Which way to go? Which is the place where life is the easiest? What career should I pursue to be wealthy and happy? What goals are the 'best' goals? 

Lately, I have been seeing videos on Youtube and reading content where some people guide people on how specific courses or exams are not worth doing. Someone made a video on how NEET is full of stress; and how CA, government exams, and UPSC are a complete mess; someone said how Engineering or MBA is not worth your time and effort. They explain with such zeal that it can influence anyone. I completely agree that times have changed, and we need to learn other skills too, but there is one thing I want to say about all this stuff going on on social media that is whatever you do requires EFFORTS. There is no free lunch in this world; no career is stress-free MBBS, UPSC, CA, GOVERNMENT EXAMS, ENGINEERING, and MBA are tough. Even if you want to start a business, it requires skills, money, and hard work. Someone who has been working and studying hard for an exam is not imbecilic; people work hard as they want to build a good life for themselves. There is no shortcut in life. Nothing can beat your education. I have seen many uncles and aunts mock other kids by saying, beta UPSC/NEET/JEE/etc., kyun kar rahe ho, and their kids are themselves preparing for such exams and choosing such careers. I want to tell this to all those learners who get influenced by such people. Listen, there are no comforts; life is life when it is uncomfortable. You grow when you fail, work hard, and wait for your dreams to come true. Do what your heart wants you to do. If studying MBBS/CA makes you happy, then do it. If You wish to prepare for UPSC, then do it. It is all about taking responsibility for your life and making the best out of every day. Learn to stand on your ground, act smart, and work hard. Consistency matters the most, and don't let outer world opinions control your life. Remember, whatever you do, you need to put effort, from NEET, CA to UPSC, learning a new skill, or being an entrepreneur; every dream requires effort, choose your strenuous goal, and give your best to make it an 'easy.'

@scribblersobia

Good news! You aren't required to make your hobbies and passions "marketable." In fact, your crafts, hobbies, and passions don't even need to be public if you so choose. You don't have to spend all of your energy becoming perfect if you aren't enjoying the process. You are not a product, you are a person, a creative, and your work also does not need to be a product.

I really appriciate how often Machete is depicted struggling and feeling like a burden, while still being loved and supported by Vasco. It gives the top tier angst of "i'm not good enough, I'm not worth it" but you frame it in such a way where it's clear that's just how he *feels* and is not how things really are, but also it's so nice to see someone who struggles quite often in a loving and unique relationship that suits them. The narrative of not being able to love or be loved unless you're consistently healthy is really tiring lol.

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i'm aware that due to luffy's more cheerful personality and looks, a lot of people might find it weird to picture him in sexual situations. especially since most of us see him as aroace (as if aroace people couldn't have sex or be in love but, y'know, that's for another time) and it's completely understandable to not feel comfortable around sexual stuff if you don't like it with this specific character. however, being uncomfortable around that type of content and infantilizing luffy's character to the point that you consider it problematic or wrong to put him in romantic/sexual situations is too much and you should let people enjoy characters however the fuck they want. if you don't like something just scroll and ignore it, but don't try to make everyone follow your own moral compass and likes because we're all different and luffy is just a fictional character.

people often forget he's the captain of a pirate crew. he's mature and has critical thinking and if seeing a cheerful/cute character instantly makes you assume he deserves to be "protected" from sex/romance, you are: infantilizing his personality (that may or may not be neurodivergent coded, but that's another story), villainizing sex and romance instead of just seeing those as something you don't personally enjoy but should let other people consume, and using being aroace as a shield from the real world and a stereotype instead of actually being inclusive and truly seeing him as aroaspec. friendly reminder that aroaspec people can have sex and be in romantic relationships because it's a spectrum. that's the whole thing about it. it's understandable to not be comfortable around sexual situations with a character you don't perceive as sexually active, but that doesn't mean it's wrong to write him that way. let people do whatever they want with their idea of luffy and have fun!

keep seeing that post that's like 'anti positions are fascist and conservative but isn't the problem ALSO.... that people are using FANDOM TERMS and reducing the issue to SHIPPING when there are important politics going on?' like

a) my guy you are online. on the online fandom and shipping website. why do you think people talk about things through a lens of 'related to online fandom and shipping' here'

b) actually people who call themselves proship or equivalents have been having the 'antis are using fascist and conservative ideology and that's worrying' conversation for. checks watch. years. but thank god someone with a Real Adult Job who thinks fandom is cringe has come along to tell us that you've truly saved us all

YOU ARE NOT UNWORTHY JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE SUFFERED. ALL THINGS CAPABLE OF LOVE HAVE SUFFERED. THE GODS HAVE SUFFERED.

THE MOST HOLY SITES IN THE WORLD ARE RUINS.

Why stick to an interpretation of a foil as homophobic, when the far more intriguing option of Gay Underling in love with his Sexy Brilliant Boss, acts out of jealousy and fear of losing him is Right There and far more relatable and narratively interesting?

The desire to suppress Ed/Izzy's romance, a relationship that is less wholesome/more complex/more toxic, has to do with the perfectionist burden we carry as queer ppl, to have our relationships be inherently more Evolved, emotionally mature, and come off more Healthy than straight ppl, even if we currently lack the tools to get there. This perfectionism isolates so many queer ppl who feel the need to perform happiness in relationships, and also makes ppl terrified to even try to find real happiness, in friendships and romance.

Stede and Ed, who's romance is idealized to the point of tossing all their mistakes onto Izzy, are actually canonically prime examples of how your own feelings of inadequacy can cause you to wreck your chance for happiness and give up your power of self determination. Even Stede, who works thru his inadequacy in episode two ("I am adequate"), still had remnants of his lack of self worth that were easily activated by Chauncey's speech and death.

Stede ran to a place he knew he couldn't be happy because being loved was scarier than returning to what he already knew. Izzy had nothing to do with that one. Those feelings of inadequacy coming to the surface again and again, even long after you thought you settled it- thats the foil! Thats the Big Bad. Being the villain in your own story is adulthood, babes!

Most of the time, the obstacle in the way of love is our own internal bullshit. Of course if you cannot accept this, due to naivety, perfectionism, a sense of inadequacy, you have to suppress Izzy's queerness and flatten him to the homophobic villain. Its too painful to permit yourself to relate to the flawed reject who may never be enough, the greatest foil to his own happiness who would rather be hated by the man he loves than lose him, and who may never find that effortless, soft love, a physical manifestation of everything you fear

I like to imagine that sans and skull would help you if they find out you feel a lot of self loathing for being asexual. I’m unfortunately asexual and I constantly struggle with the feeling that I’ll never find a guy because of it, or that if I do get in a relationship it’ll be “less” because it doesn’t involve sex. God I wish I was born differently lmao

Skull would pull you aside into a gentle cuddle, and the two of you would have a beautiful heart-to-heart where he uses the few words he has available to tell you how much he loves you. He'd list all the things he adores about you, all of them nothing to do with sex, he'd explain how you're so much more than that, how you're perfect and he's relieved you don't expect that of him, how you're not lesser for not doing something that makes you uncomfortable...

And Sans would just say some shit like "babe, why would we have sex when we could both be sleeping?" then make 'snork mimimi' sounds until you laugh at him

https://www.tumblr.com/thefallofruins/747002651356676096?source=share

Did you forget about about that time you proposed to me liar!

Shit I thought about how my image was so crudely defiled when I was answering- but you should know

If you’re going by another’s word, that makes you concubine 630 go on then find a place amongst the others and leave me to my bloodlust until your name is called

For the longest time, I always thought I wanted to be an artist.

No offense to anyone but keep that "asylum tower" au away from me. I've been in a facility. It's not cute or funny or quirky. I accidentally liked fanart of that au without realizing and now that I know what it is... yeah no.

*Editing just to say I'm sure the creator of that au is well-meaning. It's just that I genuinely don't care.

The only reason I'm glad I didn't recognize I was trans sooner is because I would have totally named myself Brandon

YOOO YOU'RE AUTISTIC TO? FUCK YEAH!

Honestly seeing people put their scores in the tags of that Raads post has been wild because yeah. I'm autistic and it's weird having a little community of people who are also autistic following my stuff. I don't know how I feel about it because I have a lot of complicated feelings around my diagnosis and I don't want to project that onto other people.

c: but it is so very nice to know I'm not alone.

Had a really stupid conversation via minor emotional breakdown with a queer friend about what makes an LGBTQ person 'assimilist'. From what she said I'm kind of forced to draw the conclusion 'if you say you're not assimilist, then you're not'.