david goldrock

— 8/4/2020 10:48 PM

Eridians' perception of the world relies on something that is completely absent in space — sound. They haven't been looking at the stars their entire existence the way we have. Their concept of aliens might only be as old as their discovery of astrophage. They made a bad ship, because it was their first one ever! Rocky himself says they rushed it, and that multiple (vital) things broke. Their mission was just as much of a Hail Mary pass as ours was — they had no idea what they were doing, if they could even travel in space safely. And, as it turns out, they couldn't.

Humans are the ones who have been doing it over multiple lifetimes. Mary is state of the art. We've been space farers longer than most humans have been alive. We can actually see through space. We are more likely to survive exposure to the void. We can encase our lighter, more flexible, more mobile bodies in a material that lets us walk outside of our ship, and, to a degree, we can get our bearings out there in a way Eridians just can't.

During that process I put on a pair of jeans I've had since 7th grade (I'm starting 12th in 6 weeks). A pair of jeans that was my favourite for three years because it was the biggest and baggiest pair I owned, and it hid my body very well, which was important to me, since I was deep in my struggle with an eating disorder, and for a lot of that time, refused to acknowledge it was a problem.

Today, 4 long years after the worst time of my life, that pair of jeans is too small for me.

I will be giving it away to someone who doesn't know its history, and maybe it can be someone else's favourite pair for reasons better than mine to love it.

I want to thank @quinnieeeee, @broocksz, and @david-goldrock, along with a few others who aren't on Tumblr, for sticking by me all those years as I was facing this horrible disease, and encouraging me to keep going even when I wanted to give up on everything.

To anyone reading this, you are worth recovery. Your life is worth it. And you always, no matter what, have people around you who care.

when you are on a date, and someone has an interest you don't quite get, instead of saying lol lame, try saying hmm i don't quite get that, please explain that to me, and then listen as the other person talks about why that thing is something they are in to.

you might learn something which recontextualizes the matter, and you will definitely learn something more about your date, which is the entire point of dating.

you don't have to be a superfan by the end, but you will have shown you can be chill and take an interest in stuff, which is much more likely to result in a second date instead of being ditched in a coffee line.

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