ALT TEXT - Close up of many books lining shelves. The books at the back are higher up than the ones at the front due to egg cartons being used as props
Oh god, I watched Thunderdome on VHS as a kid so much I could recite it verbatim. I loved it! But I'm not so sure it would land the same now. I still covet Tina Turner's chainmail dress tho
it really is true that when you get to a certain age as a woman you suffer zero fools.
someone i don't know got into my DMs and trauma dumped all over me and i firmly and kindly told them that i am not here to listen to a complete stranger tell me their woes
I was extremely bad at protecting my peace in my 20s and 30s and my kind nature was very much taken advantage of. Now, I choose carefully where to place my energies.
This person was obviously struggling but my god, it's quite the jump to go from a bland, parasocial interaction to literally pouring your heart out in three point five seconds
And this is not to shame the person. Their feelings are valid. But I'm not responsible for them.
I feel this pain but seriously, with that elevation and terrain, that's a killer time. When I was at my absolute fittest (and I'm nowhere near that now) my fastest ever 26 miles was 4:41 and that was on flat city ground.
Man, I loved Bewitched as a kid, but rewatching an episode just now, I realized that I was always— ALWAYS— hoping that Darrin would realize how wrong he was for trying to make Samantha reduce herself for him.
It happens so often. And these men specifically target women like this and intentionally smother their fire. It's all about making them submit and defer. Ask me how I know