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In mine and many other east Asian cultures, the dragon traditionally symbolises things like power, wealth and strength (imperial symbol and all)
I think we often forget that in the story of the Great Race, the dragon came in fifth because it'd stopped to give people rain. Then it'd stopped again to push a rabbit adrift on a log across the wide river so it reached the shore safely (that's why the Rabbit year comes before the Dragon).
Dragons aren't meant to just be powerful - they are meant to do good with such power, and to help those in need.
So in this lunar new year, I hope you gain more power, so that you might be able to help others. I pray you have abundant resources so you may give to yourself and those around you. I wish you courage, endurance, kindness and generosity, for yourself and your people.
I hope you, and I, will be rain givers, life preservers, joy bringers.
I hope we will be dragons.
One of my favorite genres of post
Post corrections/clarifications are my favorite genre of humor: a compilation
opens box that reads "i wanna draw again". inside lies a note. the note says, "mental illness and difficult circumstances have taken years of interest, accessibility, and skill away from me. i want to forgive myself for that. i want to heal my relationship to my hobbies. i want to feel connected to something that once made me feel good, but the cyclic discouragement is difficult to overcome." i turn over the note. on the back it reads "wannta drawe sexy bodies awooga"
“stop traumadumping to your friends tell this to your therapist” my god they paywalled human connection
“If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly. If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me, I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted so that I might share in what I was entitled to share. If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him, I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.”
Oscar Wilde
I know I don't shut up about this but frankly not enough people are angry about the 5-day/40 hour workweek (and I am AWARE a lot of people work even more than that). I feel like a lot more people should be absolutely furious that we only really have two days a week and some occasional hours in the evening to socialise, run errands, do chores, or relax.
It's no wonder so many people are profoundly lonely and disconnected from their communities when maintaining a social life in what little free time we have is incredibly difficult. If you have kids, a second job, a very long commute, or other responsibilities, it's nearly impossible.
We literally aren't meant to live like this and I'll never stop being shocked how many people just take it as the natural state of things and don't want to throw a brick through a billionaire's window every time they think of it.
So the final battle with Red during @askmartyn Pokemon Silver Nuzlocke stream was an absolutely wild ride that I just had to capture. Please enjoy. Screenshots are from the wide range of emotions at the very end.
screenshots by me
glorious
TUMBLRWOMAN 2023 Finals
Look, after hearing this story, I had to make a record of The Sofa Story, in which we learn of mistakes made, and lessons learned. Image (plus comment from @martyniiii ) is an example of what the Glitch Screen looks like for anyone who isn’t aware. This week was of the uwy bear, a new emote thanks to a typo.
I’m in this 😊
I'm also in this 😂
can someone please get these hoes under control i'm BUSY
some of you are miserable because you're mean. like you're just mean to people and things
"why don't i have any friends" because you are mean
this can be fixed at least in part very easily though! just stop being mean. i believe in all of you 👍
‘but i’m not mean’ ok, cool! do you:
- point out people’s mistakes and failures to them? in front of others?
- belittle their accomplishments and successes? in front of others?
- make fun of people and laugh at them? in front of others?
- do all this secretly to your ‘friends’ because friendship means being able to ‘joke around with’ each other, or ‘be brutally honest’ with each other?
- bring up past grievances with people over and over until they’ve apologized ‘enough’, or just to shut down arguments with them, or get out of conversations you don’t want to have?
- refuse to do favors for people? like when you feel they haven’t ‘earned’ your time or effort? or at all because you don’t want to be ‘taken advantage’ of?
- try to get out of paying your share of bills, doing your share of chores? spend time figuring out exactly how little you can contribute to groups in terms of time, effort, and money, without anyone noticing or getting too mad at you?
- get angry and jealous when people are happy about things that don’t concern you? get angry and jealous when people pay attention to each other and not you?
- spend any amount of time ‘getting even’ with people?
THIS BEHAVIOR IS MEAN.
you might feel like you’re a perfectly nice person who cares a lot about people but also speak your mind and take no shit! but if you do any of this stuff, people won’t like you anymore, because it fucking sucks to be around you. you suck to interact with. no one fucking likes being mocked, criticized, picked on, upstaged, pushed around, mooched off, or revenged upon. they will, if they have any self-respect at all, avoid you.
the worst case scenario actually isn’t that you end up alone. it’s that you end up with other people who are just as mean as you are, and you all mutually tear each other to pieces on your way to drug addictions, losing all your money and property and kids, and jail time. this happens a lot, i have seen it go down, and it’s not fun even for bystanders. please consider putting the time and effort in to be nice, instead.
Cow Jail
remember, kids: there's a reason why AO3 never bothered to release an app and instead worked on optimizing their mobile browsing experience.
anyway happy boxing day to all iOS users I guess 🙃