they should invent a pjo podcast that's good (hosted by me (analyzes narratives and themes for my job) and my friend (studied classics in athens) and we're both girls)
no way 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 they actually did it 🤯🤯 thats so crazy
i am infiltrating the writers room once again i am inside their walls
Jasico Amnesia AU in which Jason lost his memories/ is manipulated, turns against them, even forgets Nico as his important person, and only gains his memory back when Nico's dead in his arms.
My wife likes to make fun of me for being an English major, and the other day she claimed that "verb" was a big word, which inspired me to write this poem.
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A Poem Where I’m Not Allowed To Use Words More Than Three Letters Long
How can I say, bit-by-bit and jot-by-jot all that I—
Ass.
Let me try it new. You are my odd gal, the mad pal I wed. You bug me all day, and in our bed, too. Yet you are the one, the sky and all may see me say, for me.
I beg you not ax my wry pen, but say—you, who are my sun and all my air, I bid you now to say, too, I am the one for you, For if not I will be oh, so low, but if you do?
Yay!
A Poem Where I’m
Not Allowed To Use Words More
Than Three Letters Long
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
One of my besties is getting top surgery in January 2024! His insurance is covering a grand chunk but he's still gotta put some money out for it, plus he needs to save some funds while he's on leave from work for that and the following month! Y'all know how this goes: circulate it and donate if/as you can, it'll be so good for him!!
Here's the link if you can send him anything:
do u ever see someone elses headcannon for ur fave character and its like….. i completely respect that u have the right to that headcannon, i will not confront u at all and start needless bullshit over that headcannon…. but i will silently sit here and give you the sideways glance of the century
me, out loud: hey that’s cool we all have our own interpretations and i support you as part of fandom regardless
me, in my head: ….but you’re wrong
I would just like to remind everyone that this is the mature, reasonable, and sensible response.
when programs fucking autocorrect <3 to ❤️ and :) to 😃,,,, do you have any idea what you’ve just done?? what you just fucking destroyed ?
A) It's irritating when systems turn lovely ascii art into crude little pictograms, and
😎 It's even more frustrating when you weren't actually trying to make an emoji.
the undertale fandom did not create "let papyrus say fuck day" just for him to LOSE THE LET THEM SAY FUCK TOURNAMENT
excellent work 🤷
this is fucking amazing and really makes the tories look like shit. Honestly I am impressed
crying bc sally probably thinks that everything percy’s going through is her fault and she watches him sleep at night, brushing away hair from his face and kissing his temple and whispering ‘i’m sorry, you’re so beautiful, my darling boy, i love you so much’ and her heart just aches bc her son has carried the whole sky on his back and all she wants is to take away all of his pain
Paul having to remind her that she's the best mother a child could ask for, that she did everything she could to protect him. Holding her and listening as she cries <3
milk is neat because its the only drink i can think of where you desperately want it cold and yet it would be unthinkable to put ice cubes in. a delicate limbo. a yuri of abscence. this post is nothing but you can look at it if youd like
You can freeze milk cubes and put them in
who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?
Imagine my shock as a neurodivergent teen when I first realized that using large vocabulary and eloquent speech doesn't make you less likely to be misinterpreted, rather it adds an entirely new layer of misinterpretation I had never even realized existed in the form of people thinking you're being snobbish or condescending when you're just trying to be specific
Ian Stone, Doubting Thomas, oil on linen, 12x16 in, 2023
"If you know the painting by Caravaggio, Doubting Thomas, it was my direct inspiration for this piece.
A doubting Thomas is a skeptic who refuses to believe without direct personal experience. 50-60 years ago, it was not uncommon for people to think or believe that being gay was a phase or a mental illness or deviance in some shape or form. It's embarrassing that the same things are being said about trans people today."
not to be rude but some of y'all need to look on the bright side sometimes. like, yeah sure the world is fucked and people suck and we all die whatever, sure, but like. go outside.
ok i phrased this poorly, hang on.
i'm not saying the cure for depression is touching grass. however, if you surround yourself with sad things and talk about how terrible life is and how much you're suffering and never take a breath and remember it's not all bad, you'll end up making yourself worse.
Yes, your pain is real, and yes, it deserves to be heard and felt, fully. But it deserves to be remedied too.
Lay down in some clean bedsheets, bake some cookies, listen to the rain.
It won't fix anything, but it's not meant to. It's only meant to soothe.
companies really have got to be okay with stagnant profits. what is wrong with earning the same amount every year? why does it always have to be more? it's not sustainable. there are only so many people on the planet you can profit from 😭
This is the thing. If there are only so many people they can profit from, and they demand to see profits go up every year, they will have to steal more out of the pockets of the little people each year, either by paying less, or by charging more. And that is the problem. Because that is exactly what is happening. And the rich get richer. And the poor are getting so poor that it is coming to a crisis point. They seem to have forgotten what happens at the crisis point though: people who have nothing to lose, will rise up and fight.
Cancer: a malignant tumor of potentially unlimited growth that expands locally by invasion and systemically (Merriam Webster)
See also: Capitalism
But also, “increasing profits every quarter” is a relatively recent thing. It’s new since the 1980s! In the 1980s, Reagan heavily promoted the economic theories connected with the Chicago school of economics. (“Reaganomics” is basically the Chicago school ideas dumbed down to fit in soundbites.) The Chicago school is, among other things, responsible for such wonders as “all regulation in the marketplace is always bad” “monopoly is good because it’s efficient” and “trickle-down economics.” When those ideas became mainstream, and were adopted wholeheartedly by Wall Street, they spawned the idea that the most important measure of a company was its stock increasing in value. Not how much business it was doing, not how well its customers liked and valued it, not how stable it was for the long-term. Is its stock increasing is the only measure of value.
Prior to that point, a business--even large corporations!--were valued more on how reliable they are. If I invest in this business, will it still be there five, ten, fifteen, twenty years from now? Businesses were good if they were profitable and stable. Increasing profits was wonderful! But they understood that that is not infinitely sustainable, and that if you wanted to maximize long-term profits for individual investors and for the economy as a whole, you did not want flash-in-the-pan trendiness, and you didn’t want a business cannibalizing itself, you wanted a business that was stable and took good care of its customers so they’d keep coming back.
So, just curious how many writers and creators will have to be forcibly outed by relentless harassment before we acknowledge that "This queer characters was written by a cishet person and that's why they're bad" is not good criticism.
Also I cannot overstate how much "We should scrutinize out queer authors MORE" was not the point of this post, or my tags on it. Queer creators already cannot fucking win. If they're not out loud and clear, they get ripped to pieces. If they're out and proud and make art that doesn't rise to the impossible standard of perfectly representing all queer people everywhere they get ripped to pieces.
There isn't a way forward from this without being willing to admit that what is good representation is subjective. There isn't a way forward from this without admitting that we aren't all looking for the same thing in queer media and queer characters, that something not being for me doesn't make it necessarily bad and harmful, and that what we need is more and a greater variety of queer characters, not to force them all into one arbitrary formula.
Less than a day after I posted this, the notes were already filling up with testimonials from creators afraid to represent themselves in their own work because they are aware of the unforgiving scrutiny applied to all marginalized characters and they know their characters will be seen as imperfect representation.
You have to realize that the rigid view of what constitutes "good representation" is not just hurting the privileged creators you deem acceptable targets. It is hurting marginalized creators who want to represent themselves and share their stories in their voices.
You know what? My disability does hold me back! I'm sick of pretending it doesn't because society only thinks we're worthy if we're actively trying to "overcome" our disabilities or that we "defy the odds". I'm sick of hearing "you can do anything you put your mind to" because that's just not true and is often invalidating of the struggles disabled people face.
I am worthy either way, regardless of whether I can contribute in a way that society deems acceptable or not.
The same applies to you! You are worthy if you can't drive, can't finish school, can't work a conventional job. You are worthy if you can't live on your own without help. You are worthy if you'll need assistance for the rest of your life. You are worthy, always.
Not an expert but from personal experience this is true. Firms will also try to build a case representing multiple clients as well, which can strengthen their case and give a bigger pay out. If they win.
If your company is stealing wages from you there is a good chances their stealing from others. Talk to your coworkers about your wages (but be smart about it).
You absolutely have the power to sue their asses if you need to. You might need to take the time to do your research and talk to multiple lawyers first but don’t let the fear of lawyer fees be the Only thing that stops you.
