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                <title>Borderline Successful: Hysterectomies and Why You Need to Back the Fuck Up</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[Content warning: Heavy menstrual bleeding, medical trauma and stress, surgery, reproductive health, medical racism, reference to historical involuntary sterilization. I had a period that lasted 26 days. It ended with emergency surgery to remove a fibroid from my womb. Before that, I spent weeks bleeding, calling doctors, forcing myself into work only to spend a quarter of the day in the bathroom, and texting people to bring pads in bulk to my office. So many super ultra jumbo tampons, paired wit...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 03:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>Borderline Successful: Everyone Wants a Bite</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[Content note: This post discusses alcohol and drug use, explicit sexual activity, questions of consent, and feeling used after a sexual encounter. This summer, I was involved with someone I’ll call G for about six weeks. The connection was supposed to be casual, friends first. It quickly became too intimate, too public, and too much like dating. When I tried to name that during a wine-and-cheese night, it came out as a frantic, slightly unhinged “what are we?” G decided we should stop having sex...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>Borderline Successful: Starter Soulmate</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[Content note: This one is about dating, sex, rejection, and getting in your feelings about all of it.]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 15:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>Borderline Successful: I’m Baby</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[Content warning: trauma, sexuality, kink/BDSM dynamics, age-gap relationship dynamics, dissociation, and blurred boundaries around care, submission, and control.]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>Borderline Successful: Monogamy, Now?</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[Content warning: relationship anxiety, fear of abandonment, sex/dating, nonmonogamy, attachment insecurity, and struggles with self-worth.]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>Borderline Successful: Better On My Back</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[Content warning: dating fatigue, sex, stigma, emotional overwhelm, mental health spirals, rejection sensitivity, and feeling reduced to your body. Moon: Gemini Sun: Cancer]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 05:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>What’s Playing in the Studio: Daring to Stay Soft</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[Step into What’s Playing in the Studio, my playful music check-in—part experiment, part time capsule, and all about the joy of sharing what’s on repeat. This one is the soft / low-stimulation side of the menu—pretty, moody, lyrics-forward comfort listening with a tender edge. A tight little menu for soft comfort + tender ache + melodrama-as-release.]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>Borderline Successful: Guessing Instead of Asking (Unsent Notes, 2022–2023)</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[This post is a collection of old, unsent phone notes from the same relationship, written between 2022 and 2023. They follow a months-long cycle of thoughts I could have shared with my partner. These notes show how I tried to figure out closeness by guessing and reading into things, instead of just asking directly. I’m not with this person anymore, and that’s a good thing. I still love them, but being in love made me spiral. What made it so intense was how often I treated uncertainty like it was ...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 05:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>Borderline Successful: Letting People Love Me</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[Content warning and context: this post discusses sex, nudity, body image after major body changes, BPD disclosure, fear around intimacy, and old patterns of confusing being wanted, hunted, or hurt with being loved. It’s exhausting, watching someone fall in love with your public-facing self: the lilt in my voice; confidence wafting through the air like my lavender oil; right on the edge of sassy and rude. That person is me, yes, but it’s still a filter. Tea without the leaves. In private, I like ...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 05:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>Borderline Successful: Recovery, in public (Did you eat today?)</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[Content warning: eating disorder / disordered eating (discussion of food habits, body image, and recovery). contextual note: I had a gastric sleeve (weight loss surgery) in 2019. In 2022, I was diagnosed with anorexia. I still technically carry that diagnosis. What did you have for lunch today?]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 19:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>Tarot Check-ins: 1-card vibe check: 5 minutes, no pressure</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[If tarot has been calling your name but you don’t want to start with a full spread, this is the gateway practice. One card. One question. Five minutes. No pressure, no lore test, no “am I doing it wrong?” panic. This is reflection work, not a roadmap. I’m not going to include numbers or anything that functions like instructions for self-destruction.]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 03:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>What’s Playing in the Studio: Turn the Lights Back On</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[Step into What’s Playing in the Studio, my playful music check-in—part experiment, part time capsule, and all about the joy of sharing what’s on repeat. This mini-drop is part of my Mental Health Awareness Month lane: regulation, but make it a playlist. This one is the activation + momentum side of the menu—music I use to move, climb out, and turn the lights back on.]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 11:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>Tarot Check-ins: 3-card spread: I Can • I Will • Because</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[If you liked the one-card pull, this is the next step: still simple, still gentle, but a little more directive. This is the I Can • I Will • Because spread: three cards to name your capacity, pick one action, and anchor it in purpose. This is reflection work, not a verdict.]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 11:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>Lunar Intentions: April Moons (Libra full moon + Aries new moon)</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[April has two big lunar beats for me: a Libra Full Moon (Apr 1) that shows me what’s out of balance, and an Aries New Moon (Apr 17) that dares me to start anyway. This post is going live on Apr 17 (New Moon day) — which means I’m starting the series a little after April began, but I still want a real read on the whole month. So I’m looking back at the Libra Full Moon that already happened and setting intentions for the rest of April. This is Lunar Intentions — my monthly moon check-in for how I ...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>What’s Playing in the Studio: Soft Aesthetics + Cathartic Vibes</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[Welcome to What’s Playing in the Studio, my playful music check-in (part experiment, part time capsule, and mostly a share of what’s on repeat). Today’s theme: soft aesthetics + cathartic vibes (pretty-but-weird choices, left turns in the production, lyrics that swerve, and “wait…why is this hitting so hard?” moments). Lush songs with a shadow in the corner (velvet, eerie, and quietly cinematic).]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 01:57:53 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>Special Days: Apr 23 double-header (Birthday + World Book Day)</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[It’s my birthday (and World Book Day, and Shakespeare’s birthday too). I grew up loving books in the most literal way: in libraries, with a librarian mom. I also worked at Barnes &amp; Noble for about two and a half years in total, and I even did story time there sometimes, which feels extremely on-brand in retrospect. Apr 23 is also Shakespeare’s birthday (and death date), which feels aggressively writer-coded. There are enough epitaphs about him, so I will say this: I want my flowers while I’m ali...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>Media Study: Mouse City</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[Quick note before we get into it: this is a blog post, not a journal article. I’m keeping the jargon (and the research-method rabbit holes) to a minimum on purpose. I self-assigned this topic because the story is too fascinating to leave alone; yes, it might be a little rough around the edges. I love an info dump. I love sitting down and saying: this is the niche topic I’ve been obsessed with this week. And I’ve absolutely brought up the internet glory hole that is the concept of “Mouse City” in...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>Witchy Ways: My BPD placement, explained</title>
                <link>https://atilacore.pckt.blog/witchy-ways-my-bpd-placement-explained-47mya1t</link>
                <description><![CDATA[🪐 Quick content note: This post mentions BPD, emotional dysregulation, and recovery language, but the vibe is light. Take what helps and leave the rest. The premise (aka: no, I’m not blaming the stars) I’m not outsourcing my personality to the sky. I’m using my birth chart like a mirror: a way to name patterns I’m already working on, with language that’s specific enough to be useful.]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>Borderline Successful: Reopening the Project</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[I’m reopening Borderline Successful. Quick hello If you’re new here, hi. If you’ve been around before, hi again.]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 05:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>What’s Playing in the Studio: Heard at Work (yes, I still Shazam)</title>
                <link>https://atilacore.pckt.blog/whats-playing-in-the-studio-heard-at-work-yes-i-still-shazam-pt38fky</link>
                <description><![CDATA[Step into What’s Playing in the Studio, my playful music check-in—part experiment, part time capsule, and mostly just me sharing what’s on repeat. Today’s theme: songs I caught in the wild at work (overhead speakers, someone else’s playlist, a random moment between calls) and immediately had to look up. Yes, I still use Shazam. No, I’m not ashamed.]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>Field Notes: Do I get the MacBook Neo?</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[I want to be honest about what this is: part practical upgrade, part new era temptation. The dream is an orange desktop setup (or that orange iMac), but my real-life needs a laptop I can carry to libraries and cafes, so the Citrus Neo became my next best whimsy compromise. Instead of impulse buying, I am writing the decision out in public. Here is the fork in the road. It is not just Neo or no Neo. It is whether the Neo is exactly enough at a reasonable price, or whether I should wait and pay mo...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>What’s Playing in the Studio (This Week’s Loop)</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[Step into What’s Playing in the Studio, my playful music check-in—part experiment, part time capsule, and all about the joy of sharing what’s on repeat. Think of this as the “soundtrack to me being a functional human” report: the tracks I can’t quit, the albums I spin start to finish, and the music that keeps my feet moving and my mood up. Consider this first post the pilot episode: a full dump so I can set the palette, several mini lists to start, what’s hype, what’s tender, what’s helping me l...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>Welcome to The Studio</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[Studio is my Notion home base. It holds my week (priorities, trackers, and the links I always need) and gives me a starting line when my week feels slippery. In this post, I’m giving you the tour — what the dashboard looks like, why it’s built this way, and how I use it to turn Notion work into posts on https://atilacore.pckt.blog. When I open the Studio page, I can see my week, my priorities, and what I’m doing next.]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:51:01 +0000</pubDate>
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