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[ SECRET POST #5532 ]

⌈ Secret Post #5532 ⌋

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I think it's funny, especially if they pick a goofy picture to go along with it.

It's not my fantasy, but if I had to pick I'd rather fantasize about being a well-kept housewife/SAHM now, since it's a fantasy anyway, and at least now divorce is legal, marital rape is not, and I can open a bank account in my own name and not my dad's or husband's.

Then again, my grandmothers were housewives in the 50s, and the happily married one worked as a hairdresser out of her tiny front parlor for extra cash and raised three boys on a shoestring.

The unhappily married one left her kids alone to go drinking until my little kid uncles set the navy housing apartment on fire trying to feed and wash my tiny baby mother. My monster maternal grandfather beat the shit out of grandma when he was called back from the Pacific front (he was a rear admiral) and dragged her home after picking the kids up from CPS. They would've been better off in foster care, since he raped all of them. I never met my maternal grandmother, she died in her early 50s before I was born.

All that is to say, so long as I'm fantasizing, I'd rather dream of being filthy rich in my own right.

Oh gosh yes. A couple times it was the first secret so I was just scrolling down my flist and AAAAAAAHHHHH

And given the reaction one of my very old secrets got, I'm always afraid to look at the responses until I know I'm in a good headspace for it, since there's always the possibility that the way I worded something allows for someone to take offense. :/

Ugh.

So, I mentioned in comments last night about how the Johto Tour in Pokemon Go kinda went south for various reasons. (Though still glad I did it!)

Also in the middle of that I came home and found that one of my bunnies had figured out how to escape his area. And he did so again multiple times last night.

So I had already figured I would wake up tired and in pain today from being out yesterday, and I did, but from less sleep than I would've expected. :/

And then my guts decided to all cramp up at once (having your esophagus cramp sucks by the way - behind your ribs, you can't massage it) and I had to just fight through it to clean up and reorganize my bunnies' spaces so I could switch a couple of them around and hopefully everyone will spend tonight where they are supposed to be and I won't have to get up every few minutes to put them back where they have food/water/litterboxes. :P I love my bunnies but omg they are precocious little beasts.

Eh I still have to do my bare minimum errands and chores (laundry, groceries, bag recycling, wash dishes, etc) but I'm not in a warzone and have a job and don't have COVID, so it could be worse.

:( I'm so sorry. I hope you and your friends/family can all stay safe from the consequences of one power-mad idiot's doings.

Yeah, I'm team Kidby.

I don't really care for either artist.

LOL, you have fun with your Pedro Pascal thirst secrets, OP!

Where do you live that doesn't have covid? Because everywhere still has covid, our leaders are just ignoring it.

Friday night and Saturday were fun. Today sucked out loud.

Agreed. Both their image/idea and music are superb!

AYRT--guess I phrased that wrong. COVID is definitely still a problem here. But I personally don't have it (so far as I know, knock wood) rn.

I'm vaccinated and boosted and keep my mask on indoors everywhere but my house, despite masks not being required here anymore. It's nice not catching every cold ever and also plenty of immunocompromised people are still in danger.

If you mean, mental health standards were wildly misogynistic then yes. If you mean, similar actions or feelings by unhappy people were treated equally as symptoms and intensities of depression and given similar treatment no matter the gender, then no. Regardless, it's a bit different than the state of psychiatry today.

Does anybody else do this? I currently have about five notebooks full of fics that I keep meaning to get round to typing up, but at most while I re-read them I just write in edit notes with a different color pen like I'm my own school teacher.

I can't get to a computer during the day and by the time I do - I just manage to forget or run out of time to type it up before going to bed. But I've been taking notebooks with me for any time I've not able to focus on a book during a break, and just either write more chapters or re-write part of a story.

I've long suspected this is something many women feel and don't express, because we don't want to "set feminism back" or "give men the wrong idea" or come across as stupid/weak/submissive/conservative. Because of course we know that what we really crave about the housewife "fantasy" has very little to do with the reality of being a housewife--then or now.

I am asexual and I still feel a pang of irrational yearning sometimes, when I imagine being a housewife.

The way I've been emotionally processing that pang of yearning, for several years now, is by thinking about the first line of the song Down In The Valley by The Head & The Heart, which goes, "I wish I was a slave to an age-old trade/Like riding around on railcars and working long days."

Does he? Does Jonathan Russell really "wish he was a slave to an age-old trade"? I highly doubt it. But do I understand and resonate with the yearning that inspired said line? Absolutely. It's the same yearning I feel when I imagine being a 50's housewife.

Because yes, I too yearn for the comfort of simplicity. I year for a sense of structure in my life, in my self, the way someone who has been trying fruitlessly to move a boulder for ages and ages might yearn for something they can put their feet against--something that would allow them to finally get some leverage. I yearn to feel that I can handle the tasks my life requires of me, and be seen as capable, and maybe even aspirational in some way. I yearn to feel as though I understand what I must do to pass muster in my life, and I yearn to feel as though I have a hope in hell of actually doing it--because I've honestly never felt either of those things before and I likely never will.

And while the reality of being a 50's housewife, or alternatively, a 'slave' to an age-old trade, would, in reality, be mostly just a nightmare if I were to actually experience it, I think it's very in-keeping with human nature to simplify and romanticize that which we are not experiencing, while simultaneously feeling our current difficulties very heavily and acutely.

not really no, it's more of a "yay attention!" kind of a deal for me lol

I'd be worried about "once is an aberration" because if it's seriously out of character then something caused it (doubtful that it was JUST because of being late) and that something might need dealing with

Well I had to work Friday and Saturday so that sucked already, but I thought I was off work today and had plans. But then I got a call from the assistant manage at work right before I was about to start doing the plans, and apparently I WAS scheduled today but just didn't realize it because I looked at the wrong week's schedule when I was checking if I had to work today. So then I got to go and spend the day dealing with customers instead of the other things I was going to do, including catching up on work for my other, much preferred job. I desperately need to quit the retail business, but I can't until I have the renewed contract for the preferred job safely signed, which I hope and pray will be in just a few weeks because I can't keep doing this, I loathe retail so much and I have no time to do any damn thing.

I used to, back when I was still living at home and we had no internet and the ancient computer didn't have Word. I would write it out in a notebook and then whenever I got a chance to go to the library I would type it up and post it on ff.net immediately. As soon as I got my own laptop with Word I never wrote any fic by hand again because it took so damn long to transcribe it tbh.

Yes, but I don't always even read the comments on my secrets. I tend to decide beforehand whether I'm interested in arguing about the thing I'm expressing in my secret, and if the answer is no, then I just scroll right on past. I'll talk to my friends and family about the topic if I want a discussion--and sometimes I do just that.

Oh my God. What a throwback! My first fics were written on paper (with pencil, however one was written in pen). The last one I wrote on paper...was almost 15 years ago? When I was about 15? Lol.

But I like the idea of going back and writing them in a notebook! These days I just write them on my phone using a word processor app. I used to write them on the computer, but that's time consuming and the phone is quicker on the go/I always carry it with me. Looking back, I always used to read fic on the computer too. Turning fic into PDFs has really changed how I consume fic...but I digress.

The most I'll write on paper might be a few lines of dialogue I want to incorporate later, or bits of a scene. Maybe I'll go back and handwrite. It's a completely different beast, looking back. Makes me a bit nostalgic :)

Same, they're the first band from Eurovision in years that I liked. Wish more bands like that were in Eurovision.

Yeah, if you told me I could have a nice, loving family and a comfortable life and all I would need to do was cook and clean and raise the kids? Sign me up for that in a heartbeat.

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The few times I caught episodes I always hoped for Meg to just leave and be shown having a good, healthy life away from her family.

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