overthink that

‘It’s not that serious’ it is to me. It’s deep to me because I’m better than you.

hey, I was just at the Kroger, I think I just saw your living weapon look both ways sheepishly before scanning her dehumanizing barcode tattoo to see what would happen. it rang up as a Mountain Dew voltage. so like, is that intentional or

Reminder that Kroger and their "family" of subsidiary companies (Dillons, King Soopers, Safeway, Harris Teeter, Gerbes, JayC, etc) are a monopoly that has been driving independent grocery stores out of business and artificially inflating food prices since the 1950s.

i'll tell my friends to take their brainwashed living weapons and homunculi elsewhere then

Another hallmark of hack 'fandom studies' academia is that it massively overstates the cultural impact of niche internet communities. There's nothing inherently wrong with researching an extremely niche subculture but it's so often obvious that the authors are a part of said fandom and take it Super Seriously and subsequently attempt somewhat dishonestly to connect it to broader cultural/economic trends in order to justify their research, or just straight up misrepresent the numbers to make fan communities look more important than they are. This has happened enough in the last decade that it's created a weird little scholastic cottage industry where fandom studies papers all reference one another and so very few of them have done real quantitative research. It's honestly kind of a bad look for peer reviewing more than anything else – so many of these papers needed supervisors who were willing to say "hey your sources all seem to point at each other, you're going need some fresh data points to justify this argument".

my thrall told me it wanted to be more independent so i imprisoned its soul in a necklace. how's that for in de pendant you little shit

I’m thinking of Beginning it all

Your nervous system doesn’t need a new mindset, it needs a new environment. You can’t affirm your way out of chronic bracing. Safety is physiological. Choose spaces where your body can finally exhale. Healing begins where survival ends.

"character doing a c+ job of breaking the cycle of abuse" is such a crunchy dynamic forever. what if i'm giving my all to give you a better life than i had and i'm succeeding but "better" just isn't quite enough. what if my blind spots and deeply ingrained trauma and inexperience mean that you will be indelibly scarred by me despite my best efforts. what if my abuser's influence still bleeds through at times because i know nothing else. what if i go so far in the opposite direction to avoid it that i hurt you in ways i couldn't have anticipated. what if my undeniable love and unforgivable shortcomings came part and parcel with each other. what if your love and gratitude and resentment and pain came part and parcel too. what if we both knew you deserved better but i was all you had. what if we had to move forward and reckon with that. what then

imagine u meet louis de pointe du lac at the club and u offer him a sip of ur white monster and he says No thanks I already have one of those