I want like… a condo. And enough money to go on vacation sometimes. And maybe a mug.
bro look at thrift stores or garage sale for mugs
i once got a set of four cat mugs for a dollar. one of the best days of my life so far
Maybe I’m tired of going to thrift stores for mugs. Maybe I’m tired of the $5 target mugs. Maybe I want a really nice mug. Not like five hundred nice mugs. Just like… one or two would be nice. You know? Maybe I’d hang one on my wall. I think I’d like that. Owning a wall.
Go to any streets that close for art events, you’ll find at least 1 good potter selling their wares there
I got the cup I use for my bathroom at Las Olas, Florida for their art fair a few years back, it was like $15ish but the potter had a set all in the same color combo of a bowl, 2 sized plates and 2 different mugs. I just wanted the one small cup but I’ve got the card somewhere
At the same art fair a year or two later a different potter was there selling his stuff and that’s who I got one of my tea mugs from for like again $15isb
Again, people are misunderstanding my actual desires represented by the mug.
There you go.
Every time we go into a Big Fancy Houseware shop just to browse, I stare wistful at the mugs. “We have enough mugs” I will say. But I know I my heart that all the mugs at home are mismatched and old, or secret Santa gifts from across the years. None of them have been purchased solely for the joy of buying a fancy new mug.
Like you could even go to the clearance aisle for mugs. The change of seasons always brings new and interesting things. OR A GOODWILL TRIP? Holy shit this person is going on and on about expensive ass mugs when what you really need in life is to not fall into the trap that capitalism has inevitably laid for all of us that makes us believe wholeheartedly that the only happiness we will find in life is the ability to purchase expensive things and to own expensive things
Go green and try to re-thrift for shit that’s so trivial it takes one slip of the hand to watch it completely fall to pieces
I made this post over a year ago now and inevitably whenever it gains more traction someone will pop up completely misunderstanding me, not understanding that I’d just like to be comfortable. I don’t actually want advice on how to acquire mugs. I own a couple of mugs. I’d just like to be able to have some security. Maybe a pool. Maybe I’d like to own a small amount of property. A condo, maybe. I’d like to be able to travel. You’ll notice that nobody here is giving advice on how to acquire a condo or a vacation. They’re just taking the mug part seriously. All I wanted to do was fantasize about a world where I don’t live in a studio apartment that takes up half of my paycheck in rent alone and maybe I have a stupid white dad device mounted on the wall to showcase my mug collection. Can everyone just shut the hell up about telling me how to acquire mugs? I don’t care about the traps of consumerism! I just wanna be able to afford to visit my aunts sometimes! And so what if I do want an expensive mug? That’s my goddamn business.
This is a perfect summary of what it’s like for try to communicate any idea that can’t fit neatly into a single sentence on Tumblr Dot Com.
when people say shit like “no one is talking about this bc it’s not happening in america” im like oh ok u think tumblr is a news site
the notes on this post are something else so im adding a reading companion..
saying “no one is talking about this because it’s not happening in america” suggests to me that you have conferred upon this platform the authority of a news site, and individuals bloggers with the responsibility of journalists. you think that if people are not talking about it here, then they don’t know about it and may not care to know or worse, that knowledge is being suppressed. that if people are not talking about it here, then they must not care, and aren’t reading about it from a legitimate news source and just not blogging about it.
tumblr is not a news site. it is a microblogging platform where news is often a topic of discussion, and where users aren’t being paid to curate a balanced portrait of world events. they’re not being paid at all. the fact remains that a third of this site are americans*, and that users are typically dividing their time discussing politics with discussing what fictional character or celebrity they should like to penetrate. it is not the responsibility of random people on this website to reblog enough links to news stories to keep you informed about world events or the goings on in your country. it’s entitled and petulant to accuse others as ignorance because they arent doing anything to keep you up to date.
real power is going outside knowing you look ugly and also knowing that if you chose to perform femininity in accordance with patriarchal standards you could look attractive, but genuinely prefering to look ugly and not feeling bad about it. feels good feels organic
True, honest, genuine power is going outside knowing you look gorgeous bc you don’t need to perform hyper femininity the way men want you to and that you can be stunning despite patriarchal ideals
i appreciate the intent but i actually made this post in direct response to the liberal feminist tendency to widen the parameters of “beauty” rather than challenging the concept itself and specifically the notion that women must be beautiful to be valuable, and as such my choice of words was very deliberate—i have no interest in being assured i am beautiful and a great deal of interest in existing without being told i must be such. this post is not self-deprecating and does not call for bathroom-stall platitudes. ugliness in women is threatening and i embrace that.
“I have no interest in being assured I am beautiful and a great deal of interest in existing without being told I must be such.”
If Legolas can be a major player in the hobbit movies despite not being in the book then I don’t see why he shouldn’t just show up in whatever fantasy story he likes. Everyone likes him so it would be a win-win
legolas shows up in game of thrones to pat a dragon then leaves
GOOD
Legolas appears in Harry Potter to make his faces at Voldemort before going on his way
