part of why i recognize little to no difference between so-called “recreational” vs “medical” drug use is because i recognize stress as a medical issue. mind-body dualism has us all convinced that stress is an ephemeral emotion that doesn’t affect our bodies, but like daily stress, particularly if you’re also disabled in some way, just Will Kill You. it can destroy your organs, overclock your brain, weaken your immune system… the effects of prolonged and consistent stress are underresearched (because then we’d have to question how we allocate labor. lmao), but they’re there. if you use weed every day for no reason other than you need to force yourself to relax chemically so you can have fun and take your mind off stress, that is indistinguishable from medical use to me, having discarded mind-body dualism.
i think a lot of people in the notes are missing my main point, so here it is again even more simplified: having fun is medically necessary. there is no line between doing something for fun and doing it for your health. fun is necessary for your physical health.
Superman is like. outwardly identical to a human but are his Internals the same as a human?? what’s the situation there. i think it would be very funny if his insides were totally different personally.
like it’s just as well he’s invulnerable bcos if he ever had to go to a doctor it would be a disaster. what if one time he did manage to get hurt while doing superhero stuff & they had to take chest x-rays… he’s just sitting there poker-faced while the doctors try to figure out what they’re even looking at
Doctor: …
Superman: …
Doctor: so uh this is…?
Superman: my liver
Superman: well it’s not actually a liver but it does basically the same thing as a human liver so I call it my liver
Doctor: okay
Doctor: and this one?
Superman: best as I can tell that doesn’t do anything
Doctor: huh. And uh. This thing over here?
Superman: heck if I know ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Doctor:
*later*
*there are now like 7 doctors gathered around his x-rays*
Superman: uh guys I’m sure this must be really interesting for you but could we focus on the matter at hand please
teen!Clark locked in his bedroom with an anatomy textbook looking inside his torso w his x-ray vision like what the fuck. whaaaat the fuck.
He doesn’t just steal it though. He puts it on his own head. He takes it, tries it on, looks around (I swear like he’s going “Look look I’m a Human! Don’t I look good in my Human head-thing?”) then gives it back. There is so much playful and good-natured intelligence in this one gesture I’m losing my mind here. Elephants are too freaking good for us.
This is a very small thing but that means, to an elephant, the top of their head is where they put the hat. That is not what I’d consider the top of their head lol.
They’re placing the hat right over their eyes, like how we wear them
Anyway, not being open and loving and vulnerable is a form of self sabotage because it prevents you from developing true meaningful connections and relationships.
Literally nothing will ever be funnier than Fives roasting Anakin with a dick joke in the clone wars. It’s hard to believe that it actually happened, but it did. That is canon. Peak Star War right there.
