This Is So Me That It Hurts

This is so me that it hurts

“I am still obsessed with creating a false world, and will be until I die.”

—Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

I just mentioned I was an aplatonic aroace on Pinterest and some idiots responded with 'APLATONIC???' '???' and 'People nowadays just keep making stuff up to make themselves feel special.'

Guess who's never commenting on Pinterest again 😊

Hindus are being gangraped, lynched, and having their property destroyed in Bangladesh rn. Amidst all the news coming out of there don't forget about the minority that always ends up dealing with the brunt of chaos. in 1971 most of the victims of the genocide were Bangladeshi Hindus and everyone conveniently leaves this detail out.

(And i know some mf will either no true scotsman this or say that it's all lies and that all the videos coming out are fake or propaganda from the BJP or something instead of another event in a long chain of violence. The Hindu population has crashed from 30% at independence to 9% today. Estimates say that in the next 30 years, Hindus will be extinct in Bangladesh)

I love labyrinthine houses with hidden rooms and weird floors and nooks and crannies that I can lurk in and not worry about other people finding me

He has a noble nature and a kind heart. He does not like showing his feelings and would rather do a cruel thing than open his heart freely. Sometimes, though, he is not at all morbid, but simply cold and inhumanly callous; it's though he were alternating between two characters.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment