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doubleddenden · 7 years

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Not to sound like a spoiled brat but I really hate how much I'm being forced to adapt to life out here again. I want to find work so I can earn fucking money, but I cannot because the Internet is so spotty and finicky that I literally can barely get a signal unless I stand by the bathroom window, and therefore cannot apply for jobs. I want to watch YouTube videos so I can not be bored with what's on tv and it's thousand reruns/reboots/terrible content. I want to be able to log online so I can be with friends at a moments notice.

Know what else I hate? I'm forced to be here to work outside to try and control these damn plants, but it's so fruitless! I've uprooted weeds taller than me and they'll be back within 2 days. I'll kill wasp nests only for 5 more to take its place. I've mowed the grass twice this week here and at my sister's but it keeps FUCKING GROWING BACK!!! The vines and trees are trying to grow into my and my aunt's houses! What the hell! No matter what I fucking do it's literally reversed within a day!

Not to mention the inside. I live in a large, roach infested house ruined by years of hoarding, but I'm the only one that will do anything because the other person living here can't do much because of his disabilities and the rest of the family just yells when I ask for help cleaning the messes THEY LEFT BEHIND! I kill roaches every day, I've bombed the house in like 8 different rooms TWICE now, they keep coming back and WONT DIE!!! I ask for pest control but NO THATS TOO EXPENSIVE!

Then there's the fact that nobody is here anymore. My friends all live hours away from me now and I hear from mostly 2 people other than my family now. I could drive 2 and a half hours one way or 3 hours another to visit, BUT OH FUCKING WAIT!!! I'm fucking broke and can't find work! Because we live out in the middle of fucking nowhere with NOTHING to do and NOBODY hiring at this point!

I'm so bored. Like painfully bored and frustrated. I'm tired of listening to racism in my own family and neighborhood and general political and global idiocy expressed so freely and constantly. I tell them to stop and they explain why I'M the one who is crazy for not being racist. Like oh my god please I just want to live somewhere else. Yes they feed me and let me have a roof over my head but I'm so TIRED OF THESE PEOPLE!

I miss seeing friends at a moments notice! I miss being able to just drive over to see someone! I miss having shit to do other than non paid work. "Oh it's just part of getting older" then why is it that my friends are able to see each other at a moments notice??? Because they had the bright idea and familial aid to get the hell out of this boring town! I just want people to be with and to socialize with.

I also want to stream. I miss that. I know I don't get views at all but I still like it a lot and want to upload more content.

I'm permanently exhausted, permanently bored and broke and can't do anything to change it. Yet this place is just PARADISE to these bumpkins that like sitting on their porches and listening to country music EVERY FUCKING HOUR OF THE DAY. I sound like such a stereotypical "city boy millennial" but! There's a reason people don't like living here!!!

I stg I don't want any grass to cut, no bugs in my home, no messes other than my own to clean, or bigotry in my own home when I'm finally able to leave. I want to be able to be near people I enjoy being around and I want internet so that I can entertain myself and friends. I want to go a day without inhaling poison from bug spray or my dad's fucking cigarettes that he inSISTS on smoking around me and in my vehicle even though I have asthma.

God I just hate it out here

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negativespaceblog-blog1 · 7 years

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July 23- MY BATMAN/SUPERMAN RANT:

I'm sharing my opinion on these two icons at the same time since their stories are such a potent dichotomy in pop culture. Let's start with Batman. As a child, Bruce Wayne-only child/heir of Thomas + Martha Wayne-watches helplessly as a mugger shoot his parents dead. The prevailing narrative is that their deaths fuel Bruce to hone his body, mind + immense fortune in a lifelong quest for vengeance. After years of training he wages a one-man war on crime emblematized as his childhood fear: the bat.

With the addition a sidekick, Robin + then the Comics Code, the Batman's attitude + behavior toward criminals softens. Instead of throwing them from a building, "bad guys" are left tied up + ashamed for the police to take in. This abided by the Comics Code, made Batman palatable to young readers + raised his image to be on par with the herald of the age of superheroes: Superman. Kal'El is born on a dying planet-Krypton-sent to Earth + found by Kansas farmers Jon + Martha Kent. They're unable to conceive, so finding a healthy baby boy inside a crashed spaceship seems like a blessing. The Kents hide the spaceship in their barn + raise the boy as Clark, not knowing his birth name or history. It doesn't take long for the Kents to notice Clark's strange abilities. He lifts the truck over his head, hears storms from miles away, + even floats around on thin air. Fearing he'll lose control or be taken away from them, the Kent's stress the need for Clark to keep his powers hidden. The world can never know how powerful he truly is. Clark keeps the secret, but grew up wondering who he was + how he ended up on Earth. Inside the spaceship he discovers the red cape that swaddled him on the long journey from Krypton, with a set of holographic records from his biological parents, Lara + Jor-El.

They called him Kal'El, + talked about launching the single passenger ship with very little time before Krypton exploded. They sent him to Earth purposely, since our sun would grant unique abilities to his Kryptonian physiology. Their dying wish was for Kal'El to be a beacon of hope for the people of Earth, so Clark vows to do just that. As a young man he leaves Smallville, Kansas for Metropolis, where he buys glasses + gets a job as a reporter for the Daily Planet. He's constantly having to keep his secret, + change into Superman whenever there's trouble. Seen as little more than a country bumpkin by his peers, Clark resorts to getting "exclusive" photos + interviews with the mysterious Superman sighted around the city. This jump starts his career + gets him the attention of the top reporter at the Planet, Lois Lane.

Now fast forward some decades so I can get to my opinion. Batman shares a sense of justice with Superman, but in every way they come from different worlds. In a way they're both raised in a setting that could be "pinnacle American dream", but Clark was born on another planet, + sent here so he could benefit from the natural abilities our sun would grant him. That selfless act by his Kryptonian parents + his upbringing with the Kents influenced Clark to become Superman. Bruce Wayne became Batman as a response to the trauma of watching his family shot dead in the street. This event was so intense for Bruce that he also died that nite, replaced by a force who could protect him + his parents from harm. Replaced by something that could overpower, outsmart + terrorize evil: The Batman. Since he had to maintain his fortune + connection to the Waynes' memory, Batman took on the shell of his former self, Bruce Wayne. He parties, dates, + attends board meetings in this disguise, then by nite he dons the cowl + is himself again. The Batman exists because Bruce Wayne cannot live in a reality where that tragedy tore his family apart.

For Clark, being Superman is just as much a duty as his job at the Daily Planet. I feel like at some point he's Superman because he has to be. When he goes to sleep + wakes up in the morning he's Clark. The endgame is to live a quiet "normal" life as Clark. Superman exists to protect Earth + the more direct interests of Clark Kent.

tl;dr: BRUCE IS THE DISGUISE OF BATMAN, SUPERMAN/KAL'EL IS THE DISGUISE OF CLARK KENT. ALSO FUCK U IF U SKIPPED TO THE TL;DR.

#daily page #mont tucker #comics #dc comics #batman #superman

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