formative years? aren’t they all?

don't ever look up what your childhood friends are up to now!!!!!!!!!! like girl you're a nuclear safety engineer. i put on matching socks today. we played tag a thousand years ago.

There's both grief and pride intertwined in this thought and I don't like that.

Grief and pride intertwine a lot more often than anyone wants to admit.

the thing about art is that sometimes you'll be moved to tears by stuff that is not very good

Victor Frankenstein after achieving the impossible and building a fucking person from scraps of the dead: Oh god, ew, ew it's ugly! Yucky! Yucky! Gross! Ew! Ew! Yucky! Yucky! Gross! Ew!

pushing back against oldest child stereotypes by making unwise choices and not being dependable

Did original bingge as a white lotus know about jerking off. Because bingmei was 100% horny for shizun but bingge had no sex ed nor any friends or family to give him the talk or anything. Did he have sex with Qin Wanyue and go what the fuck is happening with my penis

You can begin this process at any time, regardless of how old you have become.

It's not too late to suppress all of your wants and desires and to die unfulfilled and afraid without anyone ever having really known you.

Polycules should be able to trade people like sports teams do

Listen -- you're a good defender and your pussy is fantastic, but that's not what our team needs right now. We're trading you to Greater Boston in exchange for someone who has a car.

Being a calm, gentle, non-reactive person is really hard work, which is probably why many people are none of these things. Personally I think it’s worth it but sometimes one does want to just roll around on the floor wailing at the top of one’s lungs

People in my notes who think I’m repressed or dissociating: you will feel better when you learn emotions are not a binary of Not Feeling It vs Being Overwhelmed By It

Ok but How Do I Do That

Thank you, but do you have any advice for teens?