A photo of a man reading a neon sign on a tree that says “Healing also means taking responsibility for the role you play in your own suffering”.
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the rudest most helpful thing anyone ever said to me is “why do you keep hurting your own feelings long after [the person who once hurt you] probably forgot about it” like literally just dear god you’ve split me open so neatly my entire soul is just flopping around on the ground between us now but thank you
Just fyi if you’re autistic/adhd and struggle specifically with this sort of thing, please know what what might be happening is something called perseveration, which is a common neurodivergent behavior that can include, among other things, revisiting emotions repeatedly and being unable to break loose from processing or managing stressful events.
Don’t keep hurting your own feelings. But don’t feel bad if you get stuck there, either. Something else could be going on.
Demons and monsters that torture people because they feed on human suffering are so dumb. People are suffering everywhere my guy go literally any place and take a deep whiff.
Monster that feeds on suffering becomes a professional caretaker for people with chronic pain and terminal illnesses. They can’t change the fact that these people are suffering, but they help a bit and in the meantime they’re fat and happy off that Sweet Sweet ambient pain in the air.
Two towns over there’s a demon lord trying to get their cult to abduct people for torture, but they keep getting stopped by heroes and the like, so they’re barely scraping by. Meanwhile Belogarth the Registered PCA is chowing down on back pain, medication side effects and looming mortality for eight hours a day and has become the most powerful demon on earth without realizing it.
“But don’t their clients feel weird knowing that they’re feeding off their suffering?” No they think it’s hilarious and they’re real shits about it.
ok so, in my senior year of high school, i was taking an advanced construction technology class, but because of covid, it was extremely limited, to the point of one of the assignments being “do something that involves one of these trades/skills” and on that list was stone working. i had recently acquired a dremel, and gotten a little practice engraving letters, and figured that i could finally make a runestone or a monolith type thing. the reason i chose do specifically make it about the Fitness Gram Pacer Test was because at the time i was watching a lot of Overly Sarcastic Productions videos, and one of them (the quetzalcoatl one i think) mentioned how nobody would carve a monolith describing the Fitness Gram Pacer Test. i took this as a challenge, and also thought it would be very funny thing to do, and a great use of covid time. so about a week later, i had learnt elder fuþark, acquired a 26x26x2” slab of sandstone (approx 52 lbs.), freehanded a design based on a few different real world runestones, and carved out all the runes to describe the trial of Pæsjir, ringing serpent of endurance, a giant snake that serpentines across a 20m field in pursuit of the test taker, ringing a bell each time it turns around, and progressively increasing in speed until the participant either escapes, or is swallowed, sending the beast into a state of lethargy until another sacrifice must be provided. and then i spent the next week and a half painting it. it currently leans against the back of my parents’ house to get free weathering, and also because my parents don’t want it inside.
also have been kicking around the idea of maybe doing custom carvings…
@comicaurora OSPRed is on tumblr by the way! I think they’d want to see this lol
My ancestors, watching me dump an entire stick of cinnamon, two cloves, an allspice berry, and a generous grating of nutmeg into my tea, sweetened with white sugar and loaded with cream, while I sit in my clean warm house surrounded by books, 25+ outfits for different occasions, and 6 pairs of shoes, in a building heated so well I have the windows open in mid-autumn:
Our daughter prospers. We are proud of her. She has never labored in a field but knows riches we could not have imagined.
I like this so much better than the idea that our ancestors would be embarrassed or ashamed of us for being “soft” or some crap like that.
My ancestors, watching me stuff my face with fried chicken while studying: She eats like an imperial concubine and can afford to study like am imperial scholar. WE MADE IT
She eats like an imperial concubine and can afford to study like am imperial scholar
My ancestors watching me use my stand mixer while living in a small apartment and attending university: Thou hast kneadeth bread in FOUR hail marys??? FOUR??? And thou ist poor as a churchmouse, yet liveth in a fine cottage with four pounds butter and fresh berries in thy larder!! And two featherbeds! And thou attendeth the King’s college, as a lord!!
My ancestors being like:
Look at this fine young lady! She can paint she can sew and embrody, she sings and read
And without a wealthy father to pay for that, plus she is florid in the body! She doesn’t know hunger!
We did it!
Me: /wearily studying/
My Ancestors: TRULY SH— what? They? A little unorthodox, but reasonable I suppose. TRULY THEY PROSPER, FOR THEY LIVE IN A DWELLING WITH MANY ROOMS AND ONLY THEIR SPOUSE TO SHARE IT WITH! THEY HAVE DOGS WHO DO NOT PERFORM A FUNCTION! THEY HAVE MANY BOOKS AND DO NOT HAVE TO SPIN THEIR OWN YARN! THEY BATHE AT A WHIM WITH GENTLE SOAP FREE OF LYE! OUR DESCENDANT BRINGS HONOR AND PRIDE TO OUR LINEAGE!
Me: /yawns and sips my coffee/
My Ancestors: /cheer wildly/
Me: *hunched over at my desk nursing a headache.*
My Ancestors: “Truly, we prosper; see here, our infirm descendant need not even work on her poor days, but has the luxury to rest as she sees need! A doctor attends to her illnesses; her clothes are warm and free of pests; she cares for exotic and dangerous animals within her own home! We have found the height of luxury!”
Me: *treats myself to a pineapple and a bunch of bananas*
My Georgian ancestors: ZOOTH SHE HAS BOUGHT A PINEAPPLE! NOT MERELY BORROWED ONE! TRULY SHE HAS ACHIEVED FAR MORE THAN WE COULD KNOW!
me: [puts on warm socks and a blanket, is now warm regardless of the weather outside]
My impoverished Russian Jewish ancestors:
Me:[learns to knit from youtube videos]
My ancestors: Our descendant, the heir to all our hopes and fears for a far-off future… She can buy fine clothes woven and knit by automatons, with but a fraction of a day’s earnings… and she does… she has so much free time to do as she pleases… and she uses some of that time to do what we did.
One woman from rural Poland, who died from smallpox in 1717 CE, a grandmother at 35: I knit roses and peonies into my and my children’s gloves… it wasn’t much extra work to dye the red, once I had already cleaned the wool and spun the yarn, and to knit in the designs… and I wasn’t a gifted knitter but I was a good knitter, and I thought, well, it might not make a difference to how warm the glove is, but it made the children happy and it made me happy. I liked to make things beautiful when I could.
Another woman, a peasant from what’s now France, who died from getting kicked by a mammoth in 8995 BCE:[Patting her on the back] I made my family’s clothes too. Every day my sister and I wove and wove and tended our children. We went out of our way to make the cloth lovely. Not a trace of it remains anywhere on earth now… But it mattered to us. And she might not know our names, or know it was us, but evidently, it matters to her too. She has so much beauty available to her, in every direction, and she wants to make it where we once made it.
[everyone sobbing and high-fiving each other.]
A man from Britain, 1104 CE, sitting at the trans-temporal telescope, reporting on my doings: She’s stopped knitting and now she’s playing minecraft.
The other ancestors: Ah, yes, the dream of building. We know this one well. What vision doth she design now?
Telescope man: Looks like… Some kind of floating temple?
Everyone: [Goes completely apeshit]
Me: *literally just sitting here petting my dog*
My ancestors from 25,000 years ago: puppy
Me: *feeling disconnected from my South American heritage*
My South American ancestors: ¡Mírala! ¡Ella tiene una casa grande y su propio dormitorio! ¡Ella no tiene que trabajar en el campo, o en la casa de un noble! ¡Ella no es maltratada por su ascendencia! ¡Su condición de mestiza no le impide buscar trabajo o educación! ¡Gracias a Dios!
My Irish Catholic ancestors: thank goodness she isn’t Protestant.
Me: *makes a joke about Catholics drinking alcohol at the age of 7*
My Irish Catholic ancestors:
My Irish Catholic
ancestors: thank goodness she
isn’t Protestant.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
My ancestors, watching me dump an entire stick of cinnamon, two cloves, an allspice berry, and a generous grating of nutmeg into my tea, sweetened with white sugar and loaded with cream, while I sit in my clean warm house surrounded by books, 25+ outfits for different occasions, and 6 pairs of shoes, in a building heated so well I have the windows open in mid-autumn:
Our daughter prospers. We are proud of her. She has never labored in a field but knows riches we could not have imagined.
I like this so much better than the idea that our ancestors would be embarrassed or ashamed of us for being “soft” or some crap like that.
My ancestors, watching me stuff my face with fried chicken while studying: She eats like an imperial concubine and can afford to study like am imperial scholar. WE MADE IT
She eats like an imperial concubine and can afford to study like am imperial scholar
My ancestors watching me use my stand mixer while living in a small apartment and attending university: Thou hast kneadeth bread in FOUR hail marys??? FOUR??? And thou ist poor as a churchmouse, yet liveth in a fine cottage with four pounds butter and fresh berries in thy larder!! And two featherbeds! And thou attendeth the King’s college, as a lord!!
My ancestors being like:
Look at this fine young lady! She can paint she can sew and embrody, she sings and read
And without a wealthy father to pay for that, plus she is florid in the body! She doesn’t know hunger!
We did it!
Me: /wearily studying/
My Ancestors: TRULY SH— what? They? A little unorthodox, but reasonable I suppose. TRULY THEY PROSPER, FOR THEY LIVE IN A DWELLING WITH MANY ROOMS AND ONLY THEIR SPOUSE TO SHARE IT WITH! THEY HAVE DOGS WHO DO NOT PERFORM A FUNCTION! THEY HAVE MANY BOOKS AND DO NOT HAVE TO SPIN THEIR OWN YARN! THEY BATHE AT A WHIM WITH GENTLE SOAP FREE OF LYE! OUR DESCENDANT BRINGS HONOR AND PRIDE TO OUR LINEAGE!
Me: /yawns and sips my coffee/
My Ancestors: /cheer wildly/
Me: *hunched over at my desk nursing a headache.*
My Ancestors: “Truly, we prosper; see here, our infirm descendant need not even work on her poor days, but has the luxury to rest as she sees need! A doctor attends to her illnesses; her clothes are warm and free of pests; she cares for exotic and dangerous animals within her own home! We have found the height of luxury!”
Me: *treats myself to a pineapple and a bunch of bananas*
My Georgian ancestors: ZOOTH SHE HAS BOUGHT A PINEAPPLE! NOT MERELY BORROWED ONE! TRULY SHE HAS ACHIEVED FAR MORE THAN WE COULD KNOW!
me: [puts on warm socks and a blanket, is now warm regardless of the weather outside]
My impoverished Russian Jewish ancestors:
Me:[learns to knit from youtube videos]
My ancestors: Our descendant, the heir to all our hopes and fears for a far-off future… She can buy fine clothes woven and knit by automatons, with but a fraction of a day’s earnings… and she does… she has so much free time to do as she pleases… and she uses some of that time to do what we did.
One woman from rural Poland, who died from smallpox in 1717 CE, a grandmother at 35: I knit roses and peonies into my and my children’s gloves… it wasn’t much extra work to dye the red, once I had already cleaned the wool and spun the yarn, and to knit in the designs… and I wasn’t a gifted knitter but I was a good knitter, and I thought, well, it might not make a difference to how warm the glove is, but it made the children happy and it made me happy. I liked to make things beautiful when I could.
Another woman, a peasant from what’s now France, who died from getting kicked by a mammoth in 8995 BCE:[Patting her on the back] I made my family’s clothes too. Every day my sister and I wove and wove and tended our children. We went out of our way to make the cloth lovely. Not a trace of it remains anywhere on earth now… But it mattered to us. And she might not know our names, or know it was us, but evidently, it matters to her too. She has so much beauty available to her, in every direction, and she wants to make it where we once made it.
[everyone sobbing and high-fiving each other.]
A man from Britain, 1104 CE, sitting at the trans-temporal telescope, reporting on my doings: She’s stopped knitting and now she’s playing minecraft.
The other ancestors: Ah, yes, the dream of building. We know this one well. What vision doth she design now?
Telescope man: Looks like… Some kind of floating temple?
Everyone: [Goes completely apeshit]
Me: *literally just sitting here petting my dog*
My ancestors from 25,000 years ago: puppy
Me: *feeling disconnected from my South American heritage*
My South American ancestors: ¡Mírala! ¡Ella tiene una casa grande y su propio dormitorio! ¡Ella no tiene que trabajar en el campo, o en la casa de un noble! ¡Ella no es maltratada por su ascendencia! ¡Su condición de mestiza no le impide buscar trabajo o educación! ¡Gracias a Dios!
My Irish Catholic ancestors: thank goodness she isn’t Protestant.
Me: *makes a joke about Catholics drinking alcohol at the age of 7*
My Irish Catholic ancestors:
My Irish Catholic
ancestors: thank goodness she
isn’t Protestant.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
People here are hating on finnster so I guess I’m gonna remind y'all that gender expression is a massive pile of horseshit and people who treat it like a game are pretty cool, regardless of how they identify
Also
If you hate finnster for his frankly hilarious gender, I personally want nothing to do with you. His work normalizing men wearing whatever the fuck they want for whatever reason they want to wear it is vitally important to trans acceptance, and it’s also really fucking funny that he does it just because he likes how his twitch chat reacts. Mans puts on makeup like a pro because his chat likes it when he does girl month. That is objectively funny.
The Do’s & Don'ts of interacting w/ content creators, & other people you don’t know well mutually I slapped together for Twitter.
This ended up being more Don'ts than Dos but I feel like people need more help learning what NOT to say once they stray away from simple compliments and questions.
i thought my laptop was on its last leg because it was running at six billion degrees and using 100% disk space at all times and then i turned off shadows and some other windows effects and it was immediately cured. i just did the same to my roommate’s computer and its performance issues were also immediately cured. okay. i guess.
so i guess if you have creaky freezy windows 10/11 try searching “advanced system settings”, go to performance settings, and uncheck “show shadows under windows” and anything else you don’t want. hope that helps someone else.
This post went really viral recently on twitter and tiktok and of course a lot people accuse it of being fake but no, sometimes an animal just accidentally forms as a hilarious ball of that animal. It’s not alive but it is always the funniest possible thing to happen to the embryonic development of what should have just been a cow or a goat.
IT’S BECAUSE OSHA REGULATIONS! A SINGLE PERSON IS NOT ALLOWED TO LIFT MORE THAN FIFTY POUNDS! BAGGAGE HANDLERS ARE PEOPLE! YOU PAY MORE FOR HEAVY BAGS BECAUSE THE HANDLERS ARE SUPPOSED TO USE THE BUDDY SYSTEM TO LIFT THOSE! IF THE TOTAL WEIGHT MATTERED SO MUCH, PASSENGERS WOULD GET WEIGHED, BUT WE DONT QUESTION THAT NOW DO WE?
Ohhh. Thanks for the explanation, @kbokbok! I never knew that it was for the baggage handlers’ safety.
Sorry, I could never be a capitalist, I suffer from “wanting humans to have their basic needs met” disorder, where I care about people who aren’t me.
Someone once asked me if, assuming we got universal healthcare, I would be okay with the rise in “healthcare tourism” where people who are sick come to our country to get their medical bills taken care of and life-saving medical treatment cheaper than in their home countries.
I was just like, yeah thats fine, I’d actually prefer it if 0 people died from preventable causes kept behind a paywall for no reason.
“even the addicts?” yeah dude did i fucking stutter
if you are getting the “adblock isn’t allowed on youtube” warning
ensure that you’re using firefox and ublock origin (yes, i’m being serious. chrome and every other browser based on it (if you don’t know if your browser’s based on it it probably is) isn’t going to work forever. you’re trying to block ads from a google site on a google browser)
click on the ublock origin icon, go to the settings gears, then go to “filter lists” and click “purge all caches” and then “update now”
if it’s still not working, check the pinned post here about youtube for more info on what you should be doing
this is in the subreddit link but this might be tripping up a lot of people so i want to add that if you have the popular extension “Enhancer for YouTube” check its settings and turn off its adblock
if you are getting the “adblock isn’t allowed on youtube” warning
ensure that you’re using firefox and ublock origin (yes, i’m being serious. chrome and every other browser based on it (if you don’t know if your browser’s based on it it probably is) isn’t going to work forever. you’re trying to block ads from a google site on a google browser)
click on the ublock origin icon, go to the settings gears, then go to “filter lists” and click “purge all caches” and then “update now”
if it’s still not working, check the pinned post here about youtube for more info on what you should be doing
this is in the subreddit link but this might be tripping up a lot of people so i want to add that if you have the popular extension “Enhancer for YouTube” check its settings and turn off its adblock
Thinking about how when my oldest brother took Japanese classes his professor was like your pronunciation is really good 😊 but you need to watch movies that aren’t about the Yakuza because you sound like a criminal
would much like to point out that the people publishing these articles are trying to needle millennials into treating gen z with the same disgusting vitriol we were treated with.
don’t buy it.
our younger brothers and sisters might eat a tide pod and get us blamed for it, but we have more in common with them than we ever had with boomers or gen x.
they are terrified of the things we can do together. remember that.
Transphobes will take before and after transition photos of Trans people and be like “look how happy they looked before they ruined their bodies!!!!” And the photos will be like this
if the video game industry were a just place this would be the best selling game of all time
incredibly funny that this guy is a senior gameplay animator at sucker punch like… you can literally see the ghost of tsushima in this…………
oh my god his entire personal twitter is just devoted to this dinosaurs with swords game. his header is dinosaurs with swords. he has a patreon where his bio is “animator, the dino guy” and he’s shared 23 updates for his dino game which he started in earnest LAST MONTH and every single clip looks SO cool like i am being entirely serious these animations are BONKERS smooth. truly a visionary. the greatest creative mind of a generation.
I saw someone reblog this dismissing it as AI despite the fact they’re 1 click away from a search engine.
“Rosetta Nebula” is all you’d have to type.
Perhaps the biggest travesty with ai images is going to be robbing people of their wonder for what’s actually possible in the universe and continuing to shrink their bubble of understanding based on whether they believe it at a glance.
The image has been colorized differently above but the Rosetta Nebula is real and actually looks like that.
