I’m not even finished reading this and I’m already crying stupid tears because it’s all so true and it’s all so fuckin awful.
“You don’t fix burnout by going on vacation. You don’t fix it through “life hacks,” like inbox zero, or by using a meditation app for five minutes in the morning, or doing Sunday meal prep for the entire family, or starting a bullet journal. You don’t fix it by reading a book on how to “unfu*k yourself.” You don’t fix it with vacation, or an adult coloring book, or “anxiety baking,” or the Pomodoro Technique, or overnight fucking oats.
The problem with holistic, all-consuming burnout is that there’s no solution to it. You can’t optimize it to make it end faster. You can’t see it coming like a cold and start taking the burnout-prevention version of Airborne. The best way to treat it is to first acknowledge it for what it is — not a passing ailment, but a chronic disease — and to understand its roots and its parameters.”
my favorite thing is when you pick up an animal and you look them in the eyes and you can tell nothings going on behind them. you look at them and theres just elevator music. stupid animals really are like the fucking best, the lights are on but no one is home
that also happens when u pick me up and look into my eyes
Yup, that’s true. You want to read Into the Drowning Deep.
Content warnings: death, disaster, mermaids, murdermaids, lots of drowning, lots of oceanic horror, a few assholes, a bunch of people get eaten. On the whole, a good, if somewhat damp, time.
after I read this the kindle recommendation algorithms sent me nothing but books about both lesbians and sea monsters for a month and honestly I did not expect that literary niche to be as big as it is but I am not complaining.
BEHOLD THE POWER OF TARGETED ADVERTISING.
READ MY BOOK TO UNLOCK THE SEA OF LESBIAN MONSTERS.
a shocking number of old-school american outlaws were intensely community-minded, and their reputations at the time were often very positive among the people. a big part of the reason their legacies are so negative is because the government was able to control the narrative after they died, focusing on the fact that the things they did were illegal, rather than on what they actually did.
