Remember that recent viral tweet that was like "environmentalism is conservative now", and every second headline since then is some variation of "republicans to allow national park to be reduced to smouldering wasteland"
When my dad died, I was in such a state of shock that a doctor prescribed Ativan.
I abused it.
I didn’t really understand what “take as needed” meant. I was grieving, barely functioning, and they handed a woman with ADHD a bottle of pills and vague instructions.
“Well, I fucking need it,” I thought, letting another one dissolve on my tongue. “Because if I don’t, I’m wrapping myself in his sweaters just to smell him and crying on the floor.”
I bounced from clinic to clinic until someone finally flagged it and cut me off.
For a brief moment, I felt nothing.
And it was nice.
That’s when I understood the appeal. Not because I wanted to get high. I just wanted the grief to stop.
So when people ask me how addiction happens, I think about that feeling. I think about how seductive relief can be when you’re drowning.
i think what gets to me every time this convo comes around is that men not only don't understand the hot girl enough to get that her friend is doing what she wants them to, but also that they assume hot girls have the same disdain for their less attractive friends that men do
doing the "scrolling past lewd image in public but keeping the like button in view to tap it" tech, then failing the dexterity check and getting full blasted with half-naked anime women while on the bus
I think that Azula is still the heir of a imperialistic nation at the end of the day but it’s funny seeing that any depth added to Azula is regarded with disdain while the actions of Zuko or Iroh are rebutted with “but they changed!” As if those redemptions weren’t conditional
the guy that sat next to me at the tadc movie was like 80 years old and his grandson was on the other side of him infodumping in his ear like this the whole time
I love the idea that if a person from medieval times entered the backrooms, they would still enter the modern office complex style since the Backrooms doesn’t care about time