Catskill Collective

I love lesbians with a weird gender

Every version of you was necessary. Even the ones you’re ashamed of.

There's a recurring online tendency to aestheticize consensus itself. The imagined future village is full of emotionally compatible people who enjoy communal gardening, conflict resolution circles, acoustic folk music, mutual aid potlucks, and repairing bicycles together at sunset. Which is nice for the people who genuinely enjoy that lifestyle. But plenty of humans are solitary, prickly, obsessive, urban, nocturnal, sensory-seeking, technologically attached, contrarian, novelty-seeking, private, or just plain difficult. Those people do not evaporate after the revolution. They do not get Left Behind while you are Raptured into the Utopia. They become your neighbors.

if you are a parent, or may become one, or you are otherwise likely to arrive in the situation of caring for a child while they eat, promise me this: if a child doesn't like a certain food or food group, you will ask them WHY. and specifically, you will pay attention to either confirming or ruling out "it makes my mouth itch" or "it makes my stomach hurt," both of which are medically important info that children may not provide unprompted. which i know because this PSA has been brought to you by "i spent my entire childhood and much of my early teens eating peas and lentils while wondering why everyone else liked the Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation so much, like were they a bunch of legume masochists or something, before i finally realized that Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation was in fact a sinister demon appearing only to me, and her true demonic name was: Legume Allergy"

Do not let your child suffer from spicy bananas!

What's that poem about the cockroach and the moth where the cockroach is like "I wish I've ever wanted anything the way that moth wanted to burn itself up in that lantern" because we had to read that in high school and it still fucks me up to this day

I live also to spite every reactionary right wing power. I gotta outlive them. it's easy to want to give up my mood swings make it hard but I gotta outlive this term and for the future, even if it's hard.

im doing terrible but I gotta live I'm transgender

if you're transgender you gotta live.

Why does every single term for "strangers with no sense of boundaries being fucking weird and inappropriate to you about their personal issues" turn into, like, "it is a moral imperative that you never express negative emotions to anyone other than your Licensed Therapist:tm:, because it's annoying"

We did this with "emotional labor" and then we did this with "traumadumping" and I just thuink we need to fundamentally get with the fucking program. Because then the backlash to "I don't owe anybody anything" is like "you owe everybody everything, actually" and I don;t think that's true

There is a time, place, and Normal Amount you can reasonably vent that is in fact somewhere between "never" and "always", that will vary depending on your relationship to the person in question (friends, family, romantic partner, the cashier,)

people should be allowed to have low ambition, and also be able to feed a family on the salary of a cashier at a convenience store.

I agree with this. I don’t see myself ever really getting into Japanese pro wrestling, but the magical girl-influenced characters do intrigue me.

Every image of her looks like a painting