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thepermanentrainpress · 1 year ago

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Gallery: Kim Petras @ Coca-Cola Coliseum - Toronto, ON Date: October 16, 2023 Photographed by: Chris Ho

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cataldodarker · 1 year ago

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HIGH_light³⁰ (2/3)

11/30 - BORN PINK

Artiste: BLACKPINK

Data di rilascio: 16-09-2022

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12/30 - The Idler Wheel Is Wiser than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do

Artista: Fiona Apple

Data di rilascio: 18-06-2012

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13/30 - 21

Artista: Adele

Data di rilascio: 24-01-2011

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14/30 - Lemonade

Artista: Beyoncé

Data di rilascio: 23-04-2016

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15/30 - Arrival

Artisti: ABBA

Data di rilascio: 11-10-1976

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16/30 - Solo

Artista: Ceri Wax

Data di rilascio: 07-06-2019

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17/30 - The Summer I Couldn't Do Better

Artista: Kim Petras

Data di rilascio: dal 2017 al 2019 (i singoli)

04-08-2022 (compilation)

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18/30 - PAPRIKA

Artista: M¥SS KETA

Data di rilascio: 29-03-2019

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19/30 - The Love Club

Artista: Lorde

Data di rilascio: 08-03-2013

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20/30 - True Blue

Artista: Madonna

Data di rilascio: 30-06-1986

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sanshinexx · 2 years ago

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Here's part two of drawing my family pictures as the Bad Batch because I can and you can't stop me

#i can tell you right now that drawing their armor was a fucking pain in the ass #and the l e g s jesus fucking christ #why do i have to care about anatomy #don't ask where crosshair and wrecker's legs are btw i wouldn't know #fun fact the original picture is from our summer vacation to Italy back in 2018 #tech is me in this picture actually real and true #another fun fact #omega's eyebrows were blonde until the very last minute because i felt like they looked kinda odd #and she does actually have dark eyebrows in the show so--#i don't know if they look any better now but ehh good enough #hunter looks so wrong for some reason but i can't fix him i'm sorry #also yes they're all in their blacks because a) i couldn't be bothered to draw all the armor again and b) they deserve the comfort #i might do proper shadings if i find the motivation for this but until then this is what you're getting #the bad batch #bad batch #tbb #the bad batch fanart #bad batch fanart #tbb fanart #hunter #omega #crosshair #wrecker #echo #tech #the clone wars #star wars #star wars fanart #art #my art

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coquelicoq · 5 months ago

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was telling a friend about the double today and got to the part where jiang li stops xue fangfei from killing herself by saying she has to live because she can't get revenge if she's dead. and my friend was like wait what french novel does this remind me of? and i was like babe. it reminds you of the count of monte cristo. the double is better though.

#SOURCE: I SPENT THREE MONTHS OF MY LIFE READING THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO TO MYSELF OUT LOUD #<-thing i never shut up about #no but i had such a great time reading the count of monte cristo. the double is better though 😇#i mean really they can't be compared and cmc is better at many things but i am currently watching and obsessed with the double #so that is what is most important to me at this moment in time lol #anyway i WILL put this in the cmc tag because i do think people who like cmc may like the double #it's a chinese drama airing currently and available with english subs on viki and youku <3 #may i also suggest to cmc fans. nirvana in fire. which is another chinese drama available on viki. and one of the greatest shows of our age #the double #the count of monte cristo #my posts #anyway we took a beach day trip AND I GOT FARMSTAND STRAWBERRIES!!! the most important thing about summer day trips #actually my friend got them for me because. i couldn't walk properly lol #we got rained on and then i made the mistake of sitting down to eat my lunch. which caused me to lose much of my range of motion #in my leg muscles. because in my old age if i get cold and stop walking my hips and quads stop working <3 i love having a physical form <3 #she wanted to go to another seaside town afterward and i was like once i get in that car i am not going to be able to get back out #so we are in it for keeps until we get to my building babe

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hussyknee · 8 months ago

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That's 91.4F and real feel 105.8F to you godless USAmerican heathens.

I'm too fat for this. I'm going to die. 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Edit: this is about Sri Lanka btw. Shit's unliveable even for a tropical island on the equator.

#april-may are the hottest months but it just does not get any easier to handle #I'm roasting encased in this heaving flesh bag #i want to lose weight but how tf am i supposed to do it in this fucking weather #i want air conditioning #but i'll lose all heat tolerance if i do #i want to be back in canada #where i couldn't feel my fingers and toes even indoors in summer because them fucking polar bears keep the thermostat at 20°C #better that than swampy underboobs. i want top surgery #lord lemme die #knee of huss

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batsplat · 5 months ago

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maybe it's from the particularly acute disappointment of marc injuring himself at the sachsenring but this weekend (so far) has made me feel incredibly nervous for marc's future. like no guarantees of course but if marc was going to win anywhere this year (when the gap between the gp23 and gp24 is increasingly obvious, as you mentioned) it was going to be here. and i'm definitely overreacting because i'm emotional about it but it feels like him hurting himself here feels like a bad sign not just for this year but for the future at large. because it's a reminder that his body can't handle the riding style that used to take him so far. scary!

taking these two together ahahaa. this is truly the life of a sports fan huh

honestly with marc I've now swung so often and so far between 'it's so over' and 'we've never been more back' that I've gotten to an exciting point of. well. I suppose we'll have to see. I mean look, back in that jerez to catalunya stretch it did look like he might be able to be a serious title contender this season. at risk of making myself look like an idiot, I think we can pretty safely conclude that's not happening this year. but y'know, broadly what he needs to do is to figure his shit out for the rest of the year... like he kinda needs to just understand what this version of him can do under what circumstances. the thing about winning is that it's also a habit, it's something that becomes essentially muscle memory, you need to kinda have that reflexive understanding of how you've done it in the past - both in the context of races and titles. and it's still in there for him!! but he's just got to... take the rest of the season to chip away at the gap. currently, pecco and jorge don't just have the edge on him in pace, they have the edge on him in process. that's not just the bike, though it is also affected by marc being less familiar with the ducati. but pecco and jorge have just kind of gotten to the point where they know how to approach most weekends in a way where, more often or not, they will kinda maximise what was on offer for them that weekend. sometimes they chuck it down the road! but in terms of pure pace potential, right now they're getting to the point where they're there. marc is just a series of 'what ifs'. they're not all his fault, he's gotten unlucky, he's in a tough situation, he's still getting used to the new tracks on a ducati etc etc etc... but that's what this year is for. figure out the process, figure out how you actually go about getting wins in the current era - keeping your physical condition in mind - and take it from there

the physical stuff is the... yeah. the thing is, I do think he is capable of winning without all this crashing to figure out the limit. honestly, this approach of his made me deeply uneasy well well before what happened at jerez 2020. that injury and aborted comeback didn't feel like a fluke, it didn't feel like bad luck - in an awful way, it did feel like it had been a long time coming. that being said... well, y'know, marc was the only one who could win titles on the late 2010s honda, and part of the reason for that was that he figured out how to get a capricious bike just to the limit during races. you do not need to chuck the bike down the road fifty times per season to win the title on the ducati. pecco and jorge have very much shown that. sometimes it will just be dumb luck who gets injured or not! the sachsenring crash yesterday you can't really put down to marc being stupid or being irresponsible. he was hardly the only one who fell, weather conditions were tricky, shit does happen (not ideal that he tried to save the crash specifically because he knew his other bike had problems, plus the thing where he went out again before going to the medical centre, mind you). sometimes you fall a lot and you're fine, like marc for most of his prime. sometimes you crash at the start of the race and fall in front of the pack and your survival is up to fate. which is of course what happened last year to pecco, still one of the scariest crashes I've ever seen live in terms of crashes where you really do think you just got very very close to watching someone be killed in real time. this is the thing, right... at the end of the day, you can hope that marc finds an approach that relatively minimises the risk to his body - but also, you can only control so much. especially with where his body is at right now, there's only so many bad knocks you can take. you never know, you can only hope

overall, I have been thinking for a while that it's almost a bit... odd? how the physical stuff hasn't really featured at all in 2025-26 hot takes? I reckon people don't really want to think about it playing a big role, and also I suppose 'well one of them could get injured' is treated as just an underlying assumption of following motorcycle racing... but like we saw with catalunya last year, it's not just stuff that takes you out for ten races that can have big title race repercussions. especially given how marc traditionally went about winning titles, how big a part of that process it was for him. we've had such an incredible lucky streak from the start of the season until mugello that being afraid of injuries has almost... receded a little bit? in everyone's minds? after last year, in particular, where it just felt like you were always worrying about someone, it was just so relentless... and now injury worries have just come back with a vengeance these last few weeks and it is a little scary. a lot of this is scary. no real escaping it I'm afraid

but yes! anon! I agree with you! we'll get back to the smile and we'll get back to the optimism too.. at the end of the day, you can only do what you can do. we'll see what happens. if we're all massively underestimating just how much that sweet red bull cash can do and ktm comes out with a rocket ship next year and pedro wins the next ten titles, so be it. you never know

#thank u summer break to let him recover. imagine if we had a race next week #putting this in the tags because I don't LOVE this comparison when it comes to 'literal competitive picture' rather than 'vibes/emotions'#but it is essentially valentino's 2013. like take your time figure this shit out and see what's possible going forwards #valentino was way more depressed about his competitive outlook than marc is right now. with good justification #but that's kinda the point no? like valencia '13 the idea that valentino would get THAT close to winning a title again would've felt insane #sometimes u do just have to bet on the fuck you talent. and also it's about mindset! u can trust them to try EVERYTHING #basically it's not a done deal but he's also not doomed. who knows. who knows #//#brr brr #batsplat responds #anyway having now gone the full way from 'oof what if his domination bores me again' to 'what if we're FUCKED'#can i just throw in a little 'what if we get the 2008-09 equivalent of winning titles through smarts rather than speed' into the room #forget relentless pace FORGET injury hell. i want you to laguna him!!#i mean you couldn't really laguna pecco but the point is you need to find a customised approach. use ur brain i believe in u #completes the trio of stolen overtakes from pecco's mentor and last corner catalunya's him. imagine the narrative implications #ignore how pecco is definitely a better defensive rider than jorge and actually knows how to protect the inside line. screenshot this now #current tag

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kyouka-supremacy · 5 months ago

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Failed a social interaction 0 injured 1 killed (me)

#Today has been so long 😭😭😭 I've been out the whole day studying and when I came back I spent more than one hour to cook my probably gone–#bad chicken (and rice and spinach) and then I couldn't even eat it because it was my turn to clean the kitchen at the dorm (which is the–#third following day I'm doing) (worth mentioning I'm running on 5 hours of sleep)#And I was goofing around with my friends but while doing so I. made fun of the landlord. And then one friend told me “hey girl he's right–#outside” and like 😭😭😭😭😭😭 I hope I die painfully. I need to be back next year and he already makes my life hard enough and hhhhhhhhhhh #I wasn't even like. Serious. It was just to joke around with my friends I don't have anything against him (except for the things I do)#hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh #And now I feel so embarrassed I have no appetite at all + the chicken (which I had to bring home through one hour walk in summer which–#probably wasn't good for it. And then froze one day past the expiration day) (I really need to get better eating habits) I had been–#preparing despite taking one hour to cook it I got the firing wrong and now it's all hard and honestly not very good and like 😭😭😭#Look at what you did to the (frankly already diseased) chicken #I feel so betrayed by everything 😭😭😭 Can life get a little easier #I'm mostly kidding I'm doing okay. I just need to rant because I CAN'T GET OVER THE LANDLORD THING MAN HOW DO I FORGET ABOUT IT.#This kind of things always haunts me for at least three days so 😭😭😭#I'm dead tired but I really wanted to answer asks today so. Probably doing so between today and tomorrow #Rant over sending lots of l love 💞💞#random rambles #In my defense it's not my fault I'm too poor to throw the chicken away 😪😪 I haven't eaten since forever #It's also not my fault I can't afford a new non sticking pan so I have to stick (ah) to the probably toxic one #It is very much my fault for messing up the chicken cooking temperature tho lol

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tj-crochets · 1 year ago

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Hey y'all! Do you have any advice for a nine year old who wants to make video games? Is there like a program he can use to learn how to do that, or a game that teaches programming aimed at kids, or heck idk what to ask here I know pretty much nothing about making games Basically, the kidlet I used to babysit wants to make his own video game, and has been (somewhat inexplicably) making google doc slideshows about it because he doesn't know how to make games but if there's a way he could that would be awesome! Any advice is appreciated, I seriously know nothing about this but I want to support him

#the person behind the yarn #I love him so much but also I have no idea what he's talking about #and tbh I don't think he knows where to start either #I only know very very basic programming #because one summer as a teenager a then-friend bet me I couldn't learn it #so I did a whole bunch of...codecademy? I think?#but that was before I got sick-sick and the memory is sorta blurry #like. I know at one point I knew it. I also know I do not know how to do it now #but suspect if I tried learning it again it'd be easier the second time #for the record I did prove that friend wrong! I did learn programming #my memories from before I got super sick are just very hit or miss and that's not one of the skills that I kept once I got better #I am also not as good at catching lizards as I once was and I gotta say #the lizard thing is more disappointing to me than the coding thing lol

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adore-gregor · 2 days ago

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Lol I keep on doing this, saying I'd come back to tumblr to only disappear again 😂😭

#and i hate it bc i miss being on here #but also i don't have to force myself or feel guilty for it #bc if i'm fr being on social media is just so time consuming and also not what is good for my mental health often #and that includes tumblr #it's not even that it's a toxic place (at least not the content i'm consuming) but sometimes i just rather spend my time with people irl #meeting someone than on social media and like focus on my life #the last month or so was just really difficult for me and i haven't been feeling so bad mentally in forever #i mean it always is like that that time of the year but i feel like i was worse this year #whenever autumn comes around with the darkness and cold i seem to hit a low mentally #when i tell you how much better my mood is in summer spring how much better i feel everyday regardless of everything else #i get people like autumn but for me its literally the worst and winter too altough at some point it gets better #maybe i adapt and maybe because i spend more time outside around christmas when i go home that's usually a turning point #and ig also the lights of december make it a bit better #but mid october to november is awful #this year the weather was much worse beginning of october was much worse #i feel like i lowkey have this seasonal mood disorder idk #but i barely managed to go to classes and i had no motivation #usually i always make myself study and do the things i have to atleast altough i often terribly procrastinate #but now i was barely able to do this and i had things to do but i couldn't make myself i missed a deadline closely #luckily my professors are the best but i felt so horrible for it how i was unable to get it done #sunlight is just so good for my mood and ik how doctors say how you should avoid it because you can get skincancer #but like i'd rather than my mental health being this bad (not that i want either)#i already miss summer so much and being happier #but tbh i haven't felt this good as I do today in weeks and even this whole week was better #i exercised more than usual altough i tried to in the last weeks i couldn't as often as i normally do so maybe this actually helps a lot #and i studied yesterday today and i will tomorrow i finally feel motivation again #besides i also tried to break up with my bf so that was also tough but i couldn't lol #i tried talking to him and tell him in the nicest way but he didn't get what i was trying to do and i couldn't say more bc i felt horrible #but maybe that's for the better altough i had these thoughts for a while that he just isn't the one for me and that we're too different...#i do really like him as a person the way he treats me and i'm still into him but i just felt like it wouldn't work

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xoshepard · 6 months ago

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ough just got home from my "end-of-work" party (??) since im going back to being remote tomorrow and aaaaa everybody is so great im gonna miss them ;_;

excited to be back in my own house again tho. and not have to drive. but a couple of them even offered to help me bring all my stuff down to the car tomorrow (i ended up declining bc idk the exact time im gonna be ready to go and they have shit to do) but aaaaa they're so nice also i have 2 crushes now SDKKSJDHFJKS but one is Too Young for me and idk if the other is into girls dskjfhsdjk

#tirah talks #everybody was like 'YOU BETTER COME BACK' and i probably will in a month or so #but then school is gonna start smh no idea how im gonna break the news to them sdjkhfjksd :(#but if the company lets me do part time during the school year i'll definitely come back for a few weeks at a time during breaks #since winter break is like a month and a half iirc i can deffo spend a couple weeks here in december #and of course summer break is long af so #WHY COULDN'T I HAVE FOUND THIS JOB LIKE ONE YEAR AGO #EVEN ONE SINGLE YEAR AGO WOULD HAVE BEEN SO MUCH BETTER ;_;#anyway im sure i won't regret grad school and maybe i'll meet even more super cool ppl

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asterdeer · 9 months ago

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video called "pirate shirt tutorial that actually makes sense" with a thumbnail clickbaitingly copying bernadette banner's style, which does the exact same thing as bernadette banner's video but more confusingly and without a diagram in the video itself, also failing to understand that bernadette banner's channel is primarily a history channel and not a sewing tutorial channel so telling people they don't have to hand-sew the pirate shirt or they don't have to thread-pull is unnecessary because bernadette banner literally said "do this however you want, i just do it this way because it's how i learn about historical dress practices" in her own video. couldn't ask for better youtube entertainment

#source: i'm an idiot and i've made two of bernadette's pirate shirts and they're fantastic #understanding that her diagram is not a pattern but a guideline on how to make your own pattern #is like. not that hard to get. she gave her measurements and then explained how to get your own #to be fair!! everyone learns differently! there are many comments saying that this other video made sense and helped them #which is absolutely fair and good. more knowledge is never a bad thing #it's just the presentation of this other video that i find so funny #'yes i CAN explain how to make a historically accurate men's shirt better than the actual historical dress historian'#[footage not found]#just the way of explaining the shoulder seams...........so much more confusing than bernadette's diagram #also calling the reinforcement patches on the neck/cuff splits??? useless/pointless??????#sorry i want my garments to not fall apart because i can't afford really nice fabric lmao i will be reinforcing those points. thanks tho #also 'no one is talking about neck gussets i couldn't find any info' HUH ???#i just want to know if they looked anywhere besides youtube because there are absolutely people talking abt neck gussets #i should not be such a bitch about this. it's not that big a deal. again in the end: more people sharing knowledge is Good #but my friend!!! come on now!!!!#aster chat #ah fuck lads i want to make another poet shirt because that's exactly what i need going into what i'm sure will be a blazing summer #another long sleeved shirt with three yards of fabric to smother myself in #that do Not go with any of my work appropriate trousers

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paimonial-rage · 8 months ago

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My most interacted with fics:

Cocky Bastard Vibes (Zhongli)

Tipsy Tales (Anemo boys)

Why He Rejected You (pt 1)

Telling Them Off (Ayato, Venti, Xiao)

A Sight to Behold (Yae Miko)

Obvious (Neuvillette)

Simple (Alhaitham)

What Destiny Has Brought (Fischl)

Why He Rejected You (pt 2)

Blasphemous Assumptions (Zhongli)

#personal #cocky bastard vibes is the least surprising thing on this list. it's the fic that convinced me to turn off my notifications haha #if you're a fan of this fic tho you can expect the spiritual sequel to be getting posted as the next chapter in the bookkeeping!series #tipsy tales is also not surprising. tumblr really likes low effort posts like those #i'd really love to expand on xiao and the traveler's one someday #why he rejected you (pt 1) shocked me when i first posted it because i expected people to hate it haha #i posted it to make a point because i was feeling petty at some of the character portrayal i was seeing #another reason i was shocked is bc pt 2 has all the popular characters but did worse than pt 1 #i thought itd be reversed #telling them off is really shocking tho bc other than the ayato fic the other two fics SUCK HAHA #venti's is barely anything and xiao's portrayal is SO BAD. 'secret identities' is a way better portrayal of him #a sight to behold is also shocking because the genshin fandom on tumblr only like men #this fic is my most self-indulgent of them all because i am a SIMP. i really like the sequel to this fic tho #for 'obvious' every time i read that fic i'm surprised at how decent the ending is bc i fully admit i rushed it #but it's a typical romance (atypical for me) so it's not surprising it's on here #'SIMPLE' PISSES ME OFF. THAT FIC DOES NOT DESERVE THAT MANY NOTES. made me so mad 😡#'what destiny has brought' tho... that's the most shocking. like don't get me wrong it's a good fic but.... FISCHL??????#fun fact i literally cannot stand fischl. she's so irritating. i wrote that fic bc i couldn't stand the ending to her summer fantasia event #'she truly became fischl' BUT SHE'S LITERALLY NOT FISCHL??? she's living a lie???#she pretends to be someone else because she hates herself so much. instead of encouraging her delusions shouldnt we like???#give her some self-esteem and show her amy is worthy of love?#BUT THAT'S JUST ME #anyway 'blasphemous assumptions' is not surprising. it's not my favorite but it's definitely of the funnier in the bookkeeping series #out of all these fics 'what destiny has brought' and 'obvious' are my recommendations #one day i wanna do my lowest ranking fics because those are my favorite

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thethingything · 2 years ago

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y'know what, despite sleeping at completely the wrong time and still being exhausted and in a lot of pain, I actually feel surprisingly good mentally.

I think it's a combination of Sylvain insisting on finally putting our duvet cover back on the bed after putting off doing that for ages, and then us having some nice food and just getting cosy, and there's a really specific vibe that I can't pinpoint other than it feeling summer-y? which might also just be from hanging out with Sylv all day actually.

but I just woke up at 3am and I'm eating some spicy mashed avocado for breakfast, and there's just a nice atmosphere

#personal #thoughts #🍬 post #we'd fallen asleep at around 8am yesterday but then woke up at about 10:30am and couldn't get back to sleep #and Sylv being Sylv decided that after about 20 minutes it was time to get up and enjoy it being sunny instead of getting stressed #I think some combination of that and waking up at 3am after a full night's sleep and then probably som other stuff #might have reminded our brain of summer but without giving us flashbacks to the stressful stuff #so we just have a weird but nice summer-y vibe and I can almost guarantee Sylv will want to hang out again later #which is nice. he's really fun to hang out with and he usually gets us to do a bunch of self care stuff #so we end up feeling better afterwards

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newvegascowboy · 2 years ago

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#not fallout #kal talks #ok to preface this is a POSI VENT #it just might get a little heavy #i tend to be a Little Personal on here and im going to be a lil more personal. im thinky thoughts #but man... its been a year since literally the lowest point in my life #like last march. i will say. was... really bad for me mentally. i wont go much deeper than that but maybe some of you remember.#im much much better now but i will say i was a little wary as this month and anniversary approached because i was afraid basically #(the actual anniversary passed last week and i didnt notice)#but ive managed to do soo much growing and healing from where i was last year like it is honestly astonishing #im definitely not the same person i was when i couldn't even honestly confront myself #in a way i think what happened last year was one of the best things to happen to me #it doesn't mean that nothing bad will ever happen in the future but it does mean that i survived that and i can survive whatever else #happens too #healing isnt linear i know that. like obviously im going to have setbacks and some days im incredibly whiny and bitchy #like October/November were suuuper hard on me mentally #but again - still here!#still alive and still putting laundry away and taking baths and reading books and doing art #And its almost SUMMER again!#and god i want to live this summer.#and its kind of funny how...when you think you want to die just saying thr words 'i want to live' feels like...idk. it feels like something #but i want to live #and i want to go hike at zion and i want to eat watermelon and i want to sit in the sun and paint red rocks #i wanted to die last year and it felt so real i could have but im still here and i want to live and do things while im here #that's all i guess #life's hard. its a bitch and then you die. but there are some pretty good parts to it too and every summer i remember why

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tardis--dreams · 2 years ago

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My favorite thing is people saying something like "I hope you're feeling a little better now?" when i have to admit i couldn't do something due to health issues. Like. I don't. But for the sake of not making this awkward, yes of course i feel a lot better now

#my professors are so funny #i asked one of them (the head of the department) if i had to provide a doctor's note because I'm taking too long for my degree #and she just went 'it is very important you make it clear from when to when you were ill'#like sweetie babygirl please #this has been going on for 80 years and there is no end to this lmao #the other one already asked me in summer if i was doing better i missed some classes during the semester #and me just awkwardly going 'yeeees I'm fine now ahahaha'#and then a few months later having to send him an email saying i couldn't do much of the work i was supposed to do #because of some health issues #and he again being like 'aw that's fine. i hope you're ok now'#please #let me have some peace lol #it's really embarrassing when you always have to say 'yeah well I'm having some health issues' and people expect those to go away #i feel like I'm making excuses because i think people don't believe me when I keep saying I've been struggling with some health issues #because clearly you can't ALWAYS be sick?!#I'm gonna cry #(also i know they just try to be nice and polite and all #and i appreciate that #but it's not like i can say 'no' in response to that lmao #so at a certain point it just gets weird)#shut up amy

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absolutelygorkedmydude · 1 year ago

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Uh. Got a little carried away in the tags. But this is very interesting!

little joel on youtube got me wondering what the percentage is actually like. please reblog so i can get more responses and thus a more representative data pool for my demographic of "people who use tumblr in 2023"

#soooooo #i was put into gifted in first grade and it kinda sucked #because theyd pull me out of class and i missed fucking computer lab time!!!!!#but we did fun logic things so i couldn't be super mad.#then they started bussing us to a separate school during that time #wed do our logic puzzle stuff there #then play at their playground #then head back to my school where id get a second playground break and if i was lucky #id also get lunch. so id get two lunches. i was living big #then my parents sent me to a “gifted school”#which really was just all ND kids without appropriate teacher supervision and care.#and that was hell #for 3 years.#my parents said it was like lord of the flies but didnt take me out until i got bad grades (because thats how they are)#then i went to another nother school and was just in an advanced class. there wasnt a seperate gifted program. that school was wonderful #i did almost kill someone but i was young and really really really didn't understand consequences #then in middle school i went to another not gifted but effectively gifted school.#they split up students into two groups thst were basically seen as smart kids and average kids. but of course the average kids were treated #like they were all idiots #and i realized the gifted system just pits kids against each other and it would be better if we didnt have it #i excelled in school but thats it. I'm not socially adept.#my parents wouldn't let me do anything othwr than my absolute best at all times and were perpetually disappointed in me.#they said they were proud but i was always in trouble and never doing enough to keep them satisfied #they gave me extra summer work #by highschool they had completely stopped doing anything special if i got all As. thats just what was expected.#i remember in highschool i was taking a ton of advanced classes sophomore year #and i wanted to wait and do my college english later because i had such a heavy course load #and my mom flipped her shit and said i was slacking off and not living up to my potential #so i took it anyway #finished all my English classes forever before 11th grade

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