We promise not to screw it up.
Dorianne Laux, from "After Twelve Days of Rain", What We Carry
[ID: poem text reading,
"I have always loved too much,
or not enough. Last night
I read a poem about God and almost
believed it — God sipping coffee,
smoking cherry tobacco. I've arrived
at a time in my life when I could believe
almost anything."
/end ID]
what if your doppelganger loved being you more than you ever loved being yourself. they're better at being you and everyone loves them and it feels almost selfish to want your life back. i want clone horror but the horror is that the thing trying to replace you is also the person you always wanted to be.
I started using Head and Shoulders ten years ago for itchy scalp and dandruff, and then for ten years I have not had itchy scalp and dandruff, so I thought "why do I still buy shampoo to combat itchy scalp and dandruff when I do not have itchy scalp and dandruff," so I stopped buying the shampoo for itchy scalp and dandruff and can you guess I have now? Can you predict what currently afflicts me? It's alright if you can't because apparently I fuckin couldn't either
Cutting something out of your life because you think you don't need it any more only to realize that it was in fact working as intended and preventing a problem that will return should you stop doing this is a good experiment to run periodically with something small like dandruff shampoo, lest you start to think it would be a good idea to do this with like let's say public health and the social safety net and vaccines
I had a liver transplant when I was 14 and like six months later I was chatting with my surgeon and he said “there’s gonna come a time, probably when you’re a teenager, where you’re gonna think, ‘I feel great, why am I still taking all this medication? I haven’t needed it in years.’ and you’re gonna want to stop taking all this medication. Guess what’s gonna happen then? You’re gonna go into rejection and your liver is gonna start failing, and you’re gonna be dying again, and we’re gonna have to find you another liver. So don’t do that.” And I said “why the fuck would anyone do that?” and he said “people are stupid.”
every once in a while when I get annoyed by a pharmacy or don’t wanna get out of bed to do my drugs I think “ugh, this is dumb, why do I do this?” and that conversation slams into me like a truck and I remember that I am, in fact, stupid
It's important to go into any "do I still need this?" test prepared for the answer to be a resounding "fucking absolutely" and be ready to handle it if that's the case.
Something like shampoo? Not a huge deal usually. Something like medication for physical or mental health? Discuss with your provider beforehand to assess safety of going off things and whatnot.
we should legalize polyamorous marriage for all the other reasons we should but also because I wanna see what polygamous divorce looks like
Me: *weighs dog* oh, he's lost half a pound! Is that on purpose?
Owner: no. He was 16 pounds before and the doctor said that was too much, so I decreased the amount of food.
Me: ah, so it is on purpose!
Owner: no, I just decreased his food is all, because he was too heavy.
Me: so you're trying to get him to lose weight....
Owner: no.
.... my coworker was laughing when I walked into treatment with the dog....
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tumblr trying to be like tiktok then trying to be like twitter then giving us the 3rd unreality inducing immersive ad, its staff members being condescending to the userbase, the marketing team trying to parasocialize their way into your pockets, youtube trying to do away with adblockers after upping the percentage of ads by 40% and making it so even if your video is demonetized watchers will still get them, youtube removing the dislike button then making it so you don't get a home feed if you have watch history turned off, google being able to remove your synched bookmarks if they don't comply with their policy, if i listed every way in which twitter has gotten worse in the last year this post will be as long as a novel, ai generated articles and images everywhere, google searches sucking ass in general, reddit charging for its api, KOSA being introduced into the US senate, tiktok in general, every social media under the fucking sun introducing log in walls, being unable to browse most sites on mobile from the sheer amount of popups taking over your screen WAUUUGH social media being products and thus requiring infinite growth and thus trying to introduce newer and newer shit that alienates its dedicated userbase. saturated sludge era of the internet
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Cannot wait to have kids and experience the holidays with them...cant wait to make arts and crafts and decorate the house and yard and bake cookies together and dance to christmas carols and pick out our tree every year and make Valentine's day cards and decide what costumes they want to wear on halloween and what thanksgiving recipes to make and what family traditions we want to take part in and pass down!!!
