The older I get the more I admire people who are earnestly, genuinely into whatever their thing is. I know it sounds like an annoying cliche but unless you're being cruel or hurtful there is really no need to be normal about things. The dude with the bad fake accent at the renaissance faire is having the time of his life. The people having photoshoots with their fashion dolls are loving it. The old lady with a yard unreasonably full of tacky ass lawn ornaments is having a blast, HOA be damned.
Don't waste your time being too cool to have fun, y'know?
My mom read me PD James novels when I was 2 because it was what she was reading and I wanted her to read to me. Also, the first audiobook I ever listened to was The Secret Garden and everyone dies and is racist in the first chapter. And then there's 20+ chapters of emotional abuse.
I pick with my heart. I also read fanfic on desktop, ebook, and print them out and bind them to read physically.
Basically reading: yes.
no more blorbo questions what was the first music album that changed you fundamentally
actually not emotional over graduating university, just over losing my jstor access
A registered personal account will get you free access to 100 articles per month!
Never clicked a link faster in my life.
Also, check your local public library. They often have jstor and other database access. Or you can suggest it. If there's a need/desire they can often figure out how to subscribe.
Or use your local interlibrary loan person. If you're in Illinois, you get access to the U of I system's depth of access - for free - as long as you request the article through your local public. (If your local public say you do not, tell them to call the U of I campus closest to them and ask their ILL person, because I can guarantee you, they do.)
im a blorbo apologist but also they did every bad thing they did and i will get mad if u ignore that. complexities
Is there a fanfic wbere Enji actually is a father to Shouto? Because I will be honest. I don't think he liked the kid very much or he wasn't the one he bonded with the most. I just like to see that for once..
Well...
Current other device names are Toph, Lisbon, Ghost, Harry, and Hootenany.
this is the only text post im gonna make about voting for the US president:
under a 2nd biden term, cops will continue to shoot protestors in the head with rubber* bullets and suffer no consequences.
under a 2nd trump term, which may not end in 4-8 years, cops will go back to shooting protestors in the head with normal bullets like they used to, and suffer no consequences.
that’s where we’re at and that’s the choice you get. i am not willing to keep my own hands clean in exchange for a drastic and immediate increase in state violence, both direct and disguised as policies and regulations.
if you vote against trump, you might increase by a small amount the chance that you will live to see a presidential election where you get to make a good choice. if you don’t vote against trump, living to see that happen gets less likely.
voting is not even close to sufficient, but it is necessary, and it costs me little to nothing to do it.** to me that is the only possible ethical conclusion.
*rubber bullets are actually metal bullets with a rubber coating and they can and do kill people. nonetheless, they kill people significantly less often than regular bullets. also the bullet thing is a metaphor for all the varieties of state violence that will be committed by a trump administration. but also there absolutely will be an increase in the number of people murdered by cops if trump wins.
**there are a great many people in the US for whom voting does take considerable effort and sometimes sacrifice. if you are one of these people, you don’t owe anyone any loss of income or safety. but it may be even more strongly in your interests to vote against trump if you can.
just wanna say as someone who's Aboriginal that I think First Nations peoples have every right to be a little angry at white leftists (NOT Palestinians, people blaming Palestinians stfu) who ignored our anti-colonial movements for years but are now supporting the Free Palestine movement. If you, someone living in the US, Canada or Australia or Aotearoa, are serious about the liberation of Palestine then you NEED to be just as serious about justice and liberation for the First Nations peoples' who's stolen and colonised land YOU live on. If you're not serious about where YOU fit in the paradigm of anti-colonial work, fix it. Here's a good place to start: if you're a person living on occupied Indigenous lands, learn who's land it really is, and how you can help them as an ally.
curious with USAmericans in mind but feel free to answer regardless: what’s ur go to supermarket chain
HC that the average life expectancy in Gotham is actually four years higher than the national average because they collectively just keep refusing to die
the general concensus being "if we die the clown wins"
Gotham really is the perfect scientist trap, like every scientist in the world is either at "I could fix it" or "I could make it worse" with a few that are like "I could study so so SO good it and win a Nobel"
It's basically the most frantic game of whack-a-mole/herding cats. All STEM majors have a 100-level required class on why you can't go to Gotham.
I bets that's really hard/confusing for the kid from Gotham who whent to school out of state and took Gotham 101 as an easy A.
And ends up fistfighting a TA because they used a Google image of her grandma's house in a slide show.
NGL, thepandaredd has a skit for that. I do like Ted, the Coast City Transplant.
Clancy Brown as John Danziger Watched April 23rd, 2024
I am not unaware of the negatives of Biden's presidency, and I am not trying to elide or forgive them. I'm reblogging posts about the Biden administration because I think it's really important that potential voters in the US realize that there is, in fact, a very big difference between the two parties, and voting for Biden is not just damage control--it actually does good. It's okay, you can actually feel a little excited about making meaningful progress, and not just hold your nose.
He's been very unflashy. He's not a great leader, he's not charismatic and he knows it, but he's an adroit politician and administrator, and he's been getting things done. Letting Trump win at this point would be tantamount to throwing the entire country on the bonfire. It's not a choice between bad and bad, it's a choice between meaningful, if imperfect, progress and fucking doom.
I keep doing it because I don't hear any buzz about the real progress that's happening, and that's frusterating.
I keep doing it because fear isn't actually all that effective to get people to do something. But I just want to be screaming "What the actual f*ck!" when folks act like the dude who sent unmarked vans to scoop up Black Lives Matter protesters and stans Andrew *Trail of Tears* Jackson is the equivalent of the dude lowering the price of prescriptions drugs and standing on the picket line with auto workers. Mainly by giving Biden somewhat more power than he actually has.
I keep doing it because I regularly volunteer with a marginalized group who are very aware of what's at stake.
Some things Biden and Congress have done:
