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FILMS WATCHED IN 2025: 16. A Little Princess (1995)

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tumblr stop recommending me unrebloggable posts. Do you know how sad I got cuz I realized I couldn't reblog this

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It's 12:11 and I can hear it through my ear plugs. 😭 I'm not sure what to do. I'm not a cop caller. I just need sleep. I'm sick!

It's 11:41 PM. A neighbor started playing music at 11:35. Who does that? I think they're in one of these backyards. It's coming from outside. I could kind of almost understand if they were listening in their own personal domicile. But they're fully blasting polka at near midnight. It makes no goddamn sense.

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It's 11:41 PM. A neighbor started playing music at 11:35. Who does that? I think they're in one of these backyards. It's coming from outside. I could kind of almost understand if they were listening in their own personal domicile. But they're fully blasting polka at near midnight. It makes no goddamn sense.

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Now joy is spreading among the Palestinian people, tomorrow a prisoner exchange deal will be announced, the war will stop temporarily and the crossings will open, you are my hope to complete our joy, me and my family, tomorrow is the only chance to leave and be evacuated from Gaza, please donate because your donation helps us stay alive, please donate to evacuate me and my family from Gaza help me tonight until we are evacuated tomorrow, thank you for your understanding, thank you for your support 🌹

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by アボガド6@avogado6

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Me: I don't get it. I thought I was doing a lot better than I was a few years ago. I'm like 10 times more on top of things than I used to be. How does everything feel terrible now?

The Tiny Me in OSHA-approved Hi-Vis Gear Who lives in my brain and pulls all the levers: Boss, it's the fascism. You're completely gunked up with cortisol due to the fact that your entire daily life is now underscored with a haunting awareness of the rapid erosion of your rights, dignity, and any and all social safety nets, and you're also bearing witness to the most vulnerable people immediately being persecuted. This creates a natural stress response that basically means you're going to continue having memory and organizational problems, as well as emotional imbalances.

Me: BUT I HAVE A BULLET JOURNAL AND I MEDITATE NOW.

Tiny OSHA Me: BOSS, THE FASCISM.

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but seriously i think learning about nature is Hard for many people, especially adults, because you have to rationalize the symbiotic experience youre having next to the contemptuous and abusive way we treat the land. I think USAmericans fear nature as a way of making sense of the fact that we're waging war against nature, with our lawns and our suburbs and our landscaping and our cosmetic use of pesticides.

There was a post on facebook my mom was showing me where someone found a salamander and was asking what it was. thankfully half the comments were like "that's a SALAMANDER they are SPECIAL and a BLESSING and you must PROTECT it"

but the other half were things like..."I don't know, but I think it's time to move" "Burn the house down" "Kill it with fire" "I would scream if i saw that"

this is why i have such specific preferences in horror fiction that nothing seems to really hit: for me, horror is not about bad things happening, horror is about fear. So occasionally I find these really satisfying stories that are about fear of the unknown thing and the experience of fear, but the unknown thing being harmless is generally seen as a "twist" rather than a perfectly sensible and satisfying outcome.

on the face of it: why would you be afraid of a tiny creature weighing only grams, whose body is so delicate and frail? it's heartbreaking, but it's not unexplainable. What kind of a childhood makes someone an adult who is totally unprepared to comprehend the idea of something both unexpected and good?

a bizarre universe to try and place myself in, where a salamander is more likely to be...what? a mutated fetus of a brain-sucking alien? rather than one among the thousands of gentle creatures that you can marvel at, forever, for free.

It's the same way with bugs: people argue with the simple fact that nearly all insects cannot harm you, and I think it's because it's so difficult to reconcile with how liberally and carelessly we use insecticides with proven harms to humans and pets, and how we treat and speak about these creatures in general. If that weird bug almost certainly would not have harmed you, that means you killed a living thing because you didn't understand it, and that's a troubling thought.

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Mad about politics again

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This is so ceaselessly funny

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It’s just intentional at this point

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look back month challenge, day 13: show your favorite toy

i was supposed to only be posting dolls from my monster high custom era, but i got a little bored with looking at and photographing mh instead of original work. so for this day, i'm expanding.

my favorites change day by day and mood by mood, but these are the ones that i'm feeling the most right at this moment.

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I was 11 when we invaded, and I remember asking the adults in my life why we were doing that and the only answer I was able to get was that we "had to do something" so they wouldn't do it again. Which I think really adds to the whole "we just don't know" narrative from those in charge. Because their constituents were pretty clueless. Oh yeah, and the absolutely, totally, very real weapons of mass destruction, that they totally, really found in the super real and totally-not-made-up tunnels under Iraq.

I missed most of the Iraq war due to being a baby, but every time I read about it I start wondering why we aren’t all talking about it all of the time