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Lao Tzu (老子), All chapters bibliographical ~ ~ Part 3 (３/３:final):Essay
Lao Tzu (Kouji Fukunaga: paperback Chikumagakugei bunko)
The Chinese classic "Lao Tzu" is a short document consisting of a short sentence fragment and 81 chapters (5,000 words), but its meaning is very deep. From now on, I will divide it into three parts and list the keywords and key points of each chapter. It is written as @ 1 = Chapter 1. 81/3 = 27 chapters each. The source is from "Lao Tzu" (Tamaki Ogawa, translation: Chuko Bunko). This blog makes sense to index and organize the Lao Tzu in me. This is the third (final) time.
(Before accepting)
@ 55: "Baby's virtue. It does not be attacked by dangerous animals (snakes, scorpions, bees, beasts, birds of prey, etc.)" "It has a lot of vitality." Lao Tzu praises the baby.
@ 56: " Those who know do not say. Those who say do not know.." Soften wisdom and assimilate with garbage:和光同塵" (@ 4) & "Saints can neither benefit nor do harm, because they are beyond praise and Backbiting . "
@ 57: "Government of the nation faces with" positive ", and military faces with" strange ". "&" A clever engineer creates an unfamiliar item. The people fight for this and the nation becomes dark. "" If you lose your greed, the people will become a Tree as cut out:樸 "(樸 has been frequent in the past. @ 19, @ 28, @ 32, etc.)
@ 58: "When politics is absent, the people are unsophisticated. When politics Keep eyes out, the people are dissatisfied and fight each other." & "Saints do not hurt people. Light in their hearts. There is, but there is no sparkle that catches the eyes. "
@ 59: "It is best for the monarch to take a regrettable attitude."
@ 60: "Governing a great power nation is like the act of" boiling small fish. " "
If you put your hand out too much and stir it, the fish will fall apart.
@ 61: "The great power nation are downstream of the river, the small ones are upstream. Just as the river flows from the tributary to the main stream, the small powers want to be fed, and the great powers want to feed." It is important to be modesty to the great power nation. "
(This part, in history, is inconsistent with the fact that the real powers forcibly annex the small ones for their own benefit. "The big nation only wants to feed everyone, All the small country wants to be subordinate to and serve another country. ”(P138) Of the“ Lao Tzu, ”I am the most mysterious contradiction. Is this the desire of the Lao Tzu? It is a small country. Did Tibet and Uighur move forward to become China's autonomous regions? And isn't China's policy a fierce attempt to erase their own culture and destroy them and make there unique country of Han Chinese?) (See @ 80)
@ 62: "The saint will not abandon the people even if they are bad. Everything is attributed to the work of the Tao." (@ 49)
@ 63: "Don't act, don't interfere. Taste the tasteless things." & "Take virtue against grudges."
This expression is reminiscent of the Christian teaching that "if you were hit your right cheek, give your left cheek."
& "There are some difficulties for saint, but in the end it will overcome."
@ 64: "Process in the signs of things. The trip of thousand miles also starts from your feet."
& "Because the saint does nothing, he does not damage anything, and because it does not stick to anything, he does not lose anything." & "The saint wants what it does not want. It doesn't want something that is hard to get. (@ 3, @ 12)
@ 65: "Negation of politics by wisdom."
@ 66: "The virtue of being low-profile." "No one can contend with a saint who does not contend."
@ 67: "The vast Tao looks stupid." & "Saints have three treasures. Charity, frugality, and not being Head".
(Head = head, head of organization)
@ 68: "The virtue of no conflict." "People who use people well are humble."
The old letter(kanji:漢字) of the letter "fight" is a hieroglyph that "two hands are trying to hold something one thing". In this case, the "thing" may be a political victory. There are many events that "things" point to.
@ 69: "The key to the war is not to be the main body of the attack, but to take a step back." "The army with sorrow always wins."
@ 70: "My words are easy to understand and practice, but no one does. (So) the saint wears brown clothes and have a jewel (wears poor clothes and hides the treasure)."
@ 71: "It's good to know and not know, it's a drawback to know without knowing."
@ 72: "If the people are not afraid of disasters, a big disaster will come."
@ 73: "Those who are not afraid to do boldly will be killed, and those who are not afraid to be timid will survive." & "The net of heaven is rough, but it will not be missed:(天網恢恢疎而不失). (This word is also famous. Although "天網恢恢疎而不漏" is more Overwhelmed by the population)
@ 74: "How do you threaten people who are not afraid of death?" "If I kill something new, why can I kill it unharmed instead of a great executor? (It can be done by God. Only.) "
@ 75: "People starve because the rulers take too much tax." & "Those who don't care about life at all are wise than those who value life."
@ 76: "When a person is born, it is soft, and when it dies, it is hard. The hard one is a death companion and the soft one is a life companion.
@ 77: "The way of heaven takes away from the surplus and gives it to the shortage, but the actual human society is the opposite."
Even if you look around the world, the rich are getting more and more financial power, and the poor are deprived more and more money. Since the time of the Junichiro Koizumi Cabinet, the Gini coefficient, which indicates the difference between rich and poor Japanese people, has risen.
@ 78: "Nothing is as soft as water, but no matter how hard it is, it is no match for water." (There are many references to the virtue of water ... @ 8, @ 43, etc.)
@ 79: "Even if you reconcile those with deep resentment, the resentment remains. Only the saints can reconcile this." & "There is no favor in the way of heaven. Always give to good people. "
@ 80 "小国寡民(Small country&few people) :An ideal society drawn by Lao Tzu"
The country is small and the population is small (let's say). If you don't want the military to use the tools you need, if you have them, and you want the people to take their lives and not move far away, you don't have to ride a ship or car wherever you have it. Where there are insteps and weapons, there is no chance to show them side by side. Once again, (as well as) the (ancient) world of using ropes tied by people (in contracts), making their (bad) food look good, making their (poor) clothes feel good, and Let them settle down and make their (simple) habits (life) enjoyable. (If that happens) the neighboring country is immediately visible, and even if they can hear the roar of chickens and dogs, the people will not come and go (with people from other countries) until they are old and dead.
("Lao Tzu": Tamaki Ogawa, translated from P167-P168)
The description around here is inconsistent with @ 61. It is not clear whether Lao Tzu really wants the people to live in a small country or in a large country. (Is the distinction between large and small countries relative?) This one point is difficult for me to understand.
@ 81: "The belief is not beautiful, the flowerly word is not belief. (There are some antithesis below)" & "I give out everything to others, and I have more and more possessions." & "Saint's way Is something that acts and does not contend. "
("Lao Tzu (老子), All chapters bibliographical " completed)
#Lao Tzu#81 chapters#5000word#its meaning is very deep#baby#和光同塵#wears poor clothes and hides the treasure#小国寡民#Small country&few people#The belief is not beautiful#the flowerly word is not belief#water#essay#Rei Morishita
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It's so wild and refreshing to me to want to be HERE. In my country. In my general area. Where I am
#for years I've yearned for people from the screens in other countries and always wanted to be elsewhere and it gets hard#especially being left untethered after relationships break or friendships fade#I still have friendships but this is my place right now and whatever I need to find next I have to find it where I am#trying to bond with people locally feels like I'm in school again. super worried it won't work yet so happy when it does#there's an uncertainty to it and it's. different#but also last few times I was with people I didn't feel the need to be on my phone at all save from showing the person something#which is. foreign to me#idk. something is changing and shifting towards what I've been searching for. just a bit#the steps have been small. and are still small. it's like climbing up a spiral staircase#been going on forever. long way come and nowhere near the top#but it's like I just passed a window and noticed the view is really nice out#this was brought to you by: upstairs neighbour woke me up at 4 again#bien rambles
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guys trust me when i say i'm not gonna be more at risk of zoonotic illnesses by grabbing a mouse than i already am. like you do not have to worry about that specifically. i prommy
#my job on the block is to deal with death since we all gotta do some form of gross country job and that's the one that nobody but i can do#i know how to handle and CD small mammals and i do that without gloves as i need to be able to feel everything-#-to ensure the most humane death possible. alternatives are people round here using poison bait which i VEHEMENTLY dislike#(or me potentially not performing a neat kill with gloves on which would only be a few extra seconds but i would rather not risk that)#i have multiple different means of disinfecting my hands after and in the event of a bite (which has not even happened here)-#-i am also a street medic and know how to treat a rodent bite (i've done so before actually!) and have the appropriate materials handy#i also dispatch livestock/deal with roadkill/skin and tan leather for a side hustle. trust me. i am looking directly in your eyes now.
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If you’re putting off loud ass firework tonight in the suburbs around other houses, let it be known I hate you. nearly kills my dog every year.
#first day of disability month is flooded with panic inducing noise. fuck America#could you losers drive out to open country that’s flat to let out fucking industrial level fireworks.#I don’t mean the small driveway ones or even just one or two smaller ones#I mean the ones that fucking send a shockwave through the whole house like a bomb is dropping.#nothing BUT those it sounds like a war zone out here#I hope you people set ur house on fire#killing birds bats and bugs and more#y’all aren’t even celebrating veterans like you think you are. every vet I’ve ever talked to or heard of HATES it.#putting people in danger to blow out ur eardrums setting off massive fireworks at close range.#y’all are fucking annoying#I wish there was like. etiquette for fireworks this time of year.#where you could put a sign out like ‘this neighborhood as a very anxious senior dog’ or ‘this house is sensitive to loud noises’#’this house as someone w PTSD’ etc. but no everyone is supposed to get over it and shut the fuck up#and if we don’t like it we’re joyless funkillers#and if the sign is out then you have to find somewhere else away from that house to set off your fireworks.#and if you can’t find a spot without signs then you fucking get over it and have ur burger without ear shattering noise#or you know. go watch PROFESSIONALS set off fireworks instead of risking yourselves your neighbors and everything around you#I’m sorry if ur 4th of July is ruined bc you could set off industrial professional level fireworks then you genuinely need psychiatric help#if you set off a few. this isn’t about you. if you’re putting on a fucking show stopping finale this in fact is#every Fourth of July is a borderline extinction event for wildlife too. animals can die just from the sound.#they DO die. there’s a massive amount of dead animals found every year after nationwide firework events like this#y’all are killing the wildlife and then scratching ur dumbass heads going ‘huh I wonder where the fireflies went’#you know what’s prettier than polluting the air with pyrotechnics? fireflies! where are they? you killed them!#i LIKE fireworks too. I just don’t like them in my neighborhood by my novice neighbors surrounding me on all sides.#not every single house needs to set off fireworks. fucking stop it
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i hate 🥴presentations🥴sooo much🥴
#ooc#i could hear myself fumbling and making mistakes! agh!!!#i don't mind if i have to like?#give a small presentation of a thing i know to a few ppl?#but giving the weekly update for your department to 30+ people spread across 4 countries on a monday morning?#nooo thanks 🥴
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Fans can be so funny sometimes. (Myself included.)
#decided to wade through a few comments on YT for Big Country's live performance of ''Fields of Fire'' on The Tube in 1984#and some lady commented ''he (Stuart) looked so happy here'' and from seeing the beginning of the video#and also just listening to it (Bruce's guitar was not producing any sound! for most of the song)#I was like 'um lady. I'm sorry but. he's actually kinda pissed off' lmao#like idk. if he was happy it was when he could finally get off stage and get tf out of there with the sound/technical issues.#but nonetheless: I know what she meant. it's just...as fans we're so cute. we only see the good stuff that we want to see#and for bands/artists we're fans of we only ever want to see them happy and that their gigs are successful (all around)#which is lovely for us and all but also tbh pretty unrealistic. I think about this sometimes especially when I go to shows alone.#I don't know if I'm projecting but when I go to shows alone I often wonder how the artists feel. especially at...very very small shows.#and even though I've sung solos in front of people before when I was in school - I can't remember WHAT it was like/how it felt.#the experience of being an artist in front of people and sharing your art? fuck if I can recall. (except hahaha being terrified)#so now I just...wonder. and try to show my appreciation for the artists as best I can anyway...even when I'm shy and awkward. :/#random rambling
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2022 reads // twitter thread
Errant
a sapphic fantasy romance novella collection
a stoic swordswoman hunted by her old mercenary group and a charming actress
travelling together, helping people, facing magic curses and their past
early level dnd vibes!
the yellow cover is the full collection cover, I just wanted to show them all off because I designed & illustrated them hehe :)
#Errant#Errant: The compendium#L.K. Fleet#aroaessidhe 2022 reads#also yes i didn't read them before doing the covers that's how it is sometimes#(i prolly would have added a few certain character details haha)#but yea it def has like...lvl 1 d&d vibes. like just travelling from town to town doing odd jobs or dealing with small conflicts#(except it's two people ; not a party)#ALSO HAS: grumpy older person (briefly) adopting small excitable child trope (for just one of the novellas; they help him get home)#the world has different cultures/races with ppl with wings and tails and scales and stuff#queernomative world (or their country at least)#i want to know more about the earth people naming conventions. did this man name himself Mortification or did his Parents name him that#anyway i really loved this!#sapphic books#because of the novella structure the pacing feels a bit weird (i guess since i read it in one volume)
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Glow Worms[working title]* fic is going very well btw - had a big brain moment while thinking about the movie Only Yesterday.
Gosh if I do my job right it would be great if I can nail the vibes of a ghibli movie+horror hmm perhaps I should try giving the podcast Old Gods of Appalachia a try...
*brainstorm 1 brainstorm 2
#progress report#also I freaking love country bumpkin Reigen#is it considered fannon? I did notice quite a few other people enjoy the same line of thought - either country or small town Reigen#its probably one of my favorite HCs#Nico blabs into the void#Glow Worms [working title]#Glow Worms#Glow Worms or rather: In the Depths of the Safflower Hills
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americans: oh noooo lol its so smoky, what the fuck canada why would you do this lmao
canadians: our country is literally fucking burning down and people are losing their houses and entire communities
#im going a little insane#the jokes are funny sometimes yeah but like. can we not forget that people are losing their homes maybe?#this is the worst we've ever had it#9 out of 13 provinces and territories are on fire right now lmfao our entire country is in flames#theres this one small town a few hours away thats completely burned down to the ground#these people lost their entire town#that was their life there. and its gone now lol. it will not be rebuilt bc it was so thoroughly wiped out#people have to set their farm animals loose so that they can evacuate bc they cant bring the animals with them#and its the best bet the animals have for living but its not a surefire bet that the animals will live#trying not to be a killjoy about this but wow yall !!! thats kind of really fucked up of yall to be joking and laughing about this !!!#but as soon as america catches on fire then USamericans will fucking scream at everyone else to care and nobody will allowed to make jokes#pippen needs 2nd breakfast
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People who try to analyze what happened on Tumblr on November 5th, 2020, often really overstate how much it was actually “about” Supernatural. As someone who has never been in the supernatural fandom ever but dID join in on the hysterical destielposting—it was really more about the stress of the pandemic and the 2020 presidential election.
The two biggest Youtubers I’ve seen try to dissect “what happened that November 5th” in video essays both weren’t American—- and I think that explains why they both tried to explain the hysteria primarily via analyzing the Supernatural fandom/the original show, rather than through the lens of the election. And while those videos are cool, valid, informational, and make lots of really well-considered interesting points— I can tell you that me and almost all my mutuals had literally no knowledge or interest in the fact that “oh supernatural had made nods at the ship in the past but the creators were adamant that I wouldn’t be canon” or etc etc etc etc. the first time I learned about any of that context was way later, watching videos where people claimed that fandom history context (that I did not know anything about) was the actual reason for the hysteria.
But the reality is that people latched on to the Destiel stuff because it was a piece of big useless inane zero-stakes fandom news in a time when we were desperately waiting for serious high stakes election news. We were latching onto a “positive “ piece of inane stupid fandom news in a time of great stress, with all the desperation of a drowning man who latches onto whatever piece of wood will keep him afloat.
The core of the hysteria was that Americans (who make up a huge chunk of tumblr’s userbase) were currently glued to their laptops watching the live presidential election vote counts come in. These vote counts were taking an extended amount of time due to the pandemic causing high numbers of mail-in ballots, resulting in a constant state of Election Day Stress for multiple days straight.
This was also during the height of the Pandemic. People had predicted Trump’s presidency would be bad; no one had predicted it would be this apocalyptically bad. No one had predicted pandemics and lockdowns and hospitals overflowing with bodybags. remember Trump spreading Covid lies and conspiracies?? There were so many Qanon conspiracies about democrats being Satanic child traffickers who had to be put to death, and coup threats were mounting from the right wing side. It seemed like this election was a choice between ‘centrist democrat’ and “apocalyptic right wing conspiracy theory authoritarianism,” in the midst of pandemic conditions that people feared would never ever improve— and it seemed like a close election.
Another major point was that Trump voters were more likely to be antimaskers/Covid deniers, while Biden voters were more likely to take the pandemic seriously— so Biden voters were more likely to send in mail-in ballots instead of risking the in-person voting crowds, which meant their ballots would take much longer to count. And so, in many state electoral vote counts, it would initially seem like Trump was very far in the lead— only for Biden to slooooowly build up an agonizingly small lead as the mail in ballots came in, and then defeat Trump at the very end.
So you’re just watching these news sites giving live election updates, refreshing the page every 2 minutes to see if you’re going to live under a spineless centrist democrat or a literal Qanon Dictatorship. And then you go on tumblr to distract yourself, and there’s more election posting, and more agonizing over the votes, and more stress and despair—-
And then it’s been days and we’re right at the crucial tipping point where it’s anyone’s game and the next few hours will determine whether Trump will win, so you need to keep your eye on the vote count, because the next hours will determine the future of the pandemic and your country and your plans for your entire life—
And then stupid Destiel becomes canon! And it becomes canon in the silliest way possible!
If Destiel had become canon at any other time, it would have been a big goofy tumblr celebration? But we wouldn’t have gotten the insane explosion of hysterical interaction.
The entire core of it was the contrast between the inane meaningless stupidity of fandom news vs the actual stressful election news you wanted to hear! It really is best conveyed in that meme where Castiel says “I love you” and Dean indifferently responds with a piece of important election news.
It’s about the contrast between the low-stakes inanity of fandom and the massive life-destroying stakes of a terrifying election. There really was no reason it had be Supernatural specifically, except that Supernatural was a thing everyone knew basic things about from dashboard osmosis— it could’ve been any other equally huge silly fandom ship news about a ship everyone *knew of* but might not necessarily be invested in (ex. Stucky becoming canon, Johnlock becoming canon, Kirk/Spock becoming more canon somehow, etc etc etc.)
I think it’s true that people who weren’t paying agonizingly close attention to the American election news got swept up in it, and that non American Supernatural fans also were extremely excited for purely fandom reasons — but the entire reason it blew up to an unprecedented degree was because of that core of stressed out terrified Americans glued to their computers watching election results and suddenly receiving stupid fandom news instead, and deciding to just hysterically parodically hyper-celebrate this absurd useless zero-stakes news.
I think it was also all elevated by the fact that, as I said before, this happened at the crucial “tipping point” of the election where the next few hours would determine the winner. The fact that Biden began to slowly develop a lead in the hours after made it feel, hysterically, as if the hours after Destiel became canon was somehow the turning point where he began to win; so celebrating Destiel felt like celebrating that slow turn towards victory.
The tl,dr is that it’s so important to Remember the Fifth of November …..in preparation the inevitable hysteria that will happen in the presidential election on November 5th of next year. XD. Personally I’m rooting for Johnlock or Frodo/Sam to somehow become canon in the eleventh hour right before the democrats win
#November 5th#november 5 2020#the fifth of november#just a random ramble#November 5th 2020 is such an important day to me#it really is a holiday#but it does confuse me when I see people analyzing it primarily as a supernatural thing#instead of a ‘hysteria over an election reaches a breaking point when inane zero stakes fandom news comes out and we all latch onto it’thing#but yeah!!#this is my personal essay out of love for the holiday
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During the 2008 recession, my aunt lost her job. Her, her partner, and my three cousins moved across the country to stay with us while they got back on their feet. My house turned from a family of four to a family of nine overnight, complete with three dogs and five cats between us.
It took a few years for them to get a place of their own, but after a few rentals and apartments, they now own a split level ranch in a town nearby. I’ve lost track of how many coworkers and friends have stayed with them when they were in a tight spot. A mother and son getting out of an abusive relationship, a divorcee trying to stay local for his kids while they work out a custody agreement, you name it. My aunt and uncle knew first hand what that kindness meant, and always find space for someone who needed it, the way my parents had for them.
That same aunt and uncle visited me in [redacted] city last year. They are prolific drinkers, so we spent most of the day bar hopping. As we wandered the city, any time we passed a homeless person, my uncle would pull out a fresh cigarette and ask them if they had a light. Regardless of if they had a lighter on hand or not, he offered them a few bucks in exchange, which he explained to me after was because he felt it would be easier for them to accept in exchange for a service, no matter how small.
I work for a company that produces a lot of fabric waste. Every few weeks, I bring two big black trash bags full of discarded material over to a woman who works down the hall. She distributes them to local churches, quilting clubs, and teachers who can use them for crafts. She’s currently in the process of working with our building to set up a recycling program for the smaller pieces of fabric that are harder to find use for.
One of my best friends gives monthly donations to four or five local organizations. She’s fortunate enough to have a tech job that gives her a good salary, and she knows that a recurring donation is more valuable to a non-profit because they can rely on that money month after month, and can plan ways to stretch that dollar for maximum impact. One of those organizations is a native plant trust, and once she’s out of her apartment complex and in a home with a yard, she has plans to convert it into a haven of local flora.
My partner works for a company that is working to help regulate crypto and hold the current bad actors in the space accountable for their actions. We unfortunately live in a time where technology develops far too fast for bureaucracy to keep up with, but just because people use a technology for ill gain doesn’t mean the technology itself is bad. The blockchain is something that she finds fascinating and powerful, and she is using her degree and her expertise to turn it into a tool for good.
I knew someone who always had a bag of treats in their purse, on the odd chance they came across a stray cat or dog, they had something to offer them.
I follow artists who post about every local election they know of, because they know their platform gives them more reach than the average person, and that they can leverage that platform to encourage people to vote in elections that get less attention, but in many ways have more impact on the direction our country is going to go.
All of this to say, there’s more than one way to do good in the world. Social media leads us to believe that the loudest, the most vocal, the most prolific poster is the most virtuous, but they are only a piece of the puzzle. (And if virtue for virtues sake is your end goal, you’ve already lost, but that’s a different post). Community is built of people leveraging their privileges to help those without them. We need people doing all of those things and more, because no individual can or should do all of it. You would be stretched too thin, your efforts valiant, but less effective in your ambition.
None of this is to encourage inaction. Identify your unique strengths, skills, and privileges, and put them to use. Determine what causes are important to you, and commit to doing what you can to help them. Collective action is how change is made, but don’t forget that we need diversity in actions taken.
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i hate that my community is so small. i hate that social anxiety prevents me from meeting the people i want and expanding my community and instead puts me in the hospital. i hate that i cant get any kind of medication without losing my visa. i hate going to the straight clubs because the only other lgbtq+ night life is just very small gay clubs where i feel like i and my group are taking space that we shouldn't. i hate that i am always somewhat uncomfortable around the people with whom i am the most comfortable. i hate that even the one person i can relate to about this stuff is able to mask better than me. it's like i am set up to fail socially
#mine#personal#rant#i went to the club last weekend and was uncomfortable the entire time#partially bc it was very VERY straight vibes which is not a bad thing but its not my element#and partially bc the club = high chance for social anxiety episode#we made plans to go to the gay club throughout the night but cancelled it bc the majority of our group is straight and feels uncomfortable#but im not gonna go to any club alone#so i just go where they go#the most fun i had was smoking in the smoking room for 2 mins talking to some rando in korean and barely understanding half of what he said#its such a fickle situation too bc i cant go with too many people and also not too few#but i dont even know where the limits are#2 people is too few but 3 can sometimes be too few too#and 4 is too many#like wtf!!!!!!!!!!#and then theres the issue of even if i were to go to the gay club instead i would be taking up space wrongfully bc--#--theyre so small and im just gonna stand around or sit on a stool or whatever barely doing anything n realistically that doesnt fit into--#--their business model so they might ask me to leave#and theres always the issue of gay men questioning every woman in the gay club and why we are there#as if there are any lesbian clubs or bars in 95% of this country#not a single lesbian or wlw establishment in the city much less any city outside of the capital#that might be an exaggeration but there are literally none in my LARGE city#there is a total of one singular trans bar in the whole city and its brand new but hasnt even opened yet#so where am i supposed to go#but thats still ignoring the other problem which is social anxiety#how many more hospital trips am i gonna have#asexual#aromantic#wlw#sapphic
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Does it seem weird that people treat cats like they’re wild animals to anyone else? And by that I don’t mean people expect cats to survive on their own in the wild. I mean people act like pet cats who have owners are wild animals that the owners aren’t responsible for. And I’m not talking about cat owners specifically. A lot of people who doesn’t have any pets at all act like cats are wild animals (which might be why so many people treat them like wild animals that can be hurt with no consequences)
I never thought about that until a few years ago when someone in the town Facebook group asked who owned a cat that kept jumping in through his windows. It was summer so he couldn’t keep his windows closed (we don’t use air conditioning in this country) and he had a terrible allergy to cats so it was legit dangerous for him to have a cat running around his house.
People started offering solutions like “buy this spray that deters cats” and “you can buy this rolling thing for the top of your fence” but his response was “Okay but why am I expected to spend all this money to keep someone’s pet out? Who owns this cat!?” When he didn’t get an answer he eventually got a friend to pick the cat up when it was in his house and he drove it to a shelter, and informed the Facebook group which shelter. Suddenly the owner responded, angry that he’d do such a thing! Getting the cat back would cost money! But the guy was like where the fuck were you when I asked who the cat belonged to!? I was trying to avoid this!
I was honestly surprised by how many people were on the side of the cat’s owner. Another cat owner on our street isn’t responsible enough to keep her cat indoors but responsible enough to at least buy stuff for other people if her cats bother them. She practically have a small stach of cat deterrent spray she hands out to the neighbors who doesn’t want cats in their garden.
The whole thing really made me realize how strange it is that cats are the only pets where we expect other people to spend their money on building fences to keep them out instead of the owners trying to keep them in, as if they were wild animals with no owner to look after them.
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r/ukvisa is a treasure trove of useful info and experience and has saved me so many times by digging up home office policies buried on the website that could get a visa rejected
but
boy does it not take a lot for several people on that sub to throw disabled people/"illegal" immigrants/asylum seekers/the entire concept of taxation and socialised healthcare/etc under the bus
#yes it fucking sucks that we have to pay the ihs#it sucks double that you have to pay the ihs even when you are paying national insurance#i do not like being taxed twice when the tory besties with millions barely get taxed either!#the solution to that is not 'get rid of the nhs it barely works and move to private healthcare entirely' can you actually hear yourself#or to say 'well i shouldn't have to contribute to the nhs as i never get sick ever and i pay for private healthcare when i do get sick'#or 'the government is so busy bleeding money from us the Good Legal High-Earning Immigrants Who Deserve To Be Here and ignoring the people.#... crossing in small boats who don't deserve to be here'#i am not even paraphrasing much lol 'this government hates people who want to be here legally' is a running comment on the sub#my good pal they hate ALL immigrants#they hate some of us less than others but they're not after us bc they have some sympathy (???) for asylum seekers they're doing it bc they#see a cash cow that isn't their besties and are trying to make it ridiculously difficult to get in the country. bc they don't like immigran#this coupled with labour's announcement today that THEY would actually be good and harsher with small boat crossings and i guess kill more#asylum seekers as though that's a matter of fucking pride#has pissed me off ok#rhetoric in this country towards 'less desirable' immigrants and asylum seekers and refugees has always been vile but god#have suella braverman and priti patel really done a number on it bc it's so so unabashedly violent in the last few years#i'd also like to point out that people struggling to be in the uk 'legally' (quote marks for a reason) & resorting to other means is a#direct consequence of the hostile environment and how hard it is to get a visa logistically financially etc#anyway i don't understand the 'it is hard for me therefore let me make it fucking harder for everyone else instead of attacking the people#in charge who made it this way and benefit from us being screwed over'#the model minority thing got in our heads and infected us you gotta cut it out and stop trying to be the good immigrant and ffs don't do th#tories job for them#i am. mad. ok i'm done now#ukpol#immigration#abolish borders today pls#2023 is an experience#my post
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Trying to make friends in a farm city
It’s really fun (not) where I live
Me: Hey! I wanna go to a vampire ball!
*LAST ONE HAPPENED 2016*
Me: Oh, man, a renfaire sounds so fun-
*LAST RENFAIRE WAS 2012*
Me: Well I was asking a bit much for a specifically catered hobby- oh there’s a craft night at the library!
The one old woman who showed up: oh! you’re the first young person I’ve ever seen attend! Every arts guild or meetup in this town is all retired
#also the first 2 events listed still involved driving for over an hour to another city#its like were farming country#city people call us small town but all neighbouring towns call us a massive city#our city is so cartesian plane 0.0#I JUST WANT TO MAKE LOCAL FRIENDS BUT EVERYONE EITHER HAS FRIENDS ALREADY OR IS A TEENAGER#I AM A 20 SOMETHING#I EXISTED IN THE 90S#I DESERVE A LOCAL FRIEND WHO ALSO EXISTED IN THE 90S#all my friends moved away except for the few who were exclusively school friends
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the line between what's canon & what ive made up myself blurs every day but To Me satoshi's a Country Boy who can lasso a kentauros (if only coz he's had to when intermittently helping at ookido's & none of his kentauros would stop stampeding thru the lab park).
#i also do know for a fact he can ride a horse-mon saddle-less thank you os#cowboy satoshi real........#but also like!!!! he IS a country boy!! ppl have called masara a hick town!!!#just coz theyve got ookido doesnt mean the town itself is particularly hot shit theres like a few hundred people living there#town's so small they dont have ids & havent had local crime in like a century which is why they dont have a jenny#just have a local neighborhood watch slash voluntary fire department#country roooooaaads take me hoooome—#ooc. pkmn is autistic culture.
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