ok i know we are all freaking out about the recession and i’m no finance bitch but i’m hearing people my age say that they will never afford a house n whatnot and i get the pessimism but my mom the other day told me that my parents didn’t think they would afford a house when they were my age and up until after the 2008 recession they were like yeah renters forever but now they have a house. idk i can’t go everyday being pessimistic about capitalism cause at that point what’s the point in even being here. i guess if ur one of the people freaking out just remember the capitalistic economy still tends to ebb and flow i suppose (???)
can 2024 be the year we stop calling stay-at-home moms stupid for being ‘financially dependent’ and risking being trapped in abusive relationships, and instead start addressing why there are no social safety nets in place for people who choose to leave the workforce to raise their children
i wish AI art was more of a toy - something weird and silly to just play around with, as opposed to... what it's turned into. i remember the early days when people were just using it to generate horrifying-looking dogs, or laugh at what a computer thinks a flower looks like. the more advanced it becomes the less interesting i find it.
omegaverse, even at its most dystopian, requires worldbuilding where capitalism is forced to bow to people's physical needs. society needs to be reordered to prioritize a physicality that is not only uncontrollable, but irrational and emotional. in a real world where emotional needs are devalued, irrational needs are dismissed, and physical needs are met with a "just push through it", omegaverse offers an alternate reality for disabled people. here, we can imagine a world where society is oriented around bodily, mental, emotional, and sexual needs, regardless of political or economic system. this can be intensely comforting to those whose needs are not met in real life. in this essay i will...
your life is worth living no matter what this capitalist hellscape tries to tell you. your interests are important. your joy matters. your impact on others stretches far further than you could ever know. you are not forgotten, and as long as you're on this earth, you are never truly alone. i hope one day you feel all the safety, passion, and support you deserve.
until then, just try to remember... this pain is not meant to happen. it's not your fault. the world we live in can be better. it needs to be, and someday it will be.
(well, people in twitter liked it, so i’ll post it here too)
this is my au, where all game stays the same, but everything happens in small town somewhere in the Dagestan
why did i do it? because stepp culture sometimes reminds me of my own, so i thought “what if i’ll put them in our culture? will anything changes?” so… here we are
(remark: Dagestan is a small republic in the south of russia)
I love you smile lines and worry lines and grey and white hair and wrinkles and purple spiderweb veins and the process of aging and living in a body that is standing the test of times. I love you experiences that make you wiser and stories that make you laugh, and every little process that happens to get to the point where you have so many memories because you have the fortune to be here and be so radiant
been kind of fucking killing it this past month? if i do say so myself. medical situation has caused my cognition to deteriorate a bit and it's been causing some struggles in that regard, but my emotional state is improving, i'm having SO much fun drawing and writing again and that makes me very happy
i should have used the pixel look as my default sooner damn its so much faster/efficient and again, just, fun, art is fun, wAhoo
Ngl I kinda wanna be a lesbian housewife. I could just clean the house while I jam to my favorite music, take care of the cats and prepare delicious food for my girl boss working wife. I could do art as a hobby too.
looking back, i feel like the first big sign that Tohru had legitimate issues was that she didn't ask her friends for a place to stay. i mean, what were her reasons for not involving them? Uotani lived in a small apartment and Hanajima had five people living in her house - that'd make an additional person living with either of them pretty inconvenient, but like, not impossibly so. both Uotani and Hanajima would've said yes in a heartbeat, not because they're kind souls who offer their meager means to others regardless of consequences, but because it's really not that big a deal to have one more person temporarily living in your home, and i don't think their families would have minded much either.
also like - not asking Uotani at least makes sense bc of her apartment, but Hanajima lives in a freaking house!!! an actual decently sized two-story house!!! even if it'd be cramped, the sensible thing to do would be to at least ask if Hanajima could put her up. but Tohru thought that Uotani and Hanajime would help her even if they themselves were inconvenienced by it (correct) and proactively took the "burden" away from them by not giving them a choice in the matter at all. if either of them learned that Tohru had been living in the woods, they would've dragged her ass back to civilization, and she knew it. that's why she purposefully hid the whole "living in a tent" thing from them (she didn't even tell them she'd been kicked out! they thought she was still living with her relatives the entire time!). Tohru's selflessness was on full display in the first chapter, but in retrospect, so was her self-destructive streak that went far beyond your typical shojo protagonist's levels of self-sacrifice.