Money isn't real. It's merely a coordination game we play with strangers.

I often say that "society" keeps trying to convince me it made me dinner by handing me a can of whipped cream. I don't want empty calories, I want *dinner*

"Stop trying to fix her, you can't fix her." "Correct, but I can give her extra energy, and hold her steady, and shoulder a bit of the weight long enough for her to fix herself." "You're trying to make her dependent on you!" "No, because I'm going to give the weight BACK."

Maybe the center could hold if you just believed in him.

I have always felt that the word "beautiful" only applies to that which I am drawn towards and cannot have. Which gets me in trouble with the sort of woman who thinks of "beautiful" as an upgrade from "pretty".

I tell people explicitly: I do not call people "friend" until I love them. And when I love someone, I add their problems and life goals to my quest log.

What are some good magical words to animate a golem for a golem just getting into self-animation?

Alarms should have an "I'm awake" button in addition to "snooze." A button that would keep your alarm *on* but not go off until tomorrow. For when you wake up early.

That order would be easier I started with my life, then a bunch of people, then the concept of humanity...and now we're working on the self.

The level up in life-satisfaction I get from letting everything I experience touch my soul is indescribable.

I'm going to succeed almost entirely because I have a tiny dedicated fan base of people who really really really like me.

Some days I'm productive. Some days I'm too tired to move and I give myself braided pigtails while binging Dimension 20

Pro-tip: it is VERY COMMON that when someone is good we compare them to perfection and so only give them feedback in all the ways they fall short, and when someone is mostly bad we laud all the ways in which they're literally not the worst. This skews feedback a lot, beware!!

This might be the most accurate selfie of my self-image I've ever taken. No matter how sensible the clothes, I'm a silly goober.

hot take but people should be encouraging their romantic partners to get angry more often*

I call this sort of thing "the little magics that build"

If you cannot generate your own morality, outsourced is fine.

If you liked Curling but not enough to watch it professionally, what are some good ways to set up Curling at home for someone just getting into Curling at home?

the intellectualization of our thoughts and experiences doesn’t actually heal anything, it just gives us the illusion that we have control. the over diagnosis of quirks and traits is creating an over sterilization of our lives. we’ve come to see personality as pathology, and in