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So, life Update: June 2023

I'll soon be 25 and still haven't managed to finish uni due to extenuating financial reasons my family put me into before I was 18 haha.

Grandma died in early 2021 and yea, took me abt a year to be able to laugh out loud again and I still struggle with smiling on pictures n stuff. Planning on getting a Monarch Butterfly tattoo in her honour bc we were gonna get one together before she died and then she chickened out.

Was supposed to get a job permit (I'm a foreigner living in another country) over a year ago and GUES THE FUCK WHAT??? the legal assistant I paid to a year ago told me just yesterday that his mentor (the one giving his legal power for everything, will explain if needed) PLAYED DEAD AND MADE A PUBLIC POST ABOUT HIS FUNERAL AND THE AUTHORITIES SAW THAT AND DELETED MY CASE FROM THE WORK MINISTRY. The bastard didn't tell me anything for the year he was supposedly processing everything and I had to chew him out over the phone until he told me everything.

*he now re-submitted everything, and I'm supposed to get it in abt 5 months*

ONTO GOOD NEWS

I have been in a relationship with C since Oct. 2018, been living together for more than a year now, and we're getting a house together (under their name bc I'm hillariously inellegible for ANY sort of loans or mortgages). We're expecting news from the real estate agency so we can sign the final docs and get our keys.

Along with that, we've been in a poly relationship with a wonderful guy from the UK, J, for almost 2 years. He's come to visit us once (for a whole month) and we spent Christmas and New Year's together at his place.

While at his place, I got a daith piercing (very pretty) and C got their ears pierced (looks very cute with them hehe). Sadly, I had to get my daith out bc I had to take and emergency CATscan and the piercing was too fresh to replace jewelery for a silicone one (and it was 3am when I got the scan, too lmao).

No worries abt the scan tho. Been having chronic, debilitating migraines since I was 19. Never paid them much attention bc no drs would take them seriously. CAT came out normal and neurologist put me on some new treatment to help prevent them (not working tho haha)

Good news is: if they put me under disability, I'll get 25% plane ticket discounts and meds, so I guess that's good reward from life, considering I really cannot even keep a job for more than 2 months bc of the migraines.

ANYWHO

Once C and I get all the pertaining docs for the house, we can move in right away and abt a month after that, I'll go stay with J for 6 months (stayed 3 last time).

My cats (Alcaparra and Oliva) are now 3 and 4 years old, respectively. They are super pampered, and I plan on taking them with me once we move to the UK with J EVENTUALLY.

I'm very excited abt having our own place, where I can use a drill at 3am or whenever I want nyehehehehe.

Since I'm not working (for legal and medical reasons), I mostly do lil housewife chores like cooking, cleaning, doing laundry, feeding the cats, doing dishes, meal-prepping, and running errands.

Things are still far from perfect, and I'm struggling a lot with my self-value without a job. I'm very lucky to have kind and understanding partners who are willing to take care of me and let me take care of them in return. Talking with friends also helps a lot, even if I have lacked the social energy to be able to consistently hang out with them for more than 3 years.

That's it for the almost-quarter-of-century life update!

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due to inflation you must answer my riddles five

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due to budget cuts i will grant you two wishes

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the one remaining studio bones animator left working on bnha after the rest got transferred to mob psycho to animate a 3 minute 60 fps shot of reigens bare feet

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I truly hate the word "unalive." There are so many other euphemisms that fictional Italian mobsters worked so hard to provide you with and you just ignore them.

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nitashinori

That post about death note being "everyone's first anime" (untrue statement) made me curious and now I want to gather data for science

Can you reblog this and tell me where are you from and what was your starter anime?

#ooof #my first conscious anime was Acchi Kocchi #if we talk abt first anime I saw or enjoyed??#Hamtaro. Meow Meow Power. and that one old Grimm Brothers Tales anime #I'm from Colombia #i think they were all aired in around 2004??? 2005????#i did watch Acchi Kocchi on youtube in 2012 lmao

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It's so important to remember that tumblr is bad. Has been bad. And will likely remain bad for the foreseeable future. And that is vital to our survival. If Tumblr was a good website that worked, it would get turned into a corporate hellscape like every other site. It's so important that Tumblr is broken and poorly run and impossible to effectively navigate. It's all that's keeping us safe.

choco-strawberry-vanilla

So

I won a contest on February and the price was a 3×3" tattoo. I made some research about the artist and the guy was fairly good. Not wanting to fuck it up so badly, I decided to go with a very minimalistic linework of a dog I used to have with some spider lillies. Pretty simple and cute. I speak to the owner of the tattoo shop and she makes my appointment.

This is when I started to regret stuff: the dude who was gonna inject ink onto my skin was about an hour late. I was kind of “eh, shit happens”, but something on the back of my mind was bugging me.

When the guy shows up, he has no idea what he was gonna do to me (when I talked to the owner of the shop, she told me she would tell the guy all of the info about it and make sure it all goes well). I was like okay, maybe he forgot. Shit happens. Then, when showing him all of the reference images, dude’s like ok, got it. Just lemme train my hand and we’ll be good to go.

This is where shit was about to hit the fan. The guy had little to no drawing skills and tried to fucking trace the reference image from my phone screen.

He didn’t have a clue on how to draw the flowers, so I showed him several reference images and he goes “AIGHT… I got it bby”

The dude starts tracing the drawing on the tattooing paper with a fucking blunt, thick pencil. I offer him my mechanical pencil so that he could have a more precise lining of the flowers and shit. He goes nel pastel like 4 times about it. I let him redraw the thing I had to draw for him onto the tattoo paper. As the guy was putting the tattoo paper onto my skin, it gets all blurred up and gross. He shrugs and goes “I already have the reference image, so my brain knows what to do”.

He goes over and over with those same little fucking lines and an extremely thick needle set and basically goes welp, here goes nothing on the tattoo.

After finishing the lines of what was supposed to be my childhood dog, he goes “pls lemme see that drawing you made of the flower one more time?”. I hand it to him. He looks at it for 5 seconds and starts BZZZZTTTTZTZTZTTTTing two “flowers” on it.

Once he’s done butchering my leg (I honestly thought nothing much of the pain bc tatts are supposed to hurt and stuff. It was later on I found out he overdid it), dude just goes “WAIT, I forgot to put the white ink” and proceeds to put white ink on what was supposed to be the outer parts of the lines and the insides of the “flowers” he did.

I go out, proud as ever of my first tattoo. My grandma sees it and starts mocking it and saying how it doesn’t look like my dog did at all. My mom sees it and says the same. All my family and friends start saying how it looks more like a Kangaroo than a dog and I,start just noticing it and hating it all the more. I also notice how bumpy, shakey, and uneven the lines are and how some of them have some weird shadowing to them that was definitively not there before.

With this, I get sort of fed up with the tattoo and decide to just leave it as it is and wait for a year or so to heal and cover it up.

A few days ago, I wanted to check on how much time I would have to wait bc I thought it was like a year or so.

Turns out I could get it covered after 3-4 months.

I get excited and decide to contact a tattoo shop that does a bunch of girly tatts so that they could cover it up with something beautiful.

They answer me and tell me to contact the artist directly. The girl does some beautiful flower designs and very Junji Ito-like character designs, so I’m obviously pretty hyped to see what she can do for me

We talk for a bit about it and what I would like to cover it up with and also tells me that it’ll all be okay and to come over next week to see some possible designs.

Now all I have to do is wait for a bit and see when I can be scheduled for it and how much it would cost.

I really hope I can update this and finish it on a happy note.

(Btw, this is what the tattoo looked like about 5 days after getting it done… I haven’t taken many pics of it for some strange reason)

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Here I am, a year later.

I got in contact with another tattoo artist who said she could actually cover the old tatt with not just flowers, but my dog as well!

I got it covered up in february, like, 2 weeks before the pandemic broke out in the place I’m at

You can still see some of the bumps of the old tattoo in it, but the finish result is something I really love and it is amazing for me to have that precious childhood memory with me at all times. So yeah, I guess this did end on a happy note!

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2 years after this post (I think)

The tattoo has healed very nicely and the colours are a bit faded (maybe I'll get it retouched later on). I've gained a sognificant amount of weight and my legs have grown lots... ironically, I think the tattoo looks better now lmao

As you can see, the previous tattoo is still somewhat visible, but the bumps have reduced significantly. I'm still happy I got it bc that was my childhood dog and I loved her to bits. She was my sole companion for a long time and I'm glad I now have her with me forever, in all her realistic anime dog glory.

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Congratulations to porn for winning the war on porn

it’s been kinda long since I last posted or got in here but just wanted to let you guys know I’m still a gay shitpost