Schlimmer geht immer

and in the one hand, did i enjoy spending hours researching housing regulations in my state? not especially. drafting this email was stressful. but on the other hand, did i learn a lot by doing that research? yeah, i did. i’m more prepared for my current and future leases. i used some of that info to make decisions about a new renter’s insurance policy. i already told three different people about things i learned that are relevant to their leases that they didn’t know yet. (pro tip: see if you’re supposed to be getting annual interest payments on your security deposit! also look up what specific appliances your landlords must legally provide as of 2026.) i also got to reconnect with my cousin for a bit because her job gave her specific insight on part of the situation, and i’d much rather do that than have a chatbot make shit up for me.

also, i drafted that email with the power of friendship (friends angry on our behalf) and spite (from landlords telling me not to do my research). chatgpt could never.

And from this I’ve always drawn two conclusions:

To always distrust Mr. Beast and his ilk who always want their acts of charity done on film, because the people who really want to do good and have no motives to do it besides the doing it never want recognition for it, and

Vampirism. Lycanthropy. Cheap spells gone wrong. A woman brought in for her prenatal has to be told her baby is a lindworm. Someone is literally being followed by the anthropomorphic personification of the Black Death.

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the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like. 

So you know. 

Turtle Quilt by Laurraine Yuyama

And suddenly any other portrait makes you question: "Why isn't there an explosion happening in the background? Where is the wild air of danger and dynamism? Did the subject get to look incredibly badass but also maybe sit down a bit while posing for the artist?"

RIP to Admiral Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan of Camperdown, 1731 - 1804, and to Henri-Pierre Danloux who painted him. Nobody else was doing it like them.

I am a normal person who understands thought crimes are not real, fiction is not reality, and people can read/write/enjoy whatever they want as long as it’s fiction and no one in real life is harmed. I don’t have to like it, because I know how to mute, block and scroll past what I don’t want to see. Overall I think labels are childish, but by definition I am proship and profic. I am also against censorship.

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He decides to leave LA altogether and buy some land just want to enjoy early retirement

He hears about a local farmer having gay sheep who don’t mate and hes looking for either somebody to take them or a slaughterhouse

Tommy takes them in even tho he has no stable, no food for them, nothing

It takes him a few days to put something together

And months later he has 6 sheep, 2 old cows and three retired breeding dogs when Buck knock on his door looking for work after being a ranch hand and looking for something smaller and he heard of Tommy taking old or animals that are judged “different” and he wants to help

I love crossovers!

favorite thing about them: How much and how strongly he loves.

least favorite thing about them: how strongly he loves, in that he can't let go of people when he really should.

favorite line: "Is that really love? Right? Shouldn't it be when you're at your worst, they're at their worst, you have every reason to give up and you still decide you wanna try again?"

brOTP: Hen and/or harry

OTP: Buck/Happiness. But also: Tommy, Sal, John Carter, Prince Adam of Eternos - literally anybody but Eddie Diaz.

nOTP: Eddie Diaz. Also Abby.

random headcanon: Prior to the Great Bisexual Reveal, the man had threesomes with other men involved. His hands definitely wandered.

unpopular opinion:

Most of my opinions about Buck are unpopular lmao. have my top five:

Bobby was way out of fucking line in season 1 and bordered on sexual harassment with the way he spoke about Buck's sex life. Stealing trucks for booty calls is wrong, but it was not a bit of Bobby's goddamn business whether Buck fucked all of LA and then moved on to San Franciso. Bobby should have been written up too.

It's never wrong to show Buck fucking people he isn't in a long term relationship with. Insisting that bisexuals fictional or otherwise stay in long term romantic relationships with others before they are allowed to fuck onscreen is a conservative opinion, caters to respectability politics, and is actively anti queer, especially for those of us who are aromantic. And tl;dr: #LetBuckFuck.

If Eddie had stayed the man he was in season 4... I would have shipped it. I also would have shipped Tommy with both of them. But alas, Eddie's character jumps off a cliff.

If you are arguing against a single queer man adopting a child in a fictional tv show in 2026 and pretending in this political climate that it's heterocentric, you need smacked until your brain comes back online, much like we used to do to TVs back when they had the antennaes on top of them.

This "found family" was never much of one to Buck, except for when he was dying, and if the only time your family cares about you is when you're dying, you suck.

song i associate with them: hahahahahahaa. I coudl do an Evan Buckley playlist. But literally "The Archer," Taylor Swift.

favorite picture of them

I am not uptight about privacy because I'm hiding something. I'm uptight about it because the people who dismiss my right to privacy are dangerous to you and me and our families, personally, all the time.