#I couldn't ask for better parents

[robbybirdy]

You can now access ALL of my Recipes and read the original posts

Apples to zucchini here

baking chapters here

now you can look at the past baking series, and find the recipes.

#this took so much time #but it feels so good #having all of my recipes in one place #And I have made all of these recipes #i showed my parents the 27 pages of recipes that i have made #and they are so encouraging #They looked at that and were like “Robyn Don't ever say that YOu haven't done anything since you graduated!” #“Look at how much you have changed in both your writing and your recipes.” #“Be proud of what you have accomplished.” #It wasn't just my mom or my dad that said these things #so I was just like 😭😭😭 #I couldn't ask for better parents #i was not expecting that

[eyrieofsynapses]

hey, Leverage peeps, I've got a thought. I've seen a lot of posts and memes joking about Nate's inability to understand that his clients do not want money, they want revenge. I also find this funny. but I was thinking about it and I realized something: there's a personal reason behind it. there is a very, very good reason why Nate doesn't get that.

Nate's drive to lead Leverage, outside of the crew, originated from his son's death due to his insurance company's refusal to cover the bill for the required treatment. we all know this. if his company had paid for Sam's treatment, everything would've been fine.

…or, if Nate had been a little wealthier, had a little more change to spend… maybe he could've paid for it. maybe Blackpool never would've had a say in any of it. maybe Nate would've had everything under control from the start.

we've discussed at length in the fandom how money equals safety for some of the others in the crew (Parker and Hardison grew up with little to none and know its importance to survival, Eliot needs it to stay ahead of his old enemies, etc.), but I don't know that I've seen any discussion on how it's relevant to Nate. for him, however, money equals security in healthcare and in housing (he lost the house, remember?). Nate's older than the others. he remained in the same place for much longer, and he had a stable life for a while. the others haven't been in that position before. many of their clients, however, are at that place in life.

yes, for the others, money keeps them ahead of the game and it keeps them secure. but none of them ever lost a kid because they couldn't pay for healthcare. none of them risk losing the life of someone who is completely dependent on them when they don't have enough.

(Hardison, perhaps, has the closest understanding, considering he hacked a bank to pay for his Nana's healthcare. but he never lost her.)

Nate thinks ahead, you know? he has a long-term view of things. I imagine that for him, when clients refuse the money, they're not just refusing a month's worth of groceries, or a place to stay the night, or the ability to keep running. for him, they're refusing control over their hard-earned, stable, long-term living situation. they're refusing the potential to save a family member's life.

I dunno, guys. I think that's a pretty good reason to not understand why people don't want the money.

#leverage #leverage meta #nate ford #meta #ello folks it has been A While #but I saw another one of these memes today and couldn't help but ask myself 'why?' #and this came out #anyway I figure this is a fair reason to have more trouble Getting It #when you think about it Nate's probably gotten the closest to most of their clients' living situations #the rest of them have had Very Unusual Lives #but so many of their clients are PARENTS #they're people with STABLE LIVING SITUATIONS #they're ordinary middle-class people! #and Nate was the only one who lived as an adult in that situation! #he's the only one who understands what it's like to have a regular family depending on him to keep the household running! #no WONDER he worries more about this! #he understands the consequences better than the others do! #I dunno I feel like that gets overlooked a lot #anyway have fun playing with this #synapse meta

[thestormlightnetwork]

I GOT THE HOID BOX!!!

she's here in all her glory!!!

i was worried that i wouldn't get the hoid pin because when i checked the site a few days later, it said the individual hoid pins were out of stock but it's there!!!

#hoid #cosmere #this was my birthday gift from my parents and i couldn't have asked for anything better! #brandon sanderson

[naivesilver]

RIGHT. hello again. I am once again in your inbox :) how about 'would you stop with the worry - flurry?' or 'i care cause it’s not fair!' or 'oh , sweetie , what’s wrong?' from the EAH ask for Cedar? 🥰

HI I AM VERY LATE but. You know. Gretel duty called AHSKDGASKHDKGNADSC thank you, I hope you'll be able to forgive me 💗💗💗 also, I did try to come up with some ACTUAL EAH content, but the urge was too strong, so have a little Uncle Wick and Baby Cedar snippet again LMAO

Ever After High Quote Starters

"Oh, sweetie, what’s wrong?"

People made of wood can't cry, so Cedar really isn't crying, no siree.

What she is doing, instead, is kicking the underside of her bed with her foot, so the thumping noise will drown the yelling coming from downstairs. She hasn't been very successful thus far - her father and grandfather are louder even than the obnoxious clacking of wood against wood, and keep getting worse as they go - but Cedar is determined to continue, if only for lack of anything better to do; she can't get tired, and she's scared of what might happen if she leaves the room, so kicking it is, for now.

Besides, she feels kind of safe, laying on the floor under the bed, as though she were being kept in a neat little box. There'll be some dust flakes clinging to her hair when she crawls out, maybe, but it's not like she gets allergies, and no one will think to look for her there, not until they've calmed down a bit.

Or at least, that's what she thought. The creaking of the door opening makes her freeze, her leg dropping as the two men's row gets louder for a moment before it's shut out again - Cedar would hold her breath if she had any, but as it is, she can only wait, wide-eyed, as a pair of legs approach the bed heavily and kneel down to check underneath.

That's when Uncle Wick's thin, long face pops into view, smiling broadly at her. "Hello, pretty girl. Mind if I join you?"

"No." It's the truth. Of course it's the truth. Cedar is always happy to see Uncle Wick. It's just that she wishes it were Dad instead, because it would mean that the fight is over and she can leave her hiding spot for good.

Still, Grandfather says she shouldn't look a gifted Pegasus in the mouth, so she simply watches as her father's best friend lays on his back and wriggles to fir next to her - he's fairy tall, Uncle Wick, which means his long legs are probably poking out from under the bed in a very silly way, but Cedar isn't really in the mood for laughing, right now. She reprises her kicking, instead, eyes fixed stubbornly on the bed-frame.

A hand comes up to rub at her head, mussing her curly hair. "What's wrong, sweetpea? They shout at you too?"

"No. They just said I should go to my room." Which is much, much worse, in her opinion. "But they're talking 'bout Raven. Raven is my friend. Why can't I listen too?"

"I don't know, kiddo. They told me to get out too." Uncle Wick sighs heavily, his voice growing wistful.

"Look, they're gonna tire themselves out at some point, okay? That's how it always goes. No clue what old Milton told them, but they can't be mad at him forever."

The problem is, Cedar isn't so sure they're mad at Headmaster Grimm and not, say, each other. She wasn't allowed to hear much of what they were saying, but she caught enough to worry - Raven's name came up, and her mother's, and something Grandfather had done, and then off she was, pressing her hands against her ears in an useless attempt to ignore them all.

She's supposed to go to this headmaster's school with Raven when she's older, so she can follow her destiny and become a real girl. Are they going to quarrel so loudly, too, when it's time? Is that why she was sent away, so they don't start fighting too soon? It doesn't make sense.

And what does the Evil Queen have to do with it, anyway? She's dead. Cedar and Raven were supposed to be playing in the workshop while their fathers talked about what would happen after, but they got distracted enough, what with all those somber, whispering adults. "Nothing bad's happened to Raven, right?"

"Course not, Cedar. She's doing just fine. Bet you can go visit her during the weekend, if you ask your dad."

That's something, at least. And yet, the relief is short-lived, for a moment later Pinocchio's voice raises even louder and angrier, so different from his customary soft tones. "Listen, I don't know what Grimm asked you to do, but don't tell me it's something good, because I won't hexing believe you, Father-"

Cedar shifts her position subtly, curling around the man's arm with an ear pressed against the sleeve of his jacket. "Can you tell me a story, Uncle Wick?"

"Sure." Uncle Wick sounds like he's smiling. Cedar is grateful for it, even though he must only be doing it to be brave, to keep her calm and distracted - maybe his voice will succeed where her foot failed, droning on and on until she can't hear anything else anymore. "Once upon a time, there was a very clever wooden girl-"

Cedar finds herself smiling back a bit, despite herself. She appreciates the effort, she really does, even if he's being silly. "That's not right. You always say the same thing."

"Yeah, 'cause all the stories I like to tell are true. Anyway, where was I- Once upon a time, there was a beautiful wooden girl, and she was the cleverest girl in all the realm..."

#lizardthelizard #ask meme #ever after high #eah #pinocchio #cedar wood #lampwickcore #fanfic #do you ever think about the fact that only about 4 people knew that raven's mom was alive? #and that one of them was the grandfather of one of her bffas????? who couldn't tell his granddaughter #bc she was CURSED TO SPILL SECRETS???? #anyway I have great love for my rebel girls and their parents. they all deserved better smh

[zacharyblank]

I truly honestly LOVE the fact that Gabriel is trying SO HARD to at least look like a decent parent and yet the only thing he can think to do is flip flapjacks in the kitchen.

Like he just sat down and thought to himself "Is this what good parents do? Feed their children pancakes for every meal? Kids love carbohydrates, right?"

#Dude couldn't even remember how his son liked his pancakes #A question he just asked two episodes ago #Honestly he'd be better bringing home a bucket of chicken instead #I mean he's already got the right fit for the occasion #miraculous ladybug #miraculous season 5 #gabriel agreste #adrien agreste #illusion #Illusion Spoilers #i guess #parenting

[superconductivebean]

#543

WELL.

SPAMMED TAGS WITH AN ESSAY?

im very proud of these rambles but i can't understand why do i love to spam tags sm

#днявочка #днявочка: hlegacy #eng tag #днявочка: фандомное #damn wright #so i was peacefully asleep and then it came to me that wright is clingy but attaches Value to every hug she received or asked for #because when she was little her parents were too busy so any moment of Family Love was cherished and of gold and -- #-- slowly wright was remembering it all after The Battle. what her life was like before everything or what she thought was it like #i couldn't just kill off her mom off-stage i had to implement her in-full somehow so; not to overshare much but sharp will come to know her #and he'll tell everything he learned to wright as he'd originally planned but rookwood intervened and well it's a long story #by the time of that convo blorbos developed bonds over some things already but at that moment -- it was a rubicon ahead of them #wright felt lonelier than ever and sharp couldn't just leave her there for the sake of keeping the subordination up #wright entrusted him with the knowledge and her life and sharp stood by his word; she was *his student* after all and sought his help #so that how it started; still a mentorship but deeper. heavier. *falconry metaphors here* #they did become very close after The Battle but here's the catch: both of them didn't realize it right away #wright's clueless but sharp is always vigilant; he didn't want wright to have too much on her already cluttered mind especially -- #-- family related bc the topic is very dear and personal to her. for sharp it was more like 'family what family' -- #-- it's tied to scarborough incident (it took his hopes of having any family along with the ship but tshhh oversharing) #so. imagine a loop of suffering; wright seeks comfort and when she finds it in his arms she feels hardly any better because -- #-- it reminded her of her father of her mother but sharp is neither of them and the thought of it alone brought wright down very much #sharp isn't a substitute either -- and fear of losing him lingered and ohmygod how much talking they'd go through #self-indulgent part of it: when you're thick skin you tend to oversee many damaging things and may not even know smth has gotten under #wright thought she overcame her losses but in reality she never did and all these events only uncovered her lingers

[ridiasfangirlings]

In an au where Munakata adopts Fushimi, it's that day where parents visit the school to watch how their kids are doing in class. Fushimi has avoided telling Munakata anything about it as he doesn't want Munakata there. He even intercepted calls and all that but Munakata still showed up. Munakata is encouraging him from the back of the room everytime he has to answer any questions and praises him for doing tasks. "Isn't he amazing! That child is mine." Munakata tells the parent next to him.

Of course Munakata found out, as if he would overlook anything when it comes to his child XD Imagine at this point Munakata has been parenting Fushimi for long enough that Fushimi’s wariness has turned into a resigned acceptance that okay, maybe his new dad isn’t horrible like Niki, instead Munakata is exhausting in an entirely different way. When Fushimi’s teacher announces they’re going to have a special Parents Day, where all the parents come in and see how their kids are doing, initially Fushimi has no reaction because he’s had these before, he didn’t tell anyone and no one ever bothered to show up for him. But then as he’s leaving class the teacher smiles at him and says ‘remember to tell your dad about Parents Day’ (because she met Munakata when Fushimi enrolled and my such an involved parent how sweet) and Fushimi suddenly has the terrible, horrible realization that his embarrassing nerd dad will absolutely come to Parents Day and dote on him in public with no sense of shame whatsoever. 

Little Fushimi realizes he has only one choice: he must keep Munakata from finding out about Parents Day at all costs. He makes sure to destroy any flyer he’s given in class, imagine him even seeing one abandoned on the street one day when he and Munakata are out and he like dive bombs into it to grab it and throw it away before Munakata can see. He intercepts all calls from the school, reassuring his teacher that yes his dad will be there unless of course he comes down with a debilitating disease that day. Fushimi even hacks Munakata’s computer and his PDA to block any mention of Parents Day in the class parents group chat (which Munakata is absolutely an active member of).

Finally Parents Day arrives and Fushimi heads into class, all ready to tell his teacher that his dad did in fact come down with a terrifying debilitating disease and couldn’t attend. The moment he walks in though he sees Munakata sitting there at the back of the class, the very first parent to arrive, waving proudly at him as Fushimi’s just like ‘…’. For the rest of the day Fushimi has to deal with Munakata being the proudest parent, every time Fushimi answers a question or completes a math problem on the blackboard he can hear Munakata happily telling the other parents about how that amazing child is his. At lunch time Munakata sits with Fushimi to eat and Fushimi grumbles that how did Munakata even find out about this, doesn’t he have work and does he really have time to be here anyway. Munakata smiles softly and says of course he would know, attending important events for your child is a parent’s responsibility, and what work could be more valuable than that. Fushimi feels his cheeks getting red and quietly mumbles that it’s fine then, he supposes it’s okay that Munakata showed up. 

#Fushimi Saruhiko #Munakata Reisi #Talking K #Fushimi has one daddy #...I need to find a better tag for these XD #anyway Munakata absolutely knows when Parents Day is #he probably calls every week to ask #he couldn't possibly miss this #he wants to tell everyone about his amazing talented child

[mishkakagehishka]

And we know Suzu was adopted and we know Mika will meet her (or has met her, looking from EnGirls pov). Do you think he ever feels envy. Or perhaps resentment.

Do you think he's envious of the fact that she got adopted and he didn't. Do you think he ever thinks about the fact that they both have mismatched eyes, which he'd always blamed for his being abandoned, yet she was adopted. What will he blame now? Is there something inherently wrong with him? How come his twin was wanted, and he wasn't? He's spent years blaming one (1) thing about himself for it, but considering she shares that trait, it must be something else that's wrong with him. Do you ever think about Mika desperate to find some sort of logical explanation for the fact that he was abandoned. His own form of "closure". Do you think he said that he never tried to find parents because he projected his abandonment issues and didn't want to "abandon" the kids he was in charge of taking care of, or do you think it was his defence. His way of saying, "It's not that nobody wants me - it's that I don't want to be adopted". His way of protecting his feelings. Anyway-

#i just like thinking of Mika overcome with negative feelings and anger #i like thinking about him desperate and grieving his child self. #i like thinking about him meeting Suzu and realising she was adopted ''despite'' the weird eyes. so obviously that wasn't the reason why he #wasn't adopted. so what is it? go on Mishka. find what it is that's inherently wrong with you. find an explanation for why you were #abandoned because your fragile lil heart just can't handle the idea of ''your parents just didn't want you''. there must be a valid reason #right? ... i esp love the idea of their parents being dead or otherwise they can't contact them #better yet - they don't /want to/ be contacted. Mika could ask them himself - but they're not answering emails nor letters #even now that he's a famous idol - when he could be the perfect son - when he's found them. they still want nothing to do with him #not even to grace him with an answer to the simplest question ''why?'' - not even to lie and say something like ''we couldn't afford to #raise you'' or something like that. or did you guys think i only like physically torturing mika? #ensemble stars #angst #i guess i'll tag it like that #mika kagehira

[starphobe]

fh fandom back to wishing death on a fictional teenager for being mentally ill and not learning how to cope with that in a healthy way. what else is new

#do i think klck is correct? no #do i think a fandom full of grown adults should stop holding this (manipulated) (not sound of mind) teenager to wack standards? ya #like.... some of you are... how do i say this.... ~projecting~ #and dont get me wrong this isnt me trying to say shes some kind of innocent misunderstood blorbo 🥺🥺🥺 #i think shes a freak and a cunt. but im going to be normal about it and NOT say that she deserves to be killed (????) #pre-overtaking she was clearly aware that her behavior wasn't healthy #the fact she even went to jawbone at all (and was honest with him!) proves that imo #personally i feel like she might be neurodivergent -> struggling with knowing which rules to break and which ones to not #we literally JUST had an episode where the principal of AAA told students to their face that studying and working hard is dumb #i think kipperlilly came to aguefort. couldn't get a grip on what they Actually wanted from her #(parents went to mumple. she couldnt have been prepared for aguefort) #and out of frustration she fixated on people who were doing well and compared herself to them #and the only major surface difference she could find? tragic backstories #it only makes sense that she'd assume that THAT is what was missing. her inability to adapt to AAA was out of her control #so instead of blaming smth abstract (neurodivergence/other mental illness) #this single. concrete. and obvious difference is way easier to latch on to #but yeah. imo she just reads as someone super neurodivergent who received No Help because she 'made do' #and when thrown into a situation that required a skillset she wasn't born with. she shut down and got defensive #noone is born wanting to die yadda yadda #i think it's very interesting that when jawbone turned the question around on her (asking what SHE could do to get better) #she got quiet and awkward #its almost like she was trying her best? and just couldn't figure out where to go next? #and OH would you look at that. jace offering her a trip to the mountains of chaos. for a ~super dangerous adventure~ #🙄 #anyway. #awfully convenient. isn't it. #this has been me. having takes on ms goldendoodle shibainu #goodnight everyone (its noon) #not tagging this out of fear of the *** stans out there who will not stop taking things personally

[bookwyrminspiration]

really random story but I cannot get out of my head how the other day, I walked out of my room wearing this one sweater I really like, and I had my arms held rigid at my sides so the sleeves fell with as few folds as possible, just walking like that without moving them because I like how it feels and it lessens sensory input. and my mom looked at me, and I don't know if I'd just never done that in front of her or if it'd been long enough she'd forgotten

either way, she looked at me and asked why I was doing that, but when I couldn't come up with an answer, she asked instead: "does it help you?"

such a simply question, but something about it rewired something in my brain. yes. yes it helps me and I like it. and I don't know exactly why but it helps me and that's what matters. and so I nodded, and she nodded back and said "okay" and moved on. as if she didn't just rock my world. i don't need to justify, to compensate, to explain, to make up for, to reason away my odd behaviors to make them "make sense" and allow myself them

what a lovely question. does it help you? good, that's reason enough <3

#actually autistic #shitpost #(I am being vulnerable on the internet you better be so so nice to me) #i legit cannot stop thinking about that interaction #it couldn't have been more than 20 seconds #just does it help you? #my parents are pretty great at just rolling with whatever slightly off things I do #sometimes when I am overwhelmed (certain kind of overwhelmed) I will just go out and sit next to one of them #sometimes I will go quiet. and i'm not incapable of speech but it's harder and less natural. so I don't talk #and they don't ask or say anything about it. they just go with it #and I will stand on one foot and avoid certain bowls. and they just smile #because it helps me. so they don't mind at all #i'm. going to cry /pos /gen

[homeless202]

this is again the issue that people won't listen to him and blatantly ignore what he's saying:

it's so annoying

everyone keeps bothering him with the same thing over and over altho he's already expressed his opinion on the matter. it's like talking to the walls.

of course he's going to flip out. who wouldn't? no one's patient enough to listen to repetitive shit like that.

but now it's his fault for 'overreacting'. he just wanted people to leave him alone.

...but not like that.

#(did yall notice i try to frame these as dramatically as possible bc i want you to cry together with me :) #these people were well-intentioned. they just wanted to compliment him and find out if he was going to act again #unfortunately he doesn't believe the compliments he gets on his acting skills #(<-prolly cuz his parents never appreciated/complimented him on it) #he doesn't think it's true or relevant since it's not coming from the right people #when he told everyone no and to stop asking. they all talked over him <- which is exactly what always happened with his mom #she pushed and pushed and pushed him until he couldn't take it anymore and made him explode #making him look like the crazy/overreacting one #and her like the 'poor mom with such a difficult child' #eunyung has a record of never being taken seriously when trying to communicate his boundaries #and of being gaslighted his whole life #<- ofc he'll react badly #but reacting like that pushes people away in the process #so. him expressing his feelings is either irrelevant to others or considered an overreaction #<- ofc he'll get violent when words don't work. some people understand body language better than spoken #no home #no home manhwa #집이 없어 #webtoon #eunyung baek #meta #ey and theater #ahhh ig he's tall enough to hold that many issues otherwise they wouldn't fit

[lettersiarrange]

hey are you a terf ? you've been reblogging stuff from radfems ...

No, I'm not a terf, I support trans people 100%. Also terfs are uncomfortably cozy with the alt-right and that's uhhh... a whole other layer of awful.

But I think I may be following a secret terf? Tumblr keeps showing me these posts that are like "liked by someone you're following!" And I follow 4k people so I'm not like. Keeping track of anyone but my mutuals. And some of the posts tumblr shows me are obviously terfy which makes me go HMMMM but then some of them seem fine? So it's hard for me to tell the difference between "posts tumblr reccomends me that are normal and in line with the regular leftist and feminist things I'm into" vs like "posts tumblr reccomends me because they're liked by whatever secret terf I'm following and have suspicious undertones that aren't immediately obvious to me". I'm certainly not intentionally following any terfs or following anyone who publicly identifies as a terf* or puts terf shit on my dash but I'm apparently following someone who doesn't blog about terf shit but LIKES terf shit (and I think it might be a fandom blog so that makes it harder to identify) and then those likes show up on my dash and it's not always obvious that it's terf shit or from a radfem blog-- it's just a random posts from a url I don't know. And sometimes the posts themselves are fine on the initial read.

So pls let me know what the radfem blogs in question are so I can identify and remember them if they pop up on my dash again

*caveat that I've been on this website for 10+ years and follow 4,000+ people and it's theoretically possible that a blog I followed multiple years ago that I never see on my dash now publicly identifies as a terf, but I'm not gonna go through all 4k of my following to try and find out if any of them have become publicly shitty in a way that doesn't affect my dash in the years since I've followed them. People get unfollowed as they bring shitty views to my attention. Hence the conundrum with the undercover terf bc they don't post terf shit, they just like it.

#*but how do you not immediately recognize terf dogwhistles!* you may ask #well. I've found when it comes to any toxic community like terfs or antivaxxers or incels or qanon or antisemitic leftists or WHATEVER #familiarizing myself with the discourse to the point that I'm An Expert In All The Secret Signals is uhhh... #pretty corrosive for my mental health #I'd much rather know Enough to recognize more obvious and popular talking points but otherwise stay a billion feet away #knowing all the Secret Signals involves an engagement with the nuance of their arguments that i am simply not mentally capable of #like it is Too Distressing #and I've found that as long as i can still recognize the more well-known signs of toxicity and steer clear... #i usually successfully avoid coming into contact with the toxicity #and like. I don't think my disabled friend's lives would be better by me becoming an expert in horrific eugenicist arguments and their lingo #nor do I think my trans friends lives would be improved by me becoming an expert on terf language and arguments #total respect for people who do for the purposes of fighting the good fight and warning everyone else #but couldn't be me. I'm sensitive and any amt of cruelty virtriol and toxicity just really Affects me #and my parents are qanon conspiracists so I'm already over the limit from being forced to hear abt whatever new #horrible conspiracy is going thru qanon every week. last week it was that i should Stockpile Food for Sept and Oct bc #Something Might Happen and i should be prepared #and don't i know masks are poisoning the american people? 🙄 #anyway props to people who know how to spot a terf from 100 ft based on how they walk #but it doesn't click for me until they open their mouths and start saying gender essentialist shit #(like. when i joined reddit in college I didn't know *gender critical* meant *terf* and was horrified to find out) #so no I don't have every radfem blog memorized so would appreciate warnings abt them #I've mostly been fairly happy in my non-hate-group tumblr bubble #asks

[nevert-the-guy]

Been a minute since I posted my original stuff, so have a triple threat of Lore, Lesbians, and high-school Love.

#nevert's funky lines #my ocs #oc art #art #robot girl #robot #the number of girlfriends will slowly increase #beyond even that shown in this art #...i gotta get better at differentiating heights #fireworks and lyra's parents (those two with black hair) are supposed to be in their early twenties #...don't ask why they decided to make robot kids while they're still in college #i couldn't give you an answer beyond “want metal daughter”

[hailsatanacab]

😅✨😬 for the fanfic ask game 💜💜💜

hey lovely 🫶

😅What’s a story or scene you’ve created that you’re a smidge embarrassed exists?

youknow... kinda My Father's Sword IF ONLY because it's pretty poorly done and I feel like it could do with an actual honest to goodness edit. Will I do that? Probably not 😅😅

✨Give you and your writing a compliment. Go on now. You know you deserve it. 😉

Uh. UH. I really like my dialogue? I really enjoy writing it and I think (most of the time) it reads pretty naturally, too! Especially love arguments and angst and fighting, if you couldn't tell 🤭

😬Which of your fics would you be most horrified for friends, family, or coworkers to stumble upon?

cetbwa, for sure. It's incredibly self-indulgent and explaining why I find torturing a teenager fun would definitely make me sound unhinged it's really fun tho

#ask answered #thank you my lovely!! #you chose really hard ones! so reblog it so i can do the same pleeaassee #also like can you imagine explaining to my family that i'm obsessed with a show that came out in 2004 but right now only specifically when #being crossed with DC and batman specifically?? #like full bravo and everything to the people that do talk to their parents about this stuff but like #couldn't be me #my brother still constantly takes the mickey when i say how much i like rap music (specifically chinese rap) so perhaps my wwx trap au #would have been a better answer haha #family eh? what would we do without them #if only i had the money to get my own place and find out! #lol sorry #ANYWAY thank you for the ask i hope you had a nice day i love you :)

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Sometimes I think about my life and I feel like I may just start crying tbh!!

#vent #vent in tags #theres not really anything for me #i dont have any passions or goals. im terrified of committing to something and losing interest #and i cant help but feel that even if i HAD any goals it wouldn't matter anyway #i believe im all but legally a middle school drop out #after 6th grade my mom really got into 🌟homesteading🌟 and 🌟living off the land🌟 #look me and all my siblings out of public to start homeschool. as she believed she could do better #she taught us for like. a a few months maybe? before it just faded out #i told her that i couldn't work with homeschool. that i needed to be in a school environment for it to work but it didn't matter to her #the second largest problem is how busy she us. she doesn't and never did have the time to homeschool anyone #now we're 🌟learning from the world🌟. aka. were not learning anything. at all. just staying home all day #and i miss public school. i never had a problem with it. i never wanted to leave. and i was never even asked officially. #if i even WANTED homeschooling #and g its so fucking isolating too. im at home All Day. i have no real actual physical friends #the only people i know are from the church my parents work at. and i hardly even believe in g #and i cant meet new people either. because i was raised terrified and anxious #i can be alone anywhere but i cant trust anyone that isn't directly related to me either #like. i wasnt a social kid in school. not at all. i sat alone and i enjoyed lunch detention and i ended friendships if they talked to me #too much #but g i at least had people around me yknow? i was around people. i talked. i did things. even if didn't interact with people at least #there was a presence of people yknow? #but now i have nothing and no one and i mean nothing i know nothing #and i feel like i dont matter at all #and thats not even STARTING on my emotional problems #crying from joy sounds as distant to me as a god does #i wish i could feel without fearing id be insulted or not taken seriously #i wish i could feel angry without people laughing at me #i wish i could cry without people getting annoyed with me #i wish i could cry without getting annoyed at myself

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TL;DR - How would you kick someone out of your house without involving police? and Should you?

My no-note blog is probably not the best place to ask this question, but maybe someone will come along and answer, who knows.

So in the ideal circumstance that we abolish the police, I've been wondering about a specific scenario. Say there is a person in your home, for whatever reason, who has no legal right to be there, and you do not want them there (again, for whatever reason) but they refuse to leave and you want to forcibly remove them from your home.

Most people nowadays would threaten to call the cops on them, and usually that alone is enough to get people to leave. I've never actually had this problem myself, but I've known numerous people who've talked about these kinds of situations (and coincidentally they were all middle class, if that tells you anything...) I, personally, would think twice (or a million times) about calling the cops on someone, especially if the person in question is particularly vulnerable to police brutality. So, even if the police aren't abolished, I still want to know the proper alternative to handle this kind of situation.

I'm a pretty weak, easily overpowered person, so my first instinct would be to like.. call someone I know or go get a strong neighbor or something to help me get this person off of my property.

I know that the specifics of the situation also play a key role here, too, on how to handle it. Like, if the person is reasonable, I would hope that just telling them to leave would get them to go - easy enough. But if they refuse to move.. what do I even do? If it's someone that I know very well, I might think to take a break and just walk away from them and hope we can sort things out once we've calmed down. If it's someone that I don't know very well, though, (not even necessarily an intruder, but just say someone who is overstaying their welcome) and especially if tensions are not even high, I wouldn't really know what to do. Some states even have squatters rights, so like.. sometimes you literally CAN'T do anything about this person being in your home, and in some cases they can even get you kicked out. I think it's kind of obvious that if the person clearly has violent intentions towards me, then I have a right to defend myself, but again, I am not going to be able to do that by myself, and I don't know what the legalities are around asking for help from another citizen, i.e. not a cop, if someone means to do you harm?

And what if you do ask for help and your helper ends up injuring the person in the process of trying to get them out?? I'd imagine it's still better than calling a cop, and risking getting a life-ruining criminal record, or worse, shot and killed. But I'd also imagine there could be grounds for them to sue if they get injured by the helper since the helper is not a professional of any kind and not protected in anyway. Only some states have protections against self defense anyway, and I don't know if it even counts if you invited the person into your home willingly and they weren't being violent to begin with. Like.. if they person is just stubbornly standing there and then your burly neighbor puts hands on them first, I don't think that even counts as self defense for the homeowner? At that point if the person fights back then they have a case for self-defense.

And I don't know what the leftist attitude is towards personal property like that anyway, like should we even have a right to our own home? I don't know the leftist view on that, I get the idea that individualism is not the move, but like.. do we still have our own personal space? Space that we are allowed to bar others from entering? Even if that space extends to the entirety of a 2-bedroom home? I'm asking sincerely, because I really haven't read enough socialist theory, so I don't know what the opinions are on home ownership in general. Like in an ideal society, would we supposedly just allow the person to stay for as long as they like, as long as they aren't hurting anything? That's another part of it, like what if they aren't doing any harm but I still don't want them there? Am I wrong for wanting them to leave, even if I don't know them? Supposing even if they are an intruder, if they haven't stolen anything or hurt me or my animals, but they just... won't leave, should I even be mad about that?

But again, forget an ideal society, let's take it back to reality, assuming that I live in the US and the laws are exactly the same as they are in this moment, police are not abolished, but I am choosing to not involve the police in this matter... what is the right thing to do???? Should I just resolve myself to accept that this person lives with me now?? I don't even live in a state with squatters rights, so I don't legally have to, but.. should I? (more thoughts and anecdotes if the tags if you feel like reading)

#leftism #socialism #communism #abolish police #this is open to debate for anyone it's one half sincere question and one half ethics think piece #like.. there may not be any one 'right' 'good' answer for every situation i just want to hear opinions from people who know more than me #please try to be civil and i know this might sound like a stupid question but I'm asking it in good faith #I feel like a LOT of people (at least US citizens) will just tell me 'well duh you have a right to not want someone in your space' #but like idk i've been thinking over this for a few days now and questioning if I even do have that right?? #like obviously i have a right to boundaries but do i have a right to a 784sq ft home? #if i have extra space im not occupying all of the time is it wrong for me to keep someone out of it? #i'm someone who prefers to live alone and i've just recently got my house to myself after having a guest for over a year #he is a friend of mine and it made me miserable having him here sometimes (despite him doing nothing wrong) #but our other friends kept telling me to kick him out and i just couldnt believe they would even suggest that?? #like.. just because i want to live by myself doesn't mean it's better to put him out on the street?? #i still cant believe they saw no issue with that #and not once while he was here did i ever consider making him leave so this question isn't about him or anything #this anecdote is just an example of like.. differences in opinion on personal space #i have a 2-bd trailer and i've been waiting to turn my second bedroom into an office #but i let him live in the extra room while he was here because i was able to get by just fine without it #but i think i might feel different if someone i didnt know just showed up in my home one day and wanted to live here #or what if my friend (not that he would EVER) did become violent and i DID need to force him to leave? like .. what do?? #this question mostly came up because someone i met recently was telling a story about a terrible roommate he had #but his (the person telling the story) parents owned the property or something and this guy's lease was up but he wasn't leaving #so they threw all his stuff out because he had been gone for a couple weeks and they assumed he wasnt coming back #but then he showed up one day looking for his things and was trying to take stuff from the kitchen #and the guy (telling the story) told him that he couldn't take anything and he needed to leave and said he would call the cops if he didn't #and i kept my mouth shut (especially cause the roommate sounded particularly foul) but i would not dream of calling the cops over that #but it was like... just because they owned the property and he didn't want him there calling the cops was a perfectly reasonable response #it sickens me