There’s six guys who live in this flat and all they do all day is play WoW and watch movies. Waking up at 2pm every day and there’s always just someone asleep on the bed near all the multimonitor computer setups. There’s always music playing and it feels like a recovery day every day, padding around blearily in pyjamas or underwear. Old hoodies from defunct school teams. They’ve got this system where they’re selling their excess computing power to companies and hosting all this warez, and they’re stealing the internet from the business next door anyway and getting welfare on top of all that. They’re self sufficient and never go outdoors except to buy more fast food, and even then only in the dark. But then one of them wakes up dead some heavy afternoon. He’s just dead and they don’t know why but maybe the floor covered in fast food wrappings is a clue. They don’t want to tell the cops because of the purgatory den they live in and the illegality that supports it, and as far as they know he never had any actual parents. So it’s trouble. It’s taking a long trip out to the forest and thinking about how stars are so far away for the first time in a long time. It’s sweating in the cold air and digging a hole all night with your brand new shovels to leave him alone in. And it’s a long few days cracking all his passwords to keep his identity and associated payments persisting. Until the rhythm of waking up every day at 2pm to play WoW for nine hours and half watch a movie on your other monitor takes over again. It’s the same as it ever was except now there’s a room no one ever goes in.
so many young lesbians date just to have a girlfriend because they think it’s their one ticket to happiness and it turns into toxic relationships based on shallow connections in which theyre shit talking their gf 24/7 but still posting 30 “i love my gf” posts a day on 3 separate social media sites because they think it’s what they’re supposed to do and it’s so sad
it’s okay to just be sometimes. you don’t have to force a relationship that isn’t meant to be just for appearances or social expectations
to add to this: even if you are in a healthy loving relationship you don’t have to post everything you do. i see young lesbians (and did this myself) feeling like they have to compulsively share every part of their relationship because they are so excited and are feeling so much but i just want all young lesbians to know keeping private intimate moments and even cute silly moments between you and your gf can be so much more rewarding and healthy.
the pressure to turn your relationship into a performance in lesbian circles can be overwhelming and honestly it cheapens a lot of romantic experiences
One of the funniest things in the world to me is that comedy podcaster/video game journalist Justin Mcelroy will occasionally get emails intended for Crime/Politics Vancouver reporter Justin Mcelroy
