I really really want to get my family out of this house. I hate it, all the windows are drafty, it’s way too big and way too expensive. And the landlord handles things stupidly and shows up whenever she wants ( Read more... )

See, that’s one thing that I have literally never understood in all my decades of internet use.

And let me just say that I totally am not judging anyone or finding anyone wanting for not handling this stuff the way I do.  Everyone’s got their own issues.

Because, I don’t know you.  Why the hell would I give a crap about your opinion?  I have this ( Read more... )

Because ego-strokes are a legit path to mental health:

Comments on my final essay in the mythology class:

“Gods are born where necessary ugliness and thankfulness meet.” What a beautiful line that is! And there are quite a few gems like this throughout your essay. All in all, you've done an excellent job in analyzing these four stories in terms ( Read more... )

"Intimacy is not sex, although sex can be intimate. Intimacy means mutually honest, warm, caring, safe relationships - relationships where the other person can be who he or she is and we can be who we are - and both people are valued." - The Language of Letting Go, Melody Beattie

I was born on the cusp of change.  Constant change, massive deformation of lives, almost nothing consistent from one day to the next.  We reached out and stepped on another world.  Inconceivable!

I can’t even imagine the weight of it.  The blinding speed.  For the greater part of human history, lives went on in the same way, from day to day, year to ( Read more... )

Let me share with y'all a little lesson on how fandom leaks into your brain and affects your thinking ( Read more... )

This.  This right here.  This is what he took away from me, and why I feel so lost.  He took away my home.  It was all a lie.

https://youtu.be/R56s7KymWTk

History class has now reached the 70's/80's - the rise of conservatism. Ford only got one paragraph, poor stumbling clown.

It's messing with my head, cuz I REMEMBER this shit. And I remember it through distinct windows of commentary - I remember Vietnam and student unrest through the window of Doonesbury. I remember the gas crisis and OPEC not only ( Read more... )

Okay, I'm a quitter.  I couldn't just read only these boring-ass infuriating history books.  I just >couldn't<.  So now I'm reading "Going Postal," too.  Which, by a happy accident, is EXACTLY the right Discworld book for splitting time with the events leading up to and surrounding the Great Depression ( Read more... )

I fucking hate you.  I am unable to successfully reblog and comment on a thing I just saw, so I'm gonna put it here ( Read more... )