*turns my attention inwards* mmmmm. no *turns my attention back outwards* oh god

i must say, i am a huge fan of when a book is in the middle of a very exciting plot containing many interesting problems when out of nowhere for a few pages it's like, "hey by the way, real quick, here's a detailed explanation of the city's water filtration system! i'm telling you this for a reason and you should worry about it. anyway! haha okay back to the plot" and you just get to be Scared for a while

It's also so depressing how damaging this mindset is down the road. Those tags were kind of the going social logic my last few years of high school, and so while I never had internalized homophobia in the "being gay is icky" sense, boy did "any romantic or sexual attractions to your FRIENDS is HORRIBLE and WRONG and you NEED TO CUT THAT OUT because it's a BURDEN TO THEM AS A PERSON AND THEY JUST WANT A FRIEND, THEY DON'T DESERVE YOUR WEIRD SHIT" do a fucking number on me that I spent my 20s trying to sort out.

"Doomed yaoi" this "doomed yuri" that what about doomed found family. What about finding comfort in these new people after going through so much on your own—a community, a solace, a home to come back to. Caring for them with all you've got, only to realize that it wasn't going to work, ever, no matter what you tried. Only to have it ripped apart, no matter how much you tried to hold them close. Found family that becomes lost family. Found family that takes your heart with it when they go.

Dead wife montage but it's all slow motion shots of your dead wife throwing grenades and doing backflips and oneshotting the enemy with their long range weapons

number one thing i want for public bathrooms is for them to be unisex accessible safe private and clean. number two thing i want for pubic bathrooms is for them to have flat surfaces in the stalls you can put your handheld items down on when youre shittin. ive encountered it in like two bathrooms ever and it changed my life for real.

a striptease but I slowly pull out my teeth