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maybe i am a normal girl or maybe i have some kind of repulsive evil in me that everyone is just too polite to point out

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mr sandman was playing in this gas station and the cashier and i both sang “man me a sand” at the same fucking time without hesitation

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even the top gets called a faggot

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As a fellow person in their twenties, you good?

i wish i could float in a river face down for seventy kilometers and not drown

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you need to live to be a weird funny old person whos weirdness was not broken by a rigidly formal world and to do that you must be a weird you now and not be broken despite it all

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having one of those executive function days where everything is too many steps

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Stop everything the full barbie move trailer just dropped

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Stop everything the full barbie move trailer just dropped

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i am NOT gaslighting you. i am lying to you. gaslighting implies a level of effort that i am simply not putting in. deceiving you does not require much

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i don't actually give a fuck whether fatness is an indicator of health because health shouldn't indicate a moral high ground. being healthy isn't some pinnacle of human achievement, it's not morally superior. and being unhealthy isn't a moral failing and shouldn't mean you're less worthy of kindness, justice, and a good life. signed, a chronically ill person who will never be "healthy" at any weight.

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today’s weird medieval guys has truly captured the vibe

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I'm so weird & you want me so bad.

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is this relatable to everyone or just me

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working in a library, i encounter a lot of people who are in the process of filling out important forms, sending important faxes, and copying important documents. and the more important these things are, the more stressful, meaning i end up assisting a lot of really stressed people with a lot of really stressful paperwork, and have thus developed the ultimate line to immediately validate and empathize with their situation

“they don’t make it easy, do they?”

i nearly always use this line at some point in the conversation & it works without fail, because there is ALWAYS a they and they are ALWAYS not making it easy. you don’t have to specify who “they” are. you don’t even need to have an approximate idea of their role in this process.

job application? disability paperwork? insurance documents? financial aid paperwork? in any situation, the person visibly relaxes & enthusiastically agrees, because someone understands their plight: they are out there & they are NOT making it easy

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