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Hmm. "Pace yourself" is one of them. This is actually hard work lmao, I never anticipated this page getting as big as it did. Sometimes I feel really bad about not writing lessons or answering asks as fast as I did when I started but tbh... I have a life, this takes up a lot of it, and I balance a lot on here as it is, so.

I'd tell myself that I'd end up making friends and community who cared, so it'll be okay. As hard as it can be that there are people who will be cruel, callous, or purposely hate filled, there are also gonna be a lot of people that you'll meet that will appreciate what you do, some that will become your peers. And it's not like I didn't think that, but seeing people whose blogs I admired and wanted to be around, who actually fuck with me now is pretty nice, actually!

Hm... I'd tell myself that "you aren't all you have to give". I still tell myself that, it's something I've had to work on my whole life, fr. That I still have value even if I had nothing to offer, that I don't owe anyone labor in exchange for being treated like I belong. That people should try as hard for me as I am demanded to try for them. Part of that is the Strong Black Woman Experience though, I got it from my childhood and it's been a work in progress. Knowing these things objectively, and then actually applying them is hard!

Asako Yoshihama

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The process is actually quite sophisticated, and requires the presence of a full-grown goth to trigger it. A pupal-stage proto-goth, at this point completely indistinguishable from any other small human child, only needs to encounter a mature specimen once - and while the initial imprinting that ensues will only take seconds, the incubation period often takes more than a decade, even several.

The first visible step of the transformation is triggered when the dormant goth suddenly gains awareness that they have free will and can do whatever they want with their appearance. While the progress may be gradual, or seem like the transformation happened all at once overnight, the initial seed was planted years ago. And now, in full bloom, a fully-fledged mature adult goth may finally be happy.

And I asked, “Why can’t you?”

I’m pretty sure that was the first time she’d ever realized that she was an adult, with a job, who could make her own decisions about herself.

A few weeks later, at the same store, I overheard one of the employees telling one of the other cashiers that he still didn’t know what happened with her, but she showed up to a shift dressed completely different, had changed her hair and makeup, and just said, “I hate this job, I quit,” and walked out.

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Hell, they even cover the devastating heaviness of MASS SHOOTINGS without censoring or watering anything down.

They've been doing this for YEARS, and it's ALWAYS handled with dignity, respect, seriousness, understanding, and love.

This clip is from 1968 and discussed assassination after Bobby Kennedy died.