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5 years

September would have made 5 years I’ve had this blog. I’m not usually sentimental or anything for stuff like this, but 5 years is a long time to spend on something. Anyway, I recently found out that someone from my past has been screenshotting my posts and putting them on Facebook for the world to judge and see. I regret nothing mind you, but I still don’t feel comfortable knowing this person is watching me online.  The worst still, is I don’t know if someone was helping this person stalk me or if they were just doing it of their own crazy accord. Either way, I’m remaking a blog with a new account.  I’m refollowing the people I know in real life that are close friends (yall should remake too, who knows who’s really following you) and making this account inactive. 

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The Disney Channel has like four versions of the same show. How many quirky blonde/brunette bff combos who wear five layers over and under a sundress and leggings and crush on the blandest white boy tween can there be? Oh yeah, this one can time travel.

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What does happiness look like? You in your red coat. Where does it go for a drink? To bed, on Sundays. What does happiness sound like? The purr of an unhooked phone. What does it do for a living? It has private means. What does happiness feel like? The barehanded planting of bulbs. What is its home address? Yours, sweetheart. Does happiness have a scent? The sea, the air, the earth. Where did you see it last? Under the bedclothes, laughing. What taste does happiness have? That of a long, slow kiss. And how does happiness write? Badly, like this

Carol Ann Duffy, “Write About Happiness” (via oofpoetry)

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me: Game of Thrones shouldn’t include such gratuitous amounts of rape. It’s bad and lazy writing.

some man, inevitably: That’s just gritty realism though. That’s what it would be like back then. Historical realism.

me: Okay, but like why don’t they show everyone shitting their pants from dysentery?

some man: Ew, no one wants to see that, though.

me: 

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I happened upon the idea to draw a “hipster-ish” Nan, complete with eyebrow piercing, ombre hair, high-waisted “mom jeans,” and coffee in hand.

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Disney Girls Art Nouveau

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Speaking of linguistics, there’s one particular linguistic tick that I think clearly separates Baby Boomers from Millennials: how we reply when someone says “thank you.”

You almost never hear a Millennial say “you’re welcome.” At least not when someone thanks them. It just isn’t done. Not because Millenials are ingrates lacking all manners, but because the polite response is “No problem.” Millennials only use “you’re welcome” sarcastically when they haven’t been thanked or when something has been taken from/done to them without their consent. It’s a phrase that’s used to point out someone else’s rudeness. A Millenial would typically be fairly uncomfortable saying “you’re welcome” as an acknowledgement of genuine thanks because the phrase is only ever used disengenuously.

Baby Boomers, however, get really miffed if someone says “no problem” in response to being thanked. From their perspective, saying “no problem” means that whatever they’re thanking someone for was in fact a problem, but the other person did it anyway as a personal favor. To them “You’re welcome” is the standard polite response.

“You’re welcome” means to Millennials what “no problem” means to Baby Boomers, and vice versa.The two phrases have converse meanings to the different age sets. I’m not sure exactly where this line gets drawn, but it’s somewhere in the middle of Gen X. This is a real pain in the ass if you work in customer service because everyone thinks that everyone else is being rude when they’re really being polite in their own language.

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got banned from my last dungeons & dragons campaign for insisting that paladin was pronounced like paula deen

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went for a walk

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u know what I don’t get? really rude old people. like, you’ve spent more than 70 years alive and well on this earth and you still haven’t figured out that you should be nice to strangers? what were you doing this whole time?? how did you do such a bad job at being a person for so long

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