Impromptu Ritual (Drugs)
We found a bong that couldn't have been more @neonNeptunian. Tonight, we celebrated his return with it. The first hit was his, imprinting himself on the glass. We shared it around, each of us sharing in his essence and adding ourselves to the bowl. He then cashed out the bowl, drawing us into him. A welcome return to help split the hedge and dive beneath the waves.
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When everyone in your TL is boosting everyone else in your TL:
Bad joke about PNW families and Drugs 🍃
👧: Mom I'm gonna dump out this bowl and toke a fresh one.
🙍: But there's still a good hit in there!
👧: Mom it's mostly ash it's oka-
🙍: You will finish that bowl before you refill it young lady!!
👧: Mommmmm...
🙍: When I was your age, we had t-
👧: Please not this again..
🙍: WE HAD TO SMOKE RESIN, REBECCA. RESIN! Now you'll smoke your dregs and like it!!
👧: Yes mom..
Foodcrime
I had leftover custard and bread heels from the pain perdu this morning. The line between French toast and bread pudding is very small. So I straddled it. Behold, pan-fried bread pudding with lemon blackberry cream cheese.
Community, Religion
This awareness makes me hesitant in some situations where I'd be outspoken -- "lord help me I'm back on my bullshit again" -- because I don't want to risk throwing my weight around or punching down.That's good, but that holding-back is itself a form of emotional labor. It's work I'm happy to do, but it's still taxing sometimes, and I don't always live up to my standards despite my best efforts.
To those who I've hurt by my failures in this, I'm truly sorry.
Community, Religion
As someone with multiple advantages -- mental, financial, structural -- I do my best to remain aware of the ways in which those advantages weird the power dynamics around me, but I often fail, and I'm still as fallible as the next person. Often moreso, because those advantages make realizing that I've screwed up that much harder. I'm often insulated from my mistakes in ways others aren't. I'm not "better" than anybody else, but I often pay less for my failures.
Community, Religion
This is, incidentally, a big part of why I'm constantly just a little on edge. I read an MLP fanfic once, beautiful work, in which Celestia is trying to have a relationship with Twilight, and Cheerilee confronts Princess Dayflank with the fact that she always acts so removed and distant and it's really annoying. Celestia's response is, "I can never take the tiara off." I've really come to understand that phrase.
Community, Religion
This should be required reading: https://emmibe.wordpress.com/2016/11/25/the-conversations-we-cant-have/ (h/t @mattcropp@social.coop for the link)
Account inactive -- moved to weirder.earth