The World Awaits

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[lovelylindseyloo]

Need to get this off my chest

Several months ago, I overheard a phone conversation between my mom and sister. I wasn’t eavesdropping, my mom was just talking really loudly and I could hear her from the living room, which my bedroom is right next to. 

My mom had my sister on speakerphone and for the most part I wasn’t listening to their conversation. But then I heard my name...

I heard my mom talk about my job and that I should get a new one--a real one. She said that, well, I can’t remember the exact words. But I do remember this: she said I was a disappointment. She said I can’t live at home forever and that basically I could just go live in the “looney bin” if I can’t handle it anywhere else. Yes, those were her exact words. 

I sat in my bed in shock, unsure of how to react. I love my mom more than anything, and I know--and have known for a long time--that she wants me to get a “real job”, whatever that means. I know she wants me to move out and get my own apartment, but I just haven’t been able to do so quite yet. Although, I am working on it.

I didn’t cry, but I was so, so hurt. I never told her that I overheard her. Because, deep down, I know she’s right. I am a disappointment. I am a child who failed to launch and survive adulthood. Can I help it? Sometimes I feel like I can and I look at apartments for rent and second jobs to get. Sometimes the thought of leaving home sends me straight into an hour-long panic attack.

My mom has never behaved in such a way that makes me think she believes I am a disappointment. She encourages me and wants the best for me. We have a really good relationship and get along great and like to spend time with each other. I just don’t understand what would drive her to say something like that. 

But that doesn’t matter. I made this post because this has been sitting in my chest for months on end and I just need to get it out. It’s been haunting me. I think about it almost every night. I just want to forget it ever happened.

[mercedesbenzodiazepine]

My uncle is a sugar daddy/perv who likes uncomfortably young boys on Grindr long story short I'm catfishing him and he sent me $1000 today and bought me things from my Amazon wish list. Is that bad?

MOHFNGSRKFSDNMGD

[whatshouldwecallme]

When older people complain about the state of my generation

[lifeinsmallpresspublishing]

I reblogged this so fast.

[certifiedproblemchild]

"What's a Period?"

….Uterus wants baby.

Person doesn’t have baby.

Uterus wants revenge.

[taywhytetrash-deactivated201706]

Hit me with your best

car

[restfulraccoon]

Wanted: a sugar daddy who transfers money into my account for nothing in return other than a selfie with a smile on my face

[bob-belcher]

[the-future-now-deactivated20170]

Remember Emma Yang’s name — she has a bright future ahead of her (x)

follow @the-future-now

[writing-prompt-s]

You swerve to avoid a squirrel. Unknown to you, the squirrel pledges a life debt to you. In your darkest hour, the squirrel arrives.

[issabella]

[sashayed]

me: okay, that’s enough. i can’t live like this. i gotta change my life. i gotta make moves

the world: ok here is an Opportunity

me:

[dutchster]

[humansofnewyork]

“I was taking a law school admissions test in a big classroom at Harvard. My friend and I were some of the only women in the room. I was feeling nervous. I was a senior in college. I wasn’t sure how well I’d do. And while we’re waiting for the exam to start, a group of men began to yell things like: ‘You don’t need to be here.’ And ‘There’s plenty else you can do.’ It turned into a real ‘pile on.’ One of them even said: ‘If you take my spot, I’ll get drafted, and I’ll go to Vietnam, and I’ll die.’ And they weren’t kidding around. It was intense. It got very personal. But I couldn’t respond. I couldn’t afford to get distracted because I didn’t want to mess up the test. So I just kept looking down, hoping that the proctor would walk in the room. I know that I can be perceived as aloof or cold or unemotional. But I had to learn as a young woman to control my emotions. And that’s a hard path to walk. Because you need to protect yourself, you need to keep steady, but at the same time you don’t want to seem ‘walled off.’ And sometimes I think I come across more in the ‘walled off’ arena. And if I create that perception, then I take responsibility. I don’t view myself as cold or unemotional. And neither do my friends. And neither does my family. But if that sometimes is the perception I create, then I can’t blame people for thinking that.”

[mydearthisbe]

A list of reasons why AVPM still owns my ass after more than half a decade

A musical about Harry Potter??? This is reason enough

Stars Darren Criss as Harry Potter, a man of colour and a gift to this world 

Pokes fun at the way JKR/WB handle POC “That’s Lavender Brown - racist sister!”

“Let’s leave these big baby childish jerks alone” “Did someone say Draco Malfoy”

Every single fucking moment that Lauren Lopez is on screen actually

“A person can however be a horcrux” “What’s a - what’s a horcrux” “I’m not even going to tell you Harry you’ll find out soon enough”

Quirrelmort

Pokes fun at fandom perception of Ron and Draco 

Cedric Diggory’s 1000 watt smile

Voldemort’s revival is accompanied by the appropriate level of drama and a dance number

Dumbledore is explicitly gay within the story

Ginny has one of the most powerful and soulful voices in the show and her and Harry do power couple harmonizing

The greatest Romione kiss I have ever seen in my life

All the fourth wall breaks

Snape’s parting note in the musical is far less creepy and weird and he dies in a poetically just manner

“I love you all… except you Draco I can’t fucking stand you”

Dumbledore’s Army holding fast to protect Hogwarts during the Battle of Hogwarts with a song that makes me feel like I too, could defeat Voldemort

An arguably better epilogue than the Deathly Hallows

[jakegyllenhaals-deleted-deactiv]

[anthyhime-deactivated20210201]

Why are men

[yankee-doodle-danger]

the american high school experience

million-dollar gyms but bathroom stalls with no doors

speaking of bathrooms, shit sayings on the walls, mostly along the lines of “fuck this shit”

stressed out anxiety-prone teens running on 3 hours of sleep and a shit ton of coffee

the Pacer

teachers saying “this isn’t middle school anymore”

broken air conditioning 

classrooms that either feel like the arctic tundra or the pits of hell

“wikipedia isn’t a reliable source”

a shit ton of standardized tests

“if someone dies during the final, everyone gets an A, so who’s gonna take one for the team?”

“if the teacher is fifteen minutes late we can leave.”

jeopardy

quizlet

the cha-cha slide

“mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell”

[theproblematicblogger]

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