It’s Never Too Late To Start Recovery

stab a friend today to commemorate the ides of march

stop asking if you’re “valid,” start asking if you’re being honest about belonging to a community. stop this feelings-first, validate-me nonsense and realize that respect and validity starts with you, not with other people’s perception of you. if you don’t fit the definition for a term, then it’s not everyone else’s fault that you don’t feel valid, it’s yours for co-opting a term that wasn’t yours to begin with.

evolution of moods 1-3am

Abuse Victims- Can You Relate??

Being able to read a person’s microaggressions without even trying (He’s upset. I don’t know how I know he’s upset, but he is). I’m always right. 

Being able to hear a lie in someone’s voice without looking at them. 

Unconsciously being aware of every shift in the room, but still jumping a mile when someone comes up from behind. 

Forcing your body into autopilot when life just gets too hard to handle, but then realizing you’re dissociating and trying to bring yourself back. 

That stare that all your friends call your “resting bitch face.”

Nearly punching people in the face when they scare you. 

Being amazingly good at one thing because you had nothing else to do as a kid (for me, reading and writing). 

People calling you mature for your age. 

People being stunned at the fact that you know more life skills than a thirty year old. 

On the other hand, cringing when you don’t know how to do something everyone else knows how to do. 

Constantly feeling tired no matter how long you sleep. 

Telling a story about your childhood, and stopping halfway through when you realize everyone is horrified. 

Not understanding why people complain about taxes and insurance and money while you’re just happy you get to have plants in your room now. 

Having absolutely no control over your emotions, yet everyone thinks you’re so level headed and mature because you’re not physically capable of showing it. 

There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish —Michelle Obama 

Happy International Women’s Day!

there’s a lot of evidence that the iliad and the odyssey were actually composed by a variety of poets through an oral tradition rather than just by one poet, so what if the homeric texts are actually just a very long game of D&D

Cptsd bingo requested by anon!!!

The true deadly sins

Lust

Not a sin- feeling sexual attraction, sex with consenting partners, masturbation, consuming pornographic media, having several sexual partners, sex before mariage. IT’S A SIN WHEN- the person projects lust onto an unwilling recipient person and does not take into account their wants or consent. Rape, harassment, sexual assault, catcalling, dick pics.

Gluttony

Not a sin- food, enjoying food, cooking, eating sweets, eating meat. In the larger sense, accumulating material things you enjoy, like books or collectibles or whatever.  IT’S A SIN WHEN- It deprives other people of what they need.

Envy

Not a sin: Wanting things you see other people have, like money, power, fame. IT’S A SIN WHEN: This is how you define people, and stop respecting them as humans. It’s a sin when you use them for what they have and what they can bring you.

Greed

Not a sin: Wanting financial security, working hard for the things you want.  IT’S A SIN WHEN: Your own financial growth depends on keeping other people impoverished and suffering.

Pride

Not a sin: Being proud of your accomplishments, liking your looks, dressing up IT’S A SIN WHEN: It stops you from accepting your faults and seeing how you can be wrong, not admitting that you can better yourself. 

Wrath

Not a sin: Righteous anger at situations, being mistreated, seeing other people suffer, at the injustice of the world. Self-defense. Revolution.  IT’S A SIN WHEN: Violence towards defenceless people, hitting your partner or your kids,.  Violence fuelled by intolerance and bigotry. 

Sloth

Not a sin: Resting. Sleeping. Taking a day or a year off. Being unproductive. Playing videogames. IT’S A SIN WHEN: You stay inactive when action is required. When people need you and you’d rather do nothing.

Murphy’s Law for Writers

Anything that can go wrong, should go wrong.

will i end the semester or will the semester end me??? stay tuned