ILL GO, ILL GO, ILL GO, ILL GO, ILL GO. SHIT

"You know what's harder than Getting Better? Living Like That" is just the thesis for my whole shit going on right now honestly. You know what's harder than doing my physical therapy? Hurting All The Time. You know what's harder than addressing my gender dysphoria? Hurting All The Time

I'm Doing The Hard Thing and it's *easier* than how I was living before. If you make yourself feel better you will have more energy to spend on Getting Better. Nice inch nails - the upward spiral. Crawl out of your grave Thursday

margaret qualley divorcing jack antonoff is going to be so chic when it happens

I think if you are a married character and you go to space and you meet your new best friend forever there and then you two go through an extended period of harrowing crises together and then you bring them home with you because you are now a Bonded Pair Do Not Separate with a codependent thing going on… you should get to have some marital problems when you get home. And Martha Wells is the only author brave enough to agree with me

I hear ‘would Ryland Grace have trouble eating in public if he returned to earth’ this and ‘would Ryland Grace have trouble looking people in the eyes or hearing human voices if he returned to earth’ that. No. Vastly more important question /j. Would Ryland Grace keep unscrewing bottles the wrong way and get increasingly frustrated about it if he returned to earth. I’m imagining him trying to get a water bottle open for 5 mins before finally turning to someone else to get them to open it, and then when they open in with absolute ease in no time at all, he stands there opening and closing his mouth like a goldfish, mutters a curse to the water bottle under his breath once he realizes, and blames it on his old man joints. do you see my vision.

#are they lovers? worse. they never got the chance to figure it out <-prev

I always feel so cheated in stories when characters are walking around with this Big Guilt and then...you find out that the thing wasn't their fault at all. And not in a "they thought they did it but it turns out they were set up" way, or even a "accepting that just because they did A which caused B which caused C it doesn't mean C was their fault", way but where they finally lay out the sequence of events and it's clear that any thinking person would not connect them. Like, fucking commit!!! The character isn't LESS compelling if they actually did the thing! You can't have the haunted brooding meow meow who is...also completely blameless

not everything is getting worse. at least you don't hear high hopes by panic at the disco every day anymore

Sometimes having an OC is like "this character is an outlet for my insecurity and trauma" and sometimes it's like "this character is an outlet for my love of vampires :)". Sometimes it's both

Sometimes you think it's "this character is an outlet for my love and nothing more :)" and then you look it over later like "shit. product of the deepest depths of my soul again"

this glib summary makes it sound like this is obvious. but the rise of the far right in recent years is in significant part due to the failure of hte mainstream reformist left to understand this rudimentary point of politics and choosing to retreat on the welfare state, on immigration, on trans rights, therefore leaving the agenda to be set by the far right. so actually it's kind of like sun tzu writing about how you need to make sure to pack food for your army. someone needs to write down the basics