Ricki Yasha Tarr

Have you ever listened to someone vent about a problem, and about halfway through realized they are the problem?

Listen, not every woman can be an Emerald, or Phoenix Skye, or even a Cindi, some women are Mildreds, the world needs Mildreds.

Buffalo are absolutely wild! What do you mean this 1 ton creature can run a sustained 40 miles an hour, and jump 6 ft?!

Remember kids, America hasn't been at War since the 1940's. We just do things that look like War, and call it Preemptive Retaliatory De-escalation Action.

"Capitalism encourages competition."

Cool, can the people who want to compete to exist in the world, go somewhere else.

Today I Learned:

Mormons actually pay for the right to be Missionaries. They work about 11 hours a day and pay the church $400 a month. That's about 10k for a two year mission, essentially being a religious slave.

What is the first time you felt love?
What did it mean to you?
How did it feel?

It's interesting how Trans people "don't exist" until a woman is better at something than they think she should be.

Trump: Lex Luthor, great guy, trying to stop the immigrants, plays a great round of golf.

Why die on a hill, have a picnic instead, pick some flowers, work on your mental health.

I noticed something this Holiday Season, where a lot of people were talking about the vibe being off or their Holidays feeling less magical, not just in Christmas, but Chinese New Year, Diwali, Eid, ect. Obviously, a lot is going on in the world, but I feel like there's something else beside that. It feels like a movement of women saying, I'm not going to put more into this than the men in our lives.

From a personal perspective this came to a head for me several years ago. I love the Holidays, especially after my Dad passed, and as I've watched my relatives age, it made me realize that I was going to be one of the people that made this stuff happen. Over time I took on the majority of the burden of it. It wasn't that I didn't love it, but I'm also aging and have my own limitations, and I didn't want to say no to anyone, so I'd say yes to another thing. Holiday after Holiday I was getting exhausted to the point that it was hard for me to enjoy. I finally said something to my husband, and he was like Okay, let's not do it, and bless his heart, I don't think he expected me to get upset. I didn't want to not do it, I just wanted other people to put in some effort too. After I explained this, to his credit, he got it, and really stepped up, but also told me, that meant I needed to know when to say no. He polled people about favorite dishes, so we made less things, asked people to bring stuff, and it became much more We than just Me. The truth is I think everyone enjoys it more this way, it's nice to get a part of something you contributed to, and I have more time to actually enjoy this thing I love. Magic is a group effort.

My brother in Christ, I'm pretty sure we can live in a world where we can have lattes and affordable Healthcare.

I wasn't gifted, I was undiagnosed.

If you were ever in an abusive or unhealthy situation, what was the thing that made you get out?

I cry most often because:

Why does every "Ex-Gay Christian" sound like they are personally fucking Jesus?

I don't need to have sex with men, because I have Jesus.

Sometimes the world feels so bizarre to me. While brown people are being rounded up in the streets, the Superbowl halftime show was nearly entirely in Spanish, and full of queer icons, lead by a man who has very publicly come out against ICE. It's one of the most popular Superbowl Halftimes of all time.

My best self wants to believe that socially we have moved on, and we are watching a group of out of touch losers desperately holding on to power, in a world where they are slowly, but surely, becoming less and less relevant.

Of course, it's not that simple, hate and stupidity isn't that easy to eradicate, but it did make me feel a little positive to see the crowds go absolutely wild, while Conservative bullshitters tried to convince people that Kid Rock was a better option.

Anyway, that's what I'm thinking about today, what are you thinking about?

When all these people act like this Epstein Files problem is too big, and there's no way we could possibly round up, and prosecute all the people in them, remember, in the last year around 400,000 people have been arrested by ICE. This isn't a Witch Hunt, it's a Rapist Hunt.

I feel like the conspiracy theorists are just gobsmacked right now, like pretty much all their theories were true, just not about the people they thought.

Gay Gingerbread Men Hot Tub Orgy

If you are doing genuinely good things, and making the world better, I don't give a fuck why you're doing it. You want recognition and attention, so what. You're just doing it, because your friends are idgaf, you feel pressured from other people, who cares. We can spend so much time tearing apart motives and guess what, it doesn't matter, and most of the people screaming, "They're just doing it for attention!", aren't doing jack shit. We don't need to wait to do good things for the "right reasons", we can just do them. And we can most definitely shut up, about why other people are.

At some point in your Lord Of The Rings journey, you realize you aren't an Elf (beautiful, noble, elegant), you're a Dwarf (short, loud, fun) or a Hobbit (short, hungry, trying to avoid people), but never a human, ughhh, never a human.

So, apparently younger generations don't have as much generational awareness, because they have access to sooo much more content. I'm an elder Millenial, and I grew up watching what was on TV, and then whatever VHS/DVDs my parents deemed worthy of purchasing. So, the things I would watch would be newer movies and TV shows, of course, but then also older movies and cartoons, as well. I had a larger range of social references, just because I was plumbing from a shallower well. It seems like it shouldn't work that way, but new content is being made at a unprecedented rate. Not just major studios, and Streaming Services, but things like YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitch. I might watch a Midnight movie from the 70's, because that was all that was on, but younger generations never need to. There's just an endless supply of content from whatever you're into at the moment.

Really understanding why Yoda chose to die, instead of answering more of Luke's questions.

The cool thing about cats is you don't have to get them a Christmas present, because empty boxes, balls of crinkly paper, shiny bows, and unattended plates of food are the greatest gifts of all. Oh and let's not forget the full tree filled with sparkly toys, you clearly put up for their enrichment. Wait...did cats invent Christmas?

Age is just a number*. *of things that keep breaking and need increasing maintenance

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