- Selene -

These wonderful people have a single braincell to share but unfortunately none of them are using it

call that attending an Executive Function

gringos discovering football is gentrification like you're not allowed to get this if you weren't colonized into it

WAIT WHAT AM I SAYING. THEY LITERALLY WERE COLONIZED AND THEY DIDN'T EVEN GET FOOTBALL

IMAGINE BEING COLONIZED BY THE UK AND NOT EVEN GETTING THE BEAUTIFUL GAME OUT OF IT

the wisdom ive learnt is that becoming part of a friend group 1) takes a long time and 2) involves a lot of feeling awkward and left out at first. there’s nothing terrible about this but if you grew up chronically lonely or have any kind of trauma relating to social isolation this likely feels Really Wrong and activates danger signals. but both fortunately and unfortunately it’s just how becoming close to new people works most of the time

another thing that was not intuitive to me as someone who grew up an autistic loner: basically everyone on the planet is starved for connection all the time and almost everything people do is an attempt to reach out to another. most seemingly illogical interactions and behaviours can be explained by this. you have to take as many of these invitations as you can. even if you're wrong you still attempted to bring more warmth into the world

*inserting new RAM into my 10 year old motherboard* "Shhh... hey, hey! It's okay girl. I didn't mean to startle you. I know it's been a little while. I've got a nice little treat for you here, okay? It's going to help you run smoother. There now, see? That wasn't so bad. I'm sorry girl. I didn't realize how much stress I've been putting you under, streaming Elden Ring with only 8 GB of memory... No wonder you're having trouble with Baldur's Gate 3. You've been doing so good though. I know you'll probably have to go soon, but we still got a few good years left. Hopefully this will help ease any pain you've been feeling. I'm going to put the cover back on the case now, okay? I love you."

Girls are you okay?

no

the postal service names their shit exactly like how a 16 y.o. names angsty fanfic

Explain.

they should let me bring flareon to work because it's comforting to hold and like come on it can definitely be trusted with lab safety protocol come onnnnn

some boys just need their water spiked with estrogen and that's ok

getting death threats for this one on twitter so apparently forcefem is praxis

functionally suicidal character saying “I would die for you” to their significant other and its like. I get the sentiment, honey, but if a hot dog vendor told me he’d sell hot dogs for me, I wouldn’t feel very moved now would I

Now a functionally suicidal character saying “I will live for you”. Now that’s a dynamic I can sink my teeth into.

now how about a functionally suicidal character saying "I will sell hot dogs for you"

Hotdog vender lays down their life to protect their suicidal partner, who then takes over the hotdog stand to carry on their memory...

sometimes i think abt that one art of that cocky guy at school who gets asked who he thinks is the prettiest in class and hes like "haha, me of course!" and everyone laughs and then the next panel shes alone in her room all dolled up kissing her reflection in the mirror repeatedly saying "youre so cute youre so cute"

Yeah you're not gonna win against a country that's built around attrition. You cannot bomb away the leverage Iran has over Hormuz

There's a lot of noise about this MOU but the big takeaway is that Iran took a theoretical deterrent and turned it into a real bargaining instrument. We will know the terms soon enough but even if this MOU collapsed tomorrow, this war has left the world with a new reality. If we want global energy stability we need to cooperate with Iran.