babe are you ok you've barely touched your endlessly increasing pile of work that you are expected to do even though we are in the middle of a pandemic
asian people deal with some level of this kind of garbage every day. it’s incredibly infuriating and upsetting how this brings back so many tangible memories of how i’ve been treated, how my parents and grandparents have been treated, how my friends and family have been treated.
bao being trashed and misunderstood by white audiences and then winning the oscar feels like a perfect metaphor for how people called so much asian food smelly and disgusting during my entire childhood only for it become celebrated now
instead of using the same password everywhere, i use multiple different variations of the same password where i change one letter or add one number and so on. this is super secure and protects all my accounts from ever being able to get logged into by me
you ever wish that fireworks were incredibly quiet and also didnt disappear so quickly and also you could keep them in your home and also you could hold them in your hands?? because if so, i’d love to introduce you to,, Flowers
guy i was sitting next to at the childish gambino concert took out his phone in the middle of the set and i swear to god he googled “donald glover”, zoomed in on his wikipedia photo, then googled “is childish gambino donald glover”
no no i am not "procrastinating" i am simply "trying to work up the courage to work on this thing that i am terrified of screwing up because i hate myself" what dont u understand
canceling plans is ok. quitting ur soulless office job is ok. leaving the city is ok. moving to the farm ur grandfather left u is ok. caring for ur crops and animals is ok. not talking to anyone in town for years is ok. giving gifts to a wizard is ok. do what u need to do to cope
hi everyone just wanted to let u know, its okay. whatever it is right now that you cant live up to, its okay. if you need to hear it right now at this very moment, here: it's okay. you're doing your best. it's okay. one day at a time.
i focused so hard on trying to avoid inheriting my parents’ negative traits that i let all these random neutral traits of theirs slip through, i realize as i rinse out a ziploc bag and prop it up inside-out to dry so i can reuse it at a later date
“stop letting someone live in your head rent free”
other people: okay, you’re right. i will stop letting them live in my head.
me: I MUST FIND A WAY TO MAKE THEM PAY THE RENT
start ur year off right. on dec 31 at 9:15pm get under ur covers and fall asleep. midnight will pass as u are deep in a peaceful slumber, and ur first encounter with the new year will be waking up, well-rested, to a morning basked in sunlight and a day thats yours for the taking
as a kid you ever wonder why your parents were so angry all the time and then when you got older you realize, oh wait they were just tired. they were just so tired.
attention!!! the period between christmas and new years is not a good time to try and get some work done in fact it is not a good time to do any thing at all except rub your eyes continuously until every thing is sparkly
writing:
- difficult
- frustrating
- exhausting
- lonely
- no immediate feedback
posting online that you are writing:
- instantly gratifying
- feels social
- technically is still a form of writing so ur just honing your craft
some good responses to the “your english is so good!” microaggression:
- wow! yours is too
- thanks i learned it yesterday!!
- you speak english too???!? finally!! someone to talk to!!!
- what’s “English”
being vaccinated does NOT mean you can travel to sweden with your boyfriend and his friends to attend one of his friends' rural hometown's fabled midsummer festival
JOB INTERVIEWER: can you explain this gap in your resume
ME: yes its 7pts tall, separates two sections in a visually pleasing way, and aligns to a carefully proportioned grid
INTERVIEWER: no, i mean here where it says you didn't work for two years
ME: i.. was designing my resume
after years and years of research and development, drawing what i learned in middle school over and over again, i am proud to announce an important discovery.. The Cool S But Round
write it. the sooner u write it the sooner it will exist apart from u. the sooner u can spend days thinking its no good then come back to it realizing its better than u thought. the sooner u can convince urself some past version of u wrote it and now u can get to work updating it
wordle: name a 5-letter word
my brain: …TUNA
wordle: literally any 5-letter word
my brain: …QUENCH
wordle: LITERALLY JUST TYPE IN THE FIRST 5-LETTER WORD THAT COMES INTO YOUR HEAD
my brain: …LOPPO?
wordle: A WORD. A REAL WORD THAT IS 5 LETTERS LONG
my brain: … BBBBB
you: hey that looks like updog
me: (wrongly assuming that people will like me more if i agree with them than if i ask them questions when im confused about something) wow it really does
true introvert culture when your twitter account is 99% retweets of other peoples tweets and only 1% your own tweets and all your own tweets are either like “aaaAAAAAAAA ADJSKFHAKDHS” or “im sad”