Someone in that poll said not to watch naruto bc it’s queerbait and I hate to tell you this but naruto wasn’t trying to queerbait you it’s actually the number 1 example of “text is so misogynistic it becomes gay”
Honestly being overworked makes people unobservant and passive and it literally kills people every day. People don’t seem to realize that an overworked nurse might not notice your sepsis symptoms and a tired truck driver might not notice your car when he’s merging into the lane. Failing to protect worker’s rights impacts nearly everyone
THIS. I want workers to be treated well for their own sake, but I NEED workers to be treated well for MY sake. We have got to stop glorifying eroding margin into the negative zones.
my friend @planefood got sent to the hospital because he laughed too hard at this picture of opilia bird dressed as superman that i sent repeatedly to him, so to honor his memory i composed this memorialsong for him because he has died from laughing at thebird. please like and stream it is what he wouldve wanted, we willalso be playing this at his funeral on repeat
Btw I recorded this in my old apartment with bedsheet level thin walls completely alone in my bathroom, which is even more amplified than the rest of my old apartment was like if the guy below you coughs it is going to reverb thru the bathroom floor while you’re trying to take a shower, and I kept messing up the singing every time I tried to record it like I fucked it up and had to re-record it at least 12 different times so in conclusion my worst fear of all time maybe even more than death itself is that my downstairs neighbors were home for when I was belting out in my loud as fuck singing voice in the loudest room on the entire property “OOOOPILLIAAA BIRD, GARTEN OF BANNNNBANNN” and I’ll never know if they were actually there to hear it because ive never met them. I don’t even know who they are. People in my old complex Did Not Talk to each other ever. these people were never biologically meant to know about opilia bird and suddenly now they could. That’s real. that’s Horrifying
recovery horror: where the process of healing from something reveals previously unknown levels of damage
seeing a smudge on the wall and realizing it’s mildew. examining the mildew and realizing it’s black mold. peeling back the wallpaper and seeing it’s eaten the entire house. going into the basement for a flashlight and realizing it’s flooded. spending every last bit of money at your disposal on fixing all of these things, only to move the box covering the trap door that leads to the seven hundred mile obsidian tunnel that leads directly to the gates of hell.
where exactly every individual’s collapsing point is located. where they stop in that process of uncovering and why.
the conflicts that arise from knowing FULL WELL about the tunnel to the gates of hell, but you’re stuck with somebody who has only just found out about the mildew.
pretending to care about the mildew. speaking with them calmly and compassionately about how mildew is definitely a real problem that people ought to take seriously, and waiting for them to take a good hard look at what’s really crawling up the walls.
Aldonaĵo por la lasta afiŝo: La tuta fakta sceno esperante kaj transskribaĵo. | Bonus for the last post: The full actual scene in Esperanto and transcription.
Paŝas mi. Parolas mi. Aŭdas mi. Vidas mi.
Mi estas vi. Vi estas mi. Ĉu vi estas mi?
Saltas mi. Naĝas mi. Kuras mi. Dancas mi. Mi estas vi. Vi estas mi. Kiuj estas ni?
-Kiu estas vi? -Mi estas Silvja! Mi estas Silvja! Mi estas Silvja! Mi estas Silvja! Mi estas Silvja! Mi estas Silvja! -Ĉiu estas Silvja? -Jes, ĉiu! -Ĉu ĉiu? -Jes!
im going crazy you have GOT to decouple romance/amatonormativity and marriage in your mind. you have GOT to understand that marriage is a legal document that protects you from exploitation especially if you are a woman or a stay-at-home anything. it is not some evil unique to heterosexual people. it is a legal document that says ‘this is who i want in my hospital room when i die, this is who i want to have my stuff when i die, THIS PERSON OWES ME RECOMPENSE IF THEY KICK ME OUT OF THE HOUSE I LIVE IN"
You are not immune to being taken advantage of by your partner if you are queer. do not wind up homeless because your garbage live-ins name is on the lease and they decided to drop you like hot coals.
Adding to this:
This is why it is not assimilationist for gay/queer people to want to enshrine marriage rights in their country/region
Similarly, this is why polyamorous people are fighting for the right to have their relationships recognised by their states through marriage and/or similar agreements
Oh, and because on top of those aforementioned financial and medical protections, these laws also help you maintain connection to any kids you have and/or raise together!
I would go further and say, this is why we really should be looking to expand some of these rights so that marriage is NOT the only way they should be enshrined. (e.g. Why could I get married tonight to a guy I met this morning, and get him on my health insurance, but I cannot do the same for a sibling?)
Remember the fight for same sex marriage was never “we feel left out”, it was “we’re sick and not allowed to see each other. We’re dying and not allowed at the funeral. Someone who kicked me out at 14 just showed up for the first time 24 years later to tell the doctor to pull the plug, and they did.”
Marriage is a legal documentation of rights. Fully agree with prev that those rights should be divested from the concept of monogamy entirely, but for now we have to at least understand what they are
had a fucking hilarious dream that tumblr replaced the “block” function with the far funnier “glock” function, which did the exact same thing except whenever anyone blocked you a random bullet hole, like a png of a bullet hole, would appear on your blog. discourse blogs were unreadable bc you’d go to the page and the sheer amount of bullet hole pngs stacked over the blogs obscured everything. I woke myself up laughing
oh god I forgot. happy one year anniversary to the post that broke my blog
Shout out to the USA for pissing Canadians off so bad it flipped an entire election that was supposed to be a landslide for the center-right, forever in your debt o7
Shout out to the USA for pissing Australians off so bad it flipped an entire election that was supposed to be a landslide for the center-right, forever in your debt o7
For context, as of writing with ~70% of votes counted and 12/150 seats still not called, Labor has already delivered a LANDSLIDE victory even bigger than Canada’s.
The ALP currently holds 88 seats, which amounts to a 58% share of the parliament, up from 77 the last election.
Also, obligatory Destiel:
Next week I’ll start grimly accepting that a majority government isn’t an ideal outcome and a larger Green and leftie Independent presence would’ve been much better but for now let’s point and laugh at the right wing coalition pratfalling down the stairs because honestly this went a lot better than I expected it to.
Eat shit cunts. We’re a centre left country for now. By like, a ridiculous margin.
Knowing they’ll squander that mandate and still smooch around centre right and right wing policies is a heartbreaker
Yeah but we can celebrate for a week or so first. We avoided the worst possible outcome which seemed inevitable awhile ago. We did good. Then we can look at what we’ve got and get back to work trying to stop this party from turning us into America, But Much More Slowly And With Better PR.
Absolutely, the worst excesses of the coalition have been avoided and their leader dumped out by his electorate totally worth celebrating. Also nice to see the electoral process more or less tick along and work, conceding defeat wishing luck and not trying to implement some kind of coup.
There’s a guy in my local community Facebook group insisting on a recount and saying it’s sooo suspicious that they use pencil and not pen for the votes (we have always used pencil, this is normal) and about how pens are banned and they want it in pencil so they can edit your vote (this is not true; you can bring a pen to vote if you wish, the booths provide pencils because they’re cheaper and less prone to failure when you’re pumping a line of voters through the booth as efficiently as possible) and how these results must be fake (even though pencils are commonly used for Australian elections)
Which is expecting a lot of high level secrecy and truly astounding levels of coordination from the AEC to cheat for the most milquetoast party on the ballot, honestly. If I was in an organisation that could steal an election that smoothly and flawlessly I would’ve at least expected us to go for the Greens.
Someone should put the screws on him to sign up with the AEC for the next election I imagine it’ll crush any sense of grand conspiracy when he’s under pressure and hand counting and stacking senate ballot papers
Idk if there’s enough people talking about what a gigantic energy drain Complex PTSD is. It’s not just one single traumatic event, it’s having lived in a traumatic situation for a long time. And in the case of child abuse, your entire formative life period. Everything is a trigger, anxiety is your default, and your brain keeps trying to keep you safe by yelling at you about everything you’re doing “wrong”, which will lead to pain. Your brain is a constant war zone, braced for attack, rarely relaxed, at least some part of you always hypervigilant. The stress it takes on your body is insane. It’s why trauma is linked to autoimmune issues, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and, according to one study, cancer.
Physical disability leaves you even more vulnerable and less able to live up to the impossible standards of control and “correct” behaviour your brain insists on, not to mention the free gift given to all patients of chronic illness that is medical gaslighting and patient-blaming, all of which simply compounds the trauma. Reduced physical and mental health obviously leads to systemic risk factors such as inability to pursue academic and professional qualifications, poverty and financial struggle, malnutrition, becoming unhoused or bad living conditions, exacerbated medical issues and further lack of medical resources, reliance on welfare and care networks, and becoming trapped in codependent, abusive or toxic relationships. The knock-on effects are endless.
This is all to say— if you’re wondering why you can’t seem to do more than the bare minimum every day when you haven’t been diagnosed with a physical illness, or you’re “not that disabled”, or you think your symptoms are “just psychosomatic” (which means your brain is under so much intolerable stress that it’s started taking a chair to the windows and destroying the furniture just to get you to NOTICE AND MAKE IT STOP): the answer is that your body is actually struggling under the kind of stress that kills trained soldiers and disables them for life. So stop trying to convince yourself that you’re just not trying hard enough when what you really, desperately need to function is community, care, rest and ease.
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