could use more cat. Okay no wait, I just now noticed Pumpkin. 8 million out of 10
omg thank you thank you. hold on i gotta post this to reddit i think we’ve got a winner boys
btw lads - i know i’ve told pillow in stream, BUT. have i told y’all my cats Full Christian Names?? they are Marble Cream Cheese Brownie McRedacted and Pumpkin Spice Latte McRedacted
and YES. those are the names registered in the computer system at their vet. the desk lady (very nice!!! likes transformers and invader zim :D) calls them her “tasty treats,” i would die for her
other favorite nicknames for them:
marble:
baby
sweet boy
OW MARBLE WHAT THE FUCK (he got me)
big boy
sweet baby boy
sweet berber (pronounced BURR-BURR)
mrow mow? (marble’s name in meownese)
marble warble
mr marble
MARBLE CREAM CHEESE BROWNIE MCREDACTED GET OFF THE DRESSER
Mom sent me a facebook link to a PBS news hour post about how the anti-lawn movement is growing. The vast majority of the comments on it were stuff like this:
Most people are on our side here, even the so-called “boomers.” We just have to be spreading ecological knowledge and practical means of creating useful habitat in back yards! Educate! Protect! Resist!
Oh they’re just spreading lies about me now. None of this shit is true. I’ve had this person blocked for years now and they show up every so often and make up bullshit I never did. They also think I’m racist just for being from the country I’m from? Nobody who knows me believes any of this garbage, this is literally just spreading lies about a popular trans woman for existing
This person is from fucking bizarro world I swear
No I’m sick and tired of this garbage. I see a ton of other trans people just mindlessly spreading this like it’s true and obvious. I want it to stop
Please do spread this actually, I don’t want this bunch of lies to become popular belief
Maybe? I don’t know. I have seen that username before but I don’t know who they are and their account is private, I only found this because someone else reblogged it. I blocked them right away years ago the first time they pulled this shit. I don’t know what could possess someone to hold so bad of a grudge that you just periodically slander someone for like half a decade.
That post about 30 year old coming of age stories?
I’ve been thinking about it all morning. What would the plot points be for that? What makes a 30 year old coming of age story?
Old folks sound off in the comments
This article about a woman who went on a life changing lesbian cruise.
Rather than beginnings like teenage coming of age stories, a 30’s coming of age is about change.
The thing about turning 30 is that you know yourself better, and you are usually just starting to have the means to seek what you want. You have enough life experience to know what you like and don’t like. You may have a little disposable income, freedom from family, or finally be treating something like depression.
It isn’t like being a teenager where the coming of age is new experiences; it’s coming of age in knowing what you want and changing your circumstances. You look around and think, “I want and deserve better than this, and I can do it,” and you make the change.
Getting a new job. Going back to school. Dating someone new. Moving somewhere else. Going on a long trip. Trying a new hobby. Or even just dressing differently! There’s so many ways this coming of age can occur.
But there are layers to this. Unlike a teenage growing up story where you’re writing on a blank slate, a 30’s coming of age is turning the page. You might have to do something painful. Quit your job. Break up with someone. Say goodbye to your hometown. There’s change. And with that, comes apprehension for the future and grief over the past, but you work through that anyway to seek something better for yourself.
To quote the article above, one of my favorite quotes of all time: “There’s something so deliriously pleasurable in the idea of trusting myself enough to know exactly what I want.”
Oh and by the way. This doesn’t just have to be the plot of a book or fic. This can be your life, too. You can always do better.
Getting older isn’t bad. Turning 30 isn’t the end of your life. Things can be better once you know yourself more and know what you want. Embrace it.
When I was thirty I got my first steady full-time job (after years working part-time and substitute) and moved to a new town 40 km from my old one, so that felt like a coming of age!
“What’s with all the fucking gaijin in this area?” “Dude, don’t say that, use gaikokujin, it’s nicer.” “Oh, shit, right. What’s with all the fucking gaikokujin in this area?”
“The breaded pork cutlet bento box is like mega power. More than ramen. That’s accurate.”
all of them start dragging kiryu for his shitty cheap shirt for five minutes
“Shooting people sends a message.” “So does shooting anything.”
(after being told that massage parlors, mahjong, and hostess clubs were cut from the US version) “I feel sorry for the people who bought the American version. SEGA USA sucks.”
S: I don’t know any ex-yakuza running orphanages. K: There was one a few years ago. A good guy. M: You sure it wasn’t just a tax shelter? K: Sure it was a tax shelter but he ran it like a legitimate thing. You know.
“Author’s
note: A heated discussion takes place as to whether the game is
stereotyping the yakuza, which is resolved when Midoriyama, a
now-retired former mid-level faction boss,
points out
that the stereotypes about the yakuza are more or less correct, with the
exception of their alleged prowess in martial arts.“
i’ve seen these quotes a hundred times but never the full article — 200k notes and i’ve never seen someone mention the guy saying “they should let kiryu smoke meth”
no Male Author Moment has ever made me cringe quite as viscerally as the ending of Grapes of Wrath and that was a full decade before I found out about this
Sanora Babb’s own novel, Whose Names Are Unknown, was buried by the publisher after Grapes was published. It was eventually released in 2004, a year before her death.
