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this is definitely like. a niche problem that a lot of people probably haven't even been exposed to but like. the frustration of seeing people consistently "not understand" why some people say chainsmoker cat makes them want to smoke. like. i've never even smoked, and i still think people are confused because they're coming at it way too "logically". simply showing or explaining to people that it's bad doesn't stop them. and this isn't because they're dumb, either. it's because stress and a shitty life with limited practical/accessible coping mechanisms is a huge driver of drug usage. so it's not surprising that the desire for even temporary relief overrides logic, if the mental calculation is often like "i can make things suck less now in exchange for getting worse in the long run. and if i don't, not only will it still suck, it'll still have no actual guarantee it gets better anyway," which from that perspective, starts to seem significantly less illogical anyway. being able to resist drugs also requires faith that things can get better, and it doesn't take rocket science to see that we're in a time where for a lot of people, it's really goddamn hard to actually have that.

I think we need to kill the sentiment that people lose their right to personhood once they do something bad enough

it's not surprising, of course. to many, a dog being euthanized for attacking a person is a tragedy. poor thing was in a bad environment you see, it didn't deserve to die. and to many, every criminal should be put to death. they are inherently cruel and cannot change, any sentence more lenient than death is an injustice to their victims. why might a dog maul someone? well clearly the poor thing was a victim, it was circumstance that spurred it to violence. why might a person mug someone? clearly they have a corrupt soul, incapable and unworthy of empathy. they were spurred to criminality by their own sick nature. so to say, in their eyes, a human criminal is less human than a dog

In 2026, the chicest thing a gay actor can do is never explicitly come out as gay but also make it abundantly clear that he is. Coming out is too modern. Staying closeted is too old fashioned. But this method merges contemporary freedom with Old Hollywood glamour and allure, and it weeds out the dumbest people who truly don’t get it. I call it the Pascal Method.

Taylor Swift does this

no she doesn’t

You clearly don't go here or to queer history and signaling, or both, enough to have this conversation and I'm not going to explain it to you. You could have asked questions, you could have done even a modicum of research. You didn't and you made yourself look ignorant. Goodbye.

This is kind of funny when you remember that Taylor already wrote a thing on one of her rereleases that talks about how she's not gay and finds people like this incredibly creepy.

Hehehehehe

Can I fucking help you?

my senior english teacher told me that any scene with a woman in a cornfield in every piece of literature ever is about her journey to womanhood/pleasuring herself in the field and i just.... believed her

What

What

the real danger of spending too much time with friends is you stumble out of ten days of happiness and good food like oh my god THAT was real life. my job means NOTHING

idk man i think when a character explicitly tells us that she sees dating as a downgrade from the deeply significant partnership she already has with another character, that she doesn't find kissing or sex intrinsically appealing unless it's for her partner's pleasure, that she finds romance both boring and oppressive and compares the concept itself to a gravity well that assimilates the unsuspecting, that paying lip service to it for the benefit of people outside her relationship makes her feel as though she'd been stripped of her free will, that being forced into its orbit provokes the same helpless terror as being caught in the web of an eldritch entity that actively drives you mad with fear--we should believe her. i don't think we should see her say "when romance is the only context people have for mutually exclusive relationships that are valued above others, they will force everything you say and do into the context of romance regardless of your desires and intentions, and that scares and upsets me" and then do that to to her anyway