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Jun 26, 2025
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🕊i was out with friends recently and i was reminded of my wattpad era…i just regained access to my old account that i hadn’t touched in 10 or so years. re-reading all my old fanfiction is definitely so embarrassing but it reminds me of a simpler time. i would never write fanfic at my big age now but it’s nice to know 15 year old me had some solid story ideas aside from the cringe. every now and then i would be like “wait i kinda snapped with that.” wouldn’t be the writer i am today without that time. i also had a handful of non-celebrity based fiction up and it was cool to see me coming into my own. not to toot my own horn but my stories were bringing in anywhere between 6k-80k reads and thousands of likes and like i’m proud of little me. i kind of mastered the art of the rom-com in the best way a 14-17 year old could.
Jun 15, 2025
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🎥the internet was not in our pockets and our brains were way fucking healthier for it.
nothing was instantaneous either. i think we all had a LOT more patience. like i ordered my prom dress off the internet and we got SCAMMED HAHAHAH like that shit doesn’t really happen now. like ordering things offline was like a MYSTERY. it was so crazy
i remember having the school phone book they’d publish every year and it was just everyone’s names & phone numbers (i think you could opt out or whatever) but if i wanted to have a play date id have to go to the phone book look up the name and then go to the oldddddd school ass phone with the twisty dial up numbers and they’re parents would answer and i’d have to be like “hi mrs. mom is your son there can i talk to him?” i’d literally call my childhood crush and we‘d talk on the phone all the time but he’d ignore me at school 🙄
i also remember like i could come home from school and it didn’t feel like i was still easily accessible to everyone. i could get away and like recharge properly each night. kids don’t have that these days and it’s soooooo fucked. the more i learn about phones and the more i teach kids, the more i sound like a conservative. im like LET THEM PLAY OUTSIDE ALONE, tell em to come back when the street lights come on!!!!!! NO PHONES until 18!!!!!!
if i could i would change the law that lets ppl market their products to kids under 12 or something. i’d make kids being given phones under 14 illegal.
another funny anecdote from the early 2000s was that in middle school, lil wayne released the carter III and i CALLED MY STEPDAD from school and said you need to pick me up so he took me to newbury comics (irresponsible) we BOUGHT the CD and i blasted it in his car on the way back to school 😂
oohhhhhhh my god also the WAY i would just sit in my room and look up lyrics on AZlyrics.com and just sing the same 4 songs over and over until i learned all the words. or like listen to the song and write out the words if they weren’t up yet 😭😭😭😭
i also opened my diary and there was an entry from like 2011 and it just starts “I love tumblr.”
i also have a lot of sweet memories of going to blockbuster with my mom 🥲 i can still smell the smelly smell and see the rug inside there and i’m half as tall as the VHS shelves 😭
there’s soooo much more, i cherish my childhood now even tho i was neglected as fuck. it was a very special time and i’m very lucky i got to experience that.
nothing was instantaneous either. i think we all had a LOT more patience. like i ordered my prom dress off the internet and we got SCAMMED HAHAHAH like that shit doesn’t really happen now. like ordering things offline was like a MYSTERY. it was so crazy
i remember having the school phone book they’d publish every year and it was just everyone’s names & phone numbers (i think you could opt out or whatever) but if i wanted to have a play date id have to go to the phone book look up the name and then go to the oldddddd school ass phone with the twisty dial up numbers and they’re parents would answer and i’d have to be like “hi mrs. mom is your son there can i talk to him?” i’d literally call my childhood crush and we‘d talk on the phone all the time but he’d ignore me at school 🙄
i also remember like i could come home from school and it didn’t feel like i was still easily accessible to everyone. i could get away and like recharge properly each night. kids don’t have that these days and it’s soooooo fucked. the more i learn about phones and the more i teach kids, the more i sound like a conservative. im like LET THEM PLAY OUTSIDE ALONE, tell em to come back when the street lights come on!!!!!! NO PHONES until 18!!!!!!
if i could i would change the law that lets ppl market their products to kids under 12 or something. i’d make kids being given phones under 14 illegal.
another funny anecdote from the early 2000s was that in middle school, lil wayne released the carter III and i CALLED MY STEPDAD from school and said you need to pick me up so he took me to newbury comics (irresponsible) we BOUGHT the CD and i blasted it in his car on the way back to school 😂
oohhhhhhh my god also the WAY i would just sit in my room and look up lyrics on AZlyrics.com and just sing the same 4 songs over and over until i learned all the words. or like listen to the song and write out the words if they weren’t up yet 😭😭😭😭
i also opened my diary and there was an entry from like 2011 and it just starts “I love tumblr.”
i also have a lot of sweet memories of going to blockbuster with my mom 🥲 i can still smell the smelly smell and see the rug inside there and i’m half as tall as the VHS shelves 😭
there’s soooo much more, i cherish my childhood now even tho i was neglected as fuck. it was a very special time and i’m very lucky i got to experience that.
Jul 20, 2025
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⭐Remember when life was just, life? Not because we were children who hadn’t fully developed our brain, but because life was just, life. It didn’t matter what type of bike you had as long as you had one. You were pretty cool if you had the pegs at the back and could let someone ride with you down the street to the convenience store. Your words were your own. No AI to rewrite it and scrub it for inadequacies. I just miss being. This world has become unrecognizabl. Why can’t we all just bring our bikes to the end of the street corner or that one friends’ house like old times?
Feb 11, 2025
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the situation right now in palestine is so severe ! 85% of gaza's population has entered phase five of malnutrition ! the most critical and dangerous phase ! un trucks overflwoing with aid sit idle as palestinian men , women and children starve to death ! this is not a famine ! this is an engineered tool of genocide ! this is a tol of murder and depopulation !
SPEAK UP FOR THE PEOPLE OF PALESTINE NOW !!
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a mental health break taken with my friend
straight after this we unfortunately had to go back to uni and lock in but the break was nice while it lasted and the flowers were so so pretty