When I Was A Child, Every Well-meaning Adult With A Nine-to-five Soul And A Dried-up Imagination Told

When I was a child, every well-meaning adult with a nine-to-five soul and a dried-up imagination told me that being a writer wasn’t a “real job.”

“You’re just a little girl with big words,” they said. “Books don’t pay the bills.”

As if paying bills was the most thrilling thing a person could live for.

I never understood why grown-ups were so committed to shoving a fire extinguisher down the throat of a kid who just wanted to tell stories.

I kept wondering, why is it so threatening for a little girl to believe her words could matter?

Now I know why.

Because they never had a dream of their own.

And when you’ve never had one or gave yours up a long time ago, it’s easier to mock someone else’s.

It’s easier to roll your eyes at someone chasing stars when you’ve chosen to stay face-down in the dirt.

And still… I write. Not because I was told I couldn’t. But because I had to.

Because I promised that little girl I’d keep going, even when it hurt. Especially when it hurt.

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I REGRET EVERYTHING WHY WOULD I DO THIIISSSS

someone PLEASE tell me this is a shit idea and i should never click the post button ever ever ever

why did i think i could make an ask blog.....

like yeah i love prussia but i hardly watched the anime....

like

all i have done is watch like every single video i can over prussia's scenes in hetalia but i feel like thats not enough like ill do one thing and everyone will gloss over it and be like wow youre stupid thats all stupid


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3 weeks ago

YAYAYAYYAAYAAAYAYAYAYAAYAAYAYAYAY I LOVE ORANGE JUICE!!!!!!!!!

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like this (i drew us in there)

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3 weeks ago

hahahaha austria is so silly im gonna put him in a blender <3

its out of love :3


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3 weeks ago

guys i feel sick af and having a cast succkkkssss :(


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1 week ago

chat its time for story writing

is it the tism in me that made me do this...a whole family tree finding every single connection between nations...

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3 weeks ago

my question is why call forks and stuff utensils and they're widely known as just UTENSILS and then someone turns right around and says 'writing utensil' like how come that gets a well known specific

why isnt everything a utensil then???

electronic utensil uhh sitting utensil sleeping utensil????? walking utensil

if you're gonna do it at least do it all the way


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2 weeks ago

actually fucking crying cause what do you mean the thing ive done for years you actually find really annoying and you hate when i do it and when i get upset on the verge of tears over it you get mad at me for not instantly alologizing and now im crying in a gas station bathroom


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1 week ago

you know you love them when your dash is full of their interest and not yours because you've started grtting more into their interest

<3333333 my wife


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1 week ago

lets just pretend it happened in a shorter amount of time in the nation world :D

.....youre kidding me

why did they wait EIGHT YEARS after signing an alliance to go into battle i aint writing eight whole fucking years between them signing an alliance and then them going against plc like no fuck that

3 weeks ago

"you need to listen to your brother talk about his interests and entertain him"

oh, but when i want to tell you guys about history or do flag trivia or show you something related to that suddenly im obnoxious about my interests and i never stop talking about them and no one wants to hear about it?

you know, have favoritism all you want, but at least pretend its not as bad. you get mad at me for having a discord server with people i dont know but at least when theyre not really sharing my interest THEY STILL GIVE A SHIT ABOUT WHAT I SAY.


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