It's No Fun to Learn Backwards

Older than 21. Grown bitch matters reside here, so grown folks only.  Is reminded of the same lessons she didn't learn every other month. Been here too goddamned long to not know how to do stuff.

[charlesoberonn]

“Money can’t buy happiness!”

Me:

[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

[dragon-in-a-fez]

y'all know that whole left-brained/right-brained thing is fake right? and the "brain fully develops at age 25" thing? and the "we only use 10% of our brains" thing? yeah they're all complete horseshit please yell at anyone who says them

[dragon-in-a-fez]

okay people are doing nuance in the notes about the kernels of truth in neuroscience myths but I really really need you to understand that that is not important here. people don't believe there are "right-brained" and "left-brained" people because they've misunderstood lateralisation of the central nervous system, they believe it because that binary framework was deliberately pushed by people who wanted to define who was logical enough to lead, and surprise surprise, white adult heterosexual men are left-brained. people don't believe the brain "finishes developing at 25" because they've misunderstood life stage differences in neuroplasticity, they believe it because the idea that children, teens, and young adults have inferior brains is a convenient rationalisation for a society that marginalises them. people don't believe you "only use 10% of your brain" because they misread an fMRI study, they believe it because it's useful bullshit for everyone from hyperindividualist historical revisionists pushing the great genius concept of scientific progress to hucksters recruiting for cults that will teach you to unlock your latent telekinesis for just $5000 a month. that's why it's fucking important to know that many popular science ideas are false and to push back on them loudly and frequently, because they're not just mildly incorrect, they are often active components of systems of violence.

[alisvart]

They are whispering🫢💞

[theambitiouswoman]

[depsidase]

[thepromiscuousfinger]

[gzeidraws]

meeting sunbaenim backstage 🤩

[wocina]

i am divinely blessed, guided, and protected at all times🤌🏼🪽

[remanence-of-love]

[resistinsistdesist]

Battling the mind: resistance

It's sad to have this much psychological resistance to posting online. What if I could actually be good as a content maker? What if I have a message that resonates? The world will never know when it takes upwards of an hour for me to post anything due to clawing through onion layers of resistance. It gets so exhausting, too.

I'd like to say that this entry is my attempt to simply share my process (specifically the part where I am at war with my own mind to the extent that a little text post is mentally exhausting), but that could imply that I will eventually have an easier time at this if I do it enough.

The resistance remains, as it has for years.

[hwangintakswifey]

Valko, you don't deserve this

Artist credit: Yookes_ (@Yookes_). On X

[puffsaddy]

[oneswordstyle]

[scorpionlafemme]

[tothechaos]

we need to find the beating heart of The Job Market and we need to plunge a holy gleaming blade into it. its the only way to be free

[weirdgirlvampire]

again and again and again and again