My mental health tips copy pasted from the comments because I kinda buried and separated them spamming
1, get enough sleep. no seriously you don’t realize how bad you feel until you start getting regular, good quality sleep
2, decline self negativity. sure i think i’m a failure all the time but i just go “no i’m not” until that voice is louder
3, eat regularly. it doesn’t have to be particularly healthy food but eat on some kind of schedule even if that schedule is “when i’m hungry"
4, don’t care what others might think. just do what makes you happy. i know you’ve probably heard this one before but seriously learn to tune out negativity
5, be around people that make you happy whenever possible! i was alone for a long time and it’s definitely greatly impacted my mental health to have a support system
6, stay hydrated. it’s another one of those things where you don’t realize how bad you feel until you get hydrated
7, practice self care whenever possible. that looks a little different for everyone so i can’t give specifics here (though other tips include some things you can incorporate into self care) but if you take care for yourself regularly you will start to care about yourself
8, if possible for you, seek professional help. a good therapist can help you more than a person on tumblr ever can. there’s no shame in needing therapy and/or medication to improve your mental health
9, if not a therapist, have someone else you can talk to about your issues or can call/message when you’re feeling down (this can be someone online or in person)
10, if you experience gender dysphoria, there’s tips out there to lessen dysphoria to decrease feelings of self hatred that may be caused by dysphoria. some blogs i recommend for that are @/transgenderteensurvivalguide and @/transmasc-advice-blog who both have posts about lessening dysphoria
he’s going through a hair dye phase (sleeping in a berry patch)
feels like some of u aren’t properly appreciating the fact that he sleeps in a berry patch. and he rolls over and squishes the berries into his fur. because he’s so sleepy and content.
maybe people think he’s an ugly dog but just to be clear he is actually a beautiful pig
1. Anyone who in good faith uses a label is fine to use it for themselves
2. There is no way to always tell who is using it in good faith
3. Act like everyone is using it in good faith.
4. …including assholes clearly IDing to be an ass. Treating them like they mean it is a quick way to make an asshole get yuckied out and knock it off. If they seem to be committed to the bit, maybe they really mean it
I did that to a guy. He wanted to be a wolverine, clearly being an asshole to try and play a “gotcha!” game. I called him Wolverine in place of any pronoun at all. He looked angry after a while, so I stopped. When he left, he mumbled “not what I fucking meant” and sounded like he might do some thinking.
children’s book illustrators r literally the cornerstone of society im not kidding. where would we be w/o that little business worm in the apple car or the brambly hedge animals making their feasts and flying their kites like literally WHERE . do not even get me started on frog and toad
Oh yeah, The Ordeal. Its normal to wake up in a cold sweat years later with nightmares about The Ordeal. Anyone who didn’t go through The Ordeal is forever marked as a little too carefree. A little too uninhibited. Its illegal not to send your kids to The Ordeal.
*me working in the insides of a machine* shush, I need to focus, this is very intimate- I mean intimate- I mean intimate- I mean intimate- I mean intricate.
im sure ive said this before but speaking as a hairy guy who wears skirts more than pants. sometimes you guys put guys in maid dresses when they’re more of a tight blue jeans type femme.. putting fictional men in cute little outfits needs to be done with care.. feminize him but let his style peak thru.. they can’t all be catboys and submissive maids…
also sometimes some guys would wear maid dresses but they’d be party city fuckin unironed wrinkled shiny plasticy fabric shit. absolute dismal presentation. but it would fit character wise. because i care about these kinds of things
shoutout to the Twink at the front desk of the natural history museum who let me go into their Yellowstone exhibit for free. also shoutout to my laptop for auto-capitalizing Twink. always nice to see respect for our troops
my art teacher has a cup full of stickers that she gives to students sometimes bc high school students go crazy for stickers and you will actually never guess what she has in there.
Neglected children will sometimes go ‘okay time to dangerously deteriorate to see if anyone cares about me’ and then if nobody does, they don’t know how to stop deteriorating on their own, they’ll need help to pick themselves back up.
And if that help doesn’t arrive, they’ll conclude ‘I was right to destroy myself in a world where nobody cares for me anyway, why should I live at all’ and it sets them on a miserable life path where all they see is chances for self destruction and proof of nobody caring, and from the very start it’s not their fault at all.
Because someone should notice when a kid starts losing themselves and step up and help. Children are not meant to know how to take care of themselves in an environment where they’re neglected, ignored and uncared for. Putting them in such an environment then blaming them for deteriorating is absolutely ridiculous. It takes paying attention and realizing when something is wrong and pulling a kid out of the black hole they’re falling into, before they can no longer crawl their way out on their own.
It’s not acceptable to let children deal with abandonment and neglect all on their own, and expect them to not grow up miserable, resentful, struggling, and doing harm to themselves. It’s the same harm we never stopped them from doing when they were kids, when they needed to know that someone would care if they’re hurt. If we want functional and healthy adults in the society, we have to notice what is going on with the kids and make sure they’re helped in time.
yknow it’s a real shame that romans didn’t have access to australia specifically for augury reasons. i really wish i could have seen a roman augur have to deal with australian birds. like imagine trying to properly interpret an omen from a fuckin. cassowary
loving that the general consensus here is that “the omen when you see a cassowary is that you are about to die of cassowary”
The cassowary evaluates your innards, not the other way around
Thank you to everyone who has helped me fundraise for my friend! ALL PROCEEDS from my shop go to help my Palestinian best friend support his loved ones. I don’t anticipate any of my new designs getting approved until after the weekend, so in the meantime I’ll start the weekend by sharing what has sold so far this week:
Stickers:
Notebooks:
Shirts:
Magnets:
Pins:
Greeting Cards:
You can find all my designs here. Redbubble will display them with a random product, click on it to see all product options (shirts, stickers, bags, hats, etc).
the ability to say “i dont have a tiktok” in social situations makes me feel so powerful. like the general reaction is “shock, confusion, then this weird ‘thats probably a good thing’ response” its so fun
Cannot Stress Enough how important it is to read Howl’s Moving Castle written by Diana Wynn Jones immediately after watching Howl’s Moving Castle directed by Hayao Miyazaki. When he made the movie he was of course upset with war and thus included it in the film, but you gotta understand. You really Gotta Understand. Every time in the movie where Howl turns the door dial black to travel to an absolutely hellish warscape? You know where that same dial takes him in the book? The Real World Country Of Wales
He goes to his sister’s house to play rugby and have a drink with his mates. His sister is like “you fucking loser get a JOB” and Howell is like “I have a job, I’m a wizard!” And she’s like “FUCK OFF”
the x files is funny because at the time it was “progressive” or whatever to have the ultra-rational, levelheaded character be a woman
but it’s also a show where all the fucked up alien shit actually is real, so she’s just constantly wrong about everything
What’s funny is how often they’re both wrong. Mulder will be like “the victims all had their livers scooped clean out this is obviously the aliens escalating from cattle mutilation” and Scully will be like “don’t be silly Mulder this is clearly just a serial killer who’s really good with surgical tools” and then it turns out the actual killer is an immortal sewer man who comes out ever quarterly century to feast on human liver.
I cannot stress enough that this is literally the plot of an actual episode
ppl say shit like ‘what’s life without love uwu love is the point of it all uwu’ but loveless aros are out here challenging that shit. like you know what yeah you guys are right there’s way more to life than love. there’s birds and trees and skies and stars. there’s pasta. you don’t have to be lovey dovey or even connect with the concept of love at all to have a fulfilling life and find joy in what’s around you
like. i am extremely romantic and affectionate with my partner. and yet i still love learning from your guys’ eye opening discussion. you don’t have to be anywhere close to aromantic to apply the important lessons their community teaches to your own life
I would like to point out, that I only found out yesterday the Goat girl is the animator of this video and the rat is her husband. In case you wanted some context.
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