postcards from here

Middle-Earth locations (part 1)

Tove Jansson in her home (1956)

we need more pathetic female characters written by authors who don't hate women

to be clear since this is making the rounds: she has to be an absolute loser in no way that can be pinned on her gender. no "i'm just a girl tee-hee" stuff. straight up just a loser (nondenominational)

addendum: she must be the most important person in the whole narrative

I decided to sit down and concentrate and properly write the list of rules that qualify a character for this role.

libsoftiktok going after a beloved inventor furry for some reason

if you're wearing a fitbit, you're using spottacus's technology. be grateful.

oh boy

This guy seems extremely fucking based

so it takes "inventing the technology behind FitBit" money to own that many fursuits.

First you procrastinate on the task because it is not a big enough deal to get done urgently. Then you procrastinate on the task because it has become such a big deal that doing it is overwhelming. You would think that this implies a middle point where it is just big enough of a deal to get done easily, however the inherent perversity of the universe's causal geometry prevents this

THIS thIS thIS

There IS a middle point, it's where you summon all your Kid with Potential energy, and do the thing just early enough to be able to make a point that you did it before deadline, which is all the showing off you have left to you.

“power corrupts” does NOT mean “oppression purifies”

Every time I see a post making some unhinged claim about which workers are too privileged (Baristas aren’t workers because Starbucks is bourgeois! Artists are petite bourgeoisie landlords!) or which average people aren’t suffering enough (a family member sending you home with leftovers or lending you grocery money means you benefit from intergenerational wealth!) it floors me, not only because it’s stupid, but also because the underlying message is that nearly everyone has been corrupted except for the most abjectly destitute amongst us, which inherently means that the people in the latter group must continue to suffer in order to maintain their purity so that they will still be deserving when the revolution/rapture/whatever finally comes. It just makes me fucking insane, because suffering is not purifying! It does not make people worthy! And nobody should have to maintain suffering to “earn” a just reward!

This is what happens when you build a hierarchy based on who suffers more. You just create a race to the bottom.

never forget the universal rule of the order of things: People Will Not Read It

signs at stores? émail? menu ?? instruction ? post online ? caption with andswer to question ? group hand outs ??? street sign ??? no. The Written Word Is The Enemy

#The number of compliments i have gotten for reading a thing

The ability to occasionally Read A Thing will make you a hero in your workplace, especially if it is for example an error message that tells you what you need to do differently, or instructions on unjamming a printer.

how dare you say we put jam in the printer

turning up to a meeting having read the briefing documents is enough sometimes.

Very this. I went to Ineffable Con, I saw Nye, I made new friends from all over the world, I fell in love because of a fic I read, I published a huge fucking novel of a fic, I got helped en masse to keep my home.

Fandom is fucking transformative, folks.

THE LAST OF US — 01 x 03, “Long, Long Time”

No matter how lost you feel, all you need to find is the next right step.

Not only that, but being on the right path often FEELS better and more natural - even if it's more work.

So you're only a step away from a process under which you'll thrive.

The best news: there are multiple right steps that can work for you.

There are many different paths to happiness you can take.

If you feel like you took a wrong turn, you can always try another path.

Have a beautiful day!

see the THING IS I don't feel like I ever worked hard enough to have "earned" the burnout, which is. probably how we got here.

Thanks mate

This is just very funny to me.

Not even his robot child likes him

Wings of Pages

All the words on those wings are either bits of my own poetry and writing, or complete utter gibberish because my hand got tired 😂