Not Exactly "Mr. Mental Health"

well personally i like it when there’s incest and necrophilia and murder and cannibalism and abuse and torture and gore and mutilation and body horror and sexual depravity and death.

Since you don’t respect my opinion anyway, quit pestering me to fill out a survey after every single consumer experience. I keep wondering who looks at these surveys. Is the CEO sitting in his wood-paneled office, reading each individual response on an old-timey stock ticker? If so, you can keep doing this. If not, I rate this experience zero stars out of infinity.

dude imagine if a hog saw this

wouldn’t be nearly as many mushrooms is all I’m saying

not just mutuals but someone i’d eat a sandwich in the park with

basketball players fight over the basketball because they are hypnotized before each game to believe it is their egg

mae chwaraewyr pêl-fasged yn ymladd dros y bêl-fasged oherwydd eu bod nhw'n cael eu hypnoteiddio cyn pob gêm i gredu mai eu hŵy nhw ydyw

I wasn’t sure what to expect from Piranesi but it definitely wasn’t to get hit with one of the most beautifully depicted settings I have ever read. The world of this novel is gorgeous. Specifically, how Piranesi sees it is gorgeous. Page after page of detailed notes about the tides and the wildlife and the many, many statues and how beautiful all of it is. I can smell the salty sea air. I can hear the cries of the gulls echoing through the halls. I can see sunlight slanting through a window and gleaming on white marble and foamy water.

I think part of getting better is complete ego death. Like you’re not above setting a timer for 5 minutes and focusing on a task. You’re not above doing a very simple 3 minute workout to start. You’re not above reading for 10 minutes a day when you first get out of your reading slump, even if you used to read for hours. You’re not above starting slow and then building up to where you want to be/where you once were. What you are above is total inertia. Doing something really is better than doing nothing. Radically accept where you are, radically accept your limits, and go from there. Don’t let your ego get in the way.

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“I don’t put politics in my stories” is the literary equivalent of a cishet guy going “I don’t have pronouns”