you are the universe tasting itself, talking to itself

One detail from the book that didn't make it into the movie that I think is neat is that Eva Stratt did not just stumble across Ryland Grace. He was not the 'potentially disposable' option. She went to the top microbiologists in some of the best research labs in the world and was told multiple times "you know what? I think Dr. Grace might be your guy." When discussing the Petrova Problem. And this several years after his ejection from academia.

no one is coming to save yo- wrong!! everyone who has ever shown you love and/or care is saving you a little bit.

They can cheer you on and provide you snacks, but you are the only one who can climb out of the hole and up the mountain of humanity.

the dumbest person alive has come to warn you that fruit has sugar in it

Some scholars describe "emo" as a culturally-specific third gender[2][3]

you CANNOT read too much old timey fiction because I was playing Raft with the lads this morning and without a THOUGHT said we could sail over to another island "if the wind would consent to blow" & let me tell you. This did not pass by unremarked.

pewdiepie was one of the harbingers of the alt right internet apocalypse i hate that skinny white man with all my heart

I blame him (at least partially) for the rise in anti-indian racism in the late 2010s to today and people look at me like I'm the friend who's too woke when I say that. But it's true

and you’d be right to blame him. he normalized the rise in anti-indian and anti-desi racism through “jokes.” it took me forever to take pride in my indian heritage bc of the culture he helped set up.

you can believe victims about what they experienced and also not want to torch the lives of the people they've accused without proof. that is a space you can walk in and usually it's not even that hard. I say this as a survivor of domestic violence. "believe victims" doesn't mean get torches and pitchforks any more than "innocent until proven guilty" means victims are lying. please please learn this "believe victims" isn't about the perpetrators it's about the victims

i like to think of it as “take victims seriously” rather than “belive victims (without proof)” but same concept as what you’re saying i think!!

the funniest moment in dungeon meshi is when marcille is having her nightmare and brings up her dead bird while also talking about her dead dad, saying “papa and pipi” and laios automatically assumes pipi is marcilles third nonbinary parent on top of her mom and dad

idk man like i am of course the number one believer that if you're raised in a very culturally conservative environment you need to put your whole pussy into deconstructing the ideas and flawed reasoning and thought schemas you were raised with and not just substituting one language of orthodoxy for another and calling yourself progressive. but it will never set right with me that "having MAGA/republican family members" is treated like a valid gotcha against anyone if they themselves do not subscribe to those beliefs. like yeah like 40-50% of the country is conservative to some degree. a lot of people think that shit. isn't the point that we WANT there to be more people willing to walk away from the political beliefs they've been raised with? why are we holding people responsible for what their dad thinks?