- Trying to do my best work in the day job: documenting things, being fully present and consequently feeling emboldened in meetings, coding and helping my team focus on quality efforts.
- Eating healthy, lifting heavier with creatine... I’m fasting, and may do keto for a month for a photo shoot soon. Will stop creatine some weeks before then to lose excess water weight.
- Going to rural Pennsylvania for a wedding, then New York for work. Visiting Philadelphia for the first time and be in DC briefly. (Let me know if there’s anything interesting to check out in these cities!)
- Trying to also find the cheapest and most efficient way to move back to California in the summer with my boyfriend. Trying to return and sell items, as moving them would just cost more. I haven’t been this frugal since college... I thought I had been conscientious with money, but I was wrong. Hard reality check, there is too much worth saving for and I’m truly grateful for what I have, what I continue to use and enjoy. We began using YNAB for finances and it’s been very motivating to budget and let unspent categories accrue over time for a larger purchase; I would recommend.
- Supporting my boyfriend overall as he’s working on some big make or break things, visa applications... Wish us luck.
It is funny. Recently I had a transphobe argue to me, that "well, it is all made up! Animals will still not know that you identify as a man". Which to me is so funny, because while there has never been extensive research done on this topic, there is a lot of anecdotal evidence showing the exact opposite.
As someone who has done a lot of work with animals, I can tell you, that those animals that for one reason or another like one gender more or less than another often show the same loving or hostile behavior towards people completely depending on the gender the people actually identifies as.
"Sure," some people might say, "because if you take hormons you gonna smell like the gender to an animal." But that is the funny part. Animals often act according to that with trans adults who are still in egg mode. Who have not come out yet. And nobody knows why and how they can tell.
But some of the harsher animals with a "gender preference in humans" are like the best trans indicators. You have not admitted to yourself you are a guy? Yeah, this cat is gonna hate you anyways. Because this cat hates men.
Sincerely
the guy who got attacked by this one fucking bunny, who didn't like dudes, several times
i hate myself (i forgot to save gifsets for the shoutout series)
edit (as if anyone cares): as of 27/01/2024 at 11:28PM (BRT) i SEARCHED ON MY QUEUE AND THERE'S NOTHING AND THEN I LOOKED AT THE POSTS I EBLOGGED AND THEY'RE ALL IN THE LAST ONE i'm gonna k*s bye
sick to my stomach over all the people who i knew like the back of my hand at 13 and at 23 they’re a stranger to me
watching lives through back doors and open windows and the cracks between weeks that look bigger on paper
i know i said i’d block your number and delete the memories but of all the men i meet you’re still the one i think of in between these heatwaves, cheap ways
of forgetting that all your favorite songs found permanent places in my head and in my chest
and let’s not forget when you said you knew me best
but i’m blooming, moving on, chewing on the last words you said
Being aroace is so cool, but so, so hard sometimes. Watching all the persons you hold dear finding *their* person. Grieving the idea of an allo relationship. Realizing that, maybe, somehow, you're the second choice fo everyone. Because friends are great, but **lovers** are the goal in our society.
Most of the time, i am sooo happy to be aroace. And then, when im alone in bed, at 3 am, i find myself crying by fear of being alone.
And I think it's normal. It's grieving a certain way of thinking. And it's hard, especially when you were raised this way, and that everyone keeps doubting your identity.
So yeah. Shout-out to all the aroace people, wanting a deeper connection, without wanting romantic love.
i have a special hatred for liberal zionists who say "you're not helping Palestinians" and pretending to advocate for us. keep our names out of your mouth. you do not speak for us. only talking about how you feel victimized while we watch people die of bombardment and starvation. i would rather you admit your selfishness than for you to pretend to care about us only to use us for your own self interests.