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Under a Clear Sky, In a World Untarnished,

@sauntervaguelydown / sauntervaguelydown.tumblr.com

There Was Only the Chase // Desdemonakaylose (Dez for short), she/her, queer, gender abolitionist, ten year+ tumblr veteran. This is my main blog, mostly fandom. Feel free to message me for my fic blog or aesthetic blogs.
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I highly HIGHLY recommend this book

I am listening to the audiobook for the second time in two years. You would think it would be boring. It is not boring. It’s got a cutting anthropological perspective on the nature of slavery and conquest and money that lays out China and India and the Middle East (or the Near West if you prefer) side-by-side. Showing how there actually are patterns in the way people treat each other based on the stress position that a particular type of economic system put them under. He even gets into the social origins of patriarchy.

And slavery.

For example, right now I am at the part of the book where he is unraveling Why it was that conquistadors acted so monstrously in South America, and whether it’s really just the natural state of humankind to eviscerate each other in that way. To mount up such atrocities whenever profit is possible. Or- or whether the mechanism of debt, extracted through the ruling European population, had gotten so big and so impersonal that there was no escape from it even for the conquerors, and that their shame, and their resentment, and their fear of debts consuming them, drove them to the worst depravities of the age.

Maybe our nature isn’t actually driven by greed. Maybe we’re torturing ourselves for no good reason, and if we could just imagine a world beyond market capitalism—beyond the impersonal mechanisms of The Market—we might be able to find an escape from it still.

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for the trope comparison meme, if you've time: regency AU vs apocalypse AU?

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Oh I’m WAY more likely to read an apocalypse fic. Especially if it isn’t a zombie one. It’s not always true that writers like to write the same kind of fiction as what they like to read, but I love the logistical elements of survival as WELL as the emotional intensity of upturning the world.

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lesvegas

I don't wanna e-beg and I don't have the talent to do commissions but if you guys gave me a design idea and I put it on a shirt would you buy it

okayyy ( <3 ) but only because i had to take out a line of credit to pay rent and im still trying to pay it off lol

paypal (ignore the name lol)

Thank you whoever sent me some money ily ❤️

I'm not gonna ask for much more or even make a goal cause I'd feel awful about taking that much without paying it back but. I am just gonna leave this here as proof:

I was unemployed for months waiting for the job I currently have and even after borrowing from a friend I nearly maxed out my card and line of credit just to pay rent. With my paycheck every two weeks I am *very* slowly paying it off little by little but I'm essentially one crisis away from homelessness.

Also here's my Redbubble if you're in the market for a gay fnv shirt or something

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since they're often two that people say they categorically never read: major character death/deathfic, or kidfic?

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oh, interesting! Well, I will read both under the right circumstances, but if you put the two on the table in front of me under a silver lid so I couldn't see the details and said "pick one", I would definitely pick Kid Fic. I actually like kids pretty well, and there's a decent chance that I'd like something about the fic.

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text reads: "you're struggling to make the change because the old behaviour is still meeting a need. instead of shaming yourself, indemnify the deeper need and allow it to exist. then get curious about a new way to meet it."

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Some AirBnB roasting courtesy of Reddit

I realize this is not at all the point but I'm losing my mind at the idea of a boring hotel costing $225/night. my fellow americans, for $225/night you can get an absolutely banger hotel. I stayed at a swank art deco hotel in chicago for $180/night. the hotel in boston I stayed at with the $7 glasses of milk was $279/night, but is currently offering rooms at $178. I've only stayed in an AirBNB one time (for two months, at $60/night), but if those prices are normal for airbnb and that's a normal thing you can afford, holy fuck just get a hotel. $225 is like one tier below "the hotel personally picks you up in a horse-drawn carriage and throws rose petals at you."

That, and if their shit sucks, they will ACTUALLY have to do something about it.

what might be skewing this is that hotel prices rise in response to big events happening at the time of the reservation

I worked at a mid level sheraton where a normal tuesday was about 90$ a night, but on an FSU game weekend, friday and saturday might be 300-400$

so if you only travel to Big Events TM you have a skewed idea of what a hotel room normally costs

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emptyjunior

I think having a baby niece is great cause my brother will send me just a constant stream of messages that sound indistinguishable from how someone at Jurassic park would text if they were being hunted by the raptor

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I thought these were more Taylor Swift lyrics

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kaihoney

me when i wanna talk about my special interests but i got the vampire autism where you gotta invite me to talk about smth first, otherwise i wont say shit or dont know what to say because i feel like im annoying

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leidensygdom
just a headache

I don’t know who is she, but a good ol eldritch gal is never a bad idea, don’t you think? There’s something fun about drawing a bunch of wings and eyes and calling it a day.

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