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fishful thinking

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• Miles 🏳️‍🌈 • he/him/his • Canadian • The little creature is Pike Pichael Pikus Pickeral Pickle Piggle Pigroll Pigorelli Pigroast Pinecone Pencilcase Picharl the fish (rat terrier)
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The impermanence of the body is daunting, making it worth it, worried and worried about the time left. It's also an ease, a comfort, a chance for clemency. Knowing my own impermanence, I can choose kindness regardless, I can choose to be gentle. These scars of mine are me, I am alive and they show this, just as my skin has stretched and torn and been cut and sewn. These marks are me whether by accident or on purpose.

#I don't know why but I have seen and heard so many comments about tattoos recently#“do you really want to be 60-70 years old covered in tattoos?”#yes?!#I also want to be 40 and covered in tattoos?#I've been collecting scars and imperfections since I was a child#I think it's really cool that someone can stab art into your skin#I'm not going to be thirteen year old me#so stressed about all the scars and stretch marks#I love my 20"+ scar running clear across my chest in jagged lines just as much as the fish running down my arm#life is temporary and so is this body#it's my job to love it and I will love it even when these tattoos are undefined and indistinguishable#Changing my views on permanence includes my belongings#putting those stickers on my laptop and sewing machine because ultimately#it does not matter#I will continue loving them#(This is my 'do I have lots of feelings or am I just getting sick')#(I finally watched The Last of Us and cried so.much.)
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Reblogged sweatermuppet
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Quilt 1885

Artist/maker unknown, American Made for Sarah Minturn Bacon Edge (American, 1853–1916); made for Jacob Valentine Edge (American, 1841–1913)

Medium: silk and cotton blend satin, silk floss and chenille embroidery, silk cord trim with cotton core, cotton batting, silk taffeta lining

Philadelphia Museum of Art

#oh!
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Reblogged elvenferretots
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hi, a lot of you need a perspective reset

  • the average human lifespan globally is 70+ years
  • taking the threshold of adulthood as 18, you are likely to spend at least 52 years as a fully grown adult
  • at the age of 30 you have lived less than one quarter of your adult life (12/52 years)
  • 'middle age' is typically considered to be between 45-65
  • it is extremely common to switch careers, start new relationships, emigrate, go to college for the first or second time, or make other life-changing decisions in middle age
  • it's wild that I even have to spell it out, but older adults (60+) still have social lives and hobbies and interests.
  • you can still date when you get old. you can still fuck. you can still learn new skills, fashionable, be competitive. you can still gossip, you can still travel, you can still read. you can still transition. you can still come out.
  • young doesn't mean peaked. you're inexperienced in your 20s! you're still learning and practicing! you're developing social skills and muscle memory that will last decades!
  • there are a million things to do in the world, and they don't vanish overnight because an imaginary number gets too big
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Reblogged so-i-did-this-thing
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Recently discovered, fully by accident, that the trick to feeling like you have more time in the day is to actually do shit with the time that's there, which seems fake and wrong and it's frankly infuriating that it works >:|

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This is picking up a bit so I thought I'd mention that, while this trick does work, it is regrettably the hardest fucking thing in the world to do :T

#brutal but worth it
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