*eats six golfballs and coughs up a cricket bat*
AGAIN?? FIRST IT WAS GLAMROCK CHICA, AND NOW IT'S AN ANONYMOUS USER???? FOR THE LAST TIME: MY. GOLFBALLS. ARE. NOT. FOOD!!
*Yeets a golf club at the anonymous user*
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"If Dean is like Mary, then why does Mary have goals similar to Sam?"
Because you're like both your parents. Duh. But also...
Mary wants to be safe, but one critical difference between her and Dean is that she feels like getting out is possible. Dean doesn't.
She can't stand the hunting life, because she recognizes the incredible losses that happen in and around her family because of it. She wants safety and security.
Even though their vocation is horrific and inherently unstable, her parents are present, have routines, and even have family dinners together. From what we can see, Mary's home life is more stable than Dean's. (Plus, Samuel Campbell was part of a network and a pro; John was isolated and in over his head.)
Dean and Deanna seem controlling, but John Winchester was an incredibly brutal and unpredictable parent. (And for Sam, Dean made up for some deficits in John's parenting.) So, although Mary and Dean are similar in terms of their base personalities, their foundations for expressing their needs are not.
Mary, like Sam, feels secure enough to express her desires. Dean isn't secure enough to even get to want them.
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At the end of last week we finally got the last pieces of equipment at the church back up and running from the lightning strike at the beginning of August. Security system, wireless, printer, back-up A/V equipment ... the soundboard was at the repair place but that was the only thing left, and like I said, the back-up was finally working smoothly.
Guess what happened last night when an unexpected and short but very severe storm came through?
I can now confirm that "lightning doesn't strike in the same place twice" is a LIE.
If we manage to keep the church from burning down by the time the pastor returns from sabbatical it will be through direct divine intervention.
(I saw him today. He clearly feels bad for us in having to deal with all of this, but underneath that I can also tell that he thinks it's HYSTERICAL. I can't blame him--in his shoes, I would be dealing with equal parts concern and hilarity that all this is happening now, during his first sabbatical after 14 years pastoring, as well.)
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Security Breach - Mermaid Chica decal (main post), (Diver Freddy decal), (Diver Roxy decal), (Diver Monty decal)
progress shots:
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so I've been seeing my therapist for like 2 months, and apparently never told her I'm queer?? So I dropped that on her in the last 10 minutes of our session and then had to give her a crash course in queer theory all to explain what "I want to be pretty like a boy" means
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"Oh, Jack. You silly boi. You know that help at the top of the stairs is no help at all."
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Art piece i may delete later about my parents offering money to me and my sisters to pay for either grad school (a thing I don't want and can't do with my disability) or my wedding (also a thing I don't need/want), but not for anything that would actually help me escape poverty and find stable housing and income.
Like, I recognize the privilege of being able to complain that my parents have offered me a bunch of money but in the wrong way.
But also if that money is on top of a flight of stairs that I can't climb (but my sisters can), then I haven't really been offered money, so much as I have watched money I need be placed somewhere I can't reach it. Which tbh feels worse than if it was never mentioned to me in the first place.
I was gonna send this art to them and i wrote this big long message to go with it, but then I decided to wait until my therapy session on Tuesday to talk it thru with her first, since I've literally never regretted doing that.
Besides, both of my parents are lawyers and right now they're providing me and my friends with a lot of free legal advice about this property we're trying to buy together, so I don't want to rock the boat currently.
I just wish I knew if I had access to that money as a poor person in need of stable housing and quality disability care, and I wish my parents weren't world-class hLepers who have a long and triggering history of engaging me in rigorous debate about the kind of help I should be allowed to receive from them as a disabled person.
Nothing like having to provide an argument that would hold up in court every time I'm sick and need help! Love that! Love that I can't even talk about money with them now without having invasive thoughts about it for days to come due to past incidences in which this repeated behavior of theirs literally endangered my life!!
Not like I need that mental capacity for working on the largest and most exciting opportunity of my life that also happens to line up with my hopes and dreams for the future!! It's fine!! What do I even need mental capacity for anyway?????
This wouldn't even be the first time this little Distrust Fund has caused problems for my relationship with my parents. They are very opposed to that money being used to help my disability and it has caused PROBLEMS for us that we have never quite recovered from.
It's just difficult to be reminded that although our relationship has gotten better (mostly thanks to me setting boundaries), that doesn't mean they now actually believe what I need for my disability when I tell them.
They really do love me, and they have only ever acted with the best of intentions . But good intentions cease to matter when the impact is harmful and repeated. And they have proven to be repeatedly incapable of providing non-ableist support for me again and again and again. They've even genuinely tried to learn; and sometimes it really seems like my mom has made progress with her therapist (who is disabled), but who knows when I can so jarringly be reminded of how quickly that toxic ableist thinking can show its ugly face.
It's so clear to me and they don't even know it's there.
It feels like I'm in a horror movie when I try to get them to understand their own ableism, and that is a good good sign that I may want to consider an approach that minimizes my mental damage instead. Even if it means I don't get their stupid, deeply-conditional-and-yet-the-conditions-are-SO-vague-and-they-won't-admit-it money.
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The s3 map challenges are rough this time around
I haven't touched emergency mode but it should go better than the challenges went...I hope
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