Decidedly Ambivalent

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Sometimes I think if I ever let myself cry again, I might never stop.

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Que sera sera

The fortunes are all messy and they’re getting in the way. She wads them up in little balls and throws them all away.

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Squirrel's eye view

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Mawidge is a dweam wiffin a dweam

Never agree to marry someone in a dream, someone you can't see, someone who stands behind you playing with your hair asking so very nervously. Never say yes, however sure you may be that it's just your partner when much younger.

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worthless peeve

I am really sick of seeing the wealthy described as "worth $xx million" (or billion, as the case may be). They ain't *worth* shit. They *have* $xx million, or more likely have theoretical access to $xx million. JFC.

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Just a little mayhem at the birdbath, followed by much confusion about where the water went.

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Possum trying to get a drink from the birdbath and not seeing or understanding the little step stone next to it.

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I wondered where all the water had gone overnight.

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Suspicious cycle

So I am starting to suspect that the cumulative effect of sitting and spending the day doomscrolling or even just scrolling without so much doom after work is more tiring than if I actually *did* things - cooked, played music (myself, on an instrument), sewed, tried to teach myself to knit, read an actual fucking book for a change, worked on learning a new language - and yet I keep scrolling instead. The energy to *get started* doing that is less, the energy to just stay in my seat and keep at it is less, but I will ultimately end up more tired. The internet once changed my life, probably saved my weird little ass, honestly, but as it is now functioning has become more harmful overall. I hate this so much.

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Grackle!

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stimulus

Sometimes I think about how modern western civilization was built on caffeine, nicotine, cocaine, and amphetamines and it all makes a little more sense.

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And another thing!

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somewhere out there right now is a kid with curly hair being raised by people who have wavy hair at best and those people are giving them 2-in-1 shampoo and conditioner and telling them to dry brush it. and that kid is gonna spend all of middle school and high school hating their hair and moping over the flat iron. they're being told right now that if they don't dry-brush their curl pattern into oblivion every morning it means they're unkempt and gross even though they naturally have the kind of ringlets that a thousand bridezillas would commit horrible murders for every june. it's happening right now it's an absolute epidemic and a tragedy every time

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LITERALLY my mum doesn't have curly hair but I (and my dad but it's dead short) do have 3b curls and honestly I'm so lucky to have a mum who went to the hairdresser and asked for advice instead of handing me a straightener. ppl with curls I beg you to pick up some styling cream. I beg you to dampen your hair before you comb it and then comb in the styling cream. I beg you to experiment with mousse and hair gel to see which helps your hair to hold better. I beg you to use a diffuser for your hairdryer. I beg you to use a denman brush or tangle teaser. complete these steps and your hair will stick out like a sore thumb, to the point of almost feeling self conscious. complete these steps and your hair will be the envy all. you will have random women walk up to you on the street and go "your hair is beautiful I used to have waves but I killed them with my hair straightener". you will have people say that you look like a druid. and you will look so fucking cool. from my experience anyway idk

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This. Exactly this, except it was just plain shampoo and not 2-in-1, and my father wore his hair in long curls but my mother's hair was straight so no one ever gave it a second thought. I should not have been so old before I found out my hair is really *curly* and not the big mess of tangles and frizz I always assumed and kind of halfway hated.