Yelsnia

[elysiancowlick]

Hey do you remember that muppet sketch with the swedish chef when he gets attacked by a lump of tangled spaghetti?

It used to freak me out a lot as a kid for some reason and they use to play it all the time at the beginning or end of kids films (Disney) on VHS.

Anyway I dreamt it last night. Think it was an anxiety dream 😂 🙃

I must have been pretty young. But that spaghetti puppet freaked me out!

I really don’t like it when he wacks the spaghetti to discipline it too 😖

Ugh, I don’t know why it has always disturbed me. Used to have to fast forward that part of the video.

It’s not even that bad watching it back now. But I still recoil on some level.

[elysiancowlick]

“Oh but you look so well and healthy”.

“You’ve never looked better!”

How wonderful for me 😑

Chronic conditions and invisible illnesses are fun and always elicit the best, most thoughtful responses from people 🙃

[armitaggehux-deactivated2021030]

Me: eats anything

My digestive system

[elysiancowlick]

Me and my guts

[elysiancowlick]

Bored of people telling me my thick, long, loose hair makes them feel hot. “You’re making me feel so hot! Don’t you feel hot?! Put it up or get a haircut!”

Sorry petal, but you’re just going to have to cope. It’s my hair and I feel fine. I’ll put it up when I want to. 💁🏻‍♀️😎🙅🏻‍♀️

Another tale in the ‘my body and appearance is none of your concern’ chronicles.

[elysiancowlick]

[fuckyeahfringefox]

[elysiancowlick]

[beastsandbabes]

[elysiancowlick]

Day of the Triffids

[elysiancowlick]

You know, at one time, I used to break into pet shops to liberate the canaries. But I decided that was an idea way before its time. Zoos are full, prisons are overflowing... oh my, how the world still dearly loves a cage.

Maude 'Harold and Maude'

[elysiancowlick]

I haven’t lived. I’ve died a few times.

Harold, 'Harold and Maude'

[hotpicklez]

[elysiancowlick]

Harold and Maude

[elysiancowlick]

There are a lot of people in the world whom I admire, in whole or in parts, but I don't have heroes. It seems such an unfair thing, to call someone a hero, to put someone on a pedestal and lionize them to the virtual point of dehumanization; such a terrible way to recognize the rarity of a person whose work and principles and decency are so abundant and meaningful that I aspire to follow their lead. Instead of heroes, I have people, flawed people, who I respect, whose humanity I acknowledge as a fundamental part of what it is that makes them admirable in the first place. After all, they live in the same shitty world that we all do, and have the same human foibles, but manage to be kind and wise despite the cultural cacophony of disincentives to be either. To call someone a hero, it seems to me, steals them of the hard work they do to be good and replaces it with a distancing exceptionalism, which is really just a way of excusing ourselves from achieving the same goodness. So I don't have heroes.

Melissa McEwan, Shakesville (2011)