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You don’t even need to tell anyone, it can just be a little secret you keep with yourself. Today’s seasonal pick is the unnamed sad-scooter misfit toy from Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer.
Why is it so sad? Is it a misfit BECAUSE it’s sad?? Theres nothing wrong with it, it’s just a little frowny.
Devastatingly relatable.
Dec 18, 2024
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getting rid of anything with a face has always made me feel profoundly guilty. the other day i was taking out the trash at work and saw someone's abandoned toy pig suffocating in the bag. i tried to ignore him but i felt a responsibility for his life so i carefully maneuvered my arm through all the half-empty coffee cups and took him out, then put him in the back room.. next to a toy dog i'd also fished out of the garbage a few weeks ago..
naturally i've been unable to part with every stuffed animal i've ever had. for some reason, dolls and other similar toys have been easier for me to part with over the years, but something about getting rid of a plushie of any kind hurts my soul. i can't even donate them to the thrift.. i just envision their little button eyes staring at me trying to understand why i don't want them anymore.. them collecting dust overnight on the shelf as nobody picks them up day after day.. and then what if they end up in a landfill after that!!!
the one i'd like to let go of the most is this stuffed pink manatee with soulless eyes that someone i'm no longer friends with gave me during the worst year of my life. her name is the lighthouse (2019) because that was my favorite movie of that year and i do not think i was sober when i received her. since she dredges up bad memories, i keep trying to put her in my little donation box but i can't do it. i feel so bad. they designed her with these empty half-lidded eyes for some reason and she looks like she's been through enough already.
i've been trying to find some sort of charity/toy drive/women's shelter situation that'll take all these toys but there aren't any local to me.. i hope they find a home someday
Oct 24, 2024
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Hey guys sorry i disappeared. I feel like when i accidentally neglect a stuffed animal and it makes me sad !
Apr 28, 2024
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I’m not going to lie, I used to be the type to cringe at adults whose beds were covered in stuffed animals and still do believe there should be a cut off but I just recently began growing my family of plushies and it’s really upgraded my lounging time, of which there is a lot of. Sometimes I’m not sure what my overall aesthetic is or how I want my home to look but I think it’s somewhere between Korean minimalism and straight up age regressed paradise. I’m unashamed of the joy it brings me to walk into a store, suddenly come across a plushie I feel drawn to and bring it home with a newfound name/personality. My first one was a four foot teddy bear handed down to me by a follower after I posted how much I wanted a giant teddy bear. Shout out to them. His name is Genji, named after Murasaki Shikibu’s “The Tale of Genji”: a classic work of Japanese literature written in the early 11th century centered on the life and loves of a handsome son born to an Emperor. Then, I have a Harbour seal who’s name I forgot so I renamed him Melvin, a grey bunny named Roger and a pink squishmallow named Martha May Vicky Christina Barcelona. I don’t know why they’re mostly male so don’t ask me. I look forward to extending this family.
Dec 6, 2022
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You don’t need to suffer to prove that you’re a good person. You don’t have to stay with the job that makes you question yourself and you don’t have to keep dating that person you’re not quite clicking with. If something feels off then it probably is. I’m not advocating for immediately abandoning your responsibilities and throwing caution to the wind; but in our hearts we know when something is working and when it isn’t.
That thing called intuition is your soul, and you can trust it.
Dec 31, 2024
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There’s just something really energizing knowing that me, Megan Fox, and the Late Elizabeth II share something moderately specific.
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Mar 4, 2025
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I’m tired of jumping through hoops and reframing my mounting dread everyday as ‘an opportunity to make a change‘. I’m tired of thinking that only if I tried harder, or was better or did something different that I would have a better outcome. At what point do you stop trying to jam the same puzzle piece in the same spot and say,
“Hmm maybe this doesn’t fit!”
Am I quitting trying to be an ever optimizing and improving version of myself? Maybe. OR have I successfully gotten what I wanted out of this experience and can peacefully move on without remorse?
I think in 2025 I’m going to start choosing the latter.
Dec 18, 2024