#vermont dreaming

[theladwhoisweird]

12.17.23

Papen Core

[one-time-i-dreamt]

The new generation of Pokemon games was going to be set in a region based on Vermont.

[agentfascinateur]

#choose well

#vote Bruce and Bernie

#no other BS

[andallshallbewell]

[fullyamess]

Texas’s “pre-approved” division

vs

Oregon counties voting to join Idaho

vs

California’s 200+ attempts (big or small) to split into smaller states

vs

Vermont, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Maine actually splitting off their original state

fight!

Texas coming into the union with the idea already in his head that he might split up and what does that mean for him? Eventually the push for it goes away and he lets himself acknowledge that he was maybe scared of what it would mean. And he starts thinking instead about leaving the US entirely. And then Austin shows up and Texas forces him down. Refuses to go back to that place of fear and ignores how part of him feels right when Austin’s around.

Oregon has always been steady. Solid. Until he wasn’t. Until he thought maybe leave the US entirely and the State of Jefferson started rumbling and his people looked to Idaho as an option and he put a good spin on it all. He smiled and said that it wasn’t a big deal, that it was such a small percent of his people and he wanted them to be happy and anyway he was still Oregon it was more like they were moving to Idaho not that he was losing anything. Except that he can feel what would go with his people and it still feels like pieces of himself.

California has always torn at the pieces of himself. Picked at the parts of him that didn’t fit and told himself it would be better. That he was too big, too much, and people would be happier if he could be just a little smaller, a little easier to handle, or not a state at all. He remembers when he was even bigger; a territory that extended far beyond his borders. But it’s vague impressions and not quite real memories and maybe not even really his own. The tearing and scratching and yearning to divide and needing to be whole and hating all the pieces of himself and still somehow loving every last inch? That’s real.

Virginia looks at Kentucky and remembers what it felt like; being whole and then having something vital ripped away. Looks at West Virginia and can't believe he survived it twice. Massachusetts wakes up some mornings and presses at the places where Maine used to be like a lost tooth that never grew back. Vermont was New Hampshire's. But then he was also New York's. And then he was neither of theirs so why does New Hampshire look at him and still see exactly how they used to fit together?

[misticare]

November. 2023

[dykeseinfeld]

i feel like because successful actors are more visible in the public eye than other artists people don't internalize how fucking difficult it is to be a professional actor in the same way it is to be like a famous painter or any other artist anyway literally i don't care if you're a nameless rando who played police officer #2 in single episodes of tv shows nobody watches for their whole career if you make a living as an actor you deserve for someone to hand you a bouquet of roses and a trophy every time you cross the street and also i love you

[whales-are-gay]

status report: currently on the second best rocking chair ever in the world

[snowshinobi]

the title track of Stick Season by Noah Kahan rips my liver out of my body and eats it in front of me. in case anyone else wants to get gutted today

[blightowl]

I have similar dreams but with guinea pigs and cats! Usually the dream jiminiy pigs are ones that I've been pet sitting or keeping secretly in my room ???? but I don't realize I have them until I'm in my room and whoop there's a pig pig. Oh yeah that's mine but I haven't fed them for the last six months uh crap ok find food oh no there's more now oh no crap what if my housemates find out they hate rodents

Except they already know and don't I remember the three cats they adopted a few weeks ago? These four new cats are getting along just fine. The seven of them are even friendly with our existing cats who even include cats from my childhood and there are 20 cats in the house and 10 or 15 guinea pigs

And then the stress gets worse and I'm in Vermont

everyone has dreams about being lost at school, late to work, cant find bathroom etc but whats yalls most common Uncommon stress dream. ill always have dreams about having various problems with my fish tank

[theladwhoisweird]

I'm in the wind, You're in the water.

Nobody's son, Somebody's daughter

[lizbethart-blog]

The Significance Of The Day...

Lilacs in bloom. Bursting off branches in abundance of pale purple. This season of bloom seems particularly full of fragrance and bounty. Large oval clusters boasting Vermont spring. I once thought the fragrance of lilacs existed only at our family home where I once ran up the hill towards 665 Adams Street and past Kramer’s farm. I have found that the sweet aroma floats over my path now as…

[agentfascinateur]

Vote for the good guys! Write-in your POTUS & VP

"B.S." by any other name is just BS!

[garrettfuckingkoval]

And I love Vermont, but it's the season of the sticks…

[butchyena]

working a ten hour shift alone today and the sirius station played stick season and i was probably too into it cause out of the corner of my eye i saw a coworker like this

[misticare]