demigodwithoutthegodpart

[demigodwithoutthegodpart]

One weird experience of transitioning is failing at ur assigned gender role the whole time and everyone constantly deriding you for it but then u come out and it's like we lost a beautiful gender conforming warrior today. Must grieve for my wonderful child who pissed me off by being ugly and weird since day 1

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The ceaseless work of trying to love others as you wish to be loved, eclipsed only by the work of trying to love yourself as you wish to be loved.

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I think teens need to be able to go to trusted adults and say “I saw something in a porn video that freaked me out and now I’m worried I’ll have to do it too” and then the adult can say “it’s ok to be nervous about sex, but remember that you don’t have to do ANYTHING you don’t want to do, ever, no exceptions” and this should be an ongoing conversation to remind young people that sexual desire isn’t monolithic and they are not uniquely weird, cowardly, or undesirable for expressing their feelings, and they deserve sexual partners who prioritize consent & autonomy always

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It's funny how every evidence-based study finds this exact same result. Where is the flood of detransitioners we were promised years ago? Where are the whistleblowers of doctors "forcing" teens to transition? That's right, they don't exist.

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Oh, okay. I see. You think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select out, oh I don’t know, that gaslight gatekeep girlboss meme, for instance, because you’re trying to tell the world that you think modern feminism has been co-opted by corporations. But what you don’t know is that that meme is not from Instagram, it's not from Twitter, it's not from Tiktok, it’s actually from Tumblr. You’re also blithely unaware of the fact that in January 2021, Tumblr user missnumber1111 posted, "today's agenda: gaslight gatekeep and most importantly girlboss." And then I think it was a-m-e-t-h-y-s-t-r-o-s-e, wasn’t it, who reblogged it with an image of the phrase edited over a piece of "Live, Laugh, Love" wall art? And then gaslight gatekeep girlboss showed up in the feeds of eight different Twitter repost accounts. Then it filtered down through Instagram and then trickled on down into some tragic “alt side of Tiktok” where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that meme represents millions of notes and countless Tumblr users and so it’s sort of comical how you think that you’ve made a choice that exempts you from Tumblr when, in fact, you’re wearing the meme that was selected for you by the people in this room. From a pile of “stuff.”

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Intro Post

Didn't realize that I actually have followers on here so I guess I should make an intro post in case anyone wants to know who I am.

I'm a person in my 20s. My name and pronouns are above; they might change sometimes so don't be alarmed if they aren't what you thought they were.

I have a million notifications on here that I won't clear out so I never see likes, reblogs, mentions, messages etc. I also have really bad social anxiety, so if you message me and I don't respond, that is why (sorry in advance).

I generally just reblog things (without tagging them whoops) but occasionally I'll get on my soapbox and say something longwinded. I have way too many interests and hobbies so I don't even know what you should expect from me in terms of content.

yeah I think that's all I've got to say. Just please be kind and if you haven't yet maybe hydrate a little.

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This is one of the reasons I love my job. I know the ins and outs of it and I've gotten it down to a science. I'm a closer at a cafe, and I'm probably the best one our store has (not to brag). I learned how to close when we were running skeleton crew and didn't have a second to spare during the morning rush which made me keep an eye out for any and every detail. When anyone asks, I say I close like I'm preparing for the apocalypse because it means one of 2 things: We were prepared or less work for tomorrow.

I've been told I know how to pace a close regardless of what time we close at. What I actually know is what I can get done early, and I can anticipate what will need to be done before we all leave for the day. I can look at a drink base and know we will need another 2 gallons at the end of the night. Boom, one less task. I can stock things that are sorta low so that they are good by the time we close up. I can make extra containers of things that will last a week because I know we will use it.

I can also anticipate what will need to be done during future shifts. On a Thursday, I'll make enough cream cheese cups to get us until Sunday because we will have the most time to make them Sunday. I make blended-drink base based on the temperatures throughout the week and based on which day will be best for making more. I'll make backup bins of toppings when one runs out but I wont open the bag so the next person doesn't have to get a new bin. I stock milk better than the grocery store because nobody wants to run out of 2% while in the middle of a Friday morning rush.

When I taught people how to pull product to thaw, they asked me how much of each thing to pull. I'd rattle some numbers off the top of my head and write them down. They would ask me how I know that. I'm not sure entirely how; the numbers sort of just come to me. But, by keeping an eye on what we have and whats selling, I can get a rough idea of whats going and how much we will need to replenish it.

I've been at this job on and off for 5 years now. What I first learned isn't a part of my job anymore as the place has changed and I've moved locations. But, similar to @weaselle above, I had to learn to manage a machine with specific time constraints which gave me a very important set of skills I took with me as I took on other positions.

We had an egg machine that made 6 egg patties at a time. It took 2 minutes if it had been idle for a while and 2 minutes 30 seconds if egg batches were done back to back. Eggs could be prepped ahead of time, but they were only good for 30 minutes. We were a drive thru with the expectation that you get everything out in under 3 minutes. Time Was Everything. One had to learn to balance eggs on hand and eggs in the process of cooking with ebbs and flows of cars in the drive thru. Keeping your eggs stash stocked during the morning rush was a must, you didn't want to fall behind. You had to time egg-making with drink-only orders and you had to put together the middle of the sandwich while the bread was toasting. But, you wanted to make sure you didn't overstock and have eggs go to waste later on.

I learned to watch the driver thru order taker and which buttons they pressed. Id be over at the bagel wall by the time the order popped up on my screen when I saw them hit one of the buttons. My goal was to get everything out before the car even pulled up to the window so that I wouldn't slow anything down. I obtained the super useless skill of being able to put cream cheese on a bagel really fast without any coming out of the hole in the middle.

A lot of times I get asked if I get bored of closing; most people at my store hate closing and can't understand why I haven't gone insane doing the same thing 5 days a week for the past year. I'm passionate about the little details and I like setting people up for success. There comes a lot of joy in figuring out that if I stack the dishes in a certain way then they won't slide out and fall on my head. There's joy in coming in and hearing my mid-shift manager thanking me for refilling a certain powder because it was low and I *knew* that they were going to run out during that morning's rush. For me there's joy in the little things, the small details, and the seemingly unimportant.

Anyway, I think I got a little lost in the sauce while writing is but point is I love my job. If it paid a living wage, I might stay here forever. I love knowing every little detail like how to submit a ticket when food has gone off, how to fix the espresso machines when they get stuck, or where my boss hid that one box of product we need. My coworkers come to me when they have questions because they know I will have an answer whether it's stashed in my brain or not, and I hope to continue being a beacon of learning for them for many years to come.

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I think more media should narratively punish parents for not listening to their kids and specifically I think it should punish them in cruel and terrifying ways. I want real life parents to go through life with a healthy fear that if they ignore their children's boundaries a witch might cook and eat them

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Citrine's SweetsCafe

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The thing about growing up with undiagnosed autism is that you’re a bad kid. And you don’t know how to stop being a bad kid. But you’re pedantic, you hate hugs, you’d rather be alone than attend a family gathering, you play by yourself instead of with friends or family, you make mealtime impossible, you can’t even look your parents in the face, you lie to get out of going to school and when you’re there you complete your assignments correctly but in a way that is somehow inherently wrong. You’re wrong. There is something wrong with you and you can’t identify it or fix it. You can’t begin to explain it. You pull for justifications and apologies. You were a bad kid and there was nothing you could do to be better.

[demigodwithoutthegodpart]

start testosterone now. the world needs more hot tboys more than ever before now

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people love to criticise the actions of someone under an extreme amount of stress as irrationally, irredeemably monstrous, and then you'll actually look at what they're talking about and see that not only is their behaviour entirely understandable given the circumstances, but they're actually demonstrating incredible restraint and will to endure beyond what you thought anyone was capable of

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ideal living situation is what i call the 'sitcom special' : having all your closest friends live in the same apartment building or neighborhood where you each have your own space but can wander in and out of eachothers homes at will, seemingly always welcome and never at bad times. and also all of you only have jobs when its important to the plot.

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truly just as we have universal health care we need to have universal death care. dying is not optional and funerals should not be a financial burden for families.