Probably don't want, To have me writing lyrics~ 🎶🎵
she/her, opinionated and cranky nerd of middling years, extremely queer but in like a boring way, probably shouldn't expect much here
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Probably don't want, To have me writing lyrics~ 🎶🎵
I do not have any connection to the Amiga and I just think that looks rad as hell anyway.
Only botherin', Cuz I broke these ancient fuckers~ 🎵🎶
Gettin' new glasses, While my insurance still exists~ 🎶🎵
This is a fallen world that does not know the light of God, that's how.
Saw a UMD copy of Van Helsing sitting in a shop today and by gods if it had been much cheaper I would've gotten it. Yes I could just borrow it on an actually useable format from my library or bought it cheaply somewhere but that just wouldn't be as fun, now would it.
being trans is not a negative outcome and neither is being autistic
Cat keeps jumping into my lap and then using me as a platform to chase flies. I keep putting her back on the floor. She decides, in her infinite wisdom, that this must mean jumping into my chair behind me and then crawling around onto my lap is different enough to count as okay.
Commencing "healthy glow" jokes in 3... 2...
Neeeeerrrrd (affectionate)
It's funnier to me to imagine he's using voice input and has done it this way so much his phone recognizes it.
I do really love how relentlessly queer DOA is.
"cringe" is a blight on society and once we all get back to sincerity we're all gonna be a lot better off
I can at least take solace in the fact that it's gonna suck ass for all of you too now. for a a long time.
Calling me out like this!
I tried reading the first book and just could not. The guy was like a perfectly smooth orb of Too Cool, impossible to find anything for me to grasp. Painfully disinteresting.
It's not NOT like that.
Be fucking USEFUL and maybe people will actually rally to them. Instead of realizing we're just on the same track to another loss because they won't be about anything so it's not worth bothering. All you're doing is whining that voters owe them votes like Musk angry at advertisers leaving Twitter.
Can't expect a Dem to so much as speak up, that'd be undecorous. Can't expect them to even use their power when they are a majority party in Congress and in charge of the White House. Can't expect them to prosecute a felon who admits unprompted everything he does.
Republicans have controlled the dialogue literally longer than I've been alive. But pointing out the Dems are shit and need to step up and be ABOUT something instead of existing in reaction to Republicans is apparently beyond the pale.
When since JFK have the Dems even managed a presidential win that wasn't based on the prior Rep president sucking shit, or the incumbent advantage? They don't run ON anything. They don't tout their accomplishments when they have them, they just react to Rep accusations.
But oh no, the Scary Leftists are simultaneously not a powerful bloc but have incredible sway over the vote, depressing millions out of voting instead of, uh... what, the Dems not actually inspiring anyone on their own? The Dems having the shittiest messaging constantly?
Impressive, your own reading comprehension is piss poor. I already told you how I voted faithfully Dem up through all this shit. You'll actually find that's pretty consistent among the most vociferous critics of where the Dems are leaving us now.
Proudly not understanding the situation: not just American.
JUST USE THE GODDAMN WINGS ON YOUR BACK U MORON Oh wait you don't have those? Hmm...
And then when people come along and say, "oh ew no, let's find someone who isn't just repeating the same old mistakes" you freakish asshole stans have to rush in and yell how it's our fault for not bending the knee three years in advance.
But sure, blame me for the Dems as a party nakedly giving up and rolling over. For "not going back" turning into "how high?" For Newsom and his comms team disgusting so many of us by just repeating MAGA tactics but in a blue trucker cap. NEWSOM LITERALLY POSTED HIS OWN MAGA SLOGAN.
Dems lost and somehow can't even put up a tenth of the fight Reps do when they're the minority party. Look at the votes on Trump's cabinet picks. It's disgraceful. Top-level Dems have made it clear they aren't fighting for anyone but their stock portfolios.
It's just easier to blame people who point out the problems and that have any kind of standards. Most of us voted Dem last election, gods know I did, so we're definitionally NOT the people who abandoned the Dems and made them lose. Queer people were extremely on board.
Because that's what Dems KEEP DOING by tacking rightward. They keep giving in. If people are telling you that the difference in parties is getting harder to tell, maybe pay attention. It's the job of a politician to sell themselves and they're clearly failing at messaging or providing results.
Fascists literally yell about every kind of purity, trying to extinguish anything impure, but saying "hey maybe don't help them with that" is purity politics. This is pathetic. It just tells everyone that you don't care. It warns people that you'll give in to the next choice of target again.
Given you're blaming us as the "millions" who threw everyone else under the bus, hey, sounds like we are a pretty mighty voting bloc! Wow! Or maybe you're just inconsistent while looking for an excuse why the Dem party leadership can never fail but only be failed!
They just want a Big Leader to fall under but Trump is too crass for them. But Trump Lite? Ah, now there's the deniability about being bad people for liking a bad thing, because hey there's still someone worse.
Every day is asking too much from me
But no, no, it must be "fall into line harder with the leaders who NEVER steer us wrong."
Like if angling rightward keeps failing and just shedding voters, if you're not actually carving off the "reasonable" Republicans by constantly chasing their issues when the GOP pols are offering the full-throated version of what they want, maybe the existing Dem strategy just sucks.
Hey, if we're such a mighty voting bloc, wouldn't it make more electoral sense to actually cater to us in some fashion? Maybe recognize that what the insulated consultant class considers "good" isn't actually good or progressive and therefore a bad idea to field?
Guaranteed to be someone who has the time to at least manage a bread machine but considers that beneath her.
So if I throw this cursed artifact into a star, it might extinguish the star. I wonder what happens if I fling it into a gas giant...
ACAB including this fictional "left-wing" one.
Then block me and walk away instead of rushing in to assure me how little I'm worth engaging with while engaging with me.
I think I can get behind the amount of anguish and suffering it would cause Mary to have that revelation about herself.
So yeah you don't actually have a response but feel compelled to get in the last word. Gotcha.
Digital media aren't inherently plagiarism machines trained on the people its users are trying to earn social cachet amongst, thanks for playing and maybe don't try again later.
Hope the break was restful and you're feeling better. It's probably something more of us should do.
Me when cleaning up after my kitten that still refuses to use a litterbox.
A lot of people my age talk about The Mummy as the bisexual awakening movie, but in my case The Fifth Element left deep marks in my psyche with Jean. Baptiste. Immanuel. Zorg. and the Diva Plavalaguna (the blue alien singer). Okay yes Ruby Rhod and Leeloo made their own contributions too.
This is so damn cute. I always love the designs you give your characters, their outfits and hair and everything else. (Yes, even when it's Belville in sweats, she's the best.)
Less a clock and more a giant pile of bomb timers.
Sex work is 1000% more honorable and socially beneficial than working as an ICE agent.
From the first moment I read this, it has never left me. It's often safe to assume that a person has written (or spoken) intentionally and if I fail to understand then it's on me to try to rectify that. I sometimes fail, but try not to assume the worst or most foolish possible interpretation first.
Fascists: literally yelling about pure blood and pure thought and every other kind of purity Libs and Centrists: "Oh those darn lefties and trans people demanding purity."
Hey if my vote is so important why isn't treating me as a human being with bodily autonomy also important? It's called setting a minimum standard so we can get some actual candidates who aren't eager to throw people to the wolves. All triangulating rightward does is give in to the GOP anyway.
The number of people who came out as trans in an online community I was in, including me years later... statistically odd clumping happens constantly, turns out.
Did a big thread about this on Twitter a few years back, about how the Columbine shooters were steeped in nazi rhetoric, including eugenicist beliefs about killing disabled people, and just how much their neo-nazism wasn't just downplayed but omitted. Text from: schoolshooters.info/sites/defaul...
(Being in Hell, not pickle stuff.)
You're only just now realizing?
Basically, fuck everyone in a position of authority and responsibility and just general public commentary around Columbine.
Had a big incident in middle school where they used Columbine fears to cover for the fact that I was constantly bullied and only acted out in response to that. Included a psych eval where I had to minimize and lie about the games I liked because of the threat of institutionalization.
Martel imagined that he could see a cruel joyful smile on Vomact's dead face—the smile of a man who knew himself righteous and who found his righteousness upheld and affirmed by militant authority. -"Scanners Live in Vain," by Cordwainer Smith
Google's gotten pretty enshittified but sometimes Image Search still works.
Complaining about birthrates (mostly white ones, of course) is a pretty common refrain of fascists and adjacent. This is just a zing against them.
The one I follow there says the terms Subscribestar puts on content are overall more lenient than Patreon's, and were even well before this shitshow.
It doesn't even teach people well. It has no ability to parse the reliability of information and NEVER WILL, because it works on statistical construction of likely results based on preexisting "training" information. There's no ability to actually evaluate the information.
"And then Joyce stole you away from Walky-" IW!-verse Dorothy: "Of course! She's always getting in the way! She's after David even in another universe!" "No, no. Other way around. She stole YOU." IW!Dorothy: "I'm sorry what."
There is a reason I will absolutely attack more, left of centre orgs about this that I will right wingers. Right wingers want me dead. Liberals? They just want me to shut the fuck up while they fuck me over and then, every 4 years, use the right to try to scare me into voting for them.
Don't necessarily ship them... but I don't NOT ship them either. And this is just beautiful work. 💜
🐈🪲 #ApothecaryDiaries #薬屋のひとりごと #shimao
Congratulations and I'm sorry.
I’m in trouble for violating Zeno’s paradox but they’ll never catch me.
respectability politics will see us all killed
First one that was actually mine: a Dell box running Windows XP, gotten for college. First one I was generally able to use: some DOS thing so old it struggled to run Doom. (My dad was in IT so we always had one at home, but not necessarily a GOOD one.)
getting really tired of having need of this meme
The response to “Will you vote for (pos candidate) if they’re chosen??” is “What will you be doing to get (pos candidate) to stop harming marginalized people once they’re a candidate that you’re not willing to do now?”
I swear, the people at the meatpackers' where we bought in on a pig must be the sorts who'd add salt to a cup of instant ramen. The ham and bacon we got are pretty good but also they are *so goddamn salty*.
I can never remember the distinction either. Just English being English.
Heck, it was a Ducktales comic when I was a kid that taught me about liquid assets, when Scrooge had to explain at one point why his fantastic on-paper wealth didn't translate to literally having that in his pocket to throw at a problem. Also literally named for an icon of miserliness.
What the hell happened. I mean, you rather concisely just explained what happened, but also *what the hell happened*.
I'll join you with fresh bread and dessert if it happens because I'll be eating hat too. Joe seems best equipped at the moment and is still giving off powerful "not ready for this" vibes. Still here for the disaster, but a disaster it will be.
If they're gonna just be another kind of cop then ACAB applies to the National Guard too.
You couldn't drag an admission of this level of cowardice out of me with hot irons and pliers.
Blood rites are incredibly normal in the Imperium and have you SEEN all the skulls everywhere? Khorne is barely heretical. ...just a moment, there's a tall lady with a big letter I on her coat at my door. She looks friendly.
that idea of the PCs as part of a small roving community, and could do cool things in that space that D&D is often neglecting, not just "dangerous survival adventures."
collective answers to those needs. Especially if you're also using henchman rules and the group balloons even further. Each player is REQUIRED to bring different people and demands to the table, to think beyond one Mad Max asshole's POV. A modern incarnation of DS should absolutely play into...
RAW 2e Dark Sun had troupe play, at least 3 characters per player because the setting was "so deadly," but I feel it had the knock-on effect of making you feel like part of an actual small community. 12+ people have a different dynamic than 4 adventuring together, collective needs and...
Tonight in Fading Suns: my Engineer suddenly has a potential path to becoming a D&D warlock. (NO. NO. NO. DO NOT.)
An old, old Greek myth puzzle/action game whose name I can't recall. You were at some point lost in the Labyrinth and the Minotaur was stalking you, you had to collect various legendary things to help deal with it. Very young, getting stalked scared the shit out of me.
I love Martine's writing, she's up there as one of my current favorite authors. Even if I can't get to something right now, her stuff definitely goes on my list. (It's getting to be kind of a big list. There are so many good current authors. And you're a meaningful part of the bloat!)
Every day I am more and more grateful that every day we are moving farther and farther away from the 80s.
If my tranny ass's vote for Newsom is so important, why isn't it important he considers me a human with full legal rights to my body? Fuck, Dems can't even get behind not institutionally murdering Black people, considering how fast they ran from Defund and in fact just funded the cops more.
Please, I can only get so turned on.
found this ancient image digging around on my computer
Well looks like I'm gonna have to take an interest in a certain 90s cartoon.
...guilty.
Isn't that the truth.
I have tried to actively achieve that state by practicing meditation and HAHA NOPE. I can barely get to sleep properly without something to help focus that scrambling mess in my skull.
I can't imagine he went and encouraged Dorothy about it without at least thinking about that. And I do think it was encouragement because he was really nothing but supportive about trying to help her come to grips with that. He's not quite so selfless as to knowingly bomb his own relationship.
Y'know what, I just realized I thought the same thing too. Something about the name just... sounds like something that should be potato-y. Hashbrown adjacent at least.
He's very on board with the whole "rend, slaughter, devour your enemies" (my toes) bit.