Guilt must truly ask itself what it’s purpose is for it to stick around. It must justify itself, it must be useful. “Deserving” and “being correct” is not enough. Those are irrelevant justifications. Guilt must be willing to become growth and culpability or it must bid farewell
me: lol rihanna costume inspiration is cindy-lou-who meets the grinch ¯\(°_o)/¯
@ferntasie - more like she hunted down the grinch (。•̀ᴗ-)✧
me: so...the costume is cindy-lou-who wearing a genuine grinch pelt??! ヘ(。□°)ヘ
...ngl i was honestly disappointed she didn't appear in the half-time show wearing this outfit (ಠ_ಠ)
found out that the original "grandma got run over by a reindeer" song occasionally dips out of its goofy premise to get weirdly grim and real. hearing the second verse with no santa references that's all about the family dealing with the aftermath of her death ("it's not christmas without grandma") and thinking about my own fears of losing my loved ones and being too embarrassed to explain to my concerned friends why i ran out of the room in tears in the middle of a holiday party
it's such hard work being such a cute mousegirl
girls keep putting me in their pockets and taking me home with them because im so irresistible and easily pocketed
it's nice being a hit with the ladies but they don't always call me an uber home :/
I'm a bit of a Grinch. Holiday gift exchanges can be stressy for me for several reasons—the guessing game of figuring out who's planning to gift-exchange with me so it doesn't turn out awkwardly one-sided; being a minimalist who's overwhelmed by receiving too many new possessions; the possibility of inflicting the same overwhelmedness on other people; and the fact that I and many of my friends are tight on money.
This year I've started an opt-in gifting policy: I've admitted all those things to my friends, and told them that if gift-exchanging with me is important to them, they should actively let me know and provide me with a wishlist.
I'm pleasantly surprised how well people have taken it, and how many people have taken my blessing to not gift-exchange with me! I've got my gifting this year down to a few relatives and one close friend and I didn't have to do any guessing about what to buy and for whom!