#Dec 11

[celebsssss]

Happy 27th Birthday to Hailee Steinfeld🥳

[omniscientfish]

Happy end of the world tomorrow! Thank you squidward for informing us, you slimey octopus ~

[mistfunk]

Mistigram: Why did AdeptApril draw an #ANSIart screen for International Mountain Day? Because it was there.

[anonymousredactedconfessions]

i’ll be completely honest

i enjoy alexis and kody as characters of course what they did is terrible but like

kody has a nice voice and his introduction made me very interested in him

and for alexis when we actually meet her she’s snarky and witty and i like that also she’s honestly really funny

hate me for this but i think they’re kind of neat

.

[snkrbonbon]

Dime x adidas Busenitz Vulc II

[eyauwu]

HOLY FORK DID I JUST FORGET TO POST SOMETHING ON MY BIRTHDAY

was yesterday... TwT

[amiablesummer]

William Carlos Williams, Summer Song

ID in alt text

[msbarrows]

Been procrastinating on my Thing A Day posts again - this time for over a week, which I'm mostly blaming on obsessively playing Timberborn and Planet Crafter rather than getting other things done (such as doing Christmas baking, which I have yet to do any of).

Things I know I've done in the last week and a half: laundry, partial cleaning of the upstairs bathroom, some tidying and reorganization in both my bedroom and the room where my computer is, baked bread. Got downtown to the pharmacy and refilled prescriptions. Most of the way through crocheting another scarf.

Suppers from this same time period, which I'm only able to remember this far back since I'm currently keeping a food diary for a while so I'm more aware of what I'm eating throughout the day (it's definitely helping me to cut back on carbs as snacks):

Dec 7 - Tuna rice with green peas.

Dec 8 - Grilled cheese sandwich, apple strudel (just me for supper so made a lazy meal)

Dec 9 - Beef stewed with onions and mushrooms, served with boiled potatoes, steamed carrots, and green peas.

Dec 10 - Roast chicken, with mashed potatoes and steamed mixed veg

Dec 11 - Chicken strips with potatoes hashed in duck fat with sweet peppers, corn, and green onions

Dec 12 - Beef vindaloo with barberry rice and steamed mixed veg

Dec 13 - Taco salad

Dec 14 - Hamburger patties with potato wedges, corn and tomatoes

Dec 15 - Pasta with meat sauce and meatballs

[fe-smashorpass]

Soy Sauce for Geese - Fatal Fury Special

[bigpeace71]

Birfday tomorrowwwwww so crazy

Gonna be unc status

Agghhhh

[myveinsofpitchblackink-13]

Happy birthday Evermore🤎🤎

[mistfunk]

Mistigram: For today's date in last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar, LDA drew an #ANSIart screen of #HermeyTheMisfitElf from the 1964 Rankin/Bass Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer stop-motion animation, seemingly endorsing the use of Microsoft's Windows 11 at his dental clinic.

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[omni-scient-pan-da]

I made this post last year, and just saw in my camera roll that it is in fact December 11th again, and this year, I got to take my first and only college final exam and return home til second semester starts and SO much has changed from the first December 11th in a way that is far better than I ever could have expected

So if you're looking for a sign things will get better, this is your sign to hold on and keep pushing through so you can accomplish things you never dreamed you could do before 💜

Happy December 11th everyone!

Okay so story time

I'm writing this on January 6th, 2022, it's a Thursday and almost 11:30pm and I really should be asleep by now if I want any hope of being a functioning human being to get through the quizzes I have in two of my AP classes tommorow but instead I'm here

Six years ago, as of the day I'm writing this, I was absolutely terrified of change, I hated the thought of it and I hated that everything suddenly was going to change when I felt like I had just gotten the hang of things

Six years ago, as of the day this is getting posted, I felt like the side character in someone else's story

I was there for emotional support to help other people shine, but when I had issues of my own, I was overlooked and all I wanted was to be somebody important, so much so that I dove into world after world of fantastical things that happened to fantastical people because they were good people that fought for what was right and lived happily ever after

And I was convinced that my life was going to be horrible because I so badly and desparately wanted to be special in some way, I wanted super powers or to marry into a royal family or to be transported to some magical world where the only issues I had was figuring out how to do the thing that was hard but obviously right

I was already unique, just not the kind of unique that made everyone flock around them because they were so cool and special, I was the kind of unique that stood out but made bad choices and decided to surround myself with people that weren't the best for me and I felt so disheartened because of that

And then, a few months later, my whole world fell apart and so I thought maybe if I just dug myself deeper into these fantasy worlds, if I just wished a little bit harder, if I was just a little bit more pure of heart then maybe, just maybe I could find the magic of the world that lay hidden just beneath the surface and would allow me to be just like the people I read about in books

And somehow, overtime, I realized that I wasn't going to be able to find the kind of magic I was looking for, if it did exist at all, it was going to find me and spending all my time searching for it wasn't healthy

And I think by that point, that was around the time I discovered fanfiction and the internet, and I started staying up late to dive into fantasies of a different kind but now? Now they were of fantastical people that had gone on fantastical journeys getting a much needed break, living happily ever after with the one they loved most, doing normal, ordinary things in a way that was so breathtakingly beautiful it couldn't help but captivate my attention

And so I started to romantize those things instead

Going to college and falling in love with your painfully straight roommate only to realize you're both gay and crushing on each other

Train rides, road trips, comicons, found families, spending time with friends, spending the night together when there's only one bed, falling in love with someone's words and realizing you actually know who the person is, texting a number scribbled on a bathroom stall, finding your soulmate against all the odds

And I started to glorify all these things that suddenly seemed attainable, and it got me through the day

Sure it wasn't happening now, but one day in the future, here was something I could actually obtain one day and I just had to wait until I had the funds or the transportation or the friends to do it with me

And then along comes a day like any other

Just... A normal Saturday, a week before the project is due if you want to receive extra credit

The day we're all going ice skating

And it's crazy and chaotic but it's fun, and there's laughter and sure there's yelling and frustration, but it's all in good spirit and the wind was freezing but we were all suffering together and my hands burned when I put them in that warm water but ultimately, Mystic was just trying to stop me from getting frostbite

And then we're standing in line for an HOUR waiting to get skates after walking for an unnecessarily long time in the freezing cold and my feet hurt like hell because I'm wearing skates that are two sizes too small for me and I can't balance for shit

And then we're ferrying across to the restaurant for dinner and it's nice

I'm struck with the realization that even though I'm exhausted and my social battery is running really low I'm happy, so happier than I've been in a really long time, and I'm not even thinking about the Psychology work I have to do when I get back home the next day because I am in the moment, I'm sitting and stealing cheese curds from Mystic and eating melted ice cream and making stupid jokes with my friends and wandering around Target aimlessly with my sister before going back home and passing out from exhaustion and it was fun

I feel loved

So much so that I made a collage of the day's pictures and made it my home screen, so I could look back on it and remember what a day December 11th was

And now, as I sit here at 11:40pm on a random Thursday, knowing I should be asleep, I can't help but remind myself that while the idealized versions of day to day life you see in fanfiction tropes are great to think about

And they have a possibility of occuring, and they could totally happen

It's the days that are messy, the days that don't go as planned, the days when you come home and immediately fall asleep because you're so tired that you look back on the fondest

When you're running back and forth across the neighborhood because you can't find your folder and you're supposed to go get froyo before showing up to the concert and your stupid uniform dress won't cover your bra straps you're having fun, and you're feeling loved and you're having the moments you dreamed about having

They may be messy but they're chaotic and messy and loveable and real

So now, today, on another December 11th, I would like to take the time to remind myself and anyone that made it through my rambling to find beauty in the now

"Embrace the mess" as fictional famous podcast creator Cinda Canning once said

Find your love and your joy and your hopes and dreams and aspirations in these moments right now, when they take you by surprise and people remind you that they love you

Even when it's not the romantic love you've been reading about for forever, you're loved and you're whole and as long as you can keep making it through the day, as long as you can keep reminding yourself to breathe, you'll stumble upon the December 11ths of life when you're meant to, and those will be the moments worth going for, not the glorified versions of fanfiction tropes that are much less likely to happen

Happy December 11th everyone, and may you have a good a day as I did, a year ago