From 3.05 "The Light of Day"
local man gets day drunk while tall lord farquad and a silicon valley twunk scream at each other five feet away from him, all while said local man’s middle-aged autistic son is tweaking in a church basement with a ventriloquist dummy, a known murderer, and his Colombian surrogate mother (who is younger than him)
This sent me to The Town and back.
I think we all need some soup right now. Reblog to give prev a bowl of their favourite soup.
Best wishes for your 264th birthday, Monsieur de Lioncourt
hate coming to terms with things. i should be able to cast a fireball instead
Ok this is the best one i've seen.
T. S. Eliot, from The Complete Works of T. S. Eliot; "The Confidential Clerk,"
I just got described as an "ad hating commie" by someone because I said a minute of youtube ads is unpleasant. fully spent 5 minutes arguing and defending youtube ads. insane stuff
reblog if you are an ad hating commie
I gotta say, one of the greatest achievements of my 20s was that I learned (mostly) to differentiate between:
"I truly do not want to go" and
"I'm just feeling the Demand Avoidance, and I will like it once I get there."
Well, goodness, this one resonated much more than I was expecting. I mean, I get it. My mind was also blown wide open when I found out "demand avoidance" was a thing that existed, and that I'm not the only weirdo in the world who suddenly wishes it wasn't her birthday after anxiously waiting for her birthday for days.
Loads of people in the tags are asking how I do it? I feel this won't be groundbreaking advice, but here is what I have learned:
- Previous experience. Really no way around it. Now that I hit thirty, I feel like I have done enough things to know, intellectually, from experience, what will feel nice if I overcome the avoidance, and what won't.
For example, every time I go to the beach, I wake up early and would rather eat a tire than get off the bed. But I remember that every time I got up and went to the beach, I was glad I did it. So I just get up, feeling like shit, and get ready, feeling like shit, and I get to the beach and magic!! I feel great, I love the beach!! Sometimes you just gotta do it
scaredfeeling kinda like shit. - Am I avoiding the thing or getting to the thing? I have a lot of demand avoidance around just, y'know, getting up, getting ready and going out the door. Universal human experience. If I notice that doing the actual thing (Swim in the pool!) sounds nice, but I'm avoiding having to rally myself to go do that (Fetch swimsuit! Sunscreen! Towel!), then I know it's demand avoidance and I should just fucking go.
- Is the thing making me feel excited at all or just anxious? I have had previous occasions when I did the opposite; I convinced myself it was just demand avoidance when I really just. Hated the thing. And wanted to stop. If you feel a mix of excitement and dread, or excitement and anxiety, that might be demand avoidance. But if thinking of doing the thing just makes you feel actively anxious, then yeah. You don't want to do the thing.
- Do the thing a little bit. Used often with dishes. I've seen this advice float around Tumblr a lot and it's correct. Commit to doing just a bit of the thing; a little bit of the thing; the smallest bit of the thing you can do. Getting started will make it clear right away if you don't want to do it (and in that case, you have permission to stop), or if you just having trouble getting started.
me too bro me too
(April 12th 2024)
No medical confirmation or psychological evaluation necessary. The law will be active by the 1st of November this year.
First names can also be changed while changing gender. One all inclusive package with minimum effort.
Here's the AP article about it for anyone who wants it
[ID: The Destiel meme, edited to say, in the first panel, "I love you", and in the second, "Today Germany passed a law that allows everyone to change their gender by simply going to the registry and telling them to change it." End ID]
I need people outside of Germany to understand how huge this is!
It came into effect yesterday, November 1st, 2024!!!!
I am not taking a risk
Not risking it pals
U know what I want potato of luck
#people with avoidant attachment style be like
I will defend low-quality queer media if only because non-queer people get to make shitty low-quality media all the time and nobody gives a shit.
Queer people deserve to make shitty art as much as anyone else, god damn it. We've been censored for so goddamn long and I'm tired of every piece of queer media needing to be the height of representation and art and quality.
Queer media won't have achieved true equality with straight media until queer people can make garbage in peace.
I mean surely we all grew up feeling like there was a wrongness inherently deep inside us that will endure for the rest of our lives