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when vessel said “i wish that i could leave myself alone”

when vessel said “you might be the one to take away the pain and let my mind go quiet, and nothing else is quite the same as how i feel when i’m at your side”

when vessel said “if this is love then i am out of hesitation”

when vessel said “and i am caught in time, like clockwork beneath the permafrost, i might lose my mind”

when vessel said “i thought i got better but maybe i didn’t”

when vessel said “what good is all this talk of wings when there is nothing left above”

when vessel said “and our bodies converse like old friends”

when vessel said “when what is silent to you feels like it’s screaming to me”

when vessel said “i was in love with the thought that we were in love with each other … what might be good for your heart, might not be good for my head”

when vessel said “if it’s blood that you want from me, you can empty my arteries”

when vessel said when vessel said when vessel said when vessel said when vessel said when ve-

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Poll: if your mom remarries when you’re 26 years old is that guy still your stepdad or is he just your mom’s husband.

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I think the greatest irony of my life is when the cafeteria at my college changed all the lights to blue bulbs for “autism awareness”, which fucked with my sensory issues badly enough that I could barely stand to be in the building

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Selkie Spring 2024

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I know the movie is 32 years old but I feel like Aunt Debbie (Addams Family Values 1993) is one of the few people whose quality of life could have really benefitted from a few therapy sessions with Dr. Hannibal Lecter

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I am no longer explaining my chronic illnesses. I'm only ominously referencing them like I'm a fantasy realm NPC dropping plot hooks:

I am besieged by the affliction

The ritual was successful, but it has drained me. I need time to recuperate.

I can't do that, because of The Curse

Dark forces are conspiring within me. I must conserve my strength to battle them.

Unseen foes assault me. I cannot strike back with blows, but I can lessen their influence by consuming certain alchemical rites.

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cats can never just lay down they have to stand there on your pancreas

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You could probably find your way out of the labyrinth eventually by just walking along one wall until you found the exit but Theseus and the Minotaur did not understand these advanced techniques.

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She’s like Sonic

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Not a fan of giving people access to me

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i know it's been said time and time again but nothing hits quite like a character who's stifled their pain and trauma for so long finally receiving some kind of validation or comfort from someone who cares for them and just utterly shattering. crying so hard it sounds like they're dying, body so wrecked by it that the other person is worried they're going to make themself sick. able to withstand all of it by pushing those feelings away until someone said 'i see this, and it's not right, it's not okay, i'm so sorry'

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once you recognise the ubiquitous and inevitable fandom life cycle it becomes much easier to free yourself from it and just keep enjoying things in a more healthy way while still thinking critically about them

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Happy alien day 👽

From senior executive director Tala Arcadio-Yutani

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by will mcphail

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they should invent a going to visit your parents that doesn't involve suicidal ideation and self hate and wishing for death and banging your head against the wall and crying and executive dysfunction and body dysmorphia and and and and a...