So I just saw a post by a random personal blog that said “don’t follow me if we never even had a conversation before” and?????? Not to be rude but literally what the fuck??????????
I’ve had people (non-pornbots) try to strike conversation out of nowhere in my DMs recently, and now I’m wondering if they were doing that because they wanted to follow me and thought they needed to interact first. I feel compelled to say, just in case, that it’s totally okay to follow this blog (or my side blog, for that matter) even if we’ve never talked before.
Also, I’m legit confused. Is this how follow culture works right now? It was worded like it’s common sense but is that really a thing?
Saw a sharp increase in my follower count after posting this. The legitimacy of it is driving me nuts so I also feel the need to say that you can follow anyone on here regardless of whether you’ve interacted with them or not. People like the above mentioned blog are exceptions. Perhaps they themselves think they aren’t and therefore will act like they aren’t, but they are, trust me.
Just follow anyone you wanna follow. The worst thing that can happen is maybe getting soft-blocked by the other person, but if they do soft-block you, then they were never that worth following in the first place.
This fundraiser is for my cousin, Ahmed Abdeen; I am a Palestinian living in the US. Here is Ahmed’s story in his own words.
”I life in Rafah where I have lived my whole life. I am asking you for support today to be able to buy basic things such as canned food, flour and materials for tents when available. I need these supplies for myself and my family and also everyone in Gaza is my family so as long as I can I need to support everyone else who needs support. I am distributing goods to people who are displaced and living in tents around us. We are living in unimaginable conditions as I am sure that you are aware and we are asking for support.”
Thank you for taking the time to read this and please consider contributing even if its is only a small amount. This money will be wired directly via our personal bank accounts.
really cool article about the FBI ignoring a neo nazi mass shooter who would eventually commit a mass shooting at a gay nightclub so they could focus on planting a pink haired cop in a protest movement and get her to introduce these protestors to some hilariously obvious undercover cops posing as arms dealers. the SOMEX parts of this are serious tho they are using social media to gather info on protestors and target them and fabricate charges and make their lives hell and it is causing the death of movements like this.
i feel like no one really wants to hear that sleep/exercise/nutrition/hydration are major factors in treating mental health issues bc we’ve all talked to that person who thinks your depression would be cured by one good session of goat yoga or whatever but unfortunately they do help and i’m chronically annoyed about it
Lotsa people in the notes like “i can’t change these habits because im too broke/depressed” which, as a formerly broke and depressed person, is patently untrue, so here’s some starting points:
-hydration: carry around a water bottle. a funky metal water bottle you can put stickers on is like $10 and if you can’t afford it just chronically refill a gatorade bottle or smth. Just having water nearby will help. And hydration really, really helps with energy levels for things like…
-exercise: my advice for this always is “find a sport you actually like”, but if you’re coming off of a years-long depressive sedentary period, start by walking. Like, TO places. The bus stop. A neat tree in your neighborhood. Is there a convenience store nearby? Go get a gatorade (see:hydration). Is there a library or other place where people gather? Even better. This is free and doesn’t have to take any longer than 10 minutes at first. And don’t go telling yourself “oh it was only 10 minutes it doesn’t count” STOP! That is the depression talking! Literally any amount of movement is 100x more movement than you were getting on the couch! You’re doing great! And once you’re in a good exercise habit, it will help a lot with…
-sleep: ah, the white whale. But remember that literally just lying quietly in the dark is resting, even if you don’t sleep (it’s science!). Try to be in bed, no lights or phones, at the same time every night and just…chill. listen to some chill music. Try not to get up for a least a few hours. And then, the next day, when you’re wrecked?? Try to avoid napping at all costs. Your circadian rhythm should theoretically stabilize after a few nights of doing this, and resting should become easier. Human chemistry is SO routine based, just keep your schedule as best you can!
Nutrition: yeah this is depression hell. But it’s not as expensive as it seems to “eat healthy”. Apples, bananas, and oranges are all cheaper than chips and also require pretty much no prep, just shove em in your mouth (and don’t give me that shit about caloric content; yes, I know chips are more filling, but they’re not going to give you the happy chemicals you need to help depression. If you’re so broke you will starve without 100 extra calories from a bag of doritos, your depression has environmental causes much deeper than lack of apples.) If you CAN cook even a little bit: frozen vegetables are cheap af and they slap with some butter and garlic powder. Throw some frozen peas in your mac and cheese. Kale and zucchini are cheap as hell in summer and they are delicious when flash fried with butter and salt. I know taking 5 minutes to cook seems insurmountable when you’re depressed but as my therapist always says, the cure for depression is doing the things depression doesn’t want you to do. And it will improve your mood so, so, so much to get some fruits and veggies in you.
please notice that literally ALL of the above are about building HABITS. And habits are built by inches. A single serving of frozen vegetables will not cure your depression. But a single serving of vegetables, every day? a liter of water, every day? a short walk to see some trees or smth, every day? It really does help. And Don’t beat yourself up if you miss a day or seven days or fourteen days. Just pick it back up where you left off. 2 servings of vegetables in a month is better than 0 servings in a month, or a year.
[ID: Tumblr tags that read: “#one thing that helped me was to stop seeing days where i couldn’t do these things as moral failures #i don’t remember where i first saw the quote which UPSETS me but #i remember someone saying when you treat every mistake as a huge failing you can never recover from #you absolve yourself from the idea of trying again #i started doing an 8 min workout i found on youtube #and slowly stopped seeing the days i missed it as Huge Fucks Up I Couldn’t Recover From #and just as a day i missed #and it helped me pick it back up when i missed days #and it’s helped me Move now #so. you can do it. and a missed day is just a missed day #try tomorrow (heart emoji). /End ID.]
for ages i thought i didnt like drag because of internalized homophobia but it turned out i just don’t like bright lights and loud music and really visually complicated things
spd is homophobic i guess is what im saying
real talk tho this is a good example of how some things just can’t be made universally accessible. they are never going to make a quiet reserved drag show with few bright colors that i can enjoy. that goes against like…the entire point of drag and the celebrating of taking up space that a lot of gay events are.
and that’s okay! i wouldn’t want them to! i just need to find other things that make me feel happy and at home and part of the community. different needs require different solutions, and sometimes a thing just isn’t for you.
It’s good when you take a moment and examine yourself and be like “why don’t like I like this” because sometimes the answer has like 5 possibilities:
1. “this is just not accessible to me for Reason”
2. “I have trauma to work through”
3. “oh shit I have prejudice to work through!”
4. “I don’t actually have a reason. I just don’t like it because I don’t enjoy it”
Or
5. “It is objectively bad”
But often you don’t know until you take a step back and look at it from a different angle
And I think most people assume if they don’t like something it’s the last one but in my experience it’s the least frequent possibility
marcille is NOT an animal crossing cozy gamer girl she is a fucking spreadsheet warrior. maybe she plays stardew valley but she runs that farm like the navy
tired: marcille plays animal crossing and nothing else
wired: senshi plays animal crossing and nothing else
The auxiliary water pump on my car broke (the plastic rotted and cracked so it was spewing coolant everywhere) and the mechanic wanted me to pay $300 for a $150 part.
I went to an auto store and bought the part for just under $150 and was gonna have the mechanic install it until I called them back and they said they don’t install customer parts.
So I figured if they won’t install customer parts, they’ll at least fix existing problems with the vehicle.
So, naturally I poorly installed the new part myself, then took it to the mechanic saying I had coolant issues and wasn’t sure what the problem was. They fixed the problem in under 20 minutes and only charged me $30 for the labor.
Ho l y
Imma try that last one
I went to my doctor’s office and asked if they had any slots open for that day. They told me they don’t take walk-ins, you have to call ahead for an appointment.
So I pulled out my phone and called the office. The other receptionist answered the phone and the first one literally WATCHED ME say “I’d like to make an appointment today if you have any slots available.”
He said to me (on the phone) all they had available was for 9:00, could I make it in time?
I said “Yep, I’m standing right here.”
He didn’t understand what I meant and happily put my appointment down.
I hung up and said to the original receptionist, “Hi, I have an appointment in five minutes.”
She (very angrily) entered me as arrived and gave me my forms.
being a fan of a friend’s ocs is actually so humiliating……. like yes my favourite character rn is tragically doomed and a pillar of humanity who i think is relevant to the current world. you can find information about them on discord dot com and sometimes in late-night conversations with this guy i know. what the fuck
up late at night thinking about a guy who exists to three people. such a desire to talk about him until my lungs give out and read every scrap of fanfiction on the internet and yet there is NOTHING!!!! and i have to pretend to be NORMAL about this. “oh yes your character is cool. have you considered writing more” meanwhile the wolves in my brain are tearing and biting
the humble “like” is oft mocked despite what it does for us. “like, three people” is a vastly different statement from “three people”. “and i was like ‘what the fuck’” is vastly different from “and i said 'what the fuck’”. i love you “like” and anyone who says you make people sound stupid will be killed on sight
the stuff going on at columbia campus rn is genuinely incredible
despite mass arrests by NYPD and several students (including rep ilhan omar’s daughter, isra hirsi) being suspended for their participation and having their university identification deactivated, the gaza solidarity encampment is still going strong well into its second day. def recommend following independent reporter talia jane who is taking part and providing live updates. (talia was the first reporter to break aaron bushnell’s self immolation in february; she was one of the reporters he contacted personally prior to the protest.)
thank you so much alexa @shivsblunt for mentioning it…..anyone who wants to contribute to their jail support fund can do so @ bcabolitioncollective on v*nmo. also, if anyone is in the area and available to join (via cssw4palestine on ig):
Spellcasters hate this fact but if you just stick your fingers in their mouth while they’re casting a spell with a verbal component it’s literally more effective than a counter spell.
This also works with pinning their hands against the wall when they’re trying to use somnatic components.
Basically if you make out sloppy style while pressed against a wall the spellcasters can’t do anything
wrong ♡
chain lightning
You’re really gonna try chain lightning with a tongue in your mouth? You think that won’t end horribly? You think you have more HP than me?
asexuals before realizing they’re ace: isn’t it weird how we call people “hot” when we just mean, like, pretty? it makes it sound like you actually feel hot when you see them. which isn’t a thing. anyway
ok i am absolutely losing it over the sheer number of people who found out what hot means from this post
Man, this is like the time my therapist explained that watching characters with “chemistry” is supposed to make you feel aroused. Who knew, right?
I’m sorry what?
I thought it was supposed to make you intrigued like any other plot device
Wait what? Is that why allos do shipping? I thought we were all doing it because we thought it was neat.
nah im allo i do it cos it’s neat. idk what they’re on about with finding intercharacter chemistry arousing. they’re right about the “hot” thing though
Brb going to wotc to get this card printed and included in every pre-con
Let’s just say I had a bad experience at mtg today.
Remember kids, the Official MTG Infraction Procedure Guide says in section 4.2 that if your opponent intentionally misgenders you, they automatically lose the match.
So apparently the Animorphs cover artist also made that amazing series of wizard pictures?? And he sells prints of both? His Etsy store is here and the other link is here.
His website has painting classes and info too! But most importantly, in his bio:
“We live with our cat, Juliet. She threatened to bite me if I didn’t mention her.”
if you’re american and coming to australia, I’m gonna go ahead and say that you should be 100 percent way more worried about being king hit by a dude named “dane” in a bintang singlet than any fucking spiders that exist here
what does this say in english
“Good sir, if you are a resident of the United States of America and coming to visit the sunny land of Australia, allow me to inform you that you should be rather more concerned about being sucker punched by a gentleman named ‘Dane’ who is likely to be seen wearing a wifebeater with a beer company logo on it than by any of the dangerous spiders that exist on this lovely continent”.
ok so what does it say in american
“You’re more likely to get sucker punched/cold-cocked by an asshole than you are to be bitten by a spider”.
thank you
Well rattle my spoons, that don’t make a lick of sense. Wot in tarnation does this hootenanny say?
“If ya mosey on by Australia, you best be fixin’ to get to some fisticuffs more'n checkin fer spiders.”
I do not usually make posts like this but recently I have seen a lot of content on Instagram, Twitter and I think tiktok too misunderstanding the meaning of intrusive thoughts, which may cause people experiencing them to be upset.
I have tried to shortly explain the difference of impulsive and intrusive and hope it will help people to understand and use the words correctly.
Reblogs are very much appreciated!
Examples of actual intrusive thoughts include, but are not limited to:
Driving your car off a cliff purposely
Stabbing yourself
Crashing your car purposely
Shooting yourself in the foot
Shooting a friend
Raping a friend or family member
Killing someone
Hurting someone
Hurting yourself for no reason
These do not make you a bad person on principle. Sometimes people think things that they normally wouldn’t, and then they think “wtf brain no”
You are not bad for having intrusive thoughts, they do not define you
You are not bad for
having intrusive thoughts, they
do not define you
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Count Dooku: The Republic is corrupt and undemocratic, and the Jedi are elitist and out of touch, they have opressed us for far too long!
Separatist: I agree! We need to make a new path, down with the Republic, we’ll join you!
Count Dooku: Good choice my friend! Welcome to the Dark Side of the Force. My name is Darth Tyrannus. You can join me at the Star Destroyer Malevolence with my friend, General Grievous.
the neurotypical invents the neurodivergent. neuro(non)normativity is a constant negotiation of social conditions + relation to capital + carceral frameworks of legal, educational, medical systems. “neurotype” is not an ontological status. it is a mirror held to the world in which it exists.
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