the thing about osteoarthritis is i never really understood how loud the "clicking" of my joints is. i honestly thought that the feeling of rusty cogwheels moving was just that, and the sound of it was only in my head.

until one day a coworker asked me if my arm hurt after i moved it lol

now i got myself in-ear headphones (can't move my hands around all the way during exercises in the full-size ones),

so now i get to hear all the rusty cogwheel sounds inside my head for real.

sounds horrifying lmao

can't say i'm getting used to seeing a kilometer-long Trump meltdown every second time i'm clicking on a blog that dug up one of my fanarts,

but what drove me mad this time was how, among the posts implying how the USA elections were literally The Good Progressive Forces Of Light VS The Bad Evil Forces Of Dark, there was a reaction pic post going "foreigners watch in horror as we elect a criminal instead of a pofessional politician".

don't drag us foreigners into this.

your country's foreign policy did not, does not, and will not change, regardless of who's elected, in any of your elections, ever.

would your country's policy towards Europe have been changed if any of the other folks were elected?

no.

Asia?

lol no.

West Asia/Middle East?

lmao no.

Latin America? Africa? The Pacific?

definitely no.

"i may be living in an imperialist fascist hegemonic state that has been, for decades (p much over a century now), crushing and destroying any liberation movements, waging military & economic wars on those who want their homeland to progress further than their designated spot as a resource colony, and supporting all the other oppressive fascist geno cidal regimes everywhere all across the globe ― but at least our last president didn't hate gay people!" ― this is what you sound like.

your country is both the Fourth Reich and a circus simultaneously.

foreigners whose brains aren't US-centered are only interested in your elections bc there is a free show on social media that some find entertaining.

we ― as foreigners ― don't much care who's elected in the USA.

because it doesn't change absolutely anything about your country in relation to our countries, or even us the people.

there are only two gloomy snowy moods of early winter

one is "SUNN O))) - Cursed Realms" (when it's windy)

the other is "Gorillaz - Faust" (when no wind)

the first snow's fallen today

Blue Öyster Cult - Take Me Away

politics bs