we run on caffeine and starlight

you cannot gender me in a way that matters

I wish anxiety wasn’t called anxiety because it makes it sound like I’m just mildly concerned and worried about things

Anxiety should be called Overwhelming Dread Stomach Problems Death Obsession Syndrome

Can’t we go back to being misogynists and calling it hysteria, it actually sounds urgent and i don’t like people thinking I’m shy + that I identify with a hogwarts house

and THEN she’s like, a novel is also a carrier bag. there’s the Hero’s story, sure, but there’s room enough in fiction for every experience, for every little thing, and it’s that other story, the life story, that she seeks……. o|-<

turns out the entire essay is online (thanks, Anarchist Library) and i really can’t recommend it enough

the basic emotional condition of capitalism is anxiety, fueled by insecurity. one of the most common, yet most effective, rhetorical moves used by the apologists of capital is to present this motive force as aspiration, rather than terror - that is, to disingenuously figure the motion of the system as a running-to, instead of a running-from. it is like if the camera were only ever positioned behind indiana jones, following him as he “aspires” to reach the exit of the cave, not once turning around to reveal the colossal stone sphere just inches from crushing him

god bless mark hamil

Baldwin just….knows my soul

being individuals together is so intimate. let’s read different books but curled up next to each other, let’s visit a coffee shop so you can study & i can write, let’s just be near each other

i love the term gender envy. i wanna unlock the other seven deadly gender sins. show me gender greed. im like a gender dragon

“my child is fine” your child is listening to the mountain goats