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catkin-morgs-kookaburralover · 4 months

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made gingerbread biscuits! just ate one fresh out of the oven almost too hot to hold. is good

#disaster in the kitchen #half of them are gluten free for dad (I made two batches) and that half are in the shape of what i think are whales #(i bought a bunch of different shape cutters at the op shop the otehr day)#the other half are in varied shapes of snowmen trees pigs stars and bells and tehre are six of each #so that would make thirty on the one half and the otehr idk i didn't count yet #i will ice them later #first i need to try grinding up caster sugar real fine in the thermomix to see if i can make royal icing so it sets real hard bc i love lov #love the texture of hard icing on gingerbread and the flavour of lemon in the icing is good too #things are gonna be okay and christmas is going to be fine #and then i am going to cope with having a birthday ( <- has had multiple breakdowns over it in the last few months bc i never expected to #reach 21!! ever in my life!! )

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cantcatchmeee · 1 year

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The Holy Trinity

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just-an-enby-lemon · 2 years

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The one where Steph, Cass, Tim and Bernard get drunk and infiltrate Duke's high school winter prom by looking too much like teens.

Everything is fine - they don't cause trouble cause Bernard is there and also cause Duke will destroy them if they ruin his first relaxing moment in months - until a teacher finds them drinking in the football field and demands to call their parents. Tim is very drunk and gives Bruce's number.

Bruce is very worried because while is true that Duke is been dealing with a lot he is a good kid and not really one for underage drinking. He spends the whole car trip worring he isn't offering enough support for Duke and shouldn't be giving him space to process his mom condicion even if Duke asked him for. He also starts questioning if Duke's friends are somehow a bad influence.

The thing is when he enters the school and the teacher says he will take them to the detencion room he put the kids he pass over the ball room and Duke is there with a crown on his head cracking jokes over Gotham insanity with his usual group of teens (and Harper, since they were presented to each other they matched and Duke started trying to include her in his hang outs) and aparently having the time of his life.

So since they go to the same school, Bruce's only logical conclusion is that DAMIAN was the one who got caught underage drinking (he didn't conside it at first cause Damian is fourteen and will only start high school next year so he likely woudn't be on prom) and he spends the five minutes it take to get to the room with the fear of god (Talia) in his hearth.

Imagine his surprise when instead he finds a shit eating grim Steph ("What's up, B"), a confused looking Tim ("Guess I got detencion"), a guilty Bernard ("Sorry, Mr. Wayne") and an unimpressed Cass ("Hey, dad"). After convincing the teacher that "no, no, they are adults, Tim just likes to lie he is seventeen for no reason" and paying so the teacher don't call the police over the intruders a very tired Bruce goes home questioning why he has so many kids.

For some reason (because Bruce will end up telling Alfred and they don't want a disapointed stare) Tim and Cass choose to spend the night at Steph's. Bernard goes to, but is more because Tim is asking and also because if not he would have to spend sometime in the car alone with Bruce and he is terrified of the man.

#duke is smart and kind and brave and he deserves a good night #if they had ruined duke's night somehow they would not have being able to scape consequences free #not even cass #fortunally they didn't #duke had the time of his life #bruce has too many kids #tim and his eternal 17 yo status #he is 21 #bernard totaly is a part of their shennanigans is the consequence of dating tim #stephanie fav part is always the chaos #stephanie brown #cassandar cain #tim drake #bernard dowd #duke thomas #bruce wayne #batman #batdad

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betweenthetimeandsound · 1 year

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21 December

The world was supposed to end today. Ten years ago.

I took my pearls and stretched them to the other side of the shore, hoping I would find someone to gift them to and call me a friend. I'm a young woman with an old soul yet a childish desire for sweets and a little more time to accomplish what I want to do.

The world lays in a note left at the bottom of a wine bottle with a few more drops of porto left to imbue the paper, never allowed to age nor to bless the tongue of the mute.

A revelation is given for a price-- one which will condemn the reader if she does not adhere to its words like an actress to a script to a tragedy. Yet I take it, because it's worth it, somehow.

It's worth it to have more knowledge, even if it's only to know how to fly towards Suzhou with frivolous wings, feathers which only yearn for the sun. I'm like a clay vase with the names of those who graduated college and sought out beauty for its sake, without knowing how to draw flowers or knowing the girls who haunt Sarajevo.

I broke into a hundred pieces, gushing out saltwater and orchid pedals, shattered, able to cut roughened hands, and also--barren.

Barren of children, dried up of ambitions, subdued due to a wine-dark mouth sealed due to swallows escaping with miniatures of my voice. Pitied until I retreated back into my oyster, trying to become a pearl myself, so that I may be loved for a few more years.

Yet when I open my hands, freshwater pearls slide out, dropping into rain puddles, too naive to know they will dissolve.

I keep them to my chest, wiggling through albaster-smooth flesh, knowing that I could disintegrate too, for I am mortal, even if I still

The world was supposed to end ten years ago. It still straddles the edge of a muse's tongue, singing alone.

I thank the heavens for this, for the pastel skies still tickle me, and I can find little flowers in the snow. --Elda Mengisto

#poetry #my poetry #poets on tumblr #poetry on tumblr #december 21 2012 #end of the world #existential thoughts #fantasy #introspective #life #free verse #confessional poetry #youth #twcpoetry #writeblrcafe #wcreview #writerscreed

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sketchy-scribs-n-doods · 1 year

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thinking about how someone tried to insist to me that hellcheer was 'gross and pedophilic' because they had 'a huge age gap' and i thought it was the stupidest shit i'd ever heard so-

in true Extra Ass Bitch fashion i calculated roughly what the oldest/ youngest possible ages chrissy could be and the oldest/youngest possible ages eddie could be based on canon evidence (eddie's 2 failed years, chrissy's '86 necklace, etc.) and approximate school cut off dates

anyway, this is a rough approximation (not that it particularly matters because they're both still in the same age range/stage of life so a few years isn't rly much of an issue given their canon interactions) but if anyone was curious:

eddie should have been born in '65 or '66. backwards calculation places chrissy either late '67 or early '68. eddie failed his senior year twice and was supposed to have graduated in '84, he's on his third try. chrissy is head cheerleader and wears an '86 necklace, she's a senior in '86.

the youngest Chrissy could be is about [17yrs + 7 months] assuming a birthday around August of '68

the oldest Chrissy could be is about [18yrs + 6 months] assuming a birthday of around September of '67

the youngest Eddie could be is about [19yrs + 7 months] assuming a birthday around August of '66

the oldest Eddie could be is about [20yrs + 6 months] assuming a birthday in September of '65

even in the 'worst case scenario' where eddie is the oldest he could be and chrissy is the youngest she could be, eddie is 20 and chrissy almost 18

if you go with the opposite, with chrissy being as old as possible and eddie as young as possible, then eddie is almost 20 and chrissy is over 18

the other combinations average out to a 2 year age gap, which for the record, for high schoolers is still incredibly common. again, this is a stupid argument, but i can be spitefully pedantic sometimes and i enjoy having all the possible information i can before i talk shit

and i love to talk shit. so i went to go get the data myself

anyway grace van dien once said that she thinks chrissy is a pisces and i trust her so assuming that's true then chrissy was born sometime between mid february to mid march of '66, meaning chrissy would haven just turned 18 as s4 began, while eddie is still in the 19 to 20 range depending on when you place his birthday

but all of this seems ridiculous when you realize that based on what school year they're in during s4, chrissy was a sophomore the first time eddie was a senior. so like. everything else is just being pedantic for the sake of finding smth to be mad about

either way i rest my case this is a dumb argument to use against the ship, hellcheer haters get bent just say you don't ship it and go

#hellcheers i have never gone to bat so hard for a straight ship in my life #theyre so cute together and haters picked THE stupidest thing to argue against it #when i tell u i have seen actual ppl on twitter try and say chrissy is 16 and eddie is 21 or smth 💀💀#like. where are u receiving this information. where tf did that come from.#hellcheer #how tf do i tag this. thank god this isnt twitter lol #chrissy cunnigham is not out here getting 'groomed' by eddie wtf abuse is not 100% contingent on age gaps its about power dynamics +#+ patterns of behvaior and if you calculate what school year they'd each be in during a given year #chrissy was a sophmore when eddie failed his first senior year #i cannot stress how normal that is. i have know seniors that dated sophmores. that are married now. its a 2 to 3 year gap. cmon.#eddie munson my beloved. you do not deserve this.#chrissy cunningham mi amor you definitely do not deserve this #if anyone wants the actual fuckin chart i made to figure this out feel free to ask and i'll drop it lol #i got pics of me trying to Do Math #like if u dont ship it bc you hc eddie as gay and chrissy as a comphet lesbian and you think they'd be wlw mlm besties then just say that #if you just dont see the chemistry like. alright. just say that.#why ppl inventing the wildest reasons to justify not liking a ship asjkdllg

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remembertheplunge · 1 month

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You must really love your work

August 21, 2014. Thursday 2:34am

“As the trial deepens and broadens, I back off from group, from MAC, from Zoe.

When a friend of mine learned how little I earn, $95 an hour doing the Mendosa jury trial, he said “You must really love your work.” I do. Tony Serra and I do it (criminal law practice) for free. He told me he took s vow of poverty.”

End of entry

I wrote the above as a margin note to the following taken from the book Solitude by Anthony Starr at page 75:

“But this does not mean that solitary, creative pursuits are themselves pathological.”

Notes.

The Mendosa jury trial was a 6 co defendant gang murder case. I represented Lisandro Mendosa. The trial lasted from August 4, 2014 to January 28, 2015. It ended with a hung jury and a mistrial was declared. Trial is an all consuming experience. Personal relationships and outside group activity diminish.Your whole being is dedicated to the trial experience.Tony Serra, a well know San Fransisco attorney, represented one of the co defendants in the trial. Mr. Serra turned 80 during the trial. MAC lived with me at the time and Zoe was my sister.

#For a story about the Mendosa Murder trial see New York Times May 27 #2015 "How do you define a gang member #writing #criminal defense #8/21/2014 #Criminal Defense attorney Tony Serra #vow of poverty #loving your work /doing it for free #trial experience is life dominating #Solitude by Anthony Starr

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vote2 · 9 months

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i do acknowledge i need to watch what i say wrt gender women men cis ppl etc just augh.

#its like. im a trans man 100% i want nothing to do w being seen as a women i acknowledge that. i also acknowledge that I am putting #literally zero effort in my irl life to present as a guy at all. partially lack of resources and embarrassment etc stuff like that partiall #the autism i literally look in a mirror and see a guy #and i go to class go to work and until soemone explicitally refers to me as a woman i think of myself as a guy. so like its this weird #disconnect of what i actually do vs what i percieve as expieriencing in my daily life where i am objectively living #as a cis woman who just dresses and acts a bit masc. lol.#and like that doesnt bother me atm until i get to a setting where i am gendered frequently. then i feel nauseas etc but whatever ill deal #so i always hesitate whenever i talk abt women feminism men makeup beauty expectations etc (also i am mixed thai and white which #def plays into everyhting ofc ofc) as i dont know rly what is like. not fine idc if i say smthn uncouth just i dont want to at all #seem like im doing what these other trans guys do and latch onto my femininity and 'girlhood growing up' etc or like #its all dumb to me ofc im a feminist i consider anything i speak abt feminism free the nipple being against gender essiantialism etc etc #as in feminism (not that women arent/cant be femnists just in terms of im not trying to sound like a woman) and #ofc growing up as and my current life experiences have obvi had a large impact on myself how i veiw the world my political beliefs and all.#but like. im always scared it sounds like im idr the phrase someone else used but a i dont want to seem like im latching onto girlhood as #a failsafe or whatever. its just mm ykwim its a weird feeling. cause like im a 21 year old man and read my posts as such el oh el.#idk its all weird and idk if its a specific to me thing or whattttt it just like. i feel silly sometimes and i dont want my points to be #misconstrued :) anyways me posting this after rewatching and posting abt pearl has nothign to do genuinly lmfao just timing its been #on my mind after that dumbass trans guy posting abt the lonelyness he feels abt abandoning womanhood #after watching barbie. lol and then i saw someone in the comments of some ig quote it w like 30 replies all positive like get a lifeee #i understand it can feel isolating being trans and everyones relationship back to womanhood is diff and complecated but by god. shut up #anywayyyyyssss mmm okay im done whateverr #maybe all a fear in my head and literally none of this has every crossed anyones mind however it bothers me :(

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im2tired4usernames · 2 months

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My parents should be fuckin ashamed

#you borrow 80 bucks then can only find me 21 back then i put that 21 into good for your kids then spend the rest of my paycheck getting #diapers pull ups medicine more food for kids and then i fill up the 15 passenger van and then when dad asks why i don't have money to eat #on my lunchbreaks at work like I'm some over spending wild irresponsible bitch when he's the one going to concerts and paying for fancy dat #s and jewelry for his gf and buying groceries for her but you know it's fine #take all my time and energy #so that i literally am a zombie and fall asleep on the very very very limited free time i get #(after doin extra chores to earn said free time)#wo that i fall asleep half way in which isn't fair to my partner and isn't fair to me #take all my income so i cant afford anything #take all my time #take all my energy #YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED YOU GROOMED ME AND MESHED THE FAMILY'S ENTIRE LIFE STYLE FOR ME TO BE LIKE THIS #I CANT MAKE HEALTHY FRIENDSHIPS BECAUSE I JUST CAN NOT FUNCTION IF I'M NOT GIVING EVERYTHING TO SOMEONE #IT SUCKS I HATE IT #THEY'LL NEVER ADMIT THEY FUCKED ME OVER #EVER #THEY'LL NEVER DO ANYTHING TO FIX IT OR CHANGE #AND I HAVE NO HOPE FOR ANY CHANGES #MY LITTLE SIBLINGS SEE WHAT I DO FOR THEM AND THEY HUG ME AND TELL ME HOW MUCH THEY LIVE ME #'thank you so much for taking care of us' that tell me all the time 'you do so much for us'#it breaks my heart i wish i could give them the world i love them so much they deserve so much better #my mom lost her chance to be decent my dad better learn soon otherwise all his kids minus his favorite will hate him #i love ny parents #and i know they live me and my siblings #but they groomed me into the most miserable personification of elder daughter syndrome and they should be ashamed for what they've done #and be ashamed that they sucked so bad that they're own child had to step up

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chryzure · 2 months

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sitting here, twiddling my thumbs. azure might be some form of aplatonic as well.

#memorie.txt #aspec in all categories i guess!!!#mostly because. i was rlly trying to figure out what his deal is #because he’s Friendly with ppl (or polite) but generally doesn’t pursue deeper friendships #because he doesn’t rlly feel the need to?? he’s jst fine as is thanks… he has his wife and his 21 seaslug free daughters at home..#hmm. jst feels weird when trying to assign him friends. he would NOT enjoy that!!!!#there’s literally no drive or enjoyment derived from (most?) friendships. he’s jst enduring #i think conni surpassed that by hitting azure’s cheat code totally on accident (photography/chess/chrysi)#and now he and conni are linked for life #and chrysi jst is the most perfect companion for azure ever #so she gets to be his. jst his. like it’s romantic but it’s also so much More than that. they once shared a body. they once shared a SOUL.#it’s too simple to describe as romantic…#anyway. this doesn’t count when azure perceives someone as an adoptive child because he loves kids #but at the end of the day azure jst likes keeping friendly acquaintances #. this is no surprise to anyone but im slowly figuring out labels for all my charas #and assigning them all different mental conditions too. chrysi’s bipolar and has ocd (obvious). jacks has bpd like crazy.#azure’s… hmm. defs low empathy and depression and probably autism #but most of my characters do. chrysi’s ocd might stem from autism i jst need to Consider this..#anywayyy. thoughts.#i am Going to sleep. i cried vv hard and ate chocolate and thought abt azure so im all good for the night ithink

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gideonisms · 1 year

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I listen to this podcast that's like for (redacted) people and their families and at the end of every episode they feature somebody's special interest and it's always a sweet kid who does posters or has a career planned. where's the love for some customer service manager named like ally or something whose passion for lesbian necromancers kept them from straight up stabbing customers. if you ask me that's had a greater impact on society. people are alive today because of it you know? just as a totally random example

#this is a joke #i'm joking #i need the redacted podcast for people over 21 when you can no longer play it off as cute and quirky and now you have to like #hold down a job and communicate with others #i love listening to self help podcasts i'm microdosing on being a human. nona was right other people's problems are so wild #that said some of these solutions & conversation suggestions seem wildly counterintuitive #i truly can never anticipate what they're going to say on there it's like plot twist every time i love it #they're mean to people i would have been nice to. they're nice to people i would have been mean to #one time they said you shouldn't call someone your best friend that's a lot of pressure and i was like. ohh so this is how their minds work #crazy #i'll call the bus driver who waited for me my best friend but okay #anyway the redacted podcasts are more relatable but unfortunately they are also like. if you have a redacted child in your life #a child in my life? oh no i'm proudly child free. celebrate that period every single month no offense to the kids of the world

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killa-trav · 11 months

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and just like that my bday is over boooo i’m big sad now but only 364 days until my bday now

#and i turn 21 ewww #i’m old now #me no likey #and hopefully this time next year i will be a free woman from education #enjoying life before i start working #hopefully #also if u didn’t say happy bday to me ur a massive L n i don’t like u #am joking #or am i???#nah i’m j messing idc who or who don’t wish me happy bday 😭#i’m just glad that ppl do cos when i was in year 7-9 no one ever did #and would wish my twin brother happy bday n i’d be like hello #i’m right here #so yeh i’m glad ppl do now lol

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thebirdandhersong · 2 years

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if I had a nickel for every time I had an interest in someone who was a) extroverted, b) very enthusiastic and passionate about very niche subjects, and c) completely and utterly clueless, I'd have two nickels.... which isn't a LOT, but it's weird, amusing, and exasperating that it happened twice

#hard knock life is what it is #i am approaching very cautiously but my word clueless doesn't even BEGIN to describe #crossing THAT off of the things i never thought would happen to me this year imaginary bingo #what next an invitation to a masquerade with an all you can eat cheese buffet where i sit and watch people and suffer in silence?#will i be taken to court next for perfectly legal but perfectly obnoxious shenanigans?#will a friend ask me to be their photography model for an up and coming gluten free pastry cookbook?#will someone completely random begin a courtship out of nowhere? (that would be highly entertaining)#will i suddenly become keeper of the flamingos at the nearest available zoo?#why are we ALWAYS IN INTERESTING TIMES. WHY MUST IT BE THIS WAY I WANT TO KNOW #in case anyone cares to know i have not yet lost my mind and have reasons for being medium interested #one being that this boy asked me ONE question about modernist lit. and then listened to me rant and ramble for a very long while #in a very intentional and active and thoughtful way. which is something mr knight never bothered to do #and even asked questions at the end! and told me afterwards that he'd like to continue this interesting conversation #ah well life goes on and one must write emails #how can i NOT be hung up on that when mr knight told me to keep things short and changed the subject whenever i talked about books #slings and arrows of outrageous fortune in year 21

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be-good-to-bugs · 7 months

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the weight of everything bad in my life has decided to crush me on this nice night

#the bin #its raining and windy and liek just a bit TOO windy to be a good breeze but not so windy that its super unpeasent #just windy enough to make me feel more alive in this weird headspace im stuck inside.#i want to get better. i wanna make friends. i need to have control over my own life #taking everything i have not to cut all my hair off right now #im so close to having a mental breakdown man. i just wanna have a car and live alone and feel like a have actual freedom #i think having a job wpuodnt feel so bad if i actually felt the the time i wasnt working was mine but i dont #i dont know why im having such a hard time today. i havent felt this bad in quite awhile or even like ever tbh #i dont know. i want to make frineds but even that sounds unappealing if it means ill have even less free time to myself #at the same time tho i wanna party. i am a party bitch at heart. but alas i was stuck in the middle of the woods with no contact with #other people for 7 years so. and ofc most places are 21+ so its hard. i want to be able to just go somewhere on a whim but noooo #well. my life will find joy again one day. i hope i can get one if these jobs and be less miserable.

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risingsunresistance · 1 year

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