#where my dad lives near

[skiddodeeznutz]

I’m visiting a potential college in Kalos with my parents and lemme just say

When you are literally going to a college next to the beach with two water Pokémon while it’s raining.

Yeah They’re Going Insane.

[cookinguptales]

I'm planning on drinking boozy hot chocolate and bingeing s6 of wwdits tonight once the sun goes down. I probably won't put most of my liveblogging in the main tags (they probably don't need the additional spam rn) but I'll probably use my usual "nandermo tag"/"wwdits tag" combo if you want to block it.

in that weird place where I didn't particularly enjoy a lot of s5 but I still have mild hopes for s6 and I do feel a compulsion to watch the (apparently very complicated) ending live tomorrow. for old time's sake.

[lokh]

at this point i have to assume the ongoing chest pain is from living in this fucking house

[softshuji]

yk people talk about how you can't heal in the same place you got hurt in and I believe that entirely. Because truth is, no matter how much internal healing I do, no matter how much I try to change my perspectives or do journaling or work or spend time with friends or do cute hobbies, all the time I have to come back to this house, and yknow something funny? this house is exactly where all the bad things happened in the first place. this house is where everything that still bothers me to this day happened so every day i am always aware that i'm coming back here, and not a single day goes by that I don't think about how much I hate this house. the four walls, the too small rooms, the issues with its structure, the fact that my dad has never fixed it up so me and my siblings are all crammed into this tiny box house like canary birds - the fact tbat my dad throws this same house at us every time we argue because he knows we have nowhere else to go. we have no family, no cousins no relatives and no money, and I don't earn enough to be able to move out just yet, least of all without my siblings. so no you cannot heal in the same place you got hurt, and while i'm living here i'm never going to heal either but where else can I go?

[selamat-linting]

resignation letter is the most potent painkiller. i love you resignation letter i love you one month notice <3

[tj-crochets]

Do you have a particular organization you work with for providing disaster relief?

At the moment, no. My dad and several of my neighbors have been helping out with various local groups, but so far my donations have been things like clothes I had on hand that happened to be the size my neighbor's coworker, who lost their house in a flood, needed, or stuff like that The baby blankets are going to a different neighbor's kid's school, who is arranging donations for...I think it's a particular city but I am not sure how to reveal what city without giving away where I live more precisely than I really want to? I live close enough to the flooding that I don't really need to work with an organization, because everyone in my neighborhood is at max two degrees of separation from someone who lost everything in the floods. I can give things, including baby blankets, directly to the families affected. I mean, that said, I am giving them to my neighbors to distribute, but that's because I can't drive and a lot of the places donations are going you can't drive to at the moment anyway. One of my neighbors is organizing people with ATVs to go take food, water, fuel, and other necessities up to some of the communities that currently have no road access I got very, very lucky with where I live and the infrastructure that happened to be in place*. There was severe flooding less than ten minutes away from where I live in more than one direction, but where I live made it and enough of the roads are intact to be able to get out. Some routes are more circuitous than they used to be, but it's still possible

*by happened to be in place I mean in my particular neighborhood and the work my dad has had done in our yard, not the rest, I know a lot of people over a lot of years made the infrastructure of the larger area

[not-a-matopoeia]

I think we should let men have a silly little breakdown every once in a while as a treat

[blackmetalbats]

no you dont get it. i feel like people like mushrooms but they dont like them like i do. i am the only one who loves them. i am the only one ever in the world to be able to distinguish them and pick up only the ones that are good to eat, and pick them up in a way that will allow for them to regrow. i am the only one who knows where to look for them. im not even talking about the taste, i just like Mushrooms in the wild. they're my friends

[sansa-of-oldstones]

“Don’t worry unless Jim Cantore shows up.”

Jim Cantore: *has lunch a few miles from where I live*

Me: *wants to pack bags, texts brother in Illinois*

[tellmegoodbye]

2 and 11!

Thank you Dalawa! 🩷

Album of the year?

Now listen...anyone who knows me already knows what my answer is for this...BUT before Linkin Park made their comeback my AOTY was going to be Carnal by Nothing More. I was obsessed with that album for most of this summer.

Then my favorite band came back and dropped From Zero, and yes I'm biased, but it's also an AMAZING album!!

Something you want to do again next year?

Okay so something I did this year for my birthday was going to Boston! My dad and I flew up for a few days and went to a Celtics game (we crushed the Warriors...it was awesome) we also got to walk around the city and see a lot of the historical sites, and the food was incredible! Let's just say I fell in love.

And as it so happens, we're going back again in March! Not for a game this time, but we're going to the Dream Theater show there since they aren't coming to Florida. It's their first tour back with their original drummer (and my favorite drummer) and my dad and I absolutely love this band. We saw that they'd be there when I was off from college for spring break, so we figured we'd go there instead of waiting for them to come here.

[eonars]

Idk if it's been the insane lack of sleep from being just unable to sleep a full night even after 11 hour days at work or the mild social isolation bc no one in my class talks to me and I'm separated from my beloved office girlies that I normally yap with all day long or if it's because I went back for a really whirlwind two weeks that felt bittersweet but dude I'm homesick I'm like one more weird lonely day away from calling my parents crying

[jackredfieldwasmyjacob]

i'm giving guadalajara too much shit but los pueblos negros (the black villages) are genuinely really freaking cool

also! my first experience with them was through an andrea compton video, cause she is from one of these villages!!! for those who don't know her, andrea compton is one of the most belovedests spanish youtubers, one of the ogs as well and i love her very much. anyways, she lived here until high school, where she went to live with her father in my hometown lol, in suburban madrid. so. pretty big change. i unfortunately cannot find her video, she might have just deleted it at this point - i watched it at least 10 years ago - but i found what her village is if you want to look it up, it's called roblelacasa, and as of 2016 it has 22 inhabitants. i remember she told in the video that she had to go to another village to go to school, and that in said school there were 6 kids in total, of course with different ages all together in the classroom.

[fingertipsmp3]

Had a dream that this woman I vaguely know (I used to help her husband with spelling and reading and stuff before he turned to a life of crime) randomly had a vendetta against me and I told my mum and she was like “okay you need to either learn martial arts or leave the country”

[strawberryamanita]

Thinking about the cranberry bog.

I need to go to the cranberry bog.

I want to lay down face-up in the cranberry bog, like it was a regular lake, and watch the world turn around me.

I crave the bog.

[wigglerauspistice-absconded]

i need 2 give out my address 2 perverts online,,,

[fadeintoyou1993]

it really is crazy like the police brutality against black people in brasil is so fucking scary but literally none of it makes the news like it barely is reported HERE because it's basically common day occurrences