Florence Welch will literally write albums upon albums of music about how she’s always felt ostracised from femininity, that it feels for her like a performance she can’t escape, and even give a whole interview about her upcoming album being inspired by how a pregnancy almost killed her and how coming to terms with this made her feel alienated from her body and gender….. And STILL the majority of her mainstream fans will still talk about her work like “omg yes divine feminine womanhood queen of fairy girls uwu”. I really hate how so many ppl just don’t actually listen to music or care about what it’s about. The “fairy-ification” of artists like Florence Welch, Hoizer, Fiona Apple, Mitski, Tamino, Kate Bush, etc, all of whom create music that’s rooted in specific social and cultural themes, but the complexity and artistic intention is often totally flattened into !!uwu fairy girlhood in the woods vibes!!! Truly hate this brain switched off vibes based era of music engagement.
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gotta run to google to make sure this phrase i’ve used correctly a million times before hasn’t changed meaning so i don’t use it incorrectly
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the wisdom ive learnt is that becoming part of a friend group 1) takes a long time and 2) involves a lot of feeling awkward and left out at first. there’s nothing terrible about this but if you grew up chronically lonely or have any kind of trauma relating to social isolation this likely feels Really Wrong and activates danger signals. but both fortunately and unfortunately it’s just how becoming close to new people works most of the time
another thing that was not intuitive to me as someone who grew up an autistic loner: basically everyone on the planet is starved for connection all the time and almost everything people do is an attempt to reach out to another. most seemingly illogical interactions and behaviours can be explained by this. you have to take as many of these invitations as you can. even if you’re wrong you still attempted to bring more warmth into the world
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Not only should it be law that anything AI generated on the internet should be labelled as such but every website, app, and digital service should have a button I can click that removes any AI from my interactions with that site/service. I don’t want your AI assistant I don’t want your AI-generated ad copy I don’t want this insidious little thing that has crept into so much of the internet that I can be using it without even realising or knowing. If you couldn’t be bothered to have a human make it I can’t be bothered to look at it sorry bye
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The psychiatrist who wrote the criteria for narcissism just made an extremely important point about what’s wrong with diagnosing Trump with mental disorders
Dr. Allen Frances says in speculating about Trump’s mental health, we are doing a disservice to those who do suffer from mental illness. In a series of tweets, he explained why he doesn’t think Trump is a narcissist — and how harmful it can be for us to keep assuming that he is.
Wow, a post where a qualified professional explains why it’s bad to misuse clinical terminology and equate mental illness with authoritarianism. I’m sure the comments don’t contain any people defending to the death their right to misuse clinical terminology and equate mental illness with authoritarianism
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