in here

blue whale: you are like a little baby. feel this

and it can be hard to look at your childhood and go “I was hurt” and also know that the hurt wasn’t deliberate. it’s uniquely painful to not have someone to blame. 

you do not have to excuse the people who hurt you, even if it was unintentional. & acknowledging your own pain does not necessarily entail blaming them for it.

And just write the ideas down until the story starts to shape itself. Then when you’re ready, go back and delete everything before the point where the story actually starts. 

For example, a document I called One-Shots is where I keep dropping all my concepts and random scenes and half-baked bits of story. If a bit takes off and starts running to a few pages length, I airlift it into a new document of its own and it’s already a thousand words. Psychologically I find it a lot easier to get started this way.

When you’re happy, when you’re feeling generous, when you’re pleased with your gift or your service or your outcome, it’s easy to be nice. It’s easy to tip the waiter well when you’ve had a good day. It’s easy to thank the teller or the clerk when you got what you wanted out of the transaction. It’s easy to smile and chit-chat with strangers on the road when you’re in a good mood.

It’s hard to tip the waiter when you didn’t enjoy your food. It’s hard to thank the clerk for their time when you’ve just been told there’s a problem with their account and they weren’t able to fix it for you. It’s hard to think of something nice to say when your aunt gave you a crappy sweater you neither need nor want. It’s hard to be nice to people when you’ve had a shitty day. It’s HARD.

That’s what manners are for. Scripts and phrases that you learn by rote to say when you can’t think of a single nice or good thing to say from your own volition. Yes, they’re scripted. Yes, the sentiment is empty. But the scripts work in every situation, and the emptiness provides a buffer between your own unhappiness and the rest of society.

the user captain-planet-official, who got popular from posts like this masking as environmental care (as most ecofascists do):

frequently slip in bits of white supremacist/racist/antisemitic commentary or ideals between posts, such as these:

or even the user outright requesting fashwave images from other fascists on here:

i’m not only worried about this for the sake of kicking weird fascist cunts like this off of the site, but also because of the fact that his entire persona has been attracting minors who don’t understand the undertone or even ecofascism itself. i’ve recently talked to one who had drawn fan art for the page! this isn’t good at all!

Star Trek: The Next Generation S2 E2 “Where Silence Has Lease” 7:56

And I was learning about the Cetls and I was like “well when Rome was conquering the Gauls, they successful took their territory all the way up to the Alps, and that territory was called Cisalpine Gaul, whereas the Gauls’ territory across the Alps was called Transalpine Gaul, so probably I guess they mean ‘this side’ and ‘the other side’ or something sorta like that.”