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@bittersquirrel / bittersquirrel.tumblr.com

Emily. I'm bitter, and I have been told on multiple occasions that I am very difficult to love. Thats about it.
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bryceslahela

now that george floyd’s murderer is behind bars, let’s help support the people who helped with the guilty verdict as well as george’s family. the fight is hardly over.

darnella’s fund - darnella was the young woman who filmed george’s last moments.

gianna’s fund - george’s daughter who has now been left without a father.

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You ever think about how old people have no idea what “survivor bias” is, and take full credit for being excellent out of things where they lucked out?

“Back in my day we didn’t have any of these childhood protective things, we were smart enough not to do stupid shit on our own!” Except your little neighbour, who got the funniest idea at the age of seven, and got his skull pierced when he slipped?

“Back in my day nobody got divorced, we stuck together and fixed our problems!” What about your cousin, who was slowly killed by her husband because she had nowhere to escape him?

“Back in my day nobody had ‘mental problems’, we didn’t whine, we just toughed it out and endured life!” Hey remember that guy you used to work with, who seemed really friendly and normal, and then suddenly hanged himself ‘for no reason’?

“Back in my day we didn’t have any of this ‘gay’ or ‘transgender’ thing.” You did, but your family cut all ties with her before you were born.

 You kinda start seeing it in everything they think, if you start looking for it.

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thegrimzuera

“When we were kids nobody whined about car seats or bike helmets. We didn’t use them, and we all survived!”

Yeah, except for the ones who didn’t.

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I use to use this blog daily, and then I met my husband. After that I started to use it only through a mobile device and not regularly, but that was okay because I was in love. I still am, but 6 years and 2 kids later...

We just got a laptop since the pandemic, and as I was setting it up and installing software I got curious and came here. I went through my old posts. I don’t know what I was expecting, but honestly what I found helped me. I don’t know how many of the people I followed on here have kept in touch through various social media platforms, but I have to say, being a mom has been hard. The hardest thing I’ve ever done, and I have struggled so hard with the idea that I’ve lost my sense of self.

Seeing those old posts has been so helpful. I’ve learned that at the root of all I am still the same person I’ve always been, just with an added wife/mother character development.

Specifally speaking, I am still the same smart, sarcastic, emo, cat obsessed bad ass MOFO I’ve always been. I’ve just grown/advanced from that foundation.

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Somedays are excruciatingly frustrating, but most days my heart just swells. She's perfection, and I can't imagine life without her. She's the reason I was put on this earth.

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