here’s a timestamp of geuss himself explaining what he means by realism (and expressing regret for using the term) m.youtube.com/watch?v=OTUV...

piggybacking on my boy N

i am the first-generation-mexican-american of bluesky (i think all immigration should have stopped the moment i got naturalized)

the outside world is loud and scary and overstim and sad

the top willow fact you need to know is that all my symptoms are ego syntonic

Oh in class I wrote a bunch about “getting over” (2 full pages of back and forth with myself) the conclusion I came to was that it’s basically fine to have lingering affections for someone that used to be in your life, as long as it 1) doesn’t interfere with other people,