Castle of Lions

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

Great news! I’ve been approved by MangaDex to upload Kakegurui Kari!

Kakegurui Kari is now available in a gloriously organized format on MangaDex! Chapters will be posted there from now on, and I’ll drop a link here as they’re uploaded so you all are aware when there’s something new.

In the meantime, here’s the page to get caught up or reread! Enjoy!

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dealanexmachina
veganconnor

things that made me stop wanting to die that require no effort whatsoever

  • change the color used to highlight text on your laptop
  • move the pictures on your wall
  • stack whatever clutter is in your room into piles even if you don’t have time to clean it all
  • slightly vary your commute, even just by one street
  • change where you sit and scroll aimlessly on your phone even if it’s only to the chair in your room instead of your bed
  • drink water or juice out of a wine glass in the morning because nothing is real
  • shower with the lights off, without music
  • buy $3 flowers at trader joe’s—they look bad next to the more expensive ones but they look so good in your room
  • start typing things you don’t post into your notes. your thoughts can be worth documenting even if you don’t deem them worth sharing
  • wake up super early just once. you don’t have to make it a habit it’s just extra satisfying to go to bed that night
  • listen to the entirety of your favorite album from 2015
sandersstudies

Almost all of these are about variety. Humans need stimulation! We need enrichment! We literally cannot do the same thing every day!

The other day I was feeling miserable, so I hopped on a bus and rode it all the way back to where I’d started, and my brain, which had finally had some proper stimulation via new environments, was suddenly ready to go again!

This is why taking walks/drives and trying new hobbies are good for you! Don’t turn yourself into a sad zoo animal! You need some pumpkins to roll around in your enclosure!

because-its-warm

ITS BACK!!!!!

god i fucking love the quote “dont turn yourself into a sad zoo animal” it has really inspired me!

dealanexmachina
tubaterry

Saw an op-ed that was on the surface a complaint about kids not wanting to take on family heirlooms but read like an elegy to dying traditions. The hardest part was the anxiety without recognizing that they didn’t pave the way for the decisions they assumed their kids would make.

(This is written entirely within the dominant white/western culture - about traditions that have neglectful stewardship rather than those actively suppressed)

The anxiety makes sense. You’re seeing, too late to do anything about it, that there’s no foundation - no space - for the traditions you expected to pass on. Your kids _can’t_ take your mom’s fine china. So now instead of enjoying what you have you worry about its future.

I see a pattern in these op-eds though - a pattern in what’s left unsaid. There were responsibilities tied to these traditions. You collectively assumed they _would_ be passed along. So collectively, what did you do to ensure those traditions _could_ be passed along?

Op-eds never speak for everyone, but it’s worth acknowledging the pattern in what speech is deemed worth sharing widely.  And in this particular pattern, there’s an answer: that answer looks like “nothing.”

You want the china passed down but your kids have no room in their rentals. You want grandkids but your kids don’t have the financial stability. You want that cross-country RV neverending road trip but you’ve had decades of wanting lower taxes more than you wanted infrastructure.

The bleak outlook for traditions is a direct result of the unmaintained foundations for them. The second best time is always now - if it’s important enough to op-ed about, what are you willing to change to get it back? What will you give up or re-prioritize?

I kinda think that world-defining assumptions are always gonna break without maintenance. So rather than getting mad at whoever’s next for not carrying on the norms we didn’t do upkeep on, when it’s my turn, I hope I’m introspective enough to help instead of externalize & blame.

greyhairedgeekgirl

This.

The bleak outlook for traditions is a direct result of the unmaintained foundations for them. The second best time is always now - if it’s important enough to op-ed about, what are you willing to change to get it back? What will you give up or re-prioritize?

I follow a Facebook group of “Memories of …” for my hometown - a rustbelt community that has gone from a thriving hub of industry to a much-less-thriving place.

The group is a collective lament.   Decades-old pictures of well-kept churches.  Aerial shots of the main intersection downtown, lined with big cars.    Scanned advertisemetns from local stores featuring pictures of their interiors.   These alternate with the drumbeat of news:  the Catholic diocese is closing churches.  Selling them.   Tearing them down.   STores downtown are closing.   The traffic light has been replaced with a four-way-stop.

“That’s the church my parents were married in!”
“How could they tear down that beautiful building.  Such memories!”
“All the businesses are closing.  It must be the taxes.”
”They’ve sold the old lodge downtown.”
“They’re not opening the skating rink this year.  We always used to go.”

And sometimes I chime in. 

“Do you attend that church?  Do you give? Or do you just want the building to look pretty for you? “
“Do you volunteer at that park?  Why not?”
“Did you vote for that recreation bond issue?”
“Are you a member of that Lodge? Why not?”
“Do you shop downtown?   Or did you start shopping at Walmart and Amazon to save a few bucks?”

If you feel something is worth preserving, why do you not participate in its preservation?  

Community is not a spectator sport. 

amarvelousplace-atempsideblog

Community is not a spectator sport

leebrontide

I want to add:

If you went to that church, did you make sure it welcomed the new generation and their values?

If you wanted your kids to inherit your china, did you make your home welcoming enough for them to use it long enough to build up a financially secure future?

If you want that park to exist, did you complain about older kids (teens) hanging out there as if they weren’t supposed be there?

If you want the next generation to maintain your traditions, did you WELCOME them into the spaces where those transitions live?

silvergryphonart

If you want your kids to want the big china set that can feed the whole extended family, did you teach them to look forward to big family events? Do they have nostalgia for that china set like you do? Does your family treat each other well enough for your kids to want to prioritise saving up for the space to host them?

If you want that historic building preserved, did you help make its history important? You know the stories those walls hold, but does anyone else, and could that have been leveraged into funding to restore it?

If you miss comfortable park benches, do you speak up about hostile architecture?

If you want public transport, do you use it?

dealanexmachina
rosemoonweaver

GUYS. DID YOU KNOW YOU CAN WRITE CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE FICS ON AO3

rosemoonweaver

Other things you can do:

  • Linked footnotes
  • Customized page dividers
  • Sticky notes
  • Lined paper
  • Paper that looks stacked on top of each other
  • Old looking paper
  • Newspaper articles
  • Tumblr posts
  • iOS text messages
  • Emails
  • Fake ao3 authors notes and kudos button
  • Freaking discord chats

Its fucking amazing. Ao3 is fucking amazing. Can I legally marry a website?


starkerfilth

WHAT

ffr
dealanexmachina
thesituation

history repeats itself only because conditions don’t change drastically enough to halt the cycle from reoccurring and that’s why studying history gives you an intellectual leg up cause you can raise your hand and be like this happened already guys idk if you remember but this happened☝️we know the answer guys ☝️

thesituation

and yknow what nobody fucking listens anyways. but at least you’ll know you tried

thesituation

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suuuch a good set of tags thank you