ABOUT TO START DAY TWO OF HAVING LOST MY EARBUDS. STRUGGLING TO REGULATE BUT I HAVE NOTICED THAT I AM

HALLUCINATING PRETTY BADLY CURRENTLY. ALAS. SELFCEST YAOI HAS COME TO SAVE ME AGAIN.

supernatural so silly bc you get stuff like "he was poisoned by belladonna" "the pornstar?" but you also get insanely profound "freedom is a length of rope and God wants you to hang yourself with it"

I believe in gentle parenting. Unfortunately many people refuse to parent their child at all under the guise of gentle parenting. Sometimes you’ve got to look your fourth grader in the eye and say “Little dude, that was an asshole move.”

SERVER TOWERS ARE ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING THINGS AROUND. I USED TO TALK ABOUT THEM AS A CHILD WITH MY DAD, WHO WORKED AT A BANK. I ALWAYS WONDERED HOW THEY WORKED AND WOULD ASK ENDLESS QUESTIONS.

server towers at the internet archive, each blue light signifies an article being accessed or edited (in real time!)

theyre letting me crawl out of the grave tomorrow

You can survive almost anything through the right combination of:

Bitching and moaning

Hater-ology

Doing a goofy little bit about it

Having a buddy say "that's so fucked up" at intermittent points (you can also be your own buddy)

Destroying the cursed amulet you carry everywhere, why do you even have that thing

I LOVE WHEN PEOPLE TAKE ANY RANDOM GUY IN MEDIA AND MAKE THEM A LESBIAN

Every time I see an obviously-queer middle schooler wearing a walmart Nirvana shirt try and discreetly stare at me, i remember why I dress like this. Every time I see some 7th grader with a pixie cut and a 'how to pass pre-t trans men' outfit trying to glance at me without seeming too obvious, or every time some 9th grader sees me in goodwill looking through the men's black T shirts for band tees, with a leather jacket or a pair of ripped jeans over my arm, and they come up and say they like my outfit. Every time I see a kid I could have easily been, who will easily grow up to be me.

It's not just for me. It's showing people who I used to be so similar to, that they can be themselves too. The same way 17 year olds showed me when I was 14, acting the same way they act, trying to be slick about watching what the cool goth girl in the thrift store was getting, so I could dress just like her when I grew up.

I got there. Now it's my turn to turn around and help others get here.

Lines of thought that seem Normal but are actually rooted in extreme puritanism:

-Seeing the nude human body is inherently traumatic -Sex scenes in art are pointless -Wearing kink-related clothing in public is the similar to performing a sex scene in front of unwilling participants -Depicting female characters expressing sexuality is always degrading -People's sexual fantasies are always an endorsement of the behavior they want to see in real life -Sex work is more traumatic and coercive than other types of work The goal is to treat sex as just another thing people do. That is a much healthier attitude than hiding it! It's not uniquely traumatic, it's not weird to talk about it or include it in society.

great. i was hoping my childhood would follow me forever and attach itself to my psyche and spread like mold. This is good