Partly Claudi

"ONCE THERE CAME A STORM IN THE FORM OF A GIRL.."

[take-a-dip-in-the-deadpool]

A bit of a pallet cleanser for everyone.

[partlyclaudi]

I need science to prove that dogs know what kisses mean (or at the very least that my dog does)

[partlyclaudi]

It is so weird to come back here after so, so many years.

Even the last, like, six years feels like such a lifetime.

I used to have a strong sense of community here before and it's like re-entering a foreign land. It's nice to see the energy from the younger generation- their passion, their takes, the humor.

It feels a little disconnecting, though. IDK. I'm just feeling a bit untethered, especially in this extra violent and chaotic political climate/reality in this country, especially in Texas.

I deleted all of the other apps where I had 'url' connection to loved ones in my life, but I don't trust the platforms, the algorithms and it was starting to feel like a burden. But I feel this gap in my life where I don't know where to go to have that sense of community online anymore.

There's a weird loneliness in your mid30s that I don't think gets talked about enough. I wasn't anticipating it.

I always said "I am of the internet" but I'm not sure where I have much of a home anymore.

Maybe I'll just be here, writing into the abyss, as I probably also did when I began. But at least I'm starting to write again, give myself space to process.... everything.

But, hey, past me, or any mutuals still seeing this. I met the best love and we are married and we have the cutest dog and I love our life. It's been a hard few years, but in our small bubble, there's a lot of beauty.

I've struggled with pregnancy loss and am now on the grief rollercoaster that is navigating fertility/infertility with FINALLY a diagnosis of PCOS (which I used to suspect way back when).

Life is very tender right now. I don't really know where to go. I haven't quite found content here that I'm tied to, but now as I'm writing I'm enjoying the space. It expands my attention span- outside of 140 characters, or whatever.

I don't know where we go from here.

[stoney-baloney-with-cheese]

Do not let them erase this. Do not let them tell you he meant "my heart goes out for you."

This man is the grandson of a Canadian Nazi sympathizer who moved to South Africa BECAUSE he thought the apartheid was just the coolest.

He has a gaggle of kids specifically because he believes his genes are superior and need to be spread to improve humanity.

He has thrown his support behind the neonazi party in Germany and the far right party in the UK, not to mention how far he's wormed up the ass of the Republican party.

He threw two sieg heil salutes back to back at the inauguration of the president of the United States and is trying to scrub the evidence off the internet.

Elon Reeve Musk is a fucking Nazi.

[odinsblog]

Elon has been waiting forever to do that publicly. He thinks it’s safe now.

[byekansas]

No thanks.

[thashining]

Don't fall for it

[sky-is-the-limit]

The issue is, I've seen MANY Americans say that "it's not that deep". Us Europeans know it best, it happened to most our countries, especially us in the Mediterranean aka the "conservative Christians of Europe."

They think it's just an app. Back then it was just newspapers, radio stations, advertisements, YOUTH parties. The brainwashing started like that and then it moved on to violence and heinous crimes against humanity. It was the YOUTH they tried to control first.

This tiktok return has to be the most ominous shit I've seen so far after his election.

[so-many-ocs]

instead of scrolling mindlessly on tiktok, consider:

staring into the bathroom mirror, trying to discern hints of your parents' faces in your own

falling into a vicious cycle you will spend decades of your life trying to crawl and bite your way out of

placing your ear to the mossy ground. do you hear it? is that the earth's heartbeat, or your own?

whispering forgotten hymns from a dead language into your pillow and listening for a response

putting your tongue to something you would otherwise never get to taste

climbing as high as you can in the tallest tree you can find and reaching up to brush the sky with your fingertips. it can't be that high up, right?

reading

falling to your knees in an empty field and screaming until your lungs give out

listening to yourself talk and realizing that all you say is an amalgamation of thoughts and feelings from other people, some of which you will never see or speak to again

establishing a tentative peace with the spider in that dim corner you can never bring yourself to reach into

scrolling mindlessly on another social media app that just doesn't hit quite the same

[daftqunk]

[partlyclaudi]

my exact reaction when I found out about Rami’s twin. RAMI AND SAMI FOREVERRRRRR

[partlyclaudi]

I"m just going to report old posts for fun because the internet is a terrible place now and it used to be so good

but also wow younger me you were EMBARRASSING PLEASE STAND UPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP

[cartnsncreal]

[cocoacallalily]

This would’ve went on all day.. lol

[thefinaltruth]

she had so much conviction lol

[karayray1-deactivated20230129]

I love this video

[partlyclaudi]

so last night i was w some coworkers/friends and one of their bfs was there and bc i am me i started talking about drag queens and my favorites and he made a comment about transwomen and i said “oh no theres a complete difference” and one of my coworkers was like ‘uhoh hahaha youre around PC girls now!’ and I was able to not yell about it but was like ‘no it isnt about being “PC” it is about having the knowledge about the difference to respect people with different identities” and then i explained but mostly IM STILL MAD bc I hate all of the bullshit around being “PC” and especially the way it was delivered in such a way that was like HAHAHA IM A ~COOL~ GIRL AND NOW YOURE GONNA GET IN TROUBLE HAHAHA WATCH ME DAB AS A WHITE WOMAN and like idk it is frustrating to still hear that shit from people who claim to care about inclusivity/diversity/cultural humility in general. like, educate yourself and if something comes up that you dont know much about then meet the opportunity with a willingness to learn and correct yourself. also it is 2016?

[partlyclaudi]

This person was actually not my friend and was actually the director of the place where I worked and it was a major reason why I eventually quit and I had forgotten about this.

[partlyclaudi]

“For now she need not think of anybody. She coud be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone.”

— from To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (via shakespearewasaunicorn)

[theshitneyspears]

Redownloading the same dating app every six months

[aaronpluscade]

I FEEL PERSONALLY ATTACKED

[partlyclaudi]

I posted this a few years ago and now I'm getting married in less than 6 months to someone that I met on an app (and we had matched in 2017)

[bob-belcher]

[orwell]

Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.

Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves (via orwell)

[jerryterry]

Visit Original Link

[guessed-starred-deactivated2025]

when u only know one lyric in a song so it plays in ur head like this

[leander-ligo]

This is just what depression feels like

[din-skywalker]

this is legit how it plays in my head

[purplebuddhaquotes]

Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?

Rumi (via purplebuddhaquotes)

[wenchette-deactivated20161106]

[gothfem]

@emprsn this is you whenever i mention robin lmaooooo

[partlyclaudi]

all of my friends

[saintjoan]

— margaret atwood, excerpt of circe/mud poems