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when someone calls me their friend my heart skips a beat it’s like i won at being myself

its so shiddy when u have to convince yourself to do your hobbies. like, its fun, you like it, why cant you just do it. do it. do it. but what if.... mindless media consumption instead....

im so sorry to the seven thousand of you so far who relate

[Doesnt do it] [gets stressed] [gets scared thinking about doing it] [doesnt do it because it's scary] [keeps not doing it]

⚠︎ ! your body has kept the score.

People keep tagging this as educational and I don't know what to do or think about that.

Glossary of Terms

I don’t know if I should be amused or distressed by the realization that someday this post will probably be useful to linguists.

Hi, linguist here. It is

"dni if you engage with irredeemable media! dni to kill a mockingbird stans" ok well CLEARLY you have never read to kill a mockingbird if you think it's irredeemable media and also having a book that was published in 1960 on your dni stan list is kinda ridiculous actually

i literally do not think any of you have ever read a book published before the 2000s before in your entire life

#'Dni if you've read to kill a mockingbird' what's is this the Florida banned books list #Who r u Ron DeSantis

You really buried the lede by only mentioning To Kill a Mockingbird

I think Spock could hang out with Squidward because they're the same type of cultured faggot but Squidward would get petty and mean about something and Spock would be like honestly mr tentacles I find this type of outburst very distasteful. & he would fix him

do they live in capitalist bikini bottom or socialist space future because the answer really affects whether spock fixes squiddy or systemic injustices change who spock is as a person.

I was imagining the enterprise comes to bikini bottom planet of the week style but I'm obsessed with the idea of spock working at the krusty krab & how that would affect him psychologically

World Heritage Post

opposite of a wife guy im a my friends guy. oh you like that flower thats crazy my friend literally gardens. oh you ate a bagel today thats crazy when i hung out with my friend we got bagels. oh you took a walk by some water that's crazy because a year ago me and my friend took this specific walk by the water and it was meaningful. phone screen of my friends. always talking about my friends. starting to think nobody else has my friends in the same way that i have my friends and im really sorry about that you know what i mean

#myfriends

@bovineblogger

the problem with autism is sometimes you want to do something (brave) but you need someone to gently walk you through each step so you know what will happen. and people don’t like doing that

i had to phone a taxi today, scary

The subreddit r/explainlikeimscared is a surprisingly good resource for this. People are always very kind and thorough from what I've seen, and I spend a decent amount of time there giving walkthroughs and answering questions when I know the process.

SHARING TO HELP SOMEONE ELSE OUT!

been stewing on an analytical approach to fiction which I call "is this book afraid of me?" and in order to answer this question you determine how hard the book is trying to make sure you don't come after the writer on twitter

Please keep making art. Please make it for yourself. Please don’t let everything become even more of the same flat general appeal nonsense that doesn’t seem to have anything to say

image ID: "#what's funny is that you and your chemically castrated little books still get shit on if you piss off the wrong goodreads twerp #if you were bullied you'd know this-- attempts at fawning and placation are just more blood in the water #might as well write a good book and get dogpiled with dignity lol #so much of my dev editing for younger authors are getting them off please don't be mad at me island #like. It's hard enough to get taken seriously as a writer #but if you can't even take yourself seriously you might as well die in the kindle unlimited hospice #one of the things I can deduce from my initial reading of a manuscript is the distance between what you wrote & the thing you want to write #i can get you there and if you're too tired I gladly coax you or carry you or nip at your heels like a terrier but you can't hold back #especially not on account of the worst fucking people imaginable" / end ID

advancing gender equality by making my female characters bad listeners and self-serving and focused on their own shit and politically incorrect and disinterested in the inner worlds of the men in their lives and hostile to other women and emotionally immature and ruthless and cunning and apolitical to their own detriment and complicit and

swifties always going on the "you just hate women" defense like first of all Taylor Swift is not a woman she's an unskippable ad

theoryslop. you only believe in it because it has evidence supported by and relating to the narrative and themes of the work