Soul Repair

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by WhoWhatWhereWitch (Gibsos)

Ichigo had known ghosts were real ever since he could remember. Now, at twenty-eight years old, he was learning gremlins were real too. He wasn’t sure how they managed to hide so well, but it was the only explanation for the woman in front of him, giving him the most aggressive job offer Ichigo had ever received.

Or, Ichigo is a medium, Rukia owns a business that pairs spiritualists and home inspectors to convince people they have uneven doors, and not ghosts.

Or, five times Ichigo tells Rukia he can see ghosts, and one time she believes him

Words: 5960, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

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Had a conversation with a housemate earlier and I want to reiterate this on the internet. Speaking as a disabled person, who’s been Officially Disabled on paper for more than a decade: I literally do not give two shits if those twits who are taking horse dewormer - the ones seriously damaging their health longterm, what with the risk of blindness and organ damage and all - end up going on disability or receiving public assistance. They should still receive disability benefits if they qualify for them. “It taxes an already stressed system-” Yeah, you know why it’s stressed? Because rich people don’t pay their taxes. We could fund these programs a dozen times over if we actually made it a priority, as a society, to take care of people. And maybe, I don’t know, bought fewer tanks. People still deserve to eat and have housing. We don’t let people starve in the streets because they made bad choices. (Besides, what about those kids whose parents are COVID deniers, or feeding them vetrinary drugs? Do they “deserve” to suffer their whole lives because their parents are assholes?) Once we open that door to “Oh it’s their own fault they’re disabled, so why should society pay for it?” it VERY QUICKLY becomes “Well, it’s your fault for being fat*. Or “You must not have been eating right, so you deserve it.”  Or “It’s your fault for not trying yoga”. Or “This treatment didn’t work for you, so you must have been doing it wrong”.

*This isn’t an academic exercise. The city I live in has a policy that if your disability is due to alcoholism, drug abuse, or “obesity”, you can’t qualify for a reduced fare transit pass, or paratransit services. Do you know how easy it is to spin something into not qualifying for benefits? “Well they’re fat, so the pain must be their own fault.” even if it’s a matter of “Bad knees run in my family, and being in pain all the time makes it really difficult to exercise”. Who gives a shit why it happened? They’re suffering, and access to better transportation would make them suffer less. Actually, if someone’s an alcoholic or addict, I probably want them to have MORE access to public transit? Drunk driving is bad. We don’t give people more reasons to deny people help. I literally do not give even a single, solitary fuck if a million people who “brought it on themselves” get help. Any focus on “BUT THE UNDESERVING-” is an attempt to con you into policing poor people and disabled people more.

See also, “I’m going to dance/shit/cheer/etc.on the graves” of people you don’t like.  They’re not excluded from sympathy, empathy or help.

Oh, no, I think you’re fundamentally misunderstanding me here. I already have a menu and celebratory playlist planned for when That Orange Motherfucker dies.

It’s totally fine to be happy when someone who’s causing harm dies. I’m saying that denying people real, concrete help - such as disability benefits, or SNAP, or whatever -  because they’re a “bad” person - isn’t okay and DEFINITELY will harm people beyond your intended target.

Saying “Well you overdosed on veterinary medicine and wrecked your health, so why should taxpayers pay for it?” will, ABSOLUTELY, 100% be used for “Well, you’re fat, so it’s your fault that you’re sick (even if whatever illness you have is UTTERLY unrelated to your weight) so we won’t provide benefits“. Or “Well you have an invisible/difficult to diagnose illness, so we think you’re making it up”. Or “You say you did X treatment and it didn’t work, so it must be your fault”.  Or even, in a few years, “Oh so you took the horse dewormer because you were a minor child at the time and your parent made you take it and now it’s cause ongoing health problems. Well, that sounds like it was your fault too, so we’re denying you help.” There’s a federal law that bans people with felony drug convictions from receiving food stamps. Because they’re “bad” people. (Nevermind that they still have to eat.)  “Punishing” people for perceived “immoral” behavior by taking away their basic needs is cruel, and it doesn’t work. Look. Quite honestly, I’d like to dropkick some of these people into the sun. They’ve certainly made it clear that my life, as a disabled person, is worthless to them. But we don’t leave people to starve in the street just because they’re terrible.

AI under capitalism

greatest to ever do it

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so in third grade I told two of my friends I could talk to horses & made up a really dramatic backstory of how I “discovered” my powers & our teacher overheard us talking about it and told the child psychologist I was seeing for insomnia issues & the child psychologist asked me about it & I was first and foremost terrified that if I admitted to the lie, this medical professional would tell my friends I made it all up

so I doubled down and insisted I could really talk to horses. I was doing major damage control. I didn’t realize you can’t just tell psychiatric professionals you have magic powers, I was 8.

so I ended up in counseling for this for an entire year until eventually I just stopped going for some reason but when I was 20 the office contacted me to tell me the psychologist was retiring & asked if I wanted a copy of my childhood records before they were filed away and eventually shredded & I said sure & went over them & discovered that she had diagnosed me with “psychotic delusions” bc I was 8 and apparently convinced her I truly thought I could talk to horses.

genuinely cannot tell if I my parents should’ve been cashing in on me as the most sought-after child actor of the era or if that psychologist was just extremely so so so bad at her job.

I also figured out I stopped seeing her because she told my parents the diagnosis and my dad was like “she’s doesn’t think she can talk to horses!!! she’s lying to you 😭😭😭😭” but she didn’t believe him

i say i was a weird-horse-girl in elementary school and you say “me too” but did it get you a psychiatric diagnosis

I was gone for 3 years during which time I became a professional column writer for various magazines. i wish what brought me back was an insatiable passion for storytelling but unfortunately it was a need to post about baldur’s gate 3

open a new window somewhere in the world. 

i love this because it’s such a simple concept but it answers things i didn’t even know how to ask

Looking out of people’s windows is such a peaceful way of travelling… I got a snowfall in Argentina, a nice sea view in Ukraine, a clothes line in the fog in Bangalore. Antonella from Tavernaro, I like your wooden bird.

nobody talk to me nobody touch me i live here now. this is my new favorite thing.

A) This is an amazing idea.

B) I’m fond of this window, which came up after windows in Sweden, Germany, Toronto and South Korea …

I can't stop thinking about this reddit post on soapmaking dude

I cannot express what an insane recipe that is. No one else could grasp it either

Like beeswax doesn't. It kinda just stays as beeswax in the soap. The lye has nowhere to go with it. That liquid seeping out of the soap? The brown and clear drops?? That's lye. That's straight up lye. This mf made the soap equivalent of the Chernobyl elephants foot.

Quick reminder that if you touch lye with your bare hands, it will react with the fatty oils on and in your skin to create soap molecules.

That means it will give you chemical burns while creating human soap.

OP’s comment about the soap equivalent of a Chernobyl elephant’s foot is on point.

Lye (aka sodium hydroxide) turns hydrocarbons/fats into soap.

You are a hydrocarbon.

Please be careful when making soap, because You are a thing that could be used to make soap. And nobody wants to bathe in human soap, no matter how much rosemary you put in it.

i gotta remember this

POV : you're about to get served the most bomb food to ever exist possibly

closeups 🫡

I love soft Sasuke and I believe there should be more of that side of him showcased (my boi's had enough trauma)

I wish we could have seen more of Sasuke's redemption arc and especially the bonds he had to restore (and deepen) with Sakura and Kakashi (not to mention Naruto bc he already has a really deep bond with him).

oops! it seems i tripped and dropped several million free books, papers, and other resources

https://annas-archive.org

https://sci-hub.se

https://z-lib.is

https://libgen.is

https://libgen.rs

https://www.pdfdrive.com

https://library.memoryoftheworld.org

https://monoskop.org/Monoskop

https://libcom.org

https://libretexts.org

http://classics.mit.edu

https://librivox.org

https://standardebooks.org

https://www.gutenberg.org

https://core.ac.uk

(full article here)

wow you got to the red stop light faster and more dangerously than anyone else. should we throw a party?? should we call nascar

nodding furiously at every second of this video

I hope she never finds out about the Netherlands.

What's so bad about "Netherlander"???

The only demonym I've ever heard for the Netherlands is "Dutch".