Cold Fire

i hope you heal so hard that the bare minimum disgusts you.

Mark's "if i ever have a child i hope it won't have Simon's puppy eyes because you just can't fucking resist them" is sure a good first impression of their relationship

the idea of open borders really doesn’t seem radical at all to me. like, from having traveled in the eu and between scotland and england/northern ireland and the republic, i’ve seen that it can and does work. what seems extreme to me is letting people drown at sea, especially when it’s being done by the eu??

the eu having internal open borders but then having an extremely hard border around it is an act of racism. i don’t think i’m exaggerating by saying that, europeans are free to enter where african and asian refugees are forbidden

deriding things as performative is anti third space

im sitting on a patio at my favorite cafe rn and im hand stitching them hem of a dress im working on. and i can see why someone would say im being performative by working on something like this in a public space. but frankly theres no element of that. i just want to work somewhere that isnt my apartment. i want to be in public, i wanna chat with strangers, i wanna see the world. it’s nice to hang out somewhere that isnt my home!

what i mean is when you say people are being performative you discourage them from doing shit they love in public. and thats no way to foster the world we want to see.

i‘ve been called weird, but never unfunny, let that sink in.

do you ever think about how john's med school rotations and residency happened during covid when racism against asian people, specifically chinese people, intensified and just fucking cry? do you think about how the people he wanted to save started treating him differently, hatefully, and how he decided to push through anyway? do you think about how, maybe, that's why he ended up choosing the nightshift? (my mom used to work nightshifts during covid and told me that it was because patients were less particular with their doctors at that time; how, compounded by pain and just the natural exhaustion, there were less push backs on who was treating who, and because of that she felt a whole lot safer.)

it's thousand yard stare summer