Punishment is deeply engrained in our culture, but it is essentially useless: it does not effectively alter behavior and it does not solve any problems. This remains true whether you are punishing yourself, a loved one, a stranger, or an enemy. (Note: stopping harm & punishment are different things)

Bucket list item achieved: saw End of Eva in a theater and flipped off that one guy. You know the one.

Also, I call this image "The Therapist's Double Feature"

I haven't been to a con in years, I said. One day at a small con won't hurt me, I said. I'm freshly boosted, I said.

Fuck.

Sleep kitty! Probably exhausted from indulging in her new favorite pastime, repeatedly knocking my pen onto the floor.

Client: Mentions watching Utena as a kid as a formative experience, clearly expecting me to need a bunch of explanation.

Me:

Reskeet with a hot photo of yourself, to rebalance the universe by countering the influx of Rudy Giuliani mug shots.

Reskeet with what turned you trans.

Ana Mardoll posted this, and my whole brain went "I wish." DMed Ana "Does that mean what I think it means?" and we had a long talk, by the end of which my egg was thoroughly cracked.

(Any attempt to relitigate Ana discourse will result in immediate block)

I was going to say something silly about Barbie, GI Joe, and angler fish, but honestly Ezri's interjection is much funnier than whatever I was gonna say.

My teensy anxious bebe Ezri is getting so big and snuggly!