#permaspring

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More misc blinkies I made!

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Oh stars, one of my guitar students has sprung right at me.

I need to extinguish this awkward, awkward crush posthaste.  

So far, I’ve been alternating between “After this lesson, I will be meeting up with MY BOYFRIEND.  Yes, MY BOYFRIEND THE DOCTOR, he is such a great BOYFRIEND.”  and  “HA HA I AM SO OLD.  When I was your age BACK IN EVALEE we didn’t have the new thing, just the old thing BECAUSE I AM OLD.”

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Springing just doesn’t bother me anymore!

(Yesterday I saw a red-haired doll for sale and I just started crying, imagining the child it would be for.)

Once you’ve done something for long enough you just stop feeling it.

(My “Pink-Haired-Boys” folder is how big?  Ooof.)

It’s really just a matter of willpower.  

(I want to love and be loved, I want to marry and I want to bear clean casteless children, is that so much to ask?   What else can I do in order to achieve that dream?  Also I want it now.  Actually, yesterday.   Whinnnnneeeeeee...)

And now the “Spring” tags, which we’ve had more or less to ourselves for a glorious season, will be once again filled with people going “It’ll be over soon!!!”  Which is…the worst.  

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"Sadly much less than I would like"?

I would love to be doing Mioleean things with…let’s say a photographer with a flawless sense of composition.  

Or maybe a calm, intelligent doctor with nice hands.  

Nah, I’m a district girl at heart, a cousin who knows how gorgeous he is.

Sadly though, much less than I would like.

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[red-for-death] how are badly springing people holding up during the permaspring? are there any people who would have preferred to never have been cleaned?

I’m the wrong person to ask, I spring fairly lightly, and I don’t want to ask people about their springs for the same reason I don’t want go around saying “It’s soooo hot, isn’t it? Aren’t you just dying in this heat?”.  There are people I worry about, and I try to help keep an eye on them.

They’re trying to step up the mental health system, and there’s that red tradition of mutual support, but the truth is we’d need a lot of help even without permaspring. 

I don’t know anyone who would rather not have been cleaned.  I do know people who think of being cleaned and being kicked out as being different events and would rather the two not have come together.  I do know people who want to transfer to Anitam once the system’s in place.

I think it’s going to get better once the credit system’s had some time to kick in. We hardly had any little ones with us when we moved.  Those last couple springs in Evalee were very empty.  So it’s probably worse now than it’s going to be in the future.   We’re going to have lots of alloparenting agreements.  And we’re probably going to have babies through the whole year.  My cousin is saving, and as far as he’s concerned whenever they get it, they get it.  Weird, but that’s Miolee.

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I am 100% fine now, but have just enough self-awareness to know that I will be an absolute wreck at the end of the season when all the people currently going “AHHHHH SPRING” on my dash switch to “An end!  We thought it would last forever but it never does!”

Changed my blog title because...I think I’ve been here long enough that it no longer applies.  It’s time for new people to be fresh off the boats!  Past time. 

Also, I lived to be 5!  Everyone who helped make that possible-thank you.

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I find it interesting (though not surprising) that "springfriend" as a term survives a seasonless environment!

I would love to riff on possible alternate terms-but i feel like if I stoped calling him “springfriend” I might be obliged to take him seriously and ughhhh.   

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Summer, what summer?

I’ve got some really great things planned for later this spring.