So there’s this huge dudebro in my class, who, yesterday, sat next to me. And I’m sitting there sweating because like… I’m wearing my shirt with the lesbian flag on it, and he’s the most popular jock in school, and always has this look on his face that say ‘I can and will kill you’. He looks me up and down, stares at me for a minute and then goes, “So. Girls in skirts and long socks, am I right?”

To which I nodded solemnly, both out of agreement, surprise and also a healthy amount of awkward fear. He nodded and went, “You get it.”

I said, “Yep.” He fistbumped me, and on went our lives.

Oh! I forgot to mention! I saw him at lunch the same day, and he ran up to me, tapped me on the shoulder, pointed at this super sweet girl who comes to GSA and asked if she’s gay. I told him he should ask her because that’s not my place and he said he would.

I thought that would be the end of it.

Except ten minutes later he came back and told me he found out (she’s bi) and that both of us have a shot. I said “You more than me.” because he’s attractive and popular. 

But this wholesome dumbass looked really confused and asked, “Because I’m tall?’

I love him oh my God what an ally

I NEED THIS SITCOM

Yeah I was embarrassing when I was 15 who isn’t. Was also Embarrassing at 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. Last week. Yesterday

very sexy of me to be isolating myself and rotting into the floor

shipping incest or pedophilia is not an “unpopular opinion” it is fucking disgusting and fundamentally wrong and anyone who disagrees with this post can just unfollow me right now

i’ve lost four followers already since posting this so in the spirit of weeding out the trash i’m going to reblog this again

why none of them got into The Good Place

What I love about this is its acknowledgment that Jason had no intentions at all

this is all 100% true but it always made me really mad that Chidi’s “crime” was having a severe anxiety disorder like he needed understanding and therapy, sending him to the Bad Place for something he had literally no control over was incredibly fucked up

I feel like a less-surface theme of the show is that they’re all in a situation where they have been forced into bad patterns by forces outside their control - Chidi has SEVERE anxiety; Eleanor was forced by abuse and neglect to adopt a self-centered attitude from early childhood and, like many people with traumatic pasts, responds by not dealing with difficult emotions; Jason was very overtly raised in an environment where he got no education and all his models for behaviour were criminal and/or self-destructive; and Tahani has been raised in an environment where everything is performative and she is shot down for any genuine expression of unhappiness or non-material want. Just as Michael and Janet are made one way but changed by their experiences, the moral of the story is that things outside your control shape you but you can move away from them. That could easily be really insulting, in a sort of ‘just get over it’ way, but the idea isn’t that they change solely because they decide to be better - all six of them change because their circumstances change and give them the OPPORTUNITY to be better, because they’re finally given the support system they lack.

I like The Good Place because the whole show has since day 1 been predicated on the idea that black and white moral judgements made in a vacuum are bullshit, and that moral choices are informed by things outside our control, whether that be education, behaviour modelling, unfair treatment or mental health issues. That doesn’t mean we aren’t responsible for our actions but it DOES mean we have to understand morality in the context of people’s varied experiences AND asks for the possibility that if their environment is improved, their ability to function as moral agents also improves.

I feel excellent The Good Place analysis in this chilli’s tonight

here’s a picture of a baby cedar waxwing begging for food from a robin. neither of these species are nest parasites, so it’s not possible the cedar waxwing was ‘adopted’. this is essentially the bird version of tapping a random person on the shoulder at the grocery store and going “MOM”

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I love that the robin’s body language is basically WHAT THE FUCK WHOSE KID IS THIS

Robin is bathing which make’s it even funnier. More like the equivalent of a strange kid barging in while you’re taking a shower and demanding you make them mac n cheese right now

I spent 3 hours on this

This put the biggest smile on my face. 

Time well spent

I liked everything except when it ended.

calling ur dad “my father” is just the socially acceptable way of saying “my dads a bastard and i hate him”

Same goes for ‘My mother’

If you meet someone and they call their parents ‘father’ and ‘mother’ they either were raised in an Amish community or have absolute bastard parents

It’s called distancing language!

You don’t want to associate yourself with people who you find distasteful, undesirable, or who you have a negative relationship with and your language will reflect that.

So instead of having language that indicates intimacy or endearment (dad/mom), you’ll use language that indicates estrangement, contempt, or distance (father/mother or in extreme cases that man/woman).

But that’s not the only reason someone might use that type of language. If you grew up in a household where roles were strict and the power imbalance between parent and child was highly emphasized (which can be good or bad depending) you might use certain terms because they imply a greater amount of respect (father/mother).

It’s similar to when a parent gets angry and commands respect by saying “I’m your mother/father!” or “Listen to your mother/father!” instead of using mom or dad.

Or we can look at a positive example like when someone is remembering their parent and says “I loved my father” or “She was a good mother” because the memories they have illicit strong feelings of respect.

choose your fighter

not to flex on y’all but ive never listened to kpop

this is the only constructive criticism i’ll accept on this post

— An adorable 90 year old woman describing her anxiety medication

*accurately describing

Patient counseled to come back and see us if she feels “weird and scary.”

– nurse’s note from phone call with patient on new BP med

onision somehow got uglier

My Conspiracy Theory

When people consistently like/reblog my posts, I grow fond of them even if I’ve never talked to them.

I end up staring at my notifications like

If you are reading this and think it could be about you then it probably is.

aha, I RECOGNIZE YOUR NAMES AT EACH LIKES OR REBLOG and I’m here like “oh here you are little ball of fluff, I like you too.”

Sometimes some of my followers don’t do anything on my blog, then do it again and every time I’m like ‘ahh welcome back pal’ and smiling because of it

I feel like there always that group of pplwho always like and reblog my fics. My heart grows three sizes each time I see y’all names

Someone you met 2 weeks ago can have better intentions than someone you met 2 years ago. Don’t let time fool you