not being able to teleport is really fucking up my mood
not being able
to teleport is really
fucking up my mood
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
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he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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not being able to teleport is really fucking up my mood
not being able
to teleport is really
fucking up my mood
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
is this angel bothering you?
for some reason my cat always acts surprised and sniffs me when i pet him even if he's literally sat on me
"gender is a social construct": fairly easy for leftists to understand
"race is a social construct": a bit harder to swallow for some but still reasonable
"mental illness is a social construct": this one gets you hate mail in your inbox
Gotta add previous tags on here, because this is gonna live rent free in my head from now on. The stars are real, constellations are not. Damn. Tags by @smoreofbabylon (if you don’t want me to put you on blast like this I’ll delete lol!)
if I had known thousands more people were going to see my tags I would probably have written them with more care... this has crossed my dash a few times with my tags added in, and every time I'm like, "fuck, I should have said that a little differently." seems like it's been useful to people, and a bunch of people have made very thoughtful additions, and it's all probably fine, at any rate, but since it's here again and got me thinking:
I want to stress I definitely wasn't just talking about ADHD! the same experiences are understood differently cross-culturally, and that also includes things like depression, mania, psychosis, &c. consider how something like, for example, hearing the voice of a dead relative can be understood differently: is it an auditory hallucination, a symptom of psychosis? or is it a spiritual visitation? if you live in a culture which understands that particular phenomenon as normal—or at least, possible, perhaps even desirable—your experience of that phenomenon will be very different than the experience of someone who lives in a culture where it's perceived as a symptom. (see also the outcomes paradox in psychiatry, the observation that patient outcomes for schizophrenia differ cross-culturally, even when those patients are receiving the same treatments.) this is also why you should always be skeptical of people who say things like "Joan of Arc was actually schizophrenic!" because like. on top of the fact that we just don't have a ton of evidence for what Joan actually experienced, even if she experienced classic symptoms of what we would consider schizophrenia, her society did not have that category, and so did not understand or pathologize or treat her that way.
I said "diagnoses" in those tags, originally, because I also experience pretty severe depression. for me, at times, this can be somewhat disabling, because there are social norms and expectations that I struggle or fail to meet when my symptoms are at their most severe, and I understand those symptoms to be a result of my particular brain chemistry and various social factors in my life and history. I take medication and I go to therapy, and those things are helpful for me. but I could live in a society that perceived me as spiritually afflicted, rather than mentally ill, and I'd be treated very differently! or, I might occupy a social role in a society where I wasn't expected to be productive and outgoing, so melancholia and lassitude wouldn't would interfere with what I was supposed to be doing, and therefore wouldn't be considered a "problem" in the same way.
this is also why we say disability more generally is socially constructed! for example, deafness is not disabling for a person who lives in a community where most or everyone signs, and social norms include accommodations for differences in hearing. in sociology there's a concept called the Thomas theorem, named for William Isaac Thomas and Dorothy Swaine Thomas, who came up with it. it says "if men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences." what is normal, what is able, what is mentally well, &c.—all of these things are defined and structured socially, by what people collectively define as real.
all of which is to say: for thousands of years, navigators have steered by constellations. they're very useful! what they're called, and the stories told about them, will change depending on when and where you live. the stars shine on all the same.
making the radical claim "11 year old children should be taught how to make extremely simple food" has resulted in people making arguments like "I wasnt allowed to plug in electronics until I was 16 and I think this is super normal actually" and "children dont know what ratios are so its unfair to expect them to be able to comprehend the idea of adding equal amounts rice and water to a rice cooker" and I gotta say originally I thought maybe I was being too judgy but now I feel very secure in my opinion because what the fuck
Isn’t it kind of fun how when your life sucks you just can’t talk about it with anyone
I’m serious though. When your life reaches a degree of suckage, you find yourself having to look elsewhere for anything at all to talk about. The things going on in your life are trauma dumping. Your past is probably also trauma dumping. So you have to get really weird about specific things or hope that others want to talk to you, because very quickly people are going to develop an aversion to you and the way your life sucks. Unless you just don’t talk about it
It’s socially isolating, which is dangerous—when you’re in this sort of situation, community is the difference between life and death, housing and homelessness.
I think the collective prioritization of comfort first is hurting people in a real and material sense
Hey y'all why are writers always cold?
...why?
They're always surrounded by drafts!
How many mystery writers does it take to change a lightbulb?
Oh god.
How many?
Two! One to change the bulb, and the other to give it an unexpected twist at the end!
What do writers have for breakfast?
Coffee?
Synonym buns!
Where do all the struggling writers live?
How are you coming up with all these?
Where?
Writer's Block!
What do writers suffer from each spring?
(I've heard a lot of them over the years.)
Allergies. Next question.
you were close; A case of allegories
Why are writers always in great shape?
Circular prose
Nope! It's because we're always running out of ideas!
Did you hear about the famous writer who turned out to be a fraud?
I did not
His life had it's prose and cons...
Why is editing a better job than writing?
It's more rewording?
Correct! I am out of jokes. :(
Wait is that THIS cat?
IT IS
Turns out the scheming eunuch's love for you is genuine
“hi welcome to mcdonalds what can i get for you?”
“yeah can i get a deluxe quarter pounder with cheese?”
“absolutely, do you want the meal or just the sandwich?’
“uuuuuh hold on”
*fishes something out of my pocket*
“mikey what do i do?”
“get the fries. youll need the energy in the coming days”
*stuffs it back in my pocket*
“uhh yes please the meal would be great”
What Was The Image
thats between me and the holy fucking ghost
You would not believe your ass
If ten million largemouth bass.
desired you while the women flee
A patient, explaining what their relationship is to their new visitor who was headed up to see them, said, “he’s my guardian,” and I said “oh I didn’t you had a legal guardian,” and the patient said, “he’s not my legal guardian, he’s my spiritual and physical guardian. He is also my brother. Well, I say he’s my brother. He’s like a brother. He’s my husband.” And I say this with genuinely no judgment, just pure curiosity, what
Who else has thousands of ideas but unfortunately your mortal form is constantly at 'low battery' energy levels?