Nothing Makes Sense

when you’re manic but you can feel the depressive thoughts starting to creep back in

This is Tumblr’s fucking theme song.

Seven years later I still stand by this assessment

i love how this works no matter the result

similarly: kung fu (which is to say, 功夫 gōngfu) is a term for like, any pursuit requiring discipline & effort & practice, so like gongfu cha is a kind of tea ceremony, but because of the popularity of martial arts movies in the US, in which characters saying stuff like e.g. 你的功夫不錯 "your [gongfu]'s not bad" meaning like, "you've worked hard [on your martial art, since in this context we are already fighting one another]" and American viewers are like "kung fu means martial art" and now it just does mean that in English. English does this a lot, but it does it constantly to Chinese words, I feel like. I mean probably I just notice it more

I'm at a :.|:; for words.

The plague doctor covering me in leeches

it occurs to me that i am also the target audience