The Changeling

i love having friends with characters to be put in situations :)

(ʘ‿ʘ✿) “what you say ‘bout me”

EGG I LOVE EGG COME TO THE GOOD EGG WE GOT EGG

lowkey might make these into merch if i can figure out how….

EXTRA:

14 years ago when I had recently moved to Alaska, I went hiking with an Aleut friend, and she pointed to a feather lying on the ground and said "hey that's a bald eagle tail feather, you should grab it!" and I was like "uhh I'm very white and that's very illegal" and she went "they're fuckin everywhere up here man. I have 20." so she grabs it off the ground and hands it to me and says "there, now it's a ceremonial gift from an indigenous person."

and I'm like, okay, cool, I guess this is how we do things in Alaska. nice.

so I keep this bald eagle tail feather around for years. display it in my home among other cherished memorabilia from places I've lived and visited, etc.

on a whim, I have just now looked it up. there is no exemption to that law for a ceremonial gift from an indigenous person. the last 7 years I lived in the US, I was technically a bald eagle poacher.

the law against 'picking feathers up off the ground' means that you can't go shoot an eagle then sell the feathers on etsy by saying you 'just found them'. you can't own them no matter where they came from, which makes sure that they're not going to come from any birds killed and then secretly disposed of.

Like last week, I had to mail a package and my local USPS was absolutely SWEALTERING. And the staff only had a few fans, some of which they were using faced towards customers, to try and keep us cool.

While doing my transaction, I was chatting with the worker about how crazy this was and how I hoped she had her own fan too, because I could only see the customer-benefit ones. She said yes, but I also asked if there was anyone I could complain to on her behalf and she immediately said yes again and to please do it! She wrote a more direct customer service number on my receipt which I was able to call Friday.

To be clear, I was kind and polite; I stressed how good the workers at this office were and how efficient always: "It's my local post office," but also how unbearable the heat was and how I couldn't imagine MY poor local staff having to suffer in that heat all day. I don't know yet if it will have an immediate effect for the workers, I hope it will though.

Sometimes when an action makes NO sense to us ("he's like a stupid alien"), it's bc we are not understanding its true motivation/purpouse. If his goal was control, financial pressure and limiting her options due to lack of funds, it makes perfect sensie to buy the truck.

This is classic abuser behavior: maneuver the partner into a situation where they feel trapped and cannot escape. The timing on this is too perfect; he saw her gaining agency & power in the relationship and moved to short circuit that.

I am SO GLAD she got out.

If this happens to you, try reaching out to friends & family first. Chances are they've been watching your situation and are aching to help, but have felt powerless. I can't tell you how many times I've watched this scenario unfold. Ask. For. Help. Nobody will judge you, and they're probably waiting for you to make a move. People notice abuse and want to help.

if you feel truly alone, start out with some free online resources.

I miss her.

Thank you I needed this.

So the title as well as the picture itself show how she claimed that she was cutting me off because I had hurt her and not been there for her, even though as you can see to the side I'm featured in all but two of her picture posts on the app, because I was ALWAYS there for her. The picture at Olive Garden is from when I took her out to eat. The pictures with the dog is the dog she adopted that I mostly took care of because she was neglecting it emotionally. The picture inside the car was my car that she never let me drove but always wanted to go places in.

The fact that she referred to it as a seventeen-year friendship when she actually would NEVER call me her friend, because duh we weren't friends, she was literally my little sister. She literally doesn't even call me her best friend because I am her SISTER.

Even her post (ironically enough since she was always the math star while I was the writer) creates it's own irony in the language. The flowery I love yous and you hurt mes all told in second person to make any reader feel for her, as shown by the comment, when really the other comments I didn't photograph all pointed out my sister was probably not thinking through the accusations, especially since she was the abusive one to me, emotionally, psychologically, financially, and yes, PHYSICALLY.

It's also symbolic because again, the page itself proves the post wrong. She could tell whatever story she wanted about me, the pictures show the truth. A metaphor for how social media is usually the place where people present versions of themself, and versions of the people they post. The version of herself she tried to portray in the text post was so not backed up by any of her past posts.

She can say she cut me off, but I'm in all her photos. She might remove me from her present, but she can never erase all the shit I did for her in the past.

Why's egg just so bug like. If you combined them you'd get a three headed dragon that burns down villages if you pay it handsomely.

This is probably my favourite line of Alya’s from the whole finale.

Like. God.

She knows Marinette so well.

She knows that Marinette is her own worst enemy, knows that Marinette has—on some level—good intentions. She understands exactly the logic that Marinette has been using to justify her choices. Knows that Marinette will always put her loved ones’ happiness above her own wellbeing.

She doesn’t want to be mad at Marinette. The lie itself hurts, but it also hurts that lie causes Marinette hurt.