my aunt used to be a beauty pageant kid. had long, beautiful red hair with a curl pattern that made hairdressers jealous. her mother would pay people lots of money to spend hours styling my aunt’s hair
predictably, as a young adult, my aunt cut all of her hair off. buzzed down to the scalp. she still keeps it pretty short- long enough for curls to develop, but only on the top of her head. she says she can’t stand the feeling of her hair touching her ears or neck.
recently she’s started collecting and styling wigs. she’ll even wear them, occasionally, to a fancy event or if she just doesn’t want to be bothered by distant family when she goes shopping. and she spends hours styling these wigs, even though she doesn’t use them all that often.
i asked her about it. she said that sometimes, growth looks a lot like regression with a twist. that she’s reclaiming something she enjoyed as a kid, and could have enjoyed more. she said she’s practicing having agency, and that it’s a skill that doesn’t come very naturally for her. having agency, i mean. she’s really good at styling wigs.
people laugh at me for always asking a baby’s permission before picking them up but let me tell you when my nephew was seven months old I picked him up off the floor without checking first and he was absolutely outraged and reproached me with terrible wails. just because a person is very small doesn’t mean it’s not scary and upsetting to be scooped up out of nowhere by a much larger person. quite the contrary. obviously if a baby is in danger or the situation is otherwise pressing you can temporarily suspend the rules of polite behavior and just grab them up, much like you are allowed to violently shove a grownup if a speeding car is bearing down on them. but that doesn’t mean you just go around shoving people as a matter of routine. show some consideration to our latest arrivals on this horrible planet. they are better at communicating than you think
So fucked that little animals can have bad dreams what do you mean they have to deal with nightmares too
Look at her she’s soooooo small do you think she deserves to be in the nightmare realm??? Ignore that it looks like I took her on a walk in the nightmare realm
i sent her on a moon mission hope this is ok with u she will be back soon and has a walkie talkie if u need anything like moon apples or a 7-up
Listen, say what you will about TAZ graduation. HOWEVER no one will outdo the comedy of Justin McElroy playing a firbolg absolutely loosing his mind over the concept of equity. One of my favorite scenes in TAZ. Beautiful thing.
best thing i ever accepted about people is that most people are just kind of gross like, physically
like most people have gross little bad habits and let the laundry go a little too long and sweat in weird places and are messy eaters and have weird laughs and are a little greasy and asymettrical and have stains and tears and wear on the things they own and its like literally fine and human. we dont need to worry about that stuff and frankly we should kill whoever is responsible for making us think humans are even capable of being perfectly polished made up hygeine machines 24/7. we are little animals we came from the dirt and sometimes you scratch your buttcrack or pick at scabs or what the fuck ever it is literally normal animal behaviour !!! let the soft animal of your body ect ect nd sometimes the soft animal of your body is a little yucky.
when I got diagnosed with my back issues I thought people would finally believe that I’m disabled because I literally have an xray showing one of my vertebrae is not where it’s supposed to be. and you know what? turns out people who don’t believe in invisible disabilities also don’t believe in incredibly visible disabilities
‘I heard that kingfishers often get stuck in trees with too much force, so I made kingfisher studs that stick into hearts and walls. And woodpeckers too, by the way.
I step into the crime scene once again, and just like last time… it’s a mess. The bastard’s killed again. They call him The Artist… man’s sick in the head, thinks he’s gonna be the next Michelangelo. His “canvas”? The human body. Maybe I’m just not “cultured” enough. But when I look at this mess of gore and body parts, all I see is… wait holy shit from this angle it looks like a fish! Ohhhh it’s like a perspective trick! Oh shit that’s so cool. I mean. Ahem. It’s not cool enough to justify murdering twelve innocent… oh my GOD from THIS angle it looks like a MONKEY! It’s like, two in one! How’d he even DO that, this guy’s a genius!!
