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Hey Tegan,

Sorry if this is one of my longer ones, I have a lot to say!

You talked briefly in your post about the difference in you and Sara being 12 versus being 13, I get that too but in a different way, when I was 12 was pre covid, I turned 13 at the end of 2019, so there’s that divide for me but also, for me I ‘lost my innocence’ at 14 not 13, and by that I don’t mean something else (don’t read into it), I just mean I (at 15) have a lot of mental health issues and figuring out the gender part of my identity at 14 I was beginning to understand the discomfort I felt around my body was actually gender dysphoria. Anyway, to talk about things less depressing than my life, (joking, sort of). 😁🤪

In terms of covid boosters, as you’d know if you remember talking to the Australian person on the 2021 t-shirt zoom, the vaccine roll out was ridiculously slow, in fact it’ll be a year on October 14th since I had my first covid vax (I know). The government decided that people part of a certain age group, I can’t remember I think it was 60 than 50 than 40 (you get the idea), but they took forever to lower to age group to vaccinate teens and people in their 20’s (stupid if you ask me, who’s the most likely to break the covid rules and party anyway, teens and people in their 20’s). Anyway, I’m happy you’ve had your 4th. I think my dad’s had three and my mum’s had 4. As for me, I’ve had 2 because if you’ll believe it, even now, I can’t get my 3rd until I’m 16. Idiots! Enough about covid.

I thought your post was really good! Off topic but I agree lanyard is a weird word. I loved the snippet of under my control, I said on my comment on Sara’s most recent post, that I particularly liked the sound of the song names I’m Okay and Under my control, and omg from that snippet was I right! (Fair warning, I’m going to go on a bit of a rant but please still try to read it, Tegan, cause I want to explain how I didn’t get to hear Under my control even though I tried really hard!)

So, when I saw that you were realising a song for 24 hours only and for such a good cause, I signed up to Bandcamp so I’d be ready. Th next day (day of the realise) I got an email from Bandcamp explaning about the 24 hour album that was coming out later that day, I immediately went to check the time difference, it’d be realised at 6pm. Easy, I could do that! So I set a timer for 6 and logged into band camp. (I’d explained to my mum about the album and where the proceeds were going to) and so at 6 I asked my mum to help me buy the album (I don’t have a credit card), she helped me and said half the cost would come out of my pocket money. I nodded. But after we’d bought it I slowly started to figure out that the only song I could hear was the first song, my mum tried it too and had the same result. After 2 hours of trying to sort it out we called my tech savvy uncle who wasn’t able to figure it out either. So we gave up and I said I’d check on it the next day, but I had a brainwave before bed and realised, I’d seen it and two other things my mum had bought on Bandcamp years ago, all together. I went back to find the tab and realised we’d paid for it on mum’s no longer active account which is no longer active because her work shut the email she had down, and we couldn’t do forgot password without the email. So that’s how I ended up paying for it only to not be able to hear it! Good cause though, and I’ll hear it soon!

(Me editing- you probably gathered but apart from just before I talk about the tab, when I say something about realising I mean releasing but it’s almost 1am and I don’t want to go back and change all the different times I say it).

Thanks for reading this far, anyone who did!

Phoenix, he/they/ri/it, 15, Australia

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