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fatcultureis · 5 months

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Fat culture is being suggested weight loss surgery by your doctor even though you're young and have no conditions that would require such an invasive, expensive procedure. All because you're fat.

Even she said that I didn't need it and her job required her to recommend it. I love my doctor, but I hate the American medical system -_-

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#fat #fat acceptance #fat culture #fat culture is #fat liberation #fat positive #fat pride #that happened to me too in the uk #i mean i did have slightly high blood pressure that day but #they always ignore my history of life-long anxiety #especially social anxiety

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timetravellingkitty · 8 months

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peeks out cause it's safe now you guys were really weird about Depp v Heard

#so the last i followed this was when a uk court declared that johnny was a wife beater #and then. that fucking trial. good lord was it bad #i dont know where to start except for wtf is wrong with yall #i didnt follow the trial at all but the reactions werw honest to god so bad it turned me off #along with some of the discussions just being. too much.#truth be told i did not know what to believe cause of what people around me said and it felt conflicting at the time?? if it makes sense??#and i always found the reaction to amber so overblown and misogynistic (especially mocking her sa testimony wtf)#i tuned it all out until this year i got reminded of this #and now my stance could not be more clear #if you're still reading this #i stand with amber heard #if you support johnny depp go ahead and unfollow i will not miss you #you cannot in good faith support this man after knowing what actually happened. basic fact checking #he is such a bastard i tell you #institutions will always protect men in power #anti johnny depp

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atikas · 9 days

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In May of 2021 Maeve Boothby O’Neill was told by an NHS doctor she would “feel much better if you gave your hair a wash”. In October of 2021 she died. Multiple young women are in situations extremely similar to those that led to her death, right now.

#myalgic encephalomyelitis #mecfs #medical gaslighting #medical misogyny #I wish I was well enough to reread it and post some screencaps of key bits but I’m not so #maybe someone has already shared this article on here but I haven’t seen it #people outside the me community need to know what’s happening to people with me especially young women #we know of multiple young women just in the uk in very similar situations to maeve’s before her death #edit: I have tried to add a couple of screenshots from the article #I feel so trapped and frustrated that I’m too severe to do a decent job at making people aware of this illness but anyway

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marciaillust · 1 year

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so like uh. uhh. superhero/journalist au revamped

#2023 the year of tcm im telling you #taking a little break from drawing the dj #BRO I CANT BELIEVE I NEVER POSTED THE SHITTY OG SKETCHES #there were soooo many #i am certain i posted the witch au so why not the superhero au #OR maybe i did post it and i just cant find them?? anyway #my friend showed me this artist that i have become low key obsessed with dan mora #also the same friend may or may not be wiritng a tcm fic for me. tee hee. :^) my birthday is in march yay #ANYWAY the au. it started out pretty simple #orion is a journalist and garret is a lone wolf superhero and stuff happens!#stuff that i cant talk about because the subject matter is way too close to spoilers for the actual tcm #but lets just say orion wants the scoop to write his articles but Red Wing doesnt want his identity revealed #shenanigans ensue #I CANT WAIT FOR THE FIC KYA #my best friend being an excellent writer is the BEST thing that happened to me in my whole life fr #their stuff is always so top notch #soon to be published best selling uk author fr #after they get the doctorate #can you believe it doctorate #holy wow #ok tags #tcm #the clockmaster #sketches #superhero au

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braceletofteeth · 18 hours

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I have to leave with you.

Are you alright? I'm here.

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laniidae-passerine · 5 months

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honestly even if I’m in misery over this week’s elimination I am living in hope we see Jarvis on Titans because he is so stunningly talented and his comedy is hilarious! and he has the perfect brand so if he could believe in himself like the fans do, you just know he can take over the entire world

#although technically I suppose it’s Jules who needs to believe in Jarvis? or believe in herself while he possesses her?#I’ll let them handle that one I think #this is a quiet plea to come to ldn and perform #but seriously yea the ghost is hot. I am (unlike himself) but a mere mortal #but I genuinely respect and admire the talent and skill and the entire package Jarvis served this season #yes it was serving a little bit of thing 1 and 2. but it served!!! and the lipsync extermination was BRUTAL #that had never happened before and suddenly it was them versus JAYKAY??? ouch. a valiant but futile fight #I just love everything their drag encompasses and provides and it’s amazing!!!#it’s really energising too like I love drag and Jarvis reminds me why #especially in a time period when so many drag races and other competitions are flinging performers at you #and some just blend into sameness #s5 dragula is presenting so many talented varied performers and Jarvis is my fav of them all (even though I love so many of them!!!)#anyway Jarvis merch in the UK when????? haunt an international delivery truck sir just get that here and I’ll hand over the money #this season is so good!!!!! wow. loving it #dragula #jarvis hammer

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cowboy-robooty · 4 months

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new years resolutions:

- GET BACK ON YAOI GRIND

- SEARCH FOR OTHER HALF (best bro)

- GET FUCKING RICH

BONUS: FIND A CUTE YANDERE GIRLFRIEND WITH A BAD ATTITUDE AND HUGE SCHLONG!

OR

FIND SALARY MAN THAT IS 10 YEARS OLDER THAN ME WHO WILL BE MY UKE HUSBAND

#yandere gf aint happening tho cuz i cant date girls #dating a girl is like doing heroin it feels so good but its so bad for me bc i girls always be treating me like an apple pie #bake me alive cover me in white shit and sometimes sexually harass me (ever watch the movie american pie?#also because its my lifelong dream to be a sugar daddy seme and i only uke for girls so thats kind of a problem too

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butchdonne · 3 months

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like ive been hanging out with this one friend group since literally the beginning of the year and thats been fine!! but for some reason theyve collectively and silently decided that i am Not one of them and they dont wait for me at lunch time im pretty sure they have a group chat without me etc etc. and that would be ok were it not for the fact that it is now halfway through the school year and i have nowhere else to go because all the friend groups have already formed. so unless something happens that means i Gain a friend group by chance im basically stranded for the rest of the year (and probably next year too) and theres literally nothing i fear more than that

#what the fuck do i even do #there are people who like me and think im cool i have friends in my lessons but they have their friend groups!!!#i cant go barging in on them i cant just Appear and Insert myself into their group its too late for that #and besides my school is a labyrinth i dont even know Where to go #i just wanna know what i did that made them decide i didnt belong in their group uk #were my vibes just off or something?#because like. theyre not purposefully cutting me out but theres not no intention behind it #like i am not one of them very obviously #but they neglected to tell me this until it was too late for me to do anything else so now im stuck on the fringes of a group of people who #just about tolerate my presence. hmmm i wonder what this reminds me of. oh yeah not much just THE WORST YEARS OF MY ENTIRE FUCKING LIFE???#and like they're not in the wrong these things happen but also i do not deserve to be treated like that #they may not know thats one of the things i loathe and fear the most but they must know its kinda shit #ok. vent over im done #(just cried for like 20 mins straight)#pip squeaks #vent

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starfleetwitch · 1 year

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AM I HAVING A FUCKING STROKE?!

or did Rishi Sunak really basically just admit IN FRONT OF THE WORLD that taking the UK out of the EU was a terrible decision? Also what I heard: "This country we took but dont acknowledge until it benefits us is in the best position in the world in terms of access to the market"

#Rishi Sunak #Ah lads looks like the Uk remembers we exist again for the benefits of exploitation #Cause mark my words thats whats gonna happen. We now benefit the Uk to exist in the Uk #I mean dont get me wrong our political system is an absolute SHAMBLES too but JFC talk about shooting yourself and your party in the foot #british politics #Brexit #Northern Ireland #I might... just move back to Northern Ireland lads #Níl aon tinteán mar do thinteán fhéin #HEY MA! IM COMING HOME MA!#If you cant tell... im conflicted.#I'm happy Northern Ireland is apparently in a good position well see how long that lasts now England is acknowledging us again #but I'm also hella salty over BOTH countries politics #We only ever get mentioned by the british government when it suits them and I refuse to be 'something good' a torry did after all the years #of pure bullshittery #cant even spend UK STERLING in England without being treated like a criminal #Not to mentiion the sheer bullshittery of 'we only post to the uk' and then being told Northern Ireland isnt part of the UK WHEN IT CLEARLY #FUCKING IS CAUSE I FUCKING GREW UP IN THE TAIL END OF WHAT HAPPENED AFTERWARDS!#AND THATS JUST SURFACE LEVEL PETTY SHIT THATS HAPPENED!#Good Friday agreement at risk anyone?#northern ireland protocol #No one remember?#Northern Ireland has so much potential and the tories will do their best to bleed us dry #we havent much more to give you sir #just fuck off and sort out the cost of living crisis please #Stay in your own fucking lane and sort THAT shit out #I had so many rant tags I've just discovered Tumblr has a limit given over half of them were deleted from the post XD #Long story short YAY Northern Ireland now please leave us alone Rishi #Just to be clear... I love England. Its the Tories and the government that are grinding my fucking gears right now

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chaos-coming · 6 months

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I'm annoyed and have been stewing in these thoughts for a few weeks, it's time to get it off my chest.

Despite their enthusiasm, i think i will not he working with the local marxist group here after all. Ive met with them a few times and honestly they fall into all of the classic shortcomings of white european leftist groups.

This group of upper middle class white swedes seem really and truly convinced that they will be the leaders of the great global revolution. They openly told me the first time we met that they are studying the literature to train the future leaders of the movement (the ego is just...wow). Dogmatic and enthusiastic, yes, but aware of the global currents happening right now, no. They dont see that capitalism is reliant on imperialism, and the idea that they might not be center stage when the workers of the world (most of whom live in the global south) rise up has never crossed their minds. They say they only want members who are serious and committed to the cause, but it really looks like they just want to create an echo chamber to boost their egos.

They think that boycotts and direct action are meaningless, as if disrupting the capitalist war machine is antithetical to their "great revolution". They use protests and demonstrations as opportunities for recruitment and to prosthelytize about reading theory. I watched them stand in front of a group of mostly migrants and refugees from syria, iran, palestine, and talk at them about the situation as if everyone showing up to a demonstration organization meeting wasnt already aware. As if refugees with family in the region wanted to hear this blond guy with a mustache posturing for Woke Points(tm) and say nothing constructive, dominate the conversation and ignore suggestions for action from people who have lived through the imperialist wars in SWANA.

Besides going to marxist conferences aka paid field trips, these people dont talk about any action if it's not directly about the great revolution and recruiting more communists, and place way too much emphasis on reading "the classics" (dont get me wrong reading theory is useful but its not the end all be all they think it is). And they dont read literary response/criticism to the classical theory, or modern interpretations, it's not "pure" enough. Theyre not just reading it for theory either, theyre literally and uncritically looking to 100 year old descriptions of society for instructions and methods for creating a revolution in the current day - descriptions which do not acknowledge climate change or indigenous sovereignty or the hyperconnected global economic system we live under - with no critical thought to how it must be adapted to the current epoch (i watched them shoot down all suggestions for organizing online and on social media, or provocative visual demonstrations, insisting that the only and best way to spread awareness is to stand in the hallways and pass out fliers to passersby like its still 1980 and sweden isnt already a paperless cashless society).

I made a comment about how soviet agriculture in west asia wasnt sustainable and got blank or disappointed faces in response. Which leads me to suspect that they idolize the ussr and have no intention to look at non european perspectives. I even tried to bring up the fact that we are currently on occupied sami land, sweden still has a literal actual monarch, living off of taxes and the imperial conquest of the sami people and neighboring countries. It got quiet, they did not want to have that conversation, they dont care beyond lip service about the rights of the indigenous people in their backyards (literally, theyre camped outside the city with their reindeer right now). Getting rid of the monarchy is not a priority, the concept of a monarch in the 21st century is not offensive or antithetical to their beliefs because the "great revolution" will take care of it anyway. Theyre not interested in actions, anything short of their fantasy of a total revolution is meaningless to them. These self proclaimed leaders of the revolution arent even interested in leading a push for an end to the monarchy which takes the workers' taxes to uphold an imperialistic remnant.

Like its basically a pay to play book club, theyre super insistent on the member fee being 10% of your income (even if you have no income you still pay) and it needs to be paid to participate in any of their group meetings etc. Like i get that they have a newspaper and printing press and a full time newspaper employee to pay for, but how is that not capitalistic? How is it not a class barrier, and especially when non-european students have to pay 5 figure tuition costs and they get to go to uni for free. The fact that their group is entirely 100% white and almost all swedes says volumes. And the fact that the palestine organizers have stsrted to schedule their meetings at the same time as the marxist group regularly does, almost like they dont want to work with these white guys who are trying to control the local solidarity movement.

When all you do is sit around reading literature and patting yourselves on the back for being special, when you look a refugee in the face and talk about revolution like theyre not the ones who have literally lived through it, when you are completely uninterested in taking action to fight imperialism in your own country, when you staunchly refuse to get with the times, why are you surprised nobody wants the 'revolution' youre offering them.

#im not so surprised but i am frustrated that the local marxist group is like this #but with how groups in the uk and on the continent are i expected just a tiny bit of awareness from these guys #i guess we are too isolated up here and sweden is just too comfortable for the white people to wake up #but at the literal colonial frontier with sami people sitting outside the city i thought maybe the leftist groups would be talking about it #but as usual white europeans have a large ego blocking their vision #theyre happy to criticize the rest of the world and even other eurooean countries #but ask them to make a change in theirs? good luck #honestly ive been thinking that living in europe isnt for me in the long term. this is not where the progress is happening #europe north of the alps hasnt felt the effect of climate change and theyre just so detached and complacent #you cannot push these people into meaningful action they just dont understand how the world is anymore #im going to stay for another 18 months to finish my degree but im starting to feel really limited by the conservative worldview here #even among the so called left

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opens-up-4-nobody · 1 year

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#the thing abt me is that if u complement me in an academic context i will melt #me walking into every interview: fuck this school. i dont wanna go there. im sad. on one is gonna want me. i can hardly function. fuck this #me walking out of every interview: fuck. the project is cool and they said nice things abt me 😭#fuck. the guy from the lab i interviewed with basically said if u wanna be here i can make it happen. i like ur style and i think ur a #super good candidate 😭 and he quoted my wanky writing bc i got a bit flowery and idealistic lol #and hes on the admissions committee so he was like: yea i can support u if u want just let me kno #and fucking hell the project is cool. but the thing is i think id have to be less of a sad sac bc i think he expects a lot and is hands off #but it is a big institution with a lot of creative ppl and theyre good abt supporting interdisciplinary work #so like the opportunities there would be pretty fucking great i think. hhhhhh god. theres no way i could take the uk one now #fuck. wtf am i gonna do abt that? do i bow out now before ive committed so they have a shot with another person #or is it too late for that bc they already put my name forward to the committee #god dammit. this was the one i was supposed to b like yea no shot am i getting this. and now im like fucking considering it like #the opportunities.... but id have to live in new jersey... it would b closer to home i guess. id b back on east coast time #and i could work with Yellowstone organisms. and i bet the classes r pretty fucking rad education wise #god. decisions. im gonna play Choices by the Hoosiers like a million times #thats what i did wjen i was deciding to go for undergrad. and then i didnt even decide. i was just like... well i dont wanna go to the #place all my classmates r going. i will go 3hrs away. then 12hrs by plane for my masters #fuck. at least it went well. everyone was nice and the 2nd guy i talked to was like:#even if u dont go here. email me if u end up working with zinc and i can help. and i was like 😭#i got a bit rambly with him but whatever he was 15min late so we're even lol #i was way too nervous. but it was ok. but also i dont understand wtf other incoming phd students r like??#like they say im a good candidate and ive got good background and im like ??? what sort of losers r u looking at if u think im good?#i just think maybe what i wanna do is unique and very specific so im like not trying to do just anything. i have standards lol #and apparently im more coherent than i give myself credit for. i talk good sometimes and i have enthusiasm when i dont feel like im dying #god. i was not expecting this. i dont belong at a school working with tech startups like wtf. i come from a place of slightly trash #universities lol. well my undergrad uni wasnt so bad... well i mean the city is the butt of a lot of ohio related jokes tho. im looking at #u klinger. fucking mean streets of toledo. whatever the school im at now is worse. couldnt even keep my boss here smh #anyway what the fuck. and i got a lotta writing done today what the fuck #me being competent???? unheard of. god. imagine if i had my shit together. i could kill god. algae and other scientists would fear me #unrelated

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jettison-my-gift · 7 months

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I’m just so tired of our government’s visceral hatred of trans people. I’m tired of having to justify my right to exist, to be allowed to be seen and respected. I’m tired of people who know nothing about what it’s like to be trans making our lives harder cos they just don’t like the idea of us. I’m tired of waking up every morning and reading about a new way the government wants to make us suffer. I’m tired of being thrown under buses and pointed at, whilst they pile refugees into floating prisons and claim that being gay in a country where you could be killed for it isn’t reason enough to want to leave that country. But no it’s trans people who are the threat. I don’t want to fight this fight anymore. I’m just so tired. I just want to exist. Quietly.

#we have to fight for our rights but I’m too exhausted #why do they hate us so much. we’re just folks wanting to live our lives #this hospital thing has pissed me off so much #you know there’s no evidence of any cis woman ever ever complaining about being on the same ward as a trans woman #it just doesn’t happen #but now the government has decided to make life even harder for trans women because??? they want to ‘’protect cis women’’ FROM WHAT??#there’s no space in the ward anyway #no one is complaining about who they have to sure a hospital with cos they can’t even get into the hospital in the first place #this is about #uk politics #but I know it’s a massive problem everywhere rn #the whole world just seems to hate us rn #and I’m just. so tired #sorry rant over #tw transphobia

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celestial-sapphicss · 8 months

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#so i just finished s1ep2 of the bear (i don't really get it so far but ok)#and there's this scene where the main character calls up his sister and tells her about the mental shit that has been happening with him uk #and like even though this feeling is always there but lile i can't help but feel like my life would have been so much better with a sibling?#like one id have good relationships with uk???#and ik ik found family and forming meaningful relationships outside is an option but like in this capitalistic individualist society? is it?#anyways that's not the point it's that there's always stuff no body in the world would get except people who grow up with you innit?#be it school or hometowns or families and it would have been nice to have someone help me not feel this complete overwhelmness all the time #and without me feeling like im exaggerating or thinking that the person would judge me or having to keep telling everything repeatedly #but then i think would that even matter when I am the one who's the problem and like can't work to form that connection with anyone?????#like i for the life of me cannot share anything beyond the surface level or without making a joke out of it #and it seems funny but i trivialise so much of the fucking shit that happens so obviously no one takes it seriously not their fault right?#and like how fair to my friends that i literally almost always been superficial and lowkey untrue with them in exchange for their honesty???#at this point i feel like i don't even know what i truly feel or truly am because whenever i look back at my past self im like wtf #idk most of the times it just feels like being 'stuck' in a glass container and me not 'letting' anyone in if that makes sense?#ik im being very annoying about it but im just so tierd of feeling like this its been a decade & its way too long to constantly feeling dead #and im so fucking stubborn in my sadness that i won't even go get help after years of crying about wanting it & now finally having resources #it's like this mental block which i can't seem to remove and i feel like even if i do get help ill still be untrue so what's the point!???#yeahhhhh anyways i'll delete this later i don't journal so tumblr will have to make do #vi.txt

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aroaessidhe · 10 months

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2023 reads // twitter thread

Into The Labyrinth / Facing The Shadow

2&3 in a middle grade fantasy trilogy about a 12yo girl who discovers she has the ability to enter a magical world in her dreams, and has to save it from darkness

while also dealing with anxiety, bullying, and friendships in the real world

set in Wellington Aotearoa

dreamrealm worldbuilding reflects the MC’s Māori/Chinese/Irish/Scottish heritage

aspec questioning MC

#dreamweavers #aroaessidhe 2023 reads #isa pearl ritchie #into the labyrinth #ok this is definitely on the younger side of MG - or probably just nz mg & ya is overall younger compared to US/UK #it is fun there's some cool ideas!#it does make me nostalgic for certain nz ya/mg fantasies too #the true aroace and also 14yo fear of your friends not liking you as much as each other #or getting bored with you when they get crushes #there's a reasonable subplot about that in book 1&2 which sort of ends on her friends being like. We Will Not Do That also we're not+#planning on dating or crushes any time soon anyway #and the MC eventually mentions she googled and saw something called the ace spectrum but she doesn't know anyone irl like that #and her friend is like sounds legit also we love you the way you are no matter what - and then it doesn't really come up after that #(which makes sense for 12yos though I think it could have been more narratively concluded)#a bit that made me laugh was when a magic person is talking about bad things that happen in the waking world and she's like:#what; like.........atrocities?#you know. The Atrocities. just in general. sdhjgjhfd #the third one tried to bring in some bigger ideas and I think got a bit lost…..#it almost felt like the core of the characters/narrative was put aside to make the focus We Have To Make Kids Care About Climate Change !#also ends quite abruptly?#and there were a few things that felt Too silly and took me out of the story. maybe 12yos would find it funny idk #anyway I think overall: not bad! but probably one of those middle grades that is more just for kids not also enjoyable for an adult audienc #(which is fine of course!)#asexual books #nz author

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katzenkarussell · 2 years

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When Ingo comes back to his time he occasionally has a thick Galarian accent break through due to his time spent around Professor Laventon. Certain words tip it off and suddenly the Unovan is gone and it’s galarian is there.

#Ingo #submas ingo #listen I’m bilingual and this happens to me all the time #Professor Laventon not knowing the influence of accents he is a Pokémon professor after all #I learned to speak fluently in America so I had the American accent first #then I studied in the UK and now I essentially have both #usually I speak more with the remnants of the American but some words make me go British (derogatory)#or when I get too excited about being right with my partner #yes I get bullied for this no dear reader you may not #if you hang around enough accents your accents turned into something interesting #or as my colleagues called it the international accent #I think Emmet would not appreciate the new accent #applying experience to the blorbo #and the cats go round and round

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moinsbienquekaworu · 1 year

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To counterbalance the sadness of that post I reblogged here's some positivity that hit me this evening: like someone said in the notes, I get to decide who I am now, and I get to do what I want and chase my dreams. And that's cool

#no because look. i'm going to the uk next year (!!!!!!!!) and after that i'll have more Things to do #notably i want to adopt a cat once i've got a flat for myself and i can take care of a little buddy #this - like studying a year abroad - has been a 'dream' for so long i can't remember when it occured to me that i wanted it #it feels to me that i've always wanted to go study a year in the uk and i've always wanted to adopt a cat #there are very few things i Want that way #i never envisioned myself with a partner. i didn't have a dream job. i just want to live in my city with a cat.#that's what i saw when i imagined my future. not art not a boyfriend not a specific job. just.... me in my city with my flat and a cat.#and when i started changing my future to include Him well that went away #i thought that that vision was silly anyway and as i was Maturing (i was 13) i was developing new life plans #ie living with him ?? somewhere ?? after uni ?? in a house in the countryside ???#no year abroad when i was Old Enough because that would cut our time together short. no cat unless he wanted one too.#no living in my city because he didn't like it and that's no place to raise children #(nevermind i didn't want children - i was 14 and i had time to grow into that. like i had time to grow attracted to him. Yeah.)#but it's been three years now. i think the three year anniversary came a few days ago and i forgot it?#oh. it's. it's tomorrow. the - well technically we're the 21st and most of it happened on the 21st but. last message was the 22nd.#well. i know when to buy myself an ice cream #three years.....#and in those three years i've learnt more about myself and i just realised.#i'm going to the uk next year. i'm doing it. it's HAPPENING. i'm not giving up on my dreams anymore!#yeah they're vague silly idealised dreams and they're not even dreams. but.#i want things for myself and i will get them. i'm going to the uk next year. i'm going.#and when i come back i'll stay with my parents if i want and when i have the money i'll find a flat in my city and get a cat.#no more limiting myself for a guy who's not even worth it. no more refusing opportunities for someone else.#no more deferring to someone for decisions big or small on what i do with my life. it's MINE.#it's strange and scary and freeing. it's been three years.#if you've read all this was extremely personal so. enjoy knowing me and don't mention it unless we are Fiancé.es #in which case at some point you are going to know so many details about that guy at some point anyway #that's what marriage is for <3 #okay going to try to sleep now. bye bye #wow i have a ramble tag now

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