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sheetz

it's so intense in there. as a native to wawa regions (i had no access to sheetz for 22 years) i feel like a traitor for saying this but sheetz has brought me a few bittersweet memories and now i feel bound to it. it's almost so ridiculous and visually loud in there that pledging my loyalty anywhere else feels dangerous. anyways... their jalapeno poppers.....

@stellate

Mar 18, 2024

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Franlkin, Pennsylvania

My mom grew up in this town, so we would visit about twice a year when I was a kid. Her family has been there for generations after they immigrated from Italy. The hills and trees are beautiful, the tiny downtown area has some great antique shops, and the old houses and churches are so charming. Pennsylvania grass has such a specific smell, especially in the summer. I miss that smell so often. I remember scooping clay out of the lakebed at Two-Mile Run and going to old car shows with my Grandpap in the summer. My Granny lived out in the country nearby, in Rocky Grove. It's a very quaint little American town! If anyone ever passes through Franklin, please try to stop by The Printer's Cabinet & Curiosities! It's an itty bitty building across from the town library that is packed to the BRIM, like the CEILING, with amazing vintage & antique oddities. The guy who runs it is so nice and it's still the best oddities store I've ever been to.

@gforce2001

Mar 9, 2025

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crabtree, pennsylvania

i used to live here when i was a kid in a big farmhouse next to a field of cows and a field of soybeans. population of about 200, with a butcher shop that always gave me a lollipop whenever i went in and the little italian restaurant rizzo’s that every major event happened at. i remember watching the fireworks on the 4th of july with our neighbors who ran the dairy down the street, i remember going on hour long walks through the fields, i remember eating raw deer corn off the stalk, i remember the hunting blinds in the woods nearby, i remember the farm kids coming to pick me up in the gator to go pick blackberries. pretty good place to be a kid. we didn’t live there long but i miss it a lot.

@paperpendragon

Mar 7, 2025

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pi.fyi irl

chicago hang success !! it was so lovely to meet everyone today <3 more plans incoming soon 📥mossyelfiejoe_m_millerbashfulchicken

@ryn

Aug 18, 2024

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cool aunt

my sister just had a baby and i am considering the type of aunt?/guncle ? (the designation becomes tricky w gender lol) i may be. but ultimately the archetype of “cool aunt”—mysterious, distant-yet-warm, uninvolved in family dramas, arrives at family gatherings wearing strange, somehow stylish clothes, bearing copious gifts and floating on an air of urban life—resonates most soundly with me this has also led me to reflect on how my mom’s sister played such a key role in my  youth by revealing to me a foundational truth that this is not all that there is! ‘twas a very hopeful message to me, a miserable child/teen unsuited to christian suburban life, forced to procure my wardrobe primarily from the women’s section at the department store because that is what my mother deemed reasonable (and kohl’s cash)  some of the notable moments my aunt bestowed upon my adolescence include: • taking me to see moonrise kingdom at the indie art deco theater in a nearby mountain town  • driving me to philly for shows at tla even though she had no idea who the artists were and would stand in the back; also paying for all my meals and whims on our south street jaunts • curating a collection of signed books from author visits at her local library, which she’d always drop off nonchalantly as gifts (charles santore picture books, lemony snicket !)  • signing me up for 5ks and carting me along to her races • explaining to me what a “lesbian” is and taking me to meet said lesbians in a dimly lit new york restaurant where i tried alligator sausage and felt so urbane  • general trips to ny for broadway shows and museums   • introducing me to rummikub • letting me roam free at community music festivals from late afternoon til dusk, where i’d encounter children from different counties, get in harmless trouble and infuse my life with the intrigue of those unknown to me but in those brief moments 

@ryn

Sep 25, 2024

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feeling the cumulative effects of therapy, exercise, and rest

these landed all at once and i’m feeling tapped into a wellspring of compassion and gratitude

@ryn

Dec 6, 2024