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i see you’ve apologized for party rocking, but have not yet corrected your behavior. interesting..
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Okay now I’m thinking about 2016 and I just have to write down all the horrible shit that happened:
- started the year by developing hemorrhoids because I was too poor to afford fruits and vegetables and lived off the food I stole from my Starbucks job which caused me severe constipation
- said job was super part time and it took me over an hour to get to and from it by bus and I always worked either the super early 6:00 am shift or the super late 11:00 pm shift
- while working at Starbucks I lived in a house with a woman who used to be my professor who wouldn’t let us boil water on the stove???? And my other housemate was a lady who suffered from severe alcoholism so she’d steal any wine anyone put in the fridge and stole money from us if we left our purses outside of our locked bedrooms lol
- Eventually got a job as a travel agent and burnt out FAST. That was the closest I ever came to having a substance abuse problem
- started dating a guy who was on exchange from Australia and he gave me SCABIES!!!! And then cheated on me lol
- found out some horrific (and I mean truly horrific) information about my estranged father. I don’t really believe anyone is inherently evil but he might be close
- my sister developed a mystery illness that was labeled fibromyalgia and that caused her to have to stop working at 20 years old
- I was still madly in love with my POS ex and he kept stringing me along even after he got a new girlfriend (who looked exactly like me??)
- moved into a shared house with my sister and four other people and didn’t have a bathroom/shower for several weeks because it was under renovation
- caught the flu in the fall and then it turned into a sinus infection so bad that I thought I had pink eye
- my uncle died of cancer
- the killer clowns of course
- Donald Trump was elected the first time
Plus probably a bunch of stuff that I don’t remember. It was so bad!! I can’t imagine missing 2016.
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it is. sincerely really weird that 2016 nostalgia is a trend. like i knew this day would come but not for specifically 2016. the meme that year was about how this was the worst year ever for most people
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I’ve noticed some posts around about how you can’t romanticize your life during a fascist regime and while I deeply sympathize with this sentiment, I want you to try to understand that’s what they want you to believe.
Fascism thrives best in the cesspool of hopelessness. They want us so confused and hopeless that we give in. When you give in, you don’t fight back.
If you wait for life to look good to do the things that bring you joy; life will still be bad - you will just have less joy.
As someone who has struggled with my mental health a lot for the last thirty years, I know this struggle firsthand. And changing this belief system - the one where you spend all of your time expecting bad things so you won’t be surprised when they happen - it’s the hardest work that I have ever done. And I’m not perfect; I still have setbacks. I still experience really real fears about the state of the world and the US, in particular, because that’s where I live.
But I made a vow to myself that I will not let the choices of others ruin my life. When I made that vow, I was thinking of my parents - but it applies to the state of the government right now, too.
There are still flowers in my garden, and ripe tomatoes, and it’s almost pick-your-own apples season, and I have plans with my friends to go to as many cemetery ghost walks as we can find this October.
I still deserve to live. I still deserve to laugh. I still deserve to love. I still deserve to be as happy as I can be.
And you do, too.
Dan Savage.
*gestures broadly at the resistance movements in europe during the last reich*
ALT“Where there’s hope, there’s life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.”
— The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank
“One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return. One must negotiate this passage as nobly as possible, for the sake of those who are coming after us.”
— The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin
(via reasonsforhope)
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I’m reading Kurt Vonnegut’s The Sirens of Titan and I think that if it were ever turned into a movie it would have to be directed by George Miller. It’s very sci-fi but also very funny and bizarre (like most Vonnegut stories).
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Crossing my fingers that my one o’clock student no-shows. It’s supposed to be a class of three students but the other two can’t make it and it’s so painfully awkward when it’s just one student and I never have enough material so I have to make shit up on the spot
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could he act? no. but was his character good? also no. and were his plotlines compelling? not really. but did he look good? also no. but did i enjoy his time on the show? again, no. but would i watch more of his character? also no
ALT(via enyafans4communism)
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> read library book
> it’s good
Thank you library
> read library book
> it’s bad
Thank you library for saving me from buying it :)
Very Tender
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God damn it, you’ve got to be kind. | 30s. vegan.
