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if i look back, i am lost
izzy's playlists!
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
cherry valley forever
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This is not a new one {it’s from 06/19/2020} but honestly? Same.
[image description: video of a man in boxers, pouring coffee into a cup as he says, “Everyone’s talking about top energy this, bottom energy that.”
He slams down the coffee pot and mug on the counter, and flails his hands as he talks. “I just want energy: top, bottom, east, west, shoulders, knees and toes.” He slams his palms on the counter, and says “I don’t give a damn. I’m just tired.”
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Have you heard the tale of the queen of thieves?
MOTHERFUCKER
are you satan
GET IT THE FUCK AWAY
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Somehow, this feels much sneakier than the plain text version of this post. Almost like being rickrolled by writing instructions.
I love Jaune Arc because he's flawed
I love Jaune Arc because he graduated normal-highschool and decided he was going to anime monster-hunting college with his great-grandfathers sword. Not a fire sword. Not a rifle sword. Not a gun-glaive-trident-taser. A normal sword and a shield
I love Jaune Arc because even though he was taught all kinds of macho toxic masculinity growing up, he grew past that by listening to the women in his life and became a beacon of healthy masculinity
I love Jaune Arc because no matter how much trauma and pain he goes through, he is always there for the people he loves. He realizes his mistakes and turns to his friends for support, who in return are always there for him
I love Jaune Arc because he's goofy. He's fighting a losing battle against Satan herself and he's still trying his best to stay who he is. To stay positive
I love Jaune Arc because for every battle strategy that goes well, there's a dozen moments of him being the most oblivious himbo on Remnant. He's a talented leader and protects his friends. But he's not perfect. He's not infallible. He's not the main protagonist he thought he wanted to be
Reading a whole book in one day isn't a flex all the times I read entire books in one sitting I definitely wasn't doing ok
Reading a 300+ page book in one sitting is kind of like drinking an entire bottle of wine by yourself
This is what Rasputin would've wanted.
I feel like I'm being seduced like one of those fancy rainforest birds
is it working
Yes
I can’t tell if this is gender envy or vibe envy but I envy this man
Bringing country back 😌
Nature is healing
Passive aggressive maybe, but like...healing and getting better isn't easy. When I see people make posts about "LOL google says I should make a schedule to help manage my ADHD but I can't make a schedule bc I have ADHD" it's like. People saying that stuff know it's hard. That's part of why you gotta do it.
Sometimes healing is easier. Sometimes it's something really small that becomes routine. But sometimes it's hard! Sometimes you gotta push yourself to do something and it sucks! But I don't know what to tell you, other than that you don't need to be good at it right away.
Using the calendar example, I have ADHD + semi-frequent memory loss, so it can feel really difficult to try and make a calendar when both of those things can directly get in the way. So I started with making sure recurring events were in it, like therapy and med reminders. Now I'm usually able to remember to put in appointments or other one-time events in as soon as I know about them. It takes a lot of work.
I don't know. I just think sometimes people on this site are sitting in mud and complaining about being dirty. You really do need to try.
I relate to this but for cptsd and routines. It's hard. Healing isn't supposed to be comforting all the time. It's an everyday every minute thing. But I do the work to get better
Yes! It definitely applies to a lot of things.
Thinking on it more, I think part of the issue is that people view things as either in their "comfort zone" or in their "danger zone," which is not really how things work. There's an area in the middle where things suck and feel bad but aren't so bad you're in danger (mental, emotional, physical) and that's where growth happens.
Because I'm a visual learner:
Trauma can make you think things are like this:
When in reality, things are more like this:
Trauma etc can make that challenge zone (often also called a window of tolerance) really fucking small, so it can be easy to overshoot into the danger zone, which can lead to having panic attacks and being triggered. Sometimes that can reenforce the idea that everything outside our comfort zone is scary red danger zone! But with gentle prodding into our little orange areas, we can grow our window of tolerance. Growing our challenge zones, then turning our challenge zones into comfort zones.
Using a more concrete example, say you try going to a party and you get SUPER overwhelmed! That might put you in a situation where you visualize things like this:
Figuring out what's in that orange "challenge zone" can take some trial and error, but maybe you can try something like this:
Forcing yourself to go to a party where you'll feel overwhelmed and triggered is just going to reenforce the seperation of the red and the green. But pushing a little bit, in a way that feels scary but safe? That's where growth happens! Then maybe eventually, things look more like
That makes a lot of sense. You explained this so well, thank you! And totally, that orange area is super hard to figure out bit it's possible.
Since my coping mechanism is to make challenges into adventures:
I tell myself my orange zones are quests that will help me get to my goals or newer areas. And like any other person, I gotta rest in between them and not overwhelm myself. When I am rested and taken care of my needs, I have a better chance to avoid quick burn out when picking up the quests again. This storytelling keeps me excited and keeps me in check to let myself rest.
CHARLIZE THERON in THE OLD GUARD (2020) + letterboxd reviews
I need both of them in my life forever.
Playghoul
Artist: Cassandra Dunn Art
Listen I know it might be asking a lot but when you see me taking orders in drive thru, making drinks, running front register, running fry station, and bagging and passing out food for both registers can you maybe not demand what is taking me so long because the kitchen is open to where you can see me running around like a squirrel on crack. And honestly this goes for my manager too because she knows I'm doing all this and still pipes up asking what's taking so long while sitting down doing nothing helpful. Shit the only thing I wasn't doing was making the sandwiches I can't help that I'm one person. I even had decent customer service the whole time despite the fact that it was taking everything in me not to cry.
[ID: a twitter post by user @jordan_stratton that reads: “uh oh... made my boss mad by using the vacation days my boss gave me” (end id)]
Gave you? Gave you nothing. Using the vacation days that you have earned and receive as part of the agreement for you to provide services to your boss on a regular basis. How dare you remind your boss that the agreement pursuant to which you provide services is not solely for your boss’s / the company’s benefit? /sarcasm
Take your vacation days. You earned them.
Love how in any other type of relationship this kind of behavior would be recognized as abusive by a lot of people but since it's a boss/employee relationship it's taken as normal and fine by everyone who isn't like, a SocDem at minimum
Me: saves up my vacation days so I can take a longer trip
My boss: “No, we can’t spare you for that long.”
Me: “You realize I could give you two weeks notice and leave and it would take you longer than that to fill my position.”
My boss: “Vacation request denied.”
Me: Goes job hunting. Finds new job. Quits before the date I was originally planning my trip for.
My boss:
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Caption: [My goal for coming out to all the people around me is I'm just not gonna come out. I'm gonna go on estrogen and they're gonna have to figure it out from there. 'Cause I'm just gonna transform like a fucking butterfly. And then when people start asking me "Didn't you used to be a boy?", I'm gonna say "No!". So that way they question their sanity. And at the end of the day I am the victor and I have gaslit everyone. (guitar)].
So I never officially "came out" as gay to my family because despite it being a very meaningful and important thing/moment for some people, I personally could just never wrap my autistic brain around the idea of it being a social requirement to like, announce to my friends and family that what I liked sexually was different from what they liked sexually?
So yeah, I just...didn't? I just started dating dudes and they all just sorta figured it out on their own...or at least most of them did. My mother told me recently that a while back my older brother started to complain to her about "*Names* friend always being at the house every weekend, using our stuff and showering here" and my mother had to sit him down and explain to him that that was my boyfriend of like, at least 5 years by that point?
