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It turns out that you can become the person you’ve always envisioned but you’ll still have the person you were before inside of you and you have to treat them with as much forgiveness and love as possible

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seeing that post that’s been going around about how everyone should brush up on their food safety knowledge even if you think you know what you’re doing, especially if you have chronic tummy troubles. And then seeing people say they store leftovers in their oven. hey I think that post was for you

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Actually you SHOULD make problematic content. You SHOULD explore dark or taboo topics. You SHOULD have a space where you can cope with your traumas or explore sensitive topics in a way that doesn't hurt anyone.

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the caitvi kinktober thing is just...such a beautiful encapsulation of fandom discourse at this point. we've got the prohibition of things that are literally in canon. the way that half of the prompts wouldn't even be described as kinks by a normie. the inclusion of piss play (because the creator is into it) but other messy kinks are a no-go. no men, except trans men---but wait that's problematic, so we're walking that back.

my favorite thing though was the very obvious rhetorical strategy of the bullet point list, where they placed "thing that inherently involves a non-consenting party" on the same line as "thing that involves two or more consenting adults in the privacy of their own space."

age play is prohibited in the same breath as pedophilia - "animal-related" content (what, people dressed up in fursuits? petplay? werewolves?) is described in tandem with bestiality. it's literally how conservatives talk. everything is based on personal emotional disgust - wanting to fuck someone in a fursuit is the same as wanting to fuck a dog when you do not understand consent at all.

and that's literally all beside the point because this is storytelling where things happen to characters. shocking storylines are what makes fiction sell. did we cancel game of thrones for pedophilia and incest. do we hate bg3 because halsin fucks you as a bear. there's no self-awareness at all. stunning work, caitvi kinktober.

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Just realised that whenever I see the phrase "I wouldn't touch that with a ten foot pole" I automatically think of a ten metre pole. Like a comically long pole. A ten foot pole isn't all that long. That's slightly less than two of my body lengths. Not touching something with a ten foot pole still lets you get pretty close to it actually.

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Re: blorbo from my research, here is my favorite ever case study. I'm obsessed with it.

Summary:

- Guy presents to neurology with muscle issues, very clearly has something going on but diagnostic tests are inconclusive

- History is mostly unremarkable. Key word, mostly. He drinks four liters of plain Earl Grey tea per day. For context this is nearly twice the recommended daily fluid intake. All fluids, to be clear, not just tea. He only drinks tea tho

- Bergamot is known to be phototoxic in high doses (reacts badly on your skin with sunlight)

- APPARENTLY nobody previously has consumed enough of it for it to be widely known that it is also, apparently, mildly toxic to ingest in high doses

- Guy starts drinking plain black tea again. Only 2 liters this time (he didn't have a medical reason to drink that much tea, he just liked it) and so now he's fully recovered

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my housemate's cat is super chatty so i've just started responding to him

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when you drink all the wine in the house and then you have. :( no wine in the house

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My therapist, who specializes in adults with ADHD, recently told me that all of her clients need a three day crashout period after a big life change. Finish the semester? Crashout. Change jobs? Crashout. Go on a really cool, really relaxing vacation? Crashout the moment you get home.

It's true of literally all of her clients. She works with a lot of them to put systems in place so that their crashouts are only three days. This includes the high-powered execs who travel regularly for work. It does not matter how successful or high functioning they are - they have ADHD, and a crashout is just part of the process of living with it.

I'm sharing this with all you ADHD friends out there, just in case you (like me) start shaming yourself if your crashout lasts more than one day. It turns out three days is kind of the best case scenario. Be kind to yourselves!

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Every fucking thing I do is either pointless or not in my job description istg every morning I log in and there's more fucking bullshit. Oh you don't wanna do things that aren't in your job description? How about we train the people who are supposed to do that job so they can take over? Oh wait no we have no capacity to train them because we're soooo busy making the most out of this world fuckass redundant crap nobody is gonna look at aNYWAY FUCK ME

I fucking hate my job jesus fucking christ can these fucking idiots get it the fuck together holy shit

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I fucking hate my job jesus fucking christ can these fucking idiots get it the fuck together holy shit

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I can't fuck with people who are fundamentally uncurious.