Erica Wilkinson

"I'm going to recap the scholarly debate on this topic for the last century, then we'll synthesize that research, then draw conclusions about the topic"

THAT'S ALL I NEED! Give me a road map!

Tell me what question/theory you're about to cover.

Tell me.

Tell me what your conclusion is about what you just told me.

I am just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to organize his thoughts.

Dear Academics - for the love of all that is understandable, would you PLEASE give us a road map before you just plunge into your work?

I'm 30 pages into recaps/speculations/distinctions of all the scholarly theories for the last 80 years, and I STILL have no clue where we're going with this.

She's clean! And I lost the little fake pearl out of the heart charm in the cleaning process but I luckily had a real pearl from an old broken earring so I just popped that in instead!

Completely soldered! Ready for cleaning!

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Oh! I missed these two -- figure skater and drum

Haven't figured out what meaning to assign them yet

Then last we have mother goose for my love of fairy tales and books, and a camel for my uncle George (Aunt Jan's husband)

(Also the gun goes with the Tex-Mex section)

Travel (the ones that didn't end up on my necklace) are hula girl and boat

I'm saying the iron is for setting up house on my own, and then the angel was original, and the cross goes with her of course

Animals and interests -- dog, cat, elephant, bear, cooking, and skating

We have the Sentimental Section - my initial and the bird house were original to the bracelet, then we have luck, love, nickname (mini-mouse), and locket (which will have Aunt Jan's/my Moms pictures if possible)

I have a whole Tex-Mex section (boot, mariachi, spurs, horse)

I have to figure out how to get photos small enough for the locket

Mark 1 on the bracelet.... I think I extended it a bit too long. Gonna remove 2 links, reposition those charms, and see

In a fun twist, I've actually been to all of the places that the charms depict, including one from the little island that I used to dock at when I used to sail in the sea scouts in highschool

If I consolidated them together onto the too-short child's bracelet and attached them to my too-short silver snake chain I end up with an extremely fun custom necklace that would complement the finished bracelet SO WELL

OMG, I had a brain wave.

One of the bracelets was a child's size.

Also 2 of the charms I already had in my stash from thrifting in the past plus a few of the ones I have coming on the last bracelet are all location/state charms.

This is going to be so dope. I'm exited

So the first batch of charms came today and I'm pulling them all off the old bracelets and mapping out where I might want them

and I realized that getting nearly 30 charms attached to my bracelet was going to be hella money at a local jeweler. But you know what I can get for 30$ ? A soldering kit with silver solder! I can do it myself!

But my uncle joe (her son) gave me 300$ for Christmas, and I decided to spend that money to buy/thrift the 26 years worth of charms my bracelet is missing.

So I've now thrifted multiple vintage charms and/or charm bracelets (that I can pillage for their charms) on Goodwill Auctions,

So when I was like 12 years old my Great Aunt Jan gave me a silver charm bracelet, and told me that she was going to buy me a new charm for all my big life stuff. Then she died when I was 14, and I never got any more charms

I lived in Conservative/Christian Nationalist spaces for WAY TOO LONG to not know EXACTLY what buttons to push on these men.

Attack their masculinity specifically in their self-described roles as Leaders, Protectors, and Providers -- linking it back to their vote/non-vote

It's hilarious.

I've taken up a new hobby, which is being mean to "non-political/other" men on Hinge.

Instead of just ignoring those likes (my habit), I've been matching, sending flirty little messages followed by, "So who did you vote for?" then attacking their character and masculinity when they answer badly.

Me: uses Ground News & Media Bias Fact Check, cultivated a network of independent journalists on socials that I trust on various topics, fully reads articles, & attempts to verify from multiple sources before sharing

Him: You just believe whatever the MSM says. I get the news from Moist Critical 🤡

OH MY GOSH I FIGURED IT OUT.

I was having a discussion about ICE in Minnesota with a man who is a reflexive contrarian, and his takes were so bad and misinformed I asked him what news sources usually are, and he rattled off the names of some twitch streamers/podcasters which I wrote down

Untitled checklist Donut operator Azmongold Moist Critical

Just went into my notes app for the first time in months, and if anyone can figure out what I was thinking about when I wrote this you get a gold star

Maybe the ransomware attack is preemptive to an attack on Anthrocon to prevent the furries from getting proper medical care as an attack on our national IT infrastructure

Here is my EXTREMELY CORRECT prediction for this season of The Pitt

The hospital *does* get attacked by a ransomware hack + something happens at Anthrocon to send a pack of furries to the Pitt = the furries (who are all high level IT professionals) save the hospital from the hackers.