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I think misa death note is unmedicated

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Trying to take care of yourself when you're sick is so annoying. Like you know you should probably eat something and you're trying to question yourself on what you'd want to eat, and the only answer is your inner voice of dying Jane Austen going "I desire nothing but death". well ok you dramatic sickly bitch do you want that with garlic or hot sauce.

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how it feels to be aware of your paranoias btw

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so i am literally scheduled for a hysterectomy in 2 weeks and we had planned for really grinding some uber eats shifts to build up some cash for grocery money and supplies for MY recovery but now my fiance is literally stuck in bed for HIS recovery.

anyone who checks out my shop so we can get meds and groceries and bills paid is greatly appreciated

fiance had an emergency appendectomy today and its not even 1 pm

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fiance had an emergency appendectomy today and its not even 1 pm

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She sunk on my costs until I fallacy

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marketing guy: hmmm yeah we need to make vodka soda branded as “gay water.” make sure the packaging looks like diaper packaging.

other marketing guy: maybe we should add funny little stickers, like–

both at the same time: racism is small dick energy!

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THE CRITICS ARE RIGHT

lets talk on big issue for artists, REVIEWS. lot of discussion on how to feel about these things when youve put so much work into your art. usually buds will assure you 'dont worry, that negative review is wrong,' but i disagree. i think it is important to remember that NEGATIVE REVIEWS are correct

lots of folks will look at subjective nature of art and say ‘well this reviewer doesnt know what theyre talking about because NOBODY does’, and HEREIN LIES MY POINT. i think there is a subtle but very meaningful difference in acknowledging that, when it comes to art, everyone is actually RIGHT

so why frame it this way? when you write a book or a song or make a film, the second it is released it is no longer yours, IT EQUALLY BELONGS TO THE AUDIENCE. i do not get to decide what my books are worth just because i wrote them, this timeline does, and how this timeline feels is never static

i happen to like pretty much everything so i would be a terrible critic, but those who CAN do this are also CREATING SOMETHING with their opinion, and that is just as important as the initial piece. it is PART of the initial piece, even when it is negative. everyone gets ONE vote: their perspective.

so how does this work in a practical sense? let me say, my first MAJOR REVIEW came when i was a literal child in an international publication. it was (drumroll) VERY, VERY BAD. it hurt, so i am not immune to those feelings, but i have not ONCE been bothered since then because it TAUGHT me this truth

criticism is not some opposing team. art and critique are the same thing, because creation is inherently a review of reality, and critique is a valid form of creation. WE ARE ALL WORKING THROUGH THE SAME GIANT PERFORMANCE TOGETHER and it is so much more beautiful by everyone having a say

now i am sure some buckaroos will think ‘well this person was mean in whatever bad review’ and SURE, sometimes people ARE unkind, but i would argue a bad review is not, by the nature of being bad, UNKIND. you can be very unkind in a good review. they are unrelated

anyway artist buds, i hope this helps. next time you see a bad review, instead of thinking 'well theyre wrong' consider thinking 'they are ALSO right and that is a really really cool part of creation.' always worked for me and being able to create with you all is one of the biggest blessings i have

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that chris fleming bit about vibe dysphoria where the most toxic woman you know is always posting about how she’s like a cute little illustration of a mouse wearing a frilly dress but it’s the swaths of people calling themselves “just a silly little guy” who do not have a humorous bone in their entire body

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if you want to actually materially address child abuse, the single most important thing you can do to start is give children the legally enforceable right to leave any situation they no longer want to be in.

church, extracurriculars, summer camps, school classes, their biological family's houses. notably, these are the places that child abuse is enabled by the child's inability to just fucking leave if they need to. they can't walk out of church if their youth pastor touches them inappropriately; they'll get punished for leaving. if they walk out of their house because their dad hits them, the cops pick them up and give them right back to their dad.

children need the legal autonomy to leave abusive situations in order to even begin to usefully materially address child abuse.

original post by qweerhet because it's unrebloggable but very important

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everyone’s obsessed with having good taste. not me though i watch bad movies on purpose 

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slut era (overthinking, ruined sleep schedule, constant feeling of loneliness and existential emptiness)

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Comedians in the '70s and cartoons in the '90s: weird how your kids can watch violence and murder on TV but the FCC wants us dead if we say the word nipple.

Internet users in 2025: you didn't warn me that there would be erotic themes in the game you just mentioned which is fucked up because I thought it was going to be a normal "morally struggle with killing people" game but now it's gone too far :-/

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love when a mother asks if they have ever done anything to hurt you. ma'am, you will literally never be ready to have this conversation

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actually, "autism is a huge part of who i am and i'm proud of it" and "autism is a disability that requires accommodations" are both true statements that can and should coexist

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WASHING RICE. the thing we are talking about is WASHING RICE. PASSING WATER OVER RICE. an action that takes anywhere from 30-120 seconds. you 'DON'T KNOW HOW' to WASH RICE. you 'DON'T CARE ENOUGH TO LEARN' how to WASH RICE. the concept of IMMERSING RICE IN WATER has passed you by because you were not TAUGHT AS A CHILD.

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“Humiliation by Design” by Beth Cavner