Advice: I just found out I spent a small fortune on cooking classes online. I signed up …

it’s literally three a.m. and i just finished crafting a whole future life with my favorite book character. like, we have a house with a white picket fence, two dogs named nacho and pixel, and a thriving artisanal pickle business. now, i’m contemplating how to explain to my therapist that i’m crying over someone who isn’t real, while the real world is preparing for a coldwave. honestly, what even ...

i spent six months creating an entire backstory for a character I made up in a video game and even wrote them letters as if they were real, all while ignoring the fact that my in-game friends stopped inviting me to play — I can almost hear them deleting me now... #delusionalfantasies #gamingstruggles

the way that the news about aleppo makes me feel like my life's just one long episode of reality tv—like, i don’t even live there, but here i am trying to recover from an explosion of snack choices every time i walk into a store—because that’s the kind of war i’m fighting every day. this chocolate or those chips—life decisions just as dramatic—meanwhile, my sibling strolls in with a fresh gym memb...