portrait of the artist

a severe thunderstorm warning that doesnt follow through is worse than orgasm denial

my villain origin story is the fact everyone posting the young pope clips on youtube largely only seem interested in posting the scenes where "BASED SIGMA POPE OBLITERATES BETA CUCK LEFTIST" and not any of the scenes where their based sigma pope is crying because he is grieving familial love, or is encouraging others to embrace peace and joy, or is trying his best to open his mind to ways of being he had previously discarded out of hand, or is being the world's least competent but most enthusiastic babysitter, or is looking out over the crowd before st. peter's with a plastic telescope just so he can see them smile. your based sigma pope is fuelled by grief, bitterness, and sheer terror, and so are you. grow up.

I think part of getting better is complete ego death. Like you’re not above setting a timer for 5 minutes and focusing on a task. You’re not above doing a very simple 3 minute workout to start. You’re not above reading for 10 minutes a day when you first get out of your reading slump, even if you used to read for hours. You’re not above starting slow and then building up to where you want to be/where you once were. What you are above is total inertia. Doing something really is better than doing nothing. Radically accept where you are, radically accept your limits, and go from there. Don’t let your ego get in the way.

kind of weird how parts of your soul are left in various locations without any warning… like yes i’m always at the top of that hill, sitting at the bus stop, in the cool light of the Japanese restaurant, standing at the pier etc etc

I maintain that the best summation of my feminist beliefs are that men and women are not fundamentally different. There are a few quantifiable differences if you average out every woman and every man, but they are not qualitative. And most of them are socially constructed, and would be fixed if we started treating men and women the same. Neither is inherently smarter, neither is inherently kinder, neither is inherently more stoic or stronger or angrier or softer. Everyone is obsessed with the differences between women and men, with finding them and creating them and distancing themselves from the "other half". It's fucked up