never let kids get into stories about shapeshifting first theyre pretending to be wolves on the playground then theyre getting radicalized by animorphs then theyre realizing the human body is an impermanent and malleable thing then theyre discovering you can take a potion to change your gender in real life
I have another cat named Chowder and we found him living in our house under a couch. He has the biggest head my vet had ever seen and his tongue is too big for his mouth.
stop believing that you ran out of time to shape yourself into who you want to be! stop believing that its ruined! stop believing you don’t have potential! you are not a fixed being! you have endless opportunities to grow.
Any time I feel the grip of anxiety that I’m too old or don’t have time to do something with my limited hours after work, I just remember the wisdom of the ancients:
obviously a Midsummer Night’s Dream, can you imagine? Kermit as Oberon, Miss Piggy as Titania, the non-fae characters are played by the only humans, when Bottom is transformed he physically becomes a muppet, Puck is naturally Gonzo with bonus Rizzo
it’s insane to me that people get so mad at animals for doing animal stuff. people will post 4 paragraph Facebook rants about a killdeer nesting in their gravel and include pics of the bird taking care of their nest with 0 idea that they’re like, occupying an Important Driveway. they’re just being little dudes and you’re seething
I was making coffee and I heard a “mpeep” behind me so I turn around an on my kitchen floor sits Kotelet, the tiny stray that visits me every day, and to her side sits a big fat house spider, you know the one that gets stuck in your bath.
So I go “Hey ehh, you brought a buddy?” and she looks down at the spider and swallows it in one go -legs and everything- and looks back at me with these cute big eyes
Imagine my shock as a neurodivergent teen when I first realized that using large vocabulary and eloquent speech doesn’t make you less likely to be misinterpreted, rather it adds an entirely new layer of misinterpretation I had never even realized existed in the form of people thinking you’re being snobbish or condescending when you’re just trying to be specific
You want some serious old fart advice? Never, ever lend your friends more money than you think you can lose permanently. I don’t fucking care if they say they’ll pay you back. I don’t care how small the amount is. Write that shit off as gone in your mind. It will eat at you forever if you don’t.
Some people say the same thing about family, but I think it applies more to friends. Family is (usually) held together by obligations the way friends aren’t. And money is a huge stressor in all kinds of relationships, not just romantic.
I’m not saying this to bum you out. I’m telling you because this is not something you want to learn on your own. Because it fucking sucks to realize it’s one reason you’re no longer friends, whether you were necessarily aware of it or not.
I generally go one step further: I do not lend friends money at all. I will give you what I can afford to give, and I ask you to pay forward what you can when you can, give to someone else who needs it. This policy has really served me well. When I’m giving money, I never have to worry if I’ll get it back – I won’t! It’s a gift! No stress!
One piece of advice I read that strikes me as the best of all worlds: if someone asks you for money, and you can afford to give it to them, you give it with the reassurance that it is a gift. They can pay it back, but they’re not required to. But, and this is the part you don’t mention, if they ask you for more money, you don’t give them any unless they’ve previously returned what you originally gave. This maintains trust and mutual respect, and prevents the giver from being taken advantage of.
A man will watch the Barbie movie and then literally write out that the ending was bad because “imagine if the genders were reversed” and the Barbies didn’t get a seat on the supreme court.
