this is the sound of the summer every summer forever

Bad Girls Club by Xin Yingzong

Bluebeard by Marjolaine Roller

One time I ate probably way too many mushrooms and I could feel my trip going bad. So, I turned to my roommate and I said something along the lines of,

"I feel amazing but I feel like this sensation has a price and I'm about to pay it."

To which he responded, "What are you, catholic?" And that knocked me so firmly out of my mental state that the rest of the trip was hands down the best time I ever did mushrooms.

Yeah that's fair, those tags should part of the main post

Two down, one to go - Charles Xelot

Rip to the scifi writers now and before, but if I had a whole android in my immediate vicinity who could think and feel, we would be best friends. They'd be my buddy, my ro-bro, my servo-sister, my circut-sibling. I'd be like "this is LKH - 4739.9 and they're so cool. They move too quickly and too precisely and they say odd shit for no reason. They are very bad at emoting and they either can't understand or choose to ignore social ques. They can't be near magnets or water. If any of you are mean to them so help me God I will fight you myself, I will fight you myself."

my teeth were perfectly designed to tear abd rend the soft white flesh of the gentle beast known as the mozzarella

off of my last post: i feel like corporate horror has such a rich seam of possibilities that are just begging to be mined. the helpless, nightmarish feeling of watching your life get chewed up by the implacable machinery of faceless corporations in which you are nothing but an easily-replaceable cog and knowing the whole time that you chose to be here. that you can, theoretically, leave any time you want. mindless, pointless busywork that you're expected to take pride in even when it has no measurable impact. feeling like you're running on a treadmill - always busy, never achieving anything. upper managers who only communicate with you by email. CEOs who never communicate with you at all, and may not actually exist for all you know. you can leave any time you want. but you can't, can you? not really. you still have to pay the bills.

also while i'm on this train, corporate environments are inherently a bit uncanny - everything looks the same, the corridors and cubicles often feel labyrinthine to the point of absurdity, conversations are outwardly pleasant but rarely dip below surface level, and any expression of intense, genuine emotion - happiness, sadness, anger - is discouraged. there's just something very potent about combining the visceral nature of horror with a bland, impersonal environment staffed by people who refuse to admit when something's wrong.

some of my favorite tiny love stories

update:

(from nyt’s modern love column)

I saw the "AD BLOCK IS NOT ALLOWED ON YOUTUBE" popup on YouTube only for it to immediately disappear within a half second. I felt like a lady being shielded by the great knight sir Firefox from a terrible bowmans arrow.

Anyone else up at 3 am trying to figure out who you were and who you wanted to be before your entire family buried you under their expectations and needs? Just me?

I say this with the utmost sincerity, but I hope you have the courage and space and freedom in the upcoming year to be the nasty little freak that you are. I hope you can find a place to realize that the things you think make you unlovable and disgusting are in fact very lovable and not disgusting in any way. I hope you find sincerity beyond your ability to even comprehend.

FOLKS, PLEASE…DO YOUSELVES A BIG BIG FAVOR AND STOP USING TURBOTAX!  IT IS USELESS NOW!!!

THE IRS website will let you fill out and file your return THERE ON THE IRS SITE.  You pay like $12 for the actual electronic filing process, and THAT’s IT!

Unless you have tremendous amounts of Schedule D stock shit, TurboTax is NOTHING BUT A RIPOFF!!!

The IRS website is EXCELLENT.  They allow you to look up your past returns, and have every bit of information you MIGHT POSSIBLY NEED!

FUCK TURBOTAX!

LIBERATE YOURSELF FROM IT!!!!!!!

Friendly reminder as well that if you’re making less than $66,000 a year, you don’t need to pay to file your taxes and also all tax-paying softwares (eg rhymes with FurboFax) have a free filing option hidden in their websites. 

Have at it kiddos:

https://www.propublica.org/article/turbotax-just-tricked-you-into-paying-to-file-your-taxes

You can also use Freetaxusa Very user friendly.

you can also use Tax Heaven 3000, the anime dating sim that files your taxes (X-rated version available)

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This is your daily reminder to not be ashamed of making your life easy for yourself.

Cut your food into small pieces, make the font size 30 on your e book, use straws to drink, get a pen that’s comfortable to hold, take more naps, walk slowly, eat another cookie, buy velcro shoes, re-watch the part you couldn’t understand the first time, write things on your hands so you don’t forget it… whatever you want and/or need

Don’t let anyone tell you how you should be doing things. We don’t need to prove each other anything