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see the THING IS I don't feel like I ever worked hard enough to have "earned" the burnout, which is. probably how we got here.

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you can’t believe what you think about yourself after sundown and you can’t believe what you think about yourself on your period and you can’t believe what you think about yourself when you’re hungry and you can’t believe what you think about yourself when you’re tired, the only time you can believe what you think about yourself is the split second after you’ve made someone laugh but only if it’s something other than “i should be a standup comedian”

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She’s iconic I fear

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*taz amnesty theme plays loudly*

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im telling you all... its so worth it to spend a whole evening make 100 million homemade gyoza (even though it takes so long) and freezing them all to have perfect delicious gyoza just the way you like them anytime you want at a moments notice. they seriously take like 10 minutes to prepare from frozen and they are so good. i just had a dumplings and noodles feast you wish you were me

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kirk: its certainly true that hes physically stronger, taller, heavier than i am. his mind, steely and unshaken, but his heart… his heart is delicate, fragile. like sheets of frozen dew at sunrise on teirzon four…beautiful… how do i know? i see it in his eyes when his gaze lingers a little too long. and i let it. is it wrong that i let it? that i want to shelter him in my arms? kiss him? love him? steal him away from his troubles? or from my own…?

the burly freighter dude missing an eye and covered in tattoos who has been sitting next to kirk overhearing him drunkenly ramble to himself about his love for spock for over an hour now at this random bar: *through tears* you have to tell him how you feel

kirk: you think so…?

several other equally musclebound and scary looking dudes sitting nearby, also in tears: *nodding*

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Ok.... Gonna do a crazy thing.

I am approx 200 lbs female.

My bro was just confirmed to have PKD. It's not great but it's manageable for now. We saw our dad die from it. The thing is genetics meant we had a chance to inherit but not guaranteed. Damn percentages mean he got it and not I.

Can I lose enough weight to give him a kidney in the time it takes for him to need it? It's not an if with PKD, it's a when.

Heck it at least this is me putting it out to the world. I love my bro. I wouldn't lose weight for my "image" or my own health. But for him, God I hope I can.

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When you were selected as the Chosen One, you were showered with gifts, training, and a new cushy room in the castle. The Kingdom thought you would automatically be on their side, but the memories of your impoverished childhood will never fade.

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“I never told you to train her, I told you to protect her!”

“Her training will protect her.”

“But you turned my daughter into a bloody assassin!”

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Being scared is on the same path to being brave and doing the scary thing anyways! It’s okay if you’re scared- just don’t let it stop you from reaching for the things you truly want!

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This a a reminder to not fall victim to the sunk-cost fallacy. Just because you invested time and energy into something, does not mean you should indefinitely waste more time and energy on it, if you decide it’s not what you want anymore. This goes for anything, from books, to relationships, to jobs, to hobbies, etc.

If it’s not serving you anymore, move on.

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i hope life takes it easy on you today. but if not, i hope you have the strength to carry on until the sun rises again. you are very loved and very needed here, i hope you remember that.

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What's that, puppet boy?

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The thing about Monster that I'm currently obsessed with: the way Odysseus humanizes his enemies as he dehumanizes himself. He correctly describes the motivations of the Cyclops, Circe, and even Poseidon which takes a level of understanding that people struggle with under the best circumstances. But then in the same verse he describes himself from the view of the Trojans. ("Does a soldier use a wooden horse to kill sleeping soldiers because he is vile?")

and of course the whole song is "Monster". If Odysseus can't stop seeing his enemies as people (seeing his own son in the Trojan infant), if that is what is killing his men and if there is no future where he makes it home as the person he is, then of course he has no choice but to stop being a person.

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What if Odysseus thought he was safe from Poseidon because he was on land and then a horse came up and just fucking kicked him