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28 | maladaptive coping

[nettleseeds-art]

I dont want to see your ai "creations" seriously its so cringey and gross

Hello!

While I tried doodling here and there in my youth, I didn't formally start learning art until I was 27 years old. 27! I had lived as long as Janis Joplin, Amy Winehouse, and Kurt Cobain had for their entire lives, creative output and all, and here I was like a newborn deer scrambling to get my footing in art!

I started this because it was a bit of a rough spot for me. I left my job as an engineer and had just started my PhD program, which was effectively a full-time job making just enough to cover groceries and my share of the rent, but not much else. Everything else - games, books (thank you public library), even taking a taxi - was considered extraneous. While I had commissioned art several times before then, suddenly I couldn't justify the cost. There were many artists out there whose art I adored and wanted to support, and I had lots of characters and things I wanted to see made real!

So, I picked up my pencil and an old sketchbook and I started drawing. Home late from class? I would cool down with some doodle practice. In the lab on a sunday waiting for an experiment to finish? That was a golden 30 minute window to draw. It was rough. Rougher than rough. Even though I had tried drawing before, I had no concept of anatomy, posing, layout, composition, color(!), or style. Yes, I would get frustrated ("why doesn't it look on the page like it looks in my head? Q~Q"), but I learned that 1) artists are very supportive, and my friends were happy to give advice and feedback as I grew, and 2) visualizing and creativity are a practiced skill! It takes time, but Idk if I can live without doing art. Its fun and I love the high you get when you look at something and go "I made that!!!" Even my old, rough art...sure I cringe at it, but its fun to revisit. Its something I made,

So why am I yelling about all this (again)? Because for some reason, here more so than the site with an actual ai bot built in, here right on tumblr I somehow end up seeing more ai generated crap everywhere. Maybe its a factor of community size. Or people in my niche just wanting more "content" to wallop their scallops too (I do get lots of hypno community stuff on my dash). Its disheartening and frankly just gross.

"But I wanted to create something to share with the community!" Pick up a pencil. Make a shitty photoshop meme. Write it out as a story. It's what weve been doing for literally decades now.

"But I tried art and it seems hard or I cant do it because xyz!" Look, Im a dumb bitch who never thought she had a creative bone in her body. If I can do it, so can you. And if art isn't for you? See the previous answer above. Or as we say in science, vide supra.

You have something you want to share? We want to see the you within it! Put your love into it, your own personal touch. Nothing can overcome the feral rawness of someones interests diffusing into their work. Anything else is just hollow. Theres no cleverness. Theres no whimsy. Its just sad.

[sweetdreamspootypie]

Do not quit alcohol cold turkey

Do not suddenly stop drinking alcohol as a new years resolution if you have been consistently using alcohol most days

Your body gets used to the presence of the alcohol as a sedative in your system

Suddenly removing the sedative you are chemically accustomed to is like suddenly removing the wall you are leaning on - you will topple over

You brain electricity gets overexcited

This causes seizures

This causes sudden onset dementia (Wernicke's encephalopathy)

This causes brain damage

If you use alcohol often (even in moderate amounts)

Or in large amounts

Or you have ever noticed you get shakey tremors and anxious when you stop drinking

Then your body is chemically dependant and you need to be very careful coming off alcohol otherwise you will cause brain damage

Slowly wean down the amount you drink over days or weeks

Talk to a doctor about your goals to quit and ask about support options

Medically supported withdrawal is a lot safer

If alcohol withdrawal goes badly there is a 15% chance it will kill you.

Do not go this alone

You deserve to be safe

[sweetdreamspootypie]

Please reblog this or other similar posts and talk about it with people around you

Support your friends to be safe

[felinesassosaurus]

Remember the Cold Turkey Rule:

Quitting drugs can make you feel like you're dying

Quitting alcohol can make you actually die

Do No Do This Alone

You Are Worth Helping

[tibli]

i would like to amend this with the fact that you absolutely CAN die from certain drug withdrawals, like opiates, for example. its not common, per se, but it certainly happens. i just dont like the idea of unintentionally perpetuating the myth that non-alcohol withdrawals wont kill you. ideally you shouldnt quit ANY addictive substance cold turkey, because addiction typically means your brain has been rewired to be chemically dependant on it

[animentality]

"fandom is dying," they whine as they stab artists and writers in the chest with discourse knives and harassment screws. "why isn't anyone making content for me to greedily consume for free as I make the experience worse for them and everyone around me?"

[btheleaf]

[linthecumslut]

If you are a sub into hypnosis I'm begging you to read this

Never thought i would have to do a callout post, but unfortunately here we are, yesterday, while i was in a session with my usual hypnotist, i posted that i was hypnotized on my blog, some dude decided to slip into my DMs and chat with me, at first it looked like innocent teasing, so i ket it slip, but then he tried to get me to tell him my triggers, enormous red flag, all while i was still hypnotized.

Luckily i was able to wake up and not do anything I'd regret, but i decided to play along just to see what he would do and this guy scared me, he tried to change my memory and get me to send him pictures of myself, which i NEVER do.

Please, hypnosubs, tace care of yourselves in this page, be sure you can snap out of trance if needed, have systems to keep you safe, only let people you trust drop you and DON'T share your triggers with randoms.

The guy is @temple-of-bliss , proof under the cut

[kimarisgundam]

I feel like I go feral everytime we have a Cyberpunk Red session cos I can't tell if my friends are really dumbasses irl, or if they are just acting in character

Cos on one hand, I feel like the characters in our party are literal badasses at this point... but at the same time, they are really dumb and petty 🙄

This party is made up of the pettiest people in Night City 🙄. Our Nomad once swallowed cigarettes cos he didn't want to share them with our Rockerboy

He could have just said no. But he had to eat them to show how much he didn't want to share with Rockerboy

Our Rockerboy tried to return the petty energy by snorting all the drugs cos he didn't want to share with Nomad 🤦‍♀️

Guess who got penalised by our DM for doing an entire bag of drugs 🤦‍♀️

[eric-the-bmo]

Funniest thing about Cyberpunk Red is that there's a gang who get surgery to to look like actors/characters from old-time movies and sitcoms. But since it's Cyberpunk, by old-time they mean our time. Imagine walking down an alley and getting jumped by Ross from Friends

[deborahnotdebra]

Boku no Hero Names (according to my friend who just started watching)

Izuku Midoriya - Freckles, My Son Kastuki Bakugo - Why You Mad, Bruh?! Shoto Todoroki - Strawberry Shortcake Yuga Aoyama - Baguette Mina Ashido - Alien Queen Tsuyu Asui - Frog Chiquita Tenya Iida - Jet Legs Ochaco Uraraka - Gravity Girl Mashiro Oijiro - Monkey Man Denki Kaminari - Pikachu Eijiro Kirishima - Sir Yells A Lot Koji Koda - My Precious Rikido Sato - Eyebrows Mezo Shoji - These Hands Looks Jiro - Beats by Dr. Dre Hanta Sero - Tape Man Fumikage Tokoyami - Raven from Teen Titans Toru Hagakure - Invisi Girl Minoru Mineta - Grape Pervert Momo Yaoyorozu - She Pulled What Outta Where?! Neito Monoma - Stealy McStealerson Juzo Honenuki - Grimm Reaper Tetsutetsu (x2) - Mall of Steel Hitoshi Shinso - The Great Hypno Mei Hatsume - Unsafe Choices, Inspector Gadget Nezu - It’s A Bear Recovery Girl - Nurse Joy All Might - American Dad Eraserhead - Mom Needs a Nap Present Mic - Can You Not?! Cementoss - My Pure Egg Midnight - NSFW Thirteen - Space Jam Snipe - Sniper Cowboy Gran Torino - Grandpa Endeavor - Can You Maybe Chill?! Best Jeanist - Denim Gunhead - Kindest Soul Kamui Woods - Tree Hugger Mt. Lady - GUUUUUURL Uwabami - Medusa Sludge Villian - Green Juice Stain - Gingivitis Nomu - Birdbrain Kurogiri - Warp Purple And FINALLY, Tomura Shigaraki - Daddy Issues Hands McBitch

[saywhat-politics]

Keep your messaging simple:

“Trump fired everyone in charge of airplane safety, and a week later planes started crashing into each other.”

That’s it. That’s the messaging. Don’t get bogged down disputing Trump’s false claims. Just blame him, in short and repeatable sentences.

[the-nameless-human200]

I couldn’t reboot it for some reason

[roycohn]

something i've noticed that has become really annoying in the past 10 years or so is this fad of what i've been calling, for lack of a better word, "structural whataboutism." it's that thing where, when faced with a concrete, resolvable problem in your community, your answer is to blame it on a vast, unsolvable issue of structural inequality and then throw up your hands. "there's trash all over the ground in this corner of the park" becomes "well, that's where MEN OF COLOR congregate after their 12-HOUR GRAVEYARD SHIFTS and i'm not going to support a CARCERAL SOLUTION to a CAPITALISTIC PROBLEM. WE NEED TO ELIMINATE POVERTY AND THE SUBJUGATION OF THE WORKING CLASS" and it's like okay but sis. someone still has to go pick up the trash. we don't need a carceral solution, we need more trash cans. you're not going to eliminate poverty and the subjugation of the working class and even if ya did, there would still be trash on the ground. how any of this passes for radicalism within their peer groups i simply don't understand. it's radical laziness more than anything else

[figtreeandvine]

I was on a canoe trip once with a river biologist who worked for the county. After we found and removed a car tire, she started talking about the annual river cleanup her department organized. From a water quality or ecological standpoint, removing shopping carts, car tires, and other macro trash from the river really wasn't that important, she said. The real threat to the river was industrial and agricultural runoff.

"But!" she said:

People who see a clean, trash-free river are more likely support laws to curb more harmful "systemic" forms of pollution. People who participate in river cleanups take pride in their work--their river!--and become evangelists for protecting it.

Immediate action leads to systemic awareness, which leads to systemic change.

[disgustinggf]

[stevenjgarza]

Wizard worm just emerged from a wizarding hole! Lucky you!!!✨🪱🪄🍀

[shed-some-light]

reminders for today:

if you or someone you know might need it in the next few years, purchase plan b. the shelf life of plan b is 4 years, and we might not be able to access it as easily as we can now in the days ahead.

if you are larger/plus size: go online and purchase ella instead of plan b. plan b is less effective if you aren’t under 160 pounds.

if you can, purchase books that project 2025 is looking to ban.

mass deportations are starting. if you see ice vehicles or agents, yell ice raid and la migra as loud as you can.

if someone asks who you voted for, keep your mouth shut. they’re fishing for traitors.

if anyone, anyone at all asks about your neighbors or their legal status in the us, you know nothing. don’t be the reason that their family is separated.

if anyone asks about your religion or lack thereof, keep it vague. this administration will look for any excuse to persecute you.

your friends are trans or queer? for the next four years they’re not. don’t expose anyone’s status as a trans or queer person to anyone else, even if you think you can trust them.

did someone you know get an abortion? no, they didn’t. they were never pregnant.

in short, don’t be a snitch, and keep to yourself these next four years. we’ll make it through this even if it seems hopeless at times.

this is all i can think of at the moment, but i’ll be adding on to this as the day continues.

we can survive this. we’ve survived before, and we’ll survive again.

[shed-some-light]

[nudityandnerdery]

I want you to remember:

The fascists hate you too and they just will pretend otherwise until after they've killed the rest of us, before they turn on you.

[horreurscopes]

we need another conventionally attractive young man who is chronically weird online to commit a second publicly acclaimed politically motivated assassination so that we can finally achieve what until now was previously believed impossible: ethical true crime yaoi rpf

[sexhaver]

musk is going to die in a Tesla explosion in 6 months after sticking his nose where it doesn't belong and we will never get a conclusive answer on whether it was a CIA car bomb or just a normal Tesla malfunction

[fernthefanciful]

Like to charge, reblog to cast

[siriuslysatorusimping]

Everyone, meet Kurisaki Rinko, Special Grade 1 Jujutsu Sorcerer from Kyoto

If you haven’t already, you can read Another Level to meet Rinko for yourself!

Another Level Masterlist | Kiko’s Masterlist

A HUGE thanks to @breiterart for bringing Rinko to life in JJK art style! I’ve been so fucking excited, and can’t believe I’m finally getting to share it with our lil corner.

It’s been just over a year since I started writing Another Level and Rinko began cementing herself as my favorite OC.

Thank you to everyone here in our lil corner who’s fallen just as in love with her as I have.

There will be more to come in the future, and I’ll also be updating Rinko’s profile once I get my laptop back!!