May 2012
15 posts
katiebour: Anders: the magister in the making. →
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Unfortunately there are folks who have replaced the game almost entirely with fanon that they will happily pull out to contradict every one of your perfectly valid points. And there’s no way to argue with someone’s headcanon.
Makes it really…
That’s way more gracious than they deserved, katiebour. I’m astonished that someone would sneer “fanon” at your analysis and then whimper about being snarked at a little bit. Who’s condescending???
(Also, hi, I’ve been lurking. :D )
“People get really irritated by mental illness. ‘Just fucking get it together! Suck it up, man!’ I had a breakdown, and a spiritual friend came to visit me in the psych ward. And they said, ‘You need to get out of here. Because this is the story you’re telling yourself. You know, Patch Adams has this great work-group camp where you can learn how to really celebrate life.’ It’s something people are so powerless over, and so often they want to make it your fault. It’s nobody fault. I started thinking of suicide when I was 10 years old—I can’t believe that that’s somebody’s fault. Like, ‘Oh, you’re just an attention getter.’ Mental illness isn’t seen as an illness, it’s seen as a choice…. I have a joke about how people don’t talk about mental illness the way they do other regular illnesses. ‘Well, apparently Jeff has cancer. Uh, I have cancer. We all have cancer. You go to chemotherapy you get it taken care of, am I right? You get back to work.’ Or: ‘I was dating this chick, and three months in, she tells me that she wears glasses, and she’s been wearing contact lenses all this time. She needs help seeing. I was like, listen, I’m not into all that Western medicine shit. If you want to see, then work at it. Figure out how not to be so myopic. You know?’”
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Maria Bamford (via aubades)
I feel like this is all my thoughts on mental illness summed up beautifully, like I’ve never been more in tune with a quote in my life.
(via unconventionalmoose)
STFU, Conservatives: he bought you dinner, you do owe him sex →
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otherwise why did you go on the date? he didn’t do it to spend time with you, you’re a shrill dullard. he doesn’t give a shit about your AA hire career, he actually earned his position. he went on the date because he wants sex. you went on the date because you’re a conceited gold…
if black folks have skin like honey and chocolate and coffee
white folks must have skins like cottage cheese, sour cream and white cheddar
THERE IS NO OTHER ADJECTIVE BUT FOOD.
WE MUST BE DA FOOD
Who doesn’t like Honey, Chocolate, and Coffee doe?
Mayonnaise, Wonder Bread, untoasted saltines
Mashed potatoes, whipped cream, marshmallows
“Peaches and cream” and “milky” get tossed around a lot. Neither sound even slightly appealing.
I think fondly of Neil Gaiman’s “American Gods,” in which Odin muses on the breasts of the women of his land, veined blue like a good cheese.
