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This is a very random blog, I’ll add just about anything I like, but my original posts are usually Nico di Angelo centric. Call me Ash, and I use they/them pronouns :) I am a minor

I JUST REALIZED THAT THIS PART IS A NOD TO ALL THE QUEER READERS THAT HAD NICO AS PART OF THEIR COMING OUT JOURNEY!!!! IF YOU EVER WONDERED HOW NICO DI ANGELO WOULD REACT TO BEING TOLD HE IS SO IMPORTANT TO SO MANY OTHER YOUNG QUEER PEOPLE THIS IS IT!!!!!

I CANT BELIEVE IT!!! THE HEALING POWER OF STORIES

IM THROWING MY PHONE ACROSS THE ROOM!!!! NICO COMING OUT IN FRONT OF THE WHOLE CAMP AND MAKING SO MANY PEOPLE FEEL SAFER IS A REFERENCE TO HIM BEING ONE OF THE FIRST CANONICALLY QUEER CHARACTERS IN A POPULAR FICTION SERIES AND YOUNG QUEER READERS FEELING SEEN

I WAS WONDERING WHY THE AUTHORS WOULD HAVE HIM COME OUT IN SUCH A STRANGE WAY AND THIS IS IT ITS BECAUSE NICO DI ANGELO IS SO IMPORTANT AND HE WAS THE FIRST CANONICALLY QUEER CHARACTER MANY PEOPLE EVER READ ABOUT AND HE PAVED THE WAY

​DO YOU UNDERSTAND!!!!! NICO DI ANGELO GOT UP AND CAME OUT IN FRONT OF EVERYONE!!!!!!!

truly begging the internet as a whole to learn the difference between the “oooh i’m not like other girls i’m cool & quirky” mentality & the genuine feeling of being a total outsider among their peers that many young women experience, usually due to holding one or more marginalized identities. like “i don’t fit in with & feel ostracized by the majority of my classmates” is not inherently a pick me thing & we really don’t need to be shaming young women for expressing that they feel this way

Jeanne Calment is the world’s longest- living person. 

She’s also fascinating af, so I gathered some more facts about her for you:

She once said: “I’ve never had but one wrinkle, and I’m sitting on it.”

She remembered Van Gogh as being “dirty, badly-dressed, and disagreeable,” as well as “very ugly, ungracious, impolite, and sick.”

She outlived her husband, her only child, her only grandson, and a lawyer who hoped to take possession of her apartment.

She later lived off the income of that apartment, which she sold to a man under the agreement that he would not take ownership until she died. She outlived him too; he died after paying $184,000 (double the market value) for the property.

At 114, she made a cameo as herself in the film Vincent and Me, and became the oldest woman to ever appear in a film.

At her 121st birthday, she released a CD called ‘Time’s Mistress,’ which featured her ‘reminiscing to a score of rap and other tunes.’

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She quit smoking 2 years before she died, which, her doctor says, was not for health reasons, but because she’d gone blind and couldn’t see well-enough to light her cigarettes.

On February 21, 1997, her 122nd birthday, it was announced that she would no longer make public appearances because her health had seriously deteriorated. It was said that this “allowed her to die, as the attention had kept her alive.”

She still managed to live 6 more months, and died on August 4 of unknown causes.

Before and after her death, many claimed to have longer lives, but none was officially proven, therefore making her the reigning record-holder for oldest verified person ever.

She credited her long life, in part, to being calm (‘that’s why they call me Calment’) and maintaining her sense of humor: 

“I will die laughing.”

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This is terrible but today when I was playing volleyball outside with some friends one of their children (18 months) was sort of ambling around on his stumpy little toddler legs and so we were all trying to be careful and like not spike the ball onto the baby but then he wandered over to his father, who picked him up bc dad reflexes, and then the ball got passed over to the dad and he sort of had a no thoughts moment and instinctively used his child to smack the volleyball over to the next person. Like he just swung the kid and used his legs like a baseball bat. I'm never going to forget his face of premature regret mid baby-manuever right when he realized what he was doing AND the instant he realized his wife saw it happen. Anyway the baby was fine he didn't make contact with the ball all that hard and he was just mad his dad wouldn't use him as a club again but I had to sit down because I laughed so hard I cried.