what companies who sell you anti aging stuff don't want you to know is that if you're chill about aging, your perception of attractiveness changes as you get older. there is no "wall" where you suddenly become ugly and unfuckable because in my experience what actually happens is you get into your thirties and suddenly realize that people in their thirties are hot as fuck and the "flaws" that the beauty industry wants you to panic about are a feature not a bug, and based on the std statistics in nursing homes I don't really expect that trajectory to change.
I have 50-60 job applications out right now. I am qualified to do all of them.
I have been sent 13 denials.
5 have viewed my application and have not bothered to reach out.
The rest have not responded to my emails, calls, or messages.
I have been offered 3 interviews.
One was not a real company.
One ghosted me day of.
One couldn’t offer me insurance, and, since I have a disability, I had to decline.
This is three weeks worth of FULL TIME EFFORT. Five hours a day, seven days a week. It’s not that no one wants to work. It’s that no one is actually hiring. They just want to look like they are.
Being a mort sci major means having one normal résumé and one funeral specific résumé with your list of impressive qualifications that a normal employer would be weirded out by. Neither will get you an interview though.
calling my lover "mine" but not in the way that my toothbrush or notebook are mine, mine in the way my neighborhood is mine, and also everybody else's, "mine" like mine to tend to, mine to care for, mine to love. "mine" not like possession but devotion.
She never had and never would heal anyone else the way she healed Draco: in his arms, pressed against his body. She’d slide her hands along him and press open-mouthed kisses on his shoulders, hands, and face while she muttered spells.
Considering how much the horror of Simon being trapped under the Curse of the Ice Crown was first and foremost based around a loss of identity
It only makes sense that this is still what Simon struggles with now, after being freed.
Simon knows who he’s not. He’s not Ice King. He is Simon Petrikov again. But who is Simon Petrikov now? Because it seems like his current situation has really taken away all of the ways Simon used to define his identity.
‘Simon Petrikov the antiquarian and archeologist’ is… not quite it anymore. His current job is similar, since he’s still teaching people about ages long past. It’s just that now that ancient era is his original world - but it’s clear that’s not quite what he wants to do anymore. Whatever it’s because he can’t get as excited about the 20th century as he could for ‘his’ ancient times, or because he doesn’t really like his new ‘teaching method’ where is quite literally a living museum exhibit.
And what about ‘Simon Petrikov the intellectual researcher of magic and the paranormal?’
Yeah, no chance anymore. Before the Crown, Simon had a real fascination with magic and the supernatural. But now, in the wacky world of Ooo - he has lost that aspect of himself completely. He aches for the mundane.
And then there’s ‘Simon Petrikov the adventurous outdoorsman’, which we only learned about just now.
Which is another aspect of Simon’s identity lost in the new context of Ooo. Simon might’ve been able to brave the elements against rain and mosquitos and poison ivy. But in this world of dragon monsters and shapeshifting bears he is just not able to take it anymore.
‘Simon Petrikov, Marcy’s gentle caretaker’ is right out too. Not only because Simon believes Marceline just doesn’t need him anymore…
But he also doesn’t see himself as capable of helping any little kids anymore - and not just in term of ability…
But also in terms of his own personality.
Making this little girl cry basically smashed that part of his identity to dust.
And then there’s “Simon Petrikov, Betty Grof’s beloved”, which would be a fool’s errand to keep clinging to…