But the road to freedom is long

I used to be seriously depressed and the Enneagram personality type stuff changed my life. This is just "my Tumblr" at this point but I tag well and I'm not very eclectic or prolific. I have a guiding principle of bringing something new to the table. If I have a lot to say about a fandom it goes elsewhere, if it's occasional it goes here. I like books and video games that have a strong and unique sense of atmosphere and something hardcore about their story or their slow-paced gameplay.4w5, too SO/SP for Tumblr, too 458 for the rest of the world (I'm joking, mostly) / he or she is fine / I am not scary to message but I probably won't be there

[funnypeopletwitter]

Ok the guy with the net fucking killed me, I’m sure my neighbors heard me laughing.

[yurious-george]

School shootings. They don’t want you to hide guns.

[dawnbutterfly]

This is where we are, folks. We’ve come to the point where they’re demanding that children carry all of their school supplies in hand so that they don’t have to do anything about the gun violence problem in this shithole of a country.

[kendrysaneela]

I love malicious compliance

[sunrisedespair]

HISTORY COMES FULL CIRCLE, HOLY SHIT I CAN’T BELIEVE THEY’RE STILL DOING THIS TO KIDS. 

They did this shit at my school way back when Columbine had just happened!

Naturally, we invented all sorts of bullshit ways to carry our shit, because what the fuck, we need backpacks. 

My favourites included: 

-Fishing rod with twine tied around two pencils and a small pocket notebook.

-Tons of people got those little clear plastic bags they have in grocery stores for fruit and shit, and used them as see-through pencil cases 

Note: THEY PROCEEDED TO THEN ALSO BAN THE BAGS AS “CHOKING HAZARDS”. WE WERE NOT THREE YEAR OLDS. OUR HEADS DIDN’T EVEN FIT IN THE FUCKING BAGS, AND BELIEVE ME, WE TRIED AS SOON AS THEY ANNOUNCED THE BAN, BECAUSE MOST OF US WOULD RATHER HAVE DIED THAN BEEN IN FUCKING SCHOOL BY THAT POINT. DID THEY THINK WE WERE GONNA STUFF THE BAGS DOWN OUR THROATS? CHRIST.)

-One kid dressed up like a priest and used the loose fabric of the cassock to carry three text books around all day. 

-Someone hollowed out a fucking loaf of bread, pretended to be French all day, and made a show out of pulling a ridiculous number of highlighters out of this fucking bread in the middle of class. 

Now that I think about it, I think that kid invented Panera Bread by accident. Y’know, the little bread soup bowls? This was that, but with highlighters instead of soup. 

Eventually, things escalated, and the principal called the police after he went to the parking lot and found his car broken into– Nothing was stolen, but there were about 5000 fucking backpacks stuffed in his car, to the point that the door wouldn’t even open.

I don’t know who did it, or what group of people did it, but they’re all fucking heroes because the next week backpacks were permitted again. 

[freekbugg]

[skies-diary]

They did this shit in my school because backpacks were a “fire hazard”; they said it could slow access to doors and escape routes if there were backpacks in the aisles. We could have them to bring our stuff inside, but by the time the final bell rang, they had to be in lockers. We all knew the real reason tho.

[maxknightley]

Saw a post earlier that’s like “psych wards aren’t evil and scary! fearmongering does more harm than good” and it’s like have you spoken to literally anyone with a negative experience with institutionalization, of which there are Many

[maxknightley]

I spent all of a WEEK in a modern and fairly chill psych ward and still wanted to die bc it was like a minimum security prison minus weight benches and the opportunity to go outside. I was only allowed to leave bc I agreed to start taking medication for a condition I didn’t have.

Many people have had much worse experiences than that, including actual straight-up abusive conditions. Mental healthcare is desperately in need of reform so maybe let’s not embrace our Shiny Constructive CBT-Approved Outlook to the point where we ignore that lol

[toadstoolfuel]

people wanna believe that there are good and bad institutions and that the bad ones aren’t good because of abusive staff/whatever. no one wants to acknowledge that, regardless of the reason, removing someones personal freedoms literally causes trauma because it would mean a radical shift in how we treat everyone from criminals to children

[euryale-dreams-deactivated20201]

Additionally, the reality of psychiatric institutions is that once you are admitted to inpatient you are not allowed to leave. Even if there were ‘good’ and ‘bad’ wards you won’t know which is which until the doors lock behind you.

… and that’s if you had a choice to go in the first place.

What sane people refuse to comprehend is that psychiatry is militarized. It is built around the fundamental assumption that there are certain people who must be controlled through the application of force, if necessary. If you are one of those people it is impossible to interact with the ‘help’ they seem to want us to get without being threatened, or worse.

This is institutionalized violence that we cannot get away from just because a particular therapist or doctor might be ‘nice.’

[llgrk414795135-deactivated20210]

“We were grabbing a bite of lunch at a small cafe, in a mall, right across from a booth that sold jewelry and where ears could be pierced for a fee. A mother approaches with a little girl of six or seven years old. The little girl is clearly stating that she doesn’t want her ears pierced, that’s she’s afraid of how much it will hurt, that she doesn’t like earrings much in the first place. Her protests, her clear ‘no’ is simply not heard. The mother and two other women, who work the booth, begin chatting and trying to engage the little girl in picking out a pair of earrings. She has to wear a particular kind when the piercing is first done but she could pick out a fun pair for later. “I don’t want my ears pierced.” “I don’t want any earrings.” The three adults glance at each other conspiratorially and now the pressure really begins. She will look so nice, all the other girls she knows wear earrings, the pain isn’t bad. She, the child, sees what’s coming and starts crying. As the adults up the volume so does she, she’s crying and emitting a low wail at the same time. “I DON’T WANT MY EARS PIERCED.” Her mother leans down and speaks to her, quietly but strongly, the only words we could hear were ’… embarrassing me.’ We heard, then, two small screams, when the ears were pierced. Little children learn early and often that ‘no doesn’t mean no.’ Little children learn early that no one will stand with them, even the two old men looking horrified at the events from the cafeteria. Little girls learn early and often that their will is not their own. No means no, yeah, right. Most often, for kids and others without power, “no means force.””

—

from “No Means Force” at Dave Hingsburger’s blog.

This is important. It doesn’t just apply to little girls and other children, though it often begins there.

For the marginalized, our “no’s” are discounted as frivolous protests, rebelliousness, or anger issues, or we don’t know what we’re talking about, or we don’t understand what’s happening.

When “no means force” we become afraid to say no.

(via k-pagination)

[weepycat]

when i was 15, i felt like… really deeply DEEPLY uncomfortable with the fact that there were cameras everywhere at my highschool. the sensation of not being able to walk to class without being monitored somehow really fucked with me for some reason.

this only worsened after seeing this segment on the school news that featured various stupid stuff caught on the hallway cameras, like people falling down or readjusting their underwear when they thought the hallways were empty. 

but they werent. there was someone watching, and they forgot to police their behavior and ended up getting embarrassed for it. everyone laughed at this segment. i remember the classroom being filled with snickers as someone fell flat on their face. i wasn’t a “superwoke” kid or anything, but i didnt think this was funny. i thought it was scary. what if that was me? what if i got caught fixing a wedgie on camera without even knowing it? 

i remember these cameras being used for everything – spotting dress code violations, catching students skipping class, etc. you can argue that they shouldnt have broken the rules, sure, but that doesnt excuse the concept of Being Constantly Watched. 

and what about the times when they weren’t doing something wrong? like when they were walking back from the bathroom or tripping over their own feet? did that warrant embarrassment and shame from their watchful spectators? does existing in a school hallway warrant surveillance? 

this brings me to the concept of anti-shooter architecture. there is a rising interest in school layouts that prepare for the possibility of a shooter roaming the halls. these improvements include bulletproof glass, concrete cover, and…. something scary. 

many of these highschool floor plans include some type of circular or central “watch tower” feature, and the designers actively boast about it being a panopticon. a panopticon. the same thing they use in prisons to enforce the idea that the prisoners are always being watched, though they can never really know when. 

what kind of effect will “anti-shooter architecture” have on kid’s minds? the constant threat of violence is already taking its toll on teenagers who have undergone active shooter drills, and this concept of air-tight security (clear backpacks, metal detectors, camera surveillance, constantly locked doors, etc) is not really an environment you would want to raise a child in, so why are we sticking kids in schools like that for 7-8 hours a day?

which leads into the next thing. many people’s solution to this is more guns, which equates to police presence in schools. ive already seen videos coming out of school cops beating black kids and ordering muslim girls to take off their hijabs. but beyond the racism and xenophobia, it’s another (now living) reminder of the unsafe environment these kids find themselves in. another reminder that theyre being watched and their behavior is being judged according to the law, or whatever the cop or teachers find inappropriate. that standing up for themselves or arguing can be taken as hostile and warrant physical intervention. 

police presence on campus grounds is DIRECTLY used to suppress student activism. you know that.i know that. we know that. you remember that photo of the cop spraying a line of peaceful protesters? you remember that cop that tackled a student for holding a sign? you remember the fucking car fuls of kids that were arrested for protesting? 

police are our enemy, but they can be found in plenty of highschools and colleges now. even in elementary schools, where young children are being taught to obey and trust cops. the conditioning is being started young, and if you don’t conform to it, you become a watched enemy on your own campus. 

what kind of affect will this militarization and surveillance in schools and campuses have on future generations? it’s impossible to deny that environment has an effect on development, so what kind of behavior are we encouraging when we educate children & young adults in schools that not only prepare them for violence, but instill them with the idea that they are constantly being watched, monitored, and judged? that they could be victims of gun violence at any time, or that protests are an excuse for police brutality? 

[iirulancorrino]

A Teenager Didn’t Do Her Online Schoolwork. So a Judge Sent Her to Juvenile Detention.

A 15-year-old in Michigan was incarcerated during the coronavirus pandemic after a judge ruled that not completing her schoolwork violated her probation. “It just doesn’t make any sense,” said the girl’s mother.

The prosecution called Giroux, the caseworker, as its only witness. In response to questions from Grace’s attorney, she acknowledged she did not know what type of educational disabilities Grace had and did not answer a question about what accommodations those disabilities might require. Her assessment that Grace hadn’t done her schoolwork was based on a comment her mother made to her teacher, which Charisse testified she said in a moment of frustration and was untrue.

Grace’s special education teacher, Tarpeh, could have provided more information and planned to testify but had to leave the hearing to teach a class, according to the prosecutor.

Grace and her mother testified that she was handling her schoolwork more responsibly — and that she had permission to turn in her assignments at her own pace, as long as she finished by the end of the semester. And, Charisse said, Grace was behaving and not causing her any physical harm.

The transition to virtual school had been difficult, Grace testified, but she said she was making progress. “I just needed time to adjust to the schedule that my mom had prepared for me,” she said.

Brennan was unconvinced. Grace’s probation, she told her, was “zero tolerance, for lack of a better term.”

She sent her to detention. Grace was taken out of the courtroom in handcuffs.

A Michigan judge sent a 15-year-old Black girl to juvenile detention for struggling to complete some of her schoolwork after her school shifted to online learning, despite the fact that her teacher said she was doing well in school and her caseworker not even knowing that she had ADHD.

[galahadwilder]

What the FUCK

[keplercryptids]

adulthood gets such a bad rep and like yeah, a lot of adult things do suck (thanks, capitalism). but i do worry about what constant complaints about adulthood do to depressed kids and teens who feel trapped and sort of like adulthood is the only way out of their current situation.

so let me tell you, in case you haven't heard this ever, that in my experience, being an adult is 100x better than being a kid or teenager. being able to more or less control my living space and who i spend time with, being able to prioritize my health and wellbeing, being able to be who i truly am and pursue my interests and hobbies... all of that is worth the other dumb stuff, and none of it was possible when i was a minor. honestly, I've just gotten happier and happier the older I've gotten.

being an adult is GOOD. and it can be good for you too.

[prismatic-bell]

Ten cool things I get to do as a 30something adult that I did not get to do as a child or teenager:

1) Set a schedule that works for me. I work second shift specifically so I can stay up late and get up late. Can’t do that with school.

2) Collect whatever cool, weird shit I want. Buttons? Sure. Anime merch? You got it. Many many skeins of weirdly-colored yarn I may never use? I have four whole tubs of it.

3) Control my own wardrobe.

4) My periods got shorter and way less sucky in terms of cramps, accidentally turning my bed into a murder zone, etc. I have been the miserable ball of pain with ten days of nausea and heavy bleeding and cramping, and now I’m that asshole you all hate who has the three-day periods that are mostly spotting. A lot of people who menstruate report this kind of shift happening.

5) I still get acne from time to time (especially in a mask), but it’s not nearly as bad as my late teens/early 20s, and I know better now how to minimize it and make it go away faster. (A good facial cleanser. A good facial cleanser. Don’t waste your time with that Clean n Clear crap. Invest in something like Clinique or Oil of Olay and make sure you use moisturizer. I use Arbonne. It will change your life.)

6) I haven’t yet done this because I want to plan it perfectly first, but: go to a hotel with a spa, by myself, get a mani/pedi/facial/massage, chill in the hot tub, go up to my room, and laze around all evening in a very posh bathrobe and I don’t have to tell anyone where I am. “I’m going to be unavailable for the night” is a completely legitimate thing you can do.

7) As you develop life experience, you develop perspective. That is why when I skinned my knee at age six I screamed and cried and was inconsolable for an hour, long after the pain had faded, but this past March I cut my thumb so badly I needed four stitches and my response was to swear (because ow), look at it, and go “huh. That’s not good. I should probably see if my roommate can take me to the ER” and then I went and did that with no tears shed and no screaming. It’s true of physical pain and it’s true of emotional pain, too. You become able to just kind of take a step back and say “how bad is this really?” and realize that quite often, it isn’t actually that bad.

8) I get to pick what’s on TV and I get to pick what flavor of ice cream to buy to eat while watching it.

9) No fucking homework.

10) I was in my mid-20s before I found my tribe. The “weird anime kids” at cons are now all my children and neither I nor they make the rules, that’s just how it is. As you get older, you find other people who love the things you love, and you connect, and those friendships are wonderful.

Stick with it. There are so many reasons, big and small.

[iwouldservehim]

11. You can buy yourself a SWORD. Or a crown. Cape and armour?? Whatever the Heck silly thing your parents either couldn't afford or thought it was dumb to spend money on. (Yes, you'll still want them and be very happy to have them).

12. You can start all those hobbies you couldn't afford or weren't allowed to. Your free time is your own.

13. You can do the dishes or make your bed or take out the trash later if you don't want to right now. You will have to. But you only need to explain to yourself that you're tired or want to do something else right now.

14. ADULT FUN is not just like sex and alcohol. You can get in a hot air balloon. You can bungee jump. Go on all roller-coasters you want, no age rules or lack of permission. You can decide to go on a plane tomorrow if you can arrange it.

15. NO. DAMN. HOMEWORK. I didn't fully realise how fucked up the concept of homework was and how stressed it made me until it was over. Adults who call you whiny are dumbasses. Going to work is at least better than school and homework.

16. No one can tell you not to cut or dye your hair! You can get tattoos! Your body is your own, basically.

17. Your space is also your own. Even if you rent, you'll feel freer than in a room people can barge in.

18. You can eat when and what you want.

19. You don't have to see any relatives you don't like anymore. If you go to family functions, you can leave whenever you want.

20. Just. Autonomy. Life is still complicated. You can't afford to do whatever you want whenever you want. There are compromises. But people can't shut you up bc you're a child anymore. You're not 'confused'. You won't 'know better when you're grown'. This is who you are and this is what you do, and the shackles are suddenly so much looser. Your previous figures of authority are almost meaningless. You can breath.

[ma-danse-alanguie]

21. You're allowed to have opinions on politics and people LISTEN to them and take you seriously (sometimes).

[prismatic-bell]

22) I know I made the original top ten list up there but fuck it, I’m an adult and I can add on if I want to. You’ll hear jokes about like “you know you’re an adult when you get excited over buying new towels,” but you know what? FUCK IT! Yes I DID get excited over buying new towels last week! They’re dark blue and they’re fluffy and I like them! Yes I DID have a good time going up and down the aisle deciding on exactly which blue I wanted! It’s towels instead of Barbies and who the fuck cares!! Buying them to make my bathroom look like I want made me happy, throwing them in the washer and dryer for the first time made me happy, wrapping one around me after a bath made me happy. Happy is still happy! Different things might make you happy, but that doesn’t negate that it’s happiness!!!

23) If you’re the anime con type, you can go for all 3-4 days without a parent’s permission now. (Or go for just one if that’s your jam. It’s up to you.) And you don’t have to skip the first half of Friday!

24) Little kid hugs hit differently when you’re an adult. The other day I stopped this very wound-up toddler from falling and she darted into my arms and laid her head on my shoulder and just suddenly relaxed and was calm and I felt like I’d been tapped on the shoulder by an angel. Like, they’re sweet when you’re a teen, sure, but as an adult you become aware of just how much kids that age rely on the older and bigger people around them, and it becomes incredibly special when they decide you are the one they’re going to trust. (Also, you’re suddenly a superhero to the parents around you when they discover you’re willing to play pattycake or peekaboo with their kids so they can have five minutes to just breathe because they’ve been dealing with all that energy since 5am.)

[aqueerkettleofish]

25)  You’re allowed to complain without people telling you how good you have it.

26) You can cut people out of your life.  My life changed dramatically the year I realized that I absolutely could take time off and go to my Grandfather’s house for Christmas... but I didn’t want to, and I didn’t have to.  I had spent the previous three years unable to go because of money and the fact that I had the kind of job that didn’t come with paid leave, and I had expected Christmas to be depressing and lonely and it wasn’t; I had friends and hung with them.  That year, I had just moved, and didn’t have a lot of friends, and I spent that Christmas alone in my apartment eating a tv dinner and not being told I was stupid and lazy.  It was glorious.

[tributary]

acknowledging that there are multiple perspectives on an issue is not “both sides-ism,” and i really wish people would stop implying that

(acknowledging different perspectives does not mean saying that they’re all correct, or that they should be equally weighted or respected. you can’t understand a story without knowing the motivations of its players, which is why it’s not bad to read things you don’t agree with).

[aroadtonowhereandeternity]

Centrism wants people to stay near the middle. I want people to travel all the way to the end of every side in their hearts and minds.

[aroadtonowhereandeternity]

Small children have the right to hate someone or something quietly and not say the polite thing

[aroadtonowhereandeternity]

Me: *has 2 friends*

Me: I am Leading a Double life 8)

[aroadtonowhereandeternity]

Broke: Trans is a religion

Woke: Work is a religion

[draculasdaughter]

This is about Sci-Hub. yeah we get it.. gatekeep knowledge and protect the interests of capital…

[three-blogs-in-a-trenchcoat]

Listen, this is serious.

Do not use the website called Sci-Hub!

It lets people access scientific articles for free. This is dangerous. It helps the free flow of knowledge and reduces the competitive edge of all the people who worked really hard to have been born into a wealth.

Like, it’s literally a website where you can type in the DOI of an article and read it, without ever having to pay the publisher who exploited the author.

So, again, do not, under any circumstance, use Sci-Hub. I mean, can you imagine a world where knowledge is free and easily accessible to everyone? Even, y'know, poor people?

[whateverthebeeswant]

Libgen also has many books online, including textbooks, searchable by name, author, and ISBN. Can you imagine textbook companies not getting their hard-earned income from poor college students? Here is the link just so you make sure that you never accidentally stumble across this horrible, unethical website.

[three-blogs-in-a-trenchcoat]

Oh, and while we’re talking about books, if you’ve managed to stay clear from Libgen, definitely don’t go to zlibrary, where you can also find a lot of textbooks, but unfortunately they’re completely free.

[magnetictapedatastorage]

Almost every day I think about how if you raised a daughter exactly, precisely like a son, it would be seen as vaguely progressive, but raising a son exactly, precisely like a daughter would be seen as sexual abuse.

[magnetictapedatastorage]

Imagine a 12 year old boy being taught to shave his legs.

[magnetictapedatastorage]

I’m using this specific example because it only seems abusive when applied to boys. For girls, you could say “Well, it’s annoying, it’s unfeminist, but it’s not abusive because it’s not abnormal. We’ve all been there. It could be worse.” The problem is that something being common or ‘not as bad as it could be’ does not make it right. That’s why what is “annoying” or “discouraging” for a girl seems “horrifying” or “abusive” for a boy.

It’s shockingly un-shocking to teach a child, a non-teenager, to remove the hair from her legs. But for boys, it screams “pedophillic grooming”, brings to mind a nauseating image of a pre-teen boy with no idea what he is doing or why it is deemed necessary, it creates the idea of a leering adult who simply wants the boy to look prepubescent. There is no normalization to hide behind. By doing this to a human being (that is, a boy) we defamiliarize it, unmask it, and can finally begin to understand how deeply sick girlhood is.

[aroadtonowhereandeternity]

Clear example of how abuse can be completely invisible and normalized in society and the treatment of young people.

[aroadtonowhereandeternity]

Just now fully getting that when I was little I read lots of books and no internet and now I unconsciously interpret long correctly-written text as having some implicit group legitimacy, part of a pattern of society pushing a belief or a robust, healthy counterculture, and that a lot of these people, if I knew them more, I’d just see a messy human whose thinking seems ridiculous to me sometimes like the average human I know (and also how they probably feel like some belief opposing theirs has the power, but I’d already noticed that between different sides).

I’m sure the same is true of plenty of books. This isn’t about reinforcing a hierarchy where “legitimacy” is somewhere else. Just...

Look, on a conscious level, I reject other people’s opinions. Is my blog full of them? No. There’s some out-there stuff on it, and even here on Tumblr I hold back a lot (in both the more-social-justice and less-social-justice directions, among others) because, yes, I don’t always want to piss unhappy Tumblr people off and get told I’m a bad person. But at the stage prior to all my conscious processing I didn’t really have a filter on my visceral “:( someone thinks this about me?” reaction. Am I the only one? No? Maybe explaining what I noticed will help.

There’s (picking a very generic example here)...

Some people need to stop being lazy, says this page.

and then there’s...

“Some people need to stop being lazy,” says my mom’s friend on Facebook who judged someone else’s visible grey roots and most likely wants “some people” to go to her yoga class because it will make them magically happier and less fat which of course is bad in every way.

and... there’s no big split. It’s the same pool of people. People currently sounding rock-solid, if you keep listening, will show their personal reasons, foibles, inconsistencies, and “stuck” beliefs.

[guerrillatech]

[aroadtonowhereandeternity]

“i don’t think cis guys realize how much power they can shift in a conversation just by casually telling their friends ‘that’s fucked up, man’ when someone says something bigoted”

Maybe they don’t! I hadn’t thought of it that way and it’s so optimistic and so charitable at the same time, I love it. I started being seen as male recently and hadn’t figured out exactly how to do this yet. There are a lot of unspoken rules to “bro” interactions.

[miggydiaz]

PSA to my white friends and followers: In the wake of a phenomenally important guilty verdict in the Derek Chauvin Trial, I’d like to remind you all that the fallout of this case will likely mean more police violence against our Black friends and neighbors, not less. Looking at the statistics in the weeks leading up to this verdict shows that this is already the case. Police in this country are angry that society is beginning to hold them accountable for their abusive actions, and they are looking for revenge. So if you see a cop interacting with a BIPOC, DO NOT walk away. Video record if you can (and as long as it doesn’t further jeopardize the safety of the BIPOC involved), but absolutely do not walk away. It is critical that we do our part and look out for people, and make cops think twice about abusing their powers of authority and near-immunity to murder citizens people.

[aroadtonowhereandeternity]

Concrete, easy instructions that can’t cause you to randomly feel bad at home.

Most likely, if something happens, they’ll be glad if you recorded it. You are also taking responsibility for the possibility that they won’t. Before that point, the goal is for the police to expect possible consequences. Be aware of the situation before you record, use judgment with vulnerable moments, watch the person’s reaction.

[aroadtonowhereandeternity]

I’m sure everyone on Tumblr is extremely used to it, but in the quiet under-mainstream of weed-and-any-old-video-games dudebros, different from the argumentative alt-right ones in that there is a reason to interact with them, saying “black lives matter” is “being political.” (This did come up the other day among them but that particular instance went decently.) This post isn’t to change anyone on Tumblr’s mind, just to get the words right and maybe link or quote later.

It’s not saying “every single thing anyone did under the movement banner was justified and deserved.” It’s not saying “inject more anti-racism into everything you do and feel guilty.” It’s saying “you know that thing where when a bunch of people die it’s called a tragedy? That should apply to black people too, and it’s weird and shady that cops and people making decisions for them don’t see it that way.”

[tulipscomeinallsortsofcolors]

folks, someday you are gonna be writing, and you're gonna put something on paper and hear a voice say "i know this is what you want, but will people like it?" and im here to tell you that is the DEVIL talking and you do whatever you damn well please

[copperbadge]

If fandom has taught me anything it has also taught me that there are at least five people in the world who will want it regardless of what it is, and they will find you.

[aroadtonowhereandeternity]

Hard to count non-commenters, but I’m pretty confident in saying my masterwork FFXI/Enneagram fanfic’s still waiting on five. Is this not a normal experience? I’m very used to it.