Daily OpusEverything I write is freely rebloggable. Just keep the source and tell people about my books :D [Until I decide otherwise, my pronouns are Ze/Hir/Hirself. As in "Ze went to the shops to get hir medication hirself". Thank you for the respect.]
julia is obviously a goddamn unit and i love her 💕💕 magnus is a lucky man ( Image description: a warm toned image of Julia, a dark skinned, heavy set muscular maori woman with a soft tummy, holding a brass axe over one shoulder and her other hand on her hip. She is tattooed in traditional fashion over one arm and her chin and is wearing a red chest wrap and loose grey trousers and leather sandals. She wears a salmon scarf in her dark curly plaited hair, a brass hooped earring, decorated with a turquoise tassle that matches her eyes and her silver wedding ring on a string around her neck. She’s grinning cheekily to the viewer, sticking her tounge out, her eyes relaxed and happy.)
so, last year i did something like this, and it went really well, so i thought i may as well do it again. cuz giveaways are fun!
its a yulemas giveaway! my fanniversary is coming up in january, and i wanted to commemorate it by sharing some of the spg love ive gathered over the years with some of you guys! and with hatchy leaving the band by next year, i feel its even more important that i share the love with yall
most of it has been gathering dust on my shelves for a little over a year now, and i feel like ive spent a fair amount of time coveting and admiring this stuff, so i wanna pass it along to a few lucky people that may be able to appreciate it even more u_u
so! heres the rundown of what you could win:
photo prints (the very much sought after Red Room Set, retired prints, etc. all from spgs former photographers, geekshot!)
exclusive/rare stuff (from VIP events, and whatnot)
CDs or DVDs (ive got both of their DVDs and a CD up for grabs!)
retired merch (playing cards, wristbands)
fanart from me!
and the rules to this giveaway are:
you must be following me on this blog
you must reblog to win— likes dont count (but they are nice and all…) and you can only reblog once!
3 winners in total will be chosen! if you win, youll basically get a random assortment of anything i listed above, and the best part is that any of it could be signed by the band themselves!!! not to mention, most of it is either old or retired stuff, so if youre new to the fandom and didnt get the chance to catch this stuff when it first came out, nows your opportunity to get your hands on it! the downside to some of it being old is that a few things might be a teensy bit beat up, but theyre still in pretty decent condition, otherwise i wouldnt give them away u_u
when you win, ill also write you a letter of gratitude, and draw a personalized sketch of whatever you want on the envelope! i did this during my last giveaway, and i feel like it made it all the more personal, it really allowed me to connect with the winners last time, and i do hope it made them happy! from what i can tell, it did, so im doing it again u_u !!
the giveaway starts on december 19th and ends on january 19th, so have at it! and as always, thank you all so much for sticking around with me, for all these years <3 best of luck to all of you!
France has made it illegal for supermarkets to destroy edible food in an effort to cut waste. Under the new laws, chains will be forced to donate discarded food to charity or allow it to turned into animal feed, compost or energy.
Fifteen seconds into the clip he’s taken a page out of the 1963 edition of Hack Screenwriter’s Digest and turned her business-related comment into sexual innuendo. “That’s not funny,” she responds in the most patient and reasonable tone she can muster.
Incidentally, given that they work for the same corporation, this interaction falls comfortably under the umbrella of workplace sexual harassment and should at least get him a slap on the wrist from HR, but whatever. He doesn’t play by the rules, man. He goes his own way.
But Claire getting a dressing down by her male co-stars was a part of the film’s marketing, so that I was expecting. What I wasn’t expecting was Claire getting a dressing down for being ambivalent as to whether or not she should be a mother from her own goddamn sister.
At one point, after the kids are reunited with Claire and Owen, and after Owen drives a car (backwards) away from a stampeding mob, one of the kids cries, “Can we stay with you?” to which Claire responds that she’ll never leave them alone again. “I meant him!” says the kid, pointing to Owen, who he has only just met.
Google could launch an effort to keep trolls and bad information at bay, with a program that would rank websites according to veracity, and sort results according to those rankings. Currently, the search engine ranks pages according to popularity, which means that pages containing unsubstantiated celebrity gossip or conspiracy theories, for example, show up very high.
Anonymous asked, "Could you explain the whole "i don’t really have depression, i’m actually just a lazy piece of shit" = you've got depression, thing? It rang a bell for me and I'd like to know what you meant. Thanks :)"
one of the most insidious things about depression is it doesn’t ‘feel’ like depression. even when you have it, you know you have it, you’ve been diagnosed—you still find yourself thinking, no, nope, this isn’t it, can’t be. it’s like the mental illness equivalent of that knight in monty python that keeps going ‘it’s a flesh wound! i’m fine, really! this is just a scratch, i’ll be up in a moment!’ even after all his limbs have been hacked off and he’s lying there helpless.
one of the most common narratives around it is that no one realizes they have depression until they start checking off what they consider to be normal aspects of their lives—and personal character flaws— against the checklist for depression symptoms. really key symptoms include:
lack of motivation
constant tiredness, even exhaustion
finding no pleasure or satisfaction in activities they used to like, or that they know should feel good
not seeing the point of doing anything
increased and even unmanageable anxiety and fearfulness
any one of these symptoms drains away your ability to do work, cope with setbacks, overcome difficulties, or stop procrastinating. multiple symptoms create a pretty perfect storm of intertia and anxious self-loathing. you stop doing anything because it’s hard to get going, unpleasant while you’re at it, and afterwards there’s no reward. why bother, right? and when you’re always tired you get conservative of what little energy you can manage, and when you only feel emotions on the ‘empty to miserable’ spectrum you get really aversive to making mistakes. the whole mess very quickly and very insidiously loads every single thing in your life with toxic emotional baggage.
and then someone says to you— or you say to yourself, ‘stop being lazy’. and that haunts you forever. because you’re lazy! the work is so easy. everyone else does it. everyone but you, you lazy asshole, lying around all day not doing this totally easy thing that you should be able to but aren’t. you don’t have depression! of course not. mental illness is for victims, is for blameless innocent people who can’t be blamed for being so understandably sick. but you can be blamed. you have a character flaw, and it’s getting worse by the minute.
and that is how people who have been diagnosed, who have been medicated, who have been through therapy, can still spend all day hiding in bed and chewing themselves up over their failure to just somehow magically be a good, healthy, useful person, instead of treating themselves to a sick day and saying ‘yup! it’s depression. i need to be kind to myself.’
