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angeletombee · 11 months

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i hope you don't find this weird.

you and your writing were one of the factors that led to me finally completely abandoning religion, and i want to thank you for that. i feel free and even though i don't actually know you, i wanted to say that i'm grateful you exist.

First of all, this comment/statement came in a very long time ago, and it has lived with me ever since. I’ve been sitting on this for months, contemplating. Pleasantly haunted, perhaps? I don’t even know if I’ve arrived at a conclusion yet, and I just didn’t know if it needed replying to or not. I’ve gone back and forth multiple times — so many times, really. I finally decided, YES. I want to validate these words and express my gratitude.

Thank you, Beautiful Human.

Thank you for sharing this journey with me. It’s fucking hard, I know, and *I am here with you*. This is one of the singularly most difficult things to bear, but we’re all here with you.

YOU ARE NOT ALONE.

I never — not ever, not ONCE — thought that when I poked my silly fanfiction onto the internet that I would make anyone happy, let alone help them (even in a teeny way) out of what I feel to be a repressive worldview, but here we are. This is the power of words, cats, and THIS is why the Right Reich is all about banning books. About censoring words. BECAUSE WORDS CAN CHANGE LIVES. And you never know which words in which orders in which cases in which tenses — or even which LANGUAGE — will do the trick. So best to ban as many as possible! Keep the people in line. Ignorance is tantamount to compliance.

Well, fuck that.

I was taught that the pen is mightier than the sword, and goddamn it, my slick-ass fountain pen is a THOUSAND times hotter than your stupid gun. And, yes, I only write with fountain pens. I know this is spilling out everywhere, but that’s because I want you all to read this and know it’s heartfelt and have an ultimate takeaway — even if you, yourself, are religious (I have no problem…pro-religious expression!), even if you read three words of what I write and hate me, THAT IS GREAT! That’s your prerogative! THAT, my cat, is freedom.

Anyway.

Words can help. Words can heal. Words can change whole fucking *lives*. Words - even dumb ones - can help people arrive at the truth. Even words in gay Good Omens fanfic written on the internet.

Remember that.

I don’t know who this human is, but I am so, SO happy they exist. Thank you again, Intrepid Person. Stay strong.

I believe in you.

#words mean things #words matter #writers #thank you beautiful human #I hope this doesn’t chase you away #but you have been living rent free in my head #and in DC that’s really fucking expensive real estate #good omens #ineffable husbands #fanfic writer #ao3 writer #atheists #deconversion #atheism #do NOT underestimate yourself

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subtlelifeblog · 1 year

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When you are in a room full of talented people, you are left to compare yourself with them. You judge your abilities with theirs. You judge your weaknesses with their strengths. How did you forgot that maybe you are not good in a particular field but you are the best one in anther field. The cycle of self -doubt is vicious, it's never ending.

Know that in this garden (life) every flower is unique ❤✨

#self sufficent #thoughts #wise words #self care #self love #self help #life #self improvement #do not underestimate yourself #mental wellness #mental health #self doubt

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slowestlap · 5 months

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Post-FP2 interview with F1TV | Abu Dhabi GP, 2023

Int: We saw you quite keen at one point to get out of the pit lane and try to squeeze through Max: They have to move. I mean, they're all driving slow and I want to go out because we're all limited on time. They just keep on driving in the middle and when I try to pass they try to squeeze me in the wall, so. Yeah, bit silly.

#max verstappen #red bull racing #abu dhabi gp #myf1gifs #the annyoing thing about knowing how to gif #is that if nobody else has giffed the thing you want to see and reblog #then you gotta do it yourself before you can rest 😮‍💨#(also never underestimate max verstappen knowing the rule book by heart and making it to work in his favor)#(also also. wHy iS hE soMad it's Fp2 aNd He'S aLreaDy woN??#winners strive for perfection at all times #this shouldn't be such a hard concept to understand 😐)#anyway 3 sets in one day i'm going to bed now #until tmrw lads!!

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crybaby-bkg · 7 months

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whenever gojo gets too annoying n clingy you just hand him one of those enrichment toys and he leaves you alone for a solid six minutes bc this shit is harder than it looks but he has to finish it before he seeks you out again

#I thought about this at 3am and made myself ugly laugh #he’s sooo uninterested until you act like you’re doing it yourself #then he just takes over and is fucked up about it bc it’s not that easy lol #just imagining him tryna do those little puzzles and underestimating it #you find him at the kitchen table at like 5am bc he found another you were hiding and he can’t figure it out skdjdkdj #this is so bad I’m sorry lmfao #gojo treats! 🍬

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chaotic-archaeologist · 10 months

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Sorry just a mini rant bc genuinely appalled at the way some of my coworkers talk about not eating during work. Like buddy we're working CRM. It is a very labour intensive job. It's July and frequently over 30°C. The way you talk about not eating anything til dinner (and sometimes not anything beyond a granola bar all day) is terrifying. Obviously money for food can be tight (I'm feeling it rn) but I've spoken with some of them and they have and can afford food and they almost seem to be bragging about making it through the day on nothing. You are going to collapse! You should be eating!

So yeah my coworkers may not listen to me but to any fellow archaeologists please remember to eat! Even if you're staying hydrated that won't be enough if you're also not eating properly for days. Please take care of yourself in the field.

Everyone should be taking breaks to eat, hydrate, reapply sunscreen, and stretch. Yes, even if you don't feel like you need to. Yes, even if other people are "working through it." Toughing it out is not a badge of honor. It is dangerous, and unnecessarily so.

Just because you can go without doesn't mean you should. Your body is not suddenly the exception to the biological necessities of eating and drinking. Keeping your body nourished is part of long term care for your health. No work is worth shortchanging that.

This applies to all work, not just archaeological excavation. If you're reading this and thinking I totally support this for everyone else, not for me though THIS IS FOR YOU. Taking breaks sets a precedent. Because even if you don't need the break, someone else does, and if you take yours, you're contributing to a work environment where that person can take theirs. There's a reason unions have fought for breaks in pretty much every industry.

-Reid

#he speaks #archaeology #crm #labor unions #breaks #as someone who very much does need those breaks it is so much easier for me to take them if my coworkers are also doing it #don't underestimate the power of group dynamics #if you won't take the break for yourself at least take it for me (or someone like me)#disabled archaeologist

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cuteniaarts · 1 year

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In which Nia is making Hamilton fanart in 2023... this is a new low, even for me

THE HOLD this woman had on 13 year old me, you don’t get it, I was absolutely OBSESSED

I called myself the #1 Maria Reynolds stan, defender and apologist, read every single fic on Ao3, FF.Net AND Wattpad, spent days digging through every historical record available on the internet to find out everything there is to know about her, made a presentation about her for school... If you ever need a detailed biography which includes accurate dates, a map of where she lived during her lifetime, and the names of, among others, all her siblings, stepchildren, sons-in-law and great granddaughter, you know who to call

A.k.a: When Nia’s mental health is in the gutter, she turns to Broadway musicals to cope

#FUN FACT IT’S HER BIRTHDAY TODAY #AND THAT DATE HAS BEEN ENGRAVED ON MY BRAIN FOR YEARS SO I DIDN’T EVEN NEED TO LOOK IT UP #AND I SPECIFICALLY WAITED FOR TODAY TO POST THIS #NEVER UNDERESTIMATE MY DEDICATION #okay nia that’s enough stop embarrassing yourself #we get it you were obsessed with hamilton in middle school move on #dw guys we’ll be back to our irregularly scheduled self-indulgent LoK OC content before you know it #I loved painting this actually it was so fun #the urge to do angelica and eliza as well grows by the second #but I will refrain #for now #my art #hamilton #hamilton an american musical #hamilton fanart #maria lewis reynolds #maria reynolds #jasmine cephas jones

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pinksdoodles1 · 13 days

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professors will say shit like "i never put top marks" and never realize that they're basically admitting to being proud about none of their students ever succeeding. how do your own farts taste, huh?

#there are like two obvious red flags for me when it comes to professors #one of them is “doesn't let you enter class if you arrive five minutes late”#because bitch i'm paying to be here #and the other is “i never put top marks”#because that just tells me you think too highly of yourself #or your class and you will purposefully make students fail so you can feel proud about your class “being hard”#i do feel some degree of pity though #it must be hard to live with their heads so far up their own asses #pinksrants #never underestimate what an inflated sense of self-importance does to some people

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kaleschmidt · 4 days

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Wait actually tkp stimboards would be so nice.

#TabbyKat Rambles #Am I imagining 5 million kitties for Kale. Yea.#'Why not do it yourself' I could and I might but you can't underestimate the power of fancontent

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sexylittleslutsls · 9 months

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Work hard silently .. prove to those who thought you couldn’t do it .. just how fucking wrong they all are ….

#never give up #believe in yourself #keep the music in your mind #the dream lives in your heart #never underestimate what you can do #always get back up #forever a dancer

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nyanbombdotcom · 1 year

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shii with the big ass hammer

#never underestimate a girl who can wield a big hammer in my experience #do it yourself!!

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mahalshairyballs · 2 years

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You know, thinking about Matt being able to hear heartbeats thing, it's not always properly used imo

People have already talked about how heartbeats aren't really reliable to detect if someone is lying or not. Matt here is like a living lie detector with this, and we know how unreliable lie detectors are. Maybe Matt uses a more holistic approach to detect lies and doesn't just use heartbeats. Combining heartbeats with sensing if someone is sweating, hearing the minute changes in their voice, how they're moving etc., could be a way more reliable way to know if someone is lying. I'm pretty sure that's what Matt does, it's just not usually shown that way.

Heartbeats however, and those other clues too, could help Matt detect what other people are feeling pretty reliably. For most, not necessarily all, emotions Matt could've learned to read the physical signs they give off that he's able to detect. Obviously that means he's able to know if someone is stressed or relaxed, or having an anxiety episode.

I wonder how often this ability of his is used in Daredevil fics

#daredevil #matt murdock #daredevil/moon knight #matt murduck x marc spector #like Matt will pretty much guess they have DID by just all the small differences between them #well Steven underestimated Matt's abilities and thought Matt wouldn't recognize their body as Steven #then Matt *knows whose body it is by their scent*#Matt : why do you speak with tgat accent ? and why is your heartbeak so different ? and why are you moving so unlike yourself ?#well Matt doesn't totally gets it rifht but he'd know pretty fast something is going on #none of them can impersonate the other with him either #he knows #I was just thinking about Jake/Matt cuddling after sex #and Jake's mostly good with touches now but there's still work left to be done #so after some time of cuddling Matt feels Jake's heartbeat going up #he senses his growing anxiety #so Matt could never say 'I didn't know you were uncomfortable' he'd always know #Matt Murdock/Jake Lockley

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lebrookestore · 1 year

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feelings are so complex

#its funny in a way yk #because like on one end of the spectrum theres this person that was supposed to be my best frien #but she ended up manipulating me and doing some really shitty things and will be all nice to my face but talk shit behind my back #and honestly she can be a terrible horrible person and has hurt another close friend of mine really badly #and i want to hate her so badly #and i think part of me does hate her because being around her now just drains me of my energy and i suck at being fake about people #but at the same time i loved her at one point bc she was my best friend and i cant just let that go??#and she's going through a lot so i just feel sad for her #so like i cant hate her if im sympathetic and its just weird idk man #i want to hate her but i cant #like i feel awful ab the shit she's going thru but that doesnt excuse the crappy human being she's being but i feel like a bad person #holding her accountable for that bc of how much she's going thru and like why why WHY is it like this why is it not in black n white #then on the other end of the spectrum there are feelings that like im kind of terrified off but like #i underestimated just how easily those type of feelings can blossom #is this me talking about the L word? yes. 🧍🏻‍♀️#i thought that falling in love per se would be like. way more work way more time etc etc #but apparently not? its oddly simply? but at the same time admitting it is like oh okay what #and therefore its like u gotta take time to figure yourself and it out and then like #like you dont really realize it until you're standing in the midst of it #man i dont even know what this post is lmfao 😭 i quite frankly dont even know what im saying right now i am just putting my thoughts out #into the abyss because i gotta put it somewhere #goodbye and goodnight now #brooke rambles

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eleminim · 1 year

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Since we admitting things I wanna share my story 😂😂😂😂

As a kid I was really naughty. I wouldn't want to do any work at alllll and just wanted to play.

To encourage me, my big bro used to say the amount of work I manage to do is equal to the amount of protection I get from monsters at night, since monsters go after bad kids and leave good kids alone.

So if I did my work I would be safe at night from the monsters and if I didn't I wasn't lool

This actually was a genuinely genuis move as it actually motivated me to do work but fast forward to one night where I was really angry and I didn't want to do ANY work.

My bro try motivate me by saying the monsters were actually in our area tonight and I had to work otherwise they ll take me. I was throwing a tantrum and was a stubborn little kid so I didn't.

Come bedtime I was absolutely Terrified 😂😂😂😂. I hid under my sheets and was too scared to even look out from underneath them. I even tried to hold my breath in case they could hear me 😆😆😆.

In the end I ran to sleep next to my parents because everyone knows monsters don't like adults looooool

Well that's my trauma explained and I guess it also explains how managed to eventually achieve my degree and masters even tho I have no academic skills whatsoever 😂😂😂😂

First, your brother is a genius and second, you lazy brat

#eleminim #hey congrats on your achievements #they're not small #why do I feel like you're underestimating yourself

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rosyredlipstick · 11 months

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Hi, about the slasher fic, could I ask what uhhh level in a sense? Of violence it has? Like I understand there's a graphic depiction of violence warning but I'm wondering tobwhat severity? On a scale of, there is a lot of violence in the fic and they're stated pretty frankly to there is a lot of violence in the fic and several paragraphs are spent describing each injury and everything around it in deep detail?

I would say on a scale from 1-10, i would say maybe like a 6 or 7? A majority of the violence in the fic is stated pretty frankly, and there's a lot of quick deaths such as "character gets stabbed and falls to the ground, screaming. Killer finishes the job quickly, messily." Then, the action typically moves on quickly. There are also a few scenes in which a narrating character comes across violence already committed, i.e. the aftermath. However, I will say there are a few instances where a character receives a major injury that is described/lingered on for a few paragraphs due to their severe nature.

Please let me know if you have anymore questions!! If it's helpful, I'd be happy to write up a short summary of the violence in each chapter :))

#i hope this was helpful !!!!!#i do not want to underestimate it like. a lot of characters die! theres a lot of blood! but i dont think its gross levels of graphic #BUT i know people have different levels of horror they can enjoy so please keep yourself safe <333333 #slasher fic #anon #rosy answers

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edwardashley · 2 years

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need more of you hoes to watch anime so i can explain my hickeygibson AU with the same plot of revolutionary girl utena,,

#hickey MUST and WILL duel for Gibsons honor #YES hes being exploited and YES hes manipulating people back as best he can #but lose him due to his underestimating of gibsons self awareness #and also you know: regular old oppression #also Rose Bride Gibson is just Chefs Kiss #and hickey learning a valuable lesson #you have to love him NOT as a concept you have to love him as yourself!#in you cant do that if you build your life around fantasies and thes constructed ideas of selfhood that are based on patriarchal myths

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offbrandspacecolumbo · 2 years

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Legitimate question: Why is it when I buy a yogurt from the store, the kind with the fruit sauce at the bottom you have to mix yourself, it tastes gross... ... but when I just take a scoop of vanilla yogurt, slap that in a bowl, and just get a spoonful of regular ol' jam and mix that in, it tastes like it's just on a whole other level? This isn't hard. This is in fact very simple and easy. Why does it taste superior. I am very confused.

#want something done right then do it yourself #It this just one of those kinds of things?#Or am I just severely underestimating how badly the yogurt makers are cutting corners #just to spare me the convenience of having to mix my own fruit and yogurt together #because god forbid i have to do manual labor to make my breakfast

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