the universe is holding on to you

so you're telling me that a donut is like a closed loop which is like a black hole which is like the circle of fifths which is like a halo which is like a wormhole which is like an inner tube which is like a rainbow which is like a vortex which is like a capillary wave which is like a Frisbee which is like a noose which is like a supercollider which is like an orbit which is like a mouth which is like an ouroboros which is like infinity which is like a zero which is like a French horn which is like a Celtic knot which symbolizes symmetry and eternal life and understanding and connection and endlessness and love? i see, i see, I'm entirely capable of being normal about that

i dunno man, there is no age cap or line. babies are real people too. they experience pain and fear and love and have preferences and in general are alive and have complete real subjectivity. the fact that babies need help in both communicating and functioning does not make them any less real people than older children or adults. a baby crying on an airplane might be annoying and overstimulating to us adults but that baby is in genuine fear, distress or pain and has not yet developed the tools to cope with that, and for all we know it might be the first or worst time they've ever experienced this pain or distress before. it matters. the subjective experience of babies matters. yes, it matters because we know through studies that the first two years of life are incredibly important for a person's adult mental health, but also because even as a baby, even if that baby never ended up living to their adulthood, it would still matter because that is a real person who matters. I am not saying babies or small children are somehow unchangeable and on the same intellectual level as adults. of course not. that is obviously untrue. but treating children as just 'in progress adults' or somehow 'unfinished' is ignoring their real subjectivity as children who have children's perception and unique way of seeing things and experiencing things. every child is just as much of real person with genuine interiority as any adult is. they simply experience the world and communicate differently and have a lot more intense support needs than most (but not all!) human adults, which makes them very vulnerable to abuse.

more ppl need to get hooked on this drug called album in order. not enough people on album in order these days

i have wild sentences roaming through me at all times

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

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do you still think i'm hot with this giant hole in my chest

its wild the degree to which people talk about reading and eating in similar terms - the concept of a "reading diet", of "media consumption", the idea of certain stories as "empty calories" or "fast food" and some as "eating your vegetables", the moralization of both as personal failings, the framing of health with the specter of degeneration if not complied with... the idea that there are things that are sensorily pleasant and that you find yourself craving, and there are things that sustain you, and those are not the same things. the framing of literacy as reading the correct way and taking away the correct meaning from a text. according to nutritional guidelines