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I couldn't have said it better myself.

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I (inexplicably third culture kid at times) grew up eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch every day because my mother is normal, and all my English friends were rude about them despite literally never having tried one because "ough it just sounds gross." Anyway I want to see if this is a trend beyond children from southern England.

NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO MAY NOT KNOW - JELLY IN THIS CASE MEANS JAM, NOT JELLO-TYPE FOOD - MANY OF MY PEERS WERE NOT AWARE OF THAT.

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oh so Ungoliant is just withering the trees and sucking them dry and destroying their light. you don't say. huh. hm.

also, I've been reading the silmarillion as well as listening to a read along podcast and this has been the weirdest two days to be reading and thinking about the chapter Of the Darkening of Valinor. Hey Melkor is just hanging about, hopefully taking a pause on being evil, it would be a shame if he -- yep. Ah okay. Yeah he's doing evil again. Wow. Wow. Okay.

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also, I've been reading the silmarillion as well as listening to a read along podcast and this has been the weirdest two days to be reading and thinking about the chapter Of the Darkening of Valinor. Hey Melkor is just hanging about, hopefully taking a pause on being evil, it would be a shame if he -- yep. Ah okay. Yeah he's doing evil again. Wow. Wow. Okay.

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Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.

The Return of the King, J.R.R. Tolkien

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So, I guess as a middle range millennial, I now get to tell all you young queer kids that what you are feeling right now is exactly how it felt in 2004 when we re-elected George Bush, and not only that but many states put in bans against gay/same sex marriage at the time.

This is probably not comforting, but it is true, and it helps me when I feel hopeless: For every revolution there is a counter revolution, for every step forward there is a step back, that things may not be good forever but they will not be bad, either. That we clawed our way to get where we are and we can claw our way forward from here, too. Talk to your queer elders, the ones who have been here before and will be here again and who threw bricks at Stonewall.

When I was a child, if you got AIDS it was a death sentence. Now it isn't. Now you live on.

So I'll quote angels in america: You are fabulous creatures, each and every one. And I bless you: More Life. The Great Work Begins.

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Pour one out for the therapists today that can't pretend this isn't happening, even for a few hours at work.

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started crocheting a net bag for my grandma-in-law while my baby napped.

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never actually did finish watching s2, but talk about tripping at the finish line. here's a little joke

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Doing great w. Today. 👍

tracking my Amazon package like this tiny crochet hook and pack of curved safety pins are the only things keeping me going

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what a week huh?

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sudden urge to burst into tears. im not a toddler i just agree with their beliefs

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the most disorienting thing thats ever happened to me was when a linguistics major stopped in the middle of our conversation, looked me in the eye, and said, "you have a very interesting vernacular. were you on tumblr in 2014?" and i had to just stand there and process that one for a good ten seconds

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favorite part of Phantom if you can’t say Think of Me, The Phantom of the Opera, Music of the Night, or All I Ask Of You?

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