many on here need to be learning this lesson

Too much movement makes your joints hurt and too little movement also makes your joints hurt. This would imply that there's an optimal amount of movement that allows your joints to not hurt. This is a lie.

the thing that's been rotating in my head like a horrible little rotisserie thorn is that yuna says: i think we thought maybe you were gay.

we thought maybe you were gay.

we thought maybe you were gay as you grew up and became a professional athlete. rookie of the year. as you navigated this famously homophobic career path. as you tried to put together a public persona, as we guided you through sponsorships and brand deals. we thought maybe you were gay as we watched you, our shy and anxious and awkward son, as you grew into an isolated adult. few friends, no real romances. your mom still buys your shirts. you have always lived alone.

we thought maybe you were gay, but we didn't say anything.

i think - your mother, i - for a while now, we've thought maybe for a while now - we thought - we thought it, we didn't say it, never out loud - because that would mean we had to address it and that would mean we might be right. we kept our eyes down and our mouths shut and we know you so, so well, but we didn't ask and we didn't say anything, not even when scott hunter did all that right out there in front of god and the cup and everyone, and we let it slide off us and into history, past tense, and didn't look too closely at your reaction because we thought maybe you --

i'm sorry that i made you feel like you couldn't tell me.

because i did that. and i knew i was doing it while i was doing it. and i know that you know, now, that i knew i was doing that. i looked away so things could be easier for you because it's there's nothing to tell there's no need for a statement. no need for a plan.

and all this time, all your adult life, since your rookie season, the summer before, you've been in love - lovers - no, look at the way you look at him, you've been in love - and you've kept it secret while we made him your rival. pitted you against him. played up conflict and animosity against him. we sat together at tables with an empty chair where he should have been, where he is now, and hated him if we thought of him at all, and now you sit here and tell us you want to keep that secret another ten years, another fifteen because we made you think that this - this weight, this pressure, this fear we can see in the line of your shoulders and the way you breathe - that this is somehow easier.

you would have kept that secret another ten years, another fifteen. you aren't telling us now because you're ready, or because you want to. you're telling us because you were caught.

found out what, exactly? as if maybe your father was still going to keep that secret for you. as if he didn't tell me, not the whole of it. not everything he saw. as if you could have pretended you hadn't seen him, and he would have pretended he hadn't seen you. another ten years. another fifteen.

we thought maybe you were gay.

but we hung onto: maybe not.

did this rewrite your genetic makeup or are you normal

Jane Doe

hate to break this to you but if you call yourself self aware but you are only aware of your faults and never acknowledge your strengths you are not self aware. you have repackaged your self hatred

i think i just witnessed a miracle

There is always hope

There's a wicked production somewhere where Elphaba kisses Glinda on the cheek sometime in act 2... And because I can't find it anymore I sketched it 🥹

it is genuinely bewildering to me that adult human beings do not know this but if you are mean to people they will not like you. like tbh they are probably also not going to like you if you are mean to other people but they are definitely not going to like you if you are mean to them. it doesn’t matter if you are funny or if you can use r/aita rules to prove that you are in the right. people simply do not enjoy being treated like shit.

usually when you have a stomach bug your body is like yes sir we'll get this punk out of here, 48 hours tops. then you get a cold and your body is like I dunno ... between a few hours and eleven months ... maybe a week minimum .... you gotta understand we're short staffed

tbf to the body, stomach bugs are easier to flush out since they are already in The System That Flushes Things Out From The Body, and that includes BOTH ends.

with a cold you gotta wait for the macrophages in your blood to start Eating Everything, and they are. not big. it takes them a while. please be more considerate of your macrophages in the future, theyre doing their best

I've got to find myself more macrophage

Now Hiring: macrophages

Fake job listings out of control.

It’s so funny to imagine Wicked from the perspective of one of the normal students at Shiz. There’s this girl and she’s weird and an overachieving nerd and no one likes her, but then the popular girl becomes best friends with her overnight so you guess she’s chill now. They might be sleeping together but no one’s really sure. They’re also low key dating the same guy but you’re not clear on if it’s a polycule situation or a love triangle. Whatever. You’re just trying to study for finals. Your history teacher gets arrested and no explains why. You just hope this won’t effect your grade in the class. The weird nerdy girl gets a letter from the president inviting her to come see him. Wow, that’s exciting. She and her maybe-girlfriend go off to the capitol and you go back to homework and dorm room parties. One day later one of your professors is on the national radio saying that the weird nerdy girl, who used to be her favorite student, is now a terrorist, has stolen the nuclear codes, and is on the run from the government. You are still expected to show up to class tomorrow.

Anyway remember when I said "kinda sucks that people from russia, iran, syria, north korea and cuba cannot make an ao3 account" and an OTW member answered me like "it's not like we don't want CUBANS on this site" so you're chill with cubans but not russians iranians syrians and north koreans. yeah that sounds about right

And when you ask them why they go "well russia is imperialist" "north korea is undemocratic" "Syria is full of extremist religious fundamentalists" "Iran is too militarized" three of these things are true of the united states as well and the fourth you always without a fault imply when an election unsurprisingly goes right leaning.

What I am trying to get to here is why is it that you think you have the right to hate on regular people with no leverage on the actions of their governments and militaries (a right that is highly encouraged by your hegemony) yet when anyone anywhere else in the world speaks ill of the culture that pertains to the united states of america you're suddenly so fiercely convinced that anyone unable to separate the actions of a government from the actions of the people is such a mean spirited discriminator that borders on xenophobe.

Everyone getting hung up on the AO3 bit of this IT'S THR EMBARGO WE ALREADY DISCUSSED IT and if I have to deal with another otw fandom activist I am going to explode so lets not get hung up on that part and engage with the actual message which is that hypocritical discrimination is at an all time high

I'm not even sorry to be annoying about it but I'd like the horror side of Claire's and Castiel's relationship to be acknowledged more instead of the fluff and insta parent I see 90% of the time 🤔

STOP 🛑

Does your flippant joke about how “[the character] will do anything but go to therapy” consider

Spnblr 🛑

do NOT bring up Mia Vallens to me. BAD therapist. BAD episode. ❌