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Anyone else ever have a day where you feel... Idk... Extra autistic? Like wooooaaah I'm more Neurodivergent than usual today

chronic fatigue from mental illness and neurodivergency isn't something you can just will your way out of. your nervous system is part of your body. your brain is an organ. the fatigue is real. you're not lazy. so be kinder to yourself. be gentler with your bodymind.

we don't talk enough about Control saving an ant from getting smacked at the back of a woman's neck and placing it back into nature at the edge of a parking lot

annihilation is soooo good because the biologist is aware that she is an unreliable narrator and also hates it. she WANTS to be completely impartial and objective and just observe everything without influencing any of it. but she cant so instead she omits her name from the entire book to the point where it's almost absurd and completely intentional and splits her journal into "objective" chapters detailing her expedition and "subjective" chapters detailing her memories about her husband. ill never be over you biologist

Websites to learn languages by reading

Hyplern

Language Crush

Readlang

Vocab Tracker

nothing is as tender as annotating your favourite books. it’s like leaving a piece of your heart on the pages for somebody else to find.

screaming crying throwing up at the reminder that in extreme hypothermia your body dilates blood vessels in a last attempt to heat up freezing muscles and organs and in turn makes you feel a deceiving warmth when in reality you are freezing to death and thats why jackie imagined a fire and hot chocolate and shauna's kind smile and a blanket bc her mind said you are dying and you miss your best friend but even now she still makes you warm. warm warm warm

the fact that the first act of cannibalism in the wilderness isn't an act of survival but an act of intense grief. and the way shauna does it in secret. the way all her means of getting close to jackie have been unacceptable and shameful

Been watching Yellowjackets recently and I may have some favourites…

the house. it watches every move you make

julia armfield, our wives under the sea / shirley jackson, the haunting of hill house / rainer maria rilke, rilke's book of hours / @kayleerowena, gravehouse / danez smith, quoted by saeed jones in how we fight for our lives

Tbh I could watch a whole Netflix series just of Guillermo del Toro introducing shit. Man speaks like an angel and is shaped like a friend. Tell me about your funky little cabinet king.

every time guillermo del toro puts his tiny key in his cabinet of curiosities while dressed in his fancy suit to present me with another nightmare beyond my comprehension I say fucking superb you funky little monsterfucker and then whisper what the fuck to myself for 30 minutes