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helena 💛@helenaoftroy· 16d

today’s thoughts ™ brought to you from the cemetery parking lot before my 4:30am shift

a very dark view of an unlit cemetery at night, from inside a car

helena 💛@helenaoftroy· 27d

i didn’t even know it was coming up but apparently today is 800 days free from s-h for us

a screenshot of our days counter showing 800 days since it was last reset (6 may 2024)

helena 💛@helenaoftroy· Jul 9

hell yeah lets goooo

a vip badge for the american football gig in NYC

helena 💛@helenaoftroy· Jun 14

well i didn’t think we would ever get the chance again but we ran the Leeds 10K today! our only goal was to enjoy a sunday morning run around leeds so the time didn’t matter and we really just enjoyed every second of it 🥰 sprinting to the finish on the headrow made me feel very emotional!

helena 💛@helenaoftroy· Jun 4

it looks like the lorax!

helena 💛@helenaoftroy· May 30

new achievement unlocked: run a half marathon

a screenshot of our running app showing we ran 21.16km today in 2 hours 48 minutes 57 seconds

helena 💛@helenaoftroy· May 17

you mind your own damn business, that’s what you do

“I Think Someone Is Living in the Storage Unit Next to Mine. What Should I Do?”
from the The New York Times

helena 💛@helenaoftroy· May 10

still making gains in 2026! officially i have already run more KM this year than all of last year ☺️ 270km and counting!

a screenshot of my running app showing a 17.01km run today in a time of 2:15:03 for an average pace of 7:56 per kilometre

helena 💛@helenaoftroy· May 1

let’s go let’s go let’s go!!!!!!!

we have a ticket to see American Football (the band) in Brooklyn on July 9th!

helena 💛@helenaoftroy· Apr 24

it’s my birthday today

“I AM 30 OR 40 YEARS OLD AND I DO NOT NEED THIS.”

helena 💛@helenaoftroy· Apr 20

"You cannot save the world but you can open the window for the trapped wren in the cellar."

Instructions for Having a Soul
Take it out in the rain sometimes.
It has vast, invisible wings that gather dirt
and need rinsing.
When it tries to kill you
that is because you've forgotten
to let it look into someone's eyes
for longer than a minute.
It needs that the way a bee needs nectar
in the early morning dew.
Every so often, take it on a journey.
Let it read long, hard books
and let it stare into the depths of the sea.
Yes, you can give it chips and whiskey
but from time to time let it kneel
in a place that is holy
like the simple cathedral of the willows.
All it wants is to live, to keep becoming.
Nourish it, and it puts down roots, it opens.
But starve it, and the mind, the flesh is empty;
the world breaks down; symphonies go unwritten;
the rockets fall; the children die
in flames.
Listen. It is not too late
to wake it. Say the names
of the wild, the forgotten things:
bluebird, red wolf, robin; violet, child, clover.
You cannot save the world but you can open
the window for the trapped wren in the cellar.
Read a book to a blind man, to your father.
Tell a child you do believe her anger.
Make your life the first life that you save.

—Joseph Fasano

helena 💛@helenaoftroy· Apr 19

out in the grey weather running a 10k today ☺️

a photo of us in a grey sport top and green hat standing in front of s smattering of people and sponsor stalls at the start of a running race

helena 💛@helenaoftroy· Apr 12

not to toot my own horn but i’m pretty proud of this run from yesterday, i started running seriously again last august/september and the gains have been spectacular 😁

the activity summary for a run from yesterday, 14.79km in 1 hour 55

helena 💛@helenaoftroy· Apr 5

in a frankly hilarious series of events today we ended up getting our street directions wrong and ended our planned 13k run about 3 miles away from home. we saw a dead deer on the side of the road about halfway through, which in hindsight was a sign of things to come. oh well!

our run from today, a 13km run in 1 hour 38 minutes 41 seconds for an average pace of 7:35 per kilometre.

helena 💛@helenaoftroy· Mar 19

me irl

headline: “Live possum found nestled in with plush toys at airport gift shop” from australia, with a video still of a little possum nestled in with plush toys at an airport gift shop

helena 💛@helenaoftroy· Mar 13

hell yeah let’s go boys

the album american football by the band american football on vinyl

helena 💛@helenaoftroy· Mar 10

just saw this little guy on my way to work! 🦝🖤🤍

a nighttime photo of a raccoon halfway up a tree, looking wary

helena 💛@helenaoftroy· Feb 20

next in line at the DMV to take my driving test!

helena 💛@helenaoftroy· Jan 31

got a cool patch from sincere engineer who opened for motion city soundtrack tonight, i love patches/stickers as merch 😁😁

a round patch showing a skull with a big leaf growing out of it, with the words “sincere engineer” arched at the top

helena 💛@helenaoftroy· Jan 29

for my uk friends, here’s what the weather is currently like here in the northeast USA 🙃

a screenshot of my weather app showing that tonight the low will be -15c, with a “feels like” temperature of -25c

helena 💛@helenaoftroy· Jan 29

so excited for this tomorrow! motion city soundtrack are so underrated imo, they were very influential on me as a teenager ❤️

motion city soundtrack and say anything, winter tour 2026 at the brooklyn paramount in brooklyn ny

helena 💛@helenaoftroy· Jan 1

well 2025 is pretty much done, we finished with 261.2 km (162.3 miles) run which made it our best year since 2017! a couple of goals we would like to achieve in 2026: 1) run 350km total 2) get up to half marathon distance for our long run 3) run a sub-30min 5km (stretch goal)

in 2025 we ran 261.2 kilometres, did 57 runs at 8 min 10 average pace, with a total running time of 35 hours 32 minutes and 26 seconds

helena 💛@helenaoftroy· Dec 25

look at this heart we poured today! 😁

latte art of a white milk heart in the centre of tan coffee foam

helena 💛@helenaoftroy· Dec 21

when i started my training plan 14 weeks ago my goal was to feel confident and comfortable running 10k, and when things started going well my stretch goal became to get under 7min/km pace - after getting agonisingly close a month ago today i went out and absolutely smashed it 😁😁😁😁

our 10km personal best progression, starting with m 1 hour 27 minutes 17 seconds 8 weeks ago, improving to 1:24:50, 1:10:03, and finally 1:07:39 today

helena 💛@helenaoftroy· Dec 17

a sign at a street crossing depicting a visually impaired person using a cane, someone has stuck googly eyes on the stick figure rendering it kinda cute

helena 💛@helenaoftroy· Dec 14

“But change comes about fastest when the least fuss is made…” is the most insidious thing i’ve ever read in an ostensibly “liberal” publication lol

The few trans people I have encountered are discreet. They avoid controversial situations and do not march for "trans rights". They understand that they are exceptional and that it will take time for many others to accept them for who they are. It is for the world to judge whether to accept them as such, but in my experience most people are ready to do so, and most institutions as well. It is for Refuge, the women's rescue hostel service, to decide whether it will or will not accept trans women. It has decided it will. The most liberal interpretation of the supreme court judgment is plainly called for.

We are dealing here with the most intangible of phenomena, the pace of change within society. It was much the same with other exceptional groups, such as gay people, immigrants and some religious minorities.
Often, as in the Church of England, objections become overt and lead to bans and litigation, as over the status of property in single-sex marriage. But change comes about fastest when the least fuss is made, and when a minority knows that it is initially different and reacts to antagonism with moderation.

helena 💛@helenaoftroy· Dec 14

my walk to work at 4am this morning

a residential street with a healthy dusting of snow, before sunrise and lit only by streetlights

helena 💛@helenaoftroy· Dec 4

morning

a photo over a nondescript part of a nondescript town, at dawn with a glowing sky just before the sun comes up

helena 💛@helenaoftroy· Nov 29

just arrived at the Your Party conference. Buzzing!

the “congratulations” scene from evangelion

helena 💛@helenaoftroy· Nov 15

strongly recommend this album - “these things happen” by saturdays at your place - it’s got great vibes and the songs “waste away” and “stay” are especially so so good ❤️