Daughter of the Storm

I don’t care about it at all (I have carried its weight around like a rock on my chest since the very day it happened)

Early 2010's shippers on tumblr did not work overtime coming up with some of god's most unhinged crack and crossover ships for people in the 2020's to try and claim that smashing together Ryan Gosling and Markiplier's conventionally attractive doomed space men is some kind of absurdity.

[ID: a baseball cap with text that reads in all caps “the fish and women have entered an uneasy alliance against me.” End ID].

True back then, still true today.

my dead wife. the ad free internet

I've seen some posts trying to make fun of former gifted kids by comparing them to former student athletes who insist that they could have gone pro if not for a specific injury, and those posts always backfire, because my reaction to them is "You're right, we should treat former student athletes with more compassion than we currently do"

I went from being very physically active to getting the "your body doesn't make energy properly anymore" disability so I can completely understand the grief that comes with circumstances outside your control destroying parts of you you were once proud of and locking you out of the life you could have had. It's not a good feeling.

There's also something to be said about the student athlete whose life is laid out for them through the pathway of athletics and then suddenly has that taken away. A high school injury eliminating the scholarship opportunity or full ride to a college of their choice. A college injury eliminating the career option they spent YEARS working toward. That they likely didn't prepare an alternative for because it was Guaranteed. Now suddenly they're stranded and have to figure out that alternative. And perhaps even lacking support in doing so. "It's a shame they were injured. They could have been something."

let's capitalise the first letter of random words.... Forever

mutuals i’d sit on my bedroom floor with n pretend i don’t feel our knees touching

"lock in" is probably one of the most important phrases to enter the public lexicon in the 2020s