Does anyone ever feel like racism is like an unhealthy relationship? Like your partner is mad about police brutality (While police brutality against POCs is awful and rampant, I do think there are cases that end up in the spotlight where the criminals just happened to be black) and when you try to talk to them about it your partner keeps bring up your first ever argument, slavery. And you just wanna be like, I realize this issues are related but since that one’s in the past, can we focus on the problem we’re having now? Like it doesn’t matter that you concede the unfair prison system, but they’re still mad at you about slavery.
So I guess this is the safest place to get all this out. I’m a virgin. I’m not sexually active. I don’t pursue romance. For a while, I had multiple intimate partners, but there was never penetration and my underwear always stayed on. Didn’t engage in oral either. For the last couple years, a romantic partner just hasn’t seemed to be in my future and I’m okay with that. Sex has been an issue for me, partially because of that and partially because of crippling insecurity. About a year ago, I had an anxiety attack in bed with my oldest partner. He was experienced, so he handled it well. Just so everyone knows, I am bisexual. I feel sexual attraction. I am not asexual.
I’ve known for a while that if I ever decided to have sex, I wanted it to mean something.
But being a cashier at 23 while all my friends are building careers and starting families. It’s so hard to connect with people.
I’m in a place where I don’t wanna be a virgin at 30. And I want to be on a career path I don’t hate long before 30. But I have no idea what to do in either respect.
See the way he hunches to make himself seem smaller and non-threatening?
Or when he didn’t resist being dragged
around by a stranger trying to arrest him?
And how innocent and obedient he looks, silently clutching his suitcase while he was being brought in?
…how he refers himself as ‘Mummy’ and doesn’t seem the least embarrassed about it.
But also, remember how calm and steady
he was when he saved Tina? (”Don’t panic. … I’ll catch you.”)
When he led her, the trained Auror,
by the hand when they were escaping?
And when he didn’t hesitate to face a powerful
Obscurus and Grindelwald himself to save a boy he barely knew because… that’s just how selfless a person he is. (Okay, he didn’t know it was Grindelwald at first, but Newt was the one who revealed him.)
He’s the type of person that never gets
violently angry. Just quietly furious.
But is definitely bold enough to make the first
move!
But we all know Newt Scamander is the
most badass when he’s dealing with his fantastic beasts.
He can roll up his sleeves and handle some of the scariest, deadliest, most dangerous
magical creatures alive.
No doubt the greatest magizoologist in
the entire wizarding world.
All the while remaining the polite,
humble, and awkward Hufflepuff that he is.
We should all be so lucky to find a
person like Newt Scamander.
I mean, just ask Tina.
*This has been a Newt Scamander appreciation post.*
So my friend [redacted] and I have been friends for 9 years now. Haven’t seen each other in eight. He’s in Illinois. We’ve been pretty close. We ’ve had plans to see each other three times in the last year and they’s fallen though. Finally we get concrete plans for the end of this month. They were solidified the beginning of last month. Since we were both not in the best financial situation (I got fired right after we solidified plans), it was going to be a Netflix and chill kind of situation. Six weeks ago, he went home to Dallas for Thanksgiving and went on a date with this girl. Went on another date went he went back for Christmas. Kept insisting it wasn’t serious. That it wouldn’t affect us. Then last night he doesn’t want to do the things we planned because of her. Even though they aren’t dating. So now, we’re not talking for a week. I’m all out of partners. I don’t have the resources to see the one in Austin. My closest friend is 45 min away with no job or car. I feel very alone right now
So I lost a very dear friend to cancer the beginning of November.
And last week I lost my job because my manager wanted me to pay back drawer shortages when there was no proof of theft or negligence. Just in time for the holidays.
Ugh. I wanna die.
On the bright side, my best friend is flying in from Illinois at the end of January. We haven’t seen each other in 8 years. Hopefully, if I get a job by then, they’ll give me the time off.
I’m getting real tired of this “If you didn’t vote for Hillary, it’s your fault Trump won” bullshit. Fuck you. The people who voted for Trump are the ones responsible. Or the people who wrote in invalid candidates like Sanders or Harambe. Or blame the people that turned away voters, gave bad information, or didn’t vote at all.
You know, I honestly, because of what I saw, thought Hillary was going to win. I didn’t vote for either Trump or Hillary. I am both disabled and LGBT. And I will not be blamed for voting for someone I actually believed in because I don’t think either Hillary or Trump give a flying fuck about me or this country. And the reason I live in this country is so I don’t have to pick the lesser of two evils or vote out of fear.
The people who voted for Trump are the reason he won. Not third-party voters who wanted change beyond this election.