Learning To Fiddle

honestly i get why elizabeth holmes is convinced she got martyred because you have to think about it from her perspective, literally the entire valley runs on guys just running their mouths until another guy buys them out and turns their scamup into a data services provider and then eventually that guy sells it to jeff bezos, why couldn't it happen for her too? oh suddenly the medical establishment is too good for a para industry of scam bespoke home lab testing that tells you nothing validated? suddenly everyone has not been caping for the mormon dna race science or the gut microbiome fascists or the psychiatry fandom spit testing? it's so much worse to give your blood to a blonde woman recreationally? vengeance for her & anna delvey.

it's extremely funny reading historical accounts of Spontaneous Human Combustion because it follows the normal historical trend of other 1800s paranormal phenomena where it stopped happening as much right around the time cameras were invented and stopped happening entirely when everyone started carrying mini cameras in their pockets, but unlike most others of its ilk, it was effectively replaced by this mysterious phenomena where alocoholics would spill liqour on themselves and then fall asleep smoking a cigarette and turn into a fireball. nobody knows if these two things are related

controversial opinion but i should get what i want sometimes

good evening! there’s no such thing as voluntary inpatient hospitalization in the united states because even if you walk in and admit yourself you still cannot leave on your own accord. you cannot revoke your consent to being there

fun fact! when i went to "voluntary" inpatient i was told if i went voluntarily then i could choose when to leave. well apparently that didn't include 4th of july weekends because they made me stay like 4 extra days because "we cant process the paperwork" okay jessica i know youre real bummed about your cookout but i want to go HOME

awful! i’ve had similar experiences where they “just can’t get the paperwork to discharge you :( :( :(“ meanwhile i went to the ER a few months ago for norovirus - they wanted to fully admit me to the hospital but informed me of my right to discharge myself against medical advice. i chose to discharge and they were able to get me the paperwork within 15 minutes of me requesting. funny how that works!

still caring about internet friends you lost touch with years ago is so embarrassing. yeah i had a deam we met up irl recently. the last time we spoke was maybe 7-8 years ago. i still wear the laces we randomly decided was a sign of our friendship. i dont know what any of your socials are or if youre even active on any. sometimes i see someones art resemble yours and i wonder for hours. do you still go by that name you chose? whenever i see it i wonder if its you. we couldve passed each other in this vastness a thousand times and not have a clue.

we were lonely kids having fun together. do you remember?

If I'm elected as your president in 2028 I promise to bring back the Western Interior Seaway.

Pretty babies come swim in w ater with big fish water is fine with big fish in come taste interior seaway with big fish

already kicking the hornet’s nest by criticizing Tolkien today so I may as well praise Steven Universe lmao. I listened to a few of the better songs last night and man that show really grappled with a level of interpersonal emotional complexity that even adult shows rarely handle. at the time all valid criticisms of the show really got lost in the deluge of arguments that boiled down to “it’s bad to depict toxic dynamics between humanized characters who care about each other” which lol.

obviously it was groundbreaking for depicting lesbian relationships and genderfluid characters but it was really quite a nuanced depiction of like. the parentified child forced to bear the burden of emotional intelligence because no one else will or can. Rose as a benevolent antagonist who’s avoidant and inconsiderate to the point of profound cruelty and the frustration of not really being able to have the catharsis of properly hating your mother. everthing going on with pearl lmao. genuinely a very ambitious exploration of what it means to hurt and be hurt by the people you love and the kind of toxic baggage literally everyone carries into their relationships without intending to. didn’t always hit the mark of course but imho it was usually a smarter show than tumblr gives it credit for.

You will never see me say this about another human being but I hope John Travolta stays in the fucking closet forever, which is highly likely because Scientology hates gay people. It would set us back 15 years. Seeing his name on lists of gay celebrities would give my psychic damage. I do not want to share this community with that man. I think maybe if the ideology of Scientology wasn’t so fucking homophobic, he would have tried doing the Kevin Spacey ‘Hey, I’m gay! After decades in the closet in the public eye, I’m finally coming out as gay! Don’t focus on how I’m a sexual predator, let’s talk about how I’m gay!’ luckily, John Travolta is trapped in a cult so I think he’ll spend the rest of his miserable life not aligning himself with the gay community and dragging us down with him. Is this stance politically correct? Idgaf.

I will admit, there are a few celebs I’m pretty sure are LGBTQ and closeted and I kind of hope I’m correct and I hope they feel safe enough to come out one day. And then there is John Travolta who has had persistent rumors about his sexuality for 30+ years and everyone I see someone mention them I’m like “Yeah, but he’s straight. We shouldn’t assign a sexuality to a stranger. That’s a heterosexual Scientologist right there.”

AND Lindsey Graham! Let’s take him at his word, I’m sure his 3 girlfriends that he wrote about in his memoir were completely real.

they should invent a cigarette that gives you vitamins and hrt and shit

TESTOSTEROEN CIGARETTE BEING SMOKED BY A BUTCH DYKE OUTSIDE THE BAR SHE SHOTGUN THR SMOKE INTO MYMOUTH I GET SO HARD I PASS OUT SMASH MY HEAD AND DIE

sorry that was meant for the tags

it’s okay. You’ve painted a beautiful and true picture

You're not immune to being the bully btw. You're not immune to being in the wrong

"But i'm-" there is no identity or state of being that makes you immune to hurting someone. You can be convinced that you are in the right for doing so. You can be convinced that you're defending someone by doing so. You have always got to examine if you're taking pleasure in hurting someone or if you're actually doing something good.

Believing that something about you makes you too understanding, or too perfect, or too downtrodden, or too unprivileged, or too correct in your beliefs to do someone else harm is how the vast majority of harm in our world begins.