Steve (is still spooky) 🦇

Book editor (i rite gud)📝. Creator of spooky things 🎃. Gaming addict 🎮. Sword enthusiast ⚔️.

[Steve (is still spooky) 🦇 @DarkfireSavior]

No more #HotGirlSummer, it is now #ScreamingPossumFall

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A breakfast counter. The waitress recommended the biscuits and gravy, and when the plate arrived, I thought something had gone wrong in the kitchen.

I say this with shame. The dish looked like a construction site after rain. Pale mounds. Gray ladle-fall. Speckles I could not identify.

In my land, the eye eats first. A meal is arranged like a garden. This meal was arranged like weather.

"Is it… finished?" I asked, carefully.

"Honey, that's what it looks like."

The man beside me was already eating his. He did not look up. "Just try it."

I am a man who has charged hillsides at dawn. I raised the fork. I tried it.

I must now formally apologize to the biscuits, the gravy, the waitress, the kitchen, and the entire breakfast tradition of the American South.

It was magnificent. Warm. Peppered. The biscuit drank the gravy the way a field drinks rain — THAT is why it is shaped like that, you fool — and every mound I had insulted was a soft fold of comfort that my homeland, in eight hundred years, never once thought to invent.

"Well?" the waitress asked.

"I judged it," I confessed. "By its appearance. I am ashamed."

"Everybody does, hon."

Everybody does. A national dish that forgives you for doubting it. It expects the doubt. It waits for you on the other side of it.

Do not judge the gravy by its face. Judge yourself, for hesitating.

I order it every Saturday now. I no longer see the construction site. I see only the garden.

It was a garden the whole time. The eye must be trained.

[Texas Cannabis Collective @txcannaco]

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[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

BREAKING: Ken Paxton’s own lawyer just endorsed James Talarico:

“I defended Ken Paxton for years in the impeachment trial and in state criminal cases. But in my view, I think Ken has lost sight of his core mission, which is to represent the people of Texas. 

And unlike Ken, I believe that you, James, believe in unity over division and that you know how to assemble not only Democrats but Independents and Republicans and we need that right now. 

We need unity, we don't need any more division and that's why I'm supporting you.”

[Steve (is still spooky) 🦇 @DarkfireSavior]

@DmytryszynWlad @giveashitnature Most painful sting I’ve felt. Do not recommend.

[le sociologue grincheux @OhHowByronic]

Spot on.

[Dead by Daylight @DeadbyDaylight]

The mask is on. The machete is dripping. The massacre has begun.
Dead by Daylight: Jason. @JasonUniverse13

06. 16. 26.

[WARFRAME @PlayWarframe]

Orion and Sirius: a rivalry for the ages. Which side will you choose?

Coming to the Origin System in Jade Shadows: Constellations this June.

[Asanwa.sol @Chizitere_xyz]

The double standard in emotional support is exhausting. When a woman spends three hours unloading all her daily stress, anxiety, and workplace drama onto her partner, society calls it "healthy communication" and demands he listen. The exact second a man tries to do the same thing because the crushing weight of providing is breaking him, he is instantly accused of "trauma dumping," told to go to therapy, and penalized for ruining the vibe.

[k @alfkkifine]

The internet constantly tells women that men are terrible listeners because the second a woman starts venting about her day, the man immediately interrupts to offer a logical solution. We are taught to view this as him being dismissive, emotionally unintelligent, or invalidating our feelings.

​The strict, unpopular truth is that to a man, fixing the problem is his absolute highest, most desperate form of empathy.
​Women vent to connect; we want our partner to just sit in the dark with us and validate the emotion. But men are hardwired to view the woman they love being in distress as an active threat. When he immediately offers a spreadsheet, a strategy, or a solution to your problem, he isn't trying to silence you. His brain has recognized that something in the world is hurting his partner, and his immediate, visceral instinct is to assassinate the thing causing you pain.

We constantly shame men for "not just listening," completely ignoring the fact that his attempt to fix your life is his most profound declaration of love.

[Paul Bronks @SlenderSherbet]

Me avoiding social interactions.

[Asanwa.sol @Chizitere_xyz]

The most terrifying realization a man has as he gets older is that his grace is entirely conditional. If a woman has a career setback, makes a bad financial move, or needs a year to "find herself," she is met with sisterhood, therapy, and endless emotional support. If a man asks for that exact same grace? He is an immediate liability. He is told to step up. His partner's friends will literally advise her to leave him because he's "holding her back." A man is only allowed to fail if he can quietly fix it before anyone notices. The moment his struggle becomes an inconvenience to the people he provides for, the respect vanishes. A lot of men are walking around with the crushing realization that they were never actually loved for who they are; they were just employed for what they provide

[Rebekah Jones @GeoRebekah]

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