sometimes-a-writer

[sometimes-a-writer]

ur twenties is just reciting "life is tough but i am tougher" 500 times a day. sometimes thru tears

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I just whispered "fuck it, we ball" as I turned in my 4,500 word final philosophy paper. If that doesn't describe college in a nutshell I don't know what does.

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do teachers not realize that like at a certain point students just…. can’t….. like we are literally dead inside

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wow. wrote a full sentence. im a god. im done for the day

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god i hate knowing i have stuff to do it's like bearing a curse

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I have one more paper due for finals, and with the help of an extension and a playlist with a little more hype, we're in the final stretch. [procrastination, my ever faithful nemesis, longs to prevail]

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local woman who claimed she will "cross that bridge when she comes to it" arrives at said bridge

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getting into bed on a December night by Ellen Bass

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Ernst Lindgren (1887 - 1948) - Winter Landscape. 1943. Oil on panel.

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recently when im tempted to say 'i'm gonna kill myself' i try to correct it into saying "im gonna walk into the river and become a trout" or some other form of that. this is my new thing

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Audio ON!

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It’s always “why did you get in the river” and “your soaking wet” and never How was the river The river looked fun was it fun

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So I was once actually collecting data in a frozen river, and another guy fell in, filled up his waders and everything. He was wearing cotton (we were floored), and I had the car keys so I was like “alright, I’ll walk you back to the car to make sure you’re okay. Then you can strip down in there and get the heat going. There’s a blanket to wrap up in.” And he looked at me like I was insane. He said, “what? I’m fine.” I informed him that actually, if he stayed outside in subzero temperatures, soaking wet, in cotton, he was Licherly going to Freeze To Death, and he was like, “it’s not the 1800s lmao.”

And then while the guy in charge Forced him to go back to the car and strip, I had to stand there in a frozen river absolutely bewildered by the implication that a Wildife Biologist thought hypothermia is like, an old timey disease that people stopped getting at some point.

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it genuinely stresses me out that hat video of Ruby Rose binding with ACE bandages is getting so much traction. ACE bandages hurt so bad don’t fucking bind with them you can damage your body!!! It’s not cool and subversive to hurt your ribs!!!!!

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We really have harmed a whole generation of trans and gnc children by failing to communicate how serious a decision binding actually is, how there’s no ACTUALLY safe way to bind, how it permeneantly damages the body, how it can make top surgery more difficult in the future. I don’t think we should be keeping trans kids from binding (we let kids do all sorts of things they’re really not old enough to understand the potential consequences of) but we owe them the ability to make informed decisions at LEAST