The Anxious Mind of a Perfectionist Teacher

30. Spanish Teacher. Musician. Liberal. Queer. Intersectional Feminist. Ashkenazi Jew. Short, plus-size girl learning to love her body.

[faustique]

and the people who still get amazed by the stars and the moon on a dark night are my kind of people

[clownfactories]

there should be a second pride month in fall or winter for people who have heat intolerance. no other reason.

[drtrinitysantos]

the kids are calling them "stone fruits." they start off small—think cherries. then they're hooked and they need a quick fix, they get peaches, maybe some nectarines. it's all they can think about. before you know it, they're trying the really hard stuff—apricots, plums. once they taste a mango there's no going back.

[crowboy-bebop]

oh my fucking god

[shadeykris]

a blessing, a wish, a talisman

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[creekfiend]

many women are excited to get old and weird, but i have great news that it's fully possible to become weird now, before you get old. just imagine the heights of weirdness you will be able to reach in fifty years if you get started now. that's what I think

[whyenn-reader]

''what if you regret it'' then you will expirience regret - a normal and unavoidable part of the human expirience.

[stephanisoejono]

happy new year -------------_--------------------

[calamity-aims]

[aropride]

ur clothes size doesnt say anything. like it doesnt say anything abt u as a person but it also especially doesnt say anything about what size your clothes are

[bakwaaas]

I hear that

[abandonrun]

*preparing to go outside* i’m normal. i know how to cross the street. i avoid eye contact in an organic non weird way, as if i simply do not notice fellow pedestrians.

[freakoutgirl]

*feels my body get anxious for no reason* what is it boy, what do you see?

[sighinastorm]

Soon.

[armandology]

so many unread books on my shelf. unsure which to start first so ill just read nothing

[deslizada]

man sometimes friendship really is just "I saw this and knew it would give you psychic damage. please respond with agony" and then they do. and it's great

[myjetpack]

My latest books cartoon for the Guardian

[homunculus-argument]

Martin Luther was a a seething little misogynistic antisemite who hated everyone and everything, but nonetheless I recall sitting at school learning about protestant reformation. I don't recall the exact details of how our teacher told this story, and now that I briefy looked it up, it's apparently considered more of a myth than an actual incident

but anyway

There was this anecdote that Martin Luther was staying up late at night translating the bible, saw the devil appear in his room, and threw his inkwell at it. The inkwell crashed into the wall, the devil disappeared but the stain remained. Even though there is a physical stain somewhere that was long presented to people as proof of the incident, apparently these days there's people arguing that the tale was more of a symbolic thing, a figure of speech about how he "chased away the devil with ink" by his writing.

It hadn't even occurred to me to interpret it that way. Everything I'd ever heard of the guy made it sound perfectly natural to me that he would both stay awake working long enough to start seeing shadow people without the aid of any kind of stimulants, and respond to seeing something of the sort with no comprehension of what the fuck that is by "attack on sight".

[prettyboysdontlookatexplosions]

when we think of things we take for granted that generations of old would be amazed by i think a lot of us are underrating the easy availability and low price of salt