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I am in thee worst reading slump of my life. I've tried my classic tactic of reading graphic novels and romance novels to jumpstart my desire for reading other genres but it aint workin.
Summertime is typically when my depression shows up and I'm already noticing some mess ups here and there in terms of me forgetting things or misplacing them. But I just wanna read a damn book, please i am begging my brain to let me read a damn book, especially a book for the book clubs at work! Lemme do sumn.
#jericho.txt#now we have an environmentalism book club that i decided to collab on#cuz the programming person never heard of eco fiction before even tho her position is all bout environmental#and shes worked in a library for years#so i couldn't stand by and not help#but damn
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eleven is fascinating to me because he came right off the back of tens horrible traumatic breakdown after he lost everything and he immediately tried to establish himself as the opposite of that. he is funny and goofy and almost childlike, and he bulldozes on in his adventures with amy like nothing happened at all. but then something happens and his masks slips and it's like oh! the core of this man is still anger. he is so so angry all of the time and this façade is the only thing stopping him from being consumed by it. he isn't over any of it and he hasn't moved on. he is wearing a fez and laughing but under that all that exists is age old anger and grief and it is going to consume him
#i do think that this pit of anger was eventually covered and soothed by the ponds#but he didn't adress it and he couldn't even look at it until he was twelve#when he stopped pushing back and repressing everything and finally allowed himself to exist as he was#but ok listen#its all layed out in the first 3 episodes of season 5 and in the way amy sees him#episode 1. here is the new doctor he is energetic and reeling and fun#episode 2. the space whale comparison. here is the new doctor. he is unthinkably ancient and almost godlike but he is so so kind#and patient and good. he is ancient and lonely but he can't stand to see children cry. so the doctor helps people#episode 3. daleks. the doctor is a soldier. these are his age old enemies. he wants them dead and he will stop at nothing#all logic and reason vanish. he is hitting the dalek with a pipe and yelling his head off while amy watches in horror#like obviously we know why but amy didnt#this is not a sane or rational man he is unstable and angry#and in that episode he was stripped back to what he largely is: hate#you would make a good dalek ect ect ect#anyway 3 episodes with 3 very distinct and equally definitely traits layed out like: here you go#i don't like elevens era much but those first 3 episodes were great#doctor who#eleven#amy#eleventh doctor#matt smith#dr who#dw#i mean idk this is what river literally had to spell out for him#eleven was careening completely out of control#how long til doctor means warrior indeed?#mine
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My brother died very suddenly yesterday.
He was the kind of person who always had dozens and dozens of friends everywhere he went because he was easy to talk to and funny and treated people with respect, and his friends ranged in class, race, age, social ability, introversion and extroversion--no matter who you were, he could and would befriend you.
He would scold me for not asking him for help when I needed it, and he would mean it. He taught me to tip well. He loved helping people. He played practical jokes on the new kids at work, including getting one guy to "chop flour" because the flour they had in the kitchen was "too coarse."
He introduced me to some of the best food I've ever eaten in my life. He would always help with a recipe that wasn't working. He would tell me what to buy my foodie friends for their birthdays, and he never got it wrong. He loved meat and whiskey but also wine and fruit and he got me to eat beets even because he knew how to make anything good.
Mostly, he thought that people were all deserving of respect and decency. He was outspoken on this. For all that his friends ranged across demographics, he didn't tolerate anyone being hateful around him. But even then, he was nice about it. He would try to get people to come around to his side. He saw the good in people.
And he was happy. He had finally quit chewing tobacco and managed to stay off it for three years. He had a girlfriend he really liked. The pandemic had put him out of work for over a year, but he was back at his job and doing well and he liked it. He was good at it. And it's complete bullshit that he's gone.
#when I think of him#it's him standing in the kitchen beckoning me over to taste the best duck I've ever had#duck that was catering for a special party#but he knew I was around so he saved me bites of all this spectacular expensive food he made#or it's him driving me to the library after our mom died#and I couldn't figure out how to complete a school assignment#and he picked me up and told me I could always ask him for help#or him telling me my car sucked#and when I asked him why he said he wants a car that can go fast#and I told him that wasn't important to me at all#and his attitude changed entirely and he was like oh then I guess your car is great for you then#or just how much he loved his nieces#no uncle has ever doted harder#or when I asked him what knives I should buy for my kitchen because I was tired of shitty ones#how seriously he considered the question#tw death#I guess#honestly he's the kind of person who is so good with other people I always wondered why he bothered with someone like me#a thought that hurt his feelings every time#he was my big brother and that's all there was to it
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stick taps for forsling after being locked up for 17 minutes (01.02.24)
#matthew tkachuk#kevin stenlund#in that he's standing there lol#florida panthers#hockeyedit#hockey#nhl#he was so excited for gus being free after his fight I couldn't help it#hockey stuff#my gifs#munchin'
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one of the many reasons I love Rachel's POV is that she just does not get Marco. Not at all. Jake and Tobias know hes putting up a front more often than not, and Cassie especially sees right through him, but Rachel buys the mask. She even thinks, originally, that Marco might be against fighting just to annoy them. I'm not even sure that Rachel ever really understands how deep Marco goes down the rabbit hole.
Like, I don't think she's doing anything that Marco doesn't want her to-- She isn't being mean or anything. I don't think it's because she dislikes him, or because they're constantly fighting. Marco is doing this on purpose. He puts on a mask with everyone, but Rachel, especially, and she buys it hook, line, and sinker.
And it really makes you think, like-- How long did Marco and Rachel know each other before his mom died? Is she basing her assumptions off a boy that doesn't exist anymore? Is that why Marco keeps up the front with her, or is it because she's the most popular, the prettiest, and the strongest? Did Marco have a crush on Rachel before his entire world fell apart? Is that why he's desperate for her to never realize it did?
#shut up az#animorphs#marco/rachel was my first ever animorphs ship and now as an adult I'm like wow it would go so poorly#because Rachel just does not get Marco at ALL#and I think Marco definitely adored Rachel at the beginning of the series and that's part of why he couldn't stand Tobias#but I also think he gave up pretty soon after realizing how similar they were#like it does not escape me that Marco and Rachel both open books using their morphs to attack people#like. they are so. fucking similar sometimes#and I think Marco seeing that he and Rachel are similar only in their most ill advised moments would turn him off a little#and now I'm like wow it probably doesn't help that Rachel has never once given any indication that she realizes he's changed#like he will always be the same old annoying shitty best friend of his cousin and on one hand he appreciates the nostalgia of that#but that's not who he is anymore. you can't love something that doesn't exist. so Marco just. Lets go.#(falls in love with an alien instead)
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Thinking about "your weakness is how you always want to be the hero" and how the series returns to this at the end
Li Lianhua hated how he acted as Li Xiangyi and spent years trying to distance himself from it, but ultimately he still fell back into the similar patterns, for all his added experience
His main priority was always to "do the right thing" regardless of how that would impact on those around him. And it *did* impact those around him. From Qiao Wanmian and Shan Gudao as Li Xiangyi to Fang Duobing and Di Feisheng as Li Lianhua
Giving the Styx flower to the emperor so he could use it as leverage to guarantee Fang Duobing and his family's safety. Using the last of his power to save Yun Biqiu. Constantly putting others above himself whilst actively refusing to recognise that his self-sacrificial nature would hurt those he cared about most
And sure, he thinks he's going to die anyway. They're going to be hurt regardless and he can't do anything about that. His odds are low of the Styx flower even working. But ultimately, he refuses to even consider trying. Li Xiangyi has been dead a long time and Li Lianhua is just there to tide things over. What value is the life of a ghost
To the end, he lives and dies a hero. To the end, he refuses to live for himself.
#sth about how he almost managed to live for himself but his past and need to do right doomed him.#those missing years before canon starts were probably the closest he got but even then the knowledge he couldn't use martial arts#must have killed him (no pun intended). because he'd put so much stock in his identity as sigu sect leader + hero + prodigy#so to have such a massive part of his identity stripped from him... honestly it doesn't seem that he ever fully comes to terms with it#but he makes progress and he tries to do better. + that leads to him becoming a different type of 'hero' than the symbol he was originally#deep down he wants to help people with all he has but his capacity isn't infinite + at some point can only be taken from himself#mysterious lotus casebook#mlc spoilers#also to be clear I mention shan gudao not to say lxy should have realised earlier bc for a lot of the time he was too young to notice#and later on sgd did better at hiding his intentions. but more for how lxy tunnel visioned towards his idea of righteousness#and steamrolled over everyone else. both sgd and qwm were placed far below the importance of the sigu sect#and lxy's arrogance made it such that sigu became reliant on him alone as he shut others out (hence domino fall once he went).#idk if he could ever have 'fixed' what was btwn him and sgd bc it was so deep rooted but I do think that his actions#helped convince sgd that sgd was entirely in the right to choose his path#mlc#edit: just went and checked the exact wording of the TL and it's actually 'you like being a hero' rather than 'you want to be the hero'#which is different but still close enough in implications for my point to stand (I think)
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So I always, always have my phone on me because I have various health issues that could make me end up on the floor so it's a safety thing for me, so I can always call for help. I'm not sure how common that is though?
This poll partially inspired by conversations with my grandma, who does not keep her phone or her Life Alert button thing with her but probably should
#the person behind the yarn#based partially on a conversation with my grandma#who does think it's kind of weird I always have my phone in reach#like. ALWAYS. my phone is ALWAYS in reach#the only exception is if I am in the same room as a family member and get up to like go get a snack or something#I might leave my phone on the couch while I do that but only if I am either in line of sight#or will definitely be heard if I fall#like. I have not fallen and not been able to reach a phone often?#just the one time but it was a memorable experience#well okay twice but one time I was in earshot of my dad#and another time I had a bad asthma attack and couldn't stand up to get my inhaler#but did have my phone in my pocket so I was able to call for help#so like. I ALWAYS have my phone charged and in my pocket
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something something foils moving in opposite directions Goku's always happy to seek and fight stronger opponents because he spent most of his life being the strongest guy in the room and Vegeta wants to be the strongest/is always exhausted to find stronger opponents because he spent most of his life having to navigate his survival around the whims of the strongest guy in the universe room and so Goku has a foundation of safety and stability and so spends his time craving challenge and adventure and Vegeta has a foundation of challenge and adventure and spends his time craving safety and stability and the overlaid section of their venn diagram is that the only way they know how acquire and maintain those things is through battle
#thank you this has been the laziest media analysis post of my career#dbtag#media analysis#something something a game to goku is a threat to vegeta etc#there's a pinned thought here about how Vegeta also didn't learn about the dragon balls until he was ?? 30?? and so all loss is permanent#and goku has been familiar since he was ~12 and hasn't faced a permanent consequence since he was 10 years old and even then he got closure#sometimes I think about how Vegeta saw Trunks die and how Krillin was mad at him for reacting since they could fix it with the dragon balls#but Vegeta has very limited experience with the dragon so to him in that moment that was permanent and Trunks was Dead. Forever.#And we talked before in a 2am post about Vegeta having never experienced grief born of love and I stand by it because his feelings then wer#still very new and very odd and not something he'd accepted until that moment so it was raw power but not as powerful as it could've been#all this to say in my heart of hearts I think Vegeta deserves to retire at the end of super (if super continues) -- not as a warrior#but as an infantryman. he's a prince and now he's got his domain and his family and his planet to look after and I think he deserves#to go home and stay home and help piccolo bully gohan into training more often when goku inevitably leaves to hop the multiverse#geets wanted to take a sabbatical when Bulla was born but didn't get the chance because Freeza coming back freaked him out too much#but whether freeza gets a redemption arc or gets defeated -- Granolah's arc seemed to shift his perspective on being the strongest#and I just grips fist I just think it would be a really nice full circle for Vegeta to inherit his throne in a way he never expected and#finally get his kingdom to look after and protect in the way that he was looking forward to being king of his own planet all those years ag#Goku's got Broly and Jiren and Hit and all the others to keep him busy and happy now -- and if Freeza gets a redemption arc he'll probably#continue playing slap-ass with Goku for the rest of his life -- and Vegeta's got Gohan and Piccolo and Goten and Trunks#I just think them getting a nice bittersweet 'This is where we part ways' would be really nice for both of them because !!#They couldn't have done this without each other. They couldn't have known this kind of life was possible without each other.#So they swap lots and live happier than they ever imagined they could be#especially since Vegeta has proved to himself that he can close any gap Goku creates in progress that's not a concern anymore#And obvs the door's always open!! There's no point closing it Vegeta's tried the locks they don't work on Goku#anyway here's me putting the whole essay in the tags again#this isn't an essay as much as it is stream of consciousness tag blogging#anyway i'm too lazy to write fic or draw comics so we get ramblings instead
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ya know, whenever tim does finally meet lucy's parents i sincerely hope that like the gentleman he is he insists that he cooks for and host them all so i can witness him getting increasingly more upset with the way they're berating their daughter, to the point where he just can't take it anymore and practically throws their asses out, because like hell you're gonna talk to her that way, not in my house!!
#*carly catalogs#can't help but picture him yelling out abruptly like 'ENOUGH!' standing up and tossing his napkin down#ordering them to leave if they don't have anything nice to say to they're only daughter#and giving a lil speech about how remarkable she is and how they should be more than proud to have a daughter like her#i'd like to think that lucy wouldn't be too upset about it either cause like.....#i don't think she's ever felt brave enough to really stick up for herself against her own parents#and we all know none of her past boyfriends would ever have the gall to say something to them either#tim would feel so bad lik 'i'm sorry but i couldn't listen to them talk to you like that' nd 'no thanks for standing up to them for me' 🥺💕#the rookie#tim bradford#lucy chen#chenford#otp: you know me so well
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had baby's first Serious Incident at work but i apparently handled it well and prevented anyone from getting injured! yippee!
#eliot posts#my patient was tired and disoriented tonight and tried to sit down when there was no chair there#but i caught him!#i'm weak as hell so couldn't hold him more than a second or return him to standing position#so i had to let him kinda like. slide down my knee til he was sitting on the floor#except me and his wife were too weak to lift him off the floor after that#so we had to call an ambulance to pick him up and get him onto bed#the nurse that came to examine him said he's completely free of any serious injuries because of me catching him!#my muscles are sore as hell rn tho lmao#his wife said her back hurts from trying to help me lift him off the ground#and he'll likely have some muscle soreness or bruising from the incident too#so i guess we'll all be achey tomorrow lol
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habeas corpus – detective comics #1086
(ID in alt!)
#loved this back up feature so much and seeing that bruce timm shit made me annoyed enough to actually transcribe it#first the way hes depicted as having to stand trial and ARGUE and fight for the rights of using the coin#rather than it just being a compulsion and something he must do before a decision....#like every time. every time when he's 'leaving it up to chance'—thats a time when harvey won. thats a time when harvey fought for the right#to use the coin and make it at least a 50/50 chance instead of 'crawling away until the hard part is done' like two face pushed for#every single time. regardless of the results regardless of knowing theres only a halfway chance of it actually achieving anything#or lessening the damage two face can/will do. every time hes fighting for and still believing in a fair trial and that everyone deserves on#it isnt him being weak. it isnt him avoiding responsibility. its him fighting and forcing and pushing for it as hes internally at war#with himself 24/7. even when two face wins he doesnt give up & continues to fight for what he believes in despite the injustice done to him#the way he tells Judge Janus that it isnt about HIM (himself!) while defending the right of existence to the jury of other societal rejects#the way he gestures to himself only at the very end. he asks the judge does that sound like anyone he knows and janus replies in two faces#voice but harvey keeps going. he keeps fighting for others. but at the end in actually acknowledging two face being part of him#(and by extension harvey being part of two face) and how harvey is fighting just as much to have a place as two face is#(but more within his own mind & upholding his belief system still despite knowing how it continues to fail them) and just FUCK#and two faces snaps! how theres no jurisprudence system above there either ! just no one will admit it!#how harvey knows!!! look what happened to him when he was doing the right thing!#look how many criminals and mob bosses paid their way out! look how the police are corrupt!#but still believing in it and how a system has to be in place despite being a direct victim of it as well and just GOD#I LOVE YOU GOOD HEARTED AND WANTING TO HELP PEOPLE HARVEY DENT YOU WILL ALWAYS BE FAMOUS TO ME !!!!!!!!#taking away how he genuinely wanted to help people and bring wrongs to rights takes away literally everything hes built on#it takes away the entire fucking tragedy of his character (and in many ways it changes how bruce himself operates and believes because#harvey WAS a good man doing everything by the books. he was trying to bring justice in the 'right way' and believed in the system. he was#what people tell bruce he should be and look where it got him. look how the system failed 'even the good ones' because the system itself is#corrupt. it isnt flawed—it was operated to oppress and thats why it cant just be fixed but must be entirely rebuilt and why bruce must#operate outside of it. it also gives more depth because harvey is one of batmans first and biggest failures. he didnt protect him.#he didnt save his parents as a helpless child (as bruce) but he couldn't save his parents as BATMAN.#it wasnt just random chance like his parents tragedy but this was calculated and something bruce didnt stop. its ALWAYS going to eat at#him if he could of prevented it by telling harvey his identity. by doing something different. by being more prepared or somehow#knowing it was going to happen. harvey is the face of tragedy in so many ways that cant fit in these messy rambly tags but its ALLL!!!!!!!#bc harv was (and still is despite it all! despite two face!) a good man!! because he originally was a glimmer of hope to bruce & the city!!
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it's 1:30 am and i'm thinking about how logan and rory both grow up feeling like their lives aren't really theirs. how logan uses risk and impulse as a way to feel some semblance of control over his life in response to his father's control. how in contrast, rory spends her life with a tight grip on just about everything, clings to safety and a clear path forward, because she worries that her success is the thing holding her and her mom's life together.
#logan leans into recklessness and rory leans into careful control#how those different approaches reflect their different relationships with their parents#logan is just full of resentment and anger while rory loves her mom so much and couldn't stand it if she didn't make her proud#i could say so much about logan's consistent willingness to risk his life. cause at least that means it's his to risk.#rory feels that nothing is hers to risk. nothing at all!#and how their relationship helps them both find balance between these two extremes#logan realizing that finding love and care for himself and others is its own way of rebelling against his upbringing#or that love and care is more important than rebelling at all#rory realizing that sometimes you need to jump to make anything happen#that her life should be hers not just the fulfillment of what lorelai's 'should have' been#they just. were building a life together that was something other than what so many people thought they should build.#it was theirs and no one else's. and it helped them each feel for once like their lives were their own. i feel SICK.#idkkkkk goodnight#rogan#rory x logan#logan huntzberger#rory gilmore#u already know this is not going in the main gg tag
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"My children, remember that it is very dangerous to wander through abandoned buildings at night, because the risk of meeting with questionable personalities is high."
Don't Repeat Roxy's Mistake in Episode 6. Otherwise, you will see someone's creepy eyes in every corner.)
And with the text.)
#artists on tumblr#art#artwork#my artwork#digital art#digital drawing#wizards of the black circle#winx duman#winx anagan#winx gantlos#winx ogron#my ocs#winx fanart#winx villains#2024#I'm alive!#I just wanted to draw another atmospheric art after a long break in drawing and my character#who is my favorite and whom I very rarely draw which according to many is a big omission#But I couldn't help but draw these “messengers of the apocalypse” either.#So you can regard this art as a symbolic story of a re-encounter with my old “childhood obsession.”#Which happened 5 years ago)#And with this art I plan to revive this blog again as much as possible#And I will try to minimize the risk that the blog will stand for six months...#I'm still experimenting with the demonic form of this punk#After this art I will gradually lay out everything that I have accumulated during my absence
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(tbosas movie spoilers!!!) i think the worst part of tbosas for me was that coriolanus was right??? all those offhanded little comments he made 'on a whim' to try and 'help the tributes' and in turn save himself were right and it's horrifying to realise that he didn't need to try to think of them and try to be like his father bc he already was. from an audience perspective, i sat through the whole arena part of the movie disgusted by everything happening in it and begging for it to be over (it didn't really get better after all that but oh well). the deaths were more gruesome, the arena more terrifying and everything felt too real (i also watched it in imax idk if that helped). not that the deaths in thg and catching fire games weren't horrific, but in an offhanded movie fan way, i used to look forward to the arena. because it became exactly what dr gaul wanted it to be and what coriolanus realised it was and what lucy gray made it: a performance. in the 65 years after, they made the arenas interesting and real and natural and beautiful, with weapons and mutts and gifts and places to hide and places for open bloodshed, they interfered with the games to help and then kill their tributes (sound familiar? yeah thanks a lot coriolanus u bitch) and it was literally the most harrowing thing to sit there and watch the movie as i realised that it was entertaining to me to watch the first two movies because of that. we are no better than the citizens of the capitol and i just think that sucks.
#the hunger games#the ballad of songbirds and snakes#tbosas#ballad of songbirds and snakes#overall fantastic movie!!! horrible experience#I was so distraught and stressed and horrified#also didn't help that coronalius is a psychotic bitch :////#heart him a little bit though#I stand by that if lucy gray hadn't left him he might have been salvageable bc yes he was a compulsive murderer#but I think his grief for sejanus was genuine#but maybe not bc I also stand by that lucy gray and snow are wrong person wrong time#she couldn't trust him#but I could please one chance#coryo pick me choose me#I'd never run away from u#justice for my boy sejanus though#when he stormed out of the broadcasting room I felt that#im roughly 30% through the book so I will strive to keep going#but seriously best movie I've seen this year excluding maybe atsv but I've seen that 4 times and I'm biased#ashley speaks !
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i know my body is doing its best but christ alive.
#keeping it fun and funky fresh#personal#i need a chronic illness tag#i've been doing frankly a lot better in the past week+ bc we got an upstairs window ac#and we've been keeping the house air conditioned bc even tho it gets cool overnight it is incredibly humid all the time (70-90%)#and the ac units take the humidity out from indoors as well as keeping things a consistent cool temp for me#but today i painted so i aired out the house all day. and. it was a mistake.#i feel fucking miserable. i could not get comfortable At All All Day.#also like. i haven't talked about this but i've gained quite a bit of weight in the last 2 years & especially the last 6 months#(being completely sedentary d/t chronic fatigue will do that to ya)#and so a lot of my clothes fit weird and feel bad and i haven't replaced them yet bc i still don't rly know how to shop#for clothing for trans women. especially bc a lot of those clothes are thrift store finds that Happen(ed) to feel good on me#and today i happened to be wearing underwear that i didn't realize were among the no-longer-comfy and the waistband would not stop rolling#and then it'd get pinched between my stomach & my lower abdomen and chafe horribly especially w/ how sweaty & sticky i was#it was just awful. it was just awful. i finally turned the ac back on even tho it's only 70° outside#bc i couldn't stand being in the (currently) 80% humidity anymore#and grayson helped me take a sponge bath after i broke down crying#and now i feel a little better but i'm just. tired. i'm tired & all of this is getting worse & my doctor doesn't seem to give a shit#heat intolerance
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btw in case you're wondering if, after reaching adulthood, you finally escape the horrible pain of always being picked last for sports/games: unfortunately, it does still happen, and it still hurts as much as it did when you were a kid
#did i cry about it? i am embarrassed to say yes#listen. i know i'm short and slow and don't know how to play most sports#but still.#also i may be used to this#but being the last to be chosen means you're not chosen at all because you're automatically part of the team#that didn't choose you either. so there's that!#anyway you guys everything feels really heavy right now and so something as small as this feels like so much#i couldn't help for a little moment thinking. well y'all SAY you like me and want me around. but clearly none of you wanted me on your team#not a single one of you! what's up with that!!!!#and i understand that i really do. i'm not aggressive or intimidating on the field. but the point still stands#anyway that is something i would like prayer for. even though community building IS going well#and there ARE bright spots#but the general feeling of this season is feeling unwanted and undesirable and in some capacity unlovable#so would really appreciate prayer in the larger as well as the smaller things#the small things like this accumulate SO quickly and i really.....hate that actually#the waiting room chapter
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