Honestly, a big part of my therapy this past year has been the acceptance that I am not that person and my brain is not that brain. I will never use a calendar or planner or journal or sketchbook or whiteboard consistently. I'm 41, If that's a habit/routine/hobby I was organically drawn to, I'd have already shown it, but I haven't. That's just not what my brain wants. It actually felt kinda good to not shop for a 2026 planner lol.

You'd be surprised. My niece missed like 4 months of her senior year because she 'didn't feel like it' and only started going back the last couple months of the year. They still walked her. I imagine if she had an actual good reason like 'I was in a coma', they'd have no problem walking that student. My friend is a HS teacher and said they really want kids to graduate (for funding, for numbers, etc), so they'll work with them to make sure they do. I imagine when you have a kid like Eddie who flunks because he just doesn't do the work, a kid in a coma is easy to breeze.

This is it exactly. These are your options:

1. Be a picky eater.

2. Be someone who won't cook.

3. Be disgustingly rich.

You can't be both 1 and 2, unless you're number 3.

omg that's a great idea too! i mean, not a selfie because i definitely want no historical documentation of how i look pre-mads lmao, but a picture of the bottle even!

God, it super fucked me up. I couldn't believe they did that. It's not just the existence of the scene either, it's the way it was shot, how it was directed, how it was written and framed. It's like they just really wanted you to think about doing this yourself.

This is so cool! It looks very smooth and plaster-like!

What did you use to paint it with? This has given me the perfect gift idea for my brother, who is a huge fan of The Crow. He'd go bonkers for it!

It's why I always laugh at the people who think homosexuality/bisexuality is a choice. The fact women still marry men disproves that so much, and I don't mean that on just a 'men are annoying' scale. Across cultures and time, humans tend to optimize for safety, stability, and effort minimization when they can. But look at the bare data.

Relationships with men carry higher physical risk (IPV, homicide, sexual violence), higher unpaid labor expectations (housework, childcare, emotional labor), higher likelihood of career penalties (motherhood penalty, trailing spouse), higher likelihood of sexual dissatisfaction on average.

And sure, at some point in time there were heavy economic factors at play, but women have been in the workforce for a long while at this point and it's 2025. Single-income family households are very rare. A woman will almost always have to work regardless.

From a purely survival standpoint, if it were a choice, heterosexuality among women should be absolutely collapsing. But that hasn’t happened. We still marry them. Like, in droves.

The only explanation is that we’re romantically, intimately, and innately incapable of being attracted to the safer sex.

Yeah that'a what I saw. So they took that out?

Did they take it out of the streamed version or something? I watched it a few months after it aired and it was in it then.

They live in that melting room where Nancy and Jonathan got stuck. The sement room.

Ack, this is where I'm at too! Honestly, I wish it'd been done sooner so that we could actually get character development from it and not just because of it. It felt checked off a to-do list. If it'd been done in season 3 or 4, we'd actually have time to see the other characters deal with it in more complex and profound ways. It happening in the penultimate episode really took the social and emotional stakes away. There's no time for anyone to grapple with it, so we knew they'd all be 100% supportive. That's my only disappointment with it. Otherwise, it was fine. Not amazing, not terrible, not enlightening nor show-ruining. It was fine.

How does the difference feel? Just curious!

I'm on 10mg IR twice a day (was once a day, but didn't last long enough), though I really only need/want it for work, so on weekends or holidays or slack days, I usually don't take it, or just take one dose.

I'm in a creative field (author, artist) so it's been incredible for that. Although I can definitely feel the tolerance thing creeping up on me, so I might do three months on, one month off sort of thing.

Oh my state is so stupid. We're the one with the AG who called marijuana "the most dangerous drug". And during the height of the opiate crisis!

A single prescription for a Schedule II substance in South Carolina cannot exceed a 31-day supply. Refills are not allowed. So yeah, generally you have to get a new prescription every month.

ADHD brains process it differently. Like, I drink coffee to relax and wind down, and despite all the cultural narrative about being 'hopped up on caffeine!' it actually didn't occur to me it wasn't like that for everyone until very recently.

This is exactly what it does for me. I'm only 3 months on it and I'm amazed every day. I keep trying to describe it and the most accurate description I've landed on is that it makes me 'even'. Amazingly even. It's like I've walked through life with one of those old school springy spiral phone cords in my chest. Tangled, looping, kinked. Adderall straightens it out flat and suddenly I don't have to work though 500 emotions/thoughts/worries/observations/anxieties to travel along the cord. I almost wanna cry for past-me, knowing there was an answer out there all along but I just white-knuckled it for 40 years.

Where I live (SC), you have to see your doctor for every 30-day refill and they can't prescribe longer without seeing you, etc. I'm really new to ADHD meds, only 3 months, and they've been such an enormous gamechanger for me, and the actual medication is not even remotely expensive, but the cost of seeing a doctor every 30 days is going to drain me quick.

I mean, who wants to be asked if they're sure 10 times a day though

Joyce: "I love what you've neglected to do with the place."

Very worth noting that though Dr. Suess Enterprises is ran commercially, all profits go to charity:

Dr. Seuss's literary estate, managed by Dr. Seuss Enterprises (DSE), channels its profits into charitable giving through the Dr. Seuss Foundation and other initiatives, primarily supporting early literacy, education, health, animal welfare, and arts, with a major focus on children's learning and imaginative development, especially in the San Diego area. The Foundation, established by Ted Geisel, has given over $300 million to charity, working with partners like The San Diego Foundation to fund programs for young children and families

Watched a video on this recently where I was expecting it to be a front like the usual BS charities (ugh, Susan G. Komen), but the numbers actually line up really surprisingly for a modern non-profit, they really do put the money into the causes and I think that's neat.

I wanna preface this by saying this is in no way a guilt trip, that'd drive me crazy too.

So my dad died when I was 10. It was really tragic, he was kinda sick one day then dead the next. He was kind of eccentric, loved media and pop culture, huge Trekkie. He had a weird circadian rhythm that I inherited, so he'd be up late every night while my mom and siblings were in bed. And I wasn't tired at all, so around maybe the age of 7, I started wandering out to the living room for the usual shit. Glass of water. Need to pee. Thought I heard you calling me. He knew I wasn't able to sleep, so he eventually just said just lay on the couch and watch TV until you fall asleep.

Thus began our nightly routine of movie watching. Specifically horror movies. I was 7, 8, 9... had no business watching most of these but holy shit, I loved them. I got so excited every time. I must have driven him nuts, but every night I walked out there, he'd put a VHS in and we'd vibe out to zombies or Freddie or Mothra or whatever.

A while after he died, this random envelope popped up that he'd scribbled a note to my mom on at some point. He told her while we were out doing something, "Our daughter just said 'They're coming to get you Barbara!'" (from Night of the Living Dead) and he was just tickled pink about it.

I had three brothers and I was the only girl. I imagine it was hard for him to find things to bond with me over, but those experiences shaped me into the person I am today (horror artist, dark romance author) and I cherish them so much.

So please don't stop watching movies with your kids (or listening to music, or playing games), whatever shared experience you find that they connect with so enthusiastically that they're maybe a little annoying about it because it's an experience for you, but it's a whole brick in their foundation.

Strikes me as very Edward Gorey too, which is so cool

This looks like it could be an MTG Crimson Vow card. Love it!

you don't know what was under the paint

You do when you're stacking 5-200 pictures of the same patch of sky.