So...as Bisexual, Can I Get Dual Citizenship?

So...as bisexual, can I get dual citizenship?

Reblog if you’re part of a hostile nation that’s declared war on Australia

im in awe

'Thousands of people foresaw a thing and built systems to prevent it, working hard and supported by their organizations' is such a better narrative than 'mass hysteria over nothing proved we shouldn't worry so much.' And true, too.

I am breathless

“because creators aren’t telling stories about consistently well-written characters going through things, they’re systematically tearing characters down in desperate attempts to produce fundamental shifts and that is so absolutely unsustainable in the long term because a reader’s emotional investment on this sort of thing depends largely on pre-existing investment in the character in question” <-- this is why I rarely finish TV shows.

"because you see my dude" BREATHLESS

marvel comics are so fucking busy trying to make every single fucking crossover event the Most Bombastic Thing That Ever Happened To Every Superhero Ever when like if you look at tony’s canon for instance. the single god damn story that was actually absorbed by every writer going forward is his alcoholism arc. was the world ending? no. it wasn’t. it was just a character-driven story that had the guts to make a heroic arc out of a deeply human emotional situation

a literal climatic moment of tony’s recovery arc was when he decided to… shave again

so like honestly what marvel writers need is to get their heads out of their asses, drop their territorial alpha male “i will CHANGE this character FOREVER and nothing will EVER be the same after ME” bullshit and just fucking write good stories. it’s like they don’t know how to manage stakes anymore. oh my fucking god

Can anybody tell me why I can’t add to a reblog of a text or quote post? Why it just looks like I’m adding to a post I wrote myself??

Interesting. I've gotten it, but rarely, and it's definitely at least 50% psychosomatic for me. It's usually associated with my playlist coming to some ridiculously inspiring music that helps switch my brain over away from resentment and exhaustion at having to do this meh meh meh. I get either this overwhelming swell of love and gratitude for being alive and able to run outside, or an intense determination that feels Very Heroic (usually accompanied by the Mulan soundtrack to be honest). Both feelings can also be gotten through other difficult but life-connecting pursuits. That high does give me a boost of energy and is sometimes a physical feeling of well-being and strength, but it's so clearly triggered by the attitude switch through music that it can't just be physical. Though it doesn't really happen during those initial training weeks when I'm always exhausted and out of shape and slogging through.

The other moment I experience that sweeping rush of energy/gratitude/power/connectedness while running is during the actual race itself. It always propels me up this dreaded steep hill at mile 8.5 that's now my favorite part, although it's still a tough haul to keep the speed up till the end (mile 10) after that burst of feeling good. My dad, who runs it with me and is always in much better shape, has never gotten the high on that hill and says it's the worst part, but he still has way more strength left for the last mile than me, so the high isn't a prerequisite for success or anything.

So, do you actually get that "runner's high" the hardcore runners are always on about? Because I ran for years and I'm not going to lie -- I never got a runner's high. Not once. I'd run miles fueled only by my hatred of running and the closest thing I got to a "high" was the relief when I finally finished. I've long suspected that the runner's high is a mass delusion or a trick to lure people into running, or else I'm just weird.

Well, there are chemical, physiological changes linked to a runner’s high, so they’ve established it’s a real thing that does happen – whether or not it’s psychosomatic, things are happening in the body when it happens. But what induces it is still not really well-understood, and it could be that inducing it is psychosomatic – that you are psychologically causing those changes in your body chemistry. We really don’t know. There’s the idea that it happens when the body is under a very specific combination of stresses, but you can also develop a tolerance to those stresses and then it will change so that different things induce it. I did a bunch of reading on it and it basically boils down to shrug-emoji. 

I have had it a couple of times but the thing is, while the reduction in pain is nice, the whole thing is fucking terrifying because you’re not really prepared for it. The first time it happened I freaked the fuck out because I knew something was altering my perceptions but I didn’t know what or why. It’s not so much the fact of having the high, because I mean, I’ve done recreational drugs and I quite like that feeling – and even the mild recreational drugs I’ve done are both more intense and more euphoric than the runner’s high. What’s frightening is having a high you didn’t induce, can’t control, and are having to cope with (in my case) on a city street at 4am while wearing spandex. 

Additionally, some people experience it less as a high and more as a sense of ongoing well-being that stays with them the rest of the day – these are the kinds of people who tend to advocate physical activity as a “treatment” for depression because it makes them feel so good, surely it must be that way for everyone! (No.)

I don’t think it’s a trick or a delusion, but I also think it’s a terrible reason to run – not just from the standpoint of “don’t use this to convince people to run” but from the standpoint of “don’t use this as a reason to run”. There are great reasons to run – better cardio health, cool leg muscles, as an outlet for the seething frustrations and hatred of modern existence – but if you want a good high, running is not where you will generally get it. And as with any activity whose result is altered perceptions, it can become unhealthy when carried to excess. 

So yeah – you’re not weird, lots of people never get a runner’s high or get it only rarely, and even those who do get it don’t always enjoy it. But it is a thing that happens, and hopefully eventually there will be More Science about it.