"what came first: the system or love?"

my best tip for anyone trying to get back into reading is to remember that you can read books to avoid other responsibilities in ur life and it can become a vice if you play your cards right

i like when one of those daily posts about how watching challenging adult media for grown ups and adults with good reading comprehension and mature critical thinking is good for your critical comprehension and thinking and reading, understanding even, but if you only watch baby shows like steven hotel and barney your brain will wither your reading comprehension critical thinking will suffer and your body will start to smell worse and if you cant handle the dark, challenging, difficult, complex adult media for grown ups that I like then you're probably a bad person who got bad grades in high school etc. basically a lot of self-aggrandizing about watching incrementally better tv and reading incrementally better books than some other people on the watching books and reading tv shows website, we've all seen this, and then you go to OP's blog and the mature difficult challenging thought provoking, dark, provocative media for adults theyre talking about is House MD

their needs are changing rapidly, they mostly need Sudecon wipes and gas masks, last I heard, but the only way is to bring them directly there. for the most part they are asking people to join them there and hold the line, if possible. next best thing is to donate and call NJ reps to demand an end to the detention and torture!

Something bad has been happening to me lately. I keep saying “oh a puppy” when i see something i find cute. I was on a walk on the cliffs and I saw a slug and said it because i thought I was alone, but then an old lady on her walk teleported behind me and said “Im afraid not…”

aht efel hæfð gelamp a me niwane. ic cweðe "la hwelp" hwanne ic locie aht leoflic. ic eode on glofe and ic locode snegel and hit cwæð forþam ic gewende þæt ic wæs æne, ac þa eald cwen in hire færelde gelende bæfte me and cwæð "ic ne swa gewenie "

^ time travelling imp transcribing my post onto parchment for the town bulletin of their fave anglo saxon settlement, Rendlæsham, in 732 AD

ethical monogamy has never been practiced

like in general making care work dependent on sentimentality is a fucking bad idea lol, to some extent you can't really prevent the fact that people interacting with one another will probably feel some type of way about each other but esp when you are taking on a role where people depend on you for basic bodily care tasks, necessary medications, proper performance of potentially dangerous procedures &c it's not actually about YOU or your feelings at all & the more you make it into that type of ego trip looking for self satisfaction because youre soooooo self sacrificing and empathetic and you love your patients sooooooooo much -- the less you actually see & think about & serve those patients. never confuse personal fondness for evidence you are doing right by that person -- completely irrelevant & not at all protective against or mutually exclusive of abuse. people who are disliked or dislikable also need care! you signed up to provide it to them. if you cannot do bear to do that and do it fucking well then find a different job