I CAN CHANGE YOU

l a u r a.

WHY ISN’T GRITTYCAM A THING YET TAKE ME TO THE CHAOS CORNER

more than playoff hockey i love playoff wife.

AHAHAHAHAAAA FUCK YEAH TURN UPPPP VIRGINIA!!!! 💙💙💙

wtf i love him.

i would never joke about yaoi

like, not everything is for everyone and i am so down with that, but also this pride and prejudice/frankenstein au has exactly 177 more pages to become as gay as it deserves to be and rock my fucking world. no presh.

Abe Simpson talking to the kiddos

It was called LiveJournal and you told the whole world what you wouldn’t even share with your therapist

[this message brought to you by my enduring confusion about this book i’m reading that is so clearly set in appalachia but the author refuses to actually SAY WHERE IT IS??? and i’m like, okay yeah this is a vibe but also…COWARD????]

reading books and categorically logging everything you would do differently is why reading exists…right? this is why we read? right??

i’ve been having screamo zumba instructor fantasies for YEARS. what if…we just live our dreams??

shameless plug while i’m at it! queer-affirming therapy in il/va/vt! (& nc/fl) surgery letters, neurodiverse diagnostic testing, and trauma recovery. hit us up! 🖤

…and finally…don’t settle. even if a therapist is good, they may not feel right to you. it’s good to shop around! have a few different intake appointments! audition us! a good therapist wants what’s right for you, even if that isn’t them. our feelings won’t be hurt (and if they are, bullet dodged).

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i’ve been hearing a lot of frustration with psychologytoday.com, which is unsurprising since a lot of therapists don’t update their availability as often as they should. you might need to reach out to 10 therapists to start seeing responses. this sucks, but keep at it! c/p your template and go nuts.

it’s that time of year again when everyone and their cousin is looking for a therapist!

if that’s you or someone you know and you’re completely overwhelmed/have no idea what to say, here’s an outreach template that includes everything i (a therapist) would need to know about a prospective client.

SPINSTER!!!! SPINSTER DAUGHTER OF LANDED GENTRY LET’S GOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

three pages into my new writing project and i have already
- described a sunset three times
- referred to the youth of today as goblins
- used the word “dickcheese”

LET’S TURN IT INTO A DISCO CONFLAGRATION

Heated Rivalry

he’s my best friend

and he’s like yeah i thought so i was driving the plow on monday and damn you were out there ALL FUCKIN DAY MAKING THOSE FUCKIN THINGS! THAT WAS GREAT.

and then he grabbed a mic and sang the humpty hump.

anyway. complete pandemonium ensued. i have never felt so validated. i love it here.

20 minutes later, the biggest guy in the place comes up and taps me on the shoulder and i’m like 😬?? and he’s like hey y’all in that house down there on the right? and i’m like …yeah 😬????

anywho, thurs nights is karaoke night at the local (only) tavern, and all the mountain millennials have a table we camp out at. first thing my bro says when i come in is LOL NICE SNOWMAN ARMY, so i laugh and say yeah, i hope i at least entertained the plow guy

bc the road is so nuts, in crazy weather we have a plow that does a circuit all day that ends at the vdot station half a mile up the road, so the whole time i was building the snow goblin army i’m watching the plow driver watch me

HAHAHA okay appalachia storytime:

so we live in the ass end of nowhere, right, but on a main artery road into the deeper ass end of nowhere. our house is kind of notorious for being perched right at the top of the super swirly road up the mountain.

neighbors’ german shepherd keeps showing up at our house and i am the exact opposite of a dog person, but. she’s basically just a big cat who likes fetch, and she’s creepily smart, and i just want to NO NOPE NOOOOOO THE CATS WOULD EAT ME NO NO NO NO NO