Just a Complex Little Crow

I kept forgetting my nighttime antidepressant so I set an alarm where the sound was a recording of me saying "HEY. TAKE YOUR FUCKING PILL" because I thought it would be funny. It was funny about three times, and then it started making me mad and I'd dismiss it right away to make it stop. So I handed my phone to my partner, who made another recording sweetly saying "Okay Shira, it's time to take your medication" and now I don't get mad anymore and I take my pill. The "compassion over punishment" camp has gotta get something wrong one of these days

one of my friends often forgot to take her meds despite setting an alarm, so I set an alarm on my phone, and when it's med time, I send silly memes to remind her. if I message her, she takes her meds without fail, and sometimes, if we're on a call, you can hear her react to the alarm: "shut up you heinous thing" usually with a lot of cussing the alarm out, and it's so crazy how transforming a habit from a negative experience into a positive one makes a person so much more likely to engage with it in a positive way.

"Tattoos are becoming unpopular", "piercings are unpopular again", "keep your hair natural never dye it again, it's the trend now" literally fuck off I know what y'all are doing

It's a pain in the ass, but it's my pain in the ass!

"family function"...? i didn't know it could do that

“what radicalized you” bro EMPATHY

"what radicalized you" well in kindergarten they told me to share things and be nice to people.

@conjurethief