niltia

so much of being an ok person is just 1) not panicking, 2) not taking things personally, and 3) not letting the vindictive gargoyle that lives in your head tell you what to do. this sucks because brains love doing those things

you will struggle to say the unsayable thing for five years straight. and then it will suddenly become easy on a Wednesday morning

scroll the notes of this post for a truly beautiful slice of the human experience.

the water in hotel showers will do things to the texture of your hair you didn’t even know were possible

holiday inns all have a resident alchemist trying to concoct the "waters of infinite retribution" and anything that doesn't work gets dumped into the plumbing

having 40 minutes to leave the house is terrible because 40 minutes is basically 30 minutes and 30 minutes is basically 20 minutes and 20 minutes is basically fifteen seconds. but 50 minutes? 50 minutes is an hour, and an hour? ooobh thats plany off time

Reminder to all bitches: if they're coming to kill you, make them bring their own shovels. To me that's what voting is about, that's what living is about, that's what stubbornly persisting is about. For a lot of us world is full of people who want to bury you and to despair is to make it that much easier on them to get you in the ground. Fuck em! Don't just sit there. Don't just cooperate. Don't just wisely pontificate about how inevitable your doom is. If anyone is coming to Get You then damn well make them sweat for it.

so charming of ART to tell amena she could call it ART. especially when she knows its name is perihelion. especially when it knows what ART stands for. imagine telling the teenager your situationship is responsible for "of course you can call me dipshit"

the second eel at the end in its little cuck shelter 💜

this has been said before but I feel like it is very important to view being kind as something you do rather than something that you are because all people have the capacity for meanness and cruelty and often use it inadvertently but the point is to change your behavior and your attitude and practice paying attention and being selfless and sincere and vulnerable and putting kindness and warmth into your actions and words instead of being like oh I value kindness and thus I am such a good person. like it’s about the attempt

shout out to bagels. a well timed bagel has changed my life at least 3 times

for the jewelry crafters and the macrame enjoyers alike, as both I love this

let's reintroduce "rude" to the lexicon no that person is not evil or morally bankrupt or even your enemy they're just being rude