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[star-girlfriend]

it gets better

[myhappyskorts]

"I will remove my teeth, for I want to remain kind despite my anger."

despite my anger.

i have a love-hate relationship with the concept of "in spite"

because it's beautiful until it's you.

until it's your anger or your hate or your sadness that you have to give up.

until it's the fire in your chest that has to be tucked deep enough that it burns but doesn't burn through.

and for what, really? what do you want that badly? what reward do you get for in spite? what kind of satisfaction are you getting from someone or something that puts a hole in you?

[myhappyskorts]

recycling and wow, i’ve actually never been normal.

it’s fricking bs in my algebra 2 notebook. it’s still bs in my 3rd year of college.

genuinely why aren’t gad and ocd curable it’s so annoying omg. & i haven’t been on my meds. ughhhhh. AUGGHHHHHH

[vincent-van-gtg]

[myhappyskorts]

i was thinking about when i was a kid everything was so massive.

a minute was forever, a meter was a mile, old people were really, really old.

i walking across this gutter at school one time and almost fell into it. then i thought about how some little kid is going to have to be carried over it and will for the longest time, think of it as a massive hole in the ground.

and then one day they’ll come back to see it’s actual size and swear that it got smaller.

perspective is an interesting thing. 

[myhappyskorts]

my mom said to me,

"if you don't claim the mental illness, then you don't have it,"

and I heard,

"you're being dramatic, suck it up"

my mom said to me,

"it all comes down to you having the willpower,"

and I heard,

"you're being dramatic, suck it up

my mom said to me,

"you need to speak up more, even I would diagnose you with depression if I heard you talking that low,"

and I heard,

"I don't understand you. I will never understand you. Stop asking me to try. I cannot stretch my hands further than my sides."

my mom said to me,

"You used to be such a smiley baby. What happened?"

and I heard,

"God, why didn't I get the daughter I prayed for?"

Yeah, God. Why didn't she?

[myhappyskorts]

it's like

"If I take this tiny molecule and fling it at you, the moment it touches you, I have attacked you. I've infected you and you have no idea. you are going to live with this imprint of my influence for possibly your entire life and not even realize it"

I wrote this in the car this morning without realizing that this is what I mean when I tell people that I am "afraid" of microbes.

it's not the disgust factor, it's the contamination factor. you don't notice it but I do and on my end, I'm hyper aware that thousands of these unique, foreign, molecules are being flung at me every single millisecond that I exist in a body.

so why would I not think about it all the time? why shouldn't it eat me alive? why shouldn't I do whatever I can to stop it?

even if all I can do is write down every thought I think or every song lyric I hear or shower three times a day or run my blade through something thirteen times for every "thought swallowing" as a sort of sacrifice, to prove that something works. even if nothing ever does.

[catchymemes]

[myhappyskorts]

convinced that the people that don't get why Harry Styles is the only 1D member to make it really big when they are all (i mean, most of them,) really good singers.

The answer is that Harry (and Zayn. i guess. blegh,) is the only one that realizes that he isn't in One Direction anymore.

I mean, have you heard the rest of them? Split every second line in the choruses of their songs into a three part harmony (shared by five guys,) and you have a one direction hit that didn't blow up.

Harry is so much more of a bigger deal than the rest of them because he not only has insane talent, he also has a distinct individual sound (which Zayn also has, occasionally. but. boo.) and a distinct way that he presents himself. Which is like, literally all you need.

[myhappyskorts]

me: *has a canker sore right on the tip of my tongue*

also me, at my house, where i have most supreme luxury in the choice of food: I AM GOING TO EAT THE SPICIEST-

[iraprince]

anybody else in the club feeling this one

[myhappyskorts]

idc the most devastating part of Steven Universe is how Zach Callison's (the voice of Steven Universe) voice changes as the series progresses.

It is made even worse for me because I just heard his voice in the OG "We Are the Crystal Gems" from episode 0 and tried to contrast it with his voice in Full Disclosure" (the song where he discovers the universe is after his ass, I know, bad move,) to see how much his voice had changed and now I'm crying.

[myhappyskorts]

i can't believe AURORA has done a bowie cover and we never talk about it

[oliversrarebooks]

[pleaseletmeexist]

“Bakugou told Midoriya to kill himself, so he’s evil and I will wish for his death”

Girl was thirteen. Do you know how many thirteen year olds told me shit like “go jump into traffic” or “walk in front of a train”? TONS. Because thirteen year olds don’t have the emotional capacity to understand that those things can affect people with mental illness.

Midoriya recognized that it wasn’t okay to say those things to someone you’re bullying, and that’s because he was on the receiving end of that shit from probably half the class. After the sludge villain, he completely forgot about that because it was probably commonplace for him. Middle schoolers are absolute assholes, and it’s up to authority figures to regulate that. Bakugou didn’t have that in middle school, but Aizawa eventually straightened him out.

I’m beginning to think that no one whose anti-Bakugou has met a real life kid. If I saw one of them telling someone to kill themselves, I’d sit down and have a talk about the consequences of their words and what affect that could have. They’d feel guilty, and may not apologize immediately but they would think twice about doing it again. So, stop making him into a villain, he was THIRTEEN

[madpunkart-deactivated20240628]

I can't actually decide if this is truly a "hot take" or if people on the internet just have no concept of child psychology, but personally, the Adultification™ of kids like Katsuki lowkey drives me fuckin' crazy.

And listen, I can hear y'all now "it's an anime go touch grass" yada yada, and I get it, but also, I know many real, living, breathing children who struggle with emotional regulation and anger issues because they have no one there to really teach them what self-regulation looks like. I know many kids who, despite being children without the life experience or knowledge needed to address their emotional difficulties, have been labeled "problem kids" or "little psychos" or whatever else the adults in their lives decide to define them as despite having the adult responsibility to intervene.

Does this mean that some kids don't have more severe behavioral challenges? No, obviously not, but they're KIDS, bro.

The only fuckin' reason we as adults can easily pass judgment on a child's actions is because we have the gift of hindsight. They don't.

[myhappyskorts]

why don't we first ask ourselves why we live in a world where 14-year-olds know to tell people to "take a swan dive off the roof" without knowing the gravity of such a statement?

[myhappyskorts]

Found Heaven is out I know light I know love

(it is actually excruciatingly painful)

[myhappyskorts]

DEAR LEIGH BARDUGO,

Who do you think you are dropping a brand new book when Linus Reiter and Golgarot are still on the loose???

Will I read the new book? Yes

Will I be happy about it though?

Probably yes, honestly.

[melodicwriter]

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