(He/Him)

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Flashback to when my 7th grade girlfriend saw I was wearing shorts at the start of summer and said: "You're wearing shorts? Oh..." And looked visibly disgusted.

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Actually wait. Flashback to a few weeks ago when I wore shorts for the first time in like a couple years and my dad took one look at my and said "You feel sick because you don't exercise enough. You need to go biking, walking. Stop napping all the time." This was the day after I went home sick from work because I got so anxious and was in so much pain from standing for 10 straight hours the previous day and trying to do the same thing again that I got nauseous.

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Flashback to when I wore shorts in front of my dad again and he told me to not become like my mother and called me fat

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Flashback to when my 7th grade girlfriend saw I was wearing shorts at the start of summer and said: "You're wearing shorts? Oh..." And looked visibly disgusted.

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Actually wait. Flashback to a few weeks ago when I wore shorts for the first time in like a couple years and my dad took one look at my and said "You feel sick because you don't exercise enough. You need to go biking, walking. Stop napping all the time." This was the day after I went home sick from work because I got so anxious and was in so much pain from standing for 10 straight hours the previous day and trying to do the same thing again that I got nauseous.

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Flashback to when my 7th grade girlfriend saw I was wearing shorts at the start of summer and said: "You're wearing shorts? Oh..." And looked visibly disgusted.

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Gang. It's staring at the artwork I just made for an hour time. I'm so excited

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New painting. This was mostly to practice my limited painting skills because I've heard horror stories about the painting class I'm taking next year 😋

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Every time someone uses the word "Ineffable", I know they were really disappointed in and angry at an old man about a year ago.

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If I abruptly die one day, I'm haunting tf out of anyone who pretends that they were a really big fan of my art or writing.

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As of late, every book I read somehow always ends up being weirdly similar to the next piece of media I pick up.

Earlier this year, I read "Speak". It's about this girl who is alienated from the rest of her class and becomes a loner after calling the cops at a party to report being raped at said party. One of the big metaphors in that book was a tree. She kept trying to draw and sculpt and carve a tree in her art class because it's what she was assigned to create and in the end it's symbolic of her change and growth after telling people and getting support. Then, I read "Dear Even Hansen". This book ALSO had an alienated loner and used a tree as a metaphor for growth. In the beginning of the book, his arm is broken because he fell off a tree during the summer. Then, he uses that falling from a tree as a symbol of his desire for support. Finally, he climbs the tree successfully and it's symbolic of having found support and telling the truth.

Right now, I'm watching "The Summer Hikaru Died" and reading "Don't Let The Forest In". Both contain codependent teenage boys with a one-sided (as far as i'm aware, no spoilers please) romance and have a common theme of monsters and mental disorders like depression and anxiety.

I'm not doing this on purpose but it's really nice to have two pieces of media to compare themes on and better understand the topic they are trying to dissect.

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Damn. It's been a while since I actually used this website to post art

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You know, I was never a fan of transfem Jax ever but honestly. I see it. Anyways, I'm sure plenty of you have already spotted this little reference of female Jax. They fr put "daisy bell" as a fake name in here.

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Guys. I'm gonna be so for real. It took me until like early middle school to actually memorize what month came after the other. I also still have no idea which months have 30 or 31 days in them.

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I can no longer open this app in public because everyone has randomly decided that this is THE WEEK to draw Castiel from Supernatural on a leash.

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Dudes. I just figured out the perfect way to start my stupid fucking middle school oc's story

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When people say a fandom is toxic and that fandom is so popular that everyone and their mothers at least knows about it, that says more about the general population's toxicity and evilness than the kids who just wanna make little characters to interact within their favorite show. Sometimes you just gotta accept that the vast majority of people have poor morals.

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Do y'all ever read something for a fandom and you immediately know that person is in like 3 other fandoms based on their vocabulary choices?

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AI toys for young children need tighter rules, researchers warn

In first study of its kind, Cambridge researchers found AI toys could misread some children's emotions.

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So crazy that I can overeat like all day and STILL BE FUCKING HUNGRY AT NIGHT. WHAT THE FUCK