High Speed Spin-Outs and Other Adventures

I’ve been mesmerized by this. I love all the details each artist put in. I highly recommend watching the full video. It really inspires me to write.

Like, have you seen them with the ribbon?

She could explain string theory to me

Or the ball?

And when you get two of ‘em or more on the mats at once??

Today's fanfiction fanart is another piece for Ever Upward, specifically part 9, 'these far-flung futures.'

Stranglerfig has really made the sweetest most wholesome thing out of this series and it legitimately makes me smile the whole time whenever I read it.

My cheeks hurt.

I greatly recommend it to people looking for Potter fics with queer themes, found family, anti-establishment, non-human worldbuilding, and just so many good vibes.

Snakeheart and Araeo are just... I love them so much.

How anyone still allows them to call themselves a "charity" boggles my mind.

Support these groups instead:

Like. I remember back in my grocery store cashier days I did so much crazy shit.

When WIC (Women, infants, and children voucher program to help low income mothers/families with children) people were in my line I would pretty much know who they were. Before the cards they had to tell us upfront they were WIC and show us their vouchers for what they were allowed to get (it was awful some times. Like. 2 gallons of milk. $4 worth of vegetables etc etc). They’d always have items hanging back, waiting to see what the total was and if they would have to take it off the belt.

I began to place the fruits/vegetables a certain way on the register scale so that like 1/2lbs of grapes read as like .28lbs or something. Then act shocked when I said that they still had X amount of lbs left. They got all their fruit and vegetables.

I think it started to kinda? Catch on to the women? Because I would have the same moms in my line month after month. And even after they switched to the cards (they worked like food stamp cards?) I’d still do the same thing. They were able to get more produce for whatever shitty max amount Indiana gave them.

Tweet & video from witchytwitchytv on Nov 15, 2022 reading: Since @Twitch again ignored requests to feature streamers for Native American Heritage month, we decided to put something together ourselves.

From Tlingit to Diné, here are just a few of the indigenous creators you can find on Twitch 🎉

Streamers:

And my knee-jerk response was "no, you should hear my friends talk about their lives--"

And it made me remember something.

Back in high school, my IB class did a lock-in-- where the group of students gets locked into one part of the school overnight on a weekend-- and after junk food and video games lost their appeal, we got to talking.

Only I didn't really know anything about almost any of them. They were all friendly enough, but I kept to myself for the most part, so we didn't have much to talk about once standard small talk ran out.

So I asked one of the other people sitting with me: "what's your story?"

Your life story.

And he told me. Sixteen years or so condensed into maybe a half hour. And it was the most fascinating life I could have imagined: the places he'd been, the things he'd done, the experiences that defined him. It boggled my mind.

When he finished and turned the question around to me, I thought mine sounded really boring in comparison, but he listened open-mouthed to the entire thing. Other kids were gathering around us by now, listening in. And when I finished mine, I turned to another one of them and asked the question to them.

And just like before, my mind was blown. A completely different life, completely different focal points, defining experiences, goals the likes of which were deserving of an anime. And the same happened with the next person we asked, and the next.

By the time each one of us had finished telling their story, it was time to go home for the morning. The video games had been abandoned hours ago. None of us had slept. We were too caught up in each other's lives.

All of which is to say:

Thank you. I do lead a very interesting life.