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Disclaimer: I’m feeling pissy & this is an opinion I dont fully take seriously cause ppl should do what they please as long as it doesn’t cause harm
~essentially a rant abt a pet peeve~
To me the act of smoking cigs if ur not already addicted to cigs is wildly goofy…
*the obvious :they’re addictive and a money pit
*the look: it can be painful watching someone bum a cig from me and A) puff at it/ theyre clearly in pain B) they light it and effectively let it burn away C) throwing half a cig on the ground
*vibe: I know one girl who will always ask to bum at parties which would be and recently she started buying her own SHE WILL NEVER SHARE W ME AND SHE DOESNT EVEN ACTUALLY SMOKE very much the kind of person who lights a cig just to take an aesthetic photo with their coffee or a cocktail and their brand new copy of The Prophet
May 24, 2024
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i’m sorry to my nicotine addicted friends, but you see the most gorgeous people out in public and then all of a sudden they start sucking on a fluorescent highlighter looking thing and now the whole place smells like tutti-fruiti.
this especially applies to men in suits and women who are dolled up, it just removes the elegance from their appearance.
(ik i’ll get hate for this, but the action of smoking i think just looks tacky—and drug use)
Feb 16, 2025
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I’m not trying to catch the big C but smoking will never not be in my life. Everything in moderation. A cig here and there is good for my mental health.
Vapes are cringe (but I’ll still ask for yours because I’m insufferable.)
Feb 3, 2024
Allow me this rant. Trends come and go, but something being "in" that's highly addictive and harmful and can't be easily dropped is a problem. I'm coming from a place of enormous privilege in that I don't have an addictive personality. I enjoy smoking the occasional cigarette when I'm out with my mates, but I rarely crave and never need it. The thought of smoking often makes me nauseous and that's a feeling I cherish. Seeing it become so ubiquitous in popular culture, whether by influencers or pop stars or all over movies, feels predatory to me. Beyonce lighting a cigarette on stage and lighting her piano on fire was so *goofy*. Big Tobaccco is an evil corporate cabal and I loathe the fact that a bunch of gross men are watching this "trend" and laughing all the way to their third home. They don't give a shit if your mouth starts rotting or your lungs turn black or you have to breathe with a tube in your neck.
Throwing Fits had a great screed about this the other day, minus the caveats to protect the white guy’s IG poses with “darts.” Goofy.
Also, go watch the Michael Mann banger The Insider (1999).
May 14, 2025
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In this regard, to what I like to call a funk.
I feel très dookie. Lots of change in my life, and in times of instability I tend to fall off the horse- in a major way. Like many ppl. This past go round I have been excessively hard on myself over my general lacking in… well almost everything. Ive come to the conclusion that there are times you have to give yourself more grace than you’d like to. Maybe the pity party can last a couple more days than usual. I won’t go into details, bc as those of you reading who have dealt with mental health struggles, it can be sort of gross. Sure. There’s a ton I could be doing to put an end to my funk. Make more of an effort to dig myself out of the hole. But, at the end of the day I know I will come out of the funk in my own time. Faking myself out, and convincing myself I’m feeling better serves no one.
Making yourself feel worse over feeling bad in the first place is just wildly counterproductive. Just keep moving forward in time. There’s a lot of it <3
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