We have promises to keep

adventure time slang is weird cuz like. when you first watch the show and hear the slang you're like "oh this is cringy slang but its not like awful" but it gets to a point where the voice actors deliver the slang so naturally you don't even notice it and its just. part of the world's vernacular. I can't think of any other show that's done in-universe slang like this

Finn: oh man the frappin dude just ginked up and went flipoo over the junkin fence

Me, 3 seasons into this show: wow he really did huh

It's true but it's also funnier knowing the storyboarders were usually just making Finn say fuck

this is math

i have spent years rewatching all 10 seasons and recording every expletive i hear in adventure time:

Filing these away for later.

I'm sure this will somehow be useful data for something I don't yet anticipate

Whenever someone complains about the $80 USD sticker price on new games, some folks like to bring up the fact that many Super Nintendo cartridges were retailing for the same price way back in the 90s.

The subtext of these observations is usually that AAA game prices have been effectively static for thirty years, so really, once you take inflation into account, AAA games are cheaper than ever.

A more pointed observation would be that, in spite of those thirty years of inflation, that $80 price tag has managed to become less affordable to the average gamer in 2025 than it was in 1995, which is an indictment that reaches much further than the AAA gaming industry.

Also you used to get a finished product. Of good quality.

Not really, no. Many games of the cartridge era – even AAA titles – were buggy, unfinished trash, and there was typically no recourse beyond buying a later cartridge revision at full price, if one existed at all. Final Fantasy VI (III US) is one of those games that had a sticker price of $80 USD in 1995, and its 1.0 release had terrible QA.

Wow! What a great Direct! Some really interesting looking games and really cool upgrades to older games!

I can't wait to get a Switch 2! Wait what's that the announced the price?

Never mind, I think in fact can wait to get a Switch 2!

can you believe it guys. silksong. only a tomorrow away

edit: what can i say. i'm always right

And at the end of the day, I’ll still have you.

Yes. I think I’ll still have you.

I just think these two should’ve kissed tbh

Hey, if you’re not as mentally quick as you used to be because of your illness- that’s okay. If you’re can’t think as fast or handle as many tasks that’s okay. You aren’t stupid, you aren’t unintelligent, and you aren’t less worthy of love or respect. It’s okay that your brain won’t or can’t go back to how it used to be. It’s different now, but it’s okay.

Hey, it’s ok to not be a “productive member of society.”

Some people are housebound. Bed bound. Some people physically can’t eat, shower, or use the toilet without the assistance of a caretaker. Some people don’t have the spoons to get out of bed in the morning, let alone work a 9-5 job in this capitalist hellhole.

You’re not lazy. You’re not less than.

And this is coming from a disabled person with chronic pain who can leave the house and walk (with some pain) without mobility aids.

You deserve to take up space. You deserve to cost money. You deserve to be here without feeling guilty just because you can’t give back in the traditional way.

You’re worth it, hun. 🫶🏼

we are so back

In light of recent events.

Inspo here

It is actually way better for 100 addicts to get their fix on pain pills than a single person in pain go without. I call this the "Torture is bad" principle. You should be able to get the good stuff forever after a single doctor's visit. If you're worried about addicts fund rehab centers and needle exchanges instead of torturing people.

Among other things if you can't use the legit market you turn to the black market anyway.

if you're worried about addiction, build a society where people get their basic needs met, including pain management.

#i also would prefer addicts be on prescription drugs that are exactly what they say they are#rathet than unregulated drugs which are full of who the fuck knows (tags via @shanastoryteller)

i hope this essay isn't unwelcome but i wanted to expand on a previous reblog which mentions turning to the black market: denying people controlled medication out of fear of the addict boogieman literally directly creates and worsens addiction.

as someone who spent a lot of time in hard reduction oriented communities for substance use, one thing you notice real quick: a lot of people with a substance problem have that problem because they were denied or never given access to medical care for a whatever problem the drugs are compensating for (esp common for women, queer people, disabled people, poc, and ofc the poor/uninsured)

and it makes a lot of sense if you think on it for 5 seconds. i'll give two examples off the top of my head.

person A has severe ADHD and/or narcolepsy. they cannot maintain a job without medication, but either cannot afford to jump through diagnostic hoops, or did so and were denied medication anyway. they could say "aw damn" and risk losing their home, families, etc to their untreated illness, or they could go to the black market.

now, these prices are around 5 years old (but i doubt it's gotten cheaper), but lemme break down the logistics:

adderall can be cheap if you live near a college campus or tech city, but on e-markets it'll run you anywhere from .25-$1 per mg in pill form, which could be around $5-30 per dose. long acting stuff like vyvanse is more expensive, and we're boldly assuming the pills are real and correctly dosed.

speed paste availability varies by country but outside of europe it's not common or cheap, and it's not gonna be as potent as pharmacy grade amphetamine

meth, however, is cheap (anywhere from 20-50 per gram), widely available, long lasting, and potent enough to dose as low as 5mg. thats like 15 cents a dose. the drawback? meth is a lot more compulsive, addictive, and neurotoxic than the stuff you'd get at the pharmacy, is often cut or poorly synthesised, has nasty side effects, and is probably a lot stronger than most people need (desoxyn exists, but is rarely prescribed)

easy to see how someone just trying to self medicate could end up with a problem, yeah?

a similar issue crops up with theoretical person b. person b has chronic pain, but either had their medication taken from them due to DEA browbeating their doctor, or was never given anything stronger than tylenol because they were assumed to be faking. if it's a choice between suffering and breaking some laws, the choice is clear. so you go looking for pain meds.

pills advertised as being real (which are often pressed anyway) will often run you at LEAST $1 per mg, often more if it's something like morphine or diluadid (codeine is also weirdly expensive bc it's a meme drug), that could be $100s per day if you need multiple doses.

heroins a little cheaper and stronger, around $100 per gram, which is cheaper than pills

then there's fentanyl. strong, cheap, long lasting, wildly available, and significantly more clear headed and less "high" than most opiates. you can get fentanyl presses for $5 a piece that will last most people a day or more. cheaper in bulk. powder varies wildly. but fentanyl is strong, difficult to accurately dose at home, and builds tolerance/dependence quickly. and once you have physical dependence, missing a dose means flu like symptoms or worse for a week or more.

again, you see how this would fast track someone to addiction?

and i know what you're thinking: what about people doing drugs for fun for real?

well, being honest: most people don't develop addictions from occasional recreational usage, and the ones that do are often self medicating for depression or anxiety or trauma or existential dread. there are some drugs that are significantly MORE recreational if you happen to have anxiety. even if there's a guy out there who really just loves doing drugs and is 100% well adjusted and is just addicted for the lulz: i don't care. that guy still deserves access to safe, accurately dosed, transparently labelled drugs. (this isn't even getting into queer drug culture either bc this is long enough but you'd be surprised how many drugs were banned bc they were popular in queer clubs)

"but why would society continue doing something that very obviously is creating the problem it claims to be fighting?"

simple! many governments (namely the US) want disabled, poor, queer, and brown people to spend their lives working in private prisons or drop dead! denying them access to safe medical/recreational drugs, fast tracking addiction (by creating a situation in which the most accessible options are the most high risk, stigmatised, and heavily criminalised substances on the market), and then dehumanising addicts/drug users to the point even self proclaimed leftists often have no sympathy for them is a quick and convenient way to accomplish exactly that.

anyway i just kind of wrote this essay because i feel like people who have never been in this situation don't understand how someone can wind up addicted to a "scary" drug like meth or fentanyl, you hear a lot of people talk about it like those are "extreme" drugs no "normal" person would ever knowingly try, or that people would only use them if they didn't understand the risks or are Stupid (and therefore "deserve" any harmful side effects) and that's just not true. the fact of the matter is these Spooky Scary Substances are often the cheapest and most accessible options on the market, and if you can't afford to jump through medical hoops, you probably can't afford the Expensive black market options either. and i thought breaking down the pricing and logistics and providing real world examples might put things into perspective, because honestly you probably won't hear it from anyone else.

I would also like to only semi sarcastically point out that drug dealers are open after 5:00 and you don't have to take time off if you work during the day. Also I'm presuming that dealers answer their fucking phones.

I was already well aware of this years ago but nothing drove me further into the "decriminalize drugs" corner harder than being denied narcotic sleep medication by psychatrist because apparently ambien is worse for me than not sleeping, and I had tried, and I quote, "everything she could possibly prescribe me" and thus she couldn't help me and I should see a sleep specialist/focus on therapy, and on top of that THEN having my primary refuse to refer me to a sleep specialist despite the fact that again, I was sleeping less than 4-5 hours a night and having debilitating nightmares when I did manage to sleep, because "you don't have sleep apnea so they can't help you" and "you should just focus on overcoming your trauma in therapy and learning mindfulness to fix your sleep" (never mind that I had a note from my therapist stating that I would not be able to make progress with my trauma until I was getting enough sleep, whatever!) and thus coming to the conclusion that the only way I would be able to exist without my health suffering to the point that I was always exhausted and wanted to die was to rely on marijuana.

Thankfully weed is legal where I live, both medical and recreational, and I have the means to purchase it, but if I lived somewhere else...I don't know what I would have done. Or, I do. And it would have been dangerous, but god I cannot stress enough that this would have been a choice between breaking the law and slowly dying. All because "narcotics are bad for me" and two doctors refusing to help no matter how much proof I had that I needed it or how desperately I was willing to beg to get my life back. (I also now cannot move to a place where weed is illegal. Which is fun.)

Also the only time my mom tried fentanyl was because her doctors refused to prescribe enough pain killers for her to live without being in agony. She didn't want to do it, but being in constant pain without help will destroy your ability to give a shit about anything but getting relief.

It's not the only way people become addicted, and ones who do through medication deserve help, but it is very clear the overwhelming amount of people who turn to illegal drugs are doing so as a last ditch effort to make their lives bearable. Almost everyone I know who has struggled with addiction ended up there because they were trying to cope with unbearable circumstances outside of their control. For many of them it IS a choice between breaking the law and death. Maybe a slow death, due to symptoms they cannot control(did you know people with un or under medicated ADHD are at a ridiculously high risk of accidental death? stimulant medication is literally life-saving medical care) or from the crushing reality of living in immense pain because I assure you, constant suffering CAN kill you or make you want to die. My fiancé had to deal with pain from an injured muscle for a week without real pain killers and by the end of it he legit was asking me how I could possibly live in so much pain all the time because he could barely think.

I didn't have an answer, but pain will destroy even the strongest person, and for a lot of people, the only way to live is with illegal drugs. And that should NEVER fucking happen.

I'd rather a 1000 addicts get their fix than one person have to go through the kind of pain and suffering I and the people in my life have been through without help.

Reblogging this again rn for no particular reason.

Source for unmedicated ADHDers at higher risk for accidental death

Also another more recent one here!

While wider studies are needed, it does feel really insidious that stimulant medication is misunderstood, demonized, and so strictly regulated that most of us have had to go without for days or weeks at a time sometimes multiple times a year or even EVERY MONTH, and in some places it's almost impossible to actually access at all while the truth is that it is quite literally life-saving medical care for those of us who need it.

I've left the stove on three separate times when unmedicated and I was VERY lucky that none of them resulted in carbon monoxide poisoning or me burning my house down. I've also nearly electrocuted myself or walked into traffic, being off my meds legit feels like all my senses are dulled, I'm far clumsier which leads to injury, forget important things like if I've taken my other meds, meds that if I go off of suddenly or take too much of can cause severe health problems. I've heard horror stories of how hard it is to even just drive safely with unmedicated ADHD and most people don't even realize how unsafe it is until they've gone on meds and learned what normal driving is for a neurotypical person. And the list goes on. Hell, being unmedicated can even lead to losing our jobs, housing, or access to food and support systems, and makes it way harder to keep your house clean, all of which also lead to an increased risk of injury, illness, and death. I've missed rent more times than I can count, racked up credit card debt, had my utilities shut off, all because I just can't fucking remember to pay bills on time without my meds, I've missed fucking black mold in my shower, accidentally eaten food out of date, gotten way too drunk without realizing it, it's a nightmare, it really is.

I really just hate thinking about how many people with ADHD have likely died or been seriously injured or suffered due to simple mistakes that they never would have made if they were properly medicated, and it makes me so angry that ADHD treatment is so hard to get almost entirely based on bullshit scaremongering about addiction. In fact being medicated puts ADHDers at LESS of a risk of turning to alcohol and drugs to make our lives manageable, and it's nearly impossible for someone with ADHD to get addicted to a stimulant medication anyway.

(Not that addicts deserve what happens to them, they need help and support as well, everyone deserves human rights and to have their needs met, this just is a completely fabricated problem when it comes to ADHD and it's normalization is legit killing us. My mom has also nearly died due to not being medicated and she to go through like four different licensed psychatrists until she found one who would actually prescribe ritalin for her, the rest all cited risk of addiction as a reason to deny her even though they should fucking know that isn't a legit concern. One even said she just "didn't want to be held responsible" for her patients forming addictions to ADHD meds. I wonder how she'd feel if she was held responsible for all the suffering her desperation to keep her hands clean has almost certainly caused.)

And tbh I'd also rather a million people get high off adderall than have even one person with ADHD miss out on medical care that can save their life because disabled people shouldn't have to suffer to make up for shit we basically can't do. Why should someone else abusing adderall mean I have to risk my life and go without. Make it make sense.