darcy: I want to get to know elizabeth better. I will sneakily hang out around her conversation circles to hear more about her and her opinions :)
elizabeth: why is this fuck ass guy eavesdropping????? if he tries this shit with me one more time he better start squaring up. what a cunt
wulfhallsdarcy: elizabeth has so many intriguing qualities! I have to be cautious otherwise i might hopelessly fall in love!
elizabeth: if this guy would drop dead this very second i dont think a single person in this whole wide world would miss him. fr
wulfhallselizabeth: girl i hate this fuck ass guy soooo bad. thats why i have to constantly think about him. hatefully. I am normal about this man trust
John Oliver gets it, as usual. AI Slop is one of the best episodes of Last Week Tonight I've seen so far. Gen AI is theft. Those who use it are not authors or artists, they're grifters profiting from real creatives.
ALTThis should be required viewing for anyone defending AI as "helping normal people create art".
Pre-menstrual depression is always depicted as like "He He! I had a box of icecream bars and cried while watching the Titanic!" But in reality, it's more like, "I'm standing the edge of an abyss. There is nothing good inside of me, I'm filled with rage and desperation."
It's crazy that being told how to deal with that is never a part of anyone's menstrual sex education.
headspace-hotelThis has already been said in the notes, but if PMS causes extreme depression and even suicidal ideation, that is in fact something that most people do not experience and it can be treated
Like for the majority it really is "oh i'm hungrier and moodier than usual"
^this should be a part of sex education so the point still stands
godesssiriI went to my doctor after I was walking to work one morning and saw a bus coming and actually took a step to throw myself in front of it before I pulled myself together. Later that day I started bleeding and was literally like someone flipped a switch and I didn't feel suicidal anymore. Which made me feel like I was loosing my mind because who goes from 'I want to throw myself in front of a bus' to 'I'm perfectly fine' just like that? I did some research, I went to the doctor and described my feelings, he looked me in the eye and gently asked what I thought it was, I said I'd read about PMDD and I thought it might be that, he said 'I think so too' and wrote a prescription.
If, before you get your period, you feel furiously angry, suicidal, irritated by every tiny thing to the point you want to murder someone, stuck in a black hole you'll never escape from. If you are experiencing extreme emotions for what seems like no good reason, especially if you get your period and those extreme emotions just go away. You're probably not just PMSing , you may have PMS's feral big sister PMDD and it's treatable.
Also this is something that can develop as you get older. So if you used to get normal PMS but what I wrote above sounds more like your norm now then don't just write it off as regular PMS.
agonizing over all the time you wasted or lost is useless. it’s gone now. you survived in the only way you knew how. doesn’t your survival deserve some recognition too?
persianmomlike toni morrison said, “sometimes you don't survive whole, you just survive in part. but the grandeur of life is that attempt. it’s not about that solution. it is about being as fearless as one can, and behaving as beautifully as one can, under completely impossible circumstances.”
"...the only issue is sometimes he is a lot, and doesn't like to share, and even through sometimes he'll be like, 'oh play this video game with me,' then if I do too well he acts kind of weird and, like, funky with me. And it's not really like always clear or consistent when he wants to share and why he doesn't want to, and like what's going on with his life, and the other people he plays games with. And also just friends outside of playing games, often that comes into the gameplay and the sleepover of it all, and it's actually like a little bit inappropriate sometimes."
"It has been a real pleasure for me to, um, to watch you grow or whatever the fuck, in there."
"You do not have to say that."
"I mean it, Syd. Watching you step up, you know? I mean, I cannot imagine how hard that must be with my fucking nephew, walking around like a fuckhead. I mean, you are a hardworking motherfucking professional. And you're good to everyone, you know..."