#and then my mom assuring me that no

[leupagus]

On Voting in America

So one of the most profound comments on routine chores that I've ever encountered was, hilariously, the Pickle Rick episode of "Rick & Morty," where (after a lot of shenanigans have already ensued) this therapist absolutely lays Rick out:

"I have no doubt that you would be bored senseless by therapy, the same way I'm bored when I brush my teeth and wipe my ass. Because the thing about repairing, maintaining, and cleaning is: it's not an adventure. There's no way to do it so wrong you might die. It's just work. And the bottom line is some people are okay going to work and some people, well, some people would rather die. Each of us gets to choose."

I think about this at least once a week — usually while I'm doing my laundry or sweeping or some other task that needs doing and won't get me anything more than clean clothing or a dog-hair-free floor. There's no Pulitzer for wiping down your microwave or scrubbing your toilet; no one's awarding you for getting all the dishes out of the sink. At best you have the satisfaction of crossing it off your list.

Voting is very much the same (and I'm talking about the US here, as an American). Sure, you sometimes get a sticker; but nobody's going to cheer for you. There's no adventure here, no potential for anything more than crossing something off of a list. It's a chore, something that needs doing in order to repair, maintain, and yes even clean. So I get why people don't like doing it.

And I've decided I don't give a shit.

Do it anyway. Your country takes astonishingly little from you — taxes, the once-in-a-blue-moon jury duty, and a theoretical draft that hasn't been used in over half a century and likely will never be again — but it asks you (asks! not requires! not demands!) to vote once a year. It's not always easy; especially in conservative states, the impediments to vote can be ridiculous. But it is once a year and unlike in our nation's all-too-recent past, you will not die if you do it.

In fact, the worst outcome from voting these days is that the person or issue that you vote for loses — but you won't know if they lose until after the election. Polls are less accurate now, for a whole host of reasons; you cannot know until after the election who or what will win. This makes your vote more valuable than possibly ever before.

Use that power. Not because it's exciting or even rewarding, but because your vote is what keeps our country's metaphorical teeth from falling out and our metaphorical ass from stinking.

Brush, wipe, vote.

#ok the metaphor may've gotten a little gross but rick & morty chose it not me #anyway if voting didn't matter then rich people wouldn't do it #and I can assure you: they do #also: please don't think of voting like a reward for the person you're voting for #or as a punishment for the person you're not voting for #my mom's advice was: #think about the most vulnerable people you care about and vote for the person or issue that will make their lives better #and you'll rarely go wrong #yes there are often two bad options but if you're old enough to vote you're old enough to understand the difference between bad and less ba #anyway that's all the political lecturing I'll do this year #except maybe to complain about the 18-hour day I'll be having on Tuesday #oh also SIGN UP TO WORK ELECTIONS WE NEED MORE HELP #thank you #politics!

[blazeturbo102]

Oh, I was wrong, my parents still think Crowley and Aziraphale are just buddies🙃(they've just started S2)

I'm literally dying to see them get to the last episode, I'll just be there watching their reactions like

#good omens #good omens 2 #he was like 'I like that Crowley cares for his... friend; enough that he doesnt want that offer of power from hell' #i had to stare at my plate for a moment before I answered so I could control my face lmao #i mean; Crowley would do that even if he really loved him only as friend; but that's not what my dad meant; i can assure you😮‍💨 #what did surprised me is that his fav is Aziraphale; and my mom's fav is Crowley; wasnt expecting that O.o #ineffable husbands #crowley #aziraphale #aziracrow #azicrow #go #go 2 #i said I'd be watching their reactions with a smile; but now that I think about it; ill probably just be crying my heart out🥲🥲

[hiveswap]

#my mom assured me that my friend who i assume has no other friends other than us has a very thight knit family and i was dumbfounded

[themostsanebug]

okay okay so

do ya guys really view me as a pathetic little man or is it solely cause i largely associate myself with roger and roger is normally viewed as such,,

guys im really not that pathetic i promise 😭 /gen

#fly man yaps!! #noticed people seeing me as little guy (in the pathetic sense) when i can assure im not #i maybe 14 but like.. i forget that most of the time and i talk like an adult according to my mom?? so uh #not trying to be like #“IM ALL BIG TOUGH AND INDEPENDENT!” cause no im not #just sayin im really not that sad of a guy?

[dramatic-dolphin]

hanging out with my friends as a kid was so funny, they'd ask "how long can you stay?" and i'd be like "um. as long as i want?" imagine having a curfew couldn't be me 🥰

#p sure my mom would have let me stay out until 10pm provided i shot her a text to assure her i'm still alive

[bumblingbabooshka]

Things that aren’t red flags but are flags nonetheless

#Chakotay & T'Pel: Why Are We Here....? Just To Suffer.....??? #My jaw DROPPED when Janeway called her dad 'daddy' in that episode ...ilaughedso hard.... #more power to ppl who call their dads daddy into adulthood - I'm a no dad haver so I cannot imagine #sorry Tuvok this drawing is really a prime example of 'buddy system responsible for additional death' #mutually assured destruction: If Janeway brings up that Tuvok calls his mom that he's gonna bring up that Janeway calls her dad that #Chakotay calls his parents 'mom & dad' while T'Pel calls her parents 'ma & pa' <- vulcan version of this #something I notice about watching voyager is everyone calls their parents 'mother & father' which is incorrect - sorry v_v #anyway this made me laugh todraw....hope you enjoy #bea art tag #Chakotay #T'Pel #Janeway #Tuvok #st voyager #st voyager art #DON'T @me if Janeways dad wasn't an admiral #Chakotay wants to make fun of them so fucking bad especially Janeway but he KNOWS she'll get mad HHEHEHE

[latimeria-fell-from-heaven]

okay so-

#lati speaks #asked my mom to do the 10 pull and for assurance i went pspspsp and then he fucking came home #wriothesley #gi wriothesley #guys i think he likes me I’ve never been this lucky with my pulls :0

[atopvisenyashill]

not an f&b aegon ii fan, not a hotd aegon ii fan, but a secret third thing (a fan of the aegon ii that only exists in my mind)

#extreme mommy issues his father figure is his grandfather & a dude who literally cannot stop committing hate crimes deeply upset that he #could have been his older sister’s male wife but his mom said no and now he has to be king #wants to be a good husband to helaena but resents how gentle she is and dependent on his protection wears his hair short bc he resents his #father’s obsession with valyria when westeros is here now and needs him to do more than just acclaim rhaenyra decades ago and aegon #his true love is his dragon and he was never going to live long after sunfyre. the son that actually DID come with fire and blood to save #his mother but it wasn’t enough never enough because he’s the oldest son but he’s also only second born and what is a second born son than #girlson who is functionally useless as anything more than a pawn to his family. #dying miserable and alone without even his mother’s love bc he came for her too late but he CAME FOR HER!!! HE SAVED HER. too bad. #she doesn’t care anymore bc everyone she really loved is dead. dying a pawn and yet the powerful man in westeros. #letting the narrative consume him alive after sunfyre is injured and finds him on dragonstone. he knows he’s doomed when he goes up against #baela. he does it because what else do you do. you’ve gone too far. killed too many. you killed your sister’s children and she killed yours #in return and now you can’t go back. no choice but mutually assured destruction with the only woman who ever saw how dangerous he was and #how desperate for loce he was. once upon a time. he was a baby bouncing in his sister’s lap on the throne. and she was beautiful and tall #and soft and smart and she told him he was beautiful and loved and pointed out every name and held him the way a mother does. #it has to end there. if the narrative eats me and sunfyre alive it has to eat her too. he won’t go down without her. #getting on my soap box #aegon the usurper

[kisaraslover]

"seto kaiba is so gay" cant even get obsessed with a man as a result of your own infinite inferiority superiority complex crumbling because of said mans Stable-Home-Raised-Swag completely annihilating your smoke and mirrors ego with the only choices left being "win against him or die trying to go back to how strong you used to be" or "face your own mortality and pain and weakness" on this stupid gay earth. im a lesbian im not attracted to atem. if i die trying to dominate him its ON ME and MY PERSONAL INSANITY and not attraction. some of us wanna dominate not because we are horny but because we are evil hope this helps

#hes sooo butch lesbian. find the most easily confident and assured man in the room. challenge him until either one of you dies. #especially tricky if you yourself have many and MANY weaknesses and traumas and problems and flaws cuz now and then #you clash into some guy with a. ptuh. good family home. and ''good parents'' whatever the fuck thats supposed to mean. as if. #anyway then its a real problem because people raised in a good home have the sort of invincible energy of like. avatar aang. miles morales #yknow? #you get me? type of guy who says ''i loooove my dad'' ''i love you mom'' weekly. PTUH. fucking.. ugh. #anyway #ygo #yugioh #seto kaiba #not art #im just being insane as always. if seto kaiba writing sucks i can play with him like hes play dough. so hes a he him lesbian. like meee >:]

[mattatouile]

I think what people might not grasp is that, since childhood, I haven't given a shit if someone thinks I'm morally engaged in my entertainment 😂

#ask me about the time i left the golden compass at a baptist church #and my mom got a call from the preacher's wife about my satanic reading materials #and how she needed to get a lockdown on my habits #i was 12 #so dont come at me about the fanfic i read now #it wont make an impact i assure you #ive been controversial since birth

[discocactusblogs]

🕯️

#how to keep hopeful when you feel like God's not going to give you the one thing youre hoping for #how to keep from being angry at God because you just don't see movement in your life in this one area #yet when you pray for God's will #He assures you you're where He wants you #I have never wanted this thing before and now that I'm older I find myself longing for it #It's hard to listen to my parents when their only answer to everything is “pray about it” as if I havent been doing so for years #It's hard to take their whole “be patient” speech seriously when my mom married at 21 #My dad only slightly understands but I feel like its different at the same time #I was perfectly fine in church until the Pastor told a story about a married couple and the whole church was laughing while I nearly cried #I am the only single lady in my church on top of the only single person in my age group #I'm not even sure why God gave me this desire for marriage and a family #I feel like “God why would you give me this burning desire to have a family and marriage that glorifies and honors you if you weren't going #to give me said thing?“ #I'm asking God to help me enjoy being single but at the same time I feel myself starting to grow bitter and thats something I dont want. #I know not everyone is called to be married and thats what's got me messed up and angry because if I'm not called to marriage #why did He give me the desire for it? I feel like that's just cruel and I know God isn't mean or cruel #also sorry Narni for stealing the way you rant lol #I feel bad everytime I post a rant and using tags seems to work better so I don't feel so bad

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

good news! my sister has cold symptoms other than a sore throat, so she probably doesn't have strep and instead just picked up one of the half dozen colds that are currently going through our youth group!

#also my mom assured me that if we do get strep then nsaids like ibuprofen help so that helps put me at ease ngl #Lu rambles #still prayers though thanksssss

[brain-empty]

ngl I love how whenever I have a good day im hit with a trainwreck immediately after (sarcastic)

#ngl. atleast I have plans this weekend. no there is no wood to knock on to assure this considering i may have just jinxed myself #<- superstitious now. blame my mom for accidentally instilling a few new fears in me lately #(its fully not her fault I pick up on things ppl do/believe and mimic it with a lot more anxiety)

[calamitydaze]

long tag ramble below u have been warned

#ok i feel like i should say Something before i start being active again #but i dont want it to be a Statement which is why i’m putting it in the tags #(also bc i procrastinated doing this for weeks so i know this is a very stale topic by now #but i also haven’t been on tumblr literally at all so this is 100% my organic authentic opinion lmao) #so read if you gaf and ignore if you don’t #anyway: george def could’ve done more to ensure she was comfortable #and as someone who has also gotten in over my head with older men and regretted it #her hurt is valid and i’m deeply sorry she feels the way she does about that night #but with that said i see no reason to believe george Should have known how she really felt #or that he deliberately took advantage of either her youth/inexperience or her discomfort #and that’s the most important thing for me— he fucked up and misread a situation but that doesn’t make him an evil person #and i hope they can both move on and grow and heal #as for my future in the fandom: i honestly dunno how active i’ll be going forward #i was already becoming pretty disconnected so this might’ve just sped up the process? i’m tired of being put through the wringer #but i also don’t really have a fandom to replace this so i might just continue casually participating in the way i have been #either way rest assured i will never become a rabid anti. that shits embarrassing #i got HORRIBLE drolo rsd the other day when tommy’s mom needed clout and vagued him so like if nothing else. droloisms are forever #also as a last thing— this feels kinda silly and self centered to say but i will anyway #sorry for not opening up my blog as a forum for discussion again the way i did with the drituation #i know i helped a lot of people sort out their feelings and that was (and is) really really important to me #but it also tanked my mental health (mostly as a result of the fallout and not the act itself but still) #plus my life irl was pretty stressful at the time when everything was first going down #so i just didn’t feel up to putting myself through that again #but i’m sorry if anyone wanted to discuss w me but wasn’t able to #anyway. i think that’s all i have to say! #i don’t want to turn this into a capital D discussion but as always my askbox and dms are open #love you all tons! i hope you’re having a good day 🫂🫶 #bella talks

[daz4i]

love my social worker he's so sweet and i love my mentor/guide/one day i'll find a fitting english word for what her role is too. last time i met the former he said they talked abt the thing i'm starting this thursday and said "while it feels like these circumstances may be impossible for you, logically speaking you shouldn't succeed there, yet both of us are certain you will" which is very nice but also AAAAAAAAAAAAA

#they're right like these ARE p much impossible circumstances for me #but i do think they think too highly of me and i'm definitely gonna disappoint them 🥲 #this was both assuring yet. like. pressuring. if that's the right word idk #ik there's the whole. 'what if i fail' 'but what if you don't' back and forth but genuinely. realistically speaking. i most likely will #i have never been able to maintain those daily structure stuff like school for example #and while i do hope that since this is only 4 short days a week (with a break in between 2 and 2) and smth i like doing - #- then i'll have an easier time. but. it's still gonna be so hard. #there's a reason i don't go out or wake up early ughhhhh it's bc i hate doing it. idk if theater would be enough to make up for that #and what if i don't like the people what if i don't get along with the directors what if i struggle with remembering lines or physicality #which will make it all so much harder and make the part i'm supposed to love unpleasant as well #what would i do then 🥲 #. why am i anxious about this rn. i have a tough day ahead of me for a different reason i should probably focus on first 🫠 #vent #sorryyyyyyy it's 1 am and i need to clear my brain out it seems #also maybe i want. advice. or encouragement. idek what i want. here. i don't wanna have to worry abt this but that's impossible ofc #(my mom told me today that she wants to tell me there's nothing to stress about but she knows that'll just be incorrect 😭 and she's right) #(dw she meant it nicely and gently as in she knew i'd just get mad at her for saying it lol. and i mean. again. gotta be realistic)

[muirneach]

CHECK OUT MY SHIRT !

#the best thing about my mom working in costumes is that she brings me home so much free clothing lmfao #like this is so so so swag. #rest assured i will be pulling up to everyy function in this #i don’t actually own any western shirts but ive alwayssss wanted one so YIPPEE #she said there was a leather fringe jacket and wouldn’t allow me to have it and i was like you hate my neil young swag :(??? #tbh i dont really like leather jackets idk so whatever but also… neily…