[jasjuliet-deactivated20240828]

Happy Birthday, Akitla! Have a proper photo of Stitch as a Clonetrooper Medic in training for your nightstand!

[akitla]

AAAHHH JAS I LOVE HIM SO MUCH!!! THANK YOU!

[akitla]

Haha oh man, you guys. Hello. It’s been literally years. I came back on Tumblr for a hot second looking for this post because, funny enough, I wanted a better quality print of this picture for my office. I look back on the posts I made on this blog back before I tapped out and there’s a lot I could say about past me (oof, yikes), but here’s what I will say. Stitch the medic Clone Trooper has been with me all this time. Back when I was posting regularly on this blog, I had pretty severe, untreated PTSD. I was actively thinking about death, a lot. Shit was dark, and if you knew me during that time and stuck with me through that, seriously, thank you. I’m back real quick with a life update.

In the time since I tapped out of here, I got a LOT of therapy. I met the love of my life, and we’re getting married in October. I have done some serious healing, and some serious fighting, and some serious introspection. I treated my PTSD, and it is now in remission. I still have anxiety because it’s genetic and I am just stuck with that lol, but I am a self-care machine and am SO much better at taking care of that on my own. I just came off of my antidepressants after approximately 7 years taking them (no shade if you take them, they saved my life quite literally, don’t ditch your meds! I just felt ready to come off of them). And I am in training to be a clinical mental health therapist, currently seeing my own clients, and hopefully on track to graduate in 2023. My fiance (who is a psychologist) and I are hoping to open a gender clinic together when I am fully licensed to serve the trans community in our area. 

Anyway, I’m posting to say, for anyone who is still around and knew me back then, it got better. My story didn’t end. Stitch was always a part of me-- he was the part that fights like hell, even when everything is painful and on fire. His picture, THIS picture, is in my office as I see clients. We’re doing the medic thing together. I am forever grateful for this image of him from the talented @jasjuliet because it gave me a physical reminder of a really cool part of me that needed some healing to be able to be fully realized. Sometimes, it’s easier to love an OC than it is to love yourself, but as it turns out... we’re one and the same. Same heart, same blood. 

Same refusal to give up when the world is dark as hell.

Anyway, love to you all, take your meds, go to therapy, Stitch and I are rooting for you... and it gets better. I promise.

[archiemcphee]

[ramsescachorro]

Who Is She?

[unclefather]

[destinyrush]

We should stop buying iPhones and eating avocado toasts so we can buy diamonds, houses and eat at BWW and Applebee’s 

[theblackmillennial]

Their food ain’t even that great. Why get subpar, fast food when I can get something healthier, tastier, and/or more financially reasonable?

[criminaljustish]

Why am I gonna go to BDubs for overpriced low quality food when I can freeze a ton of chicken to ration out over months, throw together some veggies, and mix my own spices for like a third of the cost?

[buffythevampiregayer]

Plus even if I’m going to spend money on going out I’m not going to spend $12.99 on what’s basically a box mix, I’m going to try to go to a local business that serves good food, often with way lower in sodium and fats, instead of a major corporation serving mediocre food

[parlezvousladybug]

I just…these articles keep getting stupider. I’m not even a millennial and I’m fucking sick of them. PAY PEOPLE A LIVING WAGE. OH AND HOW ABOUT UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE AND MAYBE AFFORDABLE QUALITY EDUCATION. MAYBE THEN PEOPLE WILL BUY YOUR SHITTY FUCKING FOOD.

VIVA LA FUCKING AVOCADO TOAST.

[imploder]

Maybe it’s because Applebee’s is fucking shit.

[siderealsandman]

Applebees: Can it be that our food just isn’t good? Applebees: No, it’s the millennials that are wrong

[hashtagloveloses]

maybe i wanna eat my wings in front of netflix instead of 500 screens each playing a different sport at the same time

[pharmdup]

That last comment made me slam the reblog button

[latenights]

Get you a partner who wants to invest in you, listen to you, learn from you, see you win, support your visions & fall in love with you daily

[paxamericana]

joe biden has the brain of a slug

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Bank lobbyists are scared to meet with AOC because she might humiliate them on Twitter later

A “lobbyist for a major bank” told Reuters that they’re afraid to meet with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who now sits on Congress’s Financial Services Committee, because “anything you do or say can be used against you” – the lobbyist likened meeting with AOC to “going in to talk to the FBI.”

Another lobbyist cited AOC’s use of Twitter to denounce the lobbyists who were invited to brief the incoming Congress at “orientation” sessions as an example of how letting the mask slip around Ocasio-Cortez would result in global social-media shaming for poor, defenseless lobbyists.

https://boingboing.net/2019/02/12/pity-the-poor-lobbyist.html

[lurlur]

Good

[ralfmaximus]

Good

[cosmic-noir]

Good

[homoslovenc]

“anything you do or say can be used against you”

so,,, like everybody else? or you think you’re somehow immune to repercussions bc of your money and political afflictions???

[traveling-spartan]

If you ever tagged me to do one of those tag game thingies and I never did it:

1) Thank you, seriously. Those are fun and being included shows that my followers care enough to want to learn more about me.

2) Very sorry about that, it’s extremely likely that I said to myself “Cool! But I’m busy at the moment, I’ll have to do this later today or tomorrow” before proceeding to just straight-up forget, now it’s too far back in my notifications and/or your blog to find again.

[thymehoney]

steel dagger with opals and velvet covered grip (source)

[ankha85]

[memewhore]

[weavemama]

I’M SCREAMING AT HIS REPLY

[la-malefique]

That is so cute.

[bigmeansweatydyke]

[gothterf]

they got married

[loving-women-is-rad]

what the hell

[evilvvitch]

[poemsfromthethames]

“DON’T,” from the Boston area. (Source)

[thegoodvybe]

[akitla]

And just like that, I think I’m going back to grad school to become a mental health professional lol. I think I might have a job opportunity lined up to get training in a clinical setting despite the fact that I have NO prior experience. They’re willing to pay for my certification training and then hire me post-cert. And they said if I get my licensure as a therapist they’d keep me to work there. So, uh, I guess this is my opportunity to get the FUCK out of the rat race and actually physically help people? Sign me the fuck up. Helping people plus an actual job that I can maybe START to save money on and like have any consideration of starting a family? I’m shook.

[hashtagloveloses]

Comrade Vine died for Workers Rights™