queerlilhayseed @ queerlilhayseed @piefed.blahaj.zone

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All of season 7 feels like they didn't know they had to write another season until the night before the script had to be turned in. The S6 finale felt like such a tidy button on the series I was surprised when the next episode started playing. It reminds me of S4 of Arrested Development, when all the actors had other stuff going on and weren't around for the big ensemble scenes. Just felt like the story had already been told, and the "Where are they now" flashcards you see at the end of 80s movies got stretched into an entire season of television.

Flat butt club 💁🏻‍♀️🥞

Because violent revolts elevate violent leaders. Because violence is the last, worst option for influencing the behavior of your fellow humans. Nonviolence isn't more effective than violent political action if all you want to do is swap out who's in change, but it is more effective (I would argue necessary) if what you want is a nonviolent society governed by a nonviolent democratic government. Once both sides have devolved into violence, really the only thing that sets policy is which faction is able to inflict the most pain. It also proves the fascist rule of "everyone is ultimately violent, so your best bet is to stick with the violent team that shares your religion / skin color / flag / etc." and dominate through might, rather than trying to build a genuinely peaceful coalition that could, if empowered, build a genuinely peaceful government that makes its citizens' lives better.

Or, to put it another way, you can use The One Ring to defeat Sauron, and you may succeed in defeating him, but you will corrupt yourself in the process and become the very thing you sought to destroy.

Thus do we see the insidious power of the Song. /u/FenrirIII, in their arrogance, sought to turn the Song to their own purposes, in simple jest. But they were deceived, and enthralled, by the will of the Song. It consumed them, and, when their mind was broken, contrived to be put into a meme purporting to fight against the Song, while infecting the minds of all who looked upon it, forcing them to hear the song before its appointed hour. And all who hear it, having heard it once, are doomed to hear it echoed in their minds, never are they free of its taint. Beware such fools, and look not upon their creations, at least not with the sound on. And pity the ones who heed not the warnings.

I have two big hurdles. One is that I often don't have a comfortable place to write. My desk is always messy, I don't like writing in bed, etc. This one can be resolved with a little planning, it's annoying but doable and having a place to write really helps with the second and more difficult hurdle:

The second hurdle is that I almost never actually want to write when it actually comes down to doing the actual writing. I'll clear my desk, set reminders on my phone, buy nice notebooks and pens, have good intentions and then I'll wake up in the morning, or get home in the evening, and I'll have to choose between writing and not writing. As of this post, not writing has won most of the contests. The thing that has worked best for me, even though I am far from consistent, is recognizing that I don't want to write, acknowledging the fact, and then making myself write anyway. Even if all I scribble down is "I don't want to write, I have nothing to say, I don't want to do this right now, this is stupid and sucks and why am I writing this drivel in a 35 goddamn dollar notebook" it still counts, and it builds the writing muscle.

I know this is very out of vogue at the moment, but I think one of the first clues I should have picked up on was when I was reading Harry Potter and got to the polyjuice potion, and immediately wondered what it would be like to use it to change into a woman and have sex as a woman. I didn't even really realize I was bi at the time but I rationalized it in my little christian brain that I would be married to a woman, we would take the potion to turn into each other, and in that way it would still be 100% good christian marital sex. got a lot of mileage out of that little loophole.

Didn't get any actual cracks in the egg until several years after marriage, after my partner came out as non-binary, and I began seriously questioning my own gender. Then, a lot of daydreams and speculations I had started to make a lot more sense.

Neat. Do they still put the seat warmers behind a paywall?

I don't understand you but I won't downvote you because the client I'm using doesn't have a downvote button and I like it it's very freeing <3

I've been unemployed for months. I'm so tired of filling out applications 😩

That's one of the cool things about stories, IMO. the narrative of the same events can change dramatically depending on the context in which they are being retold. You can tell a lot about why someone retells a story based on what parts stay the same, what parts change (and how), and what parts get dropped in later retellings.

My week has been pretty good! I finally decided to make a piefed account after lurking for some time :wave: hi everyone. I also started a new ADHD med that may actually be helping with the depression. Only been a few days so it's hard to say if it's actually doing anything, might be just placebo for now but I do feel better :)

Why not? Science should be done in the public view. I want more professional scientists in my feed.

EDIT: and amateur scientists. And non-scientists who are curious.

Can god microwave a burrito so hot that he himself cannot eat it?

Storytelling is how we build memories. I like to just let em roll and see if I notice anything new. The idea that we can only tell stories exactly once to each audience and then have to seal them away forever is... kinda lonely.