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Thanks for the question, Anon!

I got my lobes pierced when I was 12, so elementary school. I added more over the years when I was in high school and then took those out, but got my conch pierced when I was 27. So I have my lobes and conch currently.

-submit your poll!-

#i was 13 and my mom made me get it done at the fucking DOCTOR'S OFFICE #fuck piercing guns for real.

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guy sitting in front of me in class was vandalizing wikipedia and i kept reverting his edits as soon as he made them and he couldn't figure out why it was happening

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Stray cat breaks into Lynx’s enclosure at zoo

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i wrote this in the notes of another post originally and am copy + pasting it here because im right but "tell the cops nothing, tell the doctors everything" is such a stupid ass fucking abled take. doctors engage in policing idk how to explain to yall that some people cannot in fact just tell doctors everything without it putting them at risk

like im not gonna go into the myriad of ways this is bs but like a quick example is i cant tell my doctors about my substance use issues because if i get that listed on my medical records it will actively endanger me. It will impact how I'm treated in emergency situations and will get me labeled as "drug seeking" when i try to get other issues dealt with.

i dont say this to scare people but because this is actually important information for people to have. if a medical professional claims this isnt an issue, they are NOT "one of the good ones". they are either straight up lying or theyre utterly unaware, which is frankly not better. doctors are cops. never forget it

like YES tell ur doctor abt being sexually active but stop saying "tell the cops nothing and the doctor everything" before i start killing in cold blood

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when people talk about how addicts have a responsibility to "recover" (whatever that means) or how psychotic people have a responsibility to accept "treatment" (again. whatever that means) they are making a fuckton of assumptions. and I want every single one of them to ask themselves the following:

what makes you think that "recovery" is an all-or-nothing process?

what makes you think that there is only one "correct" way to manage complex mental illness?

what do you mean by "responsibility"? responsibility to whom?

what makes you assume that addicts and psychotic people who "refuse treatment" are harder to "deal with" than those of us in treatment?

and this is why harm reduction needs to be more broadly understood and acknowledged as a valid approach to illness in all its forms

the person who is following the principles of harm reduction but still engaging in substance use is likely healthier than the person who is trying for complete sobriety but has no other coping mechanisms under their belt. the person who is being forced to take medication with a million side effects should be allowed to stop taking that medication, regardless of what it's for. etc etc

from here, you may also want to consider that health (including mental health) is not an indicator of morality, and that a poorly managed addiction or psychotic disorder is not a sign that someone is evil

signed, a psychotic recovering addict

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adult hood is just

*buys a half gallon of milk* *uses it all within a few days* *decided to buy a gallon of milk to not run out before next shopping trip* *uses a teaspoon of milk that week and it goes bad somehow* *buys a quart of milk instead so it won’t go bad* *uses it in one day* *buys a quart and a half gallon of milk because the gallon was too much but the half gallon was not enough* *only uses the half gallon* *gives up on milk for a few days in general* *buys a gallon of milk again just to tempt fate* *somehow uses all of it without realizing and then has to eat sad cereal with like the 5 drops of remaining milk*

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whats the fucking point of having laws if people can keep making led headlights

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#art

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have realized that while i am not a fan necessarily of "people meet and immediately fall in love" i am a fan of "people meet and are immediately obsessed with each other." the love can come later but the absolute fixation should be immediate

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cant stop thinking abt ursula k. le guin’s essay abt the carrier bag theory….. she’s like, maybe the first human tool was not a weapon, but rather something that holds, a bag, a pouch, a vessel, something for gathering and storing and sharing. let’s shift the narrative of humanity from that of violence to that of safekeeping. and i’m like

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“Dunk”

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Made the worst brownies ever created just now

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"Don't use Libby because it costs libraries too much, pirate instead" is such a weird, anti-patron, anti-author take that somehow manages to also be anti-library, in my professional librarian-ass opinion.

It's well documented that pirating books negatively affects authors directly* in a way that pirating movies or TV shows doesn't affect actors or writers, so I will likely always be anti-book piracy unless there's absolutely, positively no other option (i.e. the book simply doesn't exist outside of online archives at all, or in a particular language).

Also, yeah, Libby and Hoopla licenses are really expensive, but libraries buy them SO THAT PATRONS CAN USE THEM. If you're gonna be pissed at anybody about this shitty state of affairs, be pissed at publishing companies and continue to use Libby or Hoopla at your library so we can continue to justify having it to our funding bodies.

One of the best ways to support your library having services you like is to USE THOSE SERVICES. Yes, even if they are expensive.

*Yes, this is a blog post, but it's a blog post filled with links to news articles. If you can click one link, you can click another.

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Kiss of the Rabbit God (兔兒神) by Andrew Thomas Huang

“A Chinese-American restaurant worker falls in love with an 18th century Qing dynasty god who visits him at night and leads him on a journey of sexual awakening and self discovery.”

WARNING: Minor body mutilation scene with blood involving knives. Sexual references.

#omg i've been meaning to watch this forever

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just asked my professor if he wants to feature on a song LMFAO