Hi there

It's funny how in the last couple of years several major social media platforms have quietly removed "this user appears to be a bot" from the list of valid reasons to report a post on their abuse forms. I wonder what might have have motivated that particular change.

Me: It just feels like every time I figure out how to improve myself, I think of something else. Maybe I'm just too broken to ever fix. The Yeti of the Himalayan Mountains, patting me on the back: Gosh, I sure remember feeling that way. Back in the days, they used to call me The Abominable Snowman. Abominable. And that's how I felt about myself too. I felt abominable. I felt like a big, loping creature that wasn't even really human. Or really even animal. But I got better. I made friends. I did stuff for people. I didn't always feel better, but I kept getting better, and that meant something. And you know what? If I could talk to myself back then, before I had things figured out? I wouldn't call myself abominable. You know what I would call myself? Me: Not-yeti. The Yeti: Not-yeti. I'd say you haven't worked it out... yet. I. But you will. One day. When you're ready, you'll be Yeti. Me: You give that same speech every time I tell you I'm sad. The Yeti, smiling: That's cause it's always true.

Needed to hear this today.

to all the books that i’ve read 1/3rd of

It's a lot healthier to go for a daily walk than to sign up for a gym membership you won't be using because you hate that kind of exercise. It's a lot healthier to eat a frozen meal than to skip a meal because you were too tired to cook something healthy. It's a lot healthier to take a quick shower than to procrastinate an elaborate routine for days. Don't aim so high that you won't be hitting anything!

this is actually really helpful and affirming thanks

quickly we need more guys who are SO terrified of loss that they sabotage every good thing that's ever happened to them

You know what I miss the most about pre-1990s fantasy? Novels with titled chapters and tables of contents. I know you still get them now and again, but before the 90s it was common practice, and you wouldn't believe how much easier it is to discuss shit when you've got named episodes to go on.

Just took a full walk in the pouring rain to establish dominance over any sickly victorian child who was befelled by it

I’m not gonna judge Nolan’s Odyssey movie until I see it but I sort of don’t understand why pretty much the entire cast is just celebrities. There don’t seem to be any debut actors in the entire main cast. Even I’ve heard of most of these people and even the ones I haven’t heard of have already been in multiple popular projects.

& is a great symbol because i've never met anyone who correctly draws it. abstract art ass symbol

evil symbol. But still not as bad as 🎼

if I ever tell you “lmk what you think if you read/play/watch it!” I am firmly inviting you to send me a play by play minute by minute cataloguing of your thoughts about The Thing