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LIVE (nothing wrong with me)

LAUGH (nothing wrong with me)

LOVE (nothing wrong with me)

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i like w,hen ......... theres a Big scaresy fantasies beast ok .... and then the big beast has a litter of babies,,,., and the babeis are veryvery small . ok

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In my experience when people get new pets and babies, they're almost always bursting to them show off. Even if you're not a kid person or pet person, there's the option to have a friend who is a pet person or a kid person, who's just thrilled to have you cuddle the new kitten or puppy or infant and you can have some vicarious living and then hand the puppy/kitten/child back when you're done.

This is not the case with new significant others.

There's a lot of people around me getting new pets in my meat space and online life and that's always tough for me in an eerily similar way that people around me all getting into new romo relationships is tough.

Because I do not have the Capacity for that.

But also there are pretty obvious upsides.

But, like, literally, I cannot and should not do that. I would be elated for all of five minutes and then extremely overwhelmed and resentful and very bad at it.

I'm a huge believer in the idea that some people simply can't do certain things because they lack the Capacity, and when that lack is actively detrimental to other living beings, they Should Not.

I don't own plants or pets or engage in intimate relationships or have children because these are all aspects of living that are ill suited to me at BEST, and I don't want anyone or anything else to get hurt under my care.

But also, like, dammit, so fluffy. So cute.

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Healing mural.

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Harbor Seals at Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge

photograph by Jake Bonello | U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

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The phone is away in a box through the wilds and treacherous wastes of the post office. I stuck one of those kitschy Alaska stickers in there for the lols, mostly because I couldn't find a postcard.

But somebody needs to appreciate my sense of humor because this is the sticker

I went to Hawaii. I went diving. It's the end of surf season and not quite dive season but this was a last minute family trip so its not as if I planned this. My standards for "decent dive conditions" are "water deep enough to get my head under that won't immediately kill me". So I was diving.

I found a phone at the bottom of the ocean, just below a surf break. Its pink. Its a iPhone. It's in a case. The case flooded, but Apple is a bitch who won't let anyone fix their precious hardware so the entire motherboard is sealed in resin. It's fully waterproof.

The phone takes a charge. My husband and I fly home, with the phone. The phone powers on. Estimated time at the bottom based on condition of the case : at least a month or 2.

My apple user husbandpulls emergency contact info off the phone. Number is disconnected. Commence the Facebook stalk. We find the guy. He hasn't posted in years. Good for him but frustrating. We find his sister from his page, who hasn't posted since last year. But on her page, she has a link to the health clinic she runs. The clinic has a phone number.

We leave one of the weirder voice-mails that clinic has ever received and prepare to wait 2 to 10 business days for a reply. We get a call back within the hour. She's on the wrong island but shes fairly certain we've found the right guy. She passes on our info to her brother and an hour or so later we get a call from him.

It's his wife's phone. She dropped it off a stand up paddle board while taking pictures of nephew learning to surf. There was also a loyalty card punchcard thing to an ice cream shop in the case, which we did find, but it was a wet paper pulp so it got tossed with the flooded case. Evidently she was more concerned with getting that back that the phone, which she had already replaced, since she had dropped it a full 5 months ago.

So anyway, we got a shipping address and we're mailing a miraculously not bricked phone from Alaska back to Hawaii. This is a new personal record for recovery diving.

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this is the post that got me to put my phone down and go to sleep (ish) so thanks

Ok, self. Tumblr said Mythbusters (+ the deadliest catch? I think?) said lying in the dark with your eyes closed is heaps better than no sleep at all and you believe that to be true. Put down the phone and desk with your insomnia in the dark like God intended

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STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS 7x10 | The Phantom Apprentice

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Art by Tristan Reyne

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refurbished throw pillow

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I love the way Ryoko Kui draws almost all fantasy races but she really did something special with the kobolds like girl this shit is stunning

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Zodiac series by Rozenn Grosjean

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it's not a perfect method but as a general rule, if they can't even see a night sky dark enough to identify the stars they claim control your life, you can pretty safely ignore those people.

Astrology's weird bc if you've only ever had fun with it and come across someone w seething hatred for it you're understandably like, what the fuck is this person's problem? But also if you've seen someone take it Too Far, any mention of it understandably becomes a red flag

Like imagine if you really liked Pokemon and you're like, "I really don't see why people would hate this unless they're just assholes for no reason?" Like it's a totally normal opinion opinion to have. But also imagine if you took a quiz and learned you were a Bug type and people stopped talking to you because they were like "It's in your nature to be emotionally manipulative." It would also be totally normal to be like "Oh okay fuck Pokemon fans then."

Now you may be like, "But the latter situation doesn't happen!" and that tells me you are fortunate because you have not dealt with the worst that the west coast of America has to offer

#Oh your lazy because your a Taurus #Bitch you couldn't find the Pleiades with a map #All you can see are street lights

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I'm pretty sure its actually the same thought because there really need to be an array of options in between do absolutely everything yourself relying on no one and institutionalization.

"Disabled people should be allowed to be as independent as we can be" and "disabled people should not be pressured to be hyper-independent in order to not wind up in nursing homes against our will" are two thoughts that can, and should, exist at the same time.

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Salmon Bowl

Lorrie Pambrun

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Photos by rikunow on twitter