#my roommate doesn’t understand me

[nope-body]

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[leosmasktails]

Y’all I went to bed early for the first time in like a month just to be woken up by my sister kicking my instruments at 2 AM (cause she’s not careful and doesn’t care), and now I haven’t been able to get back to sleep 😐

I have to be up for school in three hours 😭

[orphyd]

My ways of interacting now are just making silly little polls and watching the results roll in-

[steviescrystals]

people need to start listening to everyone who says not to live with your best friend your freshman year of college bc a few weeks ago my little sister and her best friend had the only serious fight they’ve ever had in their 7-year friendship and it was all bc they’re in a dorm together and my sister couldn’t handle her friend having people over as often as she was… like idc that you’ve been best friends since you were 12 and you’ve had a million sleepovers that does not mean you can handle actually living together!!

[dreamlanddeluxe]

Still waiting for my brain to process everything so my thoughts may not be the most cohesive but I do recommend people watch odd taxi, genuinely such a wonderfully interesting psychological mystery show. I could go into each characters lives individually but just as a whole I love how all these characters are so raw and believable and complicated and so so alive. No character is 100% good and their backstories aren’t revealed to excuse their actions, rather to provide psychological insight on to how their environment and upbringing shaped who they are and led them to where they are today. Many situations the characters live through are in part self-created, but also showcases how the system we live in controls one’s sense of reasoning and even goes so far to blur the line between self-instigated problems and problems that result from the system and having the viewer question the many ways the relations between the two can form and what truly is to blame in each case by case scenario. And I really love Odokawa as a main character he makes me so happy. I don’t want to say what exactly is up with him as that in itself is a major plot point and this is a show you should go into knowing little as possible, but it’s so refreshing to see a character like him so fleshed out and kind hearted in his own way. It’s so easy for characters that operate the way he does to be written as “off-putting” and “scary,” especially so in the psychological mystery genre, so to have him as our main character and written in such a genuine manner is so refreshing to see. And it’s not that he isn’t a little strange at times, he’s just portrayed in a way that thankfully doesn’t ostracize him for it and treats him just as human as any other character. Listen to me ok. Go watch odd taxi

[kickyerteethin]

Keep trying to write the last chapter to the werebenny fic but I also keep having werewolf transformations . So that’s my bad for kinning Benny so hard that I keep puking so hard I grow fangs and fur

[arthur-r]

same content warnings for not speaking well im not feeling well and i can’t speak well and im stressed out so in vent content warning but for same as im just continuing talking

and iodnt know anything abkut how people are supposed to work but i think when you’re and somebody is sitting on a bed together you’re supposed to be not talking about the freaking Peter mark roget talking about the thesaurus is not right and for being distracting. and nobody wants to be he wasn’t gonna be when i wasn’t feeling well but i feel bad for having ruined of where im as if i isn’t even don’t like him likenim not but im just not good for i do like him and i think he likes me and i just don’t want to be make everything weird make complicated im not good at being just being normal and somebody that anybody is able to like. i just want to be normal and be ATTRACTIVE but i am busy being sick and weird unloveable. i want for hanging out to be a good thing not where i feel sorry or where somebody had to be had been helping everything and i think i swear he likes me i swear and we were close together and i don’t think im just pretending but i think im gonna ruin it cause im not feeling well didnt being considerate i can’t when i can’t i get stuck distracted can’t think about anything im nkt feeling well but i just make everything turns into about me and it isn’t fair and I just want to be just have normal do anything right feel right have a conversation where i did it right and it didn’t turn around didn’t make all of it opposite where i just i don’t know how to do it im too much autistic and too much sick i can’t do it

came back from the end again im out of tags again im not going to keep doing this im sorry i just im not feeling well and im so frustrated from it’s not being sicks fault i don’t want to be sick because i don’t feel good being i don’t want to be ill because it hurts me. but it’s not sick’s fault for nobody can see me past it, it’s not somebody can still be important valuable im not trying to say i just i don’t want to live inside of nobody can see me anymore i want anybody to know for looking at me and seeing a real person

[mielgf]

do you ever speak to ppl and are just like… how do you navigate the world… with so little self awareness…

[maydayfireball]

I have a headache and we have our water is shut off in the house because there was a surprise plumbing problem.

[that-was-anticlimactic]

something something 207 something something other roommate tells me to chill every time they make me lose sleep and it only matters if he can hear it which is barely ever something something

[rosicheeks]

🙃

[lightblueminecraftorchid]

TW: discussions of body image/eating disorders/fat shaming/etc. Rant under the cut. This is about drag and body image as it pertains to Drag Race in the United States.

Thinking about Drag Race in the US. 16 seasons of Drag Race, 7 seasons of All Stars (excluding winners’ seasons), however many Vs The World seasons, and there has *never* been a winner that isn’t skinny.

Oh, some competitors get close. Supposedly, drag is open to all body shapes and sizes (with the right padding and shape wear and makeup). Supposedly, no matter your body, you can shapeshift into something beautiful. Over and over and over again, Drag Race has competitors who pride themselves on being “big girls”; people who grew up fatshamed, but turned it into their brand. Many of these queens are incredibly skilled performers, artists, and entertainers. And yet.

And yet.

Somehow, when the judging gets close, the fat queen usually gets cut.

I think about RuPaul’s background before Drag Race, as a runway model. How the Tic Tac Chit Chat is a running joke; “oh, RuPaul can’t finish a tic tac”. How many queens on the show are *frighteningly* skinny, and this is seen as a compliment. Producers will stitch together storylines of queens recovering from eating disorders, and in the same breath, cut to RuPaul and Michelle Visage complimenting a queen on how small her waist is in that corset.

I think about how many of these queens have had plastic surgery. At least one a season, usually more. How queens will come back for All Stars and I can no longer recognize them, not because they’re painting differently, but because their faces have entirely changed shape in the past few years. Hollower cheeks. Larger lips. Shaved jaws. Cutting and slicing for some proportion that makes them look slimmer and more feminine. How Morphine won the finale Lalaparuza Smackdown, with a $50,000 prize, and excitedly told the camera how she was going to “invest in her body”. “You get a BBL, you get a BBL, everybody gets a BBL!”.

Some of that is gender-affirming surgery, or other medically necessary surgeries. Detox got reconstructive surgery after a car crash, for example. A lot of it… isn’t. A lot of it is an “investment”. Part of the job.

I think about how a queen walked a runway with a look critiquing plastic surgery, all nude illusion and dashed lines, carving away at her waist and hips and butt. How Michelle Visage called it “overdone”. So many queens have talked about that already. It’s not new. It’s old news. Step up your game and talk about something more compelling.

16 years and not a single fat queen has won.

My friend and I aren’t watching seasons in order, but rather by how much they like a particular season. We’re working through season 7 right now. Violet Chotchki wins that one (sorry for spoilers). Violet also spends the entire season focused on emphasizing her body. How young she is. How skinny she is. Look, her “Death Becomes Her” runway is just her in the tightest corset possible, with an IV drip stuck into her arm. Cinched to death. The judges coo at how her waist is *so* small-

How many queens have come onto this show and bragged about losing 50 pounds? How many queens come back for All Stars, gleeful that they’re not a “big queen” anymore? Just “thick and juicy”, just “don’t need any padding”. You can have fat… as long as it’s in the butt or breasts and looks sexy enough. Otherwise it’s a hurdle to cry about in the cutaways. You can be as fat as you want on this show, sure, but if you lose weight you’ll get a camera in your face talking about how much “healthier” you are.

I think about how fashion runways are infinitely, horrifically worse. How most of these winners would, should they walk the runway, be put into a boring pencil skirt in the “plus size” category. They should be so lucky.

I think about Latrice. I think about Ginger Minj. I think about Eureka. I think about Mistress. I think about Megami in the Lalaparuza Smackdown. All these queens that get *so fucking close*. But some little thing-

Some intangible, unnameable thing-

Some unspoken qualia just barely makes their slim competitor stand out enough to take the crown.

I love drag. I really enjoy watching Drag Race. It’s a pocket of explicitly queer media I don’t get to see much of anywhere else. Disabled queens have won multiple seasons. People of color have won multiple seasons. Trans people have won multiple seasons. Just this year, the first East Asian queen won Drag Race in the US. Drag Race is incredibly inclusive to people from all backgrounds who are talented artists showing off their skills-

RuPaul makes another joke about skipping meals and getting surgery to maintain a queen’s “girl body”.

I turn the TV off.

[faillen]

the world is filled with so many uncurious people and I think that’s so sad

[eyesopentv]

thinking about how i was only in the hospital for a week bc i hated the staff so much i forgot to hate myself

[sensitivegoblin]

I need a distraction my sister’s boyfriend is being a deuchey dick and I’m not allowed to tell him that

[nope-body]

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