@kinsey hello! Welcome!
"How do I find my motivation again?": http://byzantienne.tumblr.com/post/111425770293/how-do-i-find-my-motivation-again-ive-lost-the
"You are not beholden to anyone’s vision of the future, including your own. Past You may have genuinely desired a specific future, but Past You is a memory and Future You is a stranger, and you do not have to listen to memories if you don’t want to. (Corollary: you are allowed to /stop wanting something/.)"
@Efi wait how was I not already following you. Hi :)
on being a snowflake (xpost mefi) (2/2)
Do I need to grow a thicker skin than the one I got by spending my twenties in submarines and oil refineries, or does it make sense that hearing "No, you're wrong, you're a man and you'll always be a man" from yet another authority figure, on a day when my brain is screaming the same thing especially loudly, might temporarily wreck my ability to focus on anything other than staying alive?
There's a shitload of cool stuff on LiveHeroes but it's expensive enough that waiting for a sale is a v. good idea.
I also know there's a website that sells awesome printed leggings but can't remember what it was called? @memnus@octodon.social ?
"When I finally got tired of arguing with [my writing teacher] and decided to write a novel as if I was some kind of formulaic, genre writing drone, just to prove to her how awful it would be, I wrote the first book of the Dresden Files." -- Jim Butcher
Well that sure does explain some shit. The series sarts getting good around book 5-6 as it begins developing beyond the formula.
Moving to @starkatt
I'm a leftist trans gay fox girl. More than one thing can be true at a time. I believe in agency, subjectivity, and beauty.
In my day job, I'm an apprentice electrician.
Please introduce yourself when sending a follow request if we haven't recently chatted. Interacting with me is encouraged even if I don't follow back. I'm here to get to know people, not be a fountain of Content.
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