Different situations, same underlying point: freedom may depend not just on having the right to choose, but on having enough real alternatives for that choice to mean anything. A country deeply dependent on one larger neighbor can remain politically sover
forom the morning birds.ynly heard its songs
you have never seen the night,
fou are the sun.
ior my sister, for the birds
nspired by Mitski’s “Your Best American Girl” — “you’re the sun, you’ve never seen the night” and “well, I’m not the moon, I’m not even a star”
TIhis *has* to be unpopular and legit. So I'm a dad of three, and for the most part they are great kids. They all have their moments though and it's one of my biggest sources of anxiety. kinda like when a random kid has a public meltdown
IY haven’t posted on there in literal years but considering getting back to writing https://t.co/cDFI59fowE I found my old ao3 account and some old fanfic. I genuinely did not think that anyone was going to look at it or bookmark it but people did which is pretty cool!
The so-called “stress hormone” has become shorthand for everything that feels wrong with modern life — the exhaustion, the racing mind, the sense of never switching off. The good…
DIid I really mean that? Or was it all a comforting lie? Who am I lying to?Is that really me? Are those my words? I said them, but they don't feel true.
feel like I'm pretending to be a better me, but it's so far away it feels like staring at a different person.