I have a little crease line between my eyebrows from furrowing my brow (when squinting, or thinking hard, or frowning grumpily). I used to feel insecure about it, especially because I have vague memories of family telling a child-me that frowning so much would make ages related wrinkles worse if I didn’t stop while my skin was young. (In hindsight, it is hella fucked up that a child was stressing about this)

I have come to terms with my little frowny line now, and even feel somewhat fond of it, for how “me” it is. An ex-partner helped me reach this conclusion by telling me that he found the frown line cute because of how it reminded him of my thinky-face (or my stubbornly grumpy face). At the time, the comment didn’t impact me much, because of course someone who was in love with me would find my idiosyncratic facial expressions endearing, but it eventually clicked that it’s not that these aspects are objectively cute or not, but rather that they are so intensely idiosyncratic.

I can relate to, and respect the grumpy lady at the DMV. When you know yourself well enough, it can be quite fun to play with one’s personal “brand”

I need help to figure out a pose for

I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore, but also change is a slow process that takes energy so all my anger is compressed into a white-hot ball of rage that has replaced motivation