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skyscrapergods · 3 months
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has being fucking Massive and Immortality changed the alicorns’ perspective on regular ponies? I imagine they’d get more condescending and distant and stuff
You are surrounded by flies. If you pause, and look closely, you realize the flies are iridescent, with deeply colorful eyes, and beautiful wings like stained glass. It cannot see the colorful windows of your world, but you can try to describe them. But know that doing so take up the creature's precious time. Years to them is mere hours to you. In a long conversation about the stars, you and the fly share ideas and perspectives. You come away delighted with a new view on constellations and what they mean to the common folk.
The fly comes away dazzled, haunted, and halfway to the grave. What was to you a wonderful conversation was years of study, communion, and dedication on the part of the small creature. He gave up any other pursuits, he constructed his life around this cause. He lost his friends, family, and home. You lost your lunch break.
You love this creature. You love the small being that you once were. You want to talk to him again. You want to tell him of the stars, of dreams... but to speak with him twice, at least meaningfully, would take from him the rest of his life. Could you demand that from him for the sake of your own curiosity? Years passed for him already. In the time it took you to draw a breath, his childhood ended. Do you summon him again? Or do you let him go to live his life, what's left of it?
It is painful for everyone. It hurts something in your chest, it breaks the heart of a god. It wounds his family to watch him leave them behind for the sake of what? A mere whim? He had ambitions! He had a story! It's all gone now. Rewritten for your musings.
You leave him. He cries for you but he needs not a goddess. He needs to live, to turn from the sky to his fellow bugs.
That's what he is. A fly. A mere insect to you. To hold him down is to pin him through his soft center, and display his corpse as a record of his extinction.
So look away. Forget the color of his eyes, the sound of his voice, and the intelligence that stirred you to pluck him out his world and keep him in yours. There, he would be a wildflower with a cut stem. He would be beautiful, but he is so small, and so quiet. He would be just a decoration on your table; made to dance and sing for your amusement and then tossed out with the rubbish when he breaks.
You miss him. You love him. But he is a crawling worm and you are the rain. There are many others like him, but you must be careful to only speak a few words to each. Or better yet, say nothing at all. Let them fade and mix into a writhing blur without name, stories, or opinions on stars.
You are surrounded by flies.
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shirecorn · 2 years
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GOD I wish the minimum wage was a living wage.
I'm not flipping burgers, I'm cleaning litterboxes and doing basic vet care like checking weights, administering medicine, bathing, using IVs, keeping records, making lists, doing photography, and way way more. But the point is even if I was just cleaning litterboxes... I love the work. I wish I could pay rent. Shouldn't I be able to clean litterboxes and feed cats who were rescued from the streets and do that fulfilling wonderful work without wondering where I'm going to live?
Shouldn't someone be able to flip burgers, make art, clean up trash, care for the oceans, teach your children, or rescue animals without being forced to choose between their job and their bills?
What if I don't WANT to climb the ladder and use my degree and search for high stress high pay jobs in order to live? What if I want the high stress job of seeing a kitten crashing below survivable temperature and bringing them back from the brink of death, knowing that I'm the only thing standing between this homeless, unwanted kitten and an early grave?
Shouldn't that be enough? Shouldn't I be able to afford food and rent by doing that?
I don't want to work at a vet office that can give me steady pay increases. I want to work here, with cats who have no owners, nursing them back to health and helping pick their forever home. I want the infrastructure to support me in doing that. I want the laws to say I can and have programs in place to make it so my shelter CAN support me. I want rent to reflect wages. I want wages to reflect rent.
I want to help the world and be able to survive doing it. I want to thrive doing it. I want that for everyone.
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shiredded · 9 months
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Seeing content for a fandom that's right up your alley so you think "i would like to consume this media" only to find out it's a minecraft roleplay
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bonecorn · 2 years
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found a cow's leg-bone (shoulder down) in the middle of a field with flies still flying around it, and thought 'man what a waste'.
It's not a waste! It's nourishing the flies and later on the beetles and the worms!
Death is just the ceasing of a single organism as we know it. Bacteria, insects, and the earth itself live on, folding the material we borrowed into something new.
However, you can be one of those creatures who makes use of an animal after its death. Pick up bone. put in pocket. done
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- on loving and leaving
Richard Siken, 'The Worm King's Lullaby' // Ethel Cain, 'Strangers' // Sufjan Stevens, 'Fourth of July' // Warsan Shire, 'Home' // my own poem, 'Intimacy' // James Baldwin, 'Giovanni's Room' // Spiderman: No Way Home (2021) // Phoebe Bridgers, 'I Know The End' // Ethel Cain, 'Sun Bleached Flies' // Silas Denver Melvin, 'Twenty'
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joleneghoul · 1 month
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More adventures in horseriding the game (rdr2) i rode directly into a sign that only hit arthur in the head and sent him flying off the horse 😁👍
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souredfigs · 10 months
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"I have my mother's mouth and my father's eyes;on my face they are still together"
- Warsan Shire
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Okay hi friends. I have not said anything on here, but I’ve been doing NaNo this year. And I have... for the first time ever a) gotten ahead and b) passed 10k.
I usually fail so hard at NaNo, and even if I don’t make 50k this year, I am so damn proud of myself.
That is all, carry on scrolling friends.
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jvzebel-x · 10 months
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🦋
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tiredesperdad · 1 year
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Me watching lotr alone: crying so much I give myself a headache
Me watching lotr with friends: did you know that hobbits love mushrooms?
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Στο μεταξύ είναι αστείο που στην ταινία μέσα σε ένα βράδυ είναι τα γενέθλια του Bilbo και του Frodo, η εξαφάνιση του Bilbo, το δαχτυλίδι, ο Gandalf και φάση το επόμενο πρωι φεύγουν τροχαδόν ενώ στα βιβλία είναι κάπως, έχουν περάσει 18 χρόνια από τα γενέθλια του Bilbo, έχω να δω τον Gandalf εννιά χρόνια, μαθαίνω για το δαχτυλίδι και κάνω βδομάδες να φύγω.
Hobbit culture embraced 😂
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skyscrapergods · 26 days
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Drawing horse accessories inspired by real horse tack! yay!
Unfortunately horse tack looks. Like That. when you put it on a sentient horse. Oh no!
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help me
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shirecorn · 4 months
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I'm applying to jobs
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shiredded · 2 years
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if you don't fully grasp how the same temperature affects people differently
I'm American. California specifically. I've never had air conditioning but I've always managed. My European friends are scared when they face 40c (104f) degree heat waves. That happens several times a month here but to them? They've never experienced heat like in their lives.
It's catastrophic. Take the hottest temperature that your home used to receive at the absolute peak of summer fifteen years ago. I remember as a child the hottest it got was 103 and we froze water bottles and covered the windows with tin foil. It was exciting to reach a number so high! It was exciting to walk from the blazing outdoors into an indoor space we carefully cooled to be livable.
It doesn't matter what that "peak" temperature was. For California is was 40c and most summers we didn't even hit it.
40C is the new normal. A week where we stay under 32c (90f) is unheard of.
With a new normal in the triple digits, waves of "unusual" heat are 43c (110). 46c (115) even up to 49c. (120). Add dry lightning, windstorms, and you get the apocalypse.
The numbers don't matter. It doesn't matter that someone in France died in what to you is regular summer weather. They DIED.
Yes, Americans in hot states are experiencing deadly heat waves with numbers that boggle the mind. Americans in hot states are dying. But they're also largely surviving. We have houses built to endure a day or two of the hottest summers from 20 years ago. They aren't meant to endure this, but they are still designed to function in heat. I still lay panting on the floor of the bathroom with fans pointed at me, but those fans are on and we have ice in the freezer because the power is still on. It's straining under the load but it functions for the most part. There are cooling stations in the community you can go to that have been perfected through years of experience. We have fleets of firefighting planes ready and waiting to battle the inevitable blazes.
A fire started two miles from my house and went from 0% containment to 100% in less than a day. I didn't even have to evacuate.
I'm experiencing heat increases just as distressing to my body as Europeans are. But I'm facing it with a fan, a bucket of ice, and a well oiled evacuation plan because I've been here before.
If you're an American, think of the hottest temperature you've ever experienced, and then make it even hotter. Think of something you have never felt in your life, and now it's bearing down on you.
You can try to go inside, but your house is painted black.
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bonecorn · 2 years
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Always check your pockets before putting clothes in the wash or you might miss the dead fish you stuck in there a couple days ago
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ghost-proofbaby · 1 year
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"settle down with me, and i'll be your safety and you'll be my lady."
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