Tja.

hate when people say something along the lines of "we must get along so well because you are/i am [some astrological sign]" to me. what are you fucking talking about. we get along because im fucking nice. a decision which i regret when you say shit like that

this post is a good rent lowering gunshot. in case anyone needs one of those

"Every rose has its thorns" - wrong. Prickles

It would kill half the 19-25 year olds online to realize "I can't help it I have trauma" is one of THE quintessential abuser excuses

Like there is a difference between "My trauma creates impulsive urges and has changed my instinctive reactions to be irrational, I need to relearn shit." vs "I'm traumatized so I Can't Help It and you're not allowed to expect better of me"

people get so mad when you tell them that their lowbrow entertainment they enjoy is actually lowbrow

everyone wants their self-indulgent romantasy to be considered high literature and whatever new mainstream pop boy/girl to be treated as the next beethoven and their gay fluff show on streaming apps to be revolutionary art changing the world and like, they're not. and that's okay. i'm literally watching the stupidest show right now and it's fine. it doesn't have to be more.

there's also the argument of how pop culture used to be the trickle down from high culture for the longest time but now it's an ouroboros eating itself as access and willingness to engage with high culture have been systematically destroyed and diminished through the last decades so your popcorn flick moviemaker now only gets inspiration from other popcorn flicks when their foreparents used to actually read literally and see art of all kinds and your pop musicians used to listen to all sorts of new and old music rather than just their contemporaries/competition and maybe this absence of any sort of culture outside of our easy algorithms is why everyone's so defensive of what they passively consume and so attached to it as a part of their identity but that's a discussion for another day

i kno its not rly a popular statement and it sounds dismissive but you'll be miserable for as long as u deny ur own agency in ur own happiness

One of the things that gets forgotten or not seen imo in the 'Europe has walkable cities' debate is that Europe in my experience also has citizens who dedicate their lives to bullying city council every time and immediately when e.g. a new conductor box is two centimetres too broad and thus blocking said sidewalk as per regulation or a cut curb is not quite cut enough or there's no bike path. If you want sidewalks, you need to found Concerned Moms For Safer Suburbs and spent a lot of your free time recruiting people to your cause, bullying lobbying your local city council and ideally getting people elected who agree that there should be sidewalks, and you need to keep doing it. And doing it. And doing it. And you need to actually do it in and around your community and local government, not on Bluesky. And you need to keep doing it. And it sucks ass.

you seem avoidant for a girl who’s so hungry to experience the full breadth of human connection

if i was born 500 years ago i would have been speculating that the two dudes who went to get firewood together were fucking

chat, how long do y’all think 500 years is. Romeo and Juliet was written in the 1500s. 500 years is not the Stone Age.

why do u think people stopped collecting firewood after caveman times

Me and my buddy went into the woods to get firewood last week and although we weren't fucking he did point out the stump where he had fucked the last guy who went into the woods to get firewood with him.

More than "here in the Southern Hemisphere we have inverted seasons :)" thing, which is TECHNICALLY true, I would go a step further and encourage to think about that "much of the world does not exactly has a spring-summer-fall-winter season sequence as they show in cartoons"