Nah psalm for the wild built is full middle of the road enby. I'm almost there but slightly on the masc end and it suited me perfectly to identify with the protagonist directly.

Broken Earth Nk Jemsin

...yes?

REM sleep.

It's the last thing they can force you to do (but playing along can have benefits).

Yes.

That's literally just the text adventure video game Corruption of Champions (CoCs). The sci-fi version is Trials in Tainted Space (TiTS).

Can't kill another rock. Just makes more rocks.

Nah he was just quiet senile instead of loud senile. I've had patients that are rather agreeable despite low cognitive function. They don't wind up in the hospital as much and get discharged quicker because the agreeableness means they can accept home caregivers more safely, but they very much still need assistance with decision making. He wasn't more coherent per se, just more able to cooperate with his handlers. Ignoring morality (a distressingly common occurrence throughout the history of humanity) is it preferable to have a leader who accepts control of the oligarchs more placidly or more chaotically? I don't speak to my parents anymore for a variety of reasons (including politics) but one tiny spark of something they did get right was that trump is slightly harder to keep under control, and is accelerating the destruction of our broken political system. We ultimately just differed in opinion on whether the coming system is more likely to be better or worse.

Oh "why do good girls like bad guys" is one of those questions of the ages. It exists for many reasons, but the short list is:

• there's a fine line between confidence and assholery solution: may you have the strength to change the things you can, the patience to endure the things you can't, and the wisdom to know the difference. Once you trust your judgment in such things, act confidently on them, or at least try to look it.

• there's a bunch of emotions that are neurochemically identical and that can often be misattributed as each other and "scared" and "horny" share most of the same neurotransmitters. Solution: go see a scary movie, go to a rollercoaster park, or do a physical activity together that involves cardio.

• daddy issues and other psychosocial toxicity that you probably don't want anything to do with anyway. Solution: don't put your dick in (or your vagina on) crazy.

Men are animals. Women are also animals. They usually get along better overall when they're both trying to be mindful of that, both for their own sake and that of the other person.

How many people actually know their cat's birthday? I wrote mines down on the vet paperwork as Valentine's because it was September and they said she was probably about 8 months old.

I've had a couple of people ask how I stomach what I do for a living (acute inpatient psychiatry) and one of my answers to one of the aspects is that a lot of this was going to happen to them anyway and they may as well have at least one person there who's been there and won't be a asshole about it (or any more than I have to be anyway). Also everybody's a mental health advocate who wants the poor sweet depressed babies to be loved more until they're at a stoplight and a homeless schizophrenic on PCP starts wiping period blood on their car while yelling about how Obama filled their vagina with spiders. Some of us didn't get the cute mental illnesses OK.