#went on a trip out of the country-

[percabeth4life]

I was gonna try to post an ATLOP update this next Monday but... Lol prob not, depends if I get a chance to.

#ive gotten sick #my dog died #i had exams #gotten partially diagnosed with a new disease #started my job #went on a trip out of the country- #lots going on #but I will be working on ATLOP and other fics this upcoming week #im actually planning several fics that play of off common tropes

[thewinedarksea]

we went to iceland!

#it was our 5th year anniversary trip. yes we went the first week of october yes i am posting this more than a month later this is bc im #allergic to social media and will forget for weeks on end. it is a miracle this is getting posted at all. #anyways!! iceland is the most beautiful country ive ever been to. literally in love. incredible time. most of these are from reykjavik #proper. top left is the view right across from our hotel (haunts me still I Miss Her). middle is black sand beach. top middle is me and my #most beautiful wife who didnt like her face in this so she is instead a heart (tragic bc i looked amazing in this set). #pls know that every picture that i will be posting my wife took bc she is a camera GODDESS (all from her phone bc she does hard mode). dont #ever make the mistake of thinking i am posting my pics i cannot take them and they always come out blurry #everyone *suffered* with my snapchats and then i went and posted the Good Ones #we did an escape room in reykjavik too--mafia-themed it was great--and walked all over and ate a great deal and saw so very many cats. huge #fan of all the cats. #prepare for spam #iceland trip #mine.txt #my face #i think is my tag? #i reach for you in the night

[creepyscritches]

My mom is going on a cruise w her bestie to a lot of European countries she's not seen yet (hasn't been to/lived in Europe or Africa since shortly before I was born). She asked me what gift I'd like and tbh I just really loooooove spices and flavors I dont have the opportunity to discover/try here, but like 🤔 not sure if customs would bar her from bringing spices home. Maybe a cool rock or smth instead as I seem to be collecting small stone animals when I travel lately

#Creepy chatter #trying to recall all the countries... It's a 16 day cruise and only 2 stops have 2 days spent there #2 days in Stockholm :D #My mom is the one that taught me how to cook so like lol our tastes are very similar. I trust her spice senses unquestionably. #She met my dad when they were living in Germany but she spent a little over 2 years living in Egypt in the late 80s early 90s. #After they came back to the states she never went back to other countries really so this will be very good for her I think :) #Always good to leave USA and get a reality check on what the international world is like. the US is so....lol....not real abt so much #Oh you know what I'd also be down for nice olive oil if spices don't pan out. 🤔 Not used to people going on trips lmao. Girl we were poor

[simplyghosting]

Prayer request. Sister got pickpocketed overseas and all her cards got taken. 🙏

#ghost posts #she went on a trip with her friend this week #first time out of the country #and she can’t reach the bank to cancel her cards #prayer request #June 2 2023

[tamagotchikgs]

last post ended up deleting my tags so im continuing them here

#but. #even after all the time i had aparti still went back at 16 #i traveled across the country just to see her again #and it fucking sucked #she ripped that wound right back open #which . felt so weird because she WANTED me to come #she made all the plans #honestly the train trip there was nice #i got to experience a lot of cool things #but the second i got there. it was . one of the worst times of my life #just nonstop #and now ive finally been away for awhile again #but i still miss her #& i dont know why #but it also doesnt help the only gf i have ever had did the same type of thing LMAO//.... i .. i just cannot win #maybe it's just my roll #say all these nice things n then immediately flip #she would make me hang out w her friends n talk me up n then. cheat on me with them with me there #& then get upset when i cried or tried to break up w her LMAO... #like. she wasnt poly or anything she was actually against it #but the worst part is how openly & loudly she'd love me right before it. so now i never know who is telling the truth. i never feel safe #but anyway. again. i stayed #over n over again id try to break up w her but then i loved her & so when she got upset n threaten to kms id flip n stay #n she'd do it again #until eventually she broke up w me n left me so fuckd up im not gonna lie JHVAJH #she still tried to stay friends after that n i tried #but then i started sobbing mid card game & it was very embarrassing top 10 worst things i have done #but i just. all i want is to be a good person. i want to be someone good & loving but i feel like im such a jealous monster #even if i dont let myself show it n try to ignore it bc i dont want to hurt anyone or be this awful it;s still here. just. permeating. #what if i feel too much what if ill never know when someone is genuine what if im just an evil obsessive freak n everyone i love hates me

[silvercaptain24]

Growing up is weird

#silver rambles #vent #that post about the ‘how you knew someone else came from money’ is just. sticking with me #mostly cause as a kid I didn’t realize how bad off we were #like. I didn’t realize we got groceries from the food bank run by the church my dad worked at until I was a teen #it just. affected me subtly I guess #being worried about a $2 difference in shoes when I needed new ones because I liked the more expensive ones #and my mom having to convince me that it was fine #it still sticks with me #it’s really hard sometimes to not think about cost if my dad and I go get lunch or something #I’ve never been to another country #meanwhile my friends would go to Rome and Sweden and India and Greece and Mexico for their 12 year old trips #I stayed in the same state for the one with my mom and only went a state over for the one with my dad #but like #yeah. I always sorta knew #I just. couldn’t have told you that I knew #all the little things you didn’t know growing up #I didn’t know about the groceries thing until yeah. I was…16-17 I think #and now we’re much better off and I have my own job (technically two) but like… #hhh. #why is my brain fixating on this? idk #sorry #needed the thoughts out

[pepprs]

i know i need to shut up abt it esp bc i don’t know for sure if i actually got exposed to covid but like. it’s just so fucking frustrating and terrifying. not just in the case of covid but with other things too like driving. you can take every precaution to keep yourself and the people around you safe but all it takes is one selfish careless asshole who can negate that in a heartbeat and ruin your life or maybe even end it in some circumstances. lol

#purrs #ask to tag #complete and utter despair about it all. i feel like such a freak for telling everyone to be safe and be careful all the time but this world #is so fucking scary and we are so fucking helpless. how can i not cast out this desperate fucking plea. this prayer. that harm will not #befall you even if it’s something as small as a drive to the store or a trip to a new place. i just live in fear of the people i love #getting hurt all the time and of myself getting hurt. and covid is fucking scary because we still don’t fuckng know how bad it is really or #what it can do to you in the long term and there’s no way to know if you have it until you find out you have it bc this fucking nightmare #country gutted all the covid infrastructure so it’s like. it’s just really bad. im so scared. ive been so proud of myself lately bc i feel l #like even though im still not doing great ive been less miserable and anxious like a couple months ago i was having breakdowns almost daily #and i feel like ive been getting better and this just has thrown me so bad. there are other things going on too ofc so i know im reacting #really strong but like. throwback to all the asks i just answered where anons were like idk how you even function witb the amount of anxiety #you carry with you all the time and i was reading that like but not anymore! and it turns out… no it’s still there. it just was summer and #i interacted with fewer people and went almost nowhere. and now the semester is starting again and everything is changing and it’s just. bad #also addendum to the first part of my tags: i wish i was brave enough to ask ppl to like. text me when they get to their destination safe or #whatever. i almost never think of it bc it just seems like such a forward boundary crossing thing to do + it was a bad habit from when my #separation anxiety was MUCH worse as a kid. but like… i want o do it and sometimes i need to but i repress it so hard. lawl #also to say i love you sometimes. some ppl it’s really easy and we do it all the time. others i can’t bc it crosses boundaries and it #physically hurts not to. lolll

[chawarin-panich]

memories are such a funny thing - i actually have no idea if i've been on the eurorail! like i know ive been to europe. i know ive travelled between countries in europe. i know ive been on a train in europe but was it the eurorail? it feels like ive been on the eurorail but that also might be because i watched dilwale dulhaniya le jayenge like 1000 times in my childhood

#questions only my father can answer #but he'll probably be like: yes you have!!! #and then it will turn out to be a trip he took to europe when i wasn't there #last week my parents were fighting over when my dad went to Sweden #“i promise it was sweden!!! this is a swedish blanket!!” #HAHAHAHAHA my parents are so funny for real #just like me europe is just one big country to my mother #nani's public personal diary

[supercantaloupe]

i wish i had a good excuse to just like go and spend 2-3 days in another city across the country

#sasha speaks #the most i've done on my own is a day trip into nyc #which is fun but you can only do so much in one day esp when your train is close to 3 hours one way #i want just like. two days in atlanta. three days in chicago. three in sanfran. yknow. #hell i'd take two days in nyc or boston that would be fun #i've spent one full day in boston before with my mom and that was great but it was sort of an appendix to a trip with a different primary #purpose (bringing my sister back to her college). i've spent two days in pittsburgh with my mom once too but that was when i was doing #college search myself so like more than half the time was dedicated to touring campuses #i've been to nyc twice Totally on my own once to go to a museum with my beloved mutual and once to take my sister to an embassy #to get a visa for her study abroad trip. my parents were like 'escort her to and from the embassy and then back on the train #and then you can stay the afternoon and do whatever you want. just get a train home in the evening' #which was fun i went to a museum and then did some market and bookstore shopping #but one afternoon does not a Proper trip make yknow #also goes w/o saying i would love to do the same thing for cities in other countries but. y'know. that's More Difficult #and i've seen very little of my own country in the grand scheme of things...i've only been out west twice and i didn't see very much either #time :( san diego when i was like 9 and then crested butte co last summer. which was beautiful and so much fun but also i got covid there s #anyway. shutting up now #i wanna talk about me

[slechterick]

i just wanna say that, although it's not entirely unprecedented, i cannot overstate my appreciation for the fact that XC2's Torna ~ The Golden Country has a bad ending. it's so excruciatingly fitting for a story about the ravages of war and the horrors of weapons of mass destruction to feature a non-optional unapologetic and thoroughly bad ending.

we don't get to see that often enough in videogames.

#xc2 #xenoblade chronicles 2 #torna the golden country #torna the golden country spoilers #i mean it makes sense that videogames don't tend to feature bad endings due to the diegetic disconnect between gameplay and story it causes #let alone that it breaks the whole power trip that a lot of games lean on for their appeal #but it does mean that we miss out on some very powerful storytelling #stories where the PC did everything right but things still went wrong

[disdaidal]

Okay, so, now my school might be arranging a 2-week on-the-job-learning trip to Portugal in November-December, for those interested in / lack of experience from foreign countries... but I don't know if I can even apply there now because there's a possibility that my schedule could be filled with other kind of stuff that we're supposed to be doing for this degree at the same time, so. 🙃 I'm kinda mad ngl.

#personal #like do i even want to bring this up to my training instructor/supervisor now that we just went through my schedule for the next period #today. a few hours ago in fact. planning all this stuff #so i'd have time to complete some parts that this training requires. qualification-wise i mean. while also having time for myself #because my first period has been kind of tough and it's sucked the juices out of me #because there's a lot of shit there described in the program and we're not even 100% sure what all of them mean. or if i can even #complete them all in the high school where i'm currently training. like jfc #but i've wanted to try this exchange student kind of thing since my teens. but i've never had money or then something else always #came up. but apparently this trip is funded by one international program so i wouldn't necessarily even have to pay for it #at least not a lot. and it's two freaking weeks and we'd be working there too but in a different environment / culture #so not exactly vacation but it's something different. and i'd get to travel and live in another country for a few days and i've kinda misse #so. i kind of really want to apply there #but i don't know... sighs... i don't know

[lavenoon]

🕰 - What time is it where you are rn?

🍄 - Do you have/want any piercings?

Clicking "answer" at 6:30AM sharp! (gonna get posted a little later though)

And I only have the basic earlobe piercings, albeit three of them - but it might be all I'll do in terms of piercings for a while. I dislike how long they take to heal completely, though I did think about a piercing for my eyebrow slit for a bit - but that might just stay a little fantasy. In practice I'd rather save the piercing money for the next tattoo hehe

#answer let luce #anonymous #ask game #ig “spoiler” for the tattoo questions lmao #but yeah I'm a tattoo bitch meanwhile my sister has a couple piercings! #we balance each other out #fun fact when i got my third earlobe it was spontaneous (last years valentines to myself) #when my sis got her tongue pierced #shes younger #but ig the piercer knew her from her other ones #she was a minor for those tho. #but yeah he just. pierced her. looked at me. and went “i need to see your ID” #sir. sir do you believe someone with these world weary eyebags could be 17 #im flattered but im the designated driver of this trip in a country where u gotta be 18 #rambly anecdote go brr

[there-will-be-a-way]

I really do have a special talent of apparently being very approachable. When I was walking through the ward, I saw a person waving and smiling at me behind the glass door. I only saw him once before, briefly. He asked me if I wanna go outside to smoke and have a chat. I had just came back from smoking and had ergotherapy in like 2 minutes but if someone offers me to chat, who am I to turn it down? So we went downstairs and now we're friends and I'll bring him nail polish tomorrow 😅

#personal posts #I just assumed getting approached by random strangers all the time is just part of the normal human experience #but then I went on a trip with someone and they pointed out to me that it's strange how many people approached me in the streets #I don't know what it is about me #maybe I just look very non-threatening lol #but whatever this is it's the trait I like the most about myself #I know others get really uncomfortable when strangers talk to them #but I like listening #I've heard so many life stories #a long lost love in Africa #the loneliness of being all by yourself in a foreign town #moving to a foreign country and leaving your family behind #Searching for a new place to live #hospitals and struggles with money and the heat that is so different here #and how many souls are there? #I love listening #I literally remember every single one of these strangers #even if I don't always get to know their names

[queer-cosette]

so a very large house spider turned up in the bathtub and it was not a good experience for me because the last time a very large house spider turned up in that tub was four years ago and it triggered a severe panic attack/meltdown that ended in me cutting off part of my own hair with a pair of craft scissors. so that was fun

#coco speaks #personal #spider mention #admittedly during said meltdown I was already having a very bad trip (yay for paranoia!) #I had also just broken up with my then-boyfriend-ish for the last time because I was trying to get my life back together #and I'd been cheated on about four months prior by a girl who I'd been overwhelmingly in love with #or rather cheated with. and then her girlfriend (who she used me to cheat on) was so insecure she copied my haircut #so I'd gone back to screwing around with this guy I used to party with when I was in high school #he was three years older than me and I couldn't tell you the first thing about him but he was a very good rebound fling #but it wasn't the first time I'd rebounded with him and I had this moment of realising that I didn't want this to be my life #anyway I was overwhelmed and my parents were out of the country and I'd smoked too much weed the night before #and the spider in the bathtub when I went to wash my hair was the straw that broke the camel's back

[sashimiyas]

my bsf is on a solo trip in south korea rn and she has a crush on her hotel manager’s son so if you see a hotel au from me, that is me manifesting that energy for my bestie!!!

#reinas.inretrograde #she has a bf but i’ve harbored a grudge on him since we went on a girls trip out of state #and it took him two days to double check on her #and my bsf has been gone for one week now in a country across the ocean #and she JUST dodged the questions on whether her bf’s reached out to her the whole time she’s been gone #so i don’t hate him but he’s not enough for my bsf that’s for sure

[faildivorce]

at least i am good at substances

#something something my friends from other countries commenting on how you cant outdrink a polish person #but still that was when i was normie drinking if they went out with me an b they would legit die #they dont know i can take a 3h trip to budapest get wasted and come back to go to a 6am shift and not even have a hangover #and i choose to treat it like a fun special skill and not a problem you create your own reality remember kids #txt