technically we’re ALL, always LARPing, because the Self is only a construct,

*disappointed voice* aww man. . . he didn't put any of his pussy into this.

"I can't believe [media] was actually about _____ the whole time!!!"

[one possible interpretation, yep]

[literally the main theme??]

[worst take you've seen in your life]

People rarely talk about this but the reason why countries have universal healthcare is because the powers that be understand that for society to work people have to work so when we or our family get sick it’s important to get us back to health. Harsh but true. It’s the same reason why European countries try to find a balance between work and paid days off. A stressed out worker who ends up crashing is no good in the long run.

Which is why it makes no sense that the US doesn’t have universal healthcare. I had no idea how overworked you guys are until I started watching videos were American’s abroad are baffled by “how little” they are expected to work. Some like it, some miss the grind, but they’re all like “Wtf? Why am I not even allowed to work extra hours?”

Universal healthcare just seems like the logical cynical choice for a society that expects its people to work so much, ya know?

tshirt that says NO LIVE ORGANISM CAN CONTINUE FOR LONG TO EXIST SANELY UNDER CONDITIONS OF ABSOLUTE REALITY

How about in 2024 we stop it with reading books with the goal in mind to finish the book so you can add it to your list of read books and start reading books slowly and intentionally with the goal to rip it into pieces with your mind and be touched by it and formed by it and changed by it

Her reaction to seeing my face after our nap 

(Source)

Trying to find The Most Accurate reading of anything in a text is like the opposite of what professors at the graduate level are looking for, much less journals where one is aiming to get published. Like you’re trying to produce *a* reading that you can support, not *the* reading, there is no Ultimate Accurate Reading because you’re working with like interconnected systems of meaning that will mean different things to different people in different contexts. It’s not like trying to solve an equation

鶴見線国道駅から鶴見川の辺りへ #02

From Tsurumi Line Kokudo Station to Tsurumi River area #02

The older I get the more I admire people who are earnestly, genuinely into whatever their thing is. I know it sounds like an annoying cliche but unless you're being cruel or hurtful there is really no need to be normal about things. The dude with the bad fake accent at the renaissance faire is having the time of his life. The people having photoshoots with their fashion dolls are loving it. The old lady with a yard unreasonably full of tacky ass lawn ornaments is having a blast, HOA be damned.

Don't waste your time being too cool to have fun, y'know?

I usually view February as having no holidays and it’s always a surprise to remember that to many many people, February is one of the most holiday-filled months, containing both Valentines Day and Football Day

In mine and many other east Asian cultures, the dragon traditionally symbolises things like power, wealth and strength (imperial symbol and all)

I think we often forget that in the story of the Great Race, the dragon came in fifth because it'd stopped to give people rain. Then it'd stopped again to push a rabbit adrift on a log across the wide river so it reached the shore safely (that's why the Rabbit year comes before the Dragon).

Dragons aren't meant to just be powerful - they are meant to do good with such power, and to help those in need.

So in this lunar new year, I hope you gain more power, so that you might be able to help others. I pray you have abundant resources so you may give to yourself and those around you. I wish you courage, endurance, kindness and generosity, for yourself and your people.

I hope you, and I, will be rain givers, life preservers, joy bringers.

I hope we will be dragons.

the queer community was formed by people who were deemed strange and abnormal in society based on them not conforming to expectations about sexuality & gender. there are no specific boundaries bc this isn't a club. a cishet guy that likes wearing dresses who fights side by side with us for true liberation, is 100x more queer than a millionaire gay man who's besties with companies that sell us watered down versions of our own culture for profit during pride while donating to homophobic lawmakers every other month.