Going backwards, sideways.

formative years? aren’t they all?

show me a permanent self and i will show you a facade or a corpse

Everything I read about recovering from burnout is like “it takes months or even years to fully recover” and it’s like okay…. I have a weekend before I gotta clock in on Monday

You know Tevye is a perfectly ordinary not that uncommon name but if you named a fictional character Tevye everyone would expect him to bidi bidi bom

IF ☝️ he were a wealthy man

Image description: a tiny mammal clinging to a person's thumb. The mammal looks like a wet sad friendly version of a Virginia possum with its prehensile tail curled up on itself.

my blorbo appears on screen and I start making clicking-chattering noises like a cat when a bird flies past the window

a CRITTER? Carrying a BERRY?? Across a BRAMBLE VINE?????

sad news, my son Crispin Shopify III saw a picture of me when i was breastfeeding him as a baby. the psychiatrists all agreed that exposure to this act which is potentially incestuous and sexual was equivalent to infinite permanent sexual trauma, and so we've decided to euthanize him and just start again from the beginning. hopefully i wont fuck it up again this time. god bless.

once i beat the depression and the burnout and the anxiety and the loneliness and the exhaustion and the guilt and the awkwardness and the apathy and the low income and the chronic illness and the impatience and the vulnerability and the creative block and the capitalism and the cruelty THEN you'll see

one of the funnier incidents of me assuming someone knew a meme irl was when a new coworker was talking about some woman who got arrested for tax fraud and I went "God forbid women do anything" and he got scared and thought I was accusing him of being sexist, so he started apologizing and saying how tax fraud isn't even bad, actually.