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secretkittywolf · 3 months

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More Unawareshipping incorrect quotes

Thought that these two deserve more!

Ryoga: What do you want to be for Halloween? Astral: Yours Ryoga: Ryoga: …yeah, that would be pretty scary

Ryoga: I'm so cool. I'm a badass. I am the epitome of coolness and awesomeness— Astral: Hi Ryoga: *melts down in a flustered heap of softness*

Ryoga: Hey, random question, what are your favorite flowers? Astral: Peonies, why? Ryoga: Astral: Were you going to get me flowers? Ryoga: Astral: Ryoga: ᶦᵗ’ˢ ᵃ ᵖᵒˢˢᶦᵇᶦˡᶦᵗʸ

Ryoga: Cause your pretty and your smart, and your ignoring me so your obviously my type Astral, who was distracted: I'm sorry- what were you saying? Ryoga: Perfect

Ryoga: Are we fighting or flirting? Astral: I'm pinning you against a wall with my hand around your neck- Ryoga: Your point?

Ryoga: Talk dirty to me~ Astral: Inflation is a serious problem and lumber prices are at a high Ryoga: Wha- Astral: The economy is in shambles

Astral: That was so hot, Ryoga Ryoga: I literally called the person who just flirted with you a degenterate dog and told them I hope they get dragged through the streets Astral: I'm so in love with you

Ryoga, throwing their head into Astral lap: Tell me I'm pretty! Astral, lovingly stroking their hair: You're pretty fucking annoying, that's what you are

Astral: Look at me straight in the eyes and tell me the truth, Ryoga! Ryoga: You can’t expect me to look into your eyes and be straight

Astral: I think I just figured something out. I got to go Ryoga: Aren't you forgetting something? Astral: Uhh...*hesitantly kisses Ryoga's forehead before flying out* Ryoga: No, pay your bill! Damn, who raised you?

Ryoga: I have feelings for you Astral: Why? What's wrong with you? Are you sure you're okay?

Ryoga: Valentine’s day is just a consumerist holiday that holds no real value other than drive people insane buying heart shaped chocolates for their significant others and pos- Astral: I wrote you a poem Ryoga, already crying: You did?

Astral: Are you sure Ryoga's even gay? They barely even looked at me

Ryoga: Crushes are the worst. Whenever I’m near mine, I start acting stupid Astral: You always act stupid Astral: Astral: Wait...

Ryoga: I think I'm falling for you Astral: Then get up

*Astral and Ryoga are in Paris.* Astral: I'm...moved. I...I don't know what it is I'm feeling right now. I feel...destiny? Ryoga: But... Astral: I don't know what it is. I feel like... I just never thought I'd see it with my own two eyes. And here it is. It's just there. It's right in front of me, and... Ryoga: This is what you wanted to see? The bridge from the ESPer Robin movie? Astral: Yeah Ryoga: But the Eiffel Tower is behind us, babe Astral: Yeah, but this is the bridge FROM ESPER ROBIN'S MOVIE! Ryoga: Okay, alright

Astral: I want to kiss you Ryoga, not paying attention: What? Astral: I said if you die, I wont miss you

Astral: Is something burning? Ryoga, leaning seductively on the counter: Just my desire for you~ Astral: Ryoga, the toaster is literally on fire

Ryoga, talking about Astral to Yuma: WHAT THE FUCK?! I WAS ARGUING WITH THEM AND I SAID “OOH YOU WANNA KISS ME SO BAD” AND GUESS WHAT? THEY DID. THEY KISSED ME! WHAT THE FUCK? WHAT DO I DO?!

Astral: Do you want to know your gay name? Ryoga: My… my gay name? Astral: Yeah, it's your first name- Ryoga: Haha. Very funny Astral- Astral: gets down on one knee And my last name Ryoga: Oh- oh my god…. Wait- Since when did you have a last name? Astral: Don't ruin the moment

Ryoga: This date is boring! Astral: This isn't a date. I said I was going to the store Ryoga: Then why did you invite me? Astral: I didnt, I specifically said "don't come with me," then you said, "fuck you Astral I'll do whatever I want!

Astral: How much did you spend on this date? Ryoga: $1400. But all of it's on credit cards, so it's like $5 a month for the next 2,000 years

Astral: The stars are so beautiful... Ryoga: They're just giant balls of gas Astral: You know what, if you're just going to ruin this, then- Ryoga: And yet none of them are as huge as my love for you Astral: Oh...

Ryoga: *angrily presses Astral against a wall* WHERE'S THE MONEY?! Astral: ... Astral: Are we about to kiss-

Ryoga: Two brooooos! Astral: Chillin' in a hot tub! Ryoga: Five feet apart 'cause we're not gay! Astral: Ryoga: Astral: *tearing up* Ryoga: Babe, c'mon... Astral: AND HERE YOU REALLY HAD ME THINKING WE HAD SOMETHING! Ryoga: Babe...

Ryoga: Stop doing that Astral: Stop doing what?Ryoga: Saying things that make me wanna kiss the hell out of you

#ygo zexal #yugioh zexal #ryoga kamishiro #reginald kastle #astral zexal #unawareshipping

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gentrychild · 1 year

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Hey! So can I please ask you a question what do you think about Afo's plan to crash the world economy and be the ultimate source of every natural resource? Even though he said that there's more to this plan,it still seems awfully ludicrous, for the first part crashing the world economy is not easy even if Afo's minions are attacking all over the world it still won't be enough,more importantly Aayoma himself mentioned how even when their society was completely in shambles his lawyers were still on the job same goes for the media outlets, take the COVID situation for example the world was in technically on a pause for months, and there were obvious hiccups but the economy as a whole didn't crash and Afo can't possibly plan to constantly attack people until be achieves that cause then there would be literally nothing left for him to be the demon king off , secondly his plan to be the ultimate source is just so what can I say more stupid than what a five year old would come up with for world domination? quirk exhaustion is a cannon and established term for a reason,so there could be two conclusions either Afo is completely bullshitting about his so called ultimate goal or i am giving all of it a little too much thought, cause all the jokes aside if Afo truly plans to do this in all his manipulating,'i always think twelve steps ahead ' glory that man should have died two centuries ago! Anywho's I apologise for the ramblings,thank you for being yourself (⁠ʘ⁠ᴗ⁠ʘ⁠✿⁠)

AFO's ultimate plan to crash the world economy and to become the ultimate source of natural resources is the dumbest thing someone could come with if they want to be an evil overlord or even a reasonably well off tyrant.

He can crash the economy all he wants but when left with nothing, odds that people are going to use their quirks like crazy in order to survive. He isn't the only one with water quirks, electricity quirks, and so on. People will evolve and will adapt and will get on without his help because, between depending on neighbors and people who aren't megalomaniacs and the guy who unironically calls themselves a demon lord, people are going to pick the former.

And if you had told me about a story when one people is in charge of being the resource for the WHOLE WORLD, I would have called that a fate worse than death. If he had said that his plan was limited to one city, I would have said "Why not but he is going to need naps." but a whole country, let alone the world, is stretching it, unless said country is the Vatican.

What makes more sense is if he is planning to use the noumu in order to make them produce all those resources (especially as he can clone quirks with Garaki's help) but even then, they guy simply doesn't have the numbers. If Garaki immediately get back to work and start churning noumus, maybe he can do that with Japan but the whole world? I don't think so.

Unless he plans to seriously decrease the world population but 1. so much energy expanded for no gains 2. That's a sure way to have the entire world foaming at the mouth and beat you to death. No one is stronger than a really pissed off mob.

And it's especially dumb as All for One is someone who lived through the Dawn of Quirks. He should know that society going into chaos isn't enough to completely crumble an economy. The world changes and adapts.

So either he is definitely past his living permit as old age took one hell of a price on his brain or this is what he told the rich people who are scared to live without access to all of their luxuries.

#bnha asks #bnha manga spoilers

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emp-blast · 3 months

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No wifi anon here; tldr, I applied at a McDonald’s and I am in absolute shambles (not in a bad way)! The location near me has you take a personality assessment and they told me that I scored as too much of a recluse to be considered for employment?? I want to be sad about it but that’s just super hecking funny to me ٩( ᐛ )و

Noooo 😭

Sorry that happened Anon! It is kinda funnie tho,,,

HOWEVER! It's okay to lie on assessments and even your resume, I promise. We live in an employer controlled economy right now, meaning companies CAN and WILL be picky with who they hire.

I highly encourage people to lie on entry level positions. Don't have your high school diploma? That's okay just lie and put it on your resume. Wanna know why you can do that? Because for the several jobs that I have applied + gotten, NOBODY has ever asked me for proof of having a diploma. While I do have mine, I know a lot of people are scared or discouraged to apply since 90% of jobs require one. But they literally don't ask for proof I promise it'll be okay.

And you can lie on a bunch of different things. On my resume, under my skills section, I have that I am "Able to work Microsoft 365/Office/Suite programs" or something to that extent. Now, it's not that I can't use these things, but rather that I am nowhere near an expert on them. But I put it there because I know I can just look up a tutorial on youtube lol.

Finally, try to embellish your experiences! Take any little thing and make it into something big! This is just to make yourself look more impressive so that you can get a job that'll be a stepping stone into your career. Then you can take off those tiny experiences and replace them with new ones you get.

Sorry if this was umprompted btw Anon 😭

Just trying to share my experiences with what works and what doesn't. And this is advice that everyone should consider if they're having a hard time getting their foot in the door.

#mailbox #but it's CRAZIE how corporations will expect SO MUCH for such low pay. fast food workers and retail workers need $20 MINIMUM.#also like i said before. a small paycheck is better than none #i got humbled real quick when I went from $20 working with families in a job that i loved (after having no previous paid work experience)#to going to $14.45 in a fast food restaurant getting up at 3am just so i could get to work on time at 4am...#it's tough but things happen!#we all go through it but it'll get better eventually i promise

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seth-shitposts · 6 months

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Bit of a rant 🥲 mostly related to the work field and people's bs.

Anyone who says no one wants to work anymore SHUT THE FUCK UP. /not kindly.

I'm not even going to be touching on the fact that a lot of jobs aren't paying livable wages or that many people have to work multiple jobs just to still not make ends meet. I've seen many people touch on that multiple times.

What I am going to be throwing against the wall because I am so frustrated I might start crying as I'm desperately trying to figure out what a cover letter is and what I need to put on it that isn't already in my fucking resume AND to tailor it to the specific company I'm applying to JUST to use this specific cover ONCE for job that isn't even about office type work (I'm trying to apply to be a waiter. A waiter, and they're asking for the whole nineyards for me explain why I am suited for the position. A position that I genuinely LOVE to do. I utterly adore it.). I will also be touching on the process as well.

I am very much in the younger end of the spectrum of the work force. And the people I work with, work for, and serve on a day to day basis are all very much not.

A common thing I've had to hear people say CONTINIOUSLY is how kids don't want to work these days. How young adults don't want to work. No one wants to work. No one has any ambitions or work ethic. They don't care. How there are all these places desperately trying to fill positions but no one is applying. Because the young ones don't want to work. They're lazy. Want things handed to them.

These are all things that have been said to me, most of time with an added "You're different, you're so good, you're such a hard worker unlike *blah blah blah Ignorant babble and using the younger generation as a scape goat rather than looking at the shambles of our economy and how we got here in the first place with any sort of critical thought*".

And it pisses me off every time. I get livid over it. Obviously not to their face, I have a lot of repressed anger. This just adds to it.

Because not only is there the consistent issues that are common and I've heard talked about such as these jobs literally are not paying the bills.

But in my personal experience

Who. Who is desperately hiring?

Because it obviously isn't any of the places I've been spending my time desperately applying to.

Back in the beginning of the pandemic, we had spent MONTHS applying to DOZENS of places.

Not a single one of them got back to us.

We were pretty much ghosted. Never even got the rejection. Just silence.

The only reason why we were able to get a second job is because someone who was a friend of our parent's put in a word for us to a local restaurant that happened to be hiring. And we had that for a while.

And now we find ourselves in the EXACT same situation of we only have one part time now and desperately need another. Not just for bills but also because we are experiencing health problems that need to be taken care of but the insurance doesn't want to cover shit so it's going to be HUNDREDS of dollars out of pocket. And I can't have any of these appointments until we have another source of income.

So for almost the past two months, we have been applying to places and applying to places. Trying to find work that we could feasibly and realistically do as a disabled person.

I've been told about how the process used to work that was much more across the board than it is now. I've been told by older people in the workforce, people I work with, for, and serve that it used to be simpler. If a place was hiring, you would go in and say you were interested and pretty much hired on the spot.

Every job I've had so far has been like that. But I can't find any other places that do that. If I could, I would not be having the issues I am right now.

I have to go online. If there's a place with a hiring sign, we are usually always directed to "go apply online or text [blank] to [number]".

And then there's the online application. Sometimes there's meaningless questions that don't have anything to do with the jobs. I've had to do personality tests. Tailor and retailor the resume to fit more into the specific companies.

I've been studying relentless on how to perform and have been scripting for the interview process. Because in the interview process they basically just want us to give them our resume in a verbal format. And my responses have to be in what is considered a timely manner. Which is so immensely difficult for us because we have an absolute horrid delay in our processing. It's a major part of our disability, as is the fact that we have an immense issue with coming up with on-the-spot verbal responses. It's a mix of situational mutism and other speech and communication difficulties that come along with being autistic. So we have to put much more effort into preparing and trying to guess every possible thing that may come up.

I cannot tell you how much I hate the "tell me about a time when" questions. I would much rather just tell them how I would handle the situations they are asking for. Because of our amnesiac barriers, we have a limited amount of memories. And there aren't enough memories in the collective access for us to be able to answer these questions the way they want us to answer them. And not even to mention the fact that because we are on a the younger end of the work force spectrum, we havent had any of these experiences in the 6 years we've worked to be able to answer some of these scenarios.

So that's another thing I'm having to work on scripting.

And even then I feel like I'm having to partially lie in these responses because I don't have memories to answer the "tell me a time when". I'm having to make up scenarios so I can accurately answer what we would realistically do in these scenarios and that is the proper response they are looking for by asking a vague question that does not imply in the slightest what they are really asking. And I have to go over these again and again and again beforehand so that if I'm not the one fronting, at least a good enough portion of it made it into the collective memory access for which ever co-pilot is fronting to be able to float them along convincingly enough that we answered the question correctly and as accurately as possible.

And I have to put in all that effort just to STILL either not get a response and be left with no way of reaching out to check in OR do get a response of "we appreciate your interest, but we've selected someone else :)"

And now I'm trying to figure out what the fuck a cover letter is, write one out, and add it to the application for a local restaurant chain so I can finish the application.

A cover letter that is going to be used once. That, while may help with making my application stand out and may help convince them that I'm a good fit and I am exactly what they're looking for- ultimately still doesn't have anything to do with the job itself. It's a pointless addition and feels like busy work for a job that we still might not even get fucking hired for no matter how much I want to the job, am good at the job, need the job, am exactly what they're looking for, or how hard I work into trying to get the job.

And I have to rinse and repeat this same process CONSTANTLY. It's fucking exhausting.

So yeah. Every time I hear someone over the age of 45 say the phrase "no one wants to work anymore" with their whole chest, I very much do want to shove my foot up their ass.

And then there's the fact that I do take pride in my work. I pride myself over our reliability and our work ethic. When we have a job, we seek to fulfill that job out, do exceptional work. Do our best to commit to a successful outcome, to help our coworkers. Make sure they're also taken care of. Help in making ensuring a shift runs smoothly. And I am personally thrilled when a shift gets busy. I love the workload and the speed that ties in with our accuracy.

So when someone will look my in my eyes and try and imply that I'm simply just not trying hard enough. Yeah. Let's take this outside after my shift, bestie. Tell me about how I've never worked a day in my life and have no work ethic.

#“no one wants to work anymore”#stfu

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chaos-event-horizon · 1 year

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Toshinori has a lot of swag, I like his two forms, but I don’t know much about MHA, what’s he like in canon? What drew you to him?

Toshinori: Never once in my life has anyone ever told me I have "swag" before. That's a new one...

Admittedly, this might be the wrong place to hang out if you're looking for the "canon" version of me. We're very different people. That guy is a righteous savior who dedicated his life, his health, and the very basis of his self-worth to the ideal of "heroism"... I, on the other hand, am a crass and wily bastard who dedicates myself to eradicating corruption within the system built up on so-called heroes and the "justice" used to line the pockets of those who already have too much. He's a beacon of light and a pillar of society, while I run around the shadows weakening the walls that block the corruption from the view of the public.

My timeline is one where All For One has basically won. The government is in his hands. The economy is in shambles. Most heroes are in bed with banks and businesses. I lead a group of Vigilante "villains" who oppose that disgusting version of "justice", and work to burn out the infection, just like my predecessors did before me. I have underlings like Mistress Midnight, The Nighteye, a young man I rescued from All For One who keeps the name of "Shigaraki", and a pet assassin who calls himself Stain. I also have other allies, such as the prickly Eraserhead and a guy we call The Host who runs an underground network of radio shows.

...That's not even to mention my family. Rian, who seems to trust me and follow me no matter what kind of universe we end up in, and has a hot ass and a hidden smile. Personally I have no idea what draws him to me, except that our senses of justice and dream of a better world line up. We live, we love, we have great sex, we exist. I save him in many ways, but he also saves me. Then there's our daughter, the symbol of the peace and love we want to see in the world. Our adopted son Izuku is a bright young man who can change the hearts and minds of anyone he talks to, who I've passed my power onto because I can sense that the world is changing, and someone like me who incites fear isn't what the future needs.

That All Might and I are the same, but different. He's an upstanding figure who's training young heroes to save the world, and I'm a rolling cloud of thunder and lightning that lights up the things hidden in the night so people can make judgements on how to weather the storm.

TLDR: Canon All Might is a Dad, and I'm a Daddy.

#Toshinori: the fact that i wrote out that whole speech just to end it on that joke should tell you everythjng you need to know.#smitespace #this counts as lore.#mightspace #important

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passive-poet · 2 months

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a list of things that are fucking me up and I need to put it somewhere:

the fact that the only friend I have in my homeschool group is leaving

no matter what I do as of late, my mom only thinks of me as a spoiled, entitled brat. She comes home and I see she’s stressed, so I try to ask her what’s wrong and give her a hug? “My kids hate me.” I try to start taking on more personal responsibility, because she’s expressed that she feels run over? “I can’t believe I raised such spoiled brats.” it’s fucking exhausting to be around her right now

I’m so exhausted. physically, mentally, emotionally… I want to cry because there’s no reason I should feel like this. I am so blessed to live in this nice house, never have to worry about food, and have two parents who love me so much they got me the cat they swore they’d never let me have. All because they saw my suffering and loneliness. But I’m so fucking stressed about everything and I just want it to end.

I’m never getting my old friendships back. Whether that’s for the better, I have no clue. But it sucks. And I feel like I suck.

I feel fatigued, and my body aches, but every single time I bring it up I’m told to fix my diet and exercise. Okay, so even if it is that, then help me!! You’re my parents, tell me where to start!! I’m still a kid and I need you!! Don’t just fucking write me off like that without giving me a hand!!

I’m going to have to switch medications and my mom is saying she doesn’t want me on stimulants. I’m already in shambles over the fact that I will be missing out on easy mornings, but what will this new medication do?? Will I lose all appetite again? I’m already underweight I can’t afford to lose another 16 lbs like last time. Will my anxiety increase? Are my tremors going to worsen again? Will I go through those mood swings where I hit 3:00 pm and want to punch a wall?? I’m terrified of how this will affect my already fragile mental state.

the economy. I don’t need to elaborate we’re all experiencing it.

#ollie rambles #ollie originals #vent post #tw weight #long post #mental health

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goofeyflowers · 2 years

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Rant About My Roommate’s Friend - Advice Wanted Pls :^(

My Roommate who we will call N has been living here before my partner and I, we moved in with him. So I’ve been trying really hard to be okay with the friends of his he brings to our apartment. But it’s incredibly hard to even be in the same room as his friend who we will call Z. The moment I met Z, he just started talking at me. Not to me. Not with me. Just AT me. I opened the door and he introduced himself to me as N’s friend who was going to join DnD tonight and then immediately started talking to me about how he lives with his dad, the economy is in shambles, socialism is THE answer and that capitalism is okay but only when it’s done right and have you seen Star Wars? Because ther…

He wouldn’t have even known my name if I hadn’t said it right before hiding in my room. I said it as clearly as I could, trying to get my words out before he spoke over them, and introduced my self as Dakota, S’s BOYFRIEND.

When my partner (S) & N had gotten home from work they asked if I would help them bring down the trash so they could take it out. The moment I come out of the room, Z makes sure to tell me how bored he is and how his phone doesn’t have much data because he’s poor it’s the economy’s fault and do you know where the remote is?? I told him the remote was my N’s phone because the TV belonged to N and N had lost it. He still acts like it’s my fault somehow. Maybe for not telling him? But he wouldn’t let me get a word in edge-wise, not even to say my name AND he wasn’t my guest so I didn’t see it as my responsibility, especially when my social battery was already low and I needed to recharge before DnD and he kept speaking over me.

That night at DnD he misgendered me and my character both repeatedly and I kept correcting him and so did S and he just didn’t get it. I felt very unimportant and excluded all session because tho things tend to get chaotic and that just sometimes happens with DnD, I could tell that Z valued my opinions less because he saw me as a woman. I came to this conclusion after realizing he wasn’t doing it to anyone else who were all masculine amab male presenting. It was also very apparent in his vibes & overall interactions that I was just Some Girl to him.

It was hard getting through the first few times we all hung out but eventually I put Z in his place by making sure I be included and by continuing to speak louder and louder every time he tried to interrupt me or invalidate what I was in the middle of saying. He also started correctly gendering me way more after S & N talked to him about it. But I still found him really difficult, as he NEVER asked anyone about their own life or experiences and demanded everyone else listen to HIS interests, play HIS game of choice, and his choices always had to be seen as the right choice or else he was going to sulk and pout about it. One night after S & N had gone to bed, Z was still awake as well as our other roommate, another one of N’s friends, and myself. But the friend and roommate both quickly went to bed because Z wouldn’t let them talk about anything other than this game he was showing them that they clearly had no interest in. He managed to make them both feel excluded and uncomfortable while talking non stop about his computer game that was Not Multi-Player and not letting them get a word in about anything else. The only reason I even know is because I was doing dishes while this was happening.

I then noticed that he was staying whole days here, 24 hours at a time and barely eating. He said he didn’t want to feel rude by eating any of our groceries. And the fact of the matter is that S and I are literally so poor right now that we have no food or groceries to share, as I am disabled and can’t work at all anymore due to my disability suddenly getting way worse. I had assumed N gave Z clear boundaries on what he could and could not eat, but apparently he didn’t at all. So I offered Z a baked potato while I was making one for myself, and suddenly Z feels much more comfortable getting into our refrigerator and cabinets. It’s concerning because I have no way of knowing if he’s eating the little bit of our food we have.

But what really tipped me over the edge, is that N invited Z unexpectedly and I NEVER know when Z is coming by and can NEVER mentally prepare. He just Shows Up. And that would’ve been fine, but Z started talking about how he’s going to start helping with the dishes and the trash. And that pissed. Me. Off. Because he comes here and complains about how he lives with his dad and can’t 420 over there 24/7 and then he wants to come here and act like he lives here? I need him to know that he doesn’t live here. And I would literally rather move home than be imprisoned in the same fucking apartment as him 24/7. He doesn’t even have his own car and I can barely drive because of my condition, we’d be stuck here together constantly and I already don’t feel at home with my other two roommates. :^((

I have been anxious and stressed all night since he got here and when S came to check on me, I told them I was fine because they left the door wide opened and I was really anxious for anyone else to hear that I was upset. It’d be really obvious that it was about Z and I had just disappeared without telling anyone. Now I’ve been shaking, sweating, clenching my jaw and dealing with a headache for the past hour and I don’t know how to calm down.

I plan on talking to N about it but I can’t until Z leaves and I have no idea when that will be. Advice??? Someone help please?? Message me or send asks plssssss :^(((((((

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nochiquinn · 2 years

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legend of vox machina episode 3: the feast of realms OR mercy machine broken

this is my THIRD time watching this, first w/mala right before the stream last night and then on my tv this morning bc I Could and now for this

the moment I realized what this was I just started going "oh. oh no. oh NO."

ptsd dreams really do be like this

also what kind of bloodborne-ass outfits

mask: happen me: I don't LIKE IT

"bad dream?" "is there any other kind?" while INCREDIBLY emo also means this is pretty much the only dream percy ever has, no wonder he never sleeps

the run-down old keep they were given vs grayskull being built for them

idk, something something thematically appropriate

PIGEONS

"seven to two" grog can only count when it's funny

percy in a shirt and vest is v nice

"maybe you should cut loose once in a while" remember you said that vex

I love vex's "oh shit, that's tonight"

see I didn't like scanlan going after pike in the stream so much bc he was so Scanlan about it but with the benefit of hindsight and character development him ONLY knowing how to Be Scanlan About It and that just not working on pike is much more fun to watch

percy: I swear I won't let them nutcheck a diplomat

(edit from the future: oops)

travis had way too much fun with grog's sobbing

so glad we got to work sam's live show costumes in

(grog's getup just makes me think of the wedding oneshot - "this is the most clothes I've ever worn in my life!")

vax probably having had pRoToCol drilled into him when they were living in syngorn and actively refusing to utilize any of it out of spite

(percy teaching them all things he started learning when he was in diapers and unconsciously imitatng his parents, only realizing what he said the moment after he said it and struggling not to visibly react)

all of the Elf Matts are the same character. he has 5 jobs bc the emon economy (emonomy) is in shambles.

his name is still matt but now it's short for matt'hew

kraghammer reference!!

I enjoy scanlan's eyeshadow

"or, y'know, do whatever" I don't know what you expected

"doofus."

I know the side-by-sides of this and taliesin the first time the name was said on-stream already exist but GOD the fisheye lens is the perfect representation of that

....was this on purpose. did they do this as a little "tee-hee giggle foreshadowing no one will ever see" moment or did I just pause in EXACTLY the right place

him instinctively going for his gun

making a safeword makes NO SENSE here bc they don't have the earrings but they couldn't not address "jenga"

like what was vax gonna do, scream it down the stairs (probably)

this is how I pictured allura all the time, with the one big braid and the cape and shit

I started re-watching the briarwoods arc in like october and I STILL forgot percy was disguised as vax. but they also took out vax's immediately-discarded plan with assum and also moved when percy told them everything, so it wouldn't have made sense

also percy just sitting across from them SEETHING for the whole meal, forgetting his manners (ha) even though he's the one who pestered everyone else about them so much

honestly it's probably only due to pRoToCoL that he didn't just jump over the table and start trying to choke delilah out with his bare hands

percy's little eye twitch

pike you have the worst stealth rolls in the game, why did you think that would work

(mala: that never stopped her from trying!)

(also I want whatever they're eating)

"walk over to the briarwoods, say hello to break the ice, and then punch them in the face"

love seeing vax's stealth actually in action

SIMON

he has an EYEPATCH

am I starving or does that steak look fucking AMAZING

I know he's charming uriel but please imagine what this looks like without context

just sensually stroking the king's hand all "haha nooo don't send troops to whitestone ur so sexy"

still absolutely baffled by the decision to include the twins' surname on the posters when they have not once used it in the show. and like yes it's only episode 3 but if vex was ever gonna leverage it I'd imagine it would be here? make it clear she Knows Somebody so delilah can't shrug her off without risking actual consequences?

fully believe the "beads" conversation is based on something that actually happened between sam and marisha

...keyleth would ONLY know what anal beads are because of scanlan, wouldn't she

NO vax you take everything out NEATLY so you can put it back without it being obvious it was moved

I want a pop-up altar >:(

ha, residuum d20 on the side table

...and what I assume have to be eyeballs

percy you were being baited :(

grog and pike holding onto percy :(

YES percy finally got the anime eyeshine he deserved BUT it just looked like they used the fill tool on his glasses

the only thing I would add here would maybe be a couple of flashes of the dream from the beginning of the episode, just to tie what he's saying more firmly to his night terrors. a pause to give the "murdered my entire family" slightly more punch.

stop staring at the firEPLACE VAX

something something parallels between vax and percy instinctively reaching for their weapons

"gosh you guys are good-looking"

I know it was a desperation move but I don't know why even in a panic vax thought he could barrel past sylas. look at him.

"plus he's got the squirts!"

according to the cast live-tweets sam dropped these songs on them completely unprepared. just showed up in the booth with them.

I've said this in like two other places but matt took sylas as his main role so he wouldn't have to give up flirting with liam

I know twinsense is an overplpayed trope but. twinsense.

pike just throwing grog at every problem they have in this episode

"C'MERE FUCKSTICK"

would also have loved vax's "keyleth, beautiful under the trees" death vision but it really would have felt out of place without 100+ hours of buildup lmao

keyleth getting punched out of wildshape was really smoothly animated

percy unjamming his gun in the background while vex shoots at delilah

"NO ONE KILLS VAX BUT ME" we love a pair of besties

"thanks, pickle" lays in the floor and cries

vax and pike are one of my favorite dynamics, so glad there'll be more chances for it

percy: [shoots silas in the shoulder] grog: :D sylas: [heals] grog: D:

BACON EDGE

'cause all craven edge ever has to do is death of a thousand cuts, even a little blood makes it embiggen

oh the mood whiplash

enjoy this way of showing a concentration spell

(I do not know what this would be, though. bless? is bless concentration? it's been 84 years)

keyleth's Panic Vines

desmond didn't deserve that. or anything that's about to happen to him.

"come visit sometime, percy! you're always welcome back home~" GOD she's such a BITCH

this is presumably the first time percy has truly *yelled* at any of them - been short-tempered and cranky and insufferable maybe, but not the way he is here, and definitely not at keyleth, and ESPECIALLY not for saving his life

a little bit orthax, a little bit trauma

also: pike :(

GOD whatever taliesin is doing with his voice here I am INTO

going from that bottomed-out bass when he spots desmond to panicky, cracking and breaking, back to the reverb bass when orthax takes over

also you just HAD THE MASK ON YOU

(would have dug a scene of him like. seeing the mask and hesitating before picking it up as they were leaving)

the orthax shadow!!

YOUR SOUL IS FORFEIT

aaaand pusheen-level whiplash going into the credits

are they gonna release a scanlan-only album. they could. whether or not they SHOULD is another question but they totally COULD.

#legend of vox machina #critical role #spoilers #crititag #liveblog #reaction post #lovmtag #god I hope this posts like it's supposed to #tumblr does NOT like me fucking with the bullet points in rich text anymore #I had to go in and do it all in html just to put images in #robust servers etc

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My Fibro Journey and How I Came Back from Rock Bottom

This not advice. But this is a true story, and it’s time I shared my Fibro journey. I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia just as college was ending. This is not to say it began then, but it came to head enough to finally get an answer. This came about a year and a half after my Interstitial Cystitis diagnosis, and I was in BAD shape. I was 90 lbs, deteriorating, and everything winded me. The pain was constant and completely overwhelming. I had thrown every last drop of my energy into finishing my college thesis and graduating from a school I had worked SO hard at. When it finally commenced, I felt lost. I was depleted from the effort and it was 2011 and the economy was in shambles. Having nowhere else to go, I moved into my dad’s spare room in Massachusetts, miles away from the state I had always called home, my precious Florida warmth, and the love of my life. I was, unsurprisingly, miserable, and my health tanked immediately. I was cold all the time. No amount of blankets helped because I wasn’t generating my own heat. I remember spending Thanksgiving eve in the emergency room because an Interstitial Cystitis flare had caused a UTI to back up and give me yet another kidney infection and I had a soaring fever. Things were toxic with my dad. His cure for everything is to get up at 6am and be busy busy busy and I was in desperate need of rest. When it became obvious to me finding a job was not happening, I started an Etsy shop for my crafts with the limited energy I had. It pulled in maybe $200 a month but it felt good to be doing one small thing. A few months later the love of my life arranged to follow me to New England and secured a place for us in the apartment above his father’s house. We were together again but things were tense, his dad is occasionally a monster, and it wasn’t long before we were moving again. My health was awful and we were broke as a joke. I was sleeping 12 hours a day and spending the rest of my time trying to figure out what kind of life I was going to be able to have. I was severely depressed. We moved to an absolute shit-hole of a apartment in a bad neighborhood. Rent was $850/month for 280 square feet. We could barely afford it, and mostly lived off of my partner’s disability check and food stamps. My small savings was gone. We fought about money a lot. The Etsy shop brought in maybe $300 now, but it was clear this was not going to cover everything for a long time, if ever. My health only continued to decline and I felt utterly useless. Some days I was too sore to even get out of bed. The stress was unbearable as I watched everything in my life spiral. I honestly felt like if something didn’t change and soon, I was going to die. I thought back to the last thing I’d done right: my college thesis at art school. It took me forever to choose what medium to do the project in as there were a few I’d been practicing proficiently. I kept asking myself: “What am I the best at? What am I the best at?” and got nowhere. Finally I asked myself “What am I the worst at? What medium am I absolutely shit at that I would love to do but never learned how?” And the answer was pen and ink. A few months later I graduated with a pen and ink portfolio with one of two A’s in my professor’s senior class. So here I was, applying to design jobs and retail jobs and anything else I thought I might be good at with 0 responses for months on end. Then, instead, I asked myself what I was the worst at-- manual labor! After all, grocery shopping would knock me out until the next day. I realized this was insane to even consider and I might literally die. But I was so low it didn’t matter. If I continued wasting away like this I was going to die anyway. I knew this in my heart. Having cared for horses as a kid I started applying for barn jobs in the area. I remember straightening myself up and forcing myself to look energetic and animated for the interviews. I finally got a job. I was terrible at it. Shoveling for hours and pushing around a 300lb wheelbarrow, imagine! I could not lift a hay bale (they are about 65 lbs). But, I got up at 4:45 in the morning and drove to work in the snow before the plows came and always got to work on time. I worked only weekend days and by Sunday night I would have to make sure there was a crockpot meal going because I knew I would collapse at the end of the day. I cried in the car on the way home every single shift. My body was on fire. Mondays I could not get out of bed. The pain was immeasurable and I spent most of the day crying and had my partner help me to the bathroom. I spent the whole week recovering and patching myself up enough to get to my next shift on Saturday. But I promised myself something: that I would never complain, not to anyone at work, and not even to myself in my head. I imagined myself as a monk. Chop wood, carry water. I got fired. Then I got another barn job and got fired. Then I got another one and got fired again. The 4th job was still hard, but I did not get fired. I could now lift the hay bales. I gained 20 lbs (entirely muscle) and my body was completely different. Instead of being carried to the bathroom on Monday, I could transport myself to the couch and do basic self-care activities. I could do my crafts during the week again and between the two income streams I could afford my half of living expenses and was very slowly socking away a tiny, tiny nest egg that would eventually become the start up capital for my business. Two years had passed since mucking my first stall. My Fibro was not cured by any means but my IC was somewhat in remission and I was doing much better. Daily life got easier. After all, compared to hay bales, lifting the pasta pot while making dinner was less of a big deal. I eventually left the barn job and got a job doing landscaping and construction-- more manual labor! My new boss was disabled too and used a walker on the job site. He was also a Buddha in a blue collar. After having kept my illness a secret for 2 years of barn jobs I could finally tell a boss the truth and it was a relief. He understood me and always gave me the jobs I could flourish at. I learned a lot from him, did legitimately good work, made slightly better money, and moved out of the shit-hole apartment to an art community, which was an important step forward on the path toward opening my own business and doing art full time. During the second year of running my shop I realized I didn’t need a second job anymore and that it would be the first year in the last 5 where I wouldn’t have to dig any holes.

I’d risked it all, every last drop of my health. It could have killed me. And the agony was indescribable, but I would do it again. My body is changed forever and even years since I have last worked manual labor I am still improved for it and much more active than I was in those dark years right after college. Everything I have now I owe to that one, insane decision I made at rock bottom. This is not advice. Take what you will from my story. I still despise people who say “exercise will cure Fibro if you just tried harder :) :) :)” or some stupid shit like that. None of them know how dangerous this was or how much suffering I endured. It could have easily gone the other way. There were days my partner saw the condition I was in and begged me to stop. I told him with a roar in my voice if I didn’t keep going I was going to die. I don’t regret it. I have less pain now, consistently, than I did before I went through all that and I still try to keep up my fitness level so I never go back there. Thank you for reading my story. I can’t recommend my path, but if you come away with one thing from this, just know that there is a path forward, somewhere, and perhaps in the most unlikely of places.

#fibromyalgia #chronic pain #personal #chronically ill #disabled

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maximumwobblerbanditdonut · 3 years

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2020: A Year To Remember, A Year To not Forget!

WHEN ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS

Here’s my look back at what to remember from Sam Heughan 2020

A Year No One Will Forget COVID-19: has dominated a rollercoaster year event to reshape the world in the last 12 months. No one could escape it. Europe was at the epicentre of the global health crisis throughout the spring, when nearly all of humanity lived under some form of lockdown, grinding the world economy to a halt.

Parts of the continent are in the grips of a second wave, but the rollout of vaccines have given hope of a return to normality.

But,for Sam Heughan Covid-19 is “less lethal” than the flu!👇

Do you remember when Sam ignored Hawaiian authorities and flew to Hawaii for Holidays during the global Coronavirus emergency? Neither do I.👇

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Apparently, sometimes ‘sorry’ really can be his hardest word.

Sam during his golden holidays overseas decided not to come home, when hundreds of British returned in 2020, and more struggled to (national priority) When the foreign affairs department send an alert call 🚨 to British around the world to get back at home during COVID-19 but HE stayed in Hawaii, Why?‘ Well, he chose to stay there’ and ‘he was told to come home’ — Sam is a spoilt brat. But, he could do better, not promote his selves as being a friendly man, because we discovered he's not, it makes me sad.

Why on earth did he want to expose to that unnecessarily? And still supported cheered him by fans, colleagues, friends, producers not for his good manners or talent credits. Perhaps, His PR was/is his best investment to clean out his stupidity (in the most baffling PR stunt I’ve seen in some time)

There’s no doubt that he has fallen out of favour with the people that initially believed in him in what continues to be a surreal year. It all started with his Luxurious Holidays in Hawaii in March, which a misguided attempt at sending light to the world. His attempt to good graces started to wear thin. Sam, in the eyes of many, is not the same person that we met from OUT season 1. But people don't change they reveal who they really are.

It shouldn’t be hard for people to get to remember these things. Coronavirus shattered our fame obsession. With his means of gaining attention dwindling, celebrity is irrelevant. Amid a global pandemic, he really, needed a holiday in Hawaii flouting the Governor ordered? expressed disdain for the rules and circumvent the private property law for a visitor in a foreign country in a state of emergency. Who decided it was a great idea to write a 4 pages statement note announcing his pity on social media that everything was different, nothing to see here and leave it in a rose garden? Whoever advised him to do this was definitely weird and funny to see how he is supported by his hidden team. He enjoys his feeling of pity, and he subconsciously seeks it out.

The real joy happened the day when he goes back to UK 🇬🇧 months later, selfies came out, SH broken Coronavirus law, posing with fans and friends without regret or apology for his offence.

At what point was he given him the advice ‘stand with his arms around strangers or friends and flouted social distance and face coverings rules, Full of local restrictions tiers in England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿(failure to fulfil his obligations) and then be surprised 😮 who’s just been caught?

When a man lies so damn much, or he presented as asymptomatic and dismisses COVID-19, he is a hoax. The biggest Buffon of several risks is proud of himself. He doesn’t care. It’s a shamble. He doesn’t adhere to COVID-19 restrictions flout the rule wherever he goes, is not a model to follow.”He broke the law”. He must stand apart from the virus, not apart from the law. Decency is not just about being nice, because Dishonesty always an indicator of weakness.

He doesn’t believe in humanity. “Every person is a lesson, and I am a lesson for every person.” If you broke the law, you are not an example. This pandemic, it tempts him to be selfish and do what only benefits himself. He cannot help others because he has no sense of responsibility. This is not humanity! He doesn’t understand this meaning. Humankind is a virtue associated with ethic implies values. If only he would show/display a little empathy for once! It’s ‘immense annoyance’ his over fame-hungry: ‘Affect his brain'.

The reality Sam ignores the law and any warning, this pandemic crisis is not serious for him, this is an insult, this virus is not running away, he is not free of infection. He doesn't understand meaning a national lockdown with so many restrictions. This is a national emergency 🚨

He during this pandemic was A Great disappointment! Exposed the gap between Sam Heughan - the unknown actor at the beginning of OUTLANDER and the new Mr Salesman. Where is the real actor? I’m not sure it's still existed now.

The coronavirus pandemic has added another new word to the dictionary 'COVIDIOT' Who Qualifies as One? ☝️ ☝️

PEOPLE DON’T WANT TO KNOW THE TRUTH because they don't like their illusions destroyed.

Thank you, Sam, for one of the few shreds of discomfiture joy We felt this year 2020.

........ You must remember this.

As of December 30, nearly 1.8 million people have died from COVID-19 with 10.000 dying each day while a further 85 million have been infected 🌎(according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University)

"Stay safe"

#COVIDIOT

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fictionallyinparadise · 2 years

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So I suddenly decided to yearn for Arthur H.

Darryn: I’m a reverse necromancer.

Arthur: Isn’t that just killing people?

Darryn: Ah, technically.

***

Arthur: Can I bother you for a second?

Darryn: You're always bothering me, but go ahead.

***

Darryn: We either die free, or die trying!

Arthur: Are those the only choices?

***

Darryn: Don't have a bookmark? Try ketchup instead!!

Arthur: What makes you think I read?

***

Arthur: My future partner must be brave, strong, intelligent, successful and organized.

Darryn: *steps on a caterpillar and proceeds to drop to his knees and sob while apologizing profusely*

Arthur: That one. I want that one.

***

Darryn: I think I'm falling for you.

Arthur: Then get up.

***

Darryn: Five little monkeys jumping on the bed. One fell off and…

Percy: Was diagnosed with mesothelioma.

Darryn: Mamma called the doctor and the doctor said…

Arthur: You might be entitled to financial compensation if he or a loved one dies.

***

Arthur: Sorry I’m late, I was doing things.

Darryn: Hi, I’m ‘things’.

***

Percy: The results are in, I’m afraid you have updog…

Arthur: What’s updog?

Percy: Darryn! Get in here, I told you I could do it!

***

Percy: Goddamn it, the printer broke while printing out Arthur's birthday invitations.

Darryn: Well, what are they supposed to say?

Percy: "Arthur's birthday".

Darryn: So, what do they say instead?

Percy: "Arthur’s bi".

Darryn:

Darryn: Works out either way.

***

Percy: Why would you do that?

Arthur: Because I feel guilty.

Darryn: Guilt is a trick emotion. It’s put there by your parents to stop you from doing things that feel good.

***

Darryn: Talk dirty to me~

Arthur: Inflation is a serious problem and lumber prices are at a high.

Darryn: Wha-

Arthur: The economy is in shambles.

***

Darryn: I hope you have an explanation for this.

Percy: We have three actually-

Arthur: Pick your favorite.

***

Darryn: Coca Cola can remove rust from metal, imagine what it’s doing to your body.

Arthur: Pfff, getting rid of the rust, idiot.

Darryn: THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS!

Percy: Hmm... I've been drinking soda and my body's rust free... not sure where you're getting your facts from...

***

Percy: The odds of this happening by coincidence are vanishingly small.

Arthur: I would say infinitesimally.

Darryn: And I'd say teenily-weenily. We all know words.

***

Darryn: Go fuck yourself.

Arthur, smugly: Sure, but only if you watch

***

Darryn: Let’s watch Sharkboy and Lavagirl.

Arthur: Okay.

Darryn: And make out during the scary parts.

Arthur: Th-

Arthur: The scary parts.

Arthur: Of Sharkboy and Lavagirl.

***

Darryn: You have to apologize to them Arthur.

Arthur: Fine! But I must warn you that this might make me a better, nicer person and that is NOT the person you fell in love with!

***

Darryn: Bro, I had a dream we fucked.

Arthur: Bro, relax it was just a dream.

Darryn: Huh, gay, I wouldn’t fuck you.

Arthur: You wouldn’t?

Darryn: I mean, unless you want to-

***

Arthur: I am a responsible adult!

Darryn: *raises brow*

Arthur: I am an adult.

***

Darryn: GET BACK HERE YOU DUMB FUCK!

Arthur: LET ME RUN FROM THE CONSEQUENCES OF MY ACTIONS!

***

Arthur: I'll offer you some friendly advice-

Darryn: I don't want your advice.

Arthur: Well, then consider it unfriendly advice.

***

Arthur: There are 20 letters in the alphabet, right?

Darryn: Nope, there's 26.

Arthur: Ah, I must have forgotten U, R, A, Q, T.

Darryn: Aww, that's cute, but you're still missing one.

Arthur: You'll get the D later ;).

***

#tw swearing #tw death mention #tw suggestive text #just in case #💊; just two downers #i dont have a tag for percy :(#i think we'd get along great after he and arthur yaknow. settle their situation.#if that's possible that is...#incorrect quotes #also the last one got me genuinely flustered hdhcusuif

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labourpress · 7 years

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Author Naomi Klein speech to Labour Party Conference

Author Naomi Klein, speaking at Labour Party Conference, said:

***CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY***

Thank you Kate for that lovely introduction and all the work that you do to put social justice on the world agenda.

It’s been such a privilege to be part of this historic convention. To feel its energy and optimism.

Because friends, it’s bleak out there. How do I begin to describe a world upside down? From heads of state tweeting threats of nuclear annihilation, to whole regions rocked by climate chaos, to thousands of migrants drowning off the coasts of Europe, to openly racist parties gaining ground, most recently and alarmingly in Germany.

Most days there is simply too much to take in. So I want to start with an example that might seem small against such a vast backdrop. The Caribbean and Southern United States are in the midst of an unprecedented hurricane season: pounded by storm after record-breaking storm.

As we meet, Puerto Rico - hit by Irma, then Maria - is without power and could be for months. It’s water and communication systems are also severely compromised. Three and half million US citizens on that island are in desperate need of their government’s help.

But just like during Hurricane Katrina, the cavalry is missing in action. Donald Trump is too busy trying to get Black athletes fired - smearing them for daring to shine a spotlight on racist violence.

Amazingly a real federal aid package for Puerto Rico has not yet been announced.

By some reports, more money has been spent securing presidential trips to Mar-a-Lago.

As if all this weren’t enough, the vultures are now buzzing. The business press is filled with articles about how the only way for Puerto Rico to get the lights back on is to sell off its electricity utility. Maybe its roads and bridges too.

This is a phenomenon I have called The Shock Doctrine - the exploitation of wrenching crises to smuggle through policies that devour the public sphere and further enrich a small elite.

We see this dismal cycle repeat again and again. We saw it after the 2008 financial crash. We are already seeing it in how the Tories are planning to exploit Brexit to push through disastrous pro-corporate trade deals without debate.

The reason I am highlighting Puerto Rico is because the situation is so urgent. But also because it’s a microcosm of a much larger global crisis, one that contains many of the same overlapping elements: accelerating climate chaos; militarism; histories of colonialism; a weak and neglected public sphere; a totally dysfunctional democracy.

And overlaying it all: the seemingly bottomless capacity to discount the lives of huge numbers of Black and brown people.

Ours is an age when it is impossible to pry one crisis apart from all the others. They have all merged, reinforcing and deepening each other..... like one shambling, multi-headed beast.

I think it’s helpful to think of the current US president in much the same way.

It’s tough to know how to adequately sum him up. So let me try a local example.

You know that horrible thing currently clogging up the London sewers. I believe you call it the fatberg?

Well Trump, he’s the political equivalent of that.

A merger of all that is noxious in the culture, economy and body politic, all kind of glommed together in a self-adhesive mass. And we’re finding it very, very hard to dislodge.

It gets so grim that we have to laugh. But make no mistake: whether it’s climate change or the nuclear threat, Trump represents a crisis that could echo through geologic time.

But here is my message to you today:

Moments of crisis do not have to go the Shock Doctrine route - they do not need to become opportunities for the already obscenely wealthy to grab still more.

They can also go the opposite way.

They can be moments when we find our best selves..... when we locate reserves of strength and focus we never knew we had.

We see it at the grassroots level every time disaster strikes.

We all witnessed it in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower catastrophe.

When the people responsible were MIA....... the community came together...... Held one another in their care, organized the donations and advocated for the living -- and for the dead.

And they are doing it still, more than 100 days after the fire.

When there is still no justice and, scandalously, only a handful of survivors have been rehoused.

And it’s not only at the grassroots level that we see disaster awaken something remarkable in us.

There is also a long and proud history of crises sparking progressive transformation on a society-wide scale.

Think of the victories won by working people for social housing and old age pensions during the Great Depression..... Or for the NHS after the horrors of the Second World War.

This should remind us that moments of great crisis and peril do not necessarily need to knock us backwards.

They can also catapult us forward.

Our progressive ancestors achieved that at key moments in history, in your country and in mine.

And we can do it again - in this moment when everything is on the line.

But what we know from the Great Depression and the post-war period, is that we never win these transformative victories by simply resisting..... by simply saying “no” to the latest outrage.

To win in a moment of true crisis, we also need a bold and forward-looking “yes”

- a plan for how to rebuild and respond to the underlying causes.

And that plan needs to be convincing, credible and, most of all, captivating.

We have to help a weary and wary public to imagine itself into that better world.

And that is why I am so honoured to be standing with you today.

With the transformed Labour Party in 2017.

And with the next Prime Minister of Britain,

Jeremy Corbyn.

Because in the last election, that’s exactly what you did.

Theresa May ran a cynical campaign based on exploiting fear and shock to grab more power for herself - first the fear of a bad Brexit deal, then the fear following the horrific terror attacks in Manchester and London.

Your party and your leader responded by focusing on root causes: a failed “war on terror”.... economic inequality and weakened democracy.

But you did more than that.

You presented voters with a bold and detailed Manifesto.

One that laid out a plan for millions of people to have tangibly better lives:

free tuition,

fully funded health care,

aggressive climate action.

After decades of lowered expectations and asphyxiated political imagination, finally voters had something hopeful and exciting to say “yes” to.

And so many of them did just that, upending the projections of the entire expert class.

You proved that the era of triangulation and tinkering is over.

The public is hungry for deep change - they are crying out for it.

The trouble is, in far too many countries, it’s only the far right that is offering it, or seeming to, with that toxic combination of fake economic populism and very real racism.

You showed us another way.

One that speaks the language of decency and fairness, that names the true forces most responsible for this mess - no matter how powerful.

And that is unafraid of some of the ideas we were told were gone for good.

Like wealth redistribution.

And nationalising essential public services.

Now, thanks to all of your boldness, we know that this isn’t just a moral strategy.

It’s a winning strategy.

It fires up the base, and it activates constituencies that long ago stopped voting altogether.

If you can keep doing that between now and the next election, you will be unbeatable.

You showed us something else in the last election too, and it’s just as important.

You showed that political parties don’t need to fear the creativity and independence of social movements - and social movements, likewise, have a huge amount to gain from engaging with electoral politics.

That’s a very big deal.

Because let’s be honest: political parties tend to be a bit freakish about control.

And real grassroots movements..... we cherish our independence - and we're pretty much impossible to control.

But what we are seeing with the remarkable relationship between Labour and Momentum, and with other wonderful campaign organizations, is that it is possible to

combine the best of both worlds.

If we listen and learn from each other, we can create a force that is both stronger and more nimble than anything either parties or movements can pull off on their own.

I want you to know that what you have done here is reverberating around the world - so many of us are watching your ongoing experiment in this new kind of politics with rapt attention.

And of course what happened here is itself part of a global phenomenon.

It’s a wave led by young people who came into adulthood just as the global financial system was collapsing and just as climate disruption was banging down the door.

Many come out of social movements like Occupy Wall Street, and Spain’s Indignados.

They began by saying no - to austerity,

to bank bailouts,

to fracking and pipelines.

But they came to understand that the biggest challenge is overcoming the way neoliberalism has waged war on our collective imagination, on our ability to truly believe in anything outside of its bleak borders.

And so these movements started to dream together, laying out bold and different visions of the future.... and credible pathways out of crisis.

And most importantly they began engaging with political parties, to try to win power.

We saw it in Bernie Sanders’ historic campaign in the US primaries.... which was powered by millennials who know that safe centrist politics offers them no kind of safe future.

By the way.... Bernie, is the most popular politician in the United States today.

We see something similar with Spain’s still-young Podemos party, which built in the power of mass movements from Day One.

In all of these cases, electoral campaigns caught fire with stunning speed.

And they got close to taking power - closer than any genuinely transformative political program has in either Europe or North America in my lifetime.

But still, in each case, not close enough.

So in this time between elections, it’s worth thinking about how to make absolutely sure that next time, all of our movements go all the way.

A big part of the answer is: Keeping it up.

Keep building that yes.

But take it even further.

Outside the heat of a campaign, there is more time to deepen the relationships between issues and movements, so that our solutions address multiple crises at once.

In all of our countries, we can and must do more to connect the dots between economic injustice, racial injustice and gender injustice.

We need to understand and explain how all of those ugly systems that place one group in a position of dominance over another - based on skin colour, religious faith, gender and sexual orientation - consistently serve the interests of power and money and always have.

They do it by keeping us divided.

And keeping themselves protected.

And we have to do more to keep it front of mind.... that we are in a state of climate emergency.... the roots of which are found in the same system of bottomless greed that underlies our economic emergency.

But states of emergency, let’s recall, can be catalysts for deep progressive victories.

So let’s draw out the connections between the gig economy - that treats human beings like a raw resource from which to extract wealth and then discard - and the dig economy, in which the extractive companies treats the Earth in precisely the same careless way.

And let’s show exactly how we can move from that gig and dig economy to a society based on principles of care - caring for the planet and for one another. Where the work of our caregivers and of our land and water protectors, is respected and valued. A world where no one and nowhere is thrown away - whether in fire-trap housing estates or on hurricane-ravaged islands.

I applaud the clear stand Labour has taken against fracking and for clean energy. Now we need to up our ambition and show exactly how battling climate change is a once-in-a-century chance to build a fairer and more democratic economy.

Because as we rapidly transition off fossil fuels, we cannot replicate the wealth concentration and the injustices of the oil and coal economy, in which hundreds of billions in profits have been privatized and the tremendous risks are socialized.

We can and must design a system in which the polluters pay a very large share of the cost of transitioning off fossil fuels. And where we keep green energy in public and community hands. That way revenues stay in your communities, to pay for childcare and firefighters and other crucial services. And it’s the only way to make sure that the green jobs that are created are union jobs that pay a living wage.

The motto needs to be: leave the oil and gas in the ground, but leave no worker behind. And the best part, you don’t need to wait until you get to Westminster to start this great transition. You can use the levers you have right now.

You can take a page from Barcelona and turn your Labour-controlled cities into beacons for the world transformed.

A good start would be divesting your pensions from fossil fuels and investing that money in low carbon social housing and green energy cooperatives.

That way people can begin to experience the benefits of the next economy before the next election - and know in their bones that yes, there is, and always has been, an alternative.

In closing.....

I want to stress, as your international speaker, that none of this can be about turning any one nation into a progressive museum.

In wealthy countries like yours and mine, we need migration policies and levels of international financing that reflect what we owe to the global south - our historic role in destabilizing the economies and ecologies of poorer nations for a great many years.

For instance, during this epic hurricane season, we’ve heard a lot of talk of “the British Virgin Islands,” the “French Virgin Islands” and so on.

Rarely was it seen as relevant to observe that these are not reflections of where Europeans like to holiday.

They are reflections of the fact that so much of the vast wealth of empire was extracted from these Islands in bonded human flesh.

Wealth that supercharged Europe’s and North America’s industrial revolution, positioning us as the super-polluters we are today.

And that is intimately connected to the fact that the future and security of island nations are now at grave risk from superstorms storms, sea level rise, and dying coral reefs.

What should this painful history mean to us today?

It means welcoming migrants and refugees.

And it means paying our fair share to help many more countries ramp up justice-based green transitions of their own.

Trump going rogue is no excuse to demand less of ourselves in the UK and Canada or anywhere else for that matter.

It means the opposite -that we have to demand more of ourselves.

To pick up the slack until the United States manages to get its sewer system unclogged.

I firmly believe that all of this work, challenging as it is, is a crucial part of the path to victory.

That the more ambitious, consistent and holistic you can be in painting a picture of the world transformed, the more credible a Labour government will become.

Because you went and showed us all that you can win.

Now you have to win.

We all do.

Winning is a moral imperative.

The stakes are too high, and time is too short, to settle for anything less.

Thank you

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