#Take My Advice

[derangedrhythms]

Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings […]

Judith Butler, Take My Advice: Letters to the Next Generation from People Who Know a Thing or Two; from 'Doubting Love' 

[thegoodmorningman]

I don't think anyone knows this about me but I wish I was a bird. They sing to The Sun the sweetest Songs each and every day. Good Morning.

[philosophybitmaps]

[foxybluejazz]

Take my advice 📝

[vensulove]

y’all can romanticize living in a small town all you want but don’t actually move to one

[bees-tes-blog]

skyrim is at 95% but I just remembered my rule of never modding skyrim after 10 pm. that was a close one, couldve ended badly

[somewhere-rich]

I firmly believe that once you've experienced something 5000 times, you need to move on.

[evilgoodguys]

...clearly, he's not jealous.

[thiefxking]

I apologize for the complete lack of activity for the last couple of weeks. I somehow (I say that as though I don't have a strong suspicion of how) managed to hurt the bottom of one of my feet. It makes focusing really hard so I have been a bit scattered since I did it. So yeah... I've been lacking focus because of life. I just figured I would share why I have been on so much less than usual.

[lgbtlunaverse]

There's a version of the "don't go grocery shopping while hungry" rule specifically for writers where you should never under any circumstances be allowed to touch your draft within 3 hours of reading a really good story. Because sometimes when you read something great your head goes "fuck this is so much better than my stuff I should make that more like THIS instead!" Look at me. That's the devil talking and you should close the document NOW.

[mokeonn]

"But if college was free, then people would abuse that and get useless degrees" hell yeah I would! If I could go to college without debt I would make it my job to get a degree in every little thing that interested me. I'd get a doctorate in film studies. I'd have a bachelor's degree for every science I like. I'd try to learn at least 5 languages with varying results. I would learn something "useful" like coding and then follow it up with a ""useless"" degree like art history. I'd be the world record speed run holder for getting every degree possible.

But I can't afford college without going into massive debt, so instead I spent the last 5 years trying to figure out what I am passionate enough about to consider going into debt over, because unfortunately being passionate about everything is extremely expensive to pursue.

[erinwantstowrite]

hey guys here's a little reminder to take care of your wrist while you're writing or drawing otherwise you're going to develop carpal tunnel 😭

[randomhead52]

Don't have kids.

[ninadove]

You’ve heard of the Love Square, now get ready for

The Cousin Square

[everythingtaylor13]

I just had the most INSANE thought and was gonna post about it then mid typing I thought wow that’s awful so I’m posting this instead and will not be elaborating

[aleatoryw]

i've started looking at weight and health the way i look at class and income and it really puts a lot of things into a new perspective.

let me explain: in america at least, the lower class have significantly worse health outcomes, even when accounting for other factors. just being poor is enough to make your overall health worse. we don't know that being fat makes your health directly worse, like the data just isn't there, but for a moment, pretend it does.

imagine going to the doctor with a health problem and the doctor looking at your chart and saying well, this problem will be less severe if you go up an income bracket. have you thought about becoming rich? it would really help. start by saving a little money every month.

ridiculous, right?? very few people successfully go from working class to rich, it just doesn't happen on a large scale in society. maybe for a time you pick up some overtime hours, spend a little beyond your means, and appear rich. but eventually you burn out, your car needs to be repaired, and you return to being working class.

we do have this data: only some people can successfully lose large amounts of weight, and only a tiny fraction of people who lose that weight actually keep it off for more than a year. telling people to lose weight for their health is just absurd because they almost certainly can't do it any more than they can double their income for their health.

and yet i see it everywhere. a little poster in my work breakroom tells me to improve my blood pressure by losing weight! a psa on the radio says you need to take care of your heart by losing weight! we can't even conclusively prove that weight is the cause rather than just correlated with a lot of these problems but here it is offered anyway: have you tried being rich?