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@recoverywithsomecoffee

18 | Expect Random Bouts of Activity and Lack Thereof
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[teen sister in a 90’s movie voice] my pronouns are what/ever/major/loser now get out of my room

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ckret2

[obnoxious younger brother voice] yeah mom, I told loser it's time for dinner. ... ow, quit it, I'm respecting your pronouns—

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being madly in love with someone platonically is so ridiculous. hey man i think about you all the time. i wish you were here right now. talking to you makes me indescribably happy. i miss you. honestly what the hell

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If you live in the US and you have a phone you need to keep secret for any reason, make sure that it is turned off at this time.

Yes, I'm doing this months in advance, and yes, my blog has very little reach, but I figure better to post about it more than less.

Please reblog and add better tags than mine, I'm bad at tags.

Also, when you finally turn your phone back on, make sure you are alone or can otherwise midigate the sound. Because it WILL go off the second you turn your phone back on.

Please be safe 💜

I dont know if this will go as badly as the UK test did, but the advice for at risk people DID NOT WORK for us, many people had their phones go off despite turning off the relevant settings and turning off their phones despite assurances that turning off your phone would be enough to prevent the alert.

I would highly suggest that you do not leave room for technical errors and that you store secret phones in a safe location where it cannot be heard, maybe with a friend or loved one that you can trust. Or perhaps go out with your phone to a public place.

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kedreeva

~~OCTOBER 4TH APPROACHES~~

If you haven't figured out a safe place to go or to stash your phone before now, you have less than 2 days left.

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as a certified mountain goats girlie i’m here to tell you that we’ve done enough circulating of “i hope you die / i hope we both die” from no children & now it’s time to circulate these lyrics from you were cool instead

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i love the french, i love the way they pronounce Rs like they're disgusted with them

the english meanwhile seem to have developed some sort of phobia about them

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ralkana

When we were discussing the surgery I'd need for my sleep apnea, the surgeon told me I'd never be able to speak French properly because the French R is a uvular sound and I'd no longer have a uvula.

... that's okay? I'm not French? I don't speak French? I've always thought it was the weirdest thing for him to say!

Huh. Didn't know you could have French surgically removed.

sorry i just cannot get this out of my head. Like, "oh you speak french? i hear there's an operation for that"

Good grief, it's true. Even knocks out some of your German and Spanish, apparently.

Now what other European languages can we remove via surgery...

Antiimperialist excision

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iphisesque

god. proserpine by mary shelley makes me actually insane. you know how the story goes you already know persephone will eat the pomegranate seeds and divide herself between the underworld and her mother for the rest of time. but the way they are reunited is almost enough to spark a flimsy light of hope in you and make you think that maybe this time it's going to be different maybe she hasn't eaten the seeds maybe she'll be able to stay with her mother forever. and then the seeds are revealed to have been eaten and the two are forced apart once more with the promise that the time shall pass and the hope you had only makes it more painful and melancholic to read. things never really go back do they

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"You can't make them - whoever your particular them is - do anything, really," said Ekaterin slowly. "Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. ... You have to just...take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that, and walk away. But that's hard."

- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign