can everyone drop their autistic henry winter headcannons pLEASE!!! there’s a drought!!!!

ykno the thing about poetry is that 99% of it is bullshit and the other 1% will cut you like a material knife, and for every person that 1% is a different section of the whole. this is probably true about all art.

the change from AD to CE feels really emblematic of how surface-level and meaningless the supposed secularization of the western world is

Common Era is definitely preferable over Anno Domini, if only because christ is no lord of mine, but it’s only less christianocentric in that it doesn’t overtly make reference to christ in its title. the benchmark is still the same. you’re still measuring when the common era began using the (supposed) birth of christ, separating history into “the period before jesus” and “the period after jesus”. this conception of history is no less defined by christianity than it was before, except that now it’s easier to ignore because you’ve draped it in a “secular”, “modern” veneer and done nothing to actually unpack the ways in which western society intrinsically centers christianity.

I like this idea but if we changed it now then next year would be the year 67 which would make a lot of people angry

Would it be considered “gay” to go for a walk in the evening?

yes like obviously

a to-do list is a semi-domesticated breed of hydra. cross off a task and two more take its place

i want us all to imagine how unbelievably rude and self-absorbed it is to hear somebody say “idk i don’t think i need to do anything remarkable to be happy with my life, i enjoy the simplicity and lack of excess” and you reply to it with “how can you be okay with settling? that is so sad. not me. i’m gonna be Special.”

i don’t want to moan about it too long but for me, and for many, a humble and mundane life of predictability and comfort IS the grandest ambition of them all. we were not all fortunate enough to be born into ease and safety. my childhood was harrowing, unpredictable, unstable, uncertain, constantly shifting. the state of my mental health is not always stable and it can get bad enough to cost me jobs, relationships, all kinds of opportunities. so, to me, i have already made a huge change in the world by breaking a cycle of generational trauma. i have already achieved more than i hoped to or felt i was allowed to. my life is a miracle to me and it’s settling to you?

i just learned my destiny

does anyone want to trade with me

yeah actually we removed the big bad wolf from the little red riding hood story because portraying violence against minors is really messed up. yeah. yeah also the wolf narrative was really predatory and had had some icky grooming vibes and a fable meant for literal children shouldn’t have implied p*do shit and grape so now little red riding hood goes into the woods and nothing happens and she goes to grandma’s house. don’t worry our kids will still stick to the path and know not to follow to wolves implicitly because we told them to and children should always do as their told. just like little red riding hood does now.

Some days writing a single sentence feels like squeezing toothpaste out of an almost empty tube

girl who is normal voice: calling off off work is so humiliating. why wasn't i stronger

One way to get tasks done in the day is to make yourself a Chekhov's List. Put all of the things you have to do on a list, and now that they've been revealed they'll need to be completed by the afternoon (third act) and when you've completed something you can Chekov that task from the list