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@horseonthemoon

im just a pack rat, nothing more 20 they/them 🎃

honestly i love making stuff. knitting, pottery, pen making, it’s all so COOL. it’s so wild to wear a shirt or a sweater and be like I MADE THIS WITH MY HANDS. highly recommend people to find a hobby that lets you make tangible things, whether it’s working with yarn, food, wood, clay, anything

Americans react really strongly to you saying sorry, it’s funny. I guess the stereotype about Canadians is true!

that’s so interesting, I would take excuse me as passive aggressive! sorry is sort of taking the blame though - it’s a dance of “oh that was my fault” and then “oh no, no it was my fault” so that you can both leave the interaction without feeling like you’ve made a random enemy

I hadn’t actually considered it before, but people in Ontario mostly either a) say sorry back or b) politely ignore that anything happened

At a previous job (removing invasive carp from the Mississippi river) we would get lots of bycatch. While most native species could just be tossed back in the water and do just fine, paddlefish are a lot more Fragile and really don't do good when out of the water. To help them, we would pull them through the water to force it over their gills and give them a jump start. The best place to grab them is by the rostrum. It's all very scientific, but I couldn't help but feel funny grabbing these goobers by the schnozz taking them for a ride

Under sea ecosystems are bullshit.

Like imagine you're a little rabbit and you go to nibble on a tree sapling but as soon as you go to take a bite it takes off like a fucking helicopter and disappears over the horizon.

Then, before you can process what just happened, the entire patch of grass you were standing on turns out to be a fox who had turned itself inside out and you die.

are you okay do you need to talk about it

Look I'm just saying I'm glad I exist in a place and scale where the main form of getting dead is just something trying to make your blood fall out.

I couldn't handle being a crab. I would register a formal complaint but crabs can't write.

my therapist asks me to be the voice of my anxiety, just for a moment. if your anxiety was to speak, what would it say?

i think if she had a voice it would be a sweet violet, almost grey. i think her fog hands would come up over my mouth and eyes. i think she would say:

i love you, be safe. i love you, tighten the seatbelt. i love you, don't leave the door unlocked. i love you, i love you. you shouldn't talk to those people, they'll hurt you. i know you did the reading, but don't speak up in class - what if you're wrong? i'm protecting you from that. it hurts when people reject you, stop making plans with friends. oh, don't eat, my love, stay hungry, it keeps you fresh. oh, i love you, get out of bed and check the lock again, you know you're always forgetting things. oh, i love you, stay awake an hour more, this life is so blisteringly, terribly short.

i think if my anxiety had a body outside of me, she'd always have her arms crossed. her nails would be bitten back. her cheeks would be hollow. i think she'd watch the slow silent way depression french-kisses me into cooperating, and i think she'd laugh awkwardly. i think she wants to hold hands with me and never does.

my therapist says: you think anxiety is love?

and i say - no, i'm not being clear. i'm saying it's cold there. i'm saying in every version of herself, my anxiety has teeth.