INTJ* Confessions

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I saw something that was like “we put our lives on pause, but getting vaccinated can help us be able to hit play again” and it just bothered me because I’m not just starting again where I left off. I graduated from college in spring of 2020. I’m never going back to living there and regularly seeing my college friends. I’m never getting my graduation ceremony. I’m not getting my last months of college back. They’re gone!

So anyway this post is dedicated to anybody who went through any transitional period during the pandemic. Whether you graduated, lost somebody, moved, or anything else where you will never truly be able to get the last months/year of [whatever] back. It’s so easy to feel like you should be over it by now and just be grateful whenever you can eat in a restaurant and go into stores again but you lost more than that.

I’m just tired of seeing so many things about “going back to normal” when a lot of us don’t have the same “normal” to go back to.

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Once again, thank you everyone for reading, enjoying, and sharing this comic.  Not just sharing in the sense of re-posting this comic, (which you should totally do) but also sharing your stories with me, letting my know how my comics have touched you.  It means so much to me.  Love ya!

Stay tuned for more comics! <3

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It gives me tremendous joy to see people still reading this comic, and especially when they get something out of it.

Over the years I have faced many ups and downs, just like everyone else. Sometimes it really gets to me how mean people can be to each other. How mean I can be to myself.

But for all the Level 1 Trans Fighters out there please know with acceptance, mindfulness, and self compassion I did in fact find my balance. Not a fast process. Basically a complete lifestyle change.

Sometimes I lose that balance, sure. But when I choose to present my authentic identity? I’m objectively drop dead gorgeous.

Here are a hand full of my looks. You’ll notice none of them are 100% masculine or feminine.

Peace be with you.
Thank you for reading.
Thank you for being you.

-J

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You deserve to feel comfortable, so don’t push yourself to go at a faster pace. It’ll hurt you more.

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Reblogging both for stellar comic and wonderful mustache

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always reblog! I love this comic, so very much. *offers all the kudos* Thank you for this, it continues to help a lot. You look amazing in those lipstick shades, by the way.

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there is a tendency with history, i think, because we're so far removed from it, to kind of forget that all of the people were people

a child 10,000 years ago left a handprint on a wall. they were fingerpainting. a viking climbs up a rock just to carve the words "this is very high" 10ft off the ground. somebody centuries... milennia... ago burned their dinner so thoroughly that they buried the ruined pot in the backyard rather than attempt to clean it. shakespeare got drunk and wrote dick jokes. tutankhamun was a little boy who liked ducks more than anything. a roman carves his name into a monument in another country saying "i was here". a prisoner, centuries ago, in the tower of london scratches lines into the wall as a tally marking the days. a medieval monk scrawls in the margins bemoaning the boredom of his work.

every human being across history has said "i was here. i lived. i loved. i made something. i laughed. i cried. please do not forget me"

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most of us are not important enough that we will be remembered by name for more than a few decades. we are not kings or queens or great military leaders or innovators or influential artists, musicians, authors.

but all of us, every one, has a deep primal need to persist. we leave handprints on the wall, scratch our names into stones, carve initials into a tree, mark our growth as children on a wall, bury little time capsules. write in the margins of a book. hide notes behind the wallpaper.

reaching out into the future to some unknown human long after we're gone to say

"hello, you. i was here, once"

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I put in a small cement base to my clothesline at this house and at the previous house that I lived in. Both times I scratched my name in the cement, and wondered, a little, if this was the only thing that I touched that would outlast me. I was here. I lived.

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it might not be the only thing that outlasts you, that outlasts your living memory. but it will last. somebody will find it. you are seen. you are known. whoever it is - so distant from us now - that finds it, they love you. a little part of them loves you.

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gonna reblog this again with a quote from greenleaf that p much sums up the point of this i think. i'm a wholesale atheist, fwiw. also this is from memory so forgive any inaccuracies but

I believe there’s a part of everything that tries. Plants try to grow; animals try to survive. People try to better themselves to get ahead. Everything tries to do something. God is just the trying part of us trying to connect with the trying part of everything else.

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Anonymous asked:

Maybe I'm misunderstanding Norse mythology but isn't Loki gender fluid in the sense that he's kind of every/any gender? Why are people acting like he can't be a man just because he's non binary??

normal-horoscopes answered:

Okay if I were wear my Academic Folklorist hat, I would say that modern, western, conceptions of gender and gender roles don’t track for the Prose Edda. What we mean when we say male, female, neither, or both, means very different things when applied to mythological characters from the Prose Eddas. From an explicitly academic context, Loki is not male, or female, or non-binary. Loki’s gender expression is unique to the ancient Norse cultures he comes from, in which gender exists more or less as a binary that people of sufficient magical power can swap at will. There have been some sources posted on earlier posts on this topic if you’d like to learn more.

If I put on my Casual Academic Folklorist hat, Loki’s gender is Wizard.

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I’m working on a post that will have lots of sources & discussion points! It’ll be up today I hope!

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Okay, here it is! It isn’t perfect but there’s a lot in there.

(Mis)Gendering Loki?: Thoughts From Tumblr

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ahmedalsheikh asked:

I’m afraid to try and join the writer’s guild of America, mainly because I feel like as an indie author I don’t qualify by default.

neil-gaiman answered:

So… you probably don’t qualify to join the WGA (east or west) because they are guilds for people who professionally write screenplays for films and TV, and you need to have sold screenplays to qualify.

There are lots of other organisations though. There’s the Authors Guild, for example, or the SFWA (for Science Fiction and Fantasy writers) or the Romance Writers of America. All the organisations have different qualifications for how to join, so investigate and find out.

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The Alliance of Independent Authors is a good one to join. I also recommend looking into local clubs and guilds. I was amazed at how many were in my area. Writing can feel like such a solitary endeavor, so it’s really helpful to have local friends who get it.

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jackironsides: “I remember my parents visiting the US a decade or two ago and talking about how surprised they were that the US media scarcely talks about things happening outside the country. That kind of made sense, I thought. There’s a lot of the...
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I remember my parents visiting the US a decade or two ago and talking about how surprised they were that the US media scarcely talks about things happening outside the country. That kind of made sense, I thought. There’s a lot of the US to talk about. Whereas the entire population of Australia is less than the population of Texas.

Then I found out how little they tell the population about things that happen inside the country. I remember seeing multiple Americans being like, ‘What do you mean other countries give us help when we have wildfires.’

And I – an Australian – was like, uhhh. We send over people and specialised firefighting choppers regularly. (And Australian firefighters have specialised knowledge there – the reason that Californian wildfires are so bad is because there was a mass planting of eucalyptus trees, which are oil rich and well adapted to surviving bushfires.)

I grew up with the evening news reporting on our bushfires saying things like ‘the US has sent over a crew and additional choppers to help fight the blaze in country New South Wales, and the CFA expects that they should have it under control soon.’ But the reverse doesn’t seem to be true in the US.

That brought home to me just how much of the US news is filtered to emphasise the US’s emphasis on individualism. It’s harder to sound believable about how little you need others when other countries are regularly pitching in to help keep your wildfires under control. It’s hard to keep a consistent message going about US exceptionalism if you admit that the country you vilify regularly as being full of people who are champing at the bit to invade your country are actually there on the ground helping you recover from a natural disaster.

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