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First or second generation immigrant means that either you or your parents immigrated.

Anon is a black woman with African parents, and she's curious about the stories of other people on tumblr with immigrant families.

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We ask your questions anonymously so you don’t have to! Submissions are open on the 1st and 15th of the month.

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If you’re reading this, it’s too late. The positive vibes are already coming for you, get ready. You have no choice but to have a good day now.

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Straight guys who use tumblr are the funniest people ever literally how did you end up here

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the amount of porn adds on this app but GOD FORBID I post a lewdish photo with a dragon cock. oh noooooo that’s simply tooooooo far

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behold: a non-exhaustive list of Date Everything! characters i'll be feverishly romancing next week 😳💖

we have: 🕯️ Scandalabra (the Candelabra) 📺 Telly (the Television) ⚡ Volt (the Breaker Box) 😋 Mitchell Linn (Food) 🪞 Amir (the Mirror) 📖 Lyric (Literature) 💦 Johnny Splash (the Shower) 🎲 Chance (the D20) rate or roast my choices 😂💖

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The best advice i can give any creator is do it before you're good at it, do it BEFORE you're happy, do it while you suck, do it while you're doubting yourself and get stuck the fuck in, because waiting around to be "good enough" is a motherfucking trap of the highest degree. You'll get good along the way and better after ever project is complete. Remember, this is the greatest thing you've ever created, and then you'll do something else. You're only ever gonna get better, but not if you stand still.

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Day 7 of Halsin Week 2025 - Epilogue

"You are more intoxicating than any fare this gathering has to offer"

I bet Halsin is extra cuddly when he's tipsy, there's just the small risk of him turning into who knows how heavy a cave bear weighted blanket springing up at any moment 😂

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On your night might shine one of the Angels of the Bloody Moon, the Golden Moon, the Dark Moon or the Blossom Moon, and the effects upon you might include tragedy, luck, haze, or growth.

(moon names chosen fictively)

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the TRUE HEIRS OF ROME right here

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A letter to little me

Dear younger me.

You're going to have a difficult life ahead, but it's one that will guide you to strength, valor, confidence, and selflessness. Fear is a theme you're going to endure throughout your life going forward, but I promise.

You will prevail.

As you grow, you're going to find your confidence through hardship. It will begin when you find the color blue is your favorite. Your grandma and mom will try to buy you all the pink, frilly things, and you'll cringe and make the "Yoda face" as mom calls it. You'll want blue everything. Candy, drinks, clothes, toys, you name it!

And you're going to see girls bullying you for loving blue instead of pink. That's a reflection on them, not you.

You'll see your little brother getting new clothes with cool designs on his shirts, and jackets that aren't covered in flowers and hearts. And you're going to ask yourself why you can't have those. You'll be asking yourself why everything you have is pastel colors and sparkly.

Girls are going to bully you for the clothes you wear, and the love you hold for Pokémon. You'll worry that you don't fit in, and that you never will, and their words and abuse will push you down.

Don't be afraid of them. You are stronger than theyll ever be.

One day, you'll go to the library in 1st grade. There, sitting on the racks, there will be a magazine called "Boy's Magazine". You'll do a few double takes to make sure nobody is watching you, and your breaths will quicken with anxiety. You're curious to see what is inside. It's ok. Pick it up, and ask yourself those questions.

You never learn without asking questions first.

As 4th grade rolls around, you're going to have to sit through the girls' puberty presentation. All the boys are going to visit the gym to play dodgeball, and you'll have to sit there watching a video about what will happen to your body as you grow.

You'll be excited, but something inside will feel wrong about the coming changes. It's ok, I promise.

As the girls grow, you'll see them trying makeup, wearing skirts and girly things, but you'll be stealing clothes from your brother's closet, wearing them to school. He's going to yell at you, you'll feel terrified and awful that you took them, but it feels right, doesn't it? Wearing those clothes?

Soon, your body will change. You'll be sad. You'll look different and wake up to see yourself in the mirror one day, and find a face you don't recognize. One new, matured, but it's you, and you hate it.

The girls will mock you. Gang up on you. Pull your hair and throw rocks at you every day, and many of the teachers will follow suit.

There will come a day when a police officer has to pull one teacher away from you because she thinks you stole her cell phone. I can promise you, you'll be shaking, you'll be horrified and afraid. You didn't take it, and you did nothing wrong. She was prejudice against you from day one, and she will find the kid days later who did steal it.

That same year, you'll be sitting through science lectures next door to that teacher, questioning yourself as rage boils through your veins. Your entire body will be tense, thinking to the girls, your teachers, everyone who hates you, and you'll think yourself unlovable. You're going to be furious beyond what any child should ever know, and you'll go home breaking down in tears many days because you keep asking that question over and over and over again, never finding an answer.

And as you grow, you're going to stop shaving your legs. Under your arms. You'll find comfort in the singular chest hair you have.

You'll be thinking back to the day in 1st grade reading the magazine, and vividly remember the two boys.

Neither had shirts on, just swim trunks as they swam toward the camera underwater. One had a snorkel and snorkeling goggles, the other just down there beside him without goggles.

And you'll remember saying, "I wish that could be me."

Then it'll hit. Like a bullet train striking your very soul at full speed, you'll recognize who you're meant to be.

Nobody had to tell you but yourself, so go ahead and say it when you're ready. Set yourself free, and break the chains that have your existence trapped inside a cage. You hold the key. Breathe, and unlock it. Step outside.

Because once you do, you'll begin fighting back against your bullies who are still bothering you in high school. You'll stand strong and burly, muscles built from yesrs of MMA training. The kids who trifle with you have what's coming to them. You will spend so long under their heels that you'll recognize freedom is sweet, and you are your liberation.

You'll find a name that fits you. You'll get that changed. You'll remove the weights that hold you down through surgery, and take the medication to change who you are.

One day you'll wake up and look in the mirror, and staring back will be a face that you don't recognize, but you smile at him. You'll know he's you, and you're him, and you will feel no fear. Only joy.

As the years pass, you'll change everything. Your hair will still be long, but masculine in style as you shave the sides and braid it back each day. You'll never want to shave your face, reveling in what scraggly, patchy facial hair grows in.

You're gonna visit the DMV and get a new ID photo taken wearing a muscle top which shows your hairy arms and masculine figure, with your bearded face still covered with acne (I don't think that's ever going to go away, bro, sorry), and see the gender marker on it says you're male.

And you'll know you're free. Because all your documents will reflect the you that you've always been, and you endured so much to get here.

But you made it.

Now your whole life is ahead, and the world is your ocean to sail and explore.

You are not a victim, you are a survivor who is free, and now exists apart from all that was. The hate and fear will define you for a long time, but once you come out, you'll begin to realize you're the only person who can define you. You'll move apart from the past, and live in the present, because this is your life and nobody else's.

Fear isn't what makes us. Confidence does.

And one day you'll be sharing these experiences to help others who stand in the place you once did, to help them realize they aren't alone, and you're there to give them support.

You'll march the parade to give those trans kids on the side of the streets solidarity, and show them we grew up and made it, and so will they. You'll volunteer your time to help educate people on queer history and existence, to celebrate joy, and to provide services for them to partake in for self-assurance, community, and solidarity in others like themselves.

You will take the pain that once ruled you, and turn it into kindness and support for others. You'll forego the hurt, and share love with all who need it.

You will find one day that you are free of fear, and with freedom comes love.

Yes. You will love yourself one day. I promise. It's possible, and it happens when you become the man you're meant to be.

Little me, it's ok to be afraid. But know that if all anyone did was live in fear, nobody would every truly live at all.

Sincerely,

Future you, manly as ever.

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oh would you look at that, it's @tes-gala time!!

I didn't think I was gonna finish this at all tbh. I had barely touched the sketch and then sprinted through it in one sitting LOL but I am glad I got to do it :)

ofc I went with the whimsigoth theme... and for Donobhan I wanted to incorporate subtle little touches of Namira with the fly brooches. And then Mephala for Asha, with a sort of spider web necklace and the dagger earring hehe

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beautiful tsubaki 💋

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|Hello darlin’~|

“Raphael in there?”

“Mhm..”

“Alright, direct me.”

(This srsly took me 18 hours and all my brain cells but here u go. Boys waiting on an ambush.)

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random anecdote for father's day: one time during a long car ride my dad asked me, "you're familiar with Murphy's Law, right?" and i was like "isn't that the one about how anything that can go wrong will go wrong?" and he said "yeah, exactly" and i said "why do you ask?" and he went "well, have you heard of Cole's Law?" and i said "no, actually, what's that?" and he said "it's mostly lettuce and carrots with a little dressing mixed in"

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I worked with a woman who was in her 70s, and she used to do IT work at my college. She said she had no degree or edcuation in the field, and the only reason she was good at what she did was because "I wasn't afraid to click on things."

That was her famous explanation. "I wasn't afraid to click on things."

Let that sink in a moment.

She, an elderly woman, did IT without a degree or education and still succeeded because she had the courage to explore settings and click stuff that nobody else was willing to do.

My own mother is afraid to do anything or mess with any settings on any device, and if she ever taps the wrong key on a keyboard, I get called over to fix it. Inevitably, every Tuesday evening, I am made to go fix her laptop for the meeting she does from home, I have to figure out why her audio or video won't work, and it just turns out she needed to switch the device input, or give the browser permission to use the microphone and camera. And my father resets these all the time on accident because he never knows what he's doing, and that's why I end up needing to fix it each week. I hear both swearing several times a week over the computer doing xyz wrong or not functioning abc way, and they get angry because they refuse to click anything out of fear.

I don't know who needs to hear this but please please please please please explore the settings. Of your phone, computer, of every app you use. Investigate the UI, toggle some things around and see what happens. You won't break anything irreperably without a confirmation box asking you if you really mean to do that thing. And you can just look up what a setting will do before touching it if you're really worried ok?

Worst case scenario you just have to change the settings back if you don't like what happened but it is so so so important to explore the tools available to you and gain a better understanding for how the stuff you use works.

Even if you already know. Even if you're comfortable with how you use it now. You don't just have to accept whtever experience has been handed to you by default and it's good for you to at least know what's available to you.