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TUMBLR = To Understand More Beliefs, Learn Readily

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like I consider myself antipsych but I am not under the impression that I’m superior as a human being to people who use psychiatric frameworks to describe their distress. And you cannot argue with the convenience of saying “I have bipolar disorder” vs saying “sometimes I go for a week without sleeping and get weirdly aggressive and paranoid.” Like I’d actually say the first a lot more than the second if I could guarantee that that wouldn’t make people think less of me as a human being

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getting a phd in critical omelas studies with an emphasis in sacrificial child ethics

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don’t drink that coffee! there was a labubu in the percolator

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Jayme Lawson as Pearline.

“She is a performer. She is a sharecropper who was married off young to an older gentleman and seeks to find her life in these kinds of juke joints. That’s where she seems to come alive. That’s where she tends to have some level of freedom.”-Jayme Lawson.

Sinners (2025) │ Directed by Ryan Coogler.

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just watched The Wiz and im convinced that it's impossible to knock down Diana Ross in heels. that woman was skipping down steep slopes and escaping pursuers of all sorts wearing 5 inch stilettos with the grace of a ballerina.

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Finally did ayanami rei

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Jeremy Bentham is a purely English phenomenon. Even if we take into account our philosopher Christian Wolff, we can still say that nowhere else, and at no other time, has the homespun cliché swaggered about with so much self-satisfaction. He didn’t invent the principle of utility. In his mindless way, he simply reproduced what Helvetius and other eighteenth-century Frenchmen had said with actual wit and ingenuity. If someone wants to know what is useful for a dog, he has to examine the nature of dogs. Their nature can’t be deduced from the “principle of utility.” Now let’s apply this to human beings. A person who would judge all human acts, movements, relations, and so on according to the principle of utility would have to begin by dealing with human nature in general and then take up human nature as it is modified by each historical epoch. Bentham doesn’t bother with this. With the most tedious naïveté, he presupposes that the modern petty bourgeois, and, in particular, the English version, is the normal human being. If something is of use to this odd normal person and his world, then it is useful in and for itself. Bentham applies this yardstick to the past, present, and future. For example, the Christian religion is “useful,” “because in the name of religion it disapproves of the same misdeeds that the penal code condemns in the name of the law.” Art criticism is “harmful” because it disturbs upstanding people who want to enjoy Martin Tupper. This is the kind of nonsense with which the good man...has filled mountains of books. If I had the courage of my friend H. Heine, I would say that Mr. Jeremy is a genius of bourgeois stupidity.

jesus christ, Karl

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also pls tag the first game you remember playing

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How long have you identified as disabled if you don't mind me asking? UYou seem very confident in your identity!

i've been considered disabled (learning disability, mental illness) since i was a very young child, but early on (when i started OT at 4/talk therapy at 7) I didn't consider myself disabled, and certainly no one called me that.

I self dx'd with autism when i was around 8/9 bc it was one of my early special interests, and this was when i discovered disability as an identity rather than simply a pathology. i don't recall genuinely thinking of myself as disabled, as i think i had internalized the notion that 1) i was 'smart' and 'functional' and thus didn't Count, and 2) didn't Count bc i was physically ablebodied.

i began thinking more rigorously about disability theory, identity, and subjectivity when i was 14-15. this was also the time that i became much more disabled (physically and mentally) + experienced my first time as an inpatient/institutionalized. by the time that was over, between both that traumatic experience + the amount of readings i did around that time, i began thinking of myself as belonging to a disabled/Mad/psych survivor community.

i began organizing and socializing with irl disability community when i was 17, simply because i was finally in college and had exposure to politically conscious disabled people.

so it was a long and piecemeal process!

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If you have achieved something, please remember to observe a mandatory period of basking in the warm glow of your achievement like a lizard on a stone, lest you teach your brain that effort is futile, actually, because it didn't get to enjoy its happy chemicals, so, naturally, nothing good ever comes of trying. (And no, avoiding punishment is not a reward!)

I recommend, like, 5% of basking time in relation to whatever time you invested into achieving the thing minimum. And if you can't make your own bask, friend-brought is fine (= tell your friends!).

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Yes or no, would you write a sequel to Failure to comply?

sequel? no

prequel/companion in a similar universe? ..... :3

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Would you ever stop being vegan YN

nope

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Yes or no meme: should I go to grad school?

yes

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For the meme... you're working on another book?

yes!!

sorry cheating but here’s some more detail: novel #2 is out on submission w/ my agent! novel #3 is in-progress. i also have a short story collection in-progress :3 and the bare-bones of a second poetry collection. poetry collection #1 will be out in march 2026!