shoutout to anyone without in-house washers and driers. had to take my bedding to a laundromat since it doesn’t fit in my washer—would rather pull the taste buds out of my tongue with tweezers than do that on a regular basis. y’all are stronger than me.

Didn't he take another man's life to save yours? He was defending himself. He was defending you.

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GOD!!! I love Iroh

So you choose not to step through the door, after all why mess with nonsense when you're already in nonsense? You check the items in your pockets, your phone you shut off to conserve power, the dog tag, key and top clink together but offer no help, and when you fiddle with the walkie-talkie you manage to get it to turn on, excitedly you call out to the void but only static responds, which is disappointing but predictable, so you put the items away and hunker down for the night, looking at the sky you can see that the stars seem strange, though you're no expert, and the moon seems to have a second smaller moon near it which looks pretty cool but is a stark reminder of how not on your own world your predicament has landed you.

In the morning you begin looking through the nearby bushes and plant life taking note of anything strange, you notice the berries you had been picking before you stepped through the door are also growing around here, they look and taste the same, and some other plants seem pretty similar to the forest from before as well, although the further away from the door you go the more unfamiliar plants you come across (of course that may just be your lack of familiarity with plants) and the few animals you have noticed are bizarre in a way that you can't explain, like the people from town, they seem almost perfectly familiar, just a little off and the noises they make have you thinking they wouldn't be able to communicate with their counterparts either, brushing aside another branch you come across a strange funnel made of metal which you pocket and what looks to be a regular whistle, you wipe it down and blow but hear nothing aside from the air going through, you consider it is either broken or maybe a dog whistle, as you go to put it away you hear something big running in your direction, before you can decide how to react a large creature storms out of the bushes and stops in the clearing before you, it's huge as a horse with paws and sharp teeth it licks as it looks around and spots you, it shakes its head again reminding you of a horse, then steps closer before turning and staring expectantly, you get the feeling it's waiting on you, impatiently, and you realize it seems to expect you to get on its back. Do you get on?

Yes.

Hello there martynsimp69 I hope you’re alive after the Events

im coping <- this is a lie

I'm having sooo much fun playing as a paladin I typically don't enjoy melee-heavy characters but god. this rocks?

Ok, got a call back from a construction cleanup company. They're coming out to take a look at my room on Sunday and give an estimate on cleaning up the fiberglass dust.

I'm hoping with a bill and confirmation in hand that literally proves this is not just, 'a little bit of dust', the contractors that fucked up my room will quietly fork over the money for cleanup and replacement. Mom said that's how a lot of deals go - they'll dodge so they can pay nothing until you have proof, and then they'll pay what they need to in order to keep things out of court. In this case: the cleanup bill, the cost of replacing the things I've had to throw away, and the cost of having to have someone else come in and get the heavier items (recliner, bookshelves) out of the house.

I'm not going to bother going back up to clean up at this point. I'm not qualified, my hands are torn up from trying, and on top of that, I want the cleanup company to be able to see all the dust I couldn't get.

So that's where we're at at present. We'll see what they say on Sunday.

btw super do not recommend flying on a plane w a cat unless you have the chillest cat ever or Cat Drugs

TOMORROW PLAN:

get up around 12-1pm (doable)

eat the leftover tacos (doable but they taste awful :/ )

go to a location - i guess ill ask my dad to drive me to a cafe or something and give me like $10 to get a meal?

work on lining that one commission (this will take several days)

come home around 11pm (doable)

work on some other thing because taking that long to work will definitely hurt my hands

get to bed around 2am

repeat

current season three vision board is just [reba theme song playing over compilation of crowley teaching muriel how to live on earth]

Chili's dog bed is a little small for her but that's okay cause it's been more of a 'place where she eats treats and chews her chewies' so she doesn't make a complete mess of the couch. Two days ago, she regurgitated her breakfast all over it and since I was going to work, I didn't have time to clean it until I got back home. So, both outer layer of bedding and the fluffy packet thing inside were damp with bile and water and I had thrown both in the washer and dryer.

Came out a lot poofier since I actually had to wash the interior fluff pillow and now Chili actually wants to sleep on it.

Rotisserie chicken looking ass.

sudden vivid memory of being 14-15 years old and daring to wear knee-length boy’s shorts to a local summer festival in one of my first public acts of transgenderism and despite that being the most mundane thing on earth (especially considering I was still not allowed to cut my hair at that point so i by no means looked mistakably like a guy or anything) being verbally torn to shreds to the point of sobbing by my mother upon getting home because I was apparently making myself (and her by association) look bad and being a flagrant humiliation in front of my friends’ parents. i guess sometimes i forget how scarring and often terrifying simply Existing as a trans kid was lol

I somehow picked up a Nargacuga egg in MHS2. I haven’t even seen one in the wild yet and judging by the ranking and the little I can find online, they’re supposed to be fairly rare? at least at this point in the game, it’s the rarest monstie I have so far, so good job me, I guess.

They seem stealthy and fast. If I can figure out a Monster Hunter verse for Ice, then I’m going to see if I can give him one.

been at work for nearly 36 hrs i can’t do this no mo

There’s some common threads I see in the anti-voting posts going around, and I feel like I need to discuss some of them. Let’s start with the biggest one:

Voting to punish evil. I see lots of variations of this. Biden is supporting Israel, therefore we can’t vote for him. Is there any viable candidate who would stop the genocide? I don’t think the anti voting crowd actually cares. They are appealing to moral feelings rather than political strategy, because strategically, you have to realize that voting is not going to change foreign policy, and that change has to be pushed by other means. It’ll probably be something in the long haul.

Democrats should run someone else. First of all, this is a shit strategy. You don’t primary your president in the second term unless your party is falling apart. This may come from people from countries where replacing the head of government is easier, but the POTUS is the de facto party head. Also, going to the lack of thought to the goal — do you know someone willing to primary Biden and able to win who would do the things you want?

Biden hasn’t done anything anyway. This is just a way to bat away pro arguments. There’s plenty of lists of progress on lots of things. Student loans, insulin price caps, regulations, anti-trust.

Putting the entire Palestinian genocide on Biden. I’m not saying there’s not culpability there, but understand that the entire US government is in support of Israel, on both sides. It was a miracle we got a handful of Senators to call for investigations. We should cut off aid, absolutely. Who’s running to do that? And keep in mind that Israel chose to engage. US officials would have liked a more limited response, not out of care for Palestinians, but because they know from experience that it will come back to bite Israel in the form of newly radicalized Hamas recruits.

Liberals just have no hope for change. This is a new one. Just some idea that people are stuck in a rut and that’s the reason the two party system exists. The two party system is a mathematical consequence of the way we vote. There is reason to hope for change. The change, though, whatever means you choose, will take decades. Keep working at it. The hope is not that this election will fundamentally change things. The hope is that many small political actions over the years will push things forward.

Funnily enough, I haven’t seen a whole lot of third party promotion, just lots of this rhetoric aiming to punish. When voting, ask yourself:

Is this problem I have with this candidate something that the other candidate would be better on?

Are there other political actions I can take that will help?

What things can change with a different President or Congress, and what needs to be pursued by other means?

Withholding your vote as a punishment isn’t really going to help. Biden doesn’t know who you are or why you are not voting for him, and there is no one with a chance of winning that will do everything you want. But you have other means. Protest, organize, donate, build up alternatives, advocate for a different system.

Vote to give yourself space and get a little bit. Do other things to keep things moving.