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[Image Description: Tag reading “Fellas is it gay to commit regicide with your homie? Let’s discuss"]

The AO3 Tag of the Day is: Regicide is gay, discussion over

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“People don’t respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and they immediately surrender themselves to deadly haste. Can you tell me what kind of day can follow a beginning of such violence?”

— Farewell Waltz, Milan Kundera

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Does anyone else have breakdowns where you aren’t crying or yelling, but you just can’t think and you just want to curl up in a ball wherever you are?

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show me on your birth certificate how many years you've been dying inside

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Have you fallen in love with me yet or do I need to post more nonsense

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miranda july/ lorde/ x/ nayyirah waheed/ melissa broder/ mark manson

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Rapunzel Graphite

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i’ve healed myself so many times

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You know what we need more of? Beginner’s classes for adults.

It’s supposed to be really, really good for you to keep learning new things as you age. It helps stave off strokes and dementia and Alzheimer’s and improves memory. And hey, learning stuff is fun.

But I really don’t want to be infantilized when I try to learn something. And I definitely don’t learn the way a child does. And honestly, what adult wants to be in the same class as children? Very few.

This occurred to me recently because I’d like to learn how to actually ice skate properly. My parents never signed me up for classes, because it wasn’t a thing they ever cared about or thought about. Now I’m in my twenties and want to learn, and also don’t want to be surrounded by a bunch of eight-year-olds who probably honestly skate better than I do. Because that’s embarrassing, and embarrassment is not how you learn.

Would it be good to lose the social stigma of being worse at something than a child? Yes. Hell yes. But we’ve got to start somewhere, and like I said: adults don’t really learn the way kids do, and a lot of people use these kinds of activities to make friends, and I don’t want to make friends with an eight-year-old, either.

So.

Beginner’s classes for adults. Let adults suck at stuff and learn how to get better and learn new things and broaden their horizons, while still being treated as adults. Classes for writing, for pottery, for chess, for art, for instruments, for singing, for sports, for chemistry. For everything, dammit.

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"ur so funny" thanks i cant wait to cry tonight

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It costs zero dollars to let people enjoy things and not be constantly vocally negative

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“I was so scared to give up depression, fearing that somehow the worst part of me was actually all of me.”

— Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

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Traditional Chinese color scheme in The Story of Minglan

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