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wait correction because im supposed to be working 10 hours a day (8-5) so Im actually only getting paid $8/hr

my mom told me im only getting paid $400 a week ($10/hr) thats less than the minimum wage here DX

also she told me i was dead weight and that i either do the job she forced me to have (for pay) or stay at home and continue cleaning the house and cooking (without pay)

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my mom told me im only getting paid $400 a week ($10/hr) thats less than the minimum wage here DX

also she told me i was dead weight and that i either do the job she forced me to have (for pay) or stay at home and continue cleaning the house and cooking (without pay)

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internet politics and real-world politics have gotten so separated, and pretty soon all this internet weirdness is gonna come crashing into real life and politicians are gonna start throwing around words like “SJW” and “anime communist” and “dark enlightenment” and it’s just gonna be the most ridiculous fucking thing

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I know most people I know personally got into it because of MyHouse.Wad like 2 years ago and that made me really happy because I love Doom and I love HOL.

The way I found out about the book was when I was in 7th grade. I had found a German copy of The Shining in the garage of the house I used to live in. It was sitting on a bookcase that doesn't exist anymore. I asked my mother where it came from, and she said she didn't know but that it probably belonged to a friend of her MIL's (my grandma). I like to think that it just appeared one day, because we never even noticed that it was there even though we used that bookcase almost every day.

I brought it to school with me. I wanted to show my friends the cool German copy of The Shining that just appeared in my house. I brought it to my classes too, because I had no locker to leave it in while I was waiting for school to end.

In my English class, there was an intern. I knew he liked horror because he had a few horror pins or patches, along with the others he had. After the class had ended and it was passing period, I thought I should show him the book.

He thought it was cool and asked me if I liked horror, to which I said I did. He said that if I could figure out how to read it, and if I enjoy it, that I should read House of Leaves too.

I was so interested by the name that I looked up the book when I got home and was so enamored by it that I knew I had to read it. Every time I had the chance to go to a bookstore, I would ask if they had it after I looked in every section I thought it would be in. But even the staff at the bookstores would say they didn't have it (not small local places, I was going to BAM and Barnes & Noble).

I only got a copy of it I think early 2021 and I read the whole thing in like the span of a few months. I reread it every now and then because I enjoy how the story is told a lot.

All my favorite books have a somewhat irregular (or very in this case) way of story telling. And people also complain about how annoying it is to read them.

now i wanna post about how i found out about HOL...

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now i wanna post about how i found out about HOL...

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Favourite horror tropes 5/? - A hell of your own creation

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I actually didn’t mind Johnny Truant’s parts in House of Leaves. His sections are just as interesting as The Navidson Record, if not even more so at times

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there is a notion widely proliferated in tme queer circles where trans women are scarce that trans women need to set about unlearning toxic manhood and masculinity in order to be trustworthy members of community & i find that notion SO ironic in light of the everyday chauvinism directed at me by trans men who are actively and uncritically LEARNING to proliferate toxicity as men

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i think its funny that, since i had brought a book with me for when there is nothing to do at my new job (i dont completely hate it now i guess but im still being forced to do it) I was just reading House of Leaves on company time.

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this actually isnt so bad but only because i can finally be an errand boy instead of doing computer work. also im on my lunch break (one hour!!) ^_^

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i convinced my mother to let me do work i will enjoy (sorting papers and receipts) instead of the computer work that i hate

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i fear that my oparents have forced me to work for them despite me not wanting to work for them (because i hate being around them).

im literally legally an adult yet i kinda have to listen to them because i feel like they will either starr threatening to take my shit (that *I* paid for like my laptop or guitars), take away my access to my friends (again. technically they already have), threaten to kick me out , or take away my son (he is a rabbit)

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Just saw a post asking how tall people are and now I want to make it a poll. Apologies to people in the fringe height categories, you do not get specifics.

I had to consult a chart for this

*edit - the chart did not help, I'm shit at maths (see my reblog), if your height is not included please feel free to vote based on vibes alone into whichever category closest to your height feels right

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i keep chewing on my cross necklace or leaving it between my lips like a cigarette like this

i recomend

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I saw this post on tiktok and as soon as I opened the comments I started sobbing

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I forget who made it but I saw a post the other day talking about how a lot of trans women come out much later in life than trans men tend to (and hence why “egg culture” tends to be mostly centred around transfemininity) and it really made me reflect on my experiences with queer spaces and how things have visibly changed as I got older. I’ve been pretty heavily involved in queer and especially trans spaces, both in-person and online, since I was a preteen. While spaces and events for people my age were much more sparse (and harder to attend while closeted) as a kid, they did exist. But one thing that always stuck out to me was the complete absence of trans girls even at events mainly aimed at trans youth. I met a good few other trans and gnc kids at these events, but all, literally every single one of these people were perisex and assigned female at birth. Not a single transfeminine person to be found. This changed as I got older. I started high school. Slowly but surely the circles I hung around in became more diverse. I met trans women. I met and befriended gay and gnc “boys” who would later come out as trans girls. Now, as a young adult, the ratio of transmasculine to transfeminine folks in my life is near equal. But even now, the demographic of trans girls in my life generally skews older than the guys. And of course this trend is very reflective of the effects of transmisogyny in general, how the media targets trans women as the scapegoat for their hatred, painting ‘trans girl’ as a shameful and deviant thing to be. It is reflective, more than anything, of how we all need to be more steadfast in our support of trans women both in our activism and in our day-to-day lives. But I also think that everyone needs to make more of an effort specifically to support young trans girls. Transfeminine kids, teenagers, even young adults. Because I have met so many women that I know for a fact would have enjoyed their teenage years so much more if someone, anyone had been there to tell them when they were young that it was alright to be trans. The first friend I ever lost to suicide as a teenager was a trans girl. And I live every day of my life with the knowledge that if I hadn’t been her one and only source of support, she probably still would have been here today. Believe me when I say that I understand the importance of respecting people’s boundaries. I do think that insisting every gnc person must be trans is a bad and counterproductive thing to do. But I’ve also seen firsthand what happens when trans girlhood is treated like it’s a downgrade, it’s very suggestion a taboo. When nobody is willing to be the one to say “hey, it’s okay if you want to be a girl”. I believe with everything I am that the life and happiness of a single trans girl is more than worth the discomfort of a million cis men. And if you disagree with that sentiment I think you either need to fix your heart, or you need to make peace with the fact that you are a thoroughly vile person and endeavour to shut your mouth about transgender issues forever.

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You know that when a girl makes a post about being a girl you don’t have to reblog it with the “but what about men” version right? What is wrong with you? Do you hate women having things so much?