I have an awful habit of leaving things unfinished.
I don’t know if that’s a trait I picked up from my childhood but my projects always end off a cliff. I used to send my writing to friends, excited to show new updates or how much more had been written since the last, and they’d groan playfully, saying they wanted more and to keep going. But once I get that first impression and validation I no longer want to continue. Someone has seen my work and now it’s spoiled. I’m still proud of it, but not enough to finish, not enough to finish the story that I think about when I’m alone in bed. I’m the same with projects. If I don’t finish in one sitting I won’t allow myself to go back to it.
There’s a quote that’s like: I am a mess of unfinished words, of half strung sentences. I am an empty paragraph, a half cleaned kitchen. I am an unfinished love song, a letter that was never sent. I am half worked on and I am waiting for a sculptor to come and sculpt me. A painter to paint over me. I am waiting for someone to take care of me.
I am waiting for someone to move the pen in my hand and finish the rest of my letter. I am waiting for someone to walk with me to the post office and mail my letter. I am waiting for someone to sing my half finished song and to write the last word in my unfinished chapter. I am waiting for someone to complete all of me that is so incomplete.
“If stuff was just handed to me I’d have no motivation to do anything! That’s human nature!”
No, babe, that’s depression. Psychologically healthy people are still motivated to do things even when their survival isn’t being actively threatened.
[Image description: tweet by Roxi Horror @roxiqt on March 30, 2022 at 11:13 AM: “’Oh, so you think everyone should just be handed enough money to live?’ lol. lmao. yeah.”]
okay so like, we all know that housekeeping in a hotel is a Shit Job, right?
I worked with a woman who was independently wealthy. But she liked working housekeeping. So she did. And if the manager got bitchy with her, she’d just shrug and be like “Okay, I can quit.”
Like the manager treated her like a human being because she knew she had to because otherwise she’d lose one of her best workers.
Yes, everyone should be just handed the money to live.
I worked with a lady who’s husband made more than enough to support them both. She just did the retail to have something to do with herself part-time.
There’s a lot of people who’d happily do the same sort of thing. Honestly? A lot of the jobs we consider “shitty” jobs? Are shitty because the employees are treated like garbage.
If employees weren’t being screwed over by people higher up the chain constantly or being forced to kiss the asses of customers currently shitting all over them, those jobs would by and large be a whole lot more bearable, and appealing to more people!!
Plus rich people are just handed a lot of money, whether they earn it or not, and no one questions that. Only poor people getting money gets interrogated over and over and over again.
I’d like to add a footnote to this thread that the US gives more money (by way of the income tax reduction) to homeowners than it does to poor people who need subsidized housing.
My best teacher in high school was the guy who had previously made a ton of money that he could’ve retired at like 30. Man just wanted to teach teenagers.
If people as a whole were handed enough money to live on, maybe more people like him wouldn’t be put off by the poor salary teachers make. (also teachers should be paid a lot more)
There’s also this assumption that if people were just handed enough money to live that they’d do absolutely nothing, as if they’d be satisfied being completely bored all the time.
They’d still buy food. They’d still buy video games. They’d still go out and get coffee and put money into the economy even if they didn’t want to work because they still want to LIVE. They’d buy movies. They’d go DO stuff.
I review comic books on the internet and I love doing it, but I often have to compromise on some things because I just can’t afford to do otherwise and I stress out about stuff because I need to earn money.
“Psychologically healthy people are still motivated to do things even when their survival isn’t being actively threatened.”
Speaking for myself, I would be even MORE motivated to do things if my basic needs were guaranteed met. IJS
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I’m a 15 year old. I have depression. If I received enough money to live out my days how I choose, I’d work. What would I do? Either work as school staff, be a sociologist, or be a therapist. Why? Because honestly, we need better school staff. Teachers are underpaid, and staff workers don’t help enough. Speaking from my own personal situation, I know the old school staff at my middle school could have helped, yet they didn’t. So what if I had enough money needed to not have to work? I want to prevent what happened to me so that others can remember their years fondly, not as a traumatic event where the staff fucked them over.
and there is some stiff competition here at the International Penis Championships in sunny Montreal as the competitors limber up for the all important second round
aspenspeaks said: I’m so sad I found this joke before it has a bunch of notes to scroll through because you know they’re going to be gold
unless they choke in the finals! oh no it’s a wash out
and there is some stiff competition here at the International Penis Championships in sunny Montreal as the competitors limber up for the all important second round
aspenspeaks said: I’m so sad I found this joke before it has a bunch of notes to scroll through because you know they’re going to be gold
unless they choke in the finals! oh no it’s a wash out
dude the attitude around parents is so weird and specific. what is that about
with almost every other relationship its like. ok to almost everyone to just back out if worst comes to worst. your girlfriend is an asshole? break up with her. your boss sucks? quit your job. your friend is annoying? stop talking to them. but with parents its oh NO you only get ONE of those you MUST maintain contact with your parents NO MATTER WHAT
‘you only get one mom’ 'you only get one dad’ i only get one 3rd grade math teacher too but you dont see ms johnsons name and number in my phone do you
I’ve been in an awful art sinkhole for the past however many months, so I’m going to try (try) to make one small animation for every day in February. I probably can’t manage much more than a second a day, but that’s still pretty good practice. Here’s day 1! This one came out with a few issues, but for being rusty, I feel happy with it overall. It’s all about improving.
Mental illness is a completely appropriate reaction to fucked up shit that’s happening around you. Idk why people don’t understand this. Behaving like you always do, wearing the same smile when everything is not fine is sometimes more fucked up. Misery is the right company for agonies.
I said this because this tweet got 30k plus likes and it pisses me off. I think white leftists of the first world should be even more miserable. It’s only right…
trying to be genuine and gentle here, but. i find this framing really weird and accusatory. the idea that people are making themselves miserable, as if its a conscious intentional choice, rather than just feeling heart wrenching grief as a natural response to the conditions of the world. is just. so mind boggling to me. of course we need to still take care of ourselves as much as possible so that we can continue living and continue pushing for a better world where these kinds of atrocities arent a daily occurrence. but to act as if its somehow abnormal for people to be upset about witnessing genocide is just??? how do you even rationalize that? allow ourselves to live? we’re not even allowed to publicly express grief because it makes other people uncomfortable.
i dont think people are falling into “the suffering olympics” or “making themselves miserable” we just naturally feel this way. its not performative. its not a choice. i am filled with overwhelming grief. i find myself in tears at random times during the day, even when i’m not actively thinking about palestine, when im just cooking breakfast or watching a silly cartoon, trying to give myself a moments break from everything, my body still feels this pain and it comes in waves whether i want it to or not. we are feeling this shit in our bones, we cant help it.
“you still have to get up tomorrow” why?? and i don’t mean in a depressed sense, i mean that the insistence on continuing to go through the motions like normal bc well we just have to is cruel and senseless. its wrong that our society treats us like automatons who can just continue on, endlessly laboring and consuming, no matter what happens. the same way it was wrong in 2020 to expect people to just continue going to work and school in the middle of a pandemic as if everything was normal
in fact i think thats part of the reason people are so depressed and miserable. the grief will always be there but what makes it unbearable, what people are trying to express is that there is no where to put that grief in our society, there is no acknowledgement of it. even mentioning that you feel this way is taboo and will be met by shaming. people are expressing their pain and shock and heartbreak and what we get in return is “your suffering isn’t noble”
Well its official: Geek Culture has gone mainstream
this is gender historical revisionism (assuming we’re supposed to read the figures on the left as dudes.)
it was very much mostly not dudes writing pregnant spock fic to distribute in paper fanzines in the 1980s
man, this is like the Some Girls Play Games?? articles that have been published every year since at least 1990 but somehow remain surprising and newsworthy
I mean I don’t think it’s quite that? I think it’s more the whole ‘what used to be our weird geek shit has been taken over by the normies’ complaint (which isn’t always a wholly invalid/inaccurate complaint!) but from a perspective that insists/assumes/implies that all oldschool geeks were male and all women are normie
or in other words, (geek harry du bois voice) “are women bourgeoisie normie?”
Hi- OP here. This is actually just “bait” I made in order to grow my follower count, and doesn’t mean anything. Sorry.
Dr. Willie Parker, who is trained as a gynecologist and OBGYN, is a hero for the pro-choice movement because he’s honest about the undiscussed aspects of getting (or not getting) an abortion. Watch how he gives a consultation.
That last statement about regret is so important, because so many people don’t understand what it is or what causes it. Anti-choicers exploit this by manipulating pregnant people and creating doubt, which only increases the likelihood of regret, no matter what decision the pregnant person makes. You know what is best for you, even if it takes some time to figure it out.
No. No, there is literally NO reason for this to end up a 10k post, I did nothing but sit here at my desk and type “flaming hot cheetos” onto my Tumblr post maker while eating flaming hot cheetos. THIS ISN’T ANYTHING AT ALL. THIS HAS NO REASON TO HIT 10K. AND IT WILL NOT HIT 10K!!
look, y'all. I’m speaking directly to that 2.3% of you.
Boycotting is for when your refusal to participate hurts the system/entity you are absent from. You boycott a company, a transit authority, etc.
That’s not how voting works. There WILL be an election whether you participate or not. The results WILL be counted in the usual way & considered valid whether you participate or not.
so participate.
Go to a protest immediately before and after you cast your vote. If you don’t have an election day protest near you, organize one. Call your elected representatives / the national party HQs every day of every week between now and the election to formally register your opinion on the candidates presented to you. THOSE are effective ways to protest the system. Better yet, get involved in your local municipality, where you can make change as a much bigger fish in a much smaller pond.
Not voting just means the people who believe differently from you will decide who governs, because they showed up.
Yes. So organize around its revamping or elimination. Vote anyway. It’s meaningful that the popular vote has been so misaligned with the electoral college for so long. It’s gonna be hard to reform the system no matter what, but it will be fucking impossible if we don’t continue to show up and demonstrate the ways in which it’s broken.
Voting as harm reduction is much more effective and meaningful than not voting at all.
When I say nonbinary people can look like anything I am aggressively including nonbinary people who have beards, body hair, and who are assumed to be cis guys, firstly because that’s also me and secondly because we’re always overlooked or subjected to cringe culture. Nonbinary doesn’t just mean skinny, pale and absent of gender signifiers.
[Don’t be an ass in the notes, I can turn off comments if I have to]
so quite a lot of people expressed interest in a guide to lion dance! and since the lunar new year is coming up in a couple weeks, which means everyone’s exposure to lions is probably going to increase, i figured i’d go ahead and make it! right click + open in new tab to fullview, etc etc, i hope it’s helpful, although if you only take one thing away from this powerpoint, it’s this: lions are not dragons
disclaimer: i learned fut san style at an american university, and the senior members of the troupe were almost all from hong kong and taiwan, so most of my knowledge is drawn from what they taught me. lion dance varies widely depending on the style and the country of origin, and many schools do things differently! this is just an attempt to establish a baseline and give you a really basic intro to one of my favorite art forms. :)
I don’t really understand getting mad at people for mixing up korean, chinese, and japanese
Like, look at them together
見る한국어中国死ね我要吃你マンコ형사我有大鸡巴
and tell me they don’t look similar lol
they don’t look similar
This post’s notes are made of:
• Tumblr People™ trying to prove they’re not racists by explaining why and how these alphabets don’t look similar at all even if they don’t understand shit of it; • People with historical and linguistic knowledge arguing that while korean is indeed a different looking alphabet, China and Japan have a history of borrowed symbols and trade enough that some of it’s alphabets are indeed similar to an untrained eye - after all, not everyone has the same education and access to information to know how to differentiate it, aaaannd, best of all:
• Actual chinese, korean and japanese speakers pointing out that OP just wrote “i have a big dick” and variations.
ALT
