Can't Sleep Thinkin' About Slugs

A small pat on the head is appreciated but not required Moss / they-them / Asexual / 23 / Literal Corvid Homestuck & hiveswap side blog: cirava-official

[thegirlwiththemooglehat]

Friends, romans, people who are nonbinary except at work, lend me your ears,

[bebemoon]

if you're not playing mermaids with me then i have to assume you're playing mermaids against me

[syn4k]

ok note to self i gotta leave the house regularly so that i dont feel like im slowly transforming into an evil fucking shadow clone of myself

[syn4k]

So as it turns out your sense of self doesnt exist in a vacuum. You gotta actually use it and bounce it off of other people like echolocation to see where you are as a person and shit. So if you dont regularly interact with other people the echoes just get weaker and weaker and before you know it your personality is a blurry fucked up fog clone of its former self. which it sucks because this makes it really hard to interact with people again but yknow

[doccyuk]

"Individuals aren't naturally paid-up members of the human race, except biologically. They need to be bounced around by the Brownian motion of society, which is a mechanism by which human beings constantly remind one another that they are...well...human beings."

Terry Pratchett, "Men At Arms"

[elkian]

One thing I've gotten a lot better at due to long and unpleasant experience is Going Outside even when I don't have a Reason for it.

Unemployed stint? Go Outside. Sick? Go Outside. Etc.

Because even 5 minutes Outside helps me remember that there is an Outside. When I don't Go Outside (ideally once per day minimum), my world shrinks to the house, then the areas I actually use, then my bedroom, then my bed, then me.

If you've got clinical depression especially, try to find time to Go Outside. I've got some potted plants out back this year - gotta water em! The porch of the new place is actually pretty nice - morning coffee when the weather isn't abominable counts as Going Outside. I try to go to the library every weekend, take a walk, etc. etc. etc.

If you can Go Outside I highly recommend Going Outside especially when you don't have an external reason to do so. Make a reason - whether it's bird watching or a potted plant or just checking out the neighborhood, you will definitely feel less awful if you can make 5 minutes a day Go Outside Time.

[roymbrogart]

I made a friend! Literally!

I finished this brushbuddy art doll earlier this week and he is very cute. It's got a wire armature inside and is fully posable, including the leather fingers and toes. (There are also magnets in the feet to potentially stick it to things later.)

[holymagdalenes]

"There's no hope for the future." And that's how they felt during the Atomic Age, during the World Wars, during the Enlightenment Revolutions, during thr plagues, during the Viking raids, during the fall of Rome.

Yet, we persisted.

[ave-immaculata]

[letmetakeastabatit]

CS Lewis had something to say about this

[angie-words]

Been feeling a bit hopeless of late. Wasn't expecting to stumble across a quote that would fundamentally alter my perspective and make me cry during my lunch break but here we are

[outrageousring5655]

This is an excellent sentiment.

[digitalmyyth]

irl friends being like "I havent seen your art in ages can I see something recent?" and it's like. sure. yeah. you can see my art of Ryan Gosling as a woman I guess

[botanyshitposts]

say what you will about morning glories but it is pretty sick when a little fat bumblebee goes in there

[viralfrog]

[chemicalico]

who wanna be friends with drawbacks

[eatthekidsfirst]

friends with consequences

[creamsiclemelt]

SCREAMING at this tweet and it's replies

[deathtripz]

[tvguts]

i think we've done a great job expanding the view of what a child's favorite animal can be. kids these days can say they love axolotls or pangolins or coelecanths and their decision is respected. maybe their parents can even find them a stuffed animal of it if they know where to look. and i think that's beautiful

[cheddar-baby]

[bakwaaas]

I will create a beautiful life no matter what

[prettiestpear]

[alexmey-does-an-arts]

MY STUPID FUCKING CAT WONT STOP TRYING TO TOUCH THE BEEHIVE

[theswisscheeserag]

You gotta be really publicly passionate about things if you want your friends to text you. Bc people will forget to text you because they’re human. But if you’re really openly the friend who loves identifying ants your friends will think of you when they see ants. And they’ll text you “what ant is this [blurry photo]”. And then they’ll ask you how you’ve been and we should get coffee sometime. But if they don’t know what you love they’ll never know what you like

[theswisscheeserag]

And then when the ant convention is in town they’ll be like dude… we should go to the ant convention. But they would never think to go if they didn’t know u loved ants

[theswisscheeserag]

And sometimes you need to ask them to go to the ant convention. But you Will not get anywhere hiding your passions