green when wet

a fun thing that happens if you are +very+ docile, pliant and doll-like is that your lack of struggle actually loops back around to making them so angry/worked up/intrigued that they start to work you over like you're actually resisting very hard just to get a bigger reaction

Our traumatized nervous system is going to fall right into feeling controlled, trapped, and/or in trouble if we try to force ourselves to do things. Don't try to bully or pressure yourself.

Think I'm going to try this behavior for two minutes, & always leave yourself an out.

Two stills from the television series Twin peaks showing Agent Dale Cooper talking to the sherif with text that reads "every day, once a day, give yourself a present." For the top image and "don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen." For the bottom

making mistakes and failing is really important. even more important is finding people you can do that with. it is a miserable journey to be alone and obsessed with perfection

I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately.

A few years ago I ended up in a new group of writers for my usual group. anytime I said I was stressed, I was told it was burnout by some people there, and I should take a break.

So I did. And my word count dropped. And dropped. Writing got harder. 🧵

Who Up Playing Chopin Thru Their Meat Whistle

let him invade cities, whatever. stop legitimizing this shit. he doesn't represent you by his own admission. he hates you by his own admission. you don't have to negotiate the terms of your own abuse. enough

it’s true, if we weren’t looking at beast he wouldn’t be constructing saw traps. But he might become a Dunkin franchisee instead so let’s hold the line

It is not our job to determine if resistance is hopeless. It is our duty to render it effective, at all possible points, while we are alive. It is the future that will determine if our efforts were victorious, not the present. To act fully in the present means to never face defeat.

redid my HRT shot today , stomach shot this time vs thigh. Not as bad as I thought ?? definitely more painful tho

The Trump admin has been targeting trans people, but there’s no new verifiable information in this report, just a single unnamed official who “feels” like trans people could be labeled Nihilist Violent Extremists. In his previous reporting Klippenstein has misunderstood the NVE label, it’s for 764.

hey so, read this story and

this is an incredibly vague piece of reporting i am personally taking with lots of salt before jumping to conclusions

instead of trying to explain in one text limited post, a quick thread…

The real fear that pundits have is that school shootings don't make the news anymore, the crazies have to take Public Name Scalps in order to be seen. So instead of middle schoolers the next lunatic with an AR is going to go after the loud political guy on youtube to become immortal

I think it's a sign of how cowed the American media is that we're getting pieces like "you have to understand, in Korean culture, it's considered very rude for someone to lock you in a brutal prison camp for a week for no reason." Like yeah, any free people would be offended by that?

good day to be normal

THEY'RE CALLED MECHA, COOP. REAL WACKADOO STUFF THE BOYS BACK AT LANGLEY HAVE BEEN COOKING UP. ENORMOUS ROBOT BODIES THAT'LL WIN THE NEXT TEN WARS. BUT HERES THE KICKER: THEY CAN ONLY BE DRIVEN BY MALNOURISHED TEENAGE LESBIANS. TRANSGENDERS TOO IF THEY'RE MALNOURISHED ENOUGH.

These and a very dangerous third one are getting very prominent, especially in the deeply niche hobby circles: people getting shit either completely wrong or just outright making shit up but getting by because it's milquetoast enough for people who don't know the subject to not question it

I've been telling folks this since January - normal is dead and gone, the country, system, and understandings we grew up in and amidst are dead and buried and we will never return to them.

What comes next, whatever comes next, will be something new.

You need to look around and find compassion for those who are stuck in cycles and taking shortcuts. Things only go one way. No one really has options. You may not ever get an opportunity to become a free person. Preemptively forgive yourself in the case that you die before you find your way.

At the core of transmisogyny is, inevitably, misogyny itself. The viciousness with which some people trash trans women for how they look, or their supposed artificiality, or perceived errors in their behaviour, comes from a fundamental loathing of any women who doesn’t conform to their expectations.

the only good dating advice is that you must learn to bear your suffering well. the reason most dating advice skews conservative is because it shares with conservatism the view that suffering should happen to other people

2025 is littered with corpses of my childhood liberal ideals, and at this point, honestly, good riddance.

If u break a cycle u stronger than anybody who's never been caught in one

the gigantic make me wanna go down with the ship 😭

your martyr complex makes my martyr complex sick

yeah yeah your the worlds most prophetic Corn cob. get in line bub

just made a tulpa of my dog

oomf made a very sharp point that the last 15 years of the ways we've developed how to talk about all kinds of oppression are often conceptualized through legalistic and representational frameworks & so now that we are in a globally "extralegal" situation people are left a bit helpless and overtaken

eat a da spghati

think about the second order of meaning, but never the third, and say only enough to plausibly rest in the first order. ok too much thinking try again