cancel culture comes for the northern pike

in the category of stories that are already slightly weird and then nonchalantly take an even weirder turn in the last sentence

When nobody else was remember who was there for you at your lowest. That's right. Completely and absolutely dogshit music

unfortunately very true. Doing Better does not always mean never being upset or never being triggered or never having trouble. often Doing Better means experiencing those things and being able to keep going/cope healthily/move on. if you’re in a bubble with no sensation, if you’re numbing yourself out, that’s not what recovering really is. it won’t help you have a happier life it’ll just make your world smaller and smaller until you can’t fit anywhere anymore. gotta learn to make peace with the hard stuff too, that’s the only way to keep going

i told my dad the joke “dad jokes are just mom jokes that a man repeated louder” and he thought it was hilarious. he turned to my mother, intending to relay the joke to her, and a bare second after he opened his mouth i watched it dawn on his face that he was about to become the subject of the joke. when i tell you that man was slackjawed as he turned back to me, like he had an entire life altering realization in the span of about 20 seconds.

watching someone start reblogging transmisandry bullshit is like seeing them get hacked by a scambot. will you stop.. for me

when people say misandry or androphobia or whatever aren't real they aren't being pedantic about your language. believing misandry is real is ideological poison. the second you attribute the real oppression you face to some "anti-male prejudice" you have given up your ability to understand and fight the actual power structures causing it. any bit of time and energy you spend arguing that women don't have it as bad as they say they do is time and energy you aren't spending on anything actually productive. wake up

from impossible to difficult to unfamiliar to familiar to easy to automatic

come up with hand positions to do for each step and then you can repeat this one silently, by the way. to cheer yourself up in the library without talking out loud

the unimaginable power of saying "huh, guess that's not for me" and moving on with your life