laya's assorted stuff

Homestuck is perpetually one or two cuils weirder than you ever expect it to be.

I've seen some posts trying to make fun of former gifted kids by comparing them to former student athletes who insist that they could have gone pro if not for a specific injury, and those posts always backfire, because my reaction to them is "You're right, we should treat former student athletes with more compassion than we currently do"

I went from being very physically active to getting the "your body doesn't make energy properly anymore" disability so I can completely understand the grief that comes with circumstances outside your control destroying parts of you you were once proud of and locking you out of the life you could have had. It's not a good feeling.

Anyways.. I’m gonna start slamming myself into walls for fun

being polyamorous and having no game is so humbling. yeah im poly but i don't have any girlfriends. im just in love with all my friends and nobody wants me

I promise you things will get so much better when you start processing people’s behavior as information rather than a verdict on your self-worth. If someone doesn’t text back, suddenly pulls away, whatever it may be, the solution isn’t to put on a tap dance for them and try to regain their approval. It’s not to crash out on them and try to force them to react a certain way. It’s just to take a step back, take a deep breath, and assess what this tells you. What’s this saying about them? What’s this saying about you??

having being anti death penalty as one of my core beliefs is fun because it really makes me realize how even progressive people want soooooo badly for there to be a category of people they can kill. I'm sorry but "group of people okay to kill" does not exist.

My library also offers some streaming movies and tv shows (Kanopy) and a ton of continuing education options like access to the Great Courses videos and interactive language courses (Transparent Language Online with a ton of options, I'm learning Korean). And that's just digital, it has so much stuff in-person too. It has tons of programs to nurture and network local authors, it has rotating art exhibits, it had a zine-making event last summer, it occasionally has musical performances by chamber ensembles, it's so much more than just a quiet place to house books. It's 100% worth perusing your library's website (or talking to a librarian) to see all the things they offer that you'd never have thought of, or things you always thought would be fun to do or learn but don't have the money to spend buying it individually. You may have already paid for it with your taxes, and your library has it right there!

words cannot describe how much i love showering. my wet contemplative box

Where's that tweet about how American chants are "let's go [team name] and some other country (Irish?) fans are "I've made up a song about the other team's drinking problem to the tune of London Bridge Is Falling Down one two three"?