#to be fair it was catastrophic

[transmechanicus]

Really fucked up that two ppl can care about each other and make their best efforts to communicate and still end up hurting each other so badly they cannot stand to be in the same room.

#my stuff #i feel soooo bad talking to my therapist about the same topics over multiple weeks #like i feel like they're sooo sick of it like damn can this bitch get Over It alreadyyyy #hi yes actually can we talk about the near catastrophic sense of betrayal and loss that has haunted my soul for over a month? #can we talk about how I overcompensate for other's possible feelings and emotions to desperately mask my terror at feeling out of control #can we talk about how even when I know ppl acted with logical reasons necessary for their situation it still hurt me? #and that this pain fills me up with so much anger and frustration that I'm powerless to put anywhere that won't hurt someone #so it just cooks me inside and makes me grind my teeth constantly for weeks #im so angry i did not deserve to be treated like this it's not fair and I have no capacity to fix it or control when it feels better #i just have to survive and wait until i forget about it and hope they don't decide to reach out and fuck it all up #cause i can see that happening #i'll finally be free of thinking about them and generally going about my day unbothered and they'll ask to get coffee or something #and I have no idea what I should do in that scenario. because I don't think we can be friends. #and you have not treated me with the compassion and warmth I treated you #i would want to say mean things. hurtful things. I would want to bite back for once. #and that's not me. that's not who I want to be. #i don't wanna see you. go away. don't talk to me if you're not going to make the pain go away.

[deadgit]

4 AM and I can't sleep... so it's time to post my deeply unpopular, but fervently held belief that Rimmer fell first, but Lister fell harder.

#obviously it's awesome if you see otherwise but that is just how it is in my brain lol #to be fair. i think that rimmer is gonna have to fall in stages and that process isn't going to be finished until lister already loves him #but he definitely starts first in my brain #and. tbh i think if it all went catastrophically wrong he'd handle it better than lister #not HEALTHIER mind you. but he'd get on with his life and just never trust anyone ever ever again 🙂 #i think lister would struggle a lot more #they both have to really tear themselves open to fall in love. i think in hindsight lister knows this. rimmer des not. #idk i'm feeling a bit morose tonight so you guys get Late Night Ramble Tags i guess lol #rimster

[benanazauce]

WORDGIRL!!! she’s my favourite superhero, I love her she’s so silly and cool

I also love how she still acts like a kid in the show + doesn’t talk down to the audience, really makes the show enjoyable! I like seeing her play with her pretty princess show figures, ngl I kinda want one too!

#wordgirl #word up #whoa this show is so good #my friend got me into this and I can’t stop #i’m going crazy #exploding #fanart #digital art #she’s saving fair city from tobey mccallister and his robuts #dr two brains currently plotting a cheese catastrophe

[literallyaflame]

i have severe sensorineural hearing loss in one ear. today i realized that it’s. the gay ear. i am deaf in the gay ear. absolutely gutted by this

#i guess my left ear is also bad but it’s nowhere near as catastrophically fucked as the right has decided it needs to be #to be fair it’s a low frequency loss #i can only be gay at high frequencies #EDIT: okay i shouldn’t call it catastrophically fucked severe could be worse #I can still get hearing aids for now #i mean i won’t bc i’m broke #but u know

[nyxire]

wait wait i just thought about this a while ago but just remembered again, but how the fuck does Zelda have Rauru & Sonias powers of light and time?? No children were at any point shown, talked of or even referenced? sonia dies ! and so does rauru not too long after! so its not like its a case of ‘oh well they can still hv children later’ how does the royal lineage work??? how does Zelda have these powers? its heavily implied that the sage powers are passed down through blood/lineage so where are her powers coming from ????

#this feels like. a major plot hole. #probably bc it is #like what #TO BE FAIR #i have not finished the game. (tho i have gotten all the memories & stuff.) #i haven't fought ganon yet but i've gotten all tears & done the major 4 catastrophes or whatever #<- which were all a let down btw with maybe the exception of the wind temple but i'll talk about that another time #has anyone else noticed this ? #like don't get me wrong. i am in love with the game. #i actually hurt my wrist kinda bad bc i'd been playing it nonstop but also a story for another time #i just wnat to know. plz. the part of me that loves plot with every part of my soul is begging for clarification #but this is like. what. #i'd be more satisfied with a 'oh the goddess hylias was like ''well that won't do :/ here random queen! have some powers!''' #<- i wouldn't rlly but a bullshit explanation is better then none i guess. #but i honestly don't think that's something theyll expand upoun this late in #loz #totk #tears of the kingdom #zelda #princess zelda #rauru #sonia #legend of zelda #i want to speak to someone about this.. #i told my sibling and they stared at me and went 'okay yeah i guess?' AND THEY PLAY THE GAME #LIKE WHAT DO U MEANMNNN #THIS IS A PLOT HOEL #WHY DON'T YOU CARE MORE #i mean maybe it's not. i could be blowing this out of proportion #that could totally be the case. i haven't seriouisly thought of any loz lore in a while

[nedsseveredhead]

in a real big This Isnt Fair kind of mood rn

#like. its not fair that whenever i have a medical problem i still have to come to work #its not fair that im the one left alone during major sales #and that im the one who has to clean up the catastrophic messes that causes #im just so tired and everything hurts so bad but i have to stay late because no one filled the tinter #cause god forbid anyone but me do it #and so i had to fill it in the middle of a shitton of orders #and since the shelves are too high for me to reach lol the tint fucking fell and splattered everywhefe #and theres still a line wondering why im not making their paint and im covered head to toe in tint #thats not gonna wash out #im just gonna look like this for a few cays #and its like maybe if i had some help #since i told them that the last hour of the last sale day is gonna be absurdly busy #but noo nooo ill be fine on my own #i e never wanted to kill myself so bad on the sales floor lmaooooo #anyway im fine ill be fine im just heated as fuck rn

[thedragonagelesbian]

you first

Adelaide didn’t have a lot of things to take from the Cuddly Rockfish. Since destroying everything she owned by burning down her childhood home, her efforts had focused primarily on rebuilding her wardrobe: sundresses and miniskirts and ruffly shirts and stylish handbags and enough pairs of shoes she could afford to lose them to her new monster hunting pastime. She had her toiletries too, of course, and enough makeup and skincare products to fill one of the cardboard boxes Gwendolynn had been oh so generous enough to give her, but her temporary domicile was light on personal effects. What, after all, was the point of building anything permanent when she was just biding her time until she burned her way out of town?

She had always known that her stay at the Cuddly Rockfish was a temporary one. She just hadn’t expected these to be the circumstances of her leaving.

She had just packed up her last box when Gwendolynn appeared in the door again, her expression cold and stony.

“I’d like that lock of hair back now.”

Adelaide briefly toyed with the idea of keeping the token Gwendolynn had given her— and the additional magical hold that came with it. But she didn’t want to fight Gwendolynn, not really, so she reached into her purse and held out the small bundle of dark hair.

“Of course. As a token of goodwill, or something.”

Nothing in Gwendolynn’s countenance spoke to any glimmer of appreciation or gratitude.

Then again, that would require that Gwendolynn was capable of showing anything.

“You don’t have to worry about Moony,” Adelaide called out as Gwendolynn turned away again. “I’d never do anything to hurt him.”

“I’m not worried about you wanting to hurt him.” Gwendolynn shot a glare at her over her shoulder. “I’m worried you won’t be able to stop yourself if he gets in your way.”

“He won’t.”

Moony was on her side. Moony had chosen her over Gwendolynn. Moony was helping her. She wouldn’t need to hurt him because he wouldn’t get in her way.

She couldn’t say the same for Gwendolynn.

With a huff, the other woman left. 

Adelaide took a moment to scoop up all her boxes, balancing them precariously on top of one another, and slammed the door on her way out. Eager to avoid the tea shop on the ground floor, she took the back staircase and made her way out to the curb, where Moony was idling in front of his car. He straightened as she approached with a grimace.

“I guess I’ll be needing a new place to crash.”

“You can stay with me as long as you need, Adelaide,” Moony assured her with that smile so much softer than any kindness Adelaide had been shown in years.

Fuck, she was glad he had sided with her.

He moved to open the back door of the car, and Adelaide set her boxes down on the ground to make it easier to move them into the seat, but before she put them away, she gave Moony a sidelong glance, recalling how tired and sad he had sounded pleading with Gwendolynn to take care of herself and be more forthcoming. She remembered what he had said when she came back downstairs: “I can’t do this anymore.”

“How are you doing, after all that?” she murmured.

He shrugged helplessly. “I… I’m still worried about Gwen, but I don’t think there’s much more we can do for her.”

“Y’know, it’s funny,” Adelaide said hollowly. “Given how sanctimonious she is, she’d make a great preacher’s kid.”

Or, indeed, a great preacher, but that was not a thought that Adelaide cared to draw to its natural conclusion. It hurt enough to have implied it during her conversation with Gwendolynn, to have told her I know this kind of care and worry, and it is not founded in understanding or respect or dignity. It is possessive, and it’s a killing thing and to have had it fall on deaf ears.

“I…” Moony grimaced. “Gwen’s a good person. I know a lot of hurtful things were said back there, but beneath it all, somewhere deep down, she’s a good kid, I know it.”

Maybe Adelaide deserved Gwendolynn’s goodness like she deserved her father’s.

“All my friends left me,” she whispered, throat tight and eyes burning and hands balled into fists inside of Nat’s flannel jacket. “I watched them all graduate and leave for college and never come back because who the hell would come back to this waste of a fuckin town?” 

Her voice crackled like so many fires she had lit across Harborview, groaning and splitting like the support beams of the Dellouise Manor or the Yard and Sale greenhouse or the Madison’s farmhouse, the whimpers of something that could no longer hold its own weight.

“When I first met you and Gwendolynn, when we started hunting monsters and hanging out together, I thought…” She muffled a sob. “I thought that was all over… I just want it all to be over.” Tears pooled in the corners of her eyes, the kind of thing she should’ve been able to repress with a mere swallow, but she hadn’t yet recovered her defenses since their conversation last night about her dad trapping her there. Every part of her was raw, a bleeding, picked-over wound exposed to saltwater and gnawing deeper. “I want to stop this,” the magic, the pain, the hurting others, the being hurt in return, all that latent monstrosity that Gwendolynn had condemned her for, she didn’t want to be like this, the kind of person who could not hold their power in check, “but I can’t… I can’t stop until I get out of here…”

“You will,” Moony replied with a conviction fit for a congregant of the First Church of Her Will. “We’ll get you out of here, I promise. Now, you need help with those boxes?”

Sniffling, Adelaide rubbed furiously at her eyes with the back of her hand and nodded.

“Yeah, thanks…”

Moony took care of putting everything in the backseat, and Adelaide shuffled around to the passenger seat. A minute later, he climbed in as well, but rather than turning the car on, he fidgeted with his keys for a moment before looking at Adelaide.

“Just… promise me something, yeah?”

Adelaide stared into the eyes of the one person in the whole wide world who knew what she had gone through over the last six years, the one person who had seen just how bad she was and still thought she deserved kindness.

“Anything.”

Moony frowned back, face drawn tight with worry— the real thing, not  Gwendolynn looking at her like a ticking bomb, not her father looking at her like a broken doll.

“If someone tries to kill you… you kill them first.”

Adelaide’s mind flashed to the sleek barrel of a jet black, military-grade sniper rifle and a cold brown eye pressed to the scope.

“Yeah, I reckon I can do that.”

#adelaide posting #no editing we vomit our feelings into google docs at 11pm and post it an hour later like MEN #GOD THEYRE SUCH FUCKING DISASTERS. JFC. #its so interesting to watch gwendolynn moralize to adelaide and try to make her feel guilty about all the bad shit shes done #(and #lets be clear #adelaide has done a lot of fucked up stuff) #as the means of preventing adelaide from becoming a monster #when (and i think ive played this very faithfully) from the beginning what was going to save adelaide was connection #she needs that baseline human emotional intimacy before she can start growing #and its interesting and also like super fair that gwendolynn doesnt want to extend that to her #but it also means gwens current anti-monster tactics are not only poorly suited but guaranteed to blow up in her face #like what a good way to get adelaide to double down on her independence and self-prioritization #meanwhile moony has moved her so much closer to synthesis just by. talking. to. her. #and being someone she can trust as someone who actually cares about her #and doesnt just yknow view her as an imminent catastrophe

[elytrafemme]

my hw this weekend is such a fucking nightmare

#nightmare.personal #college stuff (downright catastrophic) + science fair (have Not started) like literal agony forever i guess

[buckttommy]

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#Actually #One thing I will say about this trial and then be done with it is that people should be careful not to catastrophize because of the #verdict. 'Oh so women can't do [x] without [y] now' #Incorrect lol. There is no 'now' because women have always been victims of an unjust system. Absolutely nothing has changed and #nothing was going to change because our system is structured so that victims period (regardless of gender) always come out on the bottom #Our justice system is not a tool of justice; our justice system is a tool of status and power goes to whomever can afford it. #Sorry I don't know who thought this was ever going to be fair but it wasn't #A high-profile case with two high-profile clients seeking equally high-profile goals from this verdict and you guys thought this was #gonna be a nice fair little playdate? #Couldn't be me #Hollywood and politics do not mesh well; the rich pay for the outcomes they want and if you didn't get the outcome you #wanted I guess that means you didn't pay enough. #But this whole idea that Amber's loss is a loss for the people is sooo... lol. like when were victims ever in a position to win within a #system that protects abusers? #You can't say 364 days a year that rich people experience the world differently than ordinary people do #and then claim that Amber's loss has some bearing on Normal People #It does not <3 #Amber was in a far better position to win than you or I or Sally from down the street and she still didn't and if you think that's just #because she's a Woman I encourage you to develop some perspective that's not so narrowly focused. There's a bigger picture here than #women good men bad but the way you guys reduce major historical or social events to these segmented points instead of observing them #as part of a whole is so frustrating. #Misogyny is a fraction of a bigger problem here. If you're going to be mad about something be mad about all facets of the social structure #rather than just highlighting one and creating an entire false narrative around it.

[chinquix]

today the brand new ice cream machine at work had a catastrophic failure and stopped producing ice cream because the air temperature was above its maximum heat limit (33C) 😬

#to be fair the heat also caused Me to experience a catastrophic failure and stop producing ice cream #(thats a joke i was fine......my brain was just steadily evaporating)

[majorxmaggiexboy]

Update: the terror book is not less scary than the show. I'm only going to be able to tackle this thing in small doses 😅

#Haven't even got to the main catastrophes yet and I am deeply unsettled lol #You'll never get me on a boat no sir #Also idk about the show but book!crozier is a Jerk #And I would like for lady silence to stab him a little bit #To be fair they're all pretty gross jerks

[margotgrissom]

Yet another week as a care worker during year 3 of the pandemic, a general labour shortage, and vacation season got me like

#early shift literally greeted me with #'oh you already know? tbh i asked [office] not to call you about [newest catastrophe] cause i wasn't sure you'd still come in.' #which fair #i briefly considered maybe trying to get hit by a car or smth #personal stuff and thangs

[reasonsforhope]

No paywall version here.

"Two and a half years ago, when I was asked to help write the most authoritative report on climate change in the United States, I hesitated...

In the end, I said yes, but reluctantly. Frankly, I was sick of admonishing people about how bad things could get. Scientists have raised the alarm over and over again, and still the temperature rises. Extreme events like heat waves, floods and droughts are becoming more severe and frequent, exactly as we predicted they would. We were proved right. It didn’t seem to matter.

Our report, which was released on Tuesday, contains more dire warnings. There are plenty of new reasons for despair. Thanks to recent scientific advances, we can now link climate change to specific extreme weather disasters, and we have a better understanding of how the feedback loops in the climate system can make warming even worse. We can also now more confidently forecast catastrophic outcomes if global emissions continue on their current trajectory.

But to me, the most surprising new finding in the Fifth National Climate Assessment is this: There has been genuine progress, too.

I’m used to mind-boggling numbers, and there are many of them in this report. Human beings have put about 1.6 trillion tons of carbon in the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution — more than the weight of every living thing on Earth combined. But as we wrote the report, I learned other, even more mind-boggling numbers. In the last decade, the cost of wind energy has declined by 70 percent and solar has declined 90 percent. Renewables now make up 80 percent of new electricity generation capacity. Our country’s greenhouse gas emissions are falling, even as our G.D.P. and population grow.

In the report, we were tasked with projecting future climate change. We showed what the United States would look like if the world warms by 2 degrees Celsius. It wasn’t a pretty picture: more heat waves, more uncomfortably hot nights, more downpours, more droughts. If greenhouse emissions continue to rise, we could reach that point in the next couple of decades. If they fall a little, maybe we can stave it off until the middle of the century. But our findings also offered a glimmer of hope: If emissions fall dramatically, as the report suggested they could, we may never reach 2 degrees Celsius at all.

For the first time in my career, I felt something strange: optimism.

And that simple realization was enough to convince me that releasing yet another climate report was worthwhile.

Something has changed in the United States, and not just the climate. State, local and tribal governments all around the country have begun to take action. Some politicians now actually campaign on climate change, instead of ignoring or lying about it. Congress passed federal climate legislation — something I’d long regarded as impossible — in 2022 as we turned in the first draft.

[Note: She's talking about the Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Act, which despite the names were the two biggest climate packages passed in US history. And their passage in mid 2022 was a big turning point: that's when, for the first time in decades, a lot of scientists started looking at the numbers - esp the ones that would come from the IRA's funding - and said "Wait, holy shit, we have an actual chance."]

And while the report stresses the urgency of limiting warming to prevent terrible risks, it has a new message, too: We can do this. We now know how to make the dramatic emissions cuts we’d need to limit warming, and it’s very possible to do this in a way that’s sustainable, healthy and fair.

The conversation has moved on, and the role of scientists has changed. We’re not just warning of danger anymore. We’re showing the way to safety.

I was wrong about those previous reports: They did matter, after all. While climate scientists were warning the world of disaster, a small army of scientists, engineers, policymakers and others were getting to work. These first responders have helped move us toward our climate goals. Our warnings did their job.

To limit global warming, we need many more people to get on board... We need to reach those who haven’t yet been moved by our warnings. I’m not talking about the fossil fuel industry here; nor do I particularly care about winning over the small but noisy group of committed climate deniers. But I believe we can reach the many people whose eyes glaze over when they hear yet another dire warning or see another report like the one we just published.

The reason is that now, we have a better story to tell. The evidence is clear: Responding to climate change will not only create a better world for our children and grandchildren, but it will also make the world better for us right now.

Eliminating the sources of greenhouse gas emissions will make our air and water cleaner, our economy stronger and our quality of life better. It could save hundreds of thousands or even millions of lives across the country through air quality benefits alone. Using land more wisely can both limit climate change and protect biodiversity. Climate change most strongly affects communities that get a raw deal in our society: people with low incomes, people of color, children and the elderly. And climate action can be an opportunity to redress legacies of racism, neglect and injustice.

I could still tell you scary stories about a future ravaged by climate change, and they’d be true, at least on the trajectory we’re currently on. But it’s also true that we have a once-in-human-history chance not only to prevent the worst effects but also to make the world better right now. It would be a shame to squander this opportunity. So I don’t just want to talk about the problems anymore. I want to talk about the solutions. Consider this your last warning from me."

-via New York Times. Opinion essay by leading climate scientist Kate Marvel. November 18, 2023.

#WE CAN DO THIS #I SO TRULY BELIEVE THAT WE CAN DO THIS #WE CAN SAVE OURSELVES AND THE WORLD ALONG WITH US #climate crisis #united states #climate change #conservation #hope posting #sustainability #climate news #climate action #climate emergency #fossil fuels #global warming #environmentalism #climate hope #solarpunk #climate optimism #climate policy #earth #science #climate science #meteorology #extreme weather #renewable energy #solar power #wind power #renewables #carbon emissions #climate justice

[breitzbachbea]

Oh def don’t worry! If you don’t feel like answering them you can just delete lmao :3

Oh no, I totally feel like answering them, don't you worry, nonnie! With anons the pity is just that ppl don't get notified with answers, so I like to make posts immediately after receiving anon asks for ask games, in case answering them will take longer. Just so that anons like you know I won't have forgotten them!

#fair warning though I will say some stuff about the ancients and why the idea aside from specific tribes/polis is not smth I wanna engage in #-shakes fist- I am not playing your games rome!!! germania is an invention of the caesar industry to sell more military #no but really there is also a great book about the reception of tacitus' germania and how said reception has been weaponized at times #I haven't read it yet but I really MUST. bc the idea of what constitutes Germanness and the catastrophes it has led us to since the 19th #century is things I am immensely interested in and think more people should know #anon #beareplies #that said. I don't have much interest in Germania and Britannia (anymore) not for those reasons #but for the much simpler and yet no less complicated one of. What IS a Germania. Answer quickly. #Germanic as a description for anything coherent in antiquity makes NO sense UNLESS you want to talk about languages #Caesar literally arbitrarily drew a line and declared those Germanics enemies to friendly tribes to justify his invasion of gaul #'Bea it is Hetalia' I know. Why do you think I only write AUs this shit wrecks my head as soon as it goes beyond haha funny comic

[hauntingblue]

EPISODE 900

#ran out of tags at one and a half episodes...... anyways we coninue with: #episode 898 #the dog is right to just run from that shit lmao ajdhaks #btw the bead necklace on the straw doll of hawkins reminds me i still havent figured out why ace wears them.... like i get its spriritual #but past that point..... if someone reads this please do not tell me this is my media analysis homework for one piece #i need to figure this out myseld lmao #also i keep thinking about stand proud and like how to this moment no op opening has surpassed it for me.... #maybe the we share the world one in the aspects of boppability but not bangerism for example... and the water 7 one is on par w the epicness #idk i will keep pondering #hawkins just going up and down with his sword ajdhskdj #i forgot about the gorillas akdhaksk #schachi!!!! and bepo and penguin!!!! #AND LAW!!!!!!!! #do we think zoro is just turned around sighing bc otama being sick so young reminds him of kuina...... #i feel like he is in catastrophe mode.... we need to go quick cause she is going to die so i will fight and now that she is going to be #cured she is also going to die anyways so he can't even look #zoro saying kiku is big and luffy saying big mom was eveb bigger.... exactly... many such cases of women #otama just you wait till they get you to sanji girl.... also i want her on board.... it's only fair #what are we learning from one piece today: 1) children go hungry 2) famishes are man made #relevant today #this variation on zoro's theme..... banger #when i saw those tights i though okiku revealed herself as maroimo island foreigner and was about to fight lmao #just werid associations my brain makes lmao #episode 900 #<- CHRIST #talking tag #watching one piece

[strawbebyjam]

(,:

#Change Your Thinking or Avoid Catastrophic Thinking as advice for anxiety is just sooooooo great and funny and wonderful #girl if i could just change my thinking i wouldn’t have anxiety 😭😭 #in any case. #i actually don’t know what to add there HDJDHDNDHD where’s the cpr baby when you need to hold it #really though taking care of and holding the baby was therapeutic LMFAO #if baby therapy was ethical i’d be first in line w my wallet out #like just let me hold them and pretend i am capable of an am keeping them safe and loved. and don’t ask any other questions #mano.mindtalk #neg #ish???? #realizing i feel this dysregulated on national pink day just makes this even worse #that’s not fair at all i think