golf courses should be abolished. mini golf can stay. actual golf? no. golf courses take up so much water to maintain their grass, grass which, btw, is a monoculture and bad for wildlife. the area that golf courses take up could be used for affordable housing, or natural areas left to grow with wild native plants that are better for the insect populations. but nooo, we gotta use all this land so that stuck up rich people can play the most boring game ever invented. bullshit.
the police should be abolished. i would settle for defunding but really they just need to go.
children are people, treat them as such. kids have thoughts and feelings that are just as real and valid as yours.
on a similar vein, you are allowed to not want children, but that doesn’t give you a free pass to hate kids or be mean to kids. they didnt ask to be here, be kind.
there should be a maximum wage. after a certain point, there is no amount of labour you could possibly do to Earn that much money. your workers earned that money, and you are stealing it from them.
there is a difference between millionaires and billionaires. when i say eat the rich im not talking about actors and musicians, im talking about people who are directly responsible for poverty, hunger, suffering, and homelessness around the world. people who hoard obscene amounts of wealth that No One could ever hope to spend in an entire lifetime and simply watch while minimum wage workers struggle to put food on the table and the elderly freeze in their homes.
sex ed should start in primary school, at an age-appropriate level. if kids are old enough to ask questions about sex, they are old enough to learn about it in a safe environment. they should be taught correct anatomical names for body parts (penis, vulva, vagina, etc.).
there should be more research into autism and ADHD in adults, this shit doesn’t just go away when you grow up.
diagnostic criteria for disabilities, disorders, and mental health conditions should be written by people who have or have had these conditions. how is someone supposed to know if they have autism, for example, if the symptoms are written from the perspective of someone who has never experienced it?? doesn’t make any fucking sense.
hostile architecture should be illegal. unhoused people deserve a place to sleep. or better yet, give them houses. there are literal studies done that prove that housing people saves the government money in the long run, so why aren’t we doing that? make it make sense
edit: updated to add more clarity to the golf thing. didn’t explain that one well enough and left some people confused
I cannot express how important it is to brush your teeth and floss regularly. It’s especially important as so many people don’t have dental coverage and that preventative work saves you so much pain and money in the long run. I know it sucks and it is so hard, but you’ll also feel so good after doing it. And when you start doing it regularly, you’ll find your mouth and gums feel so much better. If you’ve already done it today, good job! I’m so proud of you and so happy for you!
This is the first tumblr blaze post I’ve seen that’s made me go “actually yes, it’s good if people see this”
@xenosagaepisodeone you are the reason this post blew up. This post gets spread through Tumblr with your one reblog above anything else. The impact you have had. How’s that feel to know?
nobody warns you this but addiction happens without you noticing and one of the first things that it attacks is your ability to care. if you find yourself using recreational drugs every day, stop and take one day a week sober. if you struggle with this or if you don’t see the point of the exercise, you are likely already addicted and you need help.
nobody ever taught me the warning signs for drug addiction, only that “it costs lots of money and destroys your life!!!1” which is not helpful if you can’t recognize a developing addiction in yourself.
so here’s some things to watch out for with recreational drug use:
planning your day around drugs e.g “i’ll give myself an extra half hour before heading out so i can get high first”
rapidly switching emotions around drugs. you love them but you hate that you love them so much. you hate the way you feel on them but you hate being sober. feeling guilty after using even when you didn’t give a crap beforehand.
caring less about spending money. if you are budgeting for drugs like they are food, you are likely prioritizing them more than is healthy.
getting high to do household chores and other unpleasant things because it would suck less and be more bearable on drugs
feeling anxious or restless while sober, not knowing what to do with oneself, feeling lost or ungrounded.
thinking about doing drugs constantly even while sober. maybe it’s the first thing you think of when you wake up. maybe when you’re bored or otherwise have free time, drugs are one of the first things you can think of to occupy yourself with.
going to work or school while under the influence, especially if it happens regularly and if you’re seeing your performance suffer as a result.
the idea of taking a ‘tolerance break’ sounds good to you until it’s actually break time, at which point you can come up with 20 very reasonable sounding points to explain why it wouldn’t benefit you actually and you should just keep doing drugs regardless.
even if you succeed at quitting the drug, you keep your dealer’s number on your phone “just in case”
you pretend to be sober when you aren’t. you worry about other people noticing how much time you spend high. you make efforts to hide your drug use or minimize how much other people think you’re using. you’re scared of other people’s judgement if they were to find out.
you have mood swings laced with self-hatred, regret, financial worries, and guilt. these mood swings are then very quickly wiped away by feelings of “but it doesn’t matter, i can do what i want, and clearly i’m doing just fine while using drugs frequently”. news flash, if you are rapidly switching between feeling numb-ok and hating yourself more than anything because of your drug use, you are mentally ill.
yes this applies to weed. weed is a drug and you can get addicted to it like any other substance. addiction is not the same as physical dependence; it is psychological and it can happen to anyone. you are not immune to addiction.
CDPR I just wanna throw it out there before tomorrow comes that I know you guys crafted a well-constructed narrative full of twists and turns that will present difficult choices for me to make based on loyalty and our need to survive, but unfortunately you failed to take into account that I am still horrendously attached to my Keanu Reeves-shaped brain tumor and thus any decisions I make throughout Phantom Liberty will be directly influenced by what makes him happy and/or ensures his survival. Sorry to all the other characters you introduced into this DLC but they won’t mean as much to me as the greasy-haired rockstar in my head who smokes like a chimney narrates Pulp Noir on my morning walks and enjoys getting choked out during sex.
thran, with no inclination whatsoever of elrond having been part of this dumb assed idea, but every bit suspicious of gandalf: i legit sent legolas to elrond’s to advise of gollum’s escape, and you’re telling me he JOINED A FELLOWSHIP OF WEIRDOS ON A DOOMED QUEST?!
also thran: ONE OF THE DWARVES WHO ESCAPED MY DUNGEONS’ SON and a BAGGINS?! *curses the ainur*
also also thran: ARAGORN II AND BOROMIR, STEWARD PRINCE OF GONDOR?! wtf are they supposed to do against sauron’s forces? charge taxes?
also also also thran: what do you MEAN elrond agreed with mithrandir?! *dramatic sigh of utter defeat* i give him ONE chance to make up for ruining my special-order boots those 4,037.6 years ago, and this is how my consideration IS REPAID?! eru forbid arwen undomiel should ever set foot into mirkwood…
san diego (12-26yo us residents, not the whole collection just commonly banned books)
these cards (part of the books unbanned initiative) get you access to each library’s complete libby/overdrive collection (unless otherwise mentioned), no hoopla/kanopy/physical copies included.
ebook collections are expensive to maintain (many american libraries have annual fees for non-residents because of this) but because of an uptick in book banning (particularly brutal in mississippi last summer) larger libraries have opened their doors more, which is very kind of them!
i’ve used my seattle card for the last several months and their libby collection has about three times the books that my local library does, which is wonderful for accessing more niche titles or skipping a waiting list. would love to hear of similar ebook initiatives internationally!
i use library extension (firefox/safari/chrome compatible) to check all my collections (+ the internet archive) at once, works for several different countries highly recommend it.
spotify seems to be offering 15hrs/month of audiobook listening to premium subscribers and while that does seem useful if you’re already paying and are after a new release with a long library waitlist, libraries are better for everything else.
If a night of passion is on offer, I could be persuaded.
The writer for Astarion said in an interview that Astarion’s physicality and mannerisms are all Neil Newbon. And the thought of Neil mocapping this scene destroys me.
You can’t even see the leg in the original cinematic, you have to use free cam. So odds are, Neil went for it.
It was different people for the intimacy scenes, as Josh Wichard did all the intimacy scenes so that was actually, Josh who did the leg hook. It’s still very hot but a different mocap actor XD.
Also, he appreciates all the love we have been giving this scene!
“Klimafreundlich, unkompliziert und günstig mit Bus und Bahn unterwegs sein – das bedeutet das 49-Euro-Ticket für Millionen Menschen in Deutschland. Doch damit könnte bald Schluss sein. Verkehrsminister Volker Wissing (FDP) will für das Erfolgsprojekt die nötigen Finanzmittel nicht mehr bereitstellen. Mach ihm jetzt klar: Das 49-Euro-Ticket muss bleiben!”
Hey Leute, habt ihr zwei Minuten? Dann unterzeichnet doch bitte eben kurz. 🙏😁 Dankeschöön!!
Also not to continue with the discourse but it is EXTREMELY funny to me how many pro-kink posts have the op freaking out in the notes about how “this isn’t about fandom” and “stop talking about your fucking ships” as of those kinks are not at all related to kink. Sorry but written and drawn porn is still part of kink, buds, and that includes stuff that’s related to fandom.
The thing about kink is that there’s a whole lot of them that are actually SUPER FUCKING DANGEROUS. Even the more “vanilla” kinks that everyone treats as basic can cause permanent damage and even death when not done correctly. Choking can cause brain damage, neck damage, and accidentally kill your partner. Impact play on the wrong spots can cause spinal and organ damage. Even simple bondage can cause nerve damage, cut off serious blood flow, or even cause someone to dislocate or break a bone during playful struggles.
There are so many ways irl kink can go wrong and very few resources on how to do a lot of things safely, especially with the increasing crackdowns on sexual spaces online. People are pretty much entirely dependent on irl kink spaces that they might not even know exist and that may be illegal in their area.
And that doesn’t mean that those kinks are bad or wrong (I’m a firm believer in RACK/risk aware consensual kink, even when the risks are serious injury or death) but that a lot of the time, exploring kink through erotica and art is a safer and more accessible option for a lot of people.
So rejecting fiction as part of kink is not only absurd, it’s also dangerous especially when you are fully aware of how few available resources there are for practicing safe kink irl. People can DIE from this shit wihout ever being aware of that risk. People can be CHARGED WITH MURDER because they didn’t know how to practice “vanilla” kinks safely. Even in the best case scenarios wrt to injuries, people can be investigated for and charged with domestic violence for seeking medical help with injuries that happened in completely consensual scenes.
Fiction doesn’t have that risk. So just. Make space in your kink communities for erotica and art and the like.
