Let Me Not Outlive My Own Capacity to Love

Piping fuckin hot take incoming but it doesn’t matter if fat people are healthy. Not everyone has to be a paragon of fuckin health to be treated like a person.

you think people actually have sex? naked and everything? I have to laugh.

The meanest thing Sam ever did wasn't trapping people, or psychologically tormenting people, or continuously tricking people for the purpose of entertainment. No, the meanest thing he ever did was tear up Mike's, Ify's, and Siobhan's hand drawn pictures of ducks.

"con artist" is maybe the profession with the biggest gap between How Cool They Are In Media and How Cool They Are In Real Life

fictional con artist: I've gathered you all here because you each have unique skills and specialties that will be required for the Ultimate Heist: psychologically destroying the richest man in the world, and taking his mansions, his yacht, and his wife in the process.

real life con artist: plan A is to scare an old lady who barely speaks English. plan B, is to trick unemployed people into giving us money, which they famously have a lot of, in exchange for broadly-defined Career Services. plan C is we try to make NFTs a thing again

from what i understand from seeing tumblr posts about it, game changer is a show where a man locks game show contestants in some sort of chamber and psychologically tortures them like some sort of evil wizard. also i think he's a ceo?

did you guys know about this oc stuff. you can just make a guy. big if true

but watch out. theyre in your brain now

everything i like about people's behavior is human nature and everything i don't like about people's behavior is capitalist brainwashing. this political economy shit is easy

game changer is like if psychologists from the 60s and 70s were camp

it's been a year so i feel more comfortable talking about it..

when you're atheist and you lose someone, religious people don't really know how to interact with you. it's fine, we have different worldviews.

'He's in a better place, now.'

Sorry auntie, but I don't believe that. I believe that his brain stopped working at 5h55pm on december 11th 2022, and that's it. Nothing after that.

It makes grief very difficult, because not believing in god or the afterlife also means accepting that you will never, ever see that person again. That's it. The end. Nada mas.

But, back to the aunties and other faceless people gravitating in the grey blurry waters of your awareness.

They tell you 'He's with god now' and you tell them 'Yeah I don't believe that' and.

they. get. annoyed.

Here I am, gutted open, the worst day of my life, barely holding myself together, and they! Get annoyed that I won't smile and entertain their point of view!

Another faceless person tried to heal me with cristals. She also got annoyed when I told her I didn't believe in that.

I usually don't really mind religious people. It's fine, we have different worldviews. I think I'm right but so do they. As long as they're good people, I don't judge them for their faith.

I'll even be grateful for them trying to console me. I get that you're trying to give me strength and love. Thank you.

But I'm going to be true to myself, yes even when I'm mad with shock and grief. And I still can't believe they got annoyed that I didn't play along to placate them, on the worst day of my life.

(I wanted to share because I've never heard anyone talk about atheism and grief, and the loneliness that comes out of it.)

I have not lost anyone recently, but I purchased this book some time ago and found it helpful: Comforting Thoughts about Death that Have Nothing to Do with God.

Because as you say, there's very little discussion of how to think about death and handle grief as an atheist, when you don't have the comfort of thinking they're in an afterlife, they're just gone.

Please folks, whatever your own beliefs are, when you are comforting someone, you must align with *their* views and beliefs. You're religious and they're atheist? Maybe talk about how their loved one isn't suffering anymore, or remind your friend that they have a community around them who will support them as they grieve. You're atheist and they're religious? Go for that "they're in a better place" language, or that God is with them in their grief.

This is not a time that's about you. It's about the person that's grieving and you need to use the language that will connect with them! If you're not sure what to say, just tell them you're there for them and be present with them.

can’t get over how fucked the three city blocks of Baldur's Gate we explore is. vampire den, mummy lord, hag lair, no less than two cults, haunted mansion, a demon lord whoring it up, evil clowns. is the rest of the city normal. why do they have a Spirit Halloween district.

concept: fae lawyer

i don't mean a lawyer who is a fae, but a lawyer who specializes in fae law. they can be a human or whatever

these are my Questing Jordans.

note to self:

when lifting a pleated skirt to show off your sweet kicks, make sure you hold it from the front and not the back or else everyone will say you look like a trashcan with feet.

i want to be upset about it but like i really cannot blame you, this one's on me.

My redesign hot take is that if you’re aiming to “desexualize” a female character, don’t make her boobs smaller. You’re implying a lot here.

Instead of shrinking her boobs, try:

There are probably lots more options too! I’m not an artist! Just a person with a big chest and back pain!