cowabunga

did everyone forget that the message of the ugly duckling isn't "you'll get a revenge body and all the haters will be sooo jealous" but actually "one day you'll be around people who understand who you are and love you for it"

those ducks still think he's ugly as shit btw. he just doesn't care anymore.

the grim reality for a lot of nonbinary people is that their options are closet themselves and be perpetually misunderstood by the world at large or be out and proud and be perpetually misunderstood by the world at large

laying in bed, high as fuck, thinking about balsamic vinegar

Its like grape soy sauce

:/

Both are brown liquid made from mold growing on it

You know, you're not wrong. I still don't have to enjoy the truth.

"They're just being lazy for no reason" is definitely one of the least curious and compassionate approaches one can have to other people. It is a get out of jail free card to avoid seriously engaging with the interiority of other people, and I'd probably call it lazy if the concept of simple laziness didn't desperately need to be excised from public debate altogether.

blog like no one's following you

oh god shes collapsed someone get her a thai iced tea and a bowl of tofu pad see ew STAT!!!!!

Friend of mine calls it active listening. Ah yes we are speaking of tooths. I understand and respond. Here it a tooth image. I have heard you.

Also just a handy, DIY air filter in general, if a bit bulky. For a less bulky and cheaper (but also less effective) solution, you can simply tape one filter to the fan, cut a shroud if you'd like.

just FYI, this is quite literally what the climate scientists at my work who specialized in wildfire smoke impacts recommend. it works great, it's cheap to make, and it will make a noticeable impact on your air quality.

i have asthma & keep one of these running in my room perpetually. after I set it up the difference in my sleep quality was pretty much night and day. Dont waste your time on proprietary air filters; SIMPLY bust out the duct tape

i think something a lot of people don't get is that years of mocking your child, even in jest, does in fact tend to get under their skin

a decade or two of even light verbal harassment is very much accentuated when it's an authority figure you are in every meaningful way subservient to