Know Your Worth, Then Add Tax

Why did we stop with ballroom dances??? Like seriously to waltz around a room with a handsome stranger to classical music while others look at us with envy and after the music ends both of you with flushed cheeks, breathing fast, the sexual tension ; that was the shit.

sometimes it’s better refrain from deep introspection and allow yourself to just be.

and by that I mean: I don’t have to sit with myself and overthink and analyze and rationalize every ounce of my being. I am not a case study I am a person. faults and all. like any other person. sometimes I have to look at my mistakes and avoid self flagellation. sigh and learn what I can and move on. remember that I am living, and this is part of the process. free myself of that inner critic. allow myself to be, and try again.

good morning to people with sweatshirts for universities they never attended, people with a collection of empty notebooks, people with niche academic interests no one else seems to care about, people who never outgrew their middle school mythology phase, people who can’t seem to make a dent in their TBR piles, and the guy who does edits on Wikipedia

listen, yeah, tumblr is unhinged and full of clowns but it’s unhinged in a way that has coherence. the clownery has continuity. you could reference memes from 6 years ago and people would still get it. you could make jokes from long-dead shows and someone could still understand the weird cryptic hieroglyphic language of internet culture. there’s institutional memory here. where else am i gonna get that? twitter? twitter is just 5-minute rage cycles and blue check marks with brainrot and too much hubris

but van gogh made art with such love and he saw so much beauty in the world and he drew a picture of the view from his window to his brother because he said “it is so beautiful i must show you how it looks” and i just fucking love that

don’t date someone who doesn’t put the grocery cart back in the cart return

It’s called creating jobs

actually its called ‘not being rude and making someone’s job easier’

*pours box of cornflakes directly onto the floor of Aisle 7* it’s called creating jobs sweetie ;)

i just heard a water bottle in my room crack… there’s a ghost out here just trying to get hydrated… i can respect that

i do not know what this is supposed to mean

just saw someone cancel caravaggio on tiktok for being problematic in 1606 what kind of post-truth post reality are we even in