SFF Supremacy

I know this is a joke but like, yeah. It is. I promise you.

See, I had graduated early from highschool and then got my associates in Zoology. But then, from ages 18-23, I was medicated with antipsychotics and (for those last two years) a deadly combo of sedatives due to misdiagnosis after misdiagnosis, and then a psychiatrist who was legitimately on drugs and just writing random shit that almost killed me.

Anyway, needless to say, my brain turned to mush and stopped working, and it took me 6 years to get some sort of bachelors degree (in fashion??) and I graduated at the bottom of my class.

And then I got properly diagnosed (the “psychosis” was just narcolepsy) and got off all those meds. And I was so afraid my brain was permanently fucked. And it is, cause of the narcolepsy part, but the narcolepsy doesn’t kill the parts of your brain where your smarts are.

But I went back to school. Got another bachelors studying sustainable tourism. Turns out my smarts hadn’t gone anywhere when my brain turned to mush. I graduated with a 3.98 GPA.

Now I’m getting my masters in biology studying the intersection of tourism and the conservation of the critically endangered Cozumel raccoon. And doing well. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Your brain is not a muscle in the literal sense, but it is a muscle in the sense that the more you use it, the better developed it becomes. Not using it might make its usefulness dip for a bit, but that doesn't mean it's gone forever. You might have to work your way back up, start with easier exercises (puzzles, creative exercises, critical thinking questions) before jumping back into the stuff you used to do, but like a couch to 5k slowly ramp up the difficulty and you'll get there in the end. No one's brains are useless, you just gotta meet 'em where they're at.

It's building and reinforcing synapses instead of muscle cells, but yes, exactly.

Also gotta make sure you get enough vitamin B12, to keep the myelin sheaths that protect your neurons & synapses in good shape.

really factual recounting with no embellishments whatsoever

i am simultaneously self-improving and being self destructive dont ask me how i just am

oh ok

“Why would you stop in hell?” has changed my brain chemistry

thank you mr. kumar.

(funnily enough, in my language kumār means mister. so he's mister mister)

— Nikolai Gogol, b. 31 March 1809

-despite everything, there is still love

@arthoesunshine/ @artsheila/ @daisies-on-a-cup/ @gayarsonist / @hjarta/ @yunawinter on twitter/ @bakwaaas/ @death-born-aphrodite/ anon on gentleearth/ @classicnymph on twitter

the way british people pretend to be sooo polite without being basically good is crazy but it mirrors exactly how democrats are. brits say "Oh I couldn't forget to say please & thank you, I'm british!" and then say "asians can't drive" as if its a fact. democrat politicians go on TV and say " we would NEVER be rude or curse, we are democrats and we uphold decorum!" while saying why palestinians totally deserve to be bombed on msnbc.

Canadians also do this. Why is is that white people put on this act of civilized regal 15th century "manners" whenever they're trying to downplay imperialism.

"Write for yourself"

Brother, I literally have more than 2 million words sitting in my drafts folder instead of posted on AO3.

I write for myself. I post for community interaction.

World of Tomorrow (2015) dir. Don Hertzfeldt

The moments from UTRH that you think often but speak about rarely? This one.

Bruce explaining that Jason's casket was made from the same wood his parents' were, in the same way. Except, the man that did it was too old and sick, and he offered his own son to build Jason's casket, following his instructions. Him, explaining how that man later said that his son did a better job than he did, saying these words on the panel, all while thinking about Red Hood — Jason.

And then... well, we all know what happened then.

he'll be a woman by the time i'm done with her

scurvy has got to have one of the biggest disease/treatment coolness gaps of all time. like yeah too much time at sea will afflict you with a curse where your body starts unraveling and old wounds come back to haunt you like vengeful ghosts. unless☝️you eat a lemon

Anyways everyone should watch The Good Place

fundamentally one of the main things the batgirl mantle is about defying your father and taking a path he never expected or wanted for you. barbara gordon had a policeman for a father, and she openly lied to him to fight crime in a way he did not approve of, especially for his precious daughter. cassandra cain's father trained her to be a ruthless weapon, and with the batgirl mantle she showed kindness and mercy to people her father would have told her to kill. stephanie brown's father was cluemaster, a villain and with the batgirl mantle stephanie defied everything her father stood for.

in this essay i will explain why tim drake is a batgirl-

how dare they use hayao miyazaki's aesthetics to glorify US imperialism, those are supposed to be for japanese imperialism