I like things. All sorts of things, my interests vary. I don't give a damn WHO you are, but WHAT you choose to do. I’m a 20 something, she/her. Please tag your spiders - I really really really don’t like them.
I don’t know who needs to hear this but it’s okay for writing to be a HOBBY that you do because you enjoy, and that you don’t want to do when you’re not enjoying it. No one’s up in the business of knitters telling them they have to be willing to SUFFER and SWEAT or they’ll NEVER FINISH THAT SWEATER and they can’t expect good things to come to them. I don’t know why our current culture around writing is so intense, but I’m here to support your casual, relaxing writing habit. If people can glue pompoms together or knit a scarf or watch hours of streaming shows with their spare time there’s absolutely no reason writers can’t waste time writing just for pleasure, without any expectation that they’re going to Achieve something Amazing and Important or make a bunch of money or whatever.
I stand corrected: According to a great many who have piped up in the comments, apparently people ARE up in the business of knitters. What the hell. Get out of the business of knitters, people. May we all enjoy our hobbies without pressure to professionalize.
This sadly holds true for so many hobbies. My boyfriend has been expressing guilt that he has so many unpainted minis, my brother has been doing the same but about the board games he’s purchased but not played. We’re busy people! Sometimes the busy nature of our lives makes our leisure time activities an added stress and we shouldn’t be made to feel BAD for taking a break. No matter how extended.
I love it when fan fiction writers are like: “ah shit, this was meant to be one part but I started writing it and now it has to be three”. Like the fanfic is happening to them and not being created by them.
Didn’t even get out of my alley on the way to work before ICE tried another major assault in my neighborhood this morning. Spent two hours plus chasing ICE around the neighborhood. Got my first taste of tear gas and handed out a bunch of my KN95 masks to other folks for next time. It’s nasty shit but it can be survived.
Also saw officers shooting at people’s feet to make them move not once but twice. Given that the bullets didn’t bounce and left small holes in the asphalt, I think that might have been live rounds (please correct me if someone knows better). Didn’t catch it on video, I’m not great at recording yet but I expect to get a lot of practice in the next few weeks.
My poor furious neighborhood. I ran into someone who had been on her way to lay flowers on Renee Good’s grave when she heard the whistle and showed up. That’s where we are today. Can’t even grieve without having to stand up and fight again.
hi guys! discord is doing a survey on how people would like ai to be integrated into discord. take it and say fuck no to every question. when you get to “in general, how do you feel about discord inegrating ai features?”, respond that you would actively get everyone you know off of discord and wouldn’t pay for nitro or other shop items if they added ai features.
When you consider that Gollum is an extremely old man who’s spent most of his life in solitary confinement with heroin being injected directly into his brain every day, he’s really not that unreasonable
Do you think other cultures in Star Trek ever make fun of Starfleet for their uniforms?
Like, “Oh look boys, here comes the color wheel”
One alien: now don’t be judgemental, probably humans just can’t see colors very well. To them those colors are classy and muted
Random telepath: oh no, those colors are actually MORE garish to humans 😅
You laugh until the ship is on fire you can’t see a damn thing and searching for a bright red or bright yellow uniform is what saved your life!
Nice to think that someday we outgrow the nervous cringefear that caused the epidemic of drabness in the 1800s which is still going on today. Someday we will no longer feel stupid being the brightest colored bird in the forest.
Okay but consider Color Theory Aliens.
“Why are their command staff depicting themselves coated in their own blood?”
“Why are their medical staff depicting themselves coated in OUR blood?”
“Actually to humans green is the color of life because all their plants are green.”
“But they are … not plants? Make it make sense.”
“Personally I worry about all the positions they make wear the color of their urine.”
“Black is a mourning color for them. Why are they always in mourning? Is that healthy?”
“I read this thing about a human ocean-sailing ship captain that wore red so his crew would not see it if he was injured, and become afraid.”
“HIDING urgent medical information? He’s a captain, he has a responsibility to his crew for his well-being.”
“Actually this was during the ancient times and they hadn’t discovered responsibility yet.”
“But it’s stupid, if he’s injured he should go to the sickbay and not pretend to be not injured.”
“I have some really unsettling news for you about the available medical options.”
“But they’re better NOW, right? The red means something different, right? They don’t hide their injuries to do captain things while injured and get themselves hurt worse or killed?”
*thinks to every human Starfleet captain they’ve experienced*
