#even causation

[hidey-writes]

six sentence sunday

Under Gu Yiran’s hands, the chicken van bumps along the uneven road like a living thing, and he tightens his grip against it. Beside him in the passenger seat, Zheng Bei stares out the side window in silence. Gu Yiran had made Zhao Xiaoguang show him the map, during one of the endless waiting afternoons in the hospital when Zheng Bei wasn’t there. He’d reached out to trace the circled spots, all three, the sleeve of his hospital shirt catching against the edge of the paper as Zhao Xiaoguang said, Ge wanted us to check all of them, even though he was pretty sure you could only be here, pointing. A cluster of rectangles marking the abandoned crematory buildings north of Halan. Zhao Xiaoguang had left a fingerprint smear of grease along the entry road, right where it ran along the train tracks.

another snippet from the start of ch5! it feels so weird to be back to down drafting now that ch1-4 have shifted the story so far from the original final chapter outline that literally none of the draft material is appropriate anymore lol but it's really enjoyable to just sit and type the most medium sentences in the world without having to do any higher-level thinking about pacing or subtext or anything :) brain off drafting my beloved :)

[ghostzzy]

need to read more into the effects of lamictal on memory. it’s fascinating. bc my short term memory and language processing has gone to shit, which is a known side effect, but also past memories of things i haven’t thought about in years are hitting me at random all the time in vivid detail. and my dreams are way clearer and way less distinguishable from reality now than they used to be.

[omtai]

i need to get my head in the moleskine game

[istherewifiinhell]

video: theres a void at the center of society and its capitalism eroding the very human spirit by turning your life into a mechanism of a thing that does work so u can survive, infringing on ur autonomy and ur sense of identity

comment: i think the loss of 3rd spaces is to blame

[hellkitepriest]

1 we both have one (1) deceased parent 2 u studied linguistics 3 ur a virgo

DING DING DING i have nothing more to say on these facts other than i never actually graduated due to a) getting too into bands and not wanting to focus on my degree b) probably more likely some deeper issues than that actually but that's the easy story

[dogclownmuppetthing]

Not to vent on tumblr for the first time in a while but

Hey what do you do when you're in an episode of having self loathing delusions of everything that's gone wrong and will go wrong in your life being your fault specifically but your tried and true coping technique for beating yourself up for daring to think you're unique and special enough to be the main character of real life isn't working do I just have to like sit with my brain and take it or

[owlheartt]

My fucking tummy hurts

[ongreenergrasses]

wait this is even crazier that post I just reblogged is almost certainly what gave me the courage to post the behemoth oh my GOD

[quiescentdestiny]

I saw a post a while back that essentially was like complaining about aftg/andrew playlists having Conan Grey or Tswift and the entire arguement was "andrew wouldn't listen to that" and I just----

I just.... I need to know, are people making playlists based on what music the character would LISTEN to???? because that's.... definitely not what I do when I make character playlists.

[academicgangster]

'adhd folks who medicate are just medically enabled addicts who legitimized their drug-seeking because they consider themselves more deserving than other addicts' is certainly a take.

[dogsliampaynedoesntinstagram]

This is just for information,but I always think of you when I read or hear or read about Taskmaster. On today’s, “ The rest is Entertainment,” podcast, the discussion is about the top 3 tasks ever given onTaskmaster. They asked Alex for his opinion ( although he’s not on the show).I thought this might interest you, but just ignore if it doesn’t. The relevant bit starts around 14.30 mins.

I love it when people think of me when Taskmaster comes up! I had a listen and really enjoyed it. Loved that local girl Rose Matafeo got a shout out (even if Richard got her name wrong) - and loved the other tasks they talked about.

Also really appreciated hearing that Taskmaster had the most left-leaning audience of any TV show. I will have to listen to the episode where they talk about that.

[bloodyethanol]

it's 22c and im literally shaky cold what the fuckkkk

[alientitty]

ive been PMSing for way longer than usual with symptoms i don't get often so this is a great time to get a covid shot tomorrow. definitely won't give me one every 10 days for a couple months again like last time

[autopsytableromance]

Love telling a new doctor about my migraine frequency and severity the first time we meet bc they have one of two reactions (they either stop caring when I say that there is occasionally months in between very bad episodes of condensed migraine activity or they hear me say when it gets really bad it’s like 3 times a week or more stop typing and ask if I’ve ever seen a neurologist in a very specific tone) and I base whether I’m willing to go back on which one they give

[lesbiansandco]

sometimes it's correlation not causation. and sometimes it's causation that looks like correlation.

that's it that's the post

[thatone-churro]

y’know just as soon as i start getting comfortable with the idea of being open/relying on my dad and him being more comfortable with my choices than i feared, i can essentially throw all that out the window with how vehemently he yelled at me at the thought of my getting my septum pierced (even though i never said i was yet. i said my side before i decide anything else). also making underhanded remarks of me never getting tattoos other than the one for my mom. like okay don’t ask me why i don’t tell you about anything or talk to you or anything. what the fuck.