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good things will happen 🧿

things that are meant to be will fall into place 🧿

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I only have three words to say about the final season of Umbrella Academy.

No. Absolutely not.

Thank you for your time.

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I am not the first person to attempt explaining this, but let me tell you about some of the nuances of Bless Your Heart™. It does not solely or even usually translate to “you are a dumbass.” It is more subtle than that:

It is primarily a thing you say to clarify (or falsify) the tone of what you DID say

OR

it is secondarily a thing you say instead of something ELSE to maintain 1) plausible deniability 2) a moral high ground.

“Bless your heart”: You genuinely deserve blessings because you are going through it right now and you need them. Gratitude, sympathy. “I’m going to have surgery next week.” “Bless your heart! Is there anything I can do for you?” (“Oh, bless your heart for asking.”) Original face-value meaning.

“Bless your heart”: You need a blessing because God knows you’re lacking (manners, intelligence, common sense) right now. Synonyms could include “Well, isn’t that precious” or “Well, that’s different.” It often comes in clutch when you don’t want to tell someone to their face that they fucked up. Your nephew has mowed the front yard for you. He has also mowed over all your flower beds. “Well… bless your heart.” If you were going to use it as a stealth insult to someone’s face for a more egregious occasion, it would be this category. It can be a mean girl move (the classic “It’s so brave that you dress like that” vibe), but it’s also a way of saying, “I want you to know that I see what you’re doing and I don’t approve of it, and you fully understand I’m expressing that, but I’m not going to give you the justification to clap back at me because I didn’t SAY that.” Someone wears a fancy white bridal-looking gown to your cousin’s wedding: “Well, bless your heart, that sure is a dress!” (If they understand you: “What’s THAT supposed to mean?” Because they know, but they want to make you SAY it. Combat engaged.)

“Bless their heart”: I am sharing news (gossiping) about someone but I like them and I want you to understand that I do, truly, bless their heart. “It’s been so hard for her after her father passed. Bless her heart, I’m gonna make her that red velvet cake she likes.”

“Bless their heart”: I am shit talking someone and I want to cover my ass, of COURSE I am just concerned for them. “She wore white to her sister’s wedding last week! WHITE! Bless her heart, I guess some people’s children just don’t know better.” (“Well you know they say she was always after the groom—“ “NO! Bless her heart.”)

That last one is the BYH they would need to deploy (but didn’t) in the Make Some Noise clip, but I feel like it honestly wasn’t necessary because the “prayer request” already served as a cover for talking shit. It probably would have come out if they’d been allowed to keep the skit going and they needed plausible deniability for spilling juicier details that maybe Jesus didn’t actually need to hear about. Thank you for coming to my Performing Southernness While Being Neurodivergent talk.

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To give an idea of how huge this is, I originally got my loan in 1990. It was for $2400 a year and I spent 3 years in school. That should have been a repayment of about $10,000 with interest added.

Just after I left school, it was sold to another company, who added on fees. Then was sold to another, and another, and another.

Everytime I made headway on it, it was sold. Eventually, I just started doing deferments and forbearance, because I never knew where it would end up.

Flash forward to this morning and I got the above email!!!

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Why does life have to suck so hard for so long?

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reblog for larger sample size :)

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THE FOUNDING AND ONLY MEMBER OF THE 40/70 CLUB: RONALD ACUÑA JR!!!!

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- let me tell you a story about the Braves having 8 players going to the All-Star Game -

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Best of Jamie Tartt in Season 3

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Everyone needs a picture of J. G. Hertzler (Martok) holding a gay bat'leth on their dash

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The best hair in all of television history.

fave queer characters + Trent Crimm, Ted Lasso

I don't think we change, per se, as much as we learn to accept who we've always been.

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Ted Lasso Finale + parallels

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The Pink Lemonade Mystery

Please reblog in order to gather meaningful data on this vitally important question. I have not much hope of it gaining traction from my own blog, but this started with @prismatic-bell so I'm hoping they'll pass it along and maybe someone with a food blog will give me a hand.

Whatever kind of pink lemonade you like, drink up! It's an ideal summer drink, full of electrolytes and vitamin C (even the dyed stuff but do yourself a favor and make it from actual fruit juice, not that nasty powder!) and summer is a-coming in.

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Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

Look buddy, i’m just trying to make it to Friday.

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Reblog if you're not homophobic

Every url that reblog’s will be written in a book and shown to my homophobic dad. 

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