#LET ME SWIM
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I've been talking about my new swimming spot and how I had to get away from my last one because it became contaminated, but now I have to talk about it in more detail because I am getting stressed, and too anxious to actually go swimming.
So the reason I left my last, super convenient swimming spot, is that it became a spot where a small group of m*n frequented; and the thing is they didn't harass me right away. There are little benches on top of the riverbank, under some trees, and sometimes when I went swimming, there would be people on the benches, just resting and talking, and I would politely greet them and go down the stairs, and we didn't bother each other at all. Until, at one point, whenever I would get into the water, a male from the group would suddenly also decide to get into the river, at which point I would swim to the other side of the river, where I would have peace.
That worked the first time, but the second time, a m*n followed me down into the river, with two big dogs (they're as big as me), and when I swam to the other side of the river, he also swam to the other side. I felt uncomfortable, but decided to linger there for a bit, and then swam back – and he followed me immediately. At this point I started to get away from the swimming spot, into the deeper water, and then one of his dogs followed me and started barking at me, so the m*n also followed the dog, and got uncomfortably close to me.
I want to stress at this point that I'm not wearing a swimsuit or a bikini, I am in big black swimming trunks that go all the way down to my knee, and a sleeveless shirt which I appropriated for swimming because the outfit makes me very comfortable, and un-self conscious. The outfit screams 'nothing to look at here'. And I'm struggling with low weight right now so there's truly nothing interesting, I am looking as unappealing to males as it is possible to be. Even my hair is tied up and wrapped in a bandana. He looks like he's in his late 50s or early 60s, he's three times my size, and his dogs are about as big as I am. There is no legitimate reason for him to linger anywhere close to me.
As I was in my deep water spot, and he wasn't leaving, I started to get terrified. I was looking for a way out of the situation, I was starting to contemplate that he might assault me, because he kept following and cornering me, and even though the place was kinda public, there was nobody nearby. I waited for a moment where he got distracted with one of his dogs, and escaped the scene.
I was too scared to ever go back to this spot, so I found a new one; the problem is my new spot is not exactly far away from the old spot, just much more inconvenient to get to. No stairs, you have to wade trough tall grass and get a bit prickled by the nettles and thorns. But I don't care, I'm feeling safe with the nettles. So yesterday I went swimming to my new spot, and as soon as I entered the water, I realize the same guy with his dogs, is at the old spot, and I ignore him, I'm far enough that he can't quickly or inconspicuously approach me. So I'm swimming to the other side of the river, swimming back, looking at ducks, letting all of the little fish snack on my dead skin cells, and a few times I just offhandedly glanced at his direction, just to make sure he was still there. And every single time, he's staring right at me. He was looking at me when I was entering the water, he was staring in my direction when I was swimming, and when I was just sitting in the water. He was staring after me when I was leaving as well.
That guy seems to just live at the river, he's in there almost every time I go swimming, and at this point I'm scared to go back. Why would you go to the river and then keep your eyes completely glued to another person also swimming there? From my point of view, I was being super cool, making sure us two strangers each have our own private swimming spot, so we can both relax and not be bothered by other people around us. But why is he staring at me?
At this point I can't rule out the possibility that he's planning to assault me and is monitoring my movements to figure out where and when it would be the easiest to do it. There's no way he could be staring at me for no reason whatsoever, even when it's making me obviously very uncomfortable, to the point where I will go to a different place to swim. Apparently me just moving to a different spot isn't enough. And this isn't the first time I've gotten attacked by a male in the river, I once got chased by someone to the point where I had to hide in a corn field to get away.
So now I am sad and wondering if I'll get to swim again this summer. All other access points are either crowded or far away from me, and I hate crowds. I need a no-m*n-summer. Just delete them. Female only summer. I can't deal with this shit anymore.
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Me whenever I look at the ocean:
#i havent done this in a while#but a reminder that i wtotr 'ocean lover on main'#in my bio#LET ME IN#LET ME SWIM#let me look at the state of coral health#let me see mola mola#whale shark#fish#i love fish
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this bit is so cute ❤️ this is one of the episodes i remember most from my childhood cos i wanted this to happen to my house so bad LOL
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#my art#free! iwatobi swim club#free! eternal summer#free! dive to the future#free! fanart#free!#makoto tachibana#yamazaki sousuke#hiyori tono#im DONe oh my god i didnt think i could do it#looks at date what do u meAN these only took a week i feel like ive aged 30 years working on these#makoto took the longest by far like th angle the water the FISH shoutout to the blur tool fr i would die without her#also let me tell u a story. the entire time i was working on makoto and hiyori i STILL had no internet#so not only was i fighting the csp offline usage limit i also couldnt download any new brushes so guess who rawdogged the willow and kelp#nothin but a bamboo leaf brush a flat chisel and a dream#these r easily the most in-depth backgrounds ive tackled in a While and i honestly think they turned out rly well all things considered#makoto has 2 b my fav for obvious reasons but as a set i think they r all very strong and cohesive im so !!! pats self on back#sousuke tho is sadly th latest instalment of hina refuses to learn csp perspective tool.. dont look at my diagonals dont LOOK at them >:(((#it's always more apparent w indoor settings sighs gomen sousuke at least u look great in the patient gown :'> resident hospital hottie#ANYWAY ever since tht one free!/colour theory post i have been rotating these three in my head nonstop they make me in sain#so this is my take on them and green this is my love letter to the right hand men of the free cast#and hiyori /j#i jest he's grown on me he has male manipulated his way up from the bottom tier i have been charmed by his petty instigator tendencies#this is what happened to ikuya kirishima hashtag never forget
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More Steve Has Older Siblings AU nonsense:
1. The first Christmas after he told his parents he was too old for babysitters, he spent alone. His parents were snowed in at some ski resort. His dad said over the phone that they’d call one of his siblings to pick him up so he can spend the holiday with them. He either forgot to call or they ignored the request, because Steve spent the day waiting for someone to come by but no one ever did. He opened his presents alone and lied about it when his mom called that night. Santa had died for him years before, but the spirit of Christmas never really returned after that year.
2. Steve’s dad was on the swim team in high school. Swears he would’ve made it to the Olympics if he hadn’t torn his rotator cuff. He never went to a single one of Steve’s basketball games but went to every swim meet he had his freshman year. Steve thinks his dad stopped coming to his meets because he realized his son was a better swimmer than he ever was.
3. Steve had always been a little scared of the night when he was a kid and when the blue glow of the pool on his ceiling made too many moving shadows, he’d sit at the top of the stairs in the hallway. His mom, who has her own troubles sleeping, sometimes would sit with him. They don’t talk much and they never go downstairs even though Tommy’s mom would’ve gotten him warm milk by now.. The stairs creaked too much and they didn’t want to wake Dad, so they sit there together. Shoulder to shoulder, even on the nights Steve wishes more than anything that she’d hug him. They stop having this time together when she eventually gets a sleeping pill prescription.
4. Claire, being the only other girl in the house, was expected to take care of the new baby, so she did. Steve was bathed, changed, and fed when needed. She never hurt him. She didn’t abandon him. He was always at least in ear shot, but she wasn’t interested in him beyond the duty of childcare. She didn’t talk to him. She didn’t play with him. She didn’t hold him more than she had to. Steve gets it, kinda. He’s not her kid. She’s not his mom. It doesn’t make it hurt less when he sees how good she is with her own kids.
#me writing these: let’s do sad ones this time#all of Richard Harrington’s kids were on the swim team#Steve was the only one to actually make it to state#Steve’s ‘hobby’ he does with his dad is just swimming laps in the pool#steve harrington#stranger things#Steve has older siblings Au#and become champ
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its been a while since my last summer mochi 🌺🏖️
#the cat witchs guild#the misc adventures of mochi and lime#tcwg#tmaomal#mochi#art#ocs#original#shy and pouty because coco coerced her into beach time and she cant go swimming#never wears anything so revealing ever#(a treat for lime he he)#i feel like i dont do a lot of solo character art anymore#but i wanted to doodle something tonight...#during the beach ep she stays on the sand under the umbrella the whole time#coco quietly to mochi: look fine you dont have to swim but the whole point is to let lime see you like *~this~*#anyway. lime stays there with her#mochi: if its too hot you should go swimming!! you dont have to keep me company!!#lime: nah im good (id rather die than be away from you wearing that swimsuit)#lime: (the hottest mochi ive ever seen and im gonna waste my time in the water????? hell no)#lime: if youre sweating why dont you uhh......take off the sweater#mochi shy af#its fine if she doesnt. he still has the lower body views
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Tango from @watcheraurora's fic: King's Tide!
HIGHLY recommend this fic!!! Honestly WatcherAurora is one of my favorite ranchers writers EVER!!!
Tango's showing off his amazing swimming skills for his pretty human lol wheeee backflips!
#rora this fic is everything to me!!!!!#maybe im just leaning into my pisces-ness but like!!!!!!! merfolk!!!!!!!!!!!!!#i meant to finish this piece ages ago but uhhhh#i got distracted by the piece im making for the ice walls cinematic universe lol#and that one!!!! is coming!!!!!!#also rora i need you to know that this fic hit the perfect “villain scott” vibes for me#like do i love scott the content creator and character? yea!! hes awesome!!#do i respect everyone who ships flower husbands? yeah of course!! ship and let ship <3#do i love when scott plays the villain role in ranchers fics? YES GAWD#and rora you are writing it SO GOOD in this fic and i appreciate you so much <3#trust that it would be rora to make me FINALLY draw tango without fire/elemental hair! i didnt think it was possible for me lmao#doing scales by hand owieee my wrist... but so worth.... yummy detail.....#im so picky about my merfolk lol... my pet peeve is when the tails are too short or too thin#they need POWER!!!! to swim in the SEA!!!! and swim FAST!!!!!#okay thank u for reading now time for the boring tags <3#iffi doodles#hermitshipping#trafficshipping#tangotek#jimmysolidarity#ranchers duo#ranchers#solidaritek#solidango
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i wish that nyx was a girl not just because i’m pedantic about nyx being a female goddess but also that having a son puts feysand in an incredibly sticky political situation. in eight years they’ll be expected to drop him off at an illyrian war camp, where kids are whipped and have their bones broken for infractions. if they don’t make him, the illyrians will never respect him or see him as one of their own, and will grow resentful of Rhysand. If they start trying to reform the child soldier training system now, it’s going to be blatantly obvious that they’re only doing it to spare their son, which will cause more resentment. So their options are let Nyx be abused, which Rhysand thinks is normal and Feyre is horrified by, so massive rift in the marriage and a traumatized kid. OR variations of losing any vestiges of respect the illyrians. now this is an sjm problem and fits better as a doylist critique but i will add this to my list of evidence that rhysand is fucking stupid anyways. not only did he not think through the potential physical dangers of having a child with feyre but never connected the dots to see just how badly it’s gonna blow up in his face in t-minus eight years. oh tumblr user kataraavatara, you say, you’re so cruel, why are you criticizing him for wanting to start a family. well when you’re the head of a hereditary monarchy your children and how you raise them are in fact political choices as well as personal ones. tough luck bat boy.
#the only option is for Nyx to trans her gender#nyx archeron#anti rhysand#Carly’s anti Rhysand manifesto#but now that i think about it#isn’t it kinda crazy Rhysand idolizes his mom as like a saint even tho she dropped him off in the war camp#logically he should think nesta “letting” feyre endanger herself was illyrian (complementary)#wow nesta elain and papa archeron you sure did the whole sink or swim method really well. you remind me of my mother.#feyre archeron critical
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I've been trying to make a point lately to sit down and read a bunch of the more popular books on atheism and skepticism because that has always been really discouraged by my religious community and I want to know what they actually have to say. And as someone who is extensively educated on religion and culture and the humanities, let me tell you, the amount of whiplash I've been getting from reading a bunch of scientists talk about religion—has been severe.
One minute, they'll be making a really beautiful, insightful, true and eye-opening point about the nature of reality and superstition and the scientific process and naturalism—and the next, they will turn around and unselfconsciously say the most staggeringly ignorant thing about religion and culture, like—there's no reason at all why Muslims in America post 9-11 might have been upset about a high-profile Christian preacher publicly burning a Quran, except that they're spoiled children throwing a fit because other people won't treat their holy objects with the same reverence that they do (real example from The Happy Atheist). Or they'll make a claim that's less about pointing out the harm that religion can cause and more about getting mad that everybody in the world doesn't share the same priorities that they do, and completely fail to notice the blatant hypocrisy of that.
Gritting my teeth like, you're allowed to criticize religion and to share your perspective on why your values are worthwhile, but also you're an ass and you're criticizing religion wrong
#let me do better:#the problem isn't just that religion is silly or factually incorrect#the problem is when it causes harm#it might seem silly to you but people don't generally believe just because they lack the willpower to think skeptically#there are real consequences to indoctrination and religious hegemony#ugh i understand that it's partly a reaction to swimming in a sea of believers & being constantly told that a naturalist viewpoint is wrong#but it's really annoying#griping
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I could be here all day. Honestly, who doesn't love this kind of thing?
#Cottagecore#Nature#Naturecore#Landscape#Scenery#Beautiful#Tranquility#Calming#Relaxing#Forest#Trees#Clear Sky#Clear Water#River#Rocks#Swimming#Let Me Stay#SonneLuna
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i thought / m a n / these girls are quite heartless 🤣 when i accepted the quest at /clearly/ inconvenient time to swim & dive
#the lake was like a pool of darkness at night; and i had to get him swim to the center of it; so far away from the surface#it was so scary; as if he will just disappear & never come back to the surface once i let him dive in; to the darkness#poppy sweeting#hogwarts legacy#hogwarts legacy fanart#hogwarts legacy mc#fanart#grace pinch smedley#The Lost Astrolabe#Nerida Roberts#Merky Depths#animagus has no business having to be so hard to achieve........... ; i would want to turn to animals too..........#but the process is sooooooo elaborate........ ; i would choke a thousand times on the mandrake leaf ;#& one of them would get to the wrong pipe and end me before i achieve anything ...............................#anyhow imagining everyone as animals is just like what floyd does; as a mermaid; giving everyone nicknames as sea creatures#there was a manga where everyone can turn into animals but this one boy that has social difficulty i think; i wonder if i can find it again#i think it had not been updated for the longest time#augh also reminds me of 0ki from 0kami#i envy him and the 0ina people who can transform into dogs#i am off to watch the rest of br1dgeton episodes of season 3
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#every photo's SUBTITLES on the left was done by hand and let me tell u - NEVER AGAINN!!#but yeah anyways this parallel was stuck in my head#smiling friends#smiling friends season 2#smiling friends pim#smiling friends mr boss#smiling friends charlie#pim pimling#mr boss#charlie dompler#adult swim#michael cusack#zach hadel#cinematic parallels
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watching the Olympics truly puts my sport anime knowledge into use
#olympics#paris 2024#sport anime#free!#haikyuu!!#idk... others#anime#haikyuu#free iwatobi swim club#SK∞ the infinity#slam dunk#yuri on ice#blue lock#dive#if you know others let me know#too busy following a volleyball match to properly tag
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I feel accomplished so I'm documenting this now in case my game breaks into a billion pieces.
Game updated
Mods updated
DX11 batch fix complete (that bitch ran for 3 hours)
TS4 folder currently copying back to where it belongs
Story updates in the drafts for Tuesday & Thursday
Now we load the game and wait.
#I am not feeling optimistic about this#but I did my best#kdfldskjfkljlkajdk#EA know they be having us swimming in anxiety istg#I hate them as a staff a company and a crew#I just love this game#ignore me#i'll let y'all know how it goes
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i know it's Not That Deep because it was something said by brennan during a nepo baby bit but annabelle cheddar's father buying her her first ship presumably after she shamed the family by giving up her crown and title and swearing off marriage is actually so sweet
#i know it was a funny moment but like#diversity win! cheese nobility supports his lesbian daughter#i know it's not that deep but let me swim for a second#d20#time quangle
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HELLOOOOO CATTLEPUNK NATION, SPECIAL POST









THERE’S A DISCORD FOR US NOW; COME HANG OUT!!!!
#jrwi riptide#cattlepunk#drey ferin#jrwi ichabod#jrwi shipping#jrwi drey#Ichabod stain#lotsa colors for yall today#guys I’m soooooo ill#come be ill with me cattlepunk nation#let’s take ibuprofen together#I think drey gave horseans swimming lessons#sailing as a common practice is still pretty recent for them iirc so they may not have bothered learning nearly as much#plus there’s so much land there#also also#clothing swap yippeeeeee#their fashion senses are pretty similar. I think that in a perfect world they just share a closet and their stuff just blends together lol#guys they should kiss#TV’s art
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