#rare ass personal post

[the-cimmerians]

right now it’s almost halfway through 2023, and 2024 is an election year in the US. I have started to see a growing proliferation of posts suggesting that there is no difference between the republican and democratic parties--the exact same kind of posts I saw an awful lot of before the last major election here. I am unfollowing folks who post or reblog these sort of posts, as I consider these posts to be fascist propaganda framed as leftist discourse, designed to suppress anti-fascist votes and voters. 

#US Politics #rare ass personal post #in support of an informed and engaged electorate #propaganda #please vote if you can #and please vote the whole ballot

[saturnniidae]

Hiccup got the kinda sensory and stimuli seeking autism where he actively enjoys loud noises as long as it's not people talking or yelling.

#crowd of people yelling or talking over each other? ❌️ #dragons roaring and loud flapping of wings? ✅️ #hiccup has tinnitus (starting from when toothless roared directly in his ear when they met) from all the loud ass dragons hes surrounded by #(modern au hiccup would too tbh but from like concerts and headphones probably 😭) #i personally hate all loud noise except music #this is one of the rare moments when hiccup is NOT me fr fr #httyd #rtte #hiccup haddock #autistic!hiccup #httyd headcanon #hiccup horrendous haddock iii #toothless #moth.txt #no i will not shut up abt autistic hiccup #this is the 2nd post today actually 😭 #followers n mutuals signed up for this tho 🙏🙏

[moobrvoobl-moobmoob-oobmpoobroom]

I just find it mind-boggling that some people will reblog things like “Anakin didn’t care about Rex and his men, he wouldn’t listen to Fives just because he was friends with Palpatine” and then in the next post be gushing over Rexwalker/Rexanidala like???? so you agree. Anakin does care about Rex?

#some people will literally hate on either Anakin or the Jedi council for reasons that explicitly contradict the point of the prequels #and then YOU'RE either toxically positive or condoning abuse for liking all the characters and having a nuanced view of things #the takes I mentioned in the body of this post literally wiped out the fact that Palpatine groomed and manipulated him for Years just so- #-they could say “wow the clones didn’t deserve what that horrible guy Anakin did to them” #me: okay. so you’re saying they didn’t deserve for him to show kindness and friendship and help reinforce the mindset of individuality they #-already had and that the majority of jedi encouraged because they are a group who treasure individuality and have compassion on everyone & #-all things??? #Anakin could be a shit person but he wasn’t to the clones and I will die on this hill #“he enslaved them” you’re pinning that on ANAKIN. a literal former slave. not the Republic or the Kaminoans? #he would have 0 reason to enslave them because he knows what that’s like. he’s been through that #why. WHY do people blame Anakin or the Jedi for 100% of everything going wrong instead of Palpatine. #you can blame Anakin for the choices he made and the Jedi Order for the oversights and legalism they started to have during the war #but enslavement of the clones??? not listening to Fives because of Palpatine??? #if you want to blame Anakin for the clones being slaves you have to blame the rest of the Jedi too #and we all know how rare it is for ‘Anakin antis’ to also be ‘Jedi order antis’ #quotation because there is a certain connotation and generalisation that comes with those phrases these days #I just don’t understand why Anakin is to blame for that specifically. blame him for being angry and violent and obsessive and turning to th #dark side logic+morals be damned to save one person yes but slavery??? he didn’t know about the chips and if he did you bet your ass he- #-would hate them just as much as the slave monitors on Tatooine #anyway #I want to see both sides of the debate i really do because some people have really good points on character motivations etc #but it’s getting ridiculous at this point. I always try to be a calm and positive space but some of y’all’s takes are contradictory bullshi #Fandom salt #swift talks #Swift rambles in the tags #vent #Jedi positive #meta #ish? #jedi positivity

[riftdancing]

haunt·ed (adjective) 1. inhabited or frequented by ghosts. a haunted castle. 2. preoccupied, as with emotion, memory, or idea; obsessed: His haunted imagination gave him no peace.

Unfortunately for me, it's both. It's been over two decades since you passed, but I still see you in the mirror every morning. Your judgement echoes in my ears and your haunting white eye continues to scrutinize my every move. My technique. Never quick enough. Foot work is always sloppy. Missed a spot cleaning that revolver barrel…

Was it love or obsession? Did you really love me, or were you chasing the remaining desire for my late Mother? I see her when I look in the mirror too. In my own reflection. In my features. I was not woman enough to be the daughter she wanted. I was not loyal enough for my Father's pride. I was not obedient enough for my Brother's care.

They all share your grave now.

Sometimes I feel ill when I miss you.

I remember when Father gave me to you. Like an object or a toy he'd discarded, something he'd grown bored of after I didn't fulfill his expectations. After I filled him with disappointment. I don't blame him entirely. After all I betrayed all of them. Not just the family… but the entire crew too. Even when he gave me to you, you didn't want me and I wanted nothing to do with you. I was a burden, but you made me useful. While Father ensured I'd never see the inside of another cockpit you honed me into a fine weapon. At first I hated you for it, but you taught me discipline and over time I learned how to be a ghost, just like you. Your very own protégé...

...But you are gone, and I still feel your gaze from behind. I still feel you watching when I look over my shoulder. When I am with someone new. Heckling me about having a particular type. That I am still soft. Vulnerable. Weak. Womanly. A hound ready to obey. Maybe I am.

He says it too and in many ways, he reminds me of you. He is one of the few people on this star who has proven to be worthy of my subordinance. But unlike our troubled past, he doesn't force me to be something or someone I don't want to be.

He is the catalyst to my healing.

He has taught me my choices are my own.

From now on I will no longer be a slave to my past.

((There's a bit of context in bullet points under the cut for this if it interests you but it's really raw because she's got a very long and complicated story as I've been writing her since 2011.))

Some bullet points on Blink's early history:

Blink was born into a life of Sky Piracy.

Her Father was the Sky Pirate Captain of the Harbingers.

His First Mate was a man named Judas, who was known in more public circles as a ghost-like assassin.

Blink fell in love with a pirate in a rival crew and tried to secretly elope with them. Her Father found out, he saw it as a huge betrayal, and sent Judas to hunt her and the lad down.

Judas killed the guy in front of her, brought her back to her Father.

Her Father disowned her after arranging her marriage to Judas (something neither of them wanted)

Judas viewed her as a burden, and basically decided when life gives you lemons, you turn them into your protégé and train them like a soldier.

This brought the pair of them closer over time… and as they'd both been screwed by the Crew's bullshit hierarchy and politics they decided to do something about it together.

Judas wound up fighting Blink's Father for Captaincy, and won. While it was supposed to be a fight to the death, he let the man still walk away with his life.

He was a good Captain for a while, with Blink as his First Mate and under the two the Crew had a prosperous window.

But, unfortunately her brother thought he was entitled to inheriting the title of Captain and was furious about Judas killing his Father. So eventually he wound up fighting Judas and killed him-- in front of Blink, taking up the role as Captain (and he was terrible at it.)

Blink wound up going into hiding for six years after this. There was some more trauma laced in this I won't get into. But when she surfaced again she had enlisted with Garlemald to become one of their soldiers. Which is a whole other arc I won't get into tonight. But… that's some context to this story/post.

Fast forwarding past the Garlemald years... I will at least say that Blink eventually wound up fighting to get the Harbingers back and served as their Captain for a good while (The crew's choice). It was basically the crew's golden years with her in the lead. However, eventually she decided it wasn't the life for her, so she wound up retiring to do piloting work and that's how she fell in with Firelight Trading Co. To this day, the Harbingers still revere her as their Captain even though she's passed that title on to someone she trusted.

But yeah, ask me about those Garlean years sometime... those are a doozy. Like an Event Horizon inspired arc through Void Ark... :|

#A very rare moment where I write in 1st person #God this character's been through it #She is a bad ass in her own right but this deals with her vulnerabilities #touches on coping with her past traumas #She's lost almost everyone she's ever cared about #So allowing herself to be close to Rex and the people in FTC has been a huge step in the right direction for her Character's healing proces #Anyway ask me about her enlistment with Garlemald post her Husband's death... that's a really fun time in her life too (/s) #riftdancing - screenshots #character - blink vaniro #riftdancing - writing #Let it be known though #this woman is tough as nails #side note: I had to summon all of my courage to put this out there #I accept her story isn't for everyone #but I love her and I love her *fiction*

[the-rogue-mockingjay]

The Scions' opinions of important political meetings and Alliance war councils, a thread:

Estinien: if Aymeric won't be there, okeydokey, whatever 👍 but if Aymeric WILL be there, absolutely not!! being subjected to questions like "my friend! what've you been up to?" and "how are you?" is more than he feels like dealing with tbh. also if he has to suffer Aymeric bullying him about his lack of money sense one more time he's dragoon jumping out the window

Krile: politics aren't my forte but if you need me to, I'll go :)

Alisaie: UUUUGGGHHHH [bangs head on table]

Alphinaud: this is his natural habitat. it is also where he's most powerful, so beware !!

Thancred: putting that PhD in espionage to good use and helping his friends/allies in so doing is good for his health (and his self-esteem)

Y'shtola: sometimes it's a tasty problem to chew on and sometimes it's just annoying. if Garlemald is involved, it's probably the latter

Urianger: he's been invited to exactly two meetings out of like 30 and only attended one (and showed up unannounced to another). he'd rather stay home and do nerd shit or go scouting with Thancred. we stan an introverted nerd king ✌️

G'raha Tia: just happy to be brought along for the ride ❤️ no situation is unbearable so long as he's by his inspiration's side 😊

O'ravi: [doodling chibis of her friends on the back of a report and scribbling hearts around them] wydm this is "work", i'm just hanging out with my boyfriend and my besties

#this post brought to you by: how elated i am every time the msq sends me to an alliance meeting #because it's the only time i get to see aymeric outside of frigging heavensward #and every time o'ravi joins one of those meetings it's brain empy no thoughts. she's just vibing #the world may be exploding and everything might be shit but look!! so many of her friends in one room!!!!! it calms her #(and distracts her. but you can't blame a girl- ayms and hien are super cute and she so rarely gets to talk to them in person) #(and she really looks up to raubahn and respects him much as she does her father. but she only sees him when shit hits the fan :c) #also the way raha is not too bothered by things and is just happy he's alive to see it even if it's bad is equally concerning and admirable #can't explain why tho #and estinien lurking in the background arms crossed listening and saying nothing is a whole ass mood lol. me too buddy. me too #ffxiv #scions of the seventh dawn #estinien varlineau #krile baldesion #alisaie leveilleur #alphinaud leveilleur #thancred waters #y'shtola rhul #urianger augurelt #g'raha tia #o'ravi soltholia

[soldier-poet-king]

'if you can't fast at least abstain from meat'

bro I am like 75% of the way to being a vegetarian already, asking me to do anything to my already weird rituals around food is asking for trouble

#uhhhhh #food issues cw #i guess??? #its more like. mental and sensory than eating disorder-y #but still #the duality of fran #its not even like i eat sweets everyday #i am literally happy to eat veggies cheese and bread. ancient rome ass meals ok. there isnt much left to cut out #i dont even put sugar in my coffee ffs #I RARELY DRINK ANYTHING BUT WATER AND COFFEE. like #there isnt much to GIVE UP here #ik food is the traditional thing but i have sosososo many problems with it #from a personal standpoint #and as i mentioned in my prev post. like theologically it just doesnt work for me. #not saying its wrong or untrue. it just. there are better worthier uses for prayer and meditation and sacrifice. imo. to me

[jessiesjaded]

most interesting popular accounts to me are the ones that just post stuff like gifsets or art or writing but never ever say anything, like no tag rambles, no personal posts, no opinions, no rants. im always like surely.... surely you have something to say....

#idgi #like its so boring yeah your posts are pretty or what have you but give me someone who talks and makes stuff only half as pretty #and im gonna prefer them bc i can see some personality behind it #idk maybe im just mean but its intriguing #esp since ive followed a bunch of blogs for the new thing im into and so many of them are like this #also on the rare occasions they do say stuff the posts never get notes #or replies and meanwhile they just posted a thanks for 9k followers post #i dont see the point of 9 thousand people if no one talks EVER #ALSO EVIDENTLY THEY WANT TO TALK BC MY ASS CANNOT BE STOPPED FROM REPLYING #and then they be out here following me even tho im some lil nobody so like #they must be like yay! someones talking! #again whats the point of this website if we dont reply and reblog and talk and have fun bro #see again this just makes me squint bc its like a lot of big influencer ig accs who just post perfectly edited pics and sell shit #and never say a word that could get in the way of a sponsorship #why are you acting like that on tumblr you dont even get money from being popualr here lmao

[todayisafridaynight]

if theres one thing that differentiates mine and sawashiro its that sawashiro is JUST a LITTLE silly. on a microscopic level he is SUPER MINUTELY goofy

#snap chats #LET ME EXPLAIN PUT THE TOMATO DOWN #Evidently rggjo is Blatantly more silly so to speak. from a comparative standpoint #but y7jo has a modicum of that i prommy #like mine just aint silly like that... he's very serious about everything its hard for me to think of him being a goof #the closest he was to being goofy was before slappin haruka with that grin ☠️ #i would never forget his story time with daigo in rggo dont you ever accuse me of that again im just saying ITSA RARE OCCURRENCE #it's hard to imagine sawashiro being a goof too but there's like. VERY rare scenarios where it is possible if we try hard enough #case in point. bullying ichi BYE-- #ACCIDENTALLY PROVING MY POINT WITH THAT TATTOO COMIC I DID damn maybe i do know what im talking about sometimes #like 3/4 times jo smiles it's with ichi. a wholesome sentiment if not for the context of each time LMAO #he gets his kicks from bullying ichi and thats horrible but hilarious at the same time #first time its before he slugs him and mitsu for the money then theres their lil reunion in chap 2 #and a PERSONAL favorite of mine his lil smirk he does before he grabs the sword off the wall. like hes a lil goofy i sense it #that smirk still makes me laugh like bro shut up LMAO hes about to beat my ass and im gonna be mad about it #like things mine does are surely silly and goofy dont get me wrong. his comedys unintentional sawashiro's trying JUST a lil me thinks #a classic maneuver from a depressed mfer this shouldnt be surprising in retrospect #i say that as if mine dont got issues....... lol... #ok im done rambling where the fuck am i gon with this post. bye

[soupacool]

I'm not trying to derail I am venting on my personal blog. No tags or hope for engagement or whatever.

But why the fuck am I seeing this sentiment popping up again and again today blaming transmascs in a situation where a cis man is being transmisogynistic? Why does this point get continuously reiterated? Like I know I have my own bubble but overwhelmingly transmascs are in support of the transfems on this site who are clearly facing a very transmisogynistic issue. But then to blame transmasculine people for disunity within the trans community when shifting blame on to us for something we are not responsible for?? I'm not saying that transmasc people cannot partake in transphobia and misogyny and transmisogyny but I dunno it just seems unnecessary to me in this moment.

This is not the main issue at hand. I am not pretending this is a bigger issue than the transmisogyny built into the systems of Tumblr and the internet and everything. But it is deeply frustrating to me

#also showing their whole ass with the whole 'tme means cis men too' with posts saying 'we should also be mad when tme people do this' #yes! you're right! we should be mad when people are transmisogynistic. but I thought it was already done by a tme person #according to the way transmascs get yelled at when we criticize that language #if someone has points against what I've said here I'm going to politely ask you to DM me for a conversation #cause if there's actually a good argument for these things I've yet to see it. it's so frequently vague posturing #like. it's so rarely backed up with any examples. or it's one trans guy doing bad shit that gets extrapolated to all of them #so like. I'll listen to an argument that's more convincing than that #anyways. once again this is bitching and moaning in my own space and nothing more than that

[oflgtfol]

it is so utterly insane to me the way i've had this like fundamental shift in my personality since i started therapy, started medication, and graduated college. i used to be so shy and quiet and awkward. it used to take me years of everyday interaction to begin to feel any sense of real friendship with anyone, and the idea of public speaking or small talk with strangers etc was enough to have me trembling and shaking

and now like. i'm doing public speaking. i'm doing small talk with strangers. at michaels i'm actually having conversations with customers whenever the mood hits because i like actually enjoy talking to people now? even if it's just small talk it's just nice to like, have a nice friendly conversation? if i need to confront someone now, for whatever reason, whether it's to ask a question or to politely ask them not to do something, nowadays i can actually do it, instead of being the living epitome of the coward end of the "he asked for no pickles" meme. now I'M the person saying "he asked for no pickles." i'm the one that my more shy coworkers turn to when the time comes. I'M the person being shoved at the shy coworkers to chat them up and get them to be more outgoing. I'M the one guiding the conversation asking questions and keeping people talking trying to get them to open up. literally never imagined myself like this

#fucking. when i was working at michaels on christmas eve i was there with two managers and a cashier #my fucking STORE MANAGER told ME to make the closing announcement - which we normally dont do but we were #doing it then since it was christmas eve and we were closing 3 hours early #like this GROWN ASS middle aged MAN cannot do public speaking over a loudspeaker so he asked ME to do it #AND I DID IT !!! #like in WHAT world am i the one being tasked with these things? and actually doing well with them? #or at my other job we have a high schooler who's like very. introverted i guess? #she isn't shy like once i talk to her she doesnt have any noticeable signs of discomfort when talking #it's just that like she very rarely initiates conversation #so i'm always the one being like hi so how was your week !! how's school going !! how's your college applications !! #talking to her and shit like I'M the one now responsible for chatting up the shy quiet coworkers #just a year or two ago /I/ was the shy quiet coworker who didnt speak unless spoken to #brot posts #delete soon #anywayz i was telling my therapist about this change in my personality and i literally used the no pickles meme as an analogy #unfortunately she has never seen that meme so it fell flat. LMAO

[the-cimmerians]

It's 2024. I have been participating in fandom for 40 years. This is a ramble commemorating some history I've experienced along the way.

In 1984, I attended my first convention, and made a beeline for the one long row of covered tables in the Dealer's Room that was, according to the whispered lore of my friends, 'the one'. "um", I said, very suavely and coherently, except for how it was totally the opposite of those things, "I'm here for the... for the, uh. For-"

"Come around here," the man behind the table said with exhausted ennui, so I went around, and he lifted up the table skirt next to him and pointed to rows and rows of boxes underneath the line of tables. "It's all under here."

It was all under there. Along with about five older ladies with glasses, graying hair, cardigans. Flipping through slash zines and chatting in whispered voices like old friends (which of course they were). I noticed one of them had the good sense to be wearing kneepads. I was still too young and ablebodied to need kneepads when crawling on a carpeted floor, but I immediately found her preparedness skills to be both impressive and hot. "You're new," one of the ladies whispered to me--a bit warily, which made sense. "Are you sure you're in the right place?"

In the faint light (the kneepads lady had also come prepared with a flashlight, additional practicality hotness points for her) I grabbed a comb-bound book with a heavy line art piece on the cover, featuring a musclebound Captain Kirk getting righteously and enthusiastically plowed by a stern-yet-ebullient Spock. "This," I said, pointing helpfully at the cover, like I was trying to make myself understood in a language I had only the vaguest knowledge of. "I'm here for this."

Outside at the convention, most of the attendees were wearing large homemade circular pins that shrieked 'K/S is BS!!!'1. But underneath the table, we reveled in the forbidden.

***

In 1985, I fell very hard for Starsky & Hutch fandom. Which was simply referred to at the time as 'the other fandom', because there were only two. We were upstarts. Many fannish elders predicted that it was just a phase.

***

The 'circulating library' was a massive stack of barely-legible pages that smelled strongly of mimeograph ink. When you were on the list, you would write stories while you waited for your turn, and when the big box was mailed to you, you would read everything (new finds, old favorites), add your own sloppily-typed or hastily-mimeographed stories, and then mail the whole thing to the next person. For me, at the time, it was an extremely expensive indulgence--but my favorite one.

***

By 1990, slash fandom had grown enough that I no longer knew everyone in it, which was both thrilling and a bit daunting. A young woman at a convention waited for me after a panel I was part of (I think it was 'writing impactful smut' or something like that), and said she had a question she didn't want to ask in a group setting. I'd heard that before. I said that's fine, go ahead and ask; and she came out with: "Why do you have to be gay?"

I blinked. "Is... that a problem?"

She looked annoyed. "Yes, because your stories are on all the recommendation lists and in all the top zines, but if you're gay and I read something you wrote and I get hot from it that makes me gay, and I'm not gay."

"Wow." I grinned, I couldn't help it. It probably made me look very predatory-dyke-about-to-score-a-toaster. Whatever, it was enough to make her back away from me fast.

When I thought about it later that night, I wondered what it would be like not to be the only queer person in slash fandom.

***

By 1997, slash started appearing on the internet. Many fannish elders claimed it was the death knell of slash fandom, or dismissed it as 'just a phase'.

***

Anyway, I wrote all this for myself as a commemoration of sorts, but if you took the time to read it--thank you. Love you, fandom. I always will.

1 In those days, m/m fandom was known as 'slash', which grew from the fannish shorthand where 'K&S' meant a story of Kirk and Spock having adventures or tribulations or what have you, and 'K/S' meant a story of Kirk and Spock getting it on (Kirk divided by Spock or Spock into Kirk--it was mathy fannish humor and I was into it then and I still am now). Slash was decidedly unpopular in the fannish world in 1984, and there was a concerted effort to force slash authors, artists, and fans out of 'mainstream' fannish public life. Hence, under the table.

#fannish shenanigans #fandom history #rare ass personal post

[ephemeral-winter]

oh i see i think the reason i did not enjoy oppenheimer as a film* aside from the script that was determined to hit you over the head with its underbaked moral reasoning and the obvious oscarbait biopic of it all is because it is so emphatically a film that demonstrates what the male gaze is as per mulvey's og theory. and i simply am just not interested in, like, any of that

*as a filmgoing experience i loved barbenheimer because i got to go to the movies all day with my friends while wearing a little outfit and i bought a diet coke that cost me eight american dollars and that is so beautiful to me

#obvs many people (twitter armchair critics) are noting that nolan has never known what to do with women and that IS true #and is i suppose part of the male gaze #but oppenheimer's stylistic novelty(?) as nolan has described it IS the 1st person POV #and THAT is the subjectivity i personally could care less about #anyway thank you to the person circulating that basic ass tumblr post from a few years ago explaining male gaze and death of the author #i understand my dislike now #rare pic of me in the wild

[hershelwidget]

This is forever going to be one the funniest Perry x Stew images because it’s literally just Stew thinking about kissing their spouse and I love it so much and it came from Gartic Phone which makes it evEN BETTER

I THINK ABOUT THIS VERY OFTEN YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND

I LOVE THEM I LOVE PERRY X STEW IT IS THE BEST (canon) PAIRING IN THE ENTIRE STORY

#i'm ok i swear- #the ballad of cold island #nobody ask why im posting this so suddenly #NOBODY ASK ANY QUESTONS- #ok actually y'know what you can ask. but my answers will be incoherent #my singing monsters #warning!!! gay ass robots kiss!!! #also the 'best pairing' is not entirely true as thats subject to opinion #me personally? their marriage is everything I want in romance #interested to see if theres any other ships honestly- #rare wubbox #jumpscaring the rw tag with this #we scarcely use the wubbox tags so this should be a real surprise hehehehe- #ANYWAYS. THEM YOUR HONOR

[deviousdayz]

I’ve decided to place more value on myself and that means I have to stop tolerating people who treat me like an idiot !

And who treat me like I’m subpar, or are nice to everyone but me. Or who try to get others to laugh at me and not with me

#one of my friends is always up my ass #all the fucking time #and is rarely nice or normal to me and treats me like a fucking idiot #but we’re in a group chat so it’s hard to have the conversations because I don’t want to make things awkward #but I’ve really seriously had enough I don’t need to keep someone around who can’t even act like they like me #ugh #and I keep telling myself I’m overreacting about her but I’ve been saying that for years #I have no clue how to be taken seriously in the conversations and I don’t want to break up the group bc I can’t handle her shit #man #:/ and I don’t even know what tf I did #she’s just so much nicer to the other people in the gc but never to me #personal post #early’s vent tag

[luciality]

me when shopping: hm i should buy allie something. she would like this.

#shut up luci #delete later #got many books. waifu time. #might post my b&n haul bc its soooo rare i go to b&n #stupid expensive ass store. all my fav indie bookstores are closed atm so when my sorrow struck and i knew i had to shop. i picked b&n #the instant gratification of in person shopping cures all ailments

[always-a-slut-4-ghouls]

Man, even if they cured covid tomorrow I would still bring a mask with me in winter. That and a hat is like wearing a balaclava that it easy to take off once inside. Even though I wear n-95s now I’m still going to be wearing a cloth one on top this winter because when it’s -18 degrees Fahrenheit (around -27 for you Celsius people) and you have a cloth mask on my skin feels so much less burning and my throat stings less. I don’t know why we didn’t think of this combination sooner but man, I’m not stopping it this winter

#emma posts #i would wear an actual balaclava when doing outdoor activities and snowmobiling. obviously. #but just walking somewhere close by? amazing #global warming might be giving us more days that peel your skin off but I’m winning this one #I mean. we’ve always had cold af winters but school used to be dismissed when it was like-25 or -30 and windy #now schools are like ‘hmm. idk. how many of these days are we going to have?’ #we used to get really fucking cold sometimes but it was mostly just fucking cold #I hate global warming summers more though #my ass has no heat resistance and will melt on the spot and die #you can only take off so many layers. you can put on significantly more #I joke about melting and dying but I’ve actually gotten pretty close a few times 😅 #makes a person like summ a little less :/ #there is a reason I prefer to either be air conditioned or in water #luckily we have a lot of water here #those 110+ days will kill you faster than you realize #we rarely had those in the past but now we often get at least a few each year #and when you are on pavement in that weather? die #make sure you get electrolytes too! I wasn’t as familiar with heat as I was with cold and I really fucked my self up by only drinking #a bunch of water! we get winter survival training as kids but no one went over extreme heat when I was younger #normal heat. sure. but now it is frequently worse #it is hell but at least where I live is famous for lakes #drought is worse though. sometimes rivers dry up so much you can walk through them without getting your thighs wet