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applesforthis

1 year ago

three years ago today, a new me was born

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trans things <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 just total gorgeousness is this how we win the culture war? is it by being irresistible

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applesforthis

2 weeks ago

Rubiane Maia Where everyone sees (2016)

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applesforthis

6 months ago

front page of a zine called 'Tips for defying the end of the world (from people who were right before)'. there's doodles of speech bubbles and lightning bolts

In 2000 (when I was 8), I heard about 2012. [caps lock with lightning bolts around it] THE END OF THE WORLD. [end caps lock]. I curled up by the radiator and I sobbed. What was the point? why go to school if I was gonna die at 20 anyway? But my mum came in and said, [text in a speech bubble next to a picture of me in the corner, curled up by the radiator.], "But what if the world doesn't end? What if you live? Then, if you quit now, you'll have to catch up". [end speech bubble.] And I persisted. And I didn't die.

And when I was real depressed one time, I told my doctor how overwhelming it felt to try to fix all the world's problems when I'm just one person. Activist burnout. And he said, [text in a speech bubble next to a picture of my doctor speaking to me], You ARE just one person. So you can't fix it all. But you can pick small things in your small radius, and start working on the small wins instead. [end speech bubble]. And he was right. I've done so much more with less stress since then.

And now, I look after some folk who are younger than me. They also fear the future. They fear politicians, and they fear hatred, and they fear climate change. They're burnt out.
But what if it works out? What if small changes today make tomorrow better?
Hope is a tool. Hope is a weapon. Hope is a plant we must nurture.
[There's a plant drawn dividing the page]

Even if things go wrong, we can at least say we tried. But we hope for more. Because if we can picture it, we can work towards it.
[There's a plant drawn dividing the page, and nariarts @ tumblr written below]

Tips for Defying the End of the World.

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The simplest things are the hardest for me

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applesforthis

1 month ago

The other nice thing about the Joy of Cooking is that the baking recipes are actually quite decent. So you have a book that's half batshit insanity about how to skin an eel with pliers (I'm not joking about that btw), and half nice gingersnaps and soda breads. It's so weird and charming.

Wait while we’re all being unhinged about, like, stew. We all obsessed over the Joy of Cooking as children right. Right

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joy of cooking

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applesforthis

2 months ago

fires, episode 5 (2021)

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kate box I highkey love that her career seems to just be “all the lesbian roles forever kthx” helana sawires

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applesforthis

4 months ago

[Image description: a tweet from user @thefurrow reading, Witnesses said a bus driver told an ICE agent to "gargle [his] balls" when the latter requested to enter the bus. This is a reply to a tweet from Associated Press Seattle, which reads BREAKING: Greyhound says it will stop letting Border Patrol agents conduct routine immigration checks on its buses. End image description.]

applesforthis - You can't get there from here

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us politics ice BUT HERE WE ARE I had no idea I could feel this proud of the Greyhound bus line

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applesforthis

10 months ago

I love that Cath is even in character X-D

It’s no mystery that we’re stoked about this news! #Deadloch is coming back for a second season on Prime Video

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deadloch madeleine sami eddie redcliffe kate box dulcie collins abby matsuda cath york nina oyama alicia gardiner deadloch cast

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applesforthis

5 months ago

Deadloch fic rec: maybe, by groove_bunker

(Rated teen and up)

I love how much Dulcie cares for Eddie, and I love seeing the reasons why she feels that way, what it is about Eddie that she responds to. I really got such a physical sense of Dulcie, from reading this, of how she feels in this situation -- her intense need to find Eddie, to make sure Eddie is okay. This whole fic really made me go "Oh, my heart."

These two. I love them so, and @groovebunker has captured them so well, here.

Also: many of us have written fics in which Cath gets her shit together, and I like those; but I also like seeing Dulcie notice the ways Cath is really not behaving well, in this moment. Cath in canon is very unskilled, and it's refreshing to see that acknowledged.

Ugh. This really is just so lovely, and it really stayed with me after reading. Go read, enjoy, comment. <3 (Previously: Deadloch fic rec list)

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applesforthis

1 month ago