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Just giving it to you straight gay.

I apologize to everyone for the pictures of half-naked and fully-naked men all over your dashboard in the past years. Those types of posts were never my true intention for the direction this blog would take but it is where I ended up. 

What I really hoped was to create a space where I could journal, share photos of my day and life, and be simply transparent. But as I worked hard to make my page what I wanted it to be, I was disappointed to see the lack of interest from others. I had a low follower count and wasn’t receiving any asks or messages. SO, long story short, I fell into the black hole of posting semi-nude dudes and spamming dashboards with not-so-g-rated content in hopes to gain followers and receive the messages. And, I mean, it worked... for a while. But on the other hand, it made Tumblr seem like one big popularity contest - to see who could gain the most followers and who could receive the most mail. 

I don’t know about any of you, but I was never popular and I have never been able to figure out that one specific algorithm in life. I don’t know if it’s genetic or if it’s fate, but I just don’t have it in me. But honestly, that’s not the reason I started this blog. Yeah, I’ll admit, it sucks when the follower count is low and it sucks to not get feedback from the people who follow your content; and yes, I’m sure it’ll suck more when my follower count drops because I’m going back to basics and revealing more of my truest self, but I’ll deal. I’ll get through it.

I just hope anyone that may be reading this will still be a faithful follower and will stick through it with me. I want people to like me for the person I know I am and not for the wannabe that I thought everyone else wanted. I can guarantee, however, there will still be pictures of men on my page. I’m gay, so there’s that. But I can also say that there will be a richer content of me sharing my life rather than pictures of some random Joe. I hope to post more pictures of landscapes and scenery, of architecture and cars, clothing and cute little animals. I plan to make statements and have my opinions from time to time; and I will do my best to be as respectful as I can be. Although, I will admit, I am human and I can promise you that I will make mistakes so don’t be cruel. We are all human. We all deserve a chance.

So supposedly, you can only choose the “let people answer this” option twice per day. If you choose it once and then delete that post for whatever your reason may be, you may only select that option one more time. You are not reimbursed for your loss. Basically, if you use up both times to use that option, you don’t have any more for the day. You can’t even edit your post and re-save, or you get this stupid message like I did. Somehow tumblr thinks you’re asking a third question and will not allow you to save it with added corrections.

Okay, so, I have a question for all of my fellow Harry Potter fans...

I’m really trying to avoid hunting when I’m sure the answer is on the tip of my nose. It’s about the Deathly Hallows. We know there are 7. Diary, Ring, Locket, Cup, Diadem, Nagini, and Harry.

Alright. Rather than reading the books over and over again, I have been watching the movies, religiously. As we all know, the movies leave us with a lot of questions as a lot of the book details have been cut out.

In movie six, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, we are shown a scene where a young Tom Riddle is talking with Professor Slughorn about horcruxes and the idea of splitting a soul into seven pieces. It is my understanding that he intentionally planned to split his soul seven times. What I don’t understand is if he is able to split his soul one at a time, allowing him to make a horcrux when he finds something precious to him; or does he have to split all seven at once and have his horcruxes ready for that one moment?

This leads on to my next question. In movie eight, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallow, pt. 2, while in Snape’s memory, Dumbledore tells Snape that on the night of the tragic incident at Godric Hollow, Voldemort, basically, unknowingly created a horcrux as a piece of his soul latched itself onto the only living thing available, which was Harry.

This opens the door to another question. Why did the soul have to latch onto a living thing? The diary, diadem, ring, locket, and cup are not living things. Why was Harry an exception? I get that Voldemort also latched his soul to Nagini, but he planned for that.

But what I don’t understand is that Voldemort planned to split his soul seven times before Harry’s existence. It’s portrayed in the last movie that Voldemort didn’t know Harry was a horcrux, himself, so why didn’t Voldemort set out to create his final horcrux. He had to have known then. He had to have. If he pre-broke the pieces, he had to have seen that one was missing! But if he broke his soul off one-by-one, what stopped him from creating his seventh horcrux before Harry, OR after Harry, after he gained power???

Could Voldemort have created a seventh horcrux that was not Harry, leading Harry to be an eighth piece in the game? Or was this all part of Dumbledore’s plan? He obviously knew since the beginning that Harry Potter was one of the horcruxes, that’s obvious as it’s explicitly said in the last movie. But how did Dumbledore know this before he met Harry, because if you notice, he’s always had that strange-liking to Harry. As Snape said, “you’ve been raising him like a pig for slaughter.” So if Dumbledore knew, why did he need Slughorn’s memories about Tom Riddle asking him about horcruxes? Dumbledore already knew! Could Dumbledore and Voldemort secretly been Master and Apprentice? I mean, if you think about it, most apprentices fear their masters, and it was said that the wizard Voldemort feared most was Dumbledore.

Are we all just pawns in Dumbledore’s game?

So today, I made a call to a credit card company to pay a bill. What I didn’t know would happen was that I started talking to a very nice lady who I seemed to have a strange connection with.

I guess long story short, after paying this bill and getting things squared away, we began an almost 2-hour conversation about day-to-day life, work stories, bills, and hobbies. It was a very interesting conversation. I didn’t want the phone call to end because it was such an easy connection with a down-to-earth soul. I knew that if I hung up, I would have no more access to this person and would never get to hear from her again. I also knew that it probably went against her work policy to give out any of her information.

So I did the next best thing. I gave her access to my jewelry Facebook page. Since I make earrings, I made a Facebook page to showcase my work. I moderate the page, but the page itself doesn’t consist of my information. :-) Sneaky me. All I have to do is wait for her to check out my page, hope she clicks ‘like’, which I told her to do a few times, and then check out her page and see who she was. If she is a creepy old lady (which I doubt), I won’t have to ever talk to her again. If she looks like someone I could be friends with in the future, I might reach out.

So anyway, the call went on for almost 2 hours, when suddenly, as it should go in my house, I lost service. My whole house seems like a dead-zone for service, always at the most inappropriate and expected times. Instead of getting to say goodbye first, my call just dropped. I’m hoping she understand and doesn’t find me rude. I hope she still gets online to check out my page. Otherwise, I will have no more future connections with her.