still one of my favorite bits i ever got to commit was pretending not to know who jesus is when a street preacher was evangelizing to me. he was like “do you know who jesus is?” and i had so much time before my next bus and i wanted to know what would happen so i said no. and you know what. he had clearly never been told no to that question before because if i hadn’t actually known who jesus was, his baffled and fumbling attempt sure wouldn’t have told me. literally reversed the roles. now you get to stand here feeling very uncomfortable and wishing you could be somewhere else because guess what buddy, this is my bus stop, im early (and can catch like five other buses from this exact stop), and im now thoroughly invested in hearing about this mysterious jesus figure. you’re locked in here with me. im eating the key as we speak. i will kill us both before i let you out of here.
very highly recommend this bit if you can pull it off and if you have time to kill
[Image Description: a 4-tweet thread from Sophie Gonzales, @sgonzalesauhor, timestamped 6:09 AM 21 Dec 22, all text-only. The first one says:
“The biggest change of viewpoint I ever went through in psych training was when I said "but what it they’re doing it for attentioin” and my supervisor was like “what’s wrong with needing attention” and I realised I didn’t have an answer.“
The second one reads:
"Crying for help is not something people do if they don’t need help. If you’re "seeking attention” it’s because you are lonely, or scared, or not okay. You need support and human connection. So why is society’s response to that scenario to withhold it!!?“
The third one reads:
"It’s like society is so paranoid about "the boy who cried wolf” we might want to withhold support to anyone who might be anything other than “on the verge of an urgent emergency”. But the way to effectively STOP someone from an emergency situation is early intervention!“
The fourth one reads:
"And the sign that some early intervention is needed is usually, you guessed it, people trying to gain support and care from their loved ones / the people in their lives.
It;s not only valid to ask for help when the distress is a 10/10 emergency.”
When you think you finally lined up a really good home for two (TWO!) of the kittens you hand raised so they wouldn’t freeze or starve to death and the potential adopter goes to petco and is chosen by another rescue in the adoption center there, but too guilty or something to text you until you are asking about the plan to bring your sweet girls to this good home.
Tl;dr: another adopter fell through and I still have four kittens who have been rejected four times.
