I Couldnt Understand Why They Wouldve Stocked It In The First Place, To I Googled To See If It Was A

I couldn’t understand why they would’ve stocked it in the first place, to I googled to see if it was a joke. I found baby-pink onesies and delicate embroidery patterns with this phrase. And then I was like ‘...oh, there are some people out there who have a not-kinky interpretation of that phrase! That’s why they stocked the sign!’ Thanks for the lesson on worldviews. 

michaels is truly a family store

I mean are you sure she's straight? Maybe she had a crush on your suitemate and doesn't know how to express it, or talk about being bi yet.

Petition for my roommate to stop jokingly calling herself a lesbian

5.5.5: Déposez plutôt votre argent dans telle forêt que chez tel notaire

I would just like to note that Jean Valjean’s only response to Javert’s suicide is to (1) note that he’s free, and (2) think that Javert must have already been crazy to let him go. There’s not an ounce of sadness or regret or even pity about it.  Not that I blame Valjean at all.  And it’s not even unusual for him. Valjean generally reserves his emotion for Cosette at the best of times, which this is not: he’s already benumbed by her impending marriage.

But the fact that he thinks Javert must have been crazy—as opposed to having changed for the better if just for one moment—is ominous, because it means he’s fully internalized Javert’s worldview. That’s what that action is to Javert, from within Javert’s ideology and viewpoint: madness.  Total disorder.  And not just a momentary madness, but a sign that sanity and order are henceforth impossible for him.  His existence will be wrong no matter what, like I discussed here.  Javert would not want Valjean’s pity even a little bit, and believed letting Valjean go was either sin or madness, and is either way unacceptable.   That’s part of why I have no objection to the usual musical staging, where Javert isn’t in “barricade heaven” at the end.  Javert does not want to be there. He wants no part of the “world of Jean Valjean,” as he sings in the musical.  He resigns from God to get away from that world when it looks like that world might exist on earth.  And he sure wouldn’t want to live in the kind world where Jean Valjeans are commonly treated with respect, which is what the barricade heaven is.  Javert is not someone who hates himself.  He hates the class his parents belonged to. Not only does he tries to dissociate himself from other members of that class as much as he can, but he also actively tries to keep them down and oppress them.  And he does this for decades, as an adult.  He’s not a child like Azelma or Éponine, under the control of their mother, and taking their cues from her regarding how to treat Cosette. He hates that class and does not want to be part of a world where it’s free.  Which is part of why Valjean doesn’t really think anything about his suicide after releasing Valjean other than “…well, he was clearly off his rocker anyway.”

…but those are Javert’s standards, not Valjean’s.  By Valjean’s own standards, Javert having a moment of understanding and respect for one of the misérables is a change for the better.  But Valjean does not apply those standards to himself.  He’s internalized Javert’s standards when it comes to himself, meaning he’s internalized self-hatred.  

People now are like, “Your right to free speech doesn’t mean you can express an offensive opinion” Like what the fuck does right to free speech mean, then?

Sometimes I’m like “ancient greek plays are so old, how am i going to relate to the characters?” but then 

"BECAUSE YOU HAVE ONCE AGAIN MISTAKEN INERTIA FOR REST" Holy fuck that's what that fugue state really is

WHY ARE YOU LONELY: A TEXT GAME

I HAVE A FEW THEORIES

by Mallory Ortberg

WHY ARE YOU LONELY: CHOOSE ONE

FAILED TO NURTURE RELATIONSHIPS BORN OUT OF CONVENIENCE ONCE CHANGING CIRCUMSTANCES REQUIRED ACTIVE PARTICIPATION FROM YOU

WATCHED NETFLIX FOR SEVEN HOURS INSTEAD OF SLEEPING BECAUSE YOU HAVE ONCE AGAIN MISTAKEN INERTIA FOR REST

CONFUSED “SELF-CARE” WITH “SELF-INDULGENCE” AGAIN; YOU ARE INCAPABLE OF EXPERIENCING GENUINE REFRESHMENT OR RESTORATION BUT YOU DO SPEND A LOT OF MONEY AT NAIL SALONS

ONCE AGAIN CONFUSED “EMPATHY” FOR “TAKING RESPONSIBILITY” AND INVITED OTHERS TO UNLOAD THEIR EMOTIONAL BURDENS ON YOU WITHOUT FIRST ENSURING RECIPROCITY, WHOOPS

ANTICIPATORILY BLAMED OTHER PEOPLE FOR NOT CALLING YOU WITHOUT ONCE ASKING YOURSELF WHY YOU CAN’T CALL THEM

ASSUMING ANY TIME SPENT TOGETHER THAT YOU HAD TO INITIATE IS SOMEHOW LESS AUTHENTIC THAN REQUESTS FOR TIME SPENT TOGETHER THAT YOU ACCEPT

BELIEVE “PERIODICALLY EXPERIENCING THE HUMAN CONDITION” MEANS SOMETHING IS FUNDAMENTALLY BROKEN WITHIN YOU

CONSTANTLY LIE ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS THEN WONDER WHY YOU FEEL LIKE NO ONE KNOWS YOU

MISTAKENLY BELIEVE THAT NEGATIVE FEELINGS MUST BE MISTAKES EITHER TO BE AVOIDED OR FIXED RATHER THAN EXPERIENCED

DESIRE TO BE FULLY UNDERSTOOD WITHOUT THE CONCOMITANT WILLINGNESS TO FULLY EXPLAIN YOURSELF

BELIEVE TRYING AT SOMETHING A LITTLE BIT SHOULD RESULT IN INSTANT PERFECTION AND FIND YOURSELF HORRIFIED AND ASHAMED OF MAKING REALISTIC PROGRESS

TRY COCONUT OIL

CONVINCED THAT HONESTLY ADMITTING YOUR PROBLEMS WILL DRIVE PEOPLE AWAY BECAUSE NO ONE LIKES COMPLAINING SO INSTEAD YOU OFFER EVERYONE A PISS-POOR SIMULACRUM OF BEING EASY-GOING

STILL JUST WAITING FOR THINGS TO HAPPEN TO YOU INSTEAD OF EXPRESSING YOUR DESIRES ALOUD

THINK YOU’RE BEING PLAYFUL BUT ACTUALLY YOU JUST GET MEAN WHEN YOU DRINK

SPEND ALL YOUR TIME SAYING THINGS LIKE “EITHER’S GOOD” OR “DOESN’T MATTER TO ME” WHEN IN FACT ONLY ONE THING IS GOOD AND IT DOES MATTER TO YOU BUT YOU THINK “NOT EXPRESSING A PREFERENCE” IS THE BEST PERSONALITY TRAIT YOU HAVE TO OFFER OTHERS

PEOPLE ACTUALLY MORE AWARE OF YOUR BARELY-CONCEALED CONTEMPT FOR THEIR CHOICES AND RELATIONSHIPS THAN YOU THINK THEY ARE

NO GOOD REASON, SORRY