Jay

No I genuinely don't think there's any better wording of the last part

the cure is to kiss your cat on the top of their head

I can confirm this works

i love making friends in fandom, i love playing with our toys together, i love coming up with increasingly niche aus, i love lifting strangers up, i love motivating people to create, i love watching someone get excited over an idea and immediately running with it, i love yelling in tags together, i love seeing someone gain confidence in their writing/art because people were kind to them <33

you ever mess something up and go "this is it, this is my final mistake. they're going to take me away and that's it, it'll all be over. this is my complete worst mistake and this is it for me"

theyre saying i might have anxiety

"what if someone regrets transitioning" if you are 18 or over in free country usa you can walk into any tattoo parlor and ask for a tattoo that will be on your body forever and ever and ever and they will give it to you with the understanding that if you dont like the result or you regret it later that's your fucking problem and not theirs

"I'm looking respectfully" well can you look at me like you're dying of a fever. like you're delirious and it hurts. like you're fighting desperately for your life.

I know, I also have self esteem so low that accepting a compliment feels physically painful but basically calling the person who’s complimenting you a liar doesn’t help anybody including yourself.

Danku lesbiennes!

why is it that whenever there’s a conversation about the casual sexual harassment that most women have faced in their everyday lives at some time or another, someone pipes us to say “well I don’t get harassed because I’m ugly and I have feelings about that.” girl, what do you want us to say to that? I’ve been catcalled plenty and I’ve also been called ugly plenty, and the catcalling has never made me feel less ugly. I’ve never thought “oh well at least someone desires me” when I’m alone on a dark street and a strange man yells something sexual at me. and at the end of the day I really think you might be thinking about yourself too much if you hear other women talking about being either verbally harassed or touched without their consent and start to wonder why it hasn’t happened to you. It’s so far from the point and in fact it actively creates division among women over a topic we should be united over. Harassment is bad and shouldn’t happen, end of story. Why are we quibbling about what their harassment (or lack thereof) says about us?

“I don’t care if men benefit from feminism, they shouldn’t have to benefit from feminism to support it” okay, but they do, though. everyone benefits from feminism. you don’t live in a hypothetical, you live in the real world where feminism has real material benefits for the men in your life. so are you gonna take that in stride and move forward, or are you gonna keep pitching a fit that feminism not being Girls Only™️ means it’s tainted.

man sometimes friendship really is just "I saw this and knew it would give you psychic damage. please respond with agony" and then they do. and it's great

for the record im not technially 100% anti-AI, in the sense that its a broad category of tech being lumped under one umbrella term so it feels over-zealous to say i hate all of it all the time forever. but i also think trying to discuss what it actually IS good for is difficult right now when i cant take one step without something trying to convince me to use chatgpt to summarize my life and speed up my hobbies and turn my friends into chatbots and optimize my life into oblivion. i am certain there is nuance to the topic but can we stop cramming the square peg into the round hole before you start trying to sell me on the legitimate benefits of the square peg. please.