Fake Charity Nerd Girl

I think and hope the future will be awesome but I still get sad when I think about all the people who have died who are never coming back, all the moments that were special to someone and were never recorded, all the ancient manuscripts that are lost forever, all the memories that grow fainter by the year, all the disappearing Signal messages.

If I weren’t an EA I think I’d start a monastic order dedicated to archiving and cryonics

you: indigenous peoples had great respect for the environment and lived in harmony with nature

me:

concept: a primary-style political debate among everyone you’ve ever gone on a date with

if I were the sort of person who wrote such things I would definitely write Heloise and Abelard fanfic based on Cruel Summer

I know there’s this stereotype that doctors are good and lawyers are bad, but I feel the exact opposite?

(not that I actually think doctors are bad, medicine is good and many doctors are lovely people, I just have an instinctive aversion to them)

my experience with lawyers is generally that they are trying to help me figure out the best way to do what I want while also following the law. this is pretty helpful

my experience with doctors is generally that they know less about a topic than I do after I’ve researched it for an hour, and they are collaborating with the government to prevent me from getting whatever treatment I need

my brain decided a couple days ago to obsess over Lily van der Woodsen and a couple days before that to obsess over Caroline Lamb

I guess it can’t decide whether it likes the idea of reacting to any crisis with preternatural calmness and composure, or responding to Lord Byron ending your public affair by making him the villain in your Gothic novel

but somehow they both seem like manifestations of the true aesthetic?

becoming increasingly annoyed that people associate me with Trad. I like hoop skirts. but also I want to do math and argue with people and talk like an Aaron Sorkin character. just feeling increasingly divorced from trad aesthetics

still figuring out what my Thing is going to be if it’s not trad but I think that’s okay

in French, “California” means “the world is going to end and we will go hot tubbing in our underwear and braid LED lights into our hair” and I think that’s beautiful

my gender is mansplaining facts about the history of feminine-coded labor to female historians at parties while drunk

the idea that Teen Vogue is more “serious” now that it has more articles about politics is a product of the devaluation of women’s aesthetic labor tbh