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writing the kiddads as my age or somewhere around it is fun and all until I remember that canonically they are all only a year younger than me. WHAT THE FUCK

one of my least favorite things is that I can’t teleport

Your 20s are not about anything and your 30s are not about anything and your 40s... also not about anything

very busy. i have to pace in circles for 6 hours. you understand

very busy. i have to pace in circles for 6 hours. you understand

inadequacy

Good luck, ausies. May your election season be less nightmarish.

Let's not forget the important things though.

The way you change your immediate reactions to things is that you catch yourself having an uncharitable/bigoted/overly judgmental thought and you catch it and replace it and then you do that a hundred times a day for your whole life and eventually one day like five years later you realize that you think differently now and you’ll always be working on something but that’s how life goes and that’s fine.

Say you have a bad habit of thinking all other people are stupider than you and want to respect other people’s intelligence more.

So you start paying attention to your immediate first reactions to things. You notice that when other people around you are struggling with a math problem and ask you for help you default to seeing them as annoying and stupid.

Instead of chastising yourself for having that thought, interrogate it. Replace it. Think, why do I assume people with different strengths are dumber than I am? I need help sometimes too. I’m glad they’re comfortable enough with me to ask me for help. I’m glad I’ve got a reputation of being the math guy and can help people with that.

And the first time, perhaps the first few dozen times, it’ll feel disingenuous. The cynicism in your brain will fight it. But in time it’ll become as easy as breathing. First thought, replace thought.

And then one day you don’t need to replace that thought. That might be a month from now or twenty years from now. And it’s annoying to get there. But you do get there.

I finally made the meme I've had in my head for over a year

never forget the universal rule of the order of things: People Will Not Read It

signs at stores? émail? menu ?? instruction ? post online ? caption with andswer to question ? group hand outs ??? street sign ??? no. The Written Word Is The Enemy

americans are making this post about their shit education system and the literacy crisis whatever that is and i say this with love in my heart: it really is not that deep. pathology this pathologizing that. how about the universal human inclination to take da Path of least resistance

I think abt the left 4 dead 2 graffiti so often. Like they really had the human condition nailed huh.

these are tumblr posts

I have nothing against trans girl headcanon stuff where people are like "this character would dress and present exactly the same as they did pretransition" but its always applied to characters it absolutely would not apply to

"if jesse pinkman transitioned she'd still dress the same and stuff she'd be a masc lesbian" jesse pinkman is extremely self destructive, infatuated with self image, prone to becoming attached to older men, has had zero healthy conduits for expressing femininity, and has an obscene amount of drug money to drop on plastic surgery and tiny black bodycon dresses she would not be fucking masc she would end up on mugshawtys 6 months into her transition

If you had to get a tattoo from the last show you watched, what would it be?

i, personally, love to straddle that fine line between “fandom blog” and “record of complete psychological breakdown”

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