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Tag: hopeposting

  • What’s this? Another prompt I want to actually take somewhat seriously?

    Who are your favorite people to be around?

    People who are straightforward, honest, and the only bullshit they give me is the joking kind. Preferably, they can see shit about me that I can’t, and can do shit that I can’t without making me feel like shit for it. They don’t talk my ear off constantly about meaningless shit and believe that words have as much power as actions and use both in tandem.

    I’m very picky about the people I surround myself with, and it’s a high bar because I have made peace with solitude most days, being mostly housebound and all, to the point where if I prefer being alone more than I enjoy spending time with a person, I simply won’t engage with them if I don’t have to. I am too tired and have too much shit to do (as well as people I actually like) to pay the people I dislike much mind. My energy is precious and I don’t have much of it. So I do my best to use it wisely. My favorite people get that and go to great lengths to help me protect the little energy I have.

    I’m not proud of a lot of the way my life has gone, and there’s a lot that happened that’s entirely outside of my control. However, I’m damn proud of the fact that I picked great people.

    -Allēna

  • Y’all, I bring glad tidings in this hell scape…

    The world may be a dumpster fire, but our shitty downstairs neighbor is getting evicted after throwing a 45 minute plus rage fit at our property manager that I had the glorious pleasure of overhearing this day.

    He’s out at the end of February 🎉

    Cheers, everyone. Justice has been served at last.

    -Allēna

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  • Véra babycat, caught in the act of being beautiful.

    I love my evil genius tuxie cat so much 💛

    -Allēna

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  • A note on meaningful contributions, mutual aid, etc..

    THIS ^^^. We say this all the time. What you can contribute matters. Do what you can do with what you have.

    Just don’t do nothing.

    -Allēna

  • A message to anyone learning a new skill:

    From Tumblr user mushroomcaphat.

    This doesn’t just apply to cooking.

    Xavier used to always tell me before he died that you have to learn the rules to anything before you can break them. And this man was a certifiable genius across the board – brilliant cook, chaos programmer, astonishing writer, ruthless editor. I swear he did everything by his intuition, too, but only after learning the rules of a skill enough to break them.

    Damn near everything I can do, I first learned to do from watching that contrarian bitch of a man do life. He was a wonderful, terrible, grumpy, hilarious, Renaissance master of multidisciplinary batshittery, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. And I had to fail my way forward first until I found a way to do things that worked for me.

    And I will never stop learning about everything I can get my eternally bored hands on, learning rules, breaking them creatively, rinsing, repeating, and having a whole lot of fun while I do.

    So please, experiment, fail your way forward, break new ground. This is how you learn and find ways to do things that work for you. But also learn from the masters. There’s nuance in everything. You don’t have to reinvent the wheel.

    Happy learning, and stay curious!

    -Allēna

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  • You should know you’ve fucked up if a BISHOP is calling you out on national television…

    So this happened, and Trump isn’t happy.

    Let him rave, though. Good for Bishop Budde.

    Hallelujah.

    -Allēna

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