Leave the World Brighter

man sometimes i really want to get back into welding but then i remember that the guys from the first course i took won’t be there and change my mind

there is this tiny cement plant i can see out of the window of my house and its so fucking weird looking and mysterious i have this hate love obsession with it

i used to have a gijinka of it up on my artfight page and encouraged people to draw weird stuff with it

there is also a power plant i can see from that same window and i love it and wrote it a poem once and drew it as a beautiful woman

Human relationships are not transactional but they are reciprocal, which I think many of you with your ‘i don’t owe anyone anything’ shtick are too happy to forget

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saw someone say they feel bad and awkward ‘contributing nothing’ to fandom (“no fics, no drawings, no theories, just gluttony”) and to anyone who feels inferiority over this i gotta say us creators doing things for free love nothing more than your unbridled spiralling greed in our notifications aka genuinely be more unapologetically gluttonous 24/7 there is nothing wrong with enjoying something insatiably because us creators feel empty and despairing without a passionate audience and feral surroundings so please and thank you and we love you

there's no hope for magyarok, you have a post like "don't be racist" and every comment is like "b-but what if every romani person i've ever met wanted to rob me 🥺 it's not racism it's truth can i please be racist pleaseeee it's just my lived experience PLEASE don't silence me"

people r like "well it's not racism, i'm just sharing my lived experience ://" but if i share MY (overwhelmingly positive) lived experience it's "naive" and somehow doesn't count. even though i am literally just saying what happened to me. like sorry for having a better life than you. lmao.

ppl online love to be like "it's not racism, i have somehow only managed to meet utter criminal caricatures of romani people and never any Good Ones" well *I* have only ever met romani people who were niceys to me. :) have you considered that maybe your life sucks because you deserve it? lol.

worst thing about liking an m/f ship is other people always bring gender roles into it and it's like okay atp you're shipping the platonic ideal of A Girl and A Boy. that is not how they are. get your gender roles out of my awesome bisexual ship.

Duuude don't question my version of events I'm such a reliable narrator. I'm literally the protagonist and the main character. You can literally read some of my internal thoughts, that clearly means you have complete access to an objective view of my thoughts and feelings and a correct impression of my characterization and the events unfolding around me. I'm not omitting any information from the audience. Nevermind that timeskip just now

Look, it's simple. If a person has to actively work to make money, they're not "the rich" and they're not the problem. A surgeon making $200k a year still stops making money if they stop showing up to do surgery, because they're still selling their labor. The radical discrepancies in how we value different skills are certainly a problem, but the guy who makes money when he doesn't even get out of bed is the one making money on the value of other people's labor.

Notice billions ain't even on there. Outliers something something.