god the horrible urge to vague post is eating me alive but i must

someone wronged me once

some interesting connections being drawn between the concept of a “good” man and a “soft” man that suggests it’s difficult to conceptualize a “good” man who is cranky, cantankerous, ornery, stand-offish, and still a decent person, similar to how difficult it is for some people to picture a “good” woman who’s a bit of a mean cunt.

sometimes I think you’re all just grooming each other to be spineless fawning service animals instead of figuring out how to actually show up as an equal and a comrade.

people love a cranky loner with a heart of gold in fiction but because real people don't helpfully demonstrate the identifying character tropes they won't extend them the patience and curiosity necessary to find out who they are beyond the unprepossessing exterior

sometimes i'll say someones a sweetheart and my colleagues will be wtf theyre a nightmare and im like well, yeah, that too.

Making coffee at home is so great because sometimes it tastes like gorgeous actual coffee youd get for $12 & other times it tastes like ashtray water and you never know what youre doing different to make it so

To be clear I don't even have real problems any more. like I'm mentally ill and I've got a cold but my rent is low, my landlord is normal, my job is fine, i have friends, yesterday someone told me the salad i made out of the reduced to clear section was "pretty good" and that is arguably the most I was ever actually hoping for. I think by any metric that I wouldn't personally call "kinda dumb", I do have a pretty good life.

not just mutuals but someone i’d eat a sandwich in the park with

dude just pulled up in my driveway with his hazards going, walked up to the door like he was delivering something, didn't deliver anything, said "bye" to me and left. i mean i guess its true that i did order nothing so why am i confused

the road OUT of hell is also paved with good intentions. That’s just kind of the main road we’ve got

How quickly we forget the dangerous crow boy who’s job it is to destroy plastic

"You will often be subjected to uncomfortable situations in public and you should learn to navigate that" and "if you play your music out loud in a public hike then the other hikers should be allowed to hunt you for sport" are two sentiments that can and should co-exist