a bit of a tart

Need to get a good grade on the collecting my stuff after going through airport security exam

idk man when i was a kid i remember a lot of adults saying "if you can read and follow directions, you can cook" so i was like yes i can do these two things. doesn't seem that hard. and it wasn't! so it just always surprises me when i see people of any age who are capable of reading and following directions bemoaning how impossibly hard cooking is. like i know i'm always on this hobbyhorse but it just seems like a lot of people have never developed basic life skills and instead of going "oh wow that's embarrassing, i should learn and catch up" they instead get defensive and turn it into a learned-helplessness thing where they CAN'T POSSIBLY be expected to learn something that's SOOOO HARD. and suddenly somehow we're the oppressors for thinking it's weird that a grown adult can't grill themselves a cheese.

happy pride month to this post specifically

i think "turning into a pumpkin" is my new favorite way to articulate the state of things when I am at a function and very overstimulated and it feels like my brain is melting. it's like no i can't be a person anymore i have to leave i'm turning into the pumpkin. the time is up yeah i gotta go. yeah see u later. pumpkin time.

alec lightwood is one of the best characters from that period in the 2010s where you weren't shit without a big brave woke gay arc because usually those arcs were like oh i'm gay but no one knows woe is me so hard to be gay. but alec is the only person in the whole show who thinks he's straight passing/closeted in any way. his siblings are like hey bud do you think you might be gay maybe because we do. this girl he hates is like is the reason you're so bitchy all the time that you're gay. this vampire he also hates is like hey man i think it's really brave that you're gay #lovewins. the guy he's into is like you're gay and that's FINAL. the woman he's in an arranged marriage with is like i know you're gay but that's okay with me because i'm sexually attracted to my work. even his shitty absentee parents are like we know you're gay you're a disappointment to the family name for reasons separate to you being gay. alec lightwood thinks he's DL shadowhunter trade living out a love simon fantasy meanwhile everyone in his life is conspiring to get him on PreP