modern-day yentl

the setting is also a character. many do not know this but its true. it has a history and a future and often an arc of its own, and the other characters all have personal relationships with it

It's nuts how common it is to not allow children to be angry, even (especially) in households where adults are angry all the time. As a child I knew my own anger was unacceptable--not just expressing it outwardly but feeling it at all. So now as an adult my immediate reaction to my own anger is often to feel guilt instead of like. Noticing when someone is being rude or unfair or my boundaries are being violated or whatever. fucked up.

i love writing out numbers and then putting them in parentheses like "one (1)" even when i dont need to i think its funny

"whats your 5 year plan?" buddy I nearly go insane thinking about what I should have for dinner

I thought Old Man Yaoi was like a specific person or entity. Like you walk down to the river, there’s Old Man Consequences, you walk down to the oak tree there’s Old Man Sensibility, and then you walk into the gay club and you’ll never guess who it is

lil black positivity post but it's genuinely beautiful how black Americans(both south and US American) in this instance managed to keep some major aspects of our culture alive through dance, music, food, and clothing after CENTURIES of enslavement/imperlism + **ongoing** oppression.

people should be allowed to have low ambition, and also be able to feed a family on the salary of a cashier at a convenience store.

my beautiful wife, severe thunderstorm warning, is texting me 😌😚😍😍