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we could go back to telegraphs instead of social media. send your mutuals unspeakable strings of morse code at 4:30am

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ANYONE!! QUICK GIMME A REASON YOU LIKE BEING ALIVE :3

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Do not think for a moment that this admin is only going after trans folks. They are ultimately going after the whole LGBTQ community. They start small, like getting rid of a hotline option, then go BIG.

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To me personally, the June 24th entry still stands out as the one of the greatest horror in the novel. We have Jonathan who moments ago barely managed to escape the clutches of the three ladies, hiding away in his room (after he managed to break their spell on him by his own strengt of will!), suddenly perceiving in the room next door a soft cry and wail, the sounds of a babe, and memory floods back to what happened last time sounds like that were heard, and he pushes against his door, only now it is locked, and as much as he might slam against it and cry and scream, it won’t bulge an inch, while in the next room the wailing stops and the silence that follows is even worse then the cruise, and all he can do is slide to the ground and let the tears flow 

And this utter and absolute helplessness that he has to experience is so much different from what we see others experience later on, for, when Mina is attacked for the final time, she is conscious enough to hear and remember Dracula´s evil monologue, gaining enough information to defeat him later on. Her horrors are turned into purpose. When  Van Helsing and the Suitor Squad unsuccessfully try to save Lucy from her “illness” they are at last given a chance to do something, managing to at least comfort her in her last hours. 

Jonathan could do nothing, achieved nothing. He was forced to listen and listen as an innocent child suffered only a few feet away from him, forced to watch its poor mother (who I still believe to be the wife of that Romani man who wanted to help Jonathan, so their child was taken as punishment) be torn to pieces, all while being cursed by the same woman who was left to believe that he was the perpetrator of her agony.

That is why, ladies and gentlemen, the June 24th entry is the most horrifying. 

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so i wore a pride flag pin to work the other day and the kids were all interested (obviously) (find me a classroom of preschoolers who are not obsessed with rainbows) (i'll wait) so they crowded around to see.

"aww!" they said, "it's a flag!!"

but the thing is: they're little. a lot of them don't really have a handle on all their mouth sounds yet.

such as, notably, that tricky tricky "L" sound.

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apparently my boss who is a professor at my school doesn’t have a cell phone and his coworkers were upset by this so they bought him a childs toy phone and labeled it “David’s jitterbug” (for those of you that don’t know jitterbugs are phones made for old people that have like massive buttons and shit) so the other day I walked into his office to ask him a question and he pressed a button on it which made it start loudly playing the ABCs and he said “excuse me I have to take this” and then started singing along to the ABCs while shooing me out of his office

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I genuinely think if you want to have kids, you should have a list of at least a dozen people who you would trust at the drop of a hat to pick your kid up or take care of them in an emergency. Family, friends, neighbors - you need to start building your village so when you have a kid somebody can bring a meal, or help around the house postpartum, or take an older child on short notice in case of an emergency.

And be ready to be that person for others - even if you are child-free for life, look out for your pregnant, postpartum, adopting, and child-rearing community members and see if they need support.

And don't come on my post and say "don't have a kid unless you can care for them alone." It's just not true. A single person given full responsibility for the life of a child (especially an infant) can become a danger to themselves and their kids. They are the primary caregiver, not the only one. In many cultures (and among the wealthy in every culture) it is normal to hire people to assist with children, especially newborns, whose care equates to a full-time job.

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fake relationship but its a king and his concubine that was once an amazing soldier but he couldn’t go up the ranks for whatever reason so the king was like listen. hear me out. you can be my strategy dude. u just gotta be okay w walking around shirtless a lot. and soldier dude is like man that’s an UPSIDE and yknow they end up falling in love

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eat delicious things in every sense. savor novels that unravel slowly, like decadent meals for the mind. let sunlight kiss ur skin, bask in its warmth like an endless summer. hold close the people who make you feel alive, kiss them tenderly, love them fiercely. laugh at bad jokes, the kind that make you roll ur eyes but secretly smile. plant basil on your windowsill, water it with care, breathe in its fragrance as you stir it into your meals. be unafraid to indulge in beauty, to notice it everywhere and to consume it greedily. there is no virtue in starving yourself of joy, no wisdom in rationing delight.

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Friendly reminder that you're not required to publicly take sides in any geopolitical conflict you don't understand.

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btw being excessively nonconfrontational is NOT a positive trait. it does not mean u are “too nice” or just too kind to hurt people, it means u have a problem communicating and you need to work on it.

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but the good news is:

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When Everything Everywhere All at Once said “The only thing I do know is that we have to be kind. Please, be kind, especially when we don’t know what’s going on" 

When the Good Place said “Why choose to be good every day when there is no guaranteed reward now or in the afterlife… I argue that we choose to be good because of our bonds with other people and our innate desire to treat them with dignity. Simply put, we are not in this alone.” 

When Jean-Paul Sartre said ”‘Hell is other people’ is only one side of the coin. The other side, which no one seems to mention, is also ‘Heaven is each other’. Hell is separateness, uncommunicability, self-centeredness, lust for power, for riches, for fame. Heaven on the other hand is very simple, and very hard: caring about your fellow beings.“