#we'll get through this somehow

[deus3xmachinablog]

after a brief break made necessary by Circumstances, i'm back on my bullshit with my re-read of HtN by way of my first listen-through of the audiobooks, and let me tell you: there is only Before I heard Moira Quirk's Gideon Nav portrayal describe herself as A Good Girl, and After Said Same Experience.

#don't need to worry about this awakening anything in me that was already awake #harrow the ninth spoilers #moira quirk #the locked tomb #audiobook edition #bless my local public library for letting me renew this 20 hour experience on Libby so I could finish it #somehow some way we'll get through this Alectopause together

[legionofpotatoes]

"this could have been an email" is to meetings what "this could have been a patch" is to naughty dog remakes

#the last of us 2???? seriously??????? get outta here #I'm sorry but get outta here lmao :D naaah #nah nah nah this is just funny and I won't mince words #it is funny #lmfao #text #I know this is a symptom of their business model probably on the verge of collapse as layoffs sweep through the industry. I dont deny like #systemic reasons for doing this. and with respect to everyone at nd who views this as a thread of hope for their longevity. I still believe #with my whole heart. that this announcement is very very funny #I'm sorry. whatever good it brings it will not erase the fact that this is just gut-busting hilarious. we'll have to let those realities #coexist somehow. good luck naughty dog! y'all are a riot

[uncanny-tranny]

Being a trans woman seems so difficult at times, especially as we get older. And it's so unsafe in the US! Sometimes I want to pack up and move to Ireland.

Anyway, is it wrong to think about being nonbinary instead? There are times I may be on the sliding scale of gender but I do believe I'm a woman.

Can you explain being a nonbinary woman? Is there such a thing?

It seems nonbinary is easier or has a greater flexibility. Idk.

Can I be nonbinary and lean heavily to the women side?

I'll say that nonbinary women are absolutely a thing, and that many trans women are also nonbinary, and I will also say that being nonbinary isn't easier than being binary. Nonbinary people face some of the same shit binary trans people do, with the added layer of being nonbinary, which is something a lot of people (binary especially) decide they "don't believe in". While I totally get where you're coming from, it's a misconception that nonbinary people have it easier, and I really want to level people's expectations because it's a harmful idea (I'm not saying you are harmful, anon, but what I am saying is that this is a prevalent idea that many people believe, and while it doesn't make you a Bad Person at all, it means that nonbinary experiences aren't fully heard).

I totally get where you're coming from, anon. Being a nonbinary woman is a thing because nonbinary doesn't inherently mean you have no gender, it just means that your experiences with gender don't neatly follow the gender binary that is put in place. There are plenty of ways to experience womanhood, and if you feel your womanhood is nonbinary, then so be it. Just know that whatever label sparks joy for you, you still have a community.

#ask #anon #trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #transphobia #transphobia tw #shit is scary and i will never argue with you on that anon... but also you aren't in it alone #and people are on your side. we'll get through it together somehow #but i do hope you're safe anon

[thunderheadfred]

I'm fine I'm just really really pissed off at this guy

fuck you and your local meme billboard arms

#fucking corporate cash buy-out bastard #he owns like half of the real estate listings around here #flip a coin and find this shithead with his arms spread on the front lawn #it's like that 'Darmok' Star Trek TNG episode #“Kris Lindahl; his arms wide” #buys houses for cash #replaces the carpets #hides all the disclosures #and charges $75k over market value #somehow everything still sells in less than a week #I'm going to ride a moose through his front window #meanwhile #I have to start from SCRATCH with my dad #who is just... impossible to deal with about real estate #he REFUSES to understand this market #I thought this house getting snatched out from under us might teach him a lesson but. uh. no. no it did not #he was just like “well we'll magically find a cheaper house with MORE features” and then we'll negotiate a price on THAT one #or the classic: “there are tons of houses available” #.............not in the year of our Demiurge Capitalist Hellscape 2024 there are not

[nebulaofchaosandwoe]

i just sent my sister a video about autistic "signs" in women. because i think we're autistic. i'm scared of what she'll say when i get home :)

#if she somehow identifies #then we'll freak out #but she might deny it #or get angry #but i totally think we are #and im most surely going through an autistic burnout rn #aaaaaaaaaaaaaa #me thingy #goddesses pls erase me

[todayisafridaynight]

Lmao you should tell your dad to take you camping sometime when you'd we him this weekend!

my dad and my sister have this chronic condition called 'making plans and either forget or life comes upon them last minute and bites them in the ass so we have to cancel and """reschedule""" <- we never reschedule' so i dont think that's in the cards LMAO

#snap chats #if i were to look through all the texts sent between my dad and i growing up it'd just be like #'ill see you X Date' and then the day of or the day before my dad'll be like 'sorry something came up :( we'll try next week' #Spoilers we wouldn't try next week and we prob won't talk for months after that #my sister's similar tho she's like. 2% better about it but that's cause we reside in the same household. sometimes #she has friends and a boyfriend so sometimes she stays with them LOL #still i've just learned that they always end up too busy to spend time with me which is FINE #i get it life's busy for everyone so i try not to let it get me down too much it's bonkers to assume they can put aside other things for me #its my fault for not having friends to spend my time with so i just have to. work on that. somehow LOL #for camping though maybe i can bully my dad into taking me for my birthday... #tho just seeing him would be a good enough present and the best chance of that's just us goin to the city and not doin anythin crazy #i love the city so it's win-win either way LOL #ok ill wrap up my Monthly Required dad rant OOPSSIEE

[nmoroder]

The askblog thing continues. Once again, see translation under readmore.

The question of today was “Has Hoborg even shown Klogg his eyes? Klogg, what do you think/know to be under his bangs?” The question is beautiful cuz i toyed with this feature of Hoborg’s humanized design from time to time and now people are interested abt it... it’s just charming.

(Hoborg is in comatose state here, deprived of his crown; it’s a flashback and everyone is talking in real time, not as a part of that flashback.)

Hoborg: It’s not that big of a secret...

Klogg: Yeah. I already knew he’s got eyes under his hair. Didn’t think they’d be under his bangs though.

H: Ohh ha ha, where else?

K: Anywhere. In any case, I’ve checked it out myself when I had the chance, and to be honest... I didn’t expect the old man to be so... cute.

(Here they are on the Pin Island again, going on with the talk. Maleeh joined them this time and he takes the mic.)

Maleeh: Oh, I remember you saying something about all this! How you tore away your gaze to prevent charming yourself with the creator!

H: ...huh?

K: WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT

M: You told me yourself...

K: SO WHAT I WAS JOKING YOU IDIOT

M: Aw man, sorry...

(Hoborg watches silently and lets out a small distressed chuckle at the end.)

#neverhood #klogg #hoborg #neverhood oc #vk askblog #moroderdraws #im having big troubles doing askblog stuff actually but somehow im making it through #troubles as in sitting down and drawing the thing. my mind is ok with creating all that #but drawing starts to feel as a chore and thats a bad thing #anyway we'll get through this

[monty-glasses-roxy]

Gonna try and flood the queue either tomorrow or the day after so be prepared for more regular Roxy content

#i start my adhd meds tomorrow so i dunno if I'll get to it #it's a pretty simple task so its the first thing on the list #starting small ya know? #its. probably gonna be a really weird day tomorrow but here's hoping it's fine #we'll see how it goes #wild I've actually got this far with all of this #you would not believe the carry on this has been #the hoops have been on fire and I've made it through to this point #somehow #anyway enough life stuff goodnight

[jinruihokankeikaku]

i am just so 😵‍💫

#somehow we'll get through this........................

[queeniecamps]

sorry i haven't finished that one wip yet, my cat's trying to die lol

#pet death tw #i say trying. she really IS but she's having a hard time #if she SOMEHOW makes it through the weekend we'll schedule the BIG appointment but we honestly thought she'd pass away DAYS ago #queenie talks #not cc #uhh anyways. i don't need any 'oh im so sorry' messages. we were expecting this for quite a while now but we weren't expecting it to take- #-so long. it's kinda really weird #i don't even know how old she is sdgFSDGDFSADSFDGS she was full grown when we adopted her 6 years ago but showed no signs of being old- #-before getting REAL sick months ago #so we're just trying to keep her comfortable and warm til she passes #whenever that is #she is functioning on like 2% #barely able to walk but she can somehow get down the stairs #literally LOST her a minute ago trying to look for her. she was laying in front of the island counter heater. #but yeah. quick life update. #oh also i've been taking more walk trying to lose weight. it isn't working. i've gained two pounds since starting :|

[kylewalker-peters]

how are we feeling after this evening of hell yesterday bestie

feeling pretty awful 😝✌🏻 but it's FINE because we're now going to use all of this sadness and anger and WIN EVERYTHING! we're going to personally relegate schalke on Saturday, the bundesliga? we're gonna win that! the pokal? that's gonna be ours babyyyyy! who needs some plastic stupid insignificant European trophy we are going to do the double edin just texted he said so himself

#if we can just get through and somehow win these next 2 games I'm hoping international break will help many of our injured players get back #so then we'll have them for when the league comes back and we play motherfucking bayern leipzig (pokal) and union in a row #we just have to get 6 more points and then we can tick off the first half of the second half of the season as mainly a success

[robocracker]

ranking esc2023 songs... part one

it’s officially eurovision week, and the first semi final is less than 24 hours away!! so, i’m ranking the songs of that first semi into my personal qualifiers and non-qualifiers.

1. sweden || tbh i was never all that keen on euphoria but i can’t help but root for loreen with tattoo, it’s a quality tune and it just screams eurovision champion to me.

2. finland || love that he’s one of the favourites to win this year because he deserves it, the song is experimental and fun, and it works!

3. czech republic || there’s only one crown i’m swearing allegiance to this month, and it’s my sister’s crown! love the mix of languages on this one, and the sisterhood theme, i’m all for it.

4. norway || okay i lied i’m actually here for two queens this month. where are the north and south seas?? who are the kings that she’s queen of?? i have no idea, but i’m singing along anyway.

5. netherlands || what can i say, i’m a sucker for something slow and sad. i know they keep sending stuff like this year after year and it’s not always to my taste, but this year it’s working.

6. serbia || lowkey worried he’s going to get the juri pootsman treatment from voters because it’s kind of a creepy song, but maybe he can make it work better than poor juri did. i’d definitely like to see it in the final.

7. azerbaijan || this keeps getting stuck in my head, and tbh, it’s welcome to stick around. it’s unusual for eurovision, but it’s good.

8. switzerland || is it out of touch and privileged, bearing in mind the very real war that ukraine is currently fighting? probably. i don’t feel qualified to talk on that subject. but he’s got a solid voice and the song builds nicely, and it’s got a theme that a lot of people will go for regardless of how it sits right now.

9. portugal || enjoying her voice, and the beat is fun without forcing the quirkiness. i like the style of the music.

10. moldova || maybe it’s the lingering bitterness in me that france got so few votes last year despite delivering a cultural banger, but i need moldova to qualify!! this song is great!

11.  malta || their vocals aren’t my favourite but the music itself is funky and it’s not completely forgettable.

12. israel || she can sing, but. i’m not feeling the unicorn imagery. definitely not ~phenomenal~ for me.

13. croatia || i get it, catchy beat, unusual, making fun of putin, but it’s just not working for me. i can’t explain it.

14. ireland || it’s not the fact that it’s painfully generic pop, it’s the fact that i swear to god it’s ripping the fuck off of one specific song that i can’t name off the top of my head but i know i’ve heard before. i’d like it if i hadn’t heard it already by somebody else several years ago!

15. latvia || his voice isn’t bad but i’m physically incapable of putting this song on without zoning out from sheer boredom before i’m even halfway through.

#eurovision #esc 2023 #if i'm being 100% honest there's very few songs i fully enjoy this year #and as has been happening the past few years my opinions are likely to change once i've actually heard them singing live #so. we'll see how long this ranking lasts. #definitely hard rooting for my top five of this semi and also serbia to some extent but i'm not super fussed on the rest #well. fussed if my absolute least favourites of this year's crop somehow make it through. but i will get over it.

[thedreamparadox]

thanks for singlehandedly feeding the nights fandom

I actually came to the realization a few days ago that I (by number of fics, not necessarily by word count) think I am currently the most prolific NiGHTS fic writer on AO3 and I do not know what to do with that information.

We are a handful of people and a shoelace fandom on that site rn it's kind of surreal.

#from the author;; #glad you're enjoying my fic tho!!!!! #shoutout to al my friends who encouraged me to post fic when i was super nervous about uploading like #all of helen's story back when i was originally determined that i wouldn't spend the time writing will's too #and then i did and now here i am lol #legit i went through the entire tag recently #there's barely any NiGHTS fic on ao3 somehow like??? how??? #we're not mad rat dead fandom levels of not much fic but like #we really don't have a lot holy cow #i can't speak to activity on other sites just on here and on ao3 #and on here things are pretty quiet. at least in the tags #maybe we'll get a resurgence around reala day and the next NiD anniversery who knows #(me a former lurker on the old NiGHTS fansite like where is everyone????) #(also shoutout to all the writers in the mrd tag on ao3 because that tag's at 4 pages of fic now #my existance is writing fic for niche fandoms i have accepted this)

[leconcombrerit]

I saw your doodle about art block and thought I’d make one of my own since I’ve also struggled with motivation lately.

Obviously I won’t post it if you don’t want me too, but I figured I’d share it. Hope you don’t mind!

Aedtfeghtt 1) of couese I don't mind and you absolutely should share it if you want because it looks gorgeous (in a disturbing way that I really like I don't have the right word but). And 2) I hope motivation comes back one way or another at some point and that things start looking brighter somehow.

#I'm amazed at what this doodle did #we're all there feeling bad in our corner trying to make peace with it aren't we #it would be pretty hypocritical of me to say that it gets better or some shit #however #I can definitely say that we'll get through somehow and I hope art can help

[the-kipsabian]

on the second to last attempt of making my computer work again and then i have one more thing i am willing to try on my own

issues started again this morning (two restarts before we even booted to windows yay) so we are still here. suffering. in an overall better mood tbh cause its been way less frequent now since i reinstalled windows but yeah

#like every little thing helps a bit more but nothing has been able to fix it entirely so far #got through all the contact points inside and cleaned them today. so we'll see where that gets us #if nothing else works im going to assume its somehow to power outlet in the wall so im gonna swap shit around in my living room #and hook it up elsewhere #doubtful that'll work cause nothing else is fucking around thats plugged in there but. yeah #anyways im probably not gonna do much today anyways i really wanted to finish the two socks i have in progress instead #do art tomorrow if this thing functions with me #night is an absolute mess on main

[hella1975]

the whole concept of pres is so ridiculous if you think about it for more than 2 seconds at a time like yes we are going to a Big Event to get drunk but first we need to go to a Smaller Event to get a little bit drunk in preparation for getting properly drunk at the Big Event. possibly there will also be afters where we get a little bit more drunk at another Smaller Event if the Big Event didn't knock us out first

#like it makes more sense if you're going clubbing bc drinks are expensive and a lot of the fun of clubbing #is that it's objectively Shit and you're enjoying the shitness of it #like it's a disgusting cramped room full of sweaty people that keep shoving into your personal bubble. it's shit #so naturally if you're someone who drinks alcohol you'd want a bit of a buzz before you subjected yourself to that #there are certain clubs i refuse to go near when im sober bc they're just Shit #it's all very normal #BUT WHEN IT'S JUST HOUSEPARTIES/FLAT PARTIES??? which a lot of uni is btw #then you are literally like #'we'll pre in x person's kitchen then we're going to x person's kitchen for the party then we'll go to x person's kitchen for afters' #LIKE??? OKAY??? #and it should be so shit but it just isn't it works every time it's so funny #unless you whitey at pres bc that's just embarrassing like we've all done it at least once but it's just poor effort #and on the other side of that if you make it all the way through afters somehow #then there's a big chance you'll be out for literally 10 hours. like 8pm to 6am #ive only had a couple nights where i've been able to hack that bc im the type of person #that it takes me AGES to get drunk but once it hits me every sip of alcohol after that just goes straight to my head #so it takes a lot to get me over the line of drunk but once im over the line #it's very easy for me to get blackout #which is annoying actually bc i hate getting blackout and i never do it on purpose it's just SUCH a fine line for me #so yeah i very rarely make it to afters lmfaooo #but i know some people where every single night out they do they always do pres-party-afters EVERY SINGLE TIME #and they go out multiple times a week #i would be dead #like i know you guys think im very sociable and go out a lot but honest to god im pretty tame compared to a lot of students #anyway it's still exam season here ive not had a night out since MARCH im losing the will #hella goes to uni