Melissa

this brought me and my teenage son so much joy to watch. thanks for sharing.

Non-slip ceramic mug to place on the dashboard on your car. It didn't slip!

My mom had one of these in the 1980s, lol, wut.

This is so gross 🤮; it is painful to read.

Me. I am an adoptee that got married that way.

‘Why didn’t you tell me?’: the Australian push to have all adopted people told their full history and identity Some people can get all the way through adulthood without knowing they are adopted. Should the government tell them?

My pre-adoptive identity IS my identity. To conceal it is to violate the right to know who I am.

People who dismiss our demands for the truth with “love is stronger than DNA” are engaged in deliberate and desperate obfuscation.

And concealing the truth is the opposite of love. 🥚

It is visually marvelous that the pencil's eraser appears to be chewed on.

I'm constantly amazed by adoptive parents who are also writers who talk about honoring people's stories but also continue to speak for and over adoptees.

Do you not grasp that we adoptees experience life through a lense you can't possibly understand?

Please stop writing and speaking for us.

I was adopted solely because I was female. Had I been born male, my adoptive parents would have selected another baby. "You're still an object" is a true and painful awareness for adoptees.

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Rockwell Kent, Moonlight in the Adirondacks, 1960. Oil on Panel

A house with a stage-like opening in the front, revealing a landscape beyond in daylight. The surrounding scene is night with stars and full moon, a forest beneath. Painting.

Goodnight.
🖼️ La Maison, René Magritte, c.1947.

"It's a bright June morning now and I have the windows open to let the quiet out"

From @theferocity.bsky.social's book, Alive at the End of the World: bit.ly/saeedalive

#poetry #books #writing

Oh also the Umbrella Academy and Locke and Key

Minus episode one of Dark Matter…That was stressful

Silo and/or Dark Matter

Things that feel better than doomscrolling:
-cleaning your home
-taking a walk
-playing with a pet
-calling a friend
-donating to charity
-reading a book
-taking a hot shower
-eating a meal
-building a puzzle
-stretching
-working on a craft
-planning how to spite your enemies
-going to sleep early

lol 😂

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Yes, their/our entire reality is being untethered is very well said. Rebuilding the gigantic network of stories we've told ourselves our whole lives about who we are and where we are from and why we are the way we are...all of it shifts. It is hard work to do and even harder to do alone. 💖

Other adoptees is the best thing I have found so far. Other adoptees sharing their thoughts make me feel seen.

You explain this so well. I came out of the fog last summer and I am in my 50s. I wish people could tread water with us as well.

White Spy as Zendaya on the carpet at the 2025 Met Gala.

characters at this year’s met gala: thread

or if they consulted adoptees. I am hoping through the adoptee hive mind, we can learn more. Link to the award:
afsp.org/story/americ... /end

Well I optimistically assumed (ahem) since the MC is adopted, that the father/daughter writing duo were basing the MC on her being adopted. She suffers from anxiety and depression irl. The book has won awards for suicide prevention. Unable to confirm that she is adopted /1

I wonder if they consulted adoptees in the creation of the story, although historically it seems adoptees are not consulted. I am annoyed/angry. Ugh

oh god, I cannot find anywhere that she is. WHY WOULD THEY DO THAT?

Cover image of the graphic novel, A Haunted Girl. The picture shows a girl, somberly looking at her reflection in a pool of water. Behind the girl is a monstrous entity, depicting the anxiety and depression the girl feels inside. From Bookshop.org: The fate of all life on Earth depends on a girl who doesn’t know if she wants to live. Cleo, a 16-year-old adopted Japanese-American whose anxiety and depression drives her to suicidal thoughts, is fresh out of the hospital and trying unsuccessfully to reintegrate back into her old life. What she doesn't know is that her real struggles are just beginning as she finds herself encountering an increasingly terrifying succession of ghosts. Is she losing her grip on reality...or is the explanation much, much worse. Courtesy of writers Ethan Sacks (Old Man Hawkeye, Star Wars: Bounty Hunters) and his daughter, Naomi Sacks and artist Marco Lorenzana (Hulk), this gripping saga aims to be both a paranormal thriller and an inspiration to those who are battling their own, less literal, demons in real life.

Have any #adoptees read A Haunted Girl by Ethan and Naomi Sacks? I am reading and am curious if others had read or heard of the graphic novel. 🥚

I bought egg tarts today. Thank you for the reminders 💕

My 16 yo son and I just saw Sinners and wow, what a film.

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