Remember being in middle school and being devastated to learn trying ur jacket around ur waist was considered tacky now
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Just saw a post that was saying how when you grow up a lonely little girl a small part of you will always be that same lonely little girl
And it reminded me of something but it felt wrong to put it on the main post so I'm making my own
When I was younger, depressed and feeling very very alone I would imagine an older me telling me it'll be ok. Older me would tell me that it would feel like a long way from happy, too long, so just make it to ok. Older me would say I'd have people I could be with and not feel awkward, out of place, or... Alone
So I'd try and usually fail to stop crying and tell myself one day I will be ok. That's all I have to be for now.
Now I'm older and have these friends I can be perfectly weird with. I have people I can talk to and people I can listen to without having to focus so much on how much I need to listen. I have kids who tell me about school and their field trips and how dumb their teacher is. I have a brother who I watch anime with most nights. I go out to eat once every couple weeks with coworkers my own age. High school friends and I still invite each other to our bdays and vent about our work days.
So on days I'm feeling especially lonely or sad I remember younger me and how'd she'd cry and I imagine myself sitting with her. I imagine putting a homemade knitted blanket a friend made me when I moved towns around her shoulder. I imagine hugging her and telling her she made it to ok. And suddenly I feel less lonely.
Idk seeing that post just reminded me of this
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as is tradition, happy pride from everyone's favorite transgender video game couple!!!
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Sometimes you just have one of those moments where the progress we've made as a culture get thrown into stark relief. You look at something and go "Holy shit, that would never have happened when I was a kid."
Today, I had one of those moments when I realized that the teenage boys I'm working with are just. genuinely, openly enthusiastic about going to Build-a-Bear for their outing.
These are sixteen and seventeen year old boys! They just had a whole conversation about what to name their "cute", mostly new squishmallows! They're genuinely excited that they're going to Build-a-Bear this weekend and asking other kids to pick up specific accessories for them!!
Holy shit, that never would've happened when I was 16. None of the boys would have dared to be visibly interested - and neither would most of the girls! There would have been a million gay jokes and "Haha, you're a girl" jokes and "What are you, a baby?" jokes. Teenagers weren't even supposed to care about anything back then!
Less than 15 years later, and I'm watching three 17 year old boys treat all that as not even worthy of comment.
So let's call that a reason for hope. Even when the kids aren't alright, in some ways apparently they are alright. Go Gen Z, honestly. It's so lovely to watch you guys just openly doing and saying stuff that, when I was a teen, would've been a social death sentence.
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I think that my favorite thing about humans is that we just invent so many silly little traditions. Like, where I live ( don't know if this happens anywhere else) if we see a blue car from a certain brand, we have to hit the person that's closest to us while yelling "blue!" Idk why, it's just fun. Also a chaotic mess on school trips
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An old sketch of Damian Wayne and Jason Todd ofc ofc. Damian has always been one of my favorite dc characters (next to Bart!! ik. drastic difference), but I never draw him (or Bart but I'll fix that dw).
I always like it when these two get along. They are like opposite sides of the same coin to me.
Drawn Nov 5, 2020 (prob the oldest art piece that I'll repost lol).
This was in my queue but I'm posting it early bc why not?
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sorry but i am very interested in piercings. also you can put in the tags how many total you have if you want
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