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it’s so magical and beautiful that there are sprawling interconnected cave systems carved deep into the earth by various geological forces and you don’t have to go in them. there are miles and miles of stone passageways in total darkness that require you to exhale all the air out of your lungs to squeeze through parts of them and you don’t have to be there. some of these squeezes are underwater and require cave divers to take off their oxygen tanks and push them through ahead of them and me i am above ground looking at the sky as we speak. there are untold subterranean wonders no human has ever seen and i will not be the one to discover them #grateful #blessed

I don't know how I'm ever expected to be normal again after watching this. this video is already lodging itself deep within my vocabulary as I type

unpaywalled version here

so much of the mental health and wellness advice people give relies on privilege. for example a girl I know said ‘I don’t ever let a job stress me out, I quit straight away I’m not letting them mistreat me’ and that’s great but some people literally have no savings, no family support and no safety net which is why they can’t do that. being poor or otherwise socially disadvantaged is inherently stressful and depressing and people rarely acknowledge this. you cannot self love and mindfulness your way out of the literal physical reality you live in

well when all else fails at least there’s daydreaming about your oc getting tortured and abused and experimented on and assaulted and dehumanized and torn apart and surgically modified and

I love "never kill yourself!!!" as a declaration about good news like. However it comes with the unshakeable curse of "not suitable for all group situations."

Our favorite lunch spot near the office is coming back after it closed last year and never kill y--never k--neve--yay 🙂🎉 yay fellow coworkers 🙂🎉yay my fellow coworkers I work with 🙂🎉yay Teams chat