I hate that so many places will automatically convert :P into
like what is that. That’s not what I wanted to convey at all.
:P means
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LG is the only company that gets it at all
Thank you for your service, LG. You alone understand. My apologies to anyone using your service who tries to sent this to anyone using any of the other services.
This coffee falls into your stomach, which, as you know from
Brillat-Savarin, is a sack whose velvety interior is lined with
tapestries of suckers and papillae. The coffee finds nothing else in the
sack, and so it attacks these delicate and voluptuous linings; it acts
like a food and demands digestive juices; it wrings and twists the
stomach for these juices, appealing as a pythoness appeals to her god;
it brutalizes these beautiful stomach linings as a wagon master abuses
ponies; the plexus becomes inflamed; sparks shoot all the way up to the
brain. From that moment on, everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick
march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary
fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags
on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the
artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on
imagination’s orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and
characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink-for the nightly labor
begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and
concludes with black powder.
I recommended this way of drinking coffee to a friend of mine, who
absolutely wanted to finish a job promised for the next day: he thought
he’d been poisoned and took to his bed,
This has just always been a thing I’ve known but now I wonder if it’s common knowledge bc it should be;
If you’re going to a doctor about anything, instead of just describing the symptoms, describe how it has affected your life. ‘My arm hurts when I straighten it’ will usually get you ‘wait a few days to see if it gets better’. ‘My arm hurts when I straighten it, and it has stopped me from being able to drive or use my computer at work, so I can’t function properly’ will usually get you a lot more consideration, and usually tests or a prescription.
This also applies for mental conditions, including gender dysphoria.
Make sure your physician knows the effect that your condition is having on your life, as this makes it a lot harder for them to dismiss you. This also makes it easier to hold them accountable if they ignore a dangerous condition, should you wish to pursue legal action.
what
i did not know that. useful, thanks!
this is so important for mental health conditions, i would actually argue for talking about the effects before the symptoms
a photographer captured a wild black vulture preening a northern caracara. while this interaction may seem strange, considering the birds are not in the same family, they are both scavengers and regularly interact over meals of carrion.
Not actually comprehend anything happening right in front of them
heteronormativity is a hell of a drug
May I add:
Once on Facebook I mentioned getting married at a big mad max themed campout. One of the guys that regularly attends told me to take my wife to visit his camp for a drink. I told him my husband, actually.
And he then said “wow, I’m sorry, I’ve never met a girl named dave before! Now I’ve seen everything.”
This dude thought I was a girl name David before he thought I was a gay man. Straight people are wild.
The German Ehrhardt 7.5 cm Model 1904, also known as the Schutztruppe 7.5cm Mountain Gun.
A model exclusively deployed by the German colonial troops, the Schutztruppe, hence her name; some captured guns also served with the Portuguese colonial forces in Angola.
Apparently this model is so rare, only 12 were made, but this particular piece doesn’t show in any official lists, the Nr.2 piece, this one, getting listed as being in the Bloemfontein Law Courts, South Africa, so how a german-made artillery piece that served in Africa during The Great War somehow ended up in Colombia as of 2017 is a mystery, at least to me.
Pictures taken by me at the Museo Militar Colombiano, Bogotá, Colombia.
Shout out to people like me who have parents who are loving but are black holes of emotional labor… It took me a long time to realize that it’s okay to have mixed feelings about your parents, about your relationship with them.
Sometimes parents can love you but be somewhat toxic to you and your growth, and that’s a very hard realization to come to if you, like me, grew up extremely close to them.
Sometimes parents can love you genuinely but lack emotional maturity, forcing you to perform disproportionate amounts of emotional labor. Some parents manifest symptoms of their mental illness in ways that are toxic to your mental illness.
Some parents, like mine, try so hard to be good parents but fall back on habits of emotional manipulation because they haven’t processed their own traumas and are modeling behavior they grew up with. That doesn’t make their behavior acceptable, and it’s okay to feel exhausted and hurt when they betray you. You don’t have to forgive every mistake.
I want you to know that it’s okay to protect yourself, to need some space apart from them. The love you have for your parents is still valid, and you are making the right decision.
Placing a safe emotional distance between myself and my parents has been one of the most difficult, heartbreaking processes I’ve ever gone through… it hurts to try to curb the strength of your own natural empathy around people you love. It feels disingenuous to your heart’s natural state.
But I promise you, you are not hard-hearted or ungrateful, and you are not abandoning them. You are making a decision about your own emotional, mental, and spiritual health.
I know what it’s like in that confusing grey area of love mixed with guilt and anxiety, of exhaustion and quasi-manipulation and unreciprocated emotional labor, and I promise you, you are not alone.
Your mixed feelings about your parents are valid.
Thank you thank you thank you bless this post ohmygod thank you
