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national broadcast my belothed

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Do you have a BlueSky?

NO i die when tumblr dies we've been over this

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somebody older and wiser and much more desperate than me told me when i first arrived

musings on the firebirds' inaugural year, the nature of farm teams, and the hope that comes with being a new sports fan (there is a photo on flickr of a 'birds fan holding a sign that says "joey you are my hero!" and maybe one day i'll be able to think about that without crying)

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If you could be anyone of your teammates who would it be and why? Panthers Cut.

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Seeing this, all I can think of is that Schwartzy wears the #17 for his sister and I.....

link to vid: 🫶🏼

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Good morning. This is the best fic comment I have ever received.

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Any tips for not falling into permanent despair?

I suppose remembering that there is no greater act of defiance that living a full life

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the most important thing you can do to combat how terrible your sports team is playing is to make them have gay sex in your Google docs. I can’t stress enough how important this is

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few things more humbling than the realization that you really do write the same fic(s) over and over again

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krakens

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"the world isn't kind" ok??? Much more importantly are you?????

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Has anything actually gotten better, for all the work you talk about doing? Or is it just treading water in misery forever?

Anon, ten years ago gay people couldn't get married in large parts of the US. AIDS was an almost certain death sentence when I was in high school. I was looking at job boards the other day and found a part time gas station job that had health insurance as a benefit, which NEVER would have happened 15 years ago. When I was a kid, hitting your child was extremely normalized in the US and my parents were the weird ones for not doing it. There is a vaccine for chicken pox. I didn't meet anyone who had transitioned until my 20s because it was so uncommon to transition in the aughts, and now there are some states that protect your right to have gender affirming care provided by your health insurance. It's not all states, but it's better than the number of states that had it in 2010, which was zero. THERE ARE TENANTS UNIONS NOW. WE HAVE A VACCINE AGAINST CERVICAL CANCER.

And all of that has been the work of a lot of individuals and organizations and research teams and activists.

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sports is really like is this 16 year old we abducted from his schooling the next coming of christ

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being a writer leads to a genuinely helpful but also very stupid kind of mindfulness where you'll be having a sobbing breakdown or the worst anxiety attack of your life and think "okay, I really need to pay attention to how this feels. so I can incorporate it into my fanfiction."

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hey all my peeps from northern climates you know how sometimes ya look outside and it just like has this Look and you just Know it’s cold out like there’s no obvious signs no ice no snow you just KNOW it’s cold because you’ve lived here long enough that u look at the sky and you’re like ‘it’s cold’ how fucked up is that

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