Courage, dear heart

happy pride month to this post specifically

okay yeah i do think your filler is off putting and your botox makes you rigid and strange to look at

I know you think it’s “feminist” to hate on women who already have self esteem and image issues (through no fault of their own, as a direct result of patriarchy) for doing something to help them cope with their fleeting youth - which may or may not have been stripped from them against their will due to years of depression, abuse, oppression, or whatever else - but the truth is that the freedom to get Botox is actually a right feminists have fought for - whether intentionally or unintentionally. Women used to get thrown away when we outlived our youth and beauty - now we have the option to prolong it and change the way we are perceived and treated by society as a whole. We ALL had to grow up too fast. We ALL have to cope with a childhood that ended too soon. I’m no less a feminist than you are simply because I choose to hold onto my youth and beauty because it helps me feel better about my own loss of innocence. This is all just another excuse to hate on women and tear us down. You’re literally letting the patriarchy win by judging women for their personal choices which harm absolutely no one. Please grow up. Not everyone is conventionally attractive or ages gracefully. Some women can cope with that and some can’t. Both deserve love and respect. Have some decency. You’re not edgy for this. You’re hating just like a man would.

whenever I tell a story I feel like Uncle Colm from Derry Girls

the silmarillion is wild because you read it and you're like huh okay, and then you read lotr and it turns out everyone's just going around doing their own thing while the surviving elves are living through the final chapters of a post-apocalyptic horror story

People ask me how things are going lately n I don’t even know what to tell them. I’m just here

before neil banging out the tunes there was czar scraping the strings

the silmarillion is wild because you read it and you're like huh okay, and then you read lotr and it turns out everyone's just going around doing their own thing while the surviving elves are living through the final chapters of a post-apocalyptic horror story

The reason you hate when someone tells you to do something you were already going to do is because you had an opportunity to display responsibility but they needed it to be obedience. So now you feel you're being perceived as lazy and deferential instead of considerate and independent. Btw

Nobody else tell me what this is called in the DSM, stop pathologizing every possible experience, stop treating yourself like a fascinating case study in brain diseases instead of a person healing from mistreatment. We're talking about "wanting to be taken seriously" today, not psychiatry-approved "stubborn and petulant for no reason disorder"

“male loneliness epidemic” and “friendzoning” are similar concepts to me in that the conditions they describe are literally experienced by everyone at some point in their lives but when its men its some sort of profound injustice that needs to be rectified by checks notes giving them unfettered access to the public good that is Women

If I were to make a modern adaptation of Dracula, I think it would be most true to the novel to use the found footage storytelling technique. I would use video camera surveillance tapes, news reports, video diaries, and even Zoom calls to represent the diary entries, newspaper articles, letters, etc. that make up the book. None of them were originally created with the intent of documenting the monstrous nature of the Count, and only after a while does it feel like the different perspectives and pieces start fitting together to form the story that you come to realize has been told all along. I just think it would be neat to stay true to this (honestly really modern) type of storytelling in a new medium.

on the Demeter, straight up “eating it.” and by it. well, haha, let’s justr say. the entire crew