go to bed, but man is it time for her to go to bed

Penny: But I don't want to be sleeping, I want to stay up now! I want to see Grampy and Cozy and Guppie and Papa!

Mama: What if we video call all the grands and say good night to everyone? If we do that will you then go to bed no fussing?

Penny: Oh yes, this is deals! -sticks her hand out to shake-

** we make the rounds and video call all her grandparents, they are all already in bed and say good night and penny hangs up the last video call and toddles into bed with minimal fussing **

Penny : (after a few minutes of silence, over the video monitor, to herself in her dark bedroom) I hafta respect da deals.

[murasaki-cha]

I've been thinking about JiuHuo rescently, specifically about the infamous Qin Jiu line:

"I'm not here to save you, I'm here to love you."

I just think it's such a beautiful way to sum up their relationship and what they mean to each other.

You Huo didn't need saving, he had it all figured out. He wasn't buying the System's bullshit, he and Chu Yue were already planning a way out and how to take it down. Even if Qin Jiu didn't appear, You Huo would have tried many times to escape and destroy the System. That's not what Qin Jiu was for.

Qin Jiu also wasn't someone who is supposed to save You Huo from loneliness or his bad childhood. You Huo had friends, he was never truly alone. The bond that he and Chu Yue share is so deep and so special to him (him and Qin Jiu literally ran to her room after waking up and seeing each other when everything was over, because they were so worried for her). And he has put his childhood behind. Of course there are memories that still hurt him and affect him but he knew when to seperate the past and move on. He doesn't let that hurt affect him much in his day to day life (besides his eyes).

No Qin Jiu's role is neither of those. He's there to simply love You Huo. To love him in an unconditional way, in an unexpected way, in a meaningless way. There was no reason for Qin Jiu to fall for him or vice versa, it simply happened. They didn't need to have a big understanding of each other or some life changing event for that love to blossom, their souls just simply found each other and they never let go. They were each other's missing piece. You Huo just needed his love and to give that love back in return. And that's exactly what Qin Jiu offers.

He supports him, he joins him in his madness, shares his madness, all of that simply because he loves him.

[freedomrings]

[prettynpink17]

[philosophicalconservatism]

"To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them. He is proud of a common heritage and loyal to common traditions. But he regards government as a means, an instrumentality, neither a grantor of favors and gifts, nor a master or god to be blindly worshipped and served."

Milton Friedman (1912-2006) American economist.

[floridaboiler]

[floridaboiler]

God bless America

[holycrapitis]

👍👍👍

[anais-mirliaz]

frolicking with mama :)

[darkmaga-retard]

[emmaubler]

"Noooo, the government wouldn't do that!" Friend, the government tried to render people jobless and cast out from society for not obeying their health care recommendations, and people were calling for them to be turned away from hospitals for any care. They absolutely would use health care as a weapon against opponents, and you'd cheer them on.

[the-davest-of-uncles]

"It looks like you disagree with the government. Would you like to die about it?"

[theconstitutionisgayculture]

It must suck to be young these days. You're told the world is going to end because of the weather, you're told you're a good or a bad person based on your skin color and gender, your entire lives--sometimes from birth--are put online for strangers to judge, you're told that recovering from mental illness is "abelist" and wrong, you're told that your attractiveness and self-worth is based on how many people want to have sex with you, you're shown that everything you say will be catalogued and remembered and used against you at any time, you're told that a mistake can never be atoned for yet you need to constantly apologize and try to atone, adults who are supposed to guide you are using the trust you have for them to abuse and indoctrinate you, you're constantly scared of things that you'll most likely never experience because there's no way to escape the relentless and all-encompassing news cycle, you're told that every election is the last stand against True Evil so you're anxious messes every two years, you have no privacy, you have no attention span, trauma is glorified and being healthy and well off is vilified.

It's no wonder so many kids hate themselves and think things like euthanasia and abortion are a mercy. Almost every aspect of modern society is waging war against children, and most adults are too complacent, blind, or complicit to fight back for their kids. And the ones who aren't are painted as terrorists or extremists by the institutions that are perpetuating the war.

But, kids, there are adults out there fighting for you. You won't see them on the news and there won't be any movies about them. But we are out there. And we're doing what we can, in our own way, to make sure the world you inherit isn't the insane mess you were born into. My greatest wish is that you all wake up and learn to see through the insanity. To learn to question what you're told and learn the truth for yourselves. Because eventually you'll be the ones taking up the fight, but if you don't even realize you're in a war, the same people who prey on your fears and insecurities now will own you for the rest of your lives. And as scary as that sounds, it's actually not. Because they don't have any power over you other than the power you give them. Take their power away and they have nothing left but hot air and tears.