if youre transgender you have to live. if you accomplish something else then good. if youa ccomplish nothing else then good but you have to live

tapping the god damn sign

Hey, can you all do me a favor?

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How do I keep my frustration and sadness into anger and bitterness

I tried saying I would lose my job if he won. I tried explaining our financial situation is fine. I talked about how he demonizes immigrants. I lastly poured my heart out about how his malignant narcissism makes me feel like I’m being poisoned and that he is no role model to our kids. And no change

In my advanced age, I’ve started to prefer the cold to heat. I always associated cold with stasis and heat with change. And yet I don’t know if my life is constantly changing or stuck in place…

I remember damage..

Our media has failed us over and over and over. I will never ever forgive them.

How do you talk to someone living in a different reality? Where do you start? How do you pull the realities back together?

Calling the NYT the refs is insulting to refs. Refs have a far better rate of correctness than the NYT

I am frozen by the fear of the answers I will find by asking all the questions plaguing my mind.

I watch my children build wings of Icarus each day. And each day I keep them from flying too close to the sun, yet close enough to feel the warmth and joy of the experience of the flight.

“I don’t want to live the wrong life and then die”

So many sounds can be triggering but your child’s cough in the middle of the night is for sure up there for me

“All that is gold does not glitter. And not all those who wander are lost”

I’ll add one more: All those that are quiet do not go quietly into the night.

As a conductor on the Jared McCain train, I am sending him all the good vibes I can muster.

The adrenaline from that Phillies game lasted about 45 minutes. I really need Maxey back

It’s the firehose of lies. It’s exhausting and designed to be. I hate it.

I feel like I’m drowning in a sea of red. I’ve been treading water in the face of waves too long.

I think my life would improve with Tyrese Maxey playing basketball on TV 3-4 days a week

It’s not generally a good sign when I oscillate between happiness and existential anxiety in the same 12 to 18 hour span

It’s been extremely unsettling to see how far the Trump campaign is willing to use the military solely for political gain.

I feel like I’m holding things together with duck tape. And the cracks are beginning to show

“I'm Mr. November, I won't fuck us over
I wish that I believed in fate
I wish I didn't sleep so late”

It’s just something Maxey mentioned in a post game.

Maxey and Embiid have a personal competition over tech foul Fts

This is because Catholicism beats itself into you. It’s impossible to entirely retire from

Go Birds! Specifically go Devonta Smith

I feel hollowed out. Give and give until emptied, with little hope to refill.

I said maybe I don't really wanna know
How your garden grows
'Cause I just wanna fly
Lately, did you ever feel the pain
In the morning rain
As it soaks you to the bone?

I just want to say the Ahsoka show nailed a character portrayal so well that I feel like it is going to get in the “for-clicks” posting economy that comes with everything today