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Peaceful bliss just moments away.......

@corrodxdcoffin

I was fleimkepakosskairipa/reddiesaysfuckit, but Tumblr kicked me out of my account. She/Her.
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I was never the kind of person to like... make fun of the custodial staff because I knew the work was hard. But for a lot of my life I've had it in my head that anyone working in maintenance is miserable and the more I work in parks maintenance the more my mind has changed on the matter.

Like... no one ENJOYS scrubbing what you only hope is chocolate frosting from the sink, but everyone enjoys having a clean sink.

And most of the guys I've worked with say something to the effect of 'I like knowing that I make a difference, even if no one notices.' And I think theres something to that! It's very nice when someone thanks you, though.

hey what was in the water with the stucky fandom for real they did some off the fucking chainnnn things on ao3 and for what.

the full on courtroom drama fics. the illustrated fics on ao3 that were like fucking baroque oil paintings. the epistolary shit. some mf wrote pieces of a fake book by a historian. we had works cited. this fanfction has a bibliography. how can we bottle this and distribute it en masse to other fandoms.

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Has anyone else noticed how, when you have a chronic condition of some kind, that there’s always the basic assumption from people around you that you’re not already doing everything you can?

It’s all about the illusion of control. People who are healthy like to believe they can always keep being healthy if they do the right things. They don’t want to think about how good people get struck with terrible circumstances for no reason. So they keep assuming that if they got sick, they could do something to make it better. And if you’re still sick, that must mean you’ve done something wrong or not done enough.

Nail. Head. The same attitude can be seen in how a lot of people talk about poverty.

And about being fat (which isn’t a bad thing at all, but people act like it is).

They also like to tell themselves that if they poor/sick/etc, they would have amazing willpower to do everything right, wouldn’t ever slack off or give up, wouldn’t prioritize pleasure.. when in reality (1) that wouldn’t fix the problem, (2) nobody can do that and (3) that’s a terrible way to live and we shouldn’t push people to live like that.

I have talked before about how being okay with your own vulnerability and mortality and flawlessness is a prerequisite for acting like a decent person and this is a huge example of that.

Absolutely fuckin wild that SCOTUS delivered a blow to LGBTQ inclusive nondiscrimination laws nationwide based on that case...because one web designer went to court to have the "right" to refuse to design wedding websites for same gender couples hypothetically.

Hypothetically, because no one even tried to hire her to do that. But this is the outcome.

I hope Lorie Smith never has a day of peace ever again.

...And they just stuck down the Biden administrations student loan forgiveness program.

Fuck SCOTUS.