print("you silly?")

the sleepiest eepers :]

car ride

You can be talking to someone and she'll be like, "Oh I made a silly mistake. Women don't deserve voting rights teehee." And you'll be like, "What." And she'll be like, "Oh I'm sorry! That must sound so bad out of context. No it's this Tiktok meme where, if you're a girl and you do something dumb, you say 'Women don't deserve voting rights teehee.'"

And you'll be like, "That sounds bad." And she'll be like, "No no. It's totally not that bad. It's just a meme. Men say it too. Like if a man does something silly he'll be like, 'I am like those women who do not deserve to vote.'" And you'll be like, "Does that make it better?" And she'll be like, "Well there was one guy who tried to make 'Men shouldn't vote' a popular meme. But it never caught on and also he got yelled at a lot."

And then you drop it there because like, you're harshing the vibe.

God this makes me think of this screenshot:

"it minimizes you as a person" really wraps up my entire discomfort with the whole "oh but i'm just a girl" thing when used in most situations.

what’s that over there, in the distance…?

!!! no way….it’s….she’s coming back…?

have a great there’s chell thursday <3

Selfshippers are cool. I think it is sweet when people dedicate themselves to making a bunch of art and physical 'merch' of a character they really really like. I don't know. I think it's cool that a piece of fiction can make someone feel so strongly

Her daily pretend maintenance

"Hey! Smile!"

repost bc tumblr thinks glados deserves a mature rating smh

Let. Them. Be.😭

idletry is 2 years old now.

in theological philosophical discourse, the "paradox of omnipotence" reaches its terminal velocity at a change of definition from "all-powerful" to "maximally powerful" -- usually defined as able to do anything possible. this resolves the "can God make a rock so big even God can't lift it" issue at the cost of a lot of ground in the argument.

but i'm not typing this to talk about that. idletry is confined to a fictional story, and jessie's powers are that of an author. authors are allowed to not make sense or comport with possible reality, because they are exercising power in a non-reality: fiction. i wanted to really explore and lean into this big difference between a biblical, immanent god, and a fictional god of a fictional world, especially on axes where jessie's power surpasses a biblical god's capabilities. anyway 1+1=1 now.

also the bugs are a figwort sawfly and their larva. do not ask me how pupation happens, i know it would be funny for a couple jokes but i've decided that all insects are hemimetabolous and liberties would be taken with their biology to bridge the gap.

"Is it a crime to dream of a homeland? I am not a hero from the pages of a book, nor a fallen star from the sky... I am an ordinary man — once had a life, three little flowers, and a wife whose heart softened with every sunbeam that entered our home. But the home is no more, and the sun no longer visits us as it used to. Now, I measure time by the lines I stand in for water, and count the nights by the sleepless cries of my children — from cold, from hunger, or from a longing for what they’ve never even known. Did we do wrong by being born in Gaza? Is it a sin to hold on to life, to still love despite the ruins? I’m not asking for pity, but for solidarity in pain. My voice is weak, but it is sincere. If it reaches you, perhaps you can make a difference — one that cannot be measured. Help me — not to build a wall, but to build hope. Help me — to give my daughter a device so she can walk, instead of drifting into disability. Help me — because life, even in rubble, is still worth holding on to. Vetted by gazavetters #229"

im genuinely going to have to probably make a proper like gofundme or something for moving expenses because no way can i make enough in less than 4 months to cover costs of moving as well as a down payment on a new place all while already beating back debt that's breathing down my neck ugh

in the meantime while I figure out everything we are gonna have to do to get out of here to somewhere better, we still have bills to handle and debts (like my taxes that i still owe plus what i just filed) to cover plus anything we get can be saved towards the move. Ill eventually make a proper post but yeah

my venmo is @ LKarnstein

they took the taxes out i owed to the state and so yeah i really really need the help please

my aunt sent me these photos of the subway in Armenia because she thought I would love it

napping together???? as a date???? of course