first of all cringe, second of all red flag

if you have to rely on specific scripts or turns of phrase to socialise that's totally fine, but you must NOT reveal them to your friends while slightly drunk. it's like showing how the magic trick works, you can't do it in front of them afterwards

i like dogs a lot but i can never remember the differences between breeds (apart from the few types i've actually owned/interacted with). but i know people looove their dogs and love talking about their dogs, so whenever im talking to a dog owner i'll ask what breed it is, and no matter what breed they say i'll say "oh! i've heard they have a really nice nature :D" and they always go YESSS THEY'RE GREAT and start gushing about their dog and we have a nice conversation and i build social credit with this person. anyway i told my friends about this script a few weeks ago when slightly drunk and now every time we're in public together and a dog goes past they turn to me and ask "does that one have a nice nature?" im in a hell of my own making

(nods sagely) (nods basily) (nods rosemarily) (nods saltly) (nods star anisely)

learning to notice an absence of people of color is crazy. you start seeing it everywhere. ill see a random pic of characters or people or whatever and be like "these are all white people. why"

all the babies in those baby youtube video memes. humanized character posts. like. its the little innocent shit. and like, the people making those baby memes probably arent seeking out white babies. maybe theyre just easier to find. but why are they easier to find? a complicated question, surely... but you know what it probably comes down to. someone, somewhere, maybe a lot of someones in a lot of places, made a choice. maybe knowingly, maybe not. but they made a choice. it starts to make you feel like a conspiracy theorist!!

its really funny that after 2 months this post is still making racists come into my askbox treating me like im a horrible person for pointing out that sometimes people of color are excluded from things in visible and offputting ways. cry about it

[image: three photos from different angles of a pair of chunky colorblock rainbow sneakers]

having to stop your conversation with a coworker when a customer walks in has the same vibe as two knights talking ildly on guard duty who have to quickly shut up and resume their positions as the king walks by. at least. i think so

if you don’t want to change then you won’t change, except that’s not really how it works. you don’t change for the better, but you aren’t exactly the same person as you were the day before. (you don’t change for the better, but you change nonetheless). maybe you’re a little more bitter; maybe your bark and bite get a little harder to distinguish; maybe you care a little less. (you don’t care about changing, so you change anyway and your don’t care enough to notice, so you think that you aren’t changing, but you still aren’t the same). the world thinks the same thing. it can’t see that it’s changing how it holds itself together, but it change nonetheless. the sofa didn’t look like that before; the window has melted into the wall; the carpet isn’t where it used to be. (that face is not the same face that it was). the world didn’t mean for that to happen, but it’s what happens when you don’t realise that you can’t not change. clark changed. the world changes. they didn’t mean to

out of the frying pan, into a soft paper towel on a plate to dry and cool.

(no beers in) what is every thought you’ve ever had about me ever

ice water is awesome because you get more water in your water