Wizards are just old people with glitter in their pockets

It's funny how differently people can talk about the same subjects while using the same words. I recall I once told my boyfriend, something along the lines of "if I don't have the time to wake up right before being expected to function, it's going to throw me off for the whole day", which I had learned as a kid by having family with no patience for people who wake up slowly. My sister is the type who snaps awake like flicking on a light switch, eyes flick open and she's 100% operational. And because of the way the household worked it was her job to make sure that I'm awake and up to get to school in time.

Seeing this post reminds me how disregarded sleep and rest is in others or how it keeps you from being of use/service to others.

It's funny how differently people can talk about the same subjects while using the same words. I recall I once told my boyfriend, something along the lines of "if I don't have the time to wake up right before being expected to function, it's going to throw me off for the whole day", which I had learned as a kid by having family with no patience for people who wake up slowly. My sister is the type who snaps awake like flicking on a light switch, eyes flick open and she's 100% operational. And because of the way the household worked it was her job to make sure that I'm awake and up to get to school in time.

Besides the obvious like having financial security, being able to support your community and take care of friends and family, the whole "money doesn't bring happiness" bullshit is still bullshit because even if we only look at it from "buying frivolous trinkets" point of view, there's so many fun things I'd get myself commissioned just for shits and giggles.

I do feel like 'money can't buy happiness' has a good point somewhere, but it's such a hamfisted way of making it that it's just total crap. Like... okay: if you have a fundamentally joyless outlook on life and can't meaningfully connect to the people and world around you money won't fix it, and rich people can still be unhappy, but that isn't what the damn saying said.

Well. You can't say they don't take their theme seriously.

today my power went out so I couldn't really do any work or chores (it's hot as hell out rn) so I went to the mall to just kinda dick around and I'm so glad I did because look at this. I ran into a dude selling his own sci fi anime inspired book. I HAD to buy it. This shit is real soul right there

btw if anyone is curious about this you can pick up a copy here

i wrote a paper in my masculinity studies class in college about this exact phenomenon, specifically about how high heeled shoes started as a practical way for Persian cavalry to keep their feet on their stirrups, then likely due to that association, became a popular fashion item and status symbol among the upper classes of Europe, before the Great Male Renunciation of the 18th-19th centuries, when men started shunning opulence in favor of utility, leaving them as a fashion item for women instead.

There are many, many people whose only understanding of manhood is through defining it by its association with power.