We Don’t Talk Enough About How Martin Was Likely Mostly Running The Institute By Himself (cuz Peter

i dont consider myself a 'fashion guru' by any means but one thing i will say is guys you dont need to know the specific brand an item you like is - you need to know what the item is called. very rarely does a brand matter, but knowing that pair of pants is called 'cargo' vs 'boot cut' or the names of dress styles is going to help you find clothes you like WAAAYYYY faster than brand shopping

I hate it when people ask me what genre of music i listen to because i genuinely have no clue. It's called Music I Like genre. The best genre out there

fucking hate it when the stuff everybody says "actually works" does actually work.

hate exercising and realizing i've let go of a lot of anxiety and anger because i've overturned my fight-or-flight response.

hate eating right and eating enough and eating 3 times a day and realizing i'm less anxious and i have more energy

hate journaling in my stupid notebook with my stupid bic ballpoint and realizing that i've actually started healing about something once i'm able to externalize it

hate forgiving myself hate complimenting myself more often hate treating myself with kindness hate taking a gratitude inventory hate having patience hate talking to myself gently

hate turning my little face up to the sun and taking deep breaths and looking at nature and grounding myself and realizing that i feel less burdened and more hopeful, more actually-here, that i am able to see the good sides of myself more clearly, that i am able to see not only how far i have to grow - but also how much growth i have already done & how much of my life i truly fill with light and laughter and love

horrible horrible horrible. hate it but i'm gonna do it tho

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-🃏 🍮 Custard Cookie the III succeeding in what Pure Vanilla Cookie is currently struggling to do.-

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It would be so funny to me.. 🥺

(also like I wanna explore dynamics with shadow milk cookie like with other characters ? ? ? I think it'd be fun too.)

Reasons why Jon Archivist is truly a character of all time:

Had the police called on him several times when he was a young child

Keeps his rib and the ashes of the season one antagonist next to his stationary drawer

Promised he wouldn’t get lost in tunnels and then immediately got lost in aforementioned tunnels

Has no clue what a joke is

Learned how remarkably easy it is to buy an ax in central London

Had to have two separate interventions

Told people his place of employment before traumatising them for life

The first character he ever said ‘I love you’ to is a cat

Allegedly participated in amdram

Watches documentaries and collects some kind of weird shit (my headcanon is Soviet Union postcards) when he’s not being a paranoid mess

Canonically looks like he hasn’t slept in weeks

Knows nothing about library science

Fell head over heels for a man that he hated until he learned he lied on his resumé

Has been referred to as Jesus or Jesus-adjacent at least twice

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Knows what a meme is and said “LOL” in the first episode

Rode on a merry-go-round sometime during his university days because he was in a weird place emotionally

Died for our Jonathan Sins

Is probably a computer now playing minesweeper with his boyfriend and evil 200+ year old boss

1921: four trans activists had their conversation interrupted by photographer Willie Römer. He took this shot outside Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexual Science 12 years before Nazis stormed the facility and burned its books. The picture is among the most captivating I've colorized/restored from the pre-war era. You can see each subject's expression so clearly. Gwendolyn Ann Smith, the founder of Trans Day of Remembrance, wrote about the photo a few years ago: https://www.ebar.com/story.php?ch=news&sc=news&id=263408

An early Halloween cartoon for Guardian Books

Here, have more perchance incorrect quotes

Dark Cacao Cookie: What are you two arguing about this time?

White Lily Cookie: She's always using common phrases incorrectly!

Golden Cheese Cookie: Cry me a table, White Lily Cookie.

Hollyberry Cookie: Pure Vanilla Cookie is off at an appointment, so while he's gone, I’m going to cut the sleeves off all of my shirts.

Golden Cheese Cookie: Why?

Hollyberry Cookie: They’re like 90% of my impulse control.

Golden Cheese Cookie: There are three ways to handle a difficult situation. The right way, the wrong way, and the Hollyberry Cookie way.

Pure Vanilla Cookie: Isn't that the wrong way? Golden Cheese Cookie: Yes, but it's faster.

Golden Cheese Cookie: I apologize for saying 'fuck' in front of Pure Vanilla Cookie.

Hollyberry Cookie: You just said it again.

Pure Vanilla Cookie: ...

Golden Cheese Cookie: I am not a role model.

White Lily Cookie: I’m not mad, I just need to know why you two had a fake ID.

Pure Vanilla Cookie: *Incoherent mumbling*

White Lily Cookie: Huh?

Hollyberry Cookie: …You need to be 18 to hold the puppies at PetCo.

Pure Vanilla Cookie: Wow, great work on the Halloween decorations. Where did you get the fake skeletons?

Dark Cacao Cookie: Fake?

Golden Cheese Cookie: I have an idea.

Hollyberry Cookie: A good idea?

Golden Cheese Cookie: Let's not get ahead of ourselves.

*Golden Cheese Cookie is fighting a monster*

White Lily Cookie: Just stay calm! You already have everything you need to beat it!

Golden Cheese Cookie: The power to believe in myself!?

White Lily Cookie: No, a spear! Stab it!

People have written a lot of touchy-feely pieces on this subject but I thought I’d get right to the heart of the matter