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"A winter sunset of a girl" - love that for describing someone

“We rarely get to prepare ourselves in meadows or on graveled walks; we do it on short notice in places without windows, hospital corridors, rooms like this lounge with its cracked plastic sofa and Cinzano ashtrays, where the cafe curtains cover blank concrete. In rooms like this, with so little time, we prepare our gestures, get them by heart so we can do them when we're frightened in the face of Doom.”

Disorganized (hebephrenic) schizophrenia - obsolete subtype of schizophrenia as of DSM-5 (2013) & ICD-11 (2022). Disorganized schizophrenia is still used to describe a subset of schizophrenia symptoms characterized by disorganized behavior and speech rather than hallucinations or delusions.

I know, *I know*, and have talked about how rampant transphobia and homophobia was in older books, but every time it hits me like a cast to the back of the head.

"It matters, Mr. Crawford." DAMN RIGHT IT DOES!

Typhoid and swans, love that.

is it bad that I first knew about Golgatha from Dogma?

I know the calm heartbeat in media is meant to be a like "cool under pressure thing" but I'm fairly certain that's not how heartbeats work when it comes down to it.

Ah, the shit question. It's like I'm taking 911 calls all over again.