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*through gritted teeth* you are not a child taking a test with the purpose of getting the highest score, you are an adult trying new things and finding ways to enjoy your life, make mistakes, be a beginner, be mediocre, be where you need to be, be unlikeable, just. be.

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“what have you been doing over quarantine?”

well, uh…

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ME: hold up. you see that? train's been through here FRIEND: how can you tell ME: tracks. they're not fresh, maybe 60, 80 years old FRIEND: no chance it'll come back, then ME: don't be so sure. That's well within their lifespan... and they're highly territorial

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“If I had time travel I’d kill Hitler” “If I had time travel I’d stop my favourite politician getting assassinated” you’re all thinking way too small. If I had time travel I’d stop Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin from dying on the moon due to Soviet sabotage, kicking off the Great Nuclear War and devastating half of the planet.

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‘your parents just want what’s best for you’ that is objectively not true for a lot of people, sometimes they want what’s best for them or what looks the best to other people, or what they think is best for you is based on outdated, backwards and messed up values & beliefs. even if their intentions aren’t bad doesn’t mean they even remotely know what’s good for you

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“really?” I say to inanimate objects that are not working like they usually do

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Barbican 27/08/2023

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(except for my body, my body is pretty horrible)

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i love you so much, trans women who don't or can't pass. i love you if your voice is deep and you can't raise it or don't want to, if you're bald/balding, if you have five o clock shadow you can't get rid of, if your facial hair grows too fast to keep up with, if you have a flat chest or narrow hips or whatever it may be that strangers just can't seem to get past, i love you. it doesn't change the fact that you're a woman. if you can't, won't, or feel you'll never pass, i love you, i love the woman you are, and i love the way you show the world what womanhood can look like. passing is not your rite of passage into womanhood- you have always belonged regardless of whether or not you pass or ever even try to.

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Hallam Tower Hotel, Sheffield

Lanyon & Zennor Quoit, West Penwith, Cornwall.

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"Isn't it weird that [thing humans commonly eat] is poisonous to literally every domesticated animal" I mean, there's a pretty good chance that [thing humans commonly eat] is at least mildly poisonous to humans, too. One of our quirks as a species is that we think our food is bland if it doesn't have enough poison in it.

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Thinking maybe, as part of my strategy for Sorting My Life Out, I should try coming back to Tumblr.

It's not like there are any *downsides* to this plan, right?

#a lot has changed in the past couple of years