#building safety nets

[aaradhya-balcony-saftey-nets]

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[cock-holliday]

One of the most irritating momentum-killing faux-concerns from people when it comes to conflict is the hand-wringing about “if we (you) ___ then people will be hurt/die/etc” as a reason to not engage in meaningful resistance use violence as a tool.

‘If there is a revolution people will die’, ‘if we riot people will get hurt,’ ‘if you resist you will get hurt’ ‘if you fight back, people will die.’

People are already dying, people are already being hurt. I understand the fear of injury in the face of chaos but I need you to understand the horror of brutality carried out calmly.

‘Everything Was Peaceful Until The Uprising’ is a wild disconnect from reality.

Evictions are violence. Arrests are violent. Cops brutalizing people is violence. Poverty is violence. Nazi speeches are violent. Apartheid is violence. Worker abuse is violence. Medical debt is violence.

Oppression is violence.

Little revolutionary acts are resistance too, but pitting pious symbolic gestures or communal aid as being opposite violent response to oppression is disingenuous.

Slave revolts were not the beginning of the violence, Stonewall was not the beginning of the violence, the Haitian Revolution was not the beginning of the violence. The Al-Aqsa Flood was not the beginning of the violence.

Acts of solidarity are survival. Acts of solidarity are coalition building. In some ways it can be liberating. But it is not total liberation.

I will help my immediate circle, I will expand my circle, I will build solidarity with those around me and those far from me, but without a fight, we do not see freedom.

“If you form a blockade so that paddywagon can’t leave, the cops will beat you.”

If I move, the cops will drive away.

There is always risk! If one person blocks a wagon it may be fruitless but symbolic. If a few block the wagon it may buy time for an escape from the back or just be a gesture of solidarity. If many people block the wagon, it can’t fucking leave.

If no one blocks it, business continues as usual, and “order” is restored, and the gears of incarceration grind on unhindered.

How peaceful.

#LJsm #there is undoubtedly a need for risk assessment #and harm reduction #but these convos ring so similarly to abuse situations #the fear ‘if you leave your husband he will kill you’ #needs met with ‘so we need to work to get you to leave as safely as possible’ #which will take time and require building safety nets #but it is ABSOLUTELY NOT NOT NOT #not ‘time to make peace with being here and just make my situation as nice as I can’ #people who stay under abuse are not cowards #people trying to protect you who question your assesement of risk also aren’t cowards #but people on the sideline watching you make a move alerting everyone so they can publicly shame your attempt to escape sure are

[katsofmeer]

🙏❤️ putting my hands together for Oscar, who is giving us THEE queer regency metaphor in the fey, who is literally hand feeding us little chocolate covered strawberry morsels of pining and romance each week, who UNDERSTOOD the theme each week so well we are getting multiple representative outfit changes I just

his first dnd game!!! he cares so much about rue you can feel it thru the screen, what a joy, what an absolute treasure to have him on the cast <3

#oscar montoya #and when he looks at aabria w so much trust and she just!!! is there!! ahhhh #such a great dm building that safety net to help him tell that story #acofaf #a court of fey and flowers #text post #I won't be over this for a year #possibly ten years!!! a millenia!!! ahhh

[kimbapisnotsushi]

something about kageyama tobio being nineteen on the national team fresh out of high school and facing the whole world makes my heart ache.

it was everything he ever could have wanted. it was everything he ever did want, once. once kageyama tobio wanted to fly beyond the mountains he called home and soar into distant lands. once he wanted to climb to the top of the world until he was so high up that the sun and the moon and the stars were nothing but ants compared to him. once kageyama tobio wanted to do all these things alone — except he wouldn't be, not really, because he had someone who loved him and understood him and that was enough to shoulder a dream that blazed so bright it could burn him from the inside out with a single misstep.

and then kazuyo died and everything came crashing down like a satellite falling out of orbit, and the only thing tobio really wanted then was to heal from a heart full of broken glass.

at nineteen, he joins the national team. at nineteen, he plays at the olympics in brazil. at nineteen, kageyama tobio has everything he ever could have wanted, has everything he ever did want, once, but -

there are pieces of him missing, tobio thinks, a piece inside every single person who had taught him what it meant to love something so deeply it settles in your bones. there is a piece of him inside every single person who gave him a hand up out of the dark and pulled him onto steady ground. there are pieces of him that his new teammates will never know, will never understand, will never be able to put together and get the whole picture of who kageyama tobio is and why he seems so lonely when he is not alone, because kageyama tobio may be older and wiser and will not break so easily the way he did at the fragile age of fifteen, but there is NOTHING that can ease the ache of wanting the people he called home

#i don't know man i kind of get the feeling that kageyama was REALLY lonely that first year after high school #karasuno was his safety net!! it was where he learned to build himself back up piece by piece!! and he spent THREE YEARS DOING THAT! #he spent three years with the same people growing and changing and learning and then all of a sudden he's thrust into this whole new team #this is of course with the presumption that he was the first of the monster gen to make it on #and honestly i think he was #i think everyone else joined AFTER him #because it's the only thing that makes sense to me it's the only way he remains parallel to hinata during brazil arc #it means kageyama has to find his footing all over again!!! #it means just like hinata he has to find out who he is without the things that irrevocably changed him!!! #he's lonely even tho he's not alone and he's trying really really hard but all he wants are the people he loves to be with him!!! #there is no way he would NOT miss the people who gave him everything when he was lost in the dark #kageyama tobio #haikyuu #haikyuu!! #haikyuu meta #hq meta #sou says stuff

[haunted-phantom-student]

Just sitting here thinking about how none of the Gallagher siblings (except maybe Liam) had a chance at developing a secure attachment style, but Debbie developed an anxious attachment style while Fiona, Lip, and Ian all veered off more the avoidant attachment route, and this began isolating her early in life from three people she desperately needed to be there for her but who could never understand her motives and actions the way they understood each other's, making her journey into womanhood an extremely lonely one that became a self-fullfilling prophecy of terror of abandonment -> clinginess -> pushback -> feelings of abandonment. Thinking about how she was judged for years for how she handled her trauma, not because it was an emotionally unhealthy response but because it was a different (and less cool-looking) emotionally unhealthy response than that of the people with whom she shared the trauma and should have been able to find understanding. Thinking about how often it's said that she's selfish when she's definitely caused trouble in the name of her own self-preservation but is the least likely to act out in a way that harms those around her as opposed to just herself, especially intentionally. Just thinking about an extremely complex female character who doesn't get enough credit in or out of universe.

#debbie gallagher #ian gallagher #lip gallagher #fiona gallagher #not bashing them because they're human too but maybe if they had tried harder to understand her and what she needed from them #they could have shown her that she did have a safety net like they all knew how to show each other #and she wouldn't have made so many bad decisions desperately trying to build a safety net elsewhere #i just have a lot of feelings about debbie gallagher ok #holy run on sentences batman

[biteapple]

Had a bad day at work today ... x__x...

#Atleast I'm home now but ........ ×_× ... #Back at it again tomorrow ... and don't have a day off until next Friday... ughhhh #The long long hours are what's grinding the shit out of my psyche #I think I've worked about 90 hours without a break day insofar. My heads so fucked #I'm set to work like another 60 hours until I get a day off so like.. almost 150hrs without a day off. #It hurts a lot. I wish I could confidently get another job that doesn't suck shit like these hours do #I don't even know what that'd look like without being underpaid. My job is technically easy #It just hurts my head to have to do it for so long #It feels like either 'get paid a lot to do stupid bullshit for a lot of hours' or 'get underpaid to do less stupid bullshit for less time' #And sometimes the less stupid bullshit is harder work. Yknow what I mean #Like I'd care about it more depending on what it is. But sometimes it's even harder than what I'm doing now #I don't know though. But if I never try ill never know #But it's also like. That's a big leap to take for someone who doesn't have a safety net out here #And my problem is... I don't even know where I'd go to have that safety net. #I don't think it exists for me anymore. When I went homeless it got better and I wouldn't change it #But it also means building back everything I lost. It sometimes feels impossible even though it isnt #But .... God. I wish I just had a place I could trust fall like I want to and feel OK with if it falls through #Like I'm not going to go homeless again sorta way. Like my cats have a place to live. #I don't know what I'd do if I lost the ability to house my animals. I'd be so fucked

[seventh-district]

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#Seven’s Public Diary #vent post #vent #cw vent post #cw vent #cw negative #cw fighting #cw food #food mention #cw injury #injury mention #left hand’ll be outta commission for a little while and my back is so bad that i’ll probably need my cane tomorrow #but it’s all good because at least i don’t feel like i’m about it to explode anymore #sigh i should really take up boxing or wrestling or something #but i won’t because there’s only one person i really want to fight #and i want a no holds barred beat down no gloves no padded floors no rules just taking out the pure rage we harbor for each other #maybe some day. when i’m stronger and finish building a safety net to fall back on #just gotta get that god damn license. then i won’t have to live under anyone’s thumb any longer and never ever again #anyways. i’d go work on posting the rest of AEIWNF but i think that’ll be too triggering to work on today lmao #don’t think my back can handle sitting at my desk today anyways. guess i’ll just lay in bed and feel weak and useless and get nothing done #wanna keep writing for ES but i’m far from in the right headspace for it #and it hurts to hold my phone the way i usually do when i write #wish i could take a day off from writing without fearing that it’ll turn into another full month of not writing #wish i wasn’t such an all or nothing type of person. #whatever. i just need some bandages and a snack and several hours of youtube and i’ll be fine #and by a snack i mean an entire pound of tofu and an entire bag of ruffles bc who tf is gonna stop me

[soundcrusher]

oOoOO wait what's the ❛ Walking Archive ❜ project and why did was Record forced to go through it??

Oh man, I feel like I’ve written something about the “Walking Archive” Project before… Oh well, can’t hurt writing some more about it. ^^

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The “Walking Archive” project was something a bunch of scientists created, after it was revealed that Record’s outlier ability was to record and save everything he ever learned in his processor. Kind of like a computer, but there is no limit on how much information his processor can save. Something the scientists found useful until they found out that everything they saved in Record’s processor couldn’t be deleted from there. They could download a copy, but never get rid of it.

It is why Record was spending most of his time in isolation, after the discovery. Despite having no-where to go, the scientist didn’t want to risk losing vital information and or sensitive data that might include some blackmail or history the senate tried to get rid of.

But him being an Outlier isn’t the only reason why he had to go through it though. It was either becoming a Guinea Pig for some scientists, or deactivation. And while Record would have liked death more, the judges decided against it.

#vesperzs asks #soundcrusher answers #transformers #transformers oc #record #the neutral zone #although; the scientists weren't all that stupid either #they managed to build in a 'safety net' that hinders record from retelling most information (especially the blackmail)

[strohller27]

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#I think my landlords want more money for rent. #and my graduate assistantship ends soon. #which means I won’t have more money to give them #i shouldn’t be surprised at feeling like my situation is precarious. #it would be precarious anywhere. not just here. #but now that I didn’t get into the university I wanted to get into? #I’ve gotta come up with a plan. but I’m so burnt out. #I had too much faith in my abilities and because of that I didn’t spend enough time building myself a safety net #I didn’t provide other avenues for success because I was so focused on one of them #I’m so tired. I feel like all my efforts have been for nothing. I want to stop. but I can’t. I have to keep going #I got this far without quitting. I may want to give up but where would that get me? #a cramped room in a smoker’s drafty house? where I have to crawl under the desk to get to bed? no thanks #i just. i hate that I feel like I have to do everything by myself. #I almost feel more alone than I’ve ever felt. almost #if I knew what kind of help to ask for I’d try. but who would I ask? what would I ask for? #My brain feels like mush. I have both no thoughts in here and also waaay too many. #ugh памагити. как же быть

[tadalyme]

whumptober 2023, day 1

The weather in Ketterdam is abnormally good that night, the dark sky without a trace of clouds and the wind barely a breeze, which only makes it more unfortunate and unfair that Inej feels seriously worse for wear on that particular day. 

Among the other countless things she dislikes about this wretched city, this godforsaken country, the awful wet climate is one of the few more harmless but more annoying aspects. Even after all the time she has spent here, she is still not quite used to it.

Ravka is vast and downright freezing in some areas, but summers are usually sunny and hot, borderline scorching, and in the colder months her family’s caravan tended to move onto the more southern routes, where it was at least pleasantly cool, if not always warm. It’s harder to perform well when you are chilled to the bone. There’s no better gold than the sun, her Aunt Mariyam used to say.

Kerch doesn’t have such a thing as seasons - everything is the same all year round. Heavy rains always pour, forceful winds always blow, life goes on. Imagining Kerch without dampness is almost like imagining the Barrel without crime or Kaz without his gloves - for all intents and purposes, impossible. 

By now Inej is used to the slippery slopes of Ketterdam’s roofs and wet and unstable surfaces she has to climb daily, but her body seems to have missed the notice that it shouldn’t pay any attention to the toll this ghastly climate takes on her.

Which is why she’s perched on the roof of one of the canvas storehouses and her head is pounding. She’s sneaking around the Warehouse District today, checking the rumours she’s heard lately about the Razorgulls having some new dealings here, and for now it seems like they were completely right. A few of them have been loitering around here for a while, appearing with the cargo shortly after the stadwatch passed this particular nook on their patrol and hiding it away in some of the warehouses beforehand.

Her head still hurts. It’s getting a bit hard to properly concentrate and listen, rough syllables of Kerch mixing up in her brain, but she manages to follow the flow of the conversation anyway. New shippings. Jurda. Ammunition. Another delivery. Next month.

It’s been less than a year since she joined the Dregs, but she’s good at what she does, despite how much it bothers her. The Wraith is already somewhat renowned around the less savoury parts of the city. She’s the best spider in the Barrel, probably in the whole Kerch. She can’t let herself be taken out by such a simple thing as a cold. Kaz would be very unhappy. 

Razorgulls finally wrap up and disperse, heading towards West or East Staves to gambling dens and pleasure houses, and Inej doesn’t bother following them. None of them are too high-ranking and most likely she’s already learnt all she could tonight. Inej gives herself a moment to regain her composure and swiftly rises.

She thinks she might have made a serious lapse in her judgement when her vision abruptly starts blurring at the edges and her legs feel much weaker than they did just moments ago. Oh no, she thinks in the seconds before her body succumbs to the sudden fatigue and she collapses.

That is to say, Inej falls. Considering that until a moment ago she has been successfully balancing on the edge of the roof, she falls quite a bit.

She falls and there’s no safety net to catch her. Inej Ghafa hasn’t used one since she was a little child and first stepped on the wire, but it would really be rather useful now, she thinks. She, at least, has enough awareness to curl up the way her father taught her to do when falling.

She comes round lying on a hard pavement. Well, now her head hurts even more. Saints. At least she’s lucky that the Warehouse District is fairly tame at night and no-one seems to be around any longer. Or she would’ve found herself in a much worse situation. She lies there a bit longer, slowly unbending her limbs.

Okay. The trick to falling is in getting back up, her father used to repeat. Ghafas don’t give up. Inej gets up. She sways a bit and has to hold onto the wall for stability but it doesn’t seem like she’s going to pass out again. 

Alright. It’s fine, everything is fine. First order of business - report back to Kaz all that she’s found out. Then she can deal with everything else. One step at a time. Everything is fine.

Step by step, she starts off towards the Slat. She keeps to the shadows but mostly stays on the ground in an attempt to not worsen the damage. Surprisingly, it goes fairly well. As hurt as she is, she hasn’t lost the ability to be sneaky and silent. She gets to the Dregs’ quarters with only a couple of neatly avoided close calls.

Her second mistake of the night is thinking that if she’s managed to get to the Slat safely, she can climb up to Kaz’s office as per usual. She feels the strength leave her as she painstakingly reaches the right window.

She pushes herself the last half-metre with sheer willpower and clambers onto the windowsill gracelessly, virtually flopping down on it. She sees Kaz’s dark-haired head swing in her direction and then she doesn’t see anything, because for the second time in a night Inej faints.

She comes to and there are strikingly pale hands hovering practically in her face. She’s lying on something hard once again. At least it doesn’t seem like she’s fallen off of a building this time, thank the Saints.

The pale fingers snap thrice to attract her attention and then rearrange slightly. She hears a familiar raspy voice.

‘Focus, Wraith, focus. Come on. How many fingers am I holding up?’

There’s something wrong with what she’s seeing, definitely something wrong, but thoughts slip away from her like fog and she can’t, can’t, can’t quite grasp what exactly is amiss. Kaz would be very disappointed with such carelessness. 

Right. Kaz. She should probably answer him.

She really tries to do that. She doesn’t quite manage. She’s so tired and hurt and…

The next time Inej wakes up she’s in her room, in her bed. She doesn’t particularly like the fact that someone has moved her while she’s been unconscious, but it’s probably better than lying on Kaz’s floor.

Right. Kaz. Who is standing next to her cot, leaning onto the wall, for some reason looking a bit windswept, almost frazzled. His eyes are locked on her, but he’s messing with his gloves thoughtlessly. His gloves. There was something weird about his gloves, wasn’t there? No matter, no use wondering about it now.

Instead Inej focuses on the only other person in the room. It’s Karina, a quiet girl a few years her senior, who acts as the Dregs’ medic sometimes. From what Inej knows about her, she’s an orphan, Ravkan, always keeps her thick brown hair short and boyish and knows her way around healing salves. Karina smiles at her tightly and proffers a cup of something herbal and bitter-smelling.

Kaz nods to her rigidly and strides hurriedly out of the room.

Inej is back on her feet in a week. She’s always got over illnesses fast and Karina’s concoctions do wonders for her health. 

She ends up having a sprained wrist, an impressive collection of massive blue-black bruises scattered all over her legs and a mild concussion from her fall. She ponders a bit about the weird image of Kaz fretting over her that she thought she saw at some point after she had blacked out in his office, but he acts like it never happened and, anyway, it doesn’t make much sense. It can’t possibly be right, so she quickly discards this nonsense as a dream induced by the fever and a head wound. Yes, that must be it.

#whumptober2023 #no.1 #safety net #swooning #“How many fingers am I holding up?” #grishaverse #six of crows #fic #illness #falling off of a building lol #inej ghafa

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[jvzebel-x]

Do you really think youre better than rich people just because you don't have money?

of course i do, lmao, &i'm fucking right, too.

💘🌹💋

#the Poor™ builds character isnt that what they want us all to think anyway? #its probably the one thing rich ppl actually have correct in the grand scheme of things-- #ive never met a person who would consider themself rich who wasnt made of skin&feelings as thick as rice paper lmao. #why else do you think nepo babies have made such an obscene spectacle of themselves #bc theyre finding out money can buy everything but the lie of actual talent or individual success #from ppl who ACTUALLY have to put in effort to the things they do bc theres no safety net in the form of mommy+daddys money lmao. #why else do you think old money is so comfortable having their access to money literally define their whole families #but the second you bring up the WHERE of how the family cash&legacy came to be its all 'but that wasnt ME im not THEM #thats all ANCIENT HISTORY' lmao. #it aint my fault im a real person w depth&talent derived from years of practice that i needed to figure out myself #nor is it my fault ppl w money have never had to be real ppl bc they could afford not to be lmao. #maybe they can just pull themselves up by their bootstraps&develop into real ppl one day instead of shallow husks of selfish frivolity. ♡ #💌

[arrowpunk]

Gosh it is fun when all the stressful stuff hits at once

But hey I'm gonna pretend this means I get like 5 months off from extremely stressful events once this is handled and everything will be okay

#ramblings of an arrow #I will make it thru this fine #i have a good job that pays better than any job ive had before #i can pay for the stuff going on I will just need to be careful while I build up my financial safety net again #and maybe figure out cheap meals #cheaper than I am already doing #for like the next 3 or 4 months #and then I will be okay again #my car is getting fixed and it is gonna work so good after this

[kefnut-the-gweilologist]

im sorry but WHAT

#so this black woman activist made a tiktok where she said that she thinks the mother's day strike for abortion rights will fail #because of how white women r trying to get the attention that woc led movements get without 1st doing any community building #and some gweilo stiches her vid saying that imani (the black woman in question) is like attacking the movement or some shit #but the thing that REALLY gets me #is the ENTIRE 2ND HALF of this white person's vid #where they 1: basically demand that imani tell them how to organize #(she did btw. made a whole vid looking at the strike website and giving pointers on how to organize a succesful strike) #and 2: basically say that woc r obligated to help yt women because and i quote #'the black and brown community has more resources in place because u guys have been fighting for a lot longer than we have' #im sorry but WUT #plz tell me of wise sage equal to heaven how resisting shit up to and including GENOCIDE grants u priviledges #this gweilo literally says 'u have more safety nets 🥺 u have more fire extinguishers 🥺 is there a reason that ur gatekeeping them?

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[medusas-lovely-eyes]

I don't mean this in a braggy way because like, state of the world/society/economy and all that, but the fact that I have had multiple unexpected expenses with my car and cat this year equaling roughly $1-2k (I'm guessing I don't actually know) and I have been able to pay for all of them out of pocket with money I already had saved is something I'm so proud of. Growing up my parents made some poor financial decisions and then were hit with big medical bills so I always watched them struggle. I watched cars get repossessed, I watched them discuss the best way to ask my grandparents for a loan so the house wouldn't get foreclosed, I watched my mom sob on the phone to debt collectors who treated her like absolute shit. I even had to pay for my moms groceries before when her card got unexpectedly declined and then comforted her while she cried from embarrassment on the ride home. And on top of all that they put themselves into even more debt to give us as normal of a childhood as possible. They are entering their late 50s, my mom hopes that the last of their credit card debt will finally be paid off and all they have left is the mortgage, but they have no savings.

According to the experts I'm not where I am supposed to be financially at the age of 30, but I know I am a lot better off than others my age. I don't particularly like my job; it can be very stressful for a good chunk of the year, I had to give up hopes of using my degree to stay here because this job actually pays me a living wage (which is a whole other discussion about certain fields demanding a degree and then paying a shit wage), the owner isn't as involved in day to day operations as we would like and doesn't see the same looming issues that we do, and it's not what I envisioned myself doing for the rest of my life (nor do I know if I can physically or mentally do it for another 40 years lol) BUT I don't live paycheck to paycheck like I always feared I would. I have worked hard for my promotion and raises, I have literally made myself an invaluable asset to the company (yes a very capitalistic view I know), and I have started earning bonuses that I can put into savings or put towards paying off student loans.

I have learned from my parents mistakes enough to not fall into the trap of credit card debt. I have one credit card and I have never maxed it out nor have I ever used more than I can pay off. I will admit that this past year I was a little frivolous with some of my purchases, but God I think I deserve a little fun now. If my 2024 budget and goals go to plan then by the end of the year I will have an emergency fund with 6 months of expenses built up, my high yield savings account will have 10k, and I will still have money left over to enjoy some things here and there.

I'm rambling. I'm not here to brag, I'm here to tell myself to take a breath and relax a little. I'm 30, single, and doing it all on my own with no one to fall back on for financial support and as of right now I'm doing good. I'm proud of myself and I believe in myself.

(also if I'm being honest all this is me convincing myself not to quit my job after a shitty and exhausting christmas season that has left my sick and emotionally drained lol)

#personal #like no I absolutely do not want to be playing this game for the rest of my life #but like the only option out is the collapse of society or self checkout so not really viable options #as of right now my goal is to build enough of a safety net that is something does go wrong in my life #i have enough money on hand for it to not totally fuck my life up #I look around and see how shitty things are and I have a moment of thanks because a lot of what I have now if from sheer luck #of being in the right place and knowing the right people when I was 16 #i still don't feel like I make enough money to ever retire #but for now things aren't too bad and I will take that small grace while I can and hold on to it for dear life because #i know it can be taken away at any moment #also once I build that safety net I'm working on paying off my student loan