this same spring will never come again

this is really interesting in how it frames disability/low spoons/etc as not being a series of internal symptoms, but specifically a situation in which daily tasks increase in complexity. for example i used to be able to wash the dishes normally. but now mental and physical issues combine to make that situation have a lot of prequalifications (do I have time, energy, how long can I do it without being sore the next day) that means many more steps are involved in getting that single physical act of washing a dish to be done.

I’m trying to remember the quote. “On a good day, doing laundry is three steps. On a bad day, the first step is getting out of bed.”

i like to imagine jeong jeong's desertion had a huge impact. like i think jeong jeong got up on a stage to give a speech to the troops and WENT OFF about the fire nation's lack of discipline and the brutality of the war and then pulled his fireball disappearing trick and ran off into the woods, and the fire nation tried to keep it quiet but an important admiral deserting is a hard thing to keep quiet and also there were so many people who saw what went down and heard what he had to say. major military operations are delayed or abandoned bc they need to find a replacement to lead them and also jeong jeong had SO much top secret intel and they just have to assume all of it's compromised. a lot of soldiers liked working under jeong jeong because he stood up to plans that treated them as disposable, was the guy in the war room who'd be like "this seems excessively cruel and puts our men at risk, let's have some restraint" and they start chafing against their new commanders and orders. morale takes a HUGE nosedive. there are a bunch of copycat desertions (e.g. chey), and some people suddenly decide hey i'm just. not gonna serve another tour. maybe take a break from the military and do something else. no reason. and once the story spreads to the mainland, military recruitment goes down, not even in a particularly anti-war way, just in a "well it kinda doesn't seem like a great gig if a guy who was AT THE TOP flamed out spectacularly". it's this massive logistical and PR nightmare for the fire nation military and that's why jeong jeong did it

i genuinely don't think there's much, if anything, hotter than someone clearly having a blast doing something they're really good at. doesn't really matter what it is. the combo of competence and joy is absolutely lethal to me

its actually easy to de-enshittify your digital experience all you need to do is install this browser extension and this browser extension and this browser extension and input this custom script into the advanced box and go into your system settings and reconfigure all these options you didnt know existed and change your entire workflow and switch to this alternative operating system and this alternative web browser and this alternative chat client and this alternative word processor and this alternative- sorry that one turned out to be malware delete that one okay now double check your task manager for unwanted background processes and element block these ads and invest in a good VPN and append all your searches with AI blocking keywords and wait a few years until everything you just did becomes shitty too so you can do it all over again okay kitten. its literally that easy.

i like fanworks where dick is closer with the batsiblings than he is in canon but like generally speaking he's really busy and self-isolating and they have to break into his apartment or call him for backup to see him. like in post-crisis canon. even timmy who is his little purse dog doesn't spend half as much time with dick as you'd expect. the titans barely see him unless they're backing each other up or are on a team together at the moment which is half of why they keep manically reforming the team every three years (so they can actually hang out). post-crisis dick is not the person keeping the bats together (that's tim) or scheduling family hangouts (that's not really any of them on any kind of regular basis) he's spending 18 hours a day minimum working and nightwinging and somehow squeezing even more time out of the day to fix his neighbor's water heater and do six other good deeds and then he's getting shot again

It's Matteo JWHJ0715!!!!! Very talented director (italian mother, license plate father)

sometimes being a fan of something means not wanting them to make any more of it

One of the most stressful and terrifying moments is when you are watching a series/season finale, and you realize there isn’t enough time left in the episode for it to end the way you want.

I keep screaming “step sister wives!!” during the finale of Broken of Love and I’m pretty sure my wife hates me at this point. But legit Faye nailed it and gave us something new and different and bold, bravo queen.