Self & Transformation

But the most crucial part of committing is *not needing other people to validate your schtick*. When you release others of the expectation that you need them to approve of you, when you say a little "fuck you, I'm having a good time" NOTHING you do will be cringe

there is a depth of love that is available to a woman when she can truly claim “I don't need anything about this moment to be different. I can hold your pain, and I can hold my own. this is important”

mulling over some patterns I find beautiful in this scene: • (pre-req idea) the existence of a health spectrum • the abundance of accounts along every point of the spectrum

really appreciate this frame tbh the midwit meme is super powerful for shedding light on overthink-y failure modes, but it's easy to caste the guy in the middle as being inferior, to make him an object of ridicule

two things: 1. femininity is shamed while femininity is connoted with weakness 2. the solution is the embodiment of Woman being in her very feminine (!) power and proving otherwise because learning (and unlearning) are... See more

A weird thing happened to me when I started playing with the idea that I had somehow chosen my life before I was born, that is, I chose my parents and my name and my body and all the traumatizing experiences I’ve had, etc. It was like a figure-ground reversal where suddenly the valence of life became irrelevant. Whether... See more

**fanfare intensifies** it’s here! the Official, Authoritative & Totally Correct: TPOT State of The Network, June 2024 with reigning tpot monarchs @frideswyth @gptbrooke @cauliflwr_human & @RichDecibels https://t.co/EFHZejEhBU