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Haven’t posted about plastic in a minute. Rest assured, I am still hard at work eating all plastic on earth

a thing about me is i basically never notice a wig or other kind of hairpiece in tv/movies. it has to be party city territory for me to even twig it. people will complain about characters' wigs looking bad and i will nod along but there is like a 90% chance i did not notice for a second while watching. i consider this mostly a blessing.

idk man when i was a kid i remember a lot of adults saying "if you can read and follow directions, you can cook" so i was like yes i can do these two things. doesn't seem that hard. and it wasn't! so it just always surprises me when i see people of any age who are capable of reading and following directions bemoaning how impossibly hard cooking is. like i know i'm always on this hobbyhorse but it just seems like a lot of people have never developed basic life skills and instead of going "oh wow that's embarrassing, i should learn and catch up" they instead get defensive and turn it into a learned-helplessness thing where they CAN'T POSSIBLY be expected to learn something that's SOOOO HARD. and suddenly somehow we're the oppressors for thinking it's weird that a grown adult can't grill themselves a cheese.

At some point the gaps in your knowledge/abilities become your responsibility. Someone may have neglected to teach you or let you practice a skill, but when you are a grown adult the initiative to learn is on you. Keeping yourself stuck in a state of helplessness over the discomfort of making up a deficit becomes a choice you're making, and it's one that hurts you in the long run.

I’m a patron of the arts (I leave nice comments on aO3).

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you can hit it raw, i’ve got an IED