Traditional pencils would actually be really problematic in space - you don’t want anything wooden that could catch fire, and graphite dust conducts electricity, which is also a definite faux-pas. Early space flights used mechanical pencils, but small broken pieces or graphite dust can float around and get into the…

I think the issue is most people see these incidents as other-wordly... Eg cop kills black guy? Then “well I wouldn’t kill a black guy so therefore I am not racist... I even have a black friend...”

I’ve never watched the Twilight movies and I am sure they are terrible and ridiculous.

Yeah, I watched these movies because I sometimes enjoy watching trash. She’s such a minor presence in the movies that if she never talked about them and just accepted that it was a boost to her career, nobody would even remember she did it.

Didn’t Twilight kick off her career? She was barely in movie.

I’m sure she did the interview months ago or whatever, but I just really don’t care about how poor Anna Kendrick got rained on while filming a movie that helped launch her Hollywood career.

Yeah, James Van Der Beek kinda peaked early. I think Katie Holmes’ career does have an aspect of ‘let’s see how she’s doing since divorcing hollywood weirdo Tom Cruise’ to it.

But I’ve learned to find it beautiful because I feel the world,” she says.

I’m so sorry for the losses of your mother and boyfriend. And I’m sorry for what you endured with your own physical and mental heath while dealing with so much loss and heartache. That had to be scary and awful in so many ways. Thank you for sharing your story. I’m hoping that your health is better these days, that…

waaay harsh, tai. 

My first reaction to the story was anger. Your comment make me stop and rethink. Much respect to you as always.

My depression kicked in after my cancer treatment too...it was the first leg of what I not-so-lovingly refer to as the shitstorm trifecta. 1). I was diagnosed with cancer. 2). My mom was diagnosed with cancer (metastatic) and passed away 3. My boyfriend killed himself. My world got really dark; I stopped reading…

I got the impression that she was talking about her personal experience specifically.

I don’t know her depression, or your depression - I barely understand mine most days - but if that’s how she comes to grips with her experience, she should be allowed to speak to it.  She isn’t making a sweeping statement about Depression, just her own experience.

And I don’t even think she was describing depression as beautiful but the intensive sensitivity to the world that may have been the locus of it. 

Exactly.  There’s a big difference between “these crystals will cure your depression” and “I’ve learned to live with my depression in a way I can experience as beautiful.” For her to describe the latter is not a personal attack on people who don’t share her experience, but this article sure feels like a personal…

This x 100.

It’s even uglier when you don’t have money, emotional empathy from family and friends, beauty and fame. I don’t have anything against Dakota (god, how I loathe that name), but jfc, there’s nothing beautiful about mental illness.