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they/them/nothing (do not perceive me) | 21 in human years incomprehensible in my real form | aroace | agender | fandom content consumer canon existence denier

[strawberry-crocodile]

marriage is insane. people will really be like "if you really love me youll sign this legal document binding our finances together"

[strawberry-crocodile]

marriage is taught to kids and talked about as like the ultimate form of love, the natural endgame for a relationship, but functionally, it is primarily an economic contract. bind together your finances, be able to adopt, get to decide what happens when the other dies. but all this legal bullshit is still tied to, like, expectations of living together, romantic and sexual monogamy, labor from the woman (we know marriage is built For The Hets, right?), social stuff. pinkie promise im the only person youll fuck ever and we can buy a house.

kinda fucked up is all im sayin.

[strawberry-crocodile]

to be clear im not saying never get married, im saying marriage is a crass, practical legal procedure and should be done for crass, practical legal reasons. and never marry a man who won't do dishes.

[ahmnorhein-zkn]

Repost, now do your honors.

[valtsv]

oh my god i almost forgot to tell you all about how, while my dad was visiting, i had an infestation of every single kind of bug in my house that hasn't been a problem before or since. like i'm not kidding i evicted so many creeping crawlies that week and couldn't for the life of me stop mosquitos from stealing my blood, but as soon as he left they vanished. and i mean, sure, there's a perfectly rational explanation, because two people make more mess than one and he has a habit of leaving the windows wide open enough to fly a jet engine through day and night, but i can't help but think how symbolically on the nose it was. the ancestral rot at the heart of my family so gothic it's got ants and flies buzzing around its decaying corpse.

[valtsv]

hey so update but i haven't been harassed by a single freaky little beast since my dad left even after leaving some crumbs on the floor as an experiment to see if they attracted any ants so i think my dad might just be bugs actually

[creatures-5]

@vague-magnus-archives

[bodyintheriver]

“She died. She can’t come back, even if you keep her stuffed away in a drawer you can’t look at. You’re not waiting for her resurrection; you’ve made yourself her mausoleum.”

[freakoutgirl]

how to do things that everyone else seems to do no problem

[thepiperatthegatesofdawn1967]

at least the colour green exists

[mewy101]

I could never find the right way to tell you, have you noticed I've been gone?

[exeggcute]

I need a polite and effective way to say "hey your heart is truly in the right place and your anger is often righteous but I think sometimes you’re getting recreationally mad about things that are frankly not worth the amount of energy you’re spending on them, and every time you do this you're driving yourself slightly more insane with nothing to show for it," and then I need a way to broadcast that message through a loudspeaker to roughly 30,000 people at once, and THEN I need a time machine to send that message to my past self lol. and maybe a second time machine in case past me tries to be clever and sabotage the version of me who comes through the first time machine

[breadandm]

somebody posted this Calvin and Hobbes strip and i cannot overstate just how topical this fuckin thing is

[helpimsotired]

Justin McElroy talking about accessibility in live theatre (June 9, 2019)

[formichi]

[quasi-normalcy]

“Art is happening everywhere all of the time” but an awful lot of it seems to only ever happen in New York and London, doesn’t it?

[haughtyraban]

“there’s an ai tool for that” okay ?? there’s probably an ed sheeran song for it too who gives a fuck

[dateamonster]

by the fourth or fifth time you "come back wrong" no ones even impressed anymore

[quasi-normalcy]

#characters in the sixth season of every CW show are like

[animentality]

[hakuteeth]

Not to offer advice nobody asked for but fixing ur sleep schedule is life changing

[hakuteeth]

Things that actually work if u try at them:

Drinking water

No longer making self deprecating jokes

Making sure to take time out of the day to relax and take a breather

Lighting candles

Counting ur breaths in and out if ur having a panic attack

Getting up and trying to do one thing even if u can’t do everything maybe brushing ur teeth but not having the energy to shower

[justummsomeguy]

Taking a shower if you can, putting clean clothes on if you can’t, even just a clean set of pjs. Washing your face.

[o-lanterns]

A couple weeks ago I was in a major depressive slump and was feeling really detached from reality. I was trying so hard to fight it but nothing I tried worked until I realized I hadn’t listened to any happy music in almost a week.

I didn’t feel like listening to anything at all but I put on my favorite playlist anyway. Take On Me started and I finger stimmed to the keyboard riff and hummed along and by the end of the song I was smiling. A few more songs and I was fully singing along and feeling more present than I had in days.

Even if it seems small and trivial, like putting on your favorite socks or looking up pictures of kittens, it might be something you need. Of course the music didn’t solve any of the problems I was upset about, but it did help me feel like I was a person again.

[drtief]

This isn’t one of those “must be good to be neurotypical” posts btw, these are small and accessible steps that can really help.

[patheticfruitcake]

I just know that if Lithuanian was a more known language and he was born a couple decades later Vytautas Kernagis would have been touring the world, having a feral fan base and been lauded as a genius in indie music circles

[salix03]

this kingdom is going to shit man

[fjordojustice]

An honorable mention that lives forever in my heart

[thewritersdidit]

AO3 taking 17 years to get beta-read and finally post an update is the most fanfic thing ever.