shirleyjacksonism

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i love you shy women. i love you melancholy women. i love you aging women. i love you perverse women. i love you romantic women. i love you strange women.

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ok that's enough summer, we can head into autumn now

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age 16: the world isn't worth living in

age 24: been getting into greek yogurt & birdwatching lately

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Peeling the lid off of a yogurt and it's a big spiral staircase going down forever

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Zbigniew Herbert, from The Collected Poems: 1956-1998; “Three Poems from the Heart”

Text ID: living—despite / living—against

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Full bloom & Japanese grass lizard.

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being turned into a dragon as a punishment is so inherently funny. we’re sentencing you to become a beautiful magical creature that can live indefinitely and breathe fire and kill men with your bite. oh nooooooooo. anything but thattttttt. bad news, I’m a reptile. good news, I no longer have to pay my tithe to the church.

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this 'being really tired after work' thing is really getting in the way of this 'pursuing my artistic hopes and dreams' thing has anyone else noticed this

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Sometimes midway through sex I’m like this is ridiculous

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Approximately 50% of marriages end in divorce and only around 8% of trans people detransition (with 62% of detransitioners subsequently transitioning again) so I think we should stop infantilizing trans people and hammering them over and over with “What if you regret this?” comments and start turning that scrutiny towards people who are engaged as they are statistically much more likely to regret their decision and suffer for it.

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I love going to bed early

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“There’s an academic gender gap/boys are falling behind girls in school..” If the education gap was reversed, people would be praising boys for their intelligence. There would be no talk about girls falling behind because no one would care. Why does this conversation frame men and boys as victims? Why are we not talking about how impressive and smart women and girls are?

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Female superiority is crazy because despite being neglected by the medical and intellectual establishment for literal millennia we still make up a greater percentage of the population and outlive men in virtually every society. Can you imagine how much more obvious it would be if we received the same care?

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my blog is a safe space for me. the rest of you are in danger i think

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we should all get a shitty boat and go die at sea

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god forbid a woman is boring and a low achiever and likes to drink