The last blank spot on the map

whenever i’m stressed about doing something my brain will automatically repeat 2-3 Half Life: Full Life Consequences to itself as a means of motivating (?) me and it doesn’t work and actually only serves to piss me off. but it keeps happening

let's get zoomies with mama !!

"teens are prone to tantrums and are emotionally unstable" - okay, yeah, puberty is real, and emotional regulation is a difficult skill to learn. but also. any adult person would be pissed if their opinions were disregarded, they had no say in what happens to them, their emotions and feelings were downplayed and their privacy were intruded on.

Didn't want to derail that Harry Potter post because it is misogynistic when people assume women just write themes and plotlines into their books by mistake. However, I want to say that people do this with any author they consider to be kind of stupid, or not progressive, or whatever. I remember when Tumblr was first doing Dracula Daily, a lot of people saw that Bram Stoker wrote a plotline where the men repeatedly shut Mina out of their plans to take down Dracula "for her own protection", and this leads to Dracula getting one over on them multiple times until they take Mina into their confidence and take her advice. Instead of assuming that Stoker was maybe trying to say something there, because he was a man from the Victorian era, a lot of people concluded that he must have actually hated women and wrote this plot by mistake.

“Do dishes” and “take out trash” both require the use of a spell slot, vs “use phone” is a cantrip, and brother, I am a level one wizard