don't make the mountain your enemy

if they're gonna remake The Princess Bride, it should open with a kid sick in bed scrolling on his phone. his grandpa arrives with a gift--it's a DVD player with a disc already inside. grandpa hooks it up to the TV and presses play. and we all just watch the original 1987 film again.

If you're a new writer and you're asking yourself "is this too personal, is this too much, will people think this is weird" that feeling is the exact location of your actual voice. The stuff that makes you want to close the laptop is the stuff nobody else could write. The safe version is always worse. Always. I have never once read something and thought "this would have been better if it was a little less honest." go further. It's always go further.

Now that is some vintage sports goth

This ad is very ominous and threatening.

um. cut him in half

hot dog or hamburger style, boss

my best friend called bidet users the vegans of the bathroom world and i think i disagree with that even more vehemently than i disagree with the use of 10,000-ply toilet paper

Are they vegan about it in regards to; they constantly talk about their use of the bidet and it’s ‘advantages’ whether you asked them about it or not?

to my understanding he meant that they think they're better than everyone else

I decided last week that I am done chasing people who don't meet me halfway and that whichever relationships die because of me not texting first/driving the meetups, so be it. None of these friends are flaky or bad people, they're all very busy with partners and jobs and kids and stuff, but that's not really an excuse. If someone is a priority in your life, you put in the effort so that they know. I can't keep being the only one checking in. I didn't say anything to any of the people who were top of mind when I made this decision, but one of them surprised me today by asking me if we can get coffee every week from now on. I guess you just have to let go to find out who is going to catch you.

Amen!

Also, apparently that's an ADHD trait, if what I read somewhere is correct.

it is absolutely an ADHD trait. that's still not an excuse. i have ADHD and i became aware that i was hurting certain people in my life by not reaching out. because i don't need constant contact to love and care about people, i often would let friendships fall to the wayside and then i would lose them while they were waiting for me to remember they exist. i worked really hard to break that behavior and now it's become very apparent to me who has and hasn't done the same work. i'm just no longer interested in having relationships with people who tell me we should spend more time together and then never reach out, i'm done being the one always checking in. it's not like i am hurt, i understand it, but it doesn't mean i have to stay and keep putting in effort that is only returned when it's convenient.

You have to watch the dosage.

You have to watch the dosage.

You really have to watch the dosage.

one of my friends was put on the absolute max dose of addie right out the gate and it made her so insane that she became a kleptomaniac. she stole a whole-ass christmas tree from target once. you have to watch the dosage

if you wait for your fear of being vulnerable to go away before you let someone see you, you will be small and invisible forever.