#also ive already ripped apart a pair of ooooold jeans

[ace-sailor-uranus]

had the realization today, after a conversation with a coworker, about the stereotype that a lot of people look back on high school as either the best time of their life or the worst time of their life

and like. i high-key thought it was some kind of joke?

bc no one ACTUALLY remembers high school, right? like, blips and shit, but not like. most of it?

no. most people do in fact remember most of their high school career (if not immediately then at least with a little effort) and the fact that i do *not* is apparently abnormal.

so. that's something fun to bring up to my therapist next time i see him. yay.

anyway, related, i thought up something to help my silly little mental health

did you know they make adult merit badges? yeah.

also so y'know i mentioned that im making removable back plates (basically) for my leather jacket and also a vest i cut up out of a denim jacket? yeah.

so i thought it would be funny if i made a backplate that was entirely, like, vaguely sarcastic and etc merit badges. technically they're mostly DEmerit badges but the point still stands

but also i want to get/make patches that are, like, lifetime achievements, y'know?

'escaped high school' and 'happy quarter-life crisis' and 'got a job'

alongside 'ghost hunter' and 'cunt' (which is absolutely an achievement and i will not hear otherwise) and 'banned book club member'

idk i think it'd be, like, nice to be able to see a semi-cohesive tangible picture of 'holy shit you're still kicking, lookit you go you little weirdo'