#Yeah that sounds about right today

[zu-is-here]

Hey Zu!

Can we please see more rockband kross? I wanna see that two gay again.

I hope you have a good day/ night! :]

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#zu art #comic #rock band #killer!sans #mute!cross #cross!sans #undertale #undertale au #utmv #thank you guys so much!! <3 #today on tumblr: Killer being hopeless (in every meaning) :') #((and not so gay sry)) #a background?? in my comics?? call 911— xd #(it just was in my head for so long that I decided to show the atmosphere úwù) #*looks at the script* okay it'll take onlyyy—*flips through the calendar*—6-9 years?? yeah sounds right /hj :'D #tw self destructive behavior #<< literally the first tag tumblr showed me when I was about to add 'self flagellation'?? well xp

[ovaruling]

veganism is much too extreme but our planet burning and being deforested and overgrazed to nothing is, what, nice and moderate? leisurely and we got plany off time? what kind of casual, slow Sunday morning solution do we have to this very calm issue? yall are too funny

#your children are going to grow up in a wasteland. have fun telling them why #‘i liked cheese tho :(‘ is gonna sound pretty fucking lame when it’s 110 degrees on the first day of summer break #everyone’s just waiting around for corporations to do something. CORPORATIONS. THE THINGS THAT ALWAYS DO RIGHT BY US YEAH? #those selfless entities run by men who care so much about the women disproportionately harmed by this dire situation #famously they care so much ❤️❤️❤️❤️ #don’t worry they’ll DEFINITELY text back ❤️❤️❤️❤️ #yo i am so capital Pissed today i can’t even breathe lmfaooooo #v #vp

[monty-glasses-roxy]

In other news, I just picked up a plastic packet full of very old spools of sewing thread and thought "okay I'll eat this and then I'll go" and my brain short-circuited for a moment. Go do what? I've no idea. It cut off completely. I'm gonna eat some sewing threads now apparently. Good for me good for me

#pop rox talks #hsjdhdjdj these meds. i swear. they're meant to make me MORE coherent but they just sorta don't #i feel better on them don't get me wrong but i do NOT get all the helpful effects you would expect I'd get from them lmao #I've seen people say they can tell when they're kicking in because rasputin slowly fades away until it's gone #on these meds i hear maybe two notes of a ring tone or an alarm or an advert song and it loops in my head till something else comes along #like djdnjd yeah i dunno man that doesn't sound exactly right #friend said it sounds like i get worse on them and ya know what? I'd believe it! #anyway. gonna go get food and see about getting some stuff done today. for once. #it's my birthday on saturday i gotta prepare #and ya know. maybe not eat the sewing threads djjdjdj

[welcome-here-in-my-world]

for every day I don't feel like myself, there's also a day I get to prepare questions for an interview I'd like to do with Joakim Brodén and then explain Sabaton lore to my teacher

#I have no idea how to make it sound right in the post so to clarify: I'm not actually doing the interview. it was just my assignment #(I wish it was for real though) #I'm doing a non-fiction workshop this semester and today the tutor asked us to write down what we would ask someone we look up to- #-if we had a chance to do an interview with them and for the lack of better ideas I chose joakim #then I stayed behind because I was the last one to finish and the tutor talked to me for a while about the person I chose #it's always a bit awkward but I also get to talk about a thing I love and actually know a lot about so yeah it was nice #yes I still make being a sabaton fan my personality trait #joakim brodén #sabaton #personal

[alagaisia]

I’m reminded of that post about how goths and people who wear only lots of pink are actually the same because “wearing only one color” is a specific choice in opposition to just looking Normal

I’m flying to a friend’s wedding today, and I recently acquired from my neighborhood free page a very pretty vintage suitcase in like a brocade upholstery texture in all of my good colors, so of course I needed a coordinated airport outfit à la Midge Maisel. You guys don’t know me, but I usually dress very put together, in what my sister calls Outfits, with a capital O to distinguish it from just wearing clothes. And since getting a full time job I’ve been slowly adding to my collection of vintage and 50’s-vibes clothes, because I just really like that aesthetic (my bridesmaid dress for the wedding is a vintage tea dress I got from Etsy. The fabric is in great condition but I had to reinforce pretty much every seam with my sewing machine, because the structural integrity of the original thread was breaking down, so that was an interesting learning experience).

All of which is to say that I Dressed Up for the airport in a vintage-y outfit that coordinates perfectly with some of the colors of my suitcase, and my hair is curled, and I have a vintage leather purse that my grandma gave me that matches her watch that I’m wearing and the shoes she bought me last summer at the same vintage store that my skirt came from, and a teenage-ish girl with whatever you call the 2023 teenage equivalent of emo/punk vibes, like the dark maroon mullet and not a lot of makeup and dark comfy clothes but like, very on purpose, told me I look cool when I walked past on the way to security

And like, she Gets It! We have different fashion goals but I think we put a similar degree of intention into the way we look compared to just wearing regular clothes. Which is cool! It’s validating. Not that I really need validation, but it’s always nice to get compliments, of course. And the way I dress is really not terribly distinctive most of the time, other than being Outfits and a little dressier than maybe the norm is, like I think most people who see me one time in passing would see that I look Nice but not necessarily see it as a cultivated Look. But punk mullet girl gets it.

#struggled with not sounding *too* pretentious here #I don’t feel pretentious but I have a hard time talking about like. specific choices and things in any detail #like to my friends I just said what happened with a picture of my outfit and was like ‘and she gets it!’ and they were like ‘yeah!’ #but to strangers I have to go into much more detail to get the point across #even though really it’s not like I’m putting all of that into it every day I just get up and go ‘i want to look nice today’ #in accordance with my personal fashion preferences #and then having to explain those preferences like ‘my name is alagaisia midge maisel darkness way and I’m wearing vintage whatever’ #i do look so cute though #i got these shoes last summer and then lost the heel cap off of one of them the very first time i wore them #finally took them in to have them fixed last week so I could wear them to the wedding #needed a deadline so that I would actually get around to it #i hate flying it’s really a testament of how much I love my friend that I’m flying #instead of driving ten hours to Nebraska #but it made more sense and to make sure i won’t be late or run into car trouble or anything #and I’ll stay looking nice right away instead of getting gross and sweaty in the car or having to change for bachelorette activities #i only know the bride so I’m definitely going to make a very specific impression on all of these strangers lol #i joked with my dad about adopting a trans Atlantic accent for the whole weekend just for shits and giggles #turns out you cannot do it over the top. have you ever listened to JFK’s ‘we choose to go to the moon’ speech #it’s very silly sounding #we had a good time saying things one might say at a bachelorette party in a goofy voice #‘we cho~ose to ohdah thihs maiule strippah… ahnd the othah things.. nawt becahse it is easyh.. #but becawhse he is hahd’ #highly recommend #mine #personal

[acaesic]

if yapping in the tags were a job id be jeff bezos

#does that make any sense? #i feel like the words im saying come out extremely convoluted to anyone who isnt me #cause in my brain #i like will re-say sentences without thinking about the previous sentence and how they mesh together #OH YEAH and then i dont provide context for how i got to that thought #so ill say one thing and then the next thing will like sound out of left field almost i think #anyway i really wanna draw gerard way but i cant decide on an image and its so !?!? #AUGH. do i draw nurse gerard or ….. i forgot the word? accountant??? gerard? whatever #or one of the ones where theyre covered in blood which is a lot of them #OOH AND. i really fucking wanna draw 2ourdust pete and soul punk patrick when he had the red suit and the devil horns #BUT I CANT !!!! number one i cant find just the right image of pete to draw and THERES MAYBE 5 DEVIL PATRICK IMAGES #so i was thinking i could just improvise like how i did with my idiots of oz art? and just draw a sp patrick image but colour his suit red #and draw some cartoonish 2D devil horns on instead #idk. anyway #im hoping to draw today . it might happen #ALSO ALSO ALSO!!!! i got vip for my idkhow concert next week :) #HAGSHSNANGSHFNKSLSJHSBCJDNSNSGSBFNJZBXNXKSLFKFBHSGSHFHGAGSHENSHSHSUGSHSBCHZHDKDLSHGDNAGSGSBFNKZHXNDJAGSHDJALSLJFHDNSJFKZBSHGAHSJFKFNDMXMCKF #IM SO FUCKING EXCITED ABOUT THAT #AUGH!!!!!! i also really wanted to draw dallon but if im being honest. im getting so sick of his face #i run a daily dallon blog i have like 8000 images of him ive drawn him 15 dozen times im TIRED!!!!!!! #so yeah. what was this post about again? #chase said something alright

[reasoncourt]

genuinely obsessed with my therapist’s advice. i just said “i don’t really have motivation to do anything” and was so prepared to be berated but she was like “then don’t do anything. if you’re happy as you are then don’t do anything. but you have to at least imagine alternatives. and if you come away thinking ‘gosh i don’t like life as it is now but i don’t want to change’ then don’t. but at least try other things out.”

and i know that doesn’t really sound profound but no one has ever told me i’m not a bad person for aspiring to nothing if that’s genuinely how i feel. and she said ‘that’s fine to not want anything. but try something else out before you decide that’s how it is forever’. and it’s changed my whole perspective. i don’t have to achieve anything or want anything but i’m going to go and do things to see if that might change.

#this might sound whiny to people idk #idk how to express the sort of rut i’m in right now #but fr i wasn’t going to go to therapy today #cause i didn’t want to talk about anything #and i really didn’t want to talk about that thing in particular #because it sounds so pathetic to me #and then she was like ‘nah yeah fair enough’ #sursh.pers #sursh.vent

[essektheylyss]

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#[sharp inhale] #I will not argue with people on the internet about how the tv industry works I will not argue with people on the internet about how the tv #like. here's the fucking problem. every time you try to talk about business models of tv and why certain things are different than others #it's just impossible cuz no one wants to operate under the assumption that tv is in fact a business from start to finish #and there are better and worse versions of that #and right now we have the WORST version of that #down to 'a strike has been considered every single damn time contract terms are up for review' #like tv has always been a business and that has give and take but you have to start at that basic understanding #the fact that showrunners are now begging people to watch immediately is a symptom that regular people are feeling #but it is WAY larger than that. and creators of all types and actors and below the line folks need to fucking eat. #which means you HAVE to acknowledge that this is a business and then regulate it as such #but you get can't do that cuz internet leftists will be like 'um all government intervention in art is morally horrible—' #yeah go fuck yourself. you sound like an right wing asshat building a backyard militia. #'but megs!' you say. 'no one yet suggested that today!' #yeah cuz I'm not starting the fucking discussion BECAUSE every time anyone has the leftists crawl out of the woodwork #to rebrand what are basically altright talking points to fit their narratives. #sorry but if you try to go 'this should just be way less regulated and everyone should do what they want' #you are giving the state and the market free reign to steamroll over whomever it likes. and I can tell you who they'll go after first. #anyway. idk who you are or what that is. ama closed.

[katyspersonal]

Had a weird short nightmare in which someone (don't remember who exactly he was) directed me into my room at my old house, that was supposed to represent my heart, or part of it. It was very messy, dirty and dark, but I was sent there because I was threatened by a "pest" that would drain/destroy my soul if not caught...? According to the "voice" the stakes were high, anyways. Along all the shards, dirt and broken furniture there was also a paper sheet in which it was written who I am. I remember some traits that were written... And that paper sheet already had a lot of bite marks. It actually seemed to be HALF-eaten already.

The pest was really small and fast, I could not see it, but I could "feel" it, and when I caught it, turned out that it was a specific type of caterpillar that the "I can't live without you *changes his mind 1 week later*" guy associated himself with. Strangely enough, despite it being a caterpillar, it was flying. I was feeling so bad about squashing it in my hand, but I did it.. I suppose I stopped some sort of destructive process. Not expecting to instantly be "okay again" after this, but it just feels like it meant something.

#personal #dreams #don't know whether the voice tricked me or helped me #that grub did actually feel like parasite intuitively. like imagine when you see a roach or a flea #and i felt guilty and hurt squashing it but it felt like a right thing to do #this is also the room in which the most important things happen in my dreams #the last time i saw it this room was full of water and fog and mic0lash was there #he was offering me to help healing my worst trauma #and in today's nightmare this room was in such disarray.. all furniture thrown and window broken #shards and boards and dirt everywhere... #yeah sounds about right how the innermost corner of my heart looks like haha #like the symbolism of broken window and wind blowing inside

[indigodawns]

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#aren't hyperfixations funny like. i must think and talk about this all day everyone i know should also watch this #and then WAIT ACTUALLY having someone watch/listen etc can feel terribly vulnerable or anticlimactic #or like some of the joy of ohmygod secret new thing just for me disappears right?? bc then it's a Thing #(at least for me all of these can happen to varying degrees for different things?) #and it's just interesting to witness it with friends as well like we watched one of my friends' dnd show today #and she's so down to earth and laidback but she was definitely having conflicting emotions about it i think #and then she was like we'll watch your mafia show too im curious!! and i love her #and also yes/no/yes/no/yes yk? (probably yes HSJSHS) #please read this as lighthearted im just musing but yk #and then getting into your friends' hyperfixations also always feels a bit like intruding while also being exhilarating and fun #and idk it's just interesting to see it go back and forth and i hope im okay about it both ways #(if not please tell me dhdjdjjd) #but yeah! #again this sounds so serious it's all good dhsjshdh and i maybe seem possessive or something and no i wanna share (and by god do i GSHSHS) #you just notice your own/others' reactions and it's Something #ive now repeated myself enough times g'night i hope you're all well <3 #tell me about your most recent hyperfixation or interest/fandom if you want <3

[an1malcannibal]

Guys I don’t think my anxiety ever went away I think that it just moved itself and got worse.

#uh oh #when the social anxiety morphes from social to regular anxiety 💀 #to be fair #I was diagnosed w generalized anxiety but we always focused on the social aspects in therapy #miss Brooke was really a gem she helped me realize that yeah not everyone is talking about you #she told me “this is going to sound harsh but it works. you are not important enough to consume everyone else’s thoughts #‘‘not everything is about you. nobody is spending the time and energy being your friend and then secretly hating everything you do’’ #are she was RIGHT!!!!! #I still have so many social anxiety issues but I’ve improved drastically #genuinely life changing. it’s very grounding it really does help #except w my dad usually he is upset at me abt something #but sometimes he isn’t and that’s nice #I have a coil of anxious horrible buzzing anxiety in my chest when I get home usually #and when everything is cool and everyone is nice to me and glad I’m home #I just deflate but in a good way! #I can feel the anxiety melting away and it’s great I’m able to actually relax a bit #makes me happy when that happens #like today! #everyone was happy to see me :) #shock and awe fr fr

[just-rogi]

I just had the single most uncomfortable phone call of my LIFE !!! Someone run my phone over with a TRACTOR and then SHOOT it with an GUN!!

#basically I was talking to a coworker asking for advice on how to handle another coworker of ours who had said some vaguely racist shit #fairly regularly #like she’s older so her heart is in the right place but it’s…. uncomfortable yk ? #and this coworker set up a meeting with admin to talk about how I feel victimized and am afraid to speak up (I’m not) #but I had my meeting and basically said ‘I want it on paper that I talked to y’all and asked for advice but I’d rather try to approach this #on my own and solve it person to person without attacking her or having her reprimanded’ #and admin was like cool so we are actually totally gonna let you do that and also have a meeting where we do the opposite of that tehe #so I got a call from my coworker today that was like ‘UHHHH DID YOU GO TO ADMIN AND TELL THEM YOU ARE UNCOMFORTABLE IN MY CLASSROOM BECAUSE #YOU THINK IM RACIST??’ #like bro #I eat one meal a day and I get this shit during my dinner time #fuuuuuuuccccckkkk #like I was completely blindsided with this and thank god I can talk normally while crying bc I was fuckjng sobbing from anxiety #like yeah you did say some racist shit but working with you is better than working with any of the other people who don’t have their shit #together #as shitty as it sounds I’ve kinda come accept a certian level of micro aggression (and macroagressiom bc tbh Glenda girl you go too far) #like I’m always uncomfortable and always unhappy and I’m always gonna be like that but NOW I’m uncomfortable because I’m getting #a phone call during MY dinner bc admin did exactly what I did not want them to do #like I wish there was a way that I could be like ‘yo I’m formally reporting that some shady shit is happening- I wanna handle it peacefully’ #‘but if it can’t be resolved I want to cover my ass and not get my words twisted #I like working with Glenda most of the time… just not when she’s talking about white privelage or lack there of… #no Gelnda the teacher shortage isn’t caused by bps only hiring poc teachers and not giving jobs to white people #I promise reverse racism isn’t the root of why we can’t get coverage for music health or financial literacy or seventh grade ELA or math #idk idk I’m not doing it Justice #like I was uncomfortable in the classroom before but now I’m gonna be MORE uncomfortable bc all this shit blew up in my face #all this taught me is to never speak up about microaggressions and never go to administration with concerns of how to solve issues- #you know: the exact WRONG takeaway because everything is so fucking messy #fuck me I can’t wait to apply for work outside of the US #also not to have a cynic victim mentally but none of this shot would’ve happened if I was white… :/ #but yeah.. whatever … middle eastern people don’t experience racism ig

[kittysherbatsky]

Not Simu Liu sounding like a fucking idiot 😑

#i am not a fan of tarantino or an avid lover of martin scorsese's films (i respect scorsese more than tarantino) #so turns out these two big name directors of course has a whole LOT to say about marvel or superhero movies (which i agree on) #especially scorsese a few years back commenting marvel movies aren't cinema (yeah i feel the same way too martin) #on the other hand simu is also right about the lack of diversity and racism in hollywood movies #but he also goes on his shit to defend disney a huge ultracapitalist moviemaking corporation as somewhat a diversity saint #like ok simu i get it you finally got a lead role in a major movie and seeing other actors of color getting lead roles is satisfying igi #but did he not see the amount of praise jordan peele got for his movies without having to sign his deals to marvel or disney? #i know hollywood hasn't always been the most positive industry #but simu needs to get out of his ass and see disney/marvel as not a racial diversity patron and they were just as complicit in racism #i bet if it weren't for the liberals today or the past decade disney wouldn't make an asian as the lead role in an animated movie #they are usually there to tick off diversity boxes lmao #and not to mention the damage disney today have cause due to their ultracapitalistic principles #diversity mostly purely for making bank ... does that sounds sincere? #kudos to the directors who did work with disney but still manage to make loveable stories with racially diverse cast (i.e. turning red) #again on the other hand both tarantino and scorsese and other white directors should cast more people of color in their movies #but simu defending fucking disney is lame as hell #not once did scorsese or perhaps tarantino commenting anything about racial diversity in marvel movies #so yeah basically simu sounds like a fucking moron #hollywood #simu liu #diversity #marvel

[vaspider]

While I'm writing things that I've been intending to write for a while... one of the things that I think that a lot of people who haven't been involved in like... banking or corporate shenaniganry miss about why our economy is its current flavor of total fuckery is the concept of "fiduciary duty to shareholders."

"Why does every corporation pursue endless growth?" Fiduciary duty to shareholders.

"Why do corporations treat workers the way they do?" Fiduciary duty to shareholders.

"Why do corporations make such bass-ackwards decisions about what's 'good for' the company?" Fiduciary duty to shareholders.

The legal purpose of a corporation with shareholders -- its only true purpose -- is the generation of revenue/returns for shareholders. Period. That's it. Anything else it does is secondary to that. Sustainability of business, treatment of workers, sustainability and quality of product, those things are functionally and legally second to generating revenue for shareholders. Again, period, end of story. There is no other function of a corporation, and all of its extensive legal privileges exist to allow it to do that.

"But Spider," you might say, "that sounds like corporations only exist in current business in order to extract as much money and value as possible from the people actually doing the work and transfer it up to the people who aren't actually doing the work!"

Yes. You are correct. Thank you for coming with me to that realization. You are incredibly smart and also attractive.

You might also say, "but Spider, is this a legal obligation? Could those running a company be held legally responsible for failing their obligations if they prioritize sustainability or quality of product or care of workers above returns for shareholders?"

Yes! They absolutely can! Isn't that terrifying? Also you look great today, you're terribly clever for thinking about these things. The board and officers of a corporation can be held legally responsible to varying degrees for failing to maximize shareholder value.

And that, my friends, is why corporations do things that don't seem to make any fucking sense, and why 'continuous growth' is valued above literally anything else: because it fucking has to be.

If you're thinking that this doesn't sound like a sustainable economic model, you're not alone. People who are much smarter than both of us, and probably nearly as attractive, have written a proposal for how to change corporate law in order to create a more sensible and sustainable economy. This is one of several proposals, and while I don't agree with all of this stuff, I think that reading it will really help people as a springboard to understanding exactly why our economy is as fucked up as it is, and why just saying 'well then don't pursue eternal growth' isn't going to work -- because right now it legally can't. We'd need to change -- and we can change -- the laws around corporate governance.

This concept of 'shareholder primacy' and the fiduciary duty to shareholders is one I had to learn when I was getting my securities licenses, and every time I see people confusedly asking why corporations try to grow grow grow in a way that only makes sense if you're a tumor, I sigh and think, 'yeah, fiduciary duty to shareholders.'

(And this is why Emet and I have refused to seek investors for NK -- we might become beholden to make decisions which maximize investor return, and that would get in the way of being able to fully support our people and our values and say the things we started this company to say.)

Anyway, you should read up on these concepts if you're not familiar. It's pretty eye-opening.