Queer by Frank Bidart
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if i look back, i am lost
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"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"

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let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
Acquired Stardust

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oozey mess
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Queer by Frank Bidart
The Way Things Have Been Going Lately by Ada Limón
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rendering
printing this on a tshirt and wearing it to see my family to see if they get the hint
happy pride month. š
what to write when youāre happy, M. T.
From: HOW TO READ A PERSON LIKE A BOOK (1971), by Gerard I. Nierenberg and Henry H. Calero.
Health classes really ought to teach people what the beginning stages of addiction are like because a lot of people donāt realize theyāre addicted to something until theyāre years deep into it.
Signs you might be getting addicted to something:
If you go without it you feel unwell in a way that you never usually feel unwell. Sweating, tired, sleepy, headaches, irritable, depressed, etc. For example when I was in opium withdrawal I got incredibly depressed in a way that Iāve never been before or since. When you quit caffeine you might get super bad headaches even if you never usually get any headaches.
Thoughts of it regularly bother you and the thoughts go away once youāve taken it but only temporarily. Unlike with a food craving which usually stays away once youāve satisfied it or distracted yourself from it.
You find yourself rationalizing with yourself why you should break your own rules about how much you can take and how often. For example you might only let yourself drink alcohol every four days but start thinking that three days is actually close enough to four days, right? Especially if this happens regularly.
Youāre using it so often that you feel the need to lie about how much you use because other people might think itās concerning
If the substance or activity is nearby itās genuinely difficult to not consume it or participate in it in a way thatās really frustrating.
You feel bad when youāre not on it and your brain tells you āif you just take the thing you wouldnāt feel this wayā
You can only feel āwholeā or ānormalā when youāre on a substance even though itās a recreational drug
And if you read this and think you might be addicted to something, donāt panic and donāt feel ashamed. Realizing youāre addicted to something isnāt a failure. Itās more information about your health that you can use to manage your condition, whether you want to get rid of your addiction or not.
Other signs (which might be a little farther along in the process than OP is talking about, but hopefully still helpful. some of them also overlap kinda heavily with what OP said)
You are starting to prioritize it over other forms of self care, such as nourishment, hydration, sleep, movement, etc
Activities you usually/used to care about start to feel less important than the thing on an emotional level
Your mind often wanders to what you're going to do when you next have access to the thing, even when the thing isn't relevant to what you're doing in the moment
It's becoming difficult to create plans that don't either include engaging with the thing, or are scheduled to leave time to engage with the thing
The suggestion that you no longer engage with the thing creates an emotional response of fear/anxiety/alarm/anger/defensiveness that is hard to explain
āA poem, an exercise in omitting lettersā ā Thomas Penny Ā· concrete poetry
some sort of love poem
This has recently gotten to 200,000 notes, and though Iāve tried to talk about my opinions on this poem, the poems meaning, and its popularity before Iāve always ended up deleting out of anxiety or whatever other reasons Iāve had.
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Some things I like to consider when writing dialogue:
-False starts
-Stammers
-Interruptions
-The speaker losing the thread of what theyāre trying to say or interrupting themselves to word it in a different way
-Recurrent and spontaneous changes of topic when multiple people engage in a conversation
-People talking over each other
-People changing their way of speaking depending on who theyāre talking to
-The listener failing to understand what the speaker means by what theyāre saying
-Formality and informality
-Delayed reactions
-Filler words
-Crutch words (kind of the same thing but I mean fillers that certain characters rely a lot on, practically part of their speech pattern)
-Interjections
-Abrupt silences
-Meaningful silences
write insane shit thatās way beyond your perceived ability and skill level even if you donāt finish it even if you think it sucks
theres a big conspiracy theory going round that you can be horribly flawed and also genuinely loved. crazy if true