predictament

[predictament]

my blog is a safe space for me. the rest of you are in danger i think

[predictament]

god is punishing me because i have tumblr

[predictament]

we need to invent a way to explain how deep running and pervasive and subliminal racism and antiblackness is without immediately sounding like an insane conspiracy theorist

[predictament]

*jumps into oncoming traffic cutely*

:3🚘💥

[predictament]

thought too hard about MRI machines today and had this come to me in a vision

[predictament]

in fucking Tears thinking about how disgusting a baby griffin would look

[predictament]

Do you have to wash your rice or not?

If you want to get rid of the starchy texture and/or you live in a country where rice isn’t always clean: yes.

If you want extra starchiness or stickiness and/or you care about keeping the nutritional powder in there: no.

If you are making a risotto or a paella: no.

If you are boiling your rice in a lot of water and then draining it like spaghetti to reduce the risk of arsenic exposure: no.

[predictament]

i. there's this video of a guy dancing on his tiptoes. i will begrudgingly admit the song is kind of catchy actually. i don't think it's the worst song i've ever heard. he seems passionate about it. but it is embarrassing, how he's dancing.

ii. you know where this story is going, unfortunately, and so do i.

iii. three weeks ago i had to drag half a dead rabbit out of my dog's mouth. i was just recently discussing how cruel things feel lately. that the way the world is shifting feels mean. three days ago, a random woman rolled down her window to snap at me because she missed her turn. this is now routine.

iv. 11 years ago in october, i made a post about how we shouldn't make fun of people for doing brave, vulnerable things. it has over 400k notes. people - at the time - seemed to generally agree with me. we have all felt shy and insecure when we share an intimate part of ourselves. we have heard someone at a concert say "that's fucking embarrassing" and said to ourselves - oh, this person is unsafe to be vulnerable in front of. we have said i can't act like that in public. we have left our art and passion in the dark. i think there will never be enough graveyard space for the art we have killed because what if others shame me for it.

v. the thing i was bullied for in high school was because i was a "predatory lesbian." a popular girl i'd literally never spoken to just decided she didn't like me and announced i was "stalking" her. to this day i have no idea what motivated this - i think i was just shy and poor and awkward and ugly. the perfect target. what they don't really ever show in movies is how quickly it moves, how suddenly strange people in the hallways are attacking you about it. they also don't show you that the bullies get this strange ... glee out of it. like, it's fun for them. it's enrichment. everyone else is in on the joke. suck it up, kid.

vi. so far, from what i have seen, creators that stand up for the musician all seem to have the same story: when i asked why we're bullying a random guy, people actually got mad that i asked. i've had similar things happen to me when i ask for us to be less comfortable with our anonymous cruelty. when an internet stranger says "be kind, it saves lives" - people find it funny to say fuck you i hope everyone kills themselves. pages and pages of people saying the same bullshit. sitting in their little caves, eating their own humor. it's just genuinely exhausting. the natural endpoint of "cringe culture" is that even kindness is cringe-worthy.

vii. loneliness is an epidemic. but where are you going to make your community? call your representative. go back to bed about it.

viii. due to how i was raised, i am always confused by cruelty. i understand the american isolationist belief "i can do whatever i want" - sure. but why wouldn't you want to be kind? i have lived too many bad things. i cannot be the epicenter of someone else's bad dream.

ix. it's just that if we were going to bully someone relentlessly, why is it never the healthcare CEOs. why isn't it the fascists. why isn't it, like, someone who you could at least argue "deserves" it. why is it always just some guy in socks singing a pretty mid song? or a person that doesn't look like you, just, like existing.

x. it's just that i think people enjoy doing it. they want to do it because they get some kind of masturbatory release from it - like a shrug or a splinter, they all seem to say the same thing - come on, it's funny.

xi. the world is sometimes beautiful, and sometimes you make something. the world is sometimes terrible, and you are worried they won't accept what your hands can wring. you open the instagram comments and they're still saying all sorts of shit to just - like - a normal guy. and some part of you thinks: if that was me. good lord. if that was me i'd -

xii. somewhere there is a graveyard. someone is already burying their hopes and dreams.

[predictament]

proudly showing off my "ultra rare limited edition one of a kind labubu" and it's very clearly a severed human hand on a chain

[predictament]

[predictament]

fuck you. fuck you. fuck you. fuck you.

[predictament]

Types of local restaurants:

That one diner you can only seem to find when you have a person over the age of 52 with you for some reason

Local small chain that constantly has a line out the door whether their food is actually good or not

Pretty standard and clean spot that’s been coasting on its reputation for a while. Whenever your friends come to town to visit you take them there because it’s part of the local experience but it’s never as good as you remember

Gentrified coffee shop or bar with industrial stools made of fake rusty looking pipes

Big dick’s epic crab fuck: you sure can get food there

One of those places middle class people go when they wanna have a “fancy dinner” but they also put glass over all the tablecloths

That place next to a gas station where the floor is dirty and most of the lights don’t work but the food is so good you don’t question it. There’s probably a grandma behind the register and a six year old doing their homework in the corner

The One Place That Has This Specific Type Of Food So Just Accept Whatever They Tell You To Pay Them

Food truck with weird grilled cheese

Food truck that’s good but weirdly expensive

Food truck that’s inexpensive. Quality is irrelevant.

That weird restaurant you only go to once on a date or something to check it out. May or may not also overlap with gentrified coffee shop genre of restaurant.

[predictament]

i'm ungrateful for things you didn't even know were priveleges

[predictament]

going for a proto-walk

[predictament]

ough oh ah yeah oh yeah ya yes yes yes yesssss

[predictament]

New medieval peasant cultural exchange post. Medieval peasant shows you the real night sky and you light on fire and explode.

[predictament]

love is in the air? wrong. evil skull