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Lizzie, 27, Melbourne.

I am so depressed and anxious that I can't eat real food and I don't know how to talk to my friends cause I feel like an enormous waste of space and a burden. I feel like I'm drowning.

I've been alone in my apartment for over 3 months now. I've lost track of the time.

My ankles started hurting for no reason a few weeks ago, then my knees, and now my lower back. I can't walk without limping and I woke up in tears from the pain in my back the other day. I finally worked up the courage to speak to a doctor who said they suspect rheumatoid arthritis so now I have to get blood work done to commence the journey of figuring that one out.

Everything is awful and I don't know what to do or how to deal with anything so here I am posting on my abandoned blog like it's somehow going to help.

Hello this is Cabbage and she's an angel. Also it is a crime that there is no cabbage emoji. https://www.instagram.com/p/B64s0DNh9B9/?igshid=1eeiuuiw0oog9

I'm getting another kitten and this is truly the Christmas miracle I deserve

Ok but I really love how the LOTR films use colors/costume design to show Denethor’s power over the other characters

Like: every character in LOTR has their own set of Characteristic Colors™. Denethor’s Characteristic Colors™ are desaturated black and grey:

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. These aren’t necessarily Gondor’s colors (I’ll get to that in a minute) but they’re definitely his. In The Two Towers’ flashback scene, Gondor’s soldiers are dressed in Denethor’s black/grey, including Boromir:

But when Boromir leaves Gondor– and is free from needing to carefully Perform in front of his father– he starts wearing his own Characteristic Colors™ instead. These colors are royal red, gold and blue:

(Literally wearing your true colors)

Meanwhile Faramir, unlike Boromir, doesn’t wear Denethor’s colors in the flashback. He wears his own Characteristic Colors™, which are brown/green, bc Faramir does not do what Denethor wants him to do…

….until ROTK, when Faramir surrenders to his father’s will and exchanges his characteristic brown/green armor for black/grey armor. It’s like his identity is stripped away

Similarly, Pippin’s Characteristic Colors™ are blue/green:

But when he enters Denethor’s service:

No individual expression allowed

“But black and grey with no accents are Gondor’s colors–” Nahhh I don’t buy  Denethor’s anti-color propaganda. When Aragorn replaces Denethor, the first thing he brings back is colorful fashion

Aragorn doesn’t wear black and grey, like Denethor did. He wears things that merge the black/white of Gondor with the sort of royal red/blue/gold of Boromir’s characteristic colors

And so at last the tyranny of Denethor’s drab fashion sense was ended

#firstly the lotr art directors knew what the FUCK they were doing#and secondly you think for a second that aragorn son of arathorn would be caught dead in some ugly ass drab grey#even his rugged ranger outfit had tasteful splashes of colour#the man was raised by elves is all im saying

Yesterday I made apricot jam with apricots from our backyard, and then I properly canned something for the first time too! I did knock over two jars (woops) so will be using them first, but now I have a year's worth of jam (and a million apricots still to be used) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6E3HVvBFwI/?igshid=mzfxqcscmaql

Finally pulled the carrots which we let go for far too long but look at these bois!! https://www.instagram.com/p/B5zpBFOBEnz/?igshid=1xeipob4r868r