just existing.

pretty sure my actual most controversial minecraft opinion is that i don’t want any improvements made to the end

i don't know how to explain it exactly but my favorite thing about the end is something about it feels existentially horrifying in a way the other two dimensions don't, and the emptiness is a huge part of why

the other two dimensions are full of ruins and treasure and echoes of long-dead civilizations that had values and purpose and goals they were trying to achieve. there's a real sense that they're ruins now because they were destroyed, or abandoned, or taken over

the end cities don't feel like that. they aren't even ruins. they're just empty. it feels less like their inhabitants fled or died out and more like they just...stopped

YES we shall have a spring weddi- [sees icon and url] nvm just making out is fine too

[already getting fitted for a bulletproof wedding dress] hell yeah domestic bliss here i come

each day i come back

from my odd way of life

and i parry attacks

from my spouse with a knife

i unmod the end

like i do every day

and they mod it again

soon as i look away

they poison my tea

when i leave it to steep

i pretend not to see

and i die in my sleep

i wake from the dead

every morning at dawn

make them breakfast in bed

and the cycle goes on

each day I await

the return of my spouse

they’re never too late

they love time in our house

the end is at hand

all teeming with life

yet they load up a land

they prefer filled with strife

I poison the tea

they’ll drink if they dare

the mug is left empty

I know that they care

their heart slowly stops

but at dawn comes the save

the penny still drops

leave my kiss for their grave

[dodges cast iron skillet aimed at my head] YOU HAVE NO FUCKING APPRECIATION FOR EVOCATIVE WORLDBUILDING. DINNER SMELLS GREAT BTW

god i hope the cpsc takes the shot. i think this would dramatically change their entire business model. amazon makes so much money by selling defective or mislabeled or just plain dangerous products and then faces little liability because this stuff is actually being sold by random third-party sellers that don't get vetted at all and can be hard to prosecute because they're in china or wherever. this is a big part of what makes amazon so powerful and it would be good for everyone if they were forced to bear more responsibility for the damages caused by the crap available on their website

Here's the link if someone can paste the article into the reblogs

Note that it is not an accident that this is happening now. One of the things Biden has made a point of doing is appointing aggressive and anti-corporate people to Federal agencies, such as the Consumer Product Safety Commission. There have been a string of rulings and rule changes from such agencies that have been good for the average American and/or good for labor unions, but bad for the big corporations.

UPDATE: Amazon is officially a distributor who is legally responsible to recall dangerous defective products! The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) issued the decision and order on 7/30/24 by a commission chair nominated by Biden in 2021. Democrats are the party of consumer safety and improving lives.

I read an AITA post a few weeks back about a woman who liked having snacks in the bath when she's had a long day (a result of residual trauma iirc - the bath was her safe space). Her brand new husband of three weeks, a man twice her age who had no job, made her pay all of his bills and do all housework, and spent all day every day gaming because he wanted to make it as a Twitch streamer, had always been fine with this; but, on the day in question, had whisked her bath snacks out of her hands as she was on her way to the bathroom and tried to bin them, telling her it was time to 'break her of that filthy habit in his home'. She told him if he ever actually paid anything towards the house she owns outright he might get a say, took her snacks back, and had her lovely bath. He was since giving her the silent treatment.

(Obviously the judgement was an avalanche of 'NTA and also he's abusing you', which she agreed with, and decided to kick him out, so happy ending.)

Anyway I told my husband about this and he was outraged. "I would never do that!" he told me, furious. "I would find it adorable if you had bath snacks!"

Since then, every time I try to have a bath (which I only do as a rare treat) after about ten minutes there has been an anxious scrabbling at the bathroom door.

"Elanor!" he says. "Do you have bath snacks? Do you need anything?"

My answer is irrelevant. He brings me wine and poptarts. Now I have bath snacks. I'm a bath snacks person. Last time he was literally sleeping on the sofa when I went for the bath. Somehow this still happened. I now have an eager bathroom butler. How did this happen. I have never been so decadent yet bewildered.

some asshole: tries to control his wife by withholding bath snacks

op's husband:

i hate viruses so fucking much. literally getting attacked by a fucking shape. a concept. consumes no energy. responds to no stimuli. its only existence is to fuck with you. like fuck offf

prev's tags are too good not to save

[ID: #right???

#it's not even a beast or a creature #a bacterium is at least a guy. a horrible little scallawag of a guy but a guy nonetheless

#a virus is just. a mean tiny complicated philips head screwdriver

#fuck off out of here. go back to concept town /end ID]

The only way to be immune to advertising is to be immune to communication, somehow. To be completely cut off from all the disparate ways that people influence your thoughts. That’s never going to happen, so the next best thing you can do is be aware of common advertising tactics, who they come from and how they work.

And of course installing firefox as your default browser and installing uBlock origin

God. Fuck. I didn’t even notice it

reverse gaslighting where i pretend to know exactly what you are talking about

academic conferences

Work meetings

Interviews

Auditory processing disorder

conversations with my cats who are yelling

Me letting that little kid with their hyper fixation tell me every single fact they know about it

Goncharov (1973)

“…to me” is one of the most powerful disclaimers we have on here… is this character analysis accurate? debatable. but it’s real… to me.

this is just my unprofessional opinion but fuck all that shit

i should get a special treat whenever i successfully “i have food at home” myself. a treat like a special snack i do not have at home.

TOTALLY missed seeing this one sooner over on instagram but it looks like sj whitby's got another story coming out !!! this one isnt cute mutants related, but already looks like a LOT of fun and something im incredibly excited for in february next year. can't wait to meet max and see all of the alien shenanigans afoot in this anthology !!!

in other cute mutants news: i suddenly discovered there was a hardcover version of imposter syndrome. WHY DID I NEVER REALIZE THERE WAS A HARDCOVER VERSION OF IMPOSTER SYNDROME

every so often i remember that @destructivelynch and i decided to make mini dylans after seeing @mcdoessomething do the same and i ALSO every so often remember that my dylan is naked except for a pair of sneakers-

this icon

the holy trinity: the father (fuck it we ball) the son (it is what it is) the holy spirit (to be cringe is to be free)

entering this great new phase of my life where, when someone treats me like shit, instead of going "oh man I guess I'm a piece of shit" I can whole-heartedly go "christ alive, what is wrong with you? you can't treat people like that" and it may sound simple but it took a long time to get here and there's no fucking way I'm going back