I Am Become Giant Seagull

"I wanna know where the shadow people go"

[ph-cutie]

Our inquiry for the pronouns of the most humble man alive was refused, "I haven't done anything that makes me worth talking about in third person"

[hotvampireadjacent]

Um

[pancakeke]

I don't know if any of you had the same experience as me, but I tried therapy when I was a teenager living in an abusive household and thought it was a waste of time. Ultimately my biggest problems (dad) were beyond my control and no amount of coping would make them better. Now that I'm an adult with actual control over my life and don't live with my dad anymore therapy is MUCH more helpful.

If any of you had bad experiences with therapy when you were younger it may be worth it to try again now.

[pancakeke]

THE SAME GOES FOR MEDICATION!! I tried meds as a teenager and they were powerless to help much due to my living situation being horrible. I thought that meant medication didn't work for me. Now that I'm out of that situation and trying agajn I can really see a difference.

[luesmainblog]

they're also starting to recognize this issue in the field, btw!! many teen therapists face the same issue today that Freud did all the way back then, which is that their Client(the person paying them) is the cause of their Patient(person they're caring for)'s issues. They may not be freely able to acknowledge the abuse until they have enough evidence to get CPS involved. However, there is a growing awareness that sometimes mental health issues are because of life factors that you can't currently change, and so the treatment becomes less about convincing your brain into more positive thinking, and instead becomes about gaining the tools to survive your current circumstances and fix it once you're safe.

please also consider the possibility that you simply had bad luck of the draw. therapy is a very individualized thing, and not every therapist will Click with every patient the right way. therapists are also humans who can have unfair biases; there is a reason that patients of color do much better with a non-white therapist, particularly of their same racial or ethnic profile.

[balaclava-trismegistus]

Trump forgetting he sent the CIA on a false flag cyberattack campaign to justify the war and reflexively taking another swipe at Minnesota

[dailycatsblog]

[orteil42]

controversial stance but i do wish i could live forever. i certainly live like i'm going to live forever. i take my time. realistically however my lifespan is dreadfully limited and there are things i've "been meaning to do" that i will never get around to. the Emoji Movie came out almost 10 years ago. in all that time on any random day i could've decided to sit down and watch it, and i did not. how many more decades will slip by like this? conceivably, it could be all the decades i have left. watching the Emoji Movie would not be, after all, a crucial use of my time. much better things to do. i could easily postpone it over and over and over until my final breath where it may not even register to me that i never did watch the Emoji Movie. no great loss, certainly; and yet i find myself intrigued by Patrick Stewart's involvement

[huffylemon]

[transjudas]

never take for granted the moments when you’re not nauseous

[mutationgirl]

(having a good week) that’s right. the goal is to increase my baseline. make the spirals shallower until they spin lazily on the surface of the water, lose their suction. im not trying to fix it all at once, im trying to incrementally improve my way into something tolerable. and once im there maybe i can shoot for good

(having a bad week) and in my terrible forge i will temper the flames of ruin

[sjweminem]

[queermccoy]

no one is more amused by massachusetts accents than people from massachusetts

[dorothygale]

pop health science is so annoying bc it'll be like "did you know? eating strawberries will give you mega cancer" and you're like pfft whatever begone influencer. but sometimes then you'll see a reasonably credible article like "Study Shows Possible Link Between Strawberries and Mega Cancer" and you're not usually the type to follow that kind of thing religiously but idk maybe you should consider not eating strawberries? but then there's another article saying "Strawberry/Mega Cancer Study Debunked" and it turns out the original study had a sample size of 3 and was funded by Big Blueberry, and strawberries may have a small connection to mega cancer but only if you are genetically predisposed to mega cancer and eat 50 strawberries every day. so you return to your strawberry eating life. but whenever you eat strawberries in public someone tells you about the mega cancer.

[peachyblkdemonslayer]

A compilation of Bipoc lead fantasy series made by my mutual themightyzo on Instagram

Where to watch the ones available

I am Frankelda

The Glassworker

Iyanu the child of wonder

The Ebony Witch

[straycatj]

かなりむりやり

Almost forcibly

[straycatj]

またもむりやり

forcibly again

[straycatj]

とにかくむりやり

Anyway, forcibly

[straycatj]

さらにむりやり

Forcibly more

[furryprovocateur]

content filtering on here is so intelligent

[artbyblastweave]

In these trying times, it's important not to discount your own agency. Change begins at the local level- find something in your community that speaks to you, a need that's going unmet, and get involved. For example, every night I volunteer down at my local commune as the guy who wears the big deer-skull costume and runs around in the woods terrifying the more adventurous youth so they don't get far enough from the main compound to discover the existence of the interstate

[artbyblastweave]

"Gee, it seems like maybe that's an internal community matter and they ought to be getting one of their own guys to do that-" WRONG! Due to the endemic rickets and calcium deficiency there are no longer any fulltime adult residents of the commune with necks strong enough to support the weight of the deer skull hat. Check your goddamn privilege. I go where I'm needed

[artbyblastweave]

I finally made a breakthrough this week on trying to flip my late uncle’s incredibly tacky 70s party bungalow. It’s been a real pain to find anyone willing to put up with the wall-to-wall kitsch and the godawful color scheme, but I finally got an offer from a buyer who’re interested in the property specifically because of the grody wall-to-wall shag carpeting. Apparently, they’re a Gnostic Maltheistic sect whose chosen show of devotion is that they spend almost their entire lives shuffling in place on thick carpets, wearing thick socks. The thinking is that by doing this, they achieve a life free of sin, and then at the moment of their deaths they’ll touch God and hit the bastard with 30 years of accumulated static shock, killing Him instantly. Not sure if it’ll work, but I’m keeping in mind the big picture here, which is that the housing market is a pit and I’m trying to unload a house with shag carpeting, so I’m gonna interpret it as God’s way of telling me He wants to see how far they can get with this.

[wholesome-animal-images]