find your way home.

Morning routine ☀️

I often wonder if this is why you so commonly see the sentiment that we are in an era of uniquely bad literature, or at least that the fact that most books don't have artistic aspirations and are not aiming to be anything other than mindless entertainment is new. In fact what's new is the idea that everything is worth preserving (and also the internet making it easier to preserve it). The dumb artistically unambitious trash books of the past have survived only sporadically, because people thought of them as literally disposable.

If you go without it you feel unwell in a way that you never usually feel unwell. Sweating, tired, sleepy, headaches, irritable, depressed, etc. For example when I was in opium withdrawal I got incredibly depressed in a way that I’ve never been before or since. When you quit caffeine you might get super bad headaches even if you never usually get any headaches.

Thoughts of it regularly bother you and the thoughts go away once you’ve taken it but only temporarily. Unlike with a food craving which usually stays away once you’ve satisfied it or distracted yourself from it.

You find yourself rationalizing with yourself why you should break your own rules about how much you can take and how often. For example you might only let yourself drink alcohol every four days but start thinking that three days is actually close enough to four days, right? Especially if this happens regularly.

You’re using it so often that you feel the need to lie about how much you use because other people might think it’s concerning

If the substance or activity is nearby it’s genuinely difficult to not consume it or participate in it in a way that’s really frustrating.

You feel bad when you’re not on it and your brain tells you “if you just take the thing you wouldn’t feel this way”

You can only feel “whole” or “normal” when you’re on a substance even though it’s a recreational drug

again, i want to preface this again by saying i don't normally make posts like this, but i want to help make these two poor little souls visible to as many people as i can.

i want to thank everyone for sharing jax's post already. it means a lot.

there is another sweet floof in a very similiar position to jax, whose sad, scared eyes have touched me very deeply.

his name is lias:

like jax, he is located in a state-run kill shelter in minsk.

the tierhilfe belarus (link 1 / link 2) is trying to help find lias, jax and others urgently a new home. otherwise they are euthanised.

if you are located in germany and wish to adopt a cat, please consider lias.

lias is:

male

1-2 years old

timid and shy, but he already allows human touch once he feels safe

cat-friendly

contact: [email protected]

please contact them, let them know you're interested.

once approved for adoption, he will travel directly to germany fully vaccinated, microchipped, neutered, and tested for fiv/felv. there is an adoption fee to help support the costs and the work the volunteers do.

just like with jax, i'm willing to help with the adoption fee if there is true interest in adopting him. i just want to help so they can have a life they deserve.

You only have to look at how many footballers who have rape accusations against them that happily represent their countries in huge tournaments like the World Cup without anyone really giving a shit to see what bollocks that is.

Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal), Achraf Hakimi (Morocco), Thomas Partey (Ghana), Gonzalo Montiel (Argentina), Thiago Almada (Argentina), Junya Ito (Japan), Kaishu Sano (Japan), Ryan Mendes (Cabo Verde).