Shiny ✨

it’s so embarrassing when you finally, reluctantly, with much foot-dragging, implement some piece of basic health advice and immediately feel better. how dare that work.

I know this is a tiny part of the wider problems born of diet culture, fatphobia, classicism, and racism but like god the idea that "healthy" food must inherently taste bad has completely ruined us as a society.

Every time you feel bad for having coffee with cream and sugar or ranch on your salad or putting extra butter and salt on your veggies I want you to imagine the spirit of John Harvey Kellogg in front of you and then I want you to kill him with a real gun and eat your delicious food in peace.

I bet it feels real good to be a sailing ship when they tighten the rigging

The thing that really annoys me about describing-the-media-masquerading-as-analysis is that it often wants to have it both ways with respect to the level of scrutiny it ought to be expected to stand up to. Analysis of a text may require justification, but description of a text can simply be incorrect. If I claimed that Moby-Dick is an allegory for capitalism, I might have to do some mild rhetorical gymnastics to pull that off, but it'd take a genuinely extraordinary argument to justify the claim that, for example, Moby-Dick has a giant robot in it.

You aren't the Chosen One. The prophecy doesn't even get going for another few generations. But you aren't just going to let some upstart conqueror trample your tulip garden just because the Fates say you can't beat him.