Billy Shakespeare wrote a whole bunch of sonnets.

Alyssa Rose. 23. New Jersey.

[anotherwaytowonderland]

Will there ever be a day where I don’t have garbage thoughts?? And like literally everyone is going thru it and I don’t wanna talk about it so I’m just gonna keep dealing with it on my own

[authenticstains]

[anotherwaytowonderland]

Feeling super stuck and wishing I could move to another state and just be away from everyone for a bit

[anotherwaytowonderland]

Suffering in silence

Really feeling sad and depressed and driving home is horrible and I just have awful thoughts and I don’t want to reach out and I don’t want anyone to reach out

[anotherwaytowonderland]

I’m literally mentally not okay today but I’m just gonna surpress my feelings and help everyone else

[mjalti]

every time i massage moisturizer onto my face i feel kin with those evil witches in stories obsessed with youth and beauty….they did nothing wrong, ever,

[linguistanora]

“I can’t fucking do this” - I mutter for the twentieth time as I continue to fucking do it

[anotherwaytowonderland]

This year has been incredibly bad and it doesn’t matter how hard I try to do everything right and be so good it still fucking sucks so bad and I’m just on the fucking edge every second and I literally can’t talk to anyone and I just want this all to stop I want everything to be okay

[feistyfrank]

[cockandpokeballs]

The gay PR guy in that came up with this Nintendo/Ariana crossover deserves a raise

[smatter-deactivated20220909]

She sounds so good in this???!

[shockyhorror]

A Star Is Born

[polyglotplatypus]

if u ever wonder how europeans can rely on trains so much to travel thru entire countries

this is why

(312km/h is about 194mph)

[spectre-head]

? Yea is this not the same everywhere??

[polyglotplatypus]

doesnt seem to be

[disregardcanon]

Also, most areas in America don’t even HAVE passenger rail anymore

[quietdoppelganger]

The automotive industry purposely tried to kill off trains here in America

[salty-red-mage]

Public transit in general if we’re being honest.

[killjoylastlaughter-deactivated]

As an europeean, what the fuck america?

[technicolorrelays]

if you ever see something weird about america chances are it’s because some powerful industry decided to kill something that would have worked towards the public good for profit

[jenniferrpovey]

A huge part of the problem is that the freight companies own the track.

The tracks are one in each direction except in a few places.

The freight train gets to go first, chugging along at freight speed, with the passenger trains behind it.

Which is why 20 minutes late is pretty much on time.

The Acela doesn’t have this problem, but it can’t run at full speed because some of the track hasn’t been updated in a century.

Yes.

A century.

Nobody wants to spend the money on it. It would cost $117-billion to modernize the entire corridor, per the Washington Post.

And of course, the trains suck so nobody rides the train so the trains have no money so the trains suck.

(That said, it’s actually still easier to take the train from, say, DC to New York than to fly).

[everythingiknowisfromdrseuss]

Also, sometimes the train from DC to NY falls off the tracks in Philly, which doesn’t really inspire confidence in Amtrak. I moved to Denver (from Philly) awhile back, and here, the freight tracks are in such bad shape the passenger trains have trouble running on them. So to have any type of rail-based commuter line, they have to build new tracks and find a place to put them. The current estimate is that the Denver to Boulder route will get a train line somewhere around 2040. When I moved here in 2010, that estimate was 2018.

[jenniferrpovey]

That’s part of the same thing. The tracks need to be updated.

[blackfemalescientist]

I once took a train from DC to florida, and arrived 2 days late. The tracks definitely need to be updated. The costs are really high, so unless its a 1.5 hr ride, its more worth your time to fly. And things are more spread out here, so its likely cost prohibitive to maintain 1000’s of miles of track. That being said, it makes no sense that there’s not a bullet train between, say, nyc, philly, boston, and washington dc. or between san francisco and LA etc etc.

[anotherwaytowonderland]

I know that everyone keeps telling me to rest and take care of myself and someone said “I know you like to constantly go go go but you need to rest” and like the reason I don’t rest or relax or take days off is because my brain is fucking scary and if I’m left alone with my thoughts for too long without distractions I will fucking lose it and this is why I don’t like getting sick and being out of work and not being able to leave and not having anyone to come over and I’m gonna fucking cry and no ones listening to me 🙃🙃

[anotherwaytowonderland]

I’m so overwhelmed and everytime I think about a big life decision I’m like I’d rather die than deal with this and I’m so sad

[anotherwaytowonderland]

I relapsed for the first time in months and I’m only mad cause it’s painful

[anotherwaytowonderland]

I hope whatever is making me not be able to breathe just does the job already I can’t take it anymore

[anotherwaytowonderland]

I had a full on panic attack for the first time in years so that happened

[anotherwaytowonderland]

Ahahahahahah I haven’t eaten in almost 24 hours again