Sometimes you just gotta make do with what's accessible to you.

I have to take meds first thing in the morning. If I don't eat food first, I'll be too nauseous to function. So I (sleepy and unmedicated) need to complete the tasks of feeding myself (triggering) and swallowing pills (complicated) at around 6:30 am (inhumane).

My daily breakfast is a Clif bar and an applesauce pouch. Sometimes also a Poptart (for morale).

Yes those have single-use plastics and foil pouches and aren't recyclable where I live. But right now they're accessible. Feeding myself independently, cheaply, without dishes, without triggering myself, so that meds get taken, is more important.

For anything else, I (sleepy and unmedicated) would have to venture into the shared kitchen (scary) and wrangle refrigeration, reheating, pans, and dishes (complicated) while remembering the meds (hard). Keeping easy food in my room next to the meds eliminates all of that.

So relax. Choose sustainability in every way you can, but accept imperfections. You don't have to crawl a thousand miles repenting on your knees etc. etc. Remember corporate greed is the worst polluter. Your personal needs are important. It's okay to make do with what you can, with what you have, where you are.

hi. there is still time for you to join the fight for a free palestine, or to come back to it if you tapped in in October and then burnt out.

there is still time to call and email your representatives. to learn about the Boycott, Divest, Sanctions movement and find ways to apply them to your life. to connect with local organizations and protest. to tap into the strike.

small things are good too: if you aren’t able to go to protests, is there anything you can do to support your friends who go?

this struggle started way more than three months ago. this is the long haul. it’s allies’ job to figure out whatever we need to figure out so that we can show up with endurance.

i’ve done this before but if you are experiencing guilt paralysis, if your feelings of shame of “not enough” are preventing you from showing up, dm me. there is space for you to tap in. we need to help each other not let perfectionism get in the way of action.

Enid calling Wednesday ‘my moon’ is the most endearing nickname I can think of fer her to lovingly use (bonus points if it’s in Greek bc Greek!Enid is one of the best headcanons this fandom has collectively adopted so far.)

Assuming the show will follow the traditional model of werewolves having this deep, super special bond to the moon, can you imagine the sheer gravity of Enid choosing WEDNESDAY as HER moon. The moon who never abandoned her, the moon who calls to her all the same but this time doesn’t reject her as she beckons said allure, the moon who wholly accepts her as a werewolf who can’t transform (yet, hopefully). While moonlight is merely reflected sunshine, even the grand white apple of the sky, the cruelest of forbidden fruits, refuses to cast down its borrowed light on Enid. What good is she, a wolf with no howl?

Wednesday, however? Wednesday, a girl who doesn’t turn her back on Enid but rather teaches the young, late blooming wolfie to not only accept, but also stand up for herself. Wednesday, a girl who is from a family already considered an anomaly and thus can understand Enid and her oddities. Wednesday, a girl who loves her in a way that means, “Come as you are, you are already enough. Just turn down that wrenched noise you call music before you do.” Wednesday, her true moon. Wenclair is already as aesthetically Sun & Moon Girlfriends as you can get- we’re talking Bumbleby levels of Sun & Moon aesthetics here- but the sheer POWERMOVE of Enid casting aside the traditional werewolf-moon bond? Of instead choosing her OWN moon in Wednesday, who chose her right back, howless or not?

Your honor, please.

(Extra bonus points: Whispered just below a certain Addams’ breath, words so heavy with reverence they could easily drown a man, a phrase so quietly uttered that Enid knows they’re meant for her and only her, “Mi sol.”)

That moment in your obsession with Ed Edd n Eddy where you have a hard time finding the character design remotely as ugly as some people frame it to be.

the imperfect project you finished is worth infinitely more than the perfect one you didn't because it wasn't good enough for you while you were making it. just btw.

people need to stop arguing with palestinians on tumblr dot com

the thing that drives me crazy about the james baldwin post apart from the blatant racism is just the complete incuriosity. like idk i don't think you should pretend you know Everything just to keep from ever appearing ignorant because like yeah everyone has gaps in their knowledge that are a product of your family and home country and schooling system and things you were exposed to growing up and what degree path you chose. but don't you like. want to know more? when you see a quote that you like from a named author, don't you want to look that name up to see who the author is before you proudly say you don't know who they are and you don't care? why is your response "well my school never taught me that so why should i care!!!!" instead of "oh wow i've never heard of him! which work should i check out first?" are you proud of your ignorance? do you want to go through life spending your time, energy and resources defending your lack of knowledge rather than learning something new? are you not the most pretentious person in the room by proudly condemning a generation-defining black author you've never heard of and wearing your ignorance like a badge?

lysandre dialogue from pokespe that i think about a lot.

this isn't his dialogue, it's xerosic's. it's probably unintentional but the fact they don't specific where he heard about xerosic's wants is So Interesting To Me.

^- clemont dialogue

I was thinking about the Psychopathor fight flashback in Rebirth where Sidestep lets a romanced Ortega partially remove their mask to kiss them, and wondered why Sidestep lets them. I would think most Sidesteps would freak out or protest or at least question it. Iirc this is before they've revealed their face to anyone.

Did Sidestep just trust Ortega that much? Were they still coming down from the adrenaline of a near death experience and not really thinking? Or is it an imperfect memory, Sidestep is not recalling all the detail because its just a dream and happened so long ago?

How did your Sidestep feel about it?

Like look at how many people made even jokey criticisms of usamericans to the tune of "they don't even know geography" are deactivated or have received an outrageous amount of anon hate for it

"Is it somehow satisfying for you to beat yourself up for things you couldn't be blamed for missing? It's not as though it's obvious - anyone could have missed it. Why do you assume that something like this is a flaw of the self?" I think it's a preference thing, honestly. Sometimes it's more comforting to believe that you are the problem (so it's in control), while sometimes it's more comforting to believe the world is the problem (so it isn't your fault). Sif takes the former to an extreme. Plus the low self esteem.

We know the psychology, in theory, but it's... hmm. Frustrating, we suppose? We've been there, we know how it is to be hurting for control so badly you'll shred yourself to ribbons for a single piece of it, but it's partially that that makes the thought process so damn irritating when it turns up, especially when we sometimes have to play whack-a-mole with it in ourself.

It's a theatre of destruction for no audience. Ripping yourself to shreds in a way that benefits no one and will only hamper you later down the road. You attack your every flaw, and for what? Making yourself fear to try new things for fear of the repercussions that you yourself placed. Making yourself believe you are worse. Sabotaging your own chances just to pretend that you call the shots in a world that never worked in the way you pretend it does.

The more that you do anything, the more it becomes a habit, the more you take the cart down a road that wears and wears until the wheel-ruts are too deep to get out of, and when that habit is something that actively sabotages your chance to get things right, it does nothing but harm you.

Yelling at it isn't productive, either, it gets nothing done, but it is immensely frustrating to watch that go down, because it's an endless mud pit of feeling bad that doesn't even accomplish anything but making everyone in the area feel worse. It's the particular flavor of poor mental health where having experienced it ourself makes us a bit worse at dealing with it, because - well, we've experienced it ourself, and now we have to deal with watching someone dig a pit for themself and we can't even do anything about it because it's the sort of thing that they actuvely have to figure out and take action to handle themself.

dude i swear if i actually make gang's bay a real show and i write a joke about being trans people are gonna be like "this is incredibly offensive to trans people" and im gonna have to come out and be like "yall im literally a trans person writing myself im just having a laugh why cant you too"

like seriously where's the line between a joke poking fun for laughs and a joke that's actually offensive? i feel like that's a little bit subjective dontcha think

lore star trek character of all time btw. he's just like me for real

Emet-Selch is a villain.

His intentions were not noble, they were selfish, fatalistic, and cruel. He believed his life had more value and worth than others. The people of Garlemald that he manipulated he bluntly considers pawns and tools, and says to the face of the Scions, that he does not consider the act of killing them to be profane, because he doesn’t believe we are human. The people of the planet are animals in his eyes, ones that he decides the fate of, and will happily kill without remorse. He doesn’t consider it murder to kill another being with sapience. He doesn’t care.

Even Varis, Emet’s own grandchild, has internalized the way Emet spoke, what he believed, Varis himself believed that everyone was flawed because we were all ‘missing something’ and that in itself is from Emet-Selch’s own genocidal belief that all the different races deserved to be destroyed. Garleans with a third eye are a flaw, miqo’te with tails and large ears are a flaw, Au-ra with scales and horns are a flaw -- he is so incredibly selfish and conceited that he has never once saw anything wrong with this. He never once thought why he considered certain features to be “better” or “worse” and it shows how cruel and calculating he is of people.

In the end, he begs for sympathy because he has lost, and begs people to carry on his memory. When he finally has to come to terms with who he is, and what he has done, he actively chooses to tell people that he was worthy of remembrance instead. Did the people he kill deserve remembrance? In his mind, I don’t think he cared. Only he mattered.

So I don’t write Emet as my ‘pathetic little meow meow’ I don’t write him as ‘my misunderstood little scrunkly’ or anything like that. Emet was a dictator. He’s an Imperialist. He’s cruel, he’s hurtful, he’s genocidal, he’s constantly speaking of conquest and hurting weak people. He knows full well the consequences of his actions, and the only time he shows anything similar to remorse is when he loses. 

So I write Emet-Selch as a villain.

truly despise the former bird app bc why have i got teenagers attacking me for a single throwaway tweet abt not liking that tiktok m@kes pe0ple t¥p3 l!ke th!s about s3r!0us hum@n!t@r!@n cr!s3s

The THING is. When people (I am including myself in this) try to talk about how "Why is there overall less of an emphasis on women's stories and female characters and f/f shipping, especially when according to the stats we see being shared, fandom is significantly populated by queer women, hmm this seems a bit strange," there's ALMOST ALWAYS this assumption that it comes from a place of gender essentialism or purity culture or hating every single man for existing or something. ARE there some people who mean that? Yeah, there are going to be people like that in EVERY group of people who try to talk about anything. But when people complain about this, it's most generally because WE EXPERIENCE STRUCTURAL MISOGYNY IRL, AND NOW WE ARE EXPERIENCING THE SAME SOCIAL EFFECTS WITHIN SOMETHING THAT IS SUPPOSED TO BE "FUN." THAT IS THE PROBLEM.

And this goes for when people try to talk about racism in fandom spaces as well. And ableism. And transphobia. And any other form of prejudice you can think of. Is talking about this in one (1) context that is not directly political going to forever eliminate bigotry? No. Obviously not. But the thing about systemic bias and prejudice is that IT IS PRESENT AT EVERY LEVEL, EVEN THE "FUN" ONES.