ever since my gf and i moved in together a couple years ago i’ve been semi-regularly executing something i call a “prank night.” this is something you want to do frequently enough that it’s not a special occasion, but spontaneously enough to make it a prank. the set-up for a prank night is simple
listen to your partner and take note of a couple things she’s putting off doing, as well as a couple things she’s been wanting
wait for a day when your partner is out of the house for work or errands
tell them that you’ll be playing videogames/hanging out with the guys/doing very little all day. this way her guard will be down
now you can execute the four core aspects of the prank night
act of service. complete a chore or task that you know she’s been dreading. doing the dishes/cleaning the living room/making an appointment/doing the groceries, etc.
lil gift. flowers, chocolate, anything that you know she wants but hasn’t felt justified in getting for herself
sustenance. a charcuterie board, a homecooked meal, her favorite snack, or a fancy cocktail can all work
fourth, final, most important, when she gets home you sit her down and eat her out like she’s your last meal on death row
The Look On The Girlfriend’s Face Will Be Awesome!
“Wellness” is not just alternative medicine, it is essentially a theory of the body which posits if something makes you feel better, you are better in some meaningful way. I would argue it one of the most commonly held nonreligious magical beliefs in the modern world.
Wellness as a concept has its genesis in the 1950s with “workplace wellness” programs, a sort of budget alternative to offering employee healthcare benefits. This was an era soaked in itinerant business preachers offering classes on things like “hypnosis at a management level” and “yoga to improve leadership abilities”. I am exaggerating for effect, but not by much.
The capitalist medical system regularly abandons people. We’ve all heard stories of profit driven pharmaceudical companies holding the ill hostage for extreme markup on life-saving medicines. People have real, legitimate, reasons to mistrust medical professionals.
Let’s say you have chronic pain, and everything your doctor offers you is either ineffective, expensive, or addictive. You are desperate for literally any release, so you start looking into other solutions. You will find an OCEAN of snake-oil salesmen willing to sell you “the secrets doctors don’t want you to know.”
What is frustrating, is that pain is actually partially psychological. Some wellness techniques may have an actual, medical, benefit on some patients. The worst thing a conspiracy theorist can have is a point. So now you actually do kinda feel better, and you have a sense of loyalty to the grifter selling you 300$ Sumerian Cock Oil Pills. These people are the core of the wellness industry. They are the examples that everyone else points to and says “Well it worked for them!”
Reactionary thought blooms in environments like this. If the medical industry can’t be trusted, what else can’t be trusted? At any given time, you are two clicks away from “vaccines cause autism.” Three clicks away from “Cavemen were 15 feet tall because they only ate meat.” And four clicks away from “The medical industry is controlled by The Jews to drain our wallets and keep us sick.” Echoes of Nazi attitudes towards German-Jewish doctors are a common backbeat.
Wellness itself is relatively harmless, (compared to the things it is adjacent to) but it acts as a sort of idealogical airport that exposes the curious to a deluge of potentially radicalizing communities. The longer you spend in communities like this, the higher the chance you’ll come across something that meshes perfectly with your own biases.
deliberately forging a long distance polycule such that each member is situated at the point of a pentagram around the united states and when we charge our JO crystals at the same time all walmart supercenters are replaced by affordable housing
i dont mind the fma tags but this is actually the funniest thing someone’s tagged this as
being in your early 20s is crazy bc there’s people who are literally married and people who’ve never even dated and people who are trapped in their childhood bedrooms waiting to get out and people who are trying to live out romanticized dream lives and people who are completely on their own and people with multi tiered support systems and we’re all supposedly peers and none of us think we’re doing it right at all
