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Teenage queers will discover Tragedy and make it their whole personality forever

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commitment to the bit to lovers

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everyone is becoming way too comfortable about being horrible people

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when I was a kid I thought the weather guy on TV controlled the weather and he was just telling us what he was gonna do for the next few days. when he said "30% chance of rain Thursday" I thought he was just guessing how likely it was he'd wake up in a rain mood that morning

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hey there! this sounds like a silly question😭, and i’m so sorry if i’m bothering you (feel free to ignore ahdjsgsjdh), but i thought i’d go for it :)

your blog is just giving me a lot of good feelings rn, and i was wondering… if one wanted to live on a farm, temporarily or permanently, could they go about doing so, like would that be possible? it’s always been a kind of dream of mine, but i grew up in the city (with lots of farm holidays), so i’ve always thought of it as out of reach. but tbh, your blog always reminds me of it (in a good way), so i was wondering if anything like that is possible even on a smaller scale or anything. my job after university isn’t going to limit me to any country or place (as long as i have wifi), so i could theoretically go anywhere lol. just… not sure if i can actually make smth like this work if i didn’t grow up doing it, yk?

anyway, also wanted to say that i really love your blog! it’s rlly cool :D

Hello! :) With your farm holidays you are already ahead of where I was—I've always lived in cities as well before moving here, and I didn't know how to grow vegetables or take care of chickens, had never preserved food, was daunted by my chainsaw* and didn't know how to cure firewood, or do pasture maintenance, was freaked out by flying insects and mice... Now I'm on a first-name basis with the dormice that live in my walls (shoutout to Alfred.) I also felt that I was not physically very strong and never thought I'd be able to carry bags of animal feed nearly half my body weight without problem!

* I remember making a post during my first summer here, saying that on second thought using a chainsaw was not that scary because I'm alone in these woods so if I accidentally cut off my own arm no one will see it and make fun of me. Fear of making mistakes and looking stupid is the really scary part of learning to use a chainsaw.

Having a job that allows you to live anywhere is great, it's my situation too and it's one reason why I was able to buy this place; I could pick somewhere to live where property is extremely cheap (in a part of France we eloquently refer to as the Empty Diagonal.) I don't have the ambition to grow enough food to sell it or be self-sufficient so it's just a hobby farm (though having pulled a newborn llama out of its mother gives me a few farm points I think); I don't know if that's comparable to your idea. I do try to gradually increase the size of my vegetable garden, my greenhouse yield, etc, because I like having a pantry full of things I made myself and because it allows me to connect with the local community by trading e.g. the syrup I can make for the kind of pickled vegetables I've not been able to grow. I feel like I started out with modest ambitions and am letting them grow (a little bit) each year as I learn more about what's possible / how to do things.

I'm not sure I have many recommendations to give as everyone's situation is different, but the one piece of advice I would offer is to add things to your life gradually, to let yourself adapt—I got my dog three months after the llamas, then the chickens six months after that, then planned to add the greenhouse + fish another year later... So I had time to learn to deal with the new chores or problems that each new species of animals brought, and make sure I still had enough room in my life for the additional work they represent. My first summer here was very focused on the llamas and donkey (and the fence headache); then I had a whole winter to get to know Pandolf and learn to relate to him; then I got the hens the next spring; then the greenhouse, after two years of gardening had taught me a bit about growing plants. (Cats are the exception, I knew how to relate to cats and acquired cats within 1 week of moving here.)

Maybe that's just because of who I am but every time I added a new element to my life I had a short period of existential doubt when I felt like I was doing everything wrong / had no idea what I was doing / didn't understand what these plants or animal species needed and couldn't adapt to them, but then I eventually did and it got better—but I would have been very overwhelmed if I'd had to learn too many new things at once! I guess this advice doesn't apply if you have a proper farm business in mind and need to implement it more fully from the start. But in my case I'm a big believer in starting small and giving yourself time to learn, wrap your mind around each new thing, adjust your routines, and so on. Also I read up about aquaponics before I got my fish, did chicken research, read books about llamas etc, and I just realistically can't read 40 books at once to prepare for too many new things at the same time. :)

I don't know if I'm answering your question, and I feel like that's very generic advice, but I wish you luck & some great animals and vegetables & a beloved piece of land in your future!

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I am concerned for gen z. Like I don't think they're doing okay. I think algorithms and a systematic denial of easy access to facts because of Internet enshittification has made them unbelievably miserable with very little sense of how warped their online experience is. Idk how to fix it.

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healthy romance starts w friendship

and bad romance starts w rah rah rah aha ha roma roma

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look I'm not gonna pretend I know anything about electronics, but sometimes a plug is so big it blocks another socket, and I'm always like "who the fuck do you think you are"

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i like to think of myself as a logical person but also i would absolutely wear a cursed amulet if it was cute enough with the fit

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most things can and should be heart-shaped

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hair is washed. i am lovable and capable of loving again

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hot things to say during sex

inventory is full

I’m out of range

I can’t carry any more

that spell isn’t ready yet

I need to target something first

it’s too far away

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bro you’ve got to stop stretching your arms over your head and exposing your midriff im going to lose it

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weird freak mutual to weird freak mutual connection

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the real danger of spending too much time with friends is you stumble out of ten days of happiness and good food like oh my god THAT was real life. my job means NOTHING

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Games with customization need to make it easier to sexualize male characters its not enough to have a shirtless option he needs a fat rack and body hair and more body fat and the shorts options need to define the ass cheeks and lets not forget the b[armored guards grab me and forcibly remove me from the stage]