pictures for me

my aesthetic. a pure wall of navel gazing. all mine

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

in bed after a terrible awful no-good day, the thought struck me that "and I didn't even tear up once in frustration! i deserve a gold star"

and then: "someone should give me a gold star"

and then: "im an adult. im in charge of giving myself gold stars"

and i remembered i keep a box of glitter stickers for this exact scenario.

and that's how my terrible no good awful day ended with me covered arms-to-legs in glitter stickers. there are tiny stars scattered over my bedsheets. i understand why my parents didn't let me do this. it felt amazing. i will definitely be repeating this behaviour.

anyway. give yourself stars.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

that time in high school when my computer died and i was so deeply distraught i legit wrote an entire obituary for a laptop

[marlsbys-dragons]

Where is the obit Gaud, come on don’t hold out on us

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i had to dig so deep through old backup files to find this, enjoy!

RIP (In loving, random access memory)

After a long illness, my beloved laptop, 3, while surrounded by family and tech support, succumbed in the night to an internal error. My laptop leaves behind one bereaved admin (me), an estranged guest user, an elderly warranty and a large extended family of synced mobile devices and browser bookmarks. Friends, we are gathered in this subdomain today to honor the memory, both RAM and hard drive, volatile and non-volatile, and mourn the data loss of a beloved digital companion. Caches to caches, rust to rust. Though its hard drive may be wiped, its chassis refurbished, and its processor sold for scrap, its torrent downloads and browser history will live on in our hearts, and eventually come back to haunt me.

[kaispeakshermind]

Caches to caches, rust to rust

[mistakenforacorpse]

I am sorry for your data loss

[i-got-the-feels]

I am sorry.

It must have been a lot to process.

[itsreallystupid]

another one bytes the dust

[sodamnbored]

Cntrl-Alt-But never Deleted

[epicnerd404]

Anyone else wondering what the obituary was written on if the computer had gone toward the blue-screen light?

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Reminder that “processing trauma” doesn’t just mean “talk about the traumatic shit that happened to you” (especially if you aren’t ready to do that yet). It also means:

Giving yourself time, safety, and rest. Letting your brain learn how to feel safe again by giving it a safe place to rest and recover. Rediscovering the feeling of peace is a fundamental part of recovery.

Examining your day-to-day feelings. (Not just your feelings about what happened in the past, but the way you feel just in general, day-to-day.) Observing and understanding your present emotions, the things you are struggling with, the things that are getting easier, recognizing the good, the bad, and the gray.

Identifying triggers, brainstorming ways to avoid them, and having a gameplan & coping skills for when they can’t be avoided.

Identifying goals, concrete or otherwise. (E.g. my goal is to have more good days this month than last month, to have fewer days spent in bed, to have fewer moments of panic, to be a little happier and feel a little more safe.)

Mapping progress

Talking about your fears & negative feelings is important. But you can start by talking about your desires & hopes for the future. In therapy, you get to choose what to talk about, and how far the conversation goes.

Reminding yourself that you are working to overcome obstacles specifically because there are good things waiting ahead.

Recovery is a journey, and everyone carves a slightly different path. You don’t have to follow step-by-step instructions, as long as you learn how to keep moving forward.

[studentofetherium]

i'm not normally one to make jokes about dialect or accent. but the way that British people pronounce "lieutenant" feels like an in-joke i'm not privy to

[aokozaki]

Aww, you're feeling lieut out?

[schofielded]

[pien-art]

made an mp3 player tie :)) and i can change the music with my button pins hehe >:3

[oldroze]

Antique Jewish wedding rings.

[ladymaplecourt]

Hi my name is Mordechai ben Yair ben Shimei ben Kish, ish Yimini and I am from the tribe of Binyamin (that’s how I got my name) with a long white beard that reaches my mid-abs and icy blue eyes like limpid tears and a lot of people tell me I look like King Saul (AN: if u don’t know who he is get da hell out of here!). I AM related to Queen Esther which is great because she’s a major fucking hottie. I’m a prophet but I'm humble and scholarly. I’m also a Jew, and I was a member of a respected group called the Sanhedrin in the Hall of Hewn Stones where I learned seventy languages (I’m one hundred). I’m a vizier (in case you couldn’t tell) and I wear mostly royal blue. I am second to the king and I get all my clothes from him. For example today I was wearing royal robes of blue and white, and a mantle of fine linen and purple wool. I was wearing a magnificent gold crown and riding a royal horse. I was sitting by the castle gates. A counter-decree had been issued so the Jews were not in mortal peril, which I was very happy about. A lot of antisemites stared at me. I put up my middle finger at them.

[nemfrog]

"The most glorious pictures of stars in any part of the heavens." The wonder and the glory of the stars. 1927.

Internet Archive

[faeberrywine]

ID credit: 508685288 on 小红书

(please like, reblog and give proper credit if you use any of my gifs!)

[kocalls]

[divinum-pacis]

American-Jewish visitors hold Torah scrolls at a synagogue in the old city of Damascus, Feb. 18, 2025. A Syrian-American Jewish family returned for the first time since emigrating from Syria to the United States more than three decades ago, as part of a delegation organized by the Syrian Emergency Task Force, a U.S.-based nonprofit organization, in the wake of the fall of the government of former President Bashar Assad. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

[diamondsandphoenixfire]

That link is broken for me so:

Syrian Jews' homecoming brings hope for reconstruction and a permanent return after decades in exile

As Rabbi Yusuf Hamra and his son Henry were visiting Damascus this week for the first time since emigrating from Syria to the United States

One of the delegation was the brother of the former Chief Rabbi of Syria. Looks like they’re not making the move permanent right now, but the fact that they’ve been able to visit old neighbors and synagogues Assad destroyed is a step. 

[faeberrywine]

User credit: flowerknows_global on insta

(please like, reblog and give proper credit if you use any of my gifs!)

[dogman-and-peteys-datemate]

starcake stimboard for @starlos-soulmate , with ace themed stims, spacecore stims, and lovecore themed stims!

uhhh hello hi! waves like an idiot uh. ik lately some stuff has come up and you haven't been feeling 100%. obviously i hope you're feeling better, and if you are then awesome sauce! but regardless, ive been wanting to make a lil smth for ya, sooooo ta-da! i hope you like this but if you don't then no worries feel free to beat me up lol ^^

🖤 🩶 🖤 / 🌌 🤍 🌌 / 🖤 🩶 🖤

[flintandpyrite]

It’s finished!!!!! PLEASE zoom in on the borders I spent so long quilting them and I think they look so good.

[transman-badass]

I can't do much but maybe this will interest someone. This cookbook is by a classically trained autistic chef, made for people with sensory issues. It's sold 1/6th of its initial run because apparently no one wants to have an autistic person interviewed on TV.

Apparently it's also very funny.

Color Taste Texture by Matthew Broberg-Moffitt: 9780593538593 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

An accessible family cookbook that offers solutions rather than tricks to empower the food-averse, autistic, and picky eater, with 46 recipe

Spread this around! I bet someone here can use this.

[reasonsforhope]

More info from the link:

"An accessible family cookbook that offers solutions rather than tricks to empower the food-averse, autistic, and picky eater, with 46 recipes. This much-needed cookbook combines tips and techniques with a dash of understanding about food aversion and how to help your kids—and yourself—cook beautiful meals in an empowering way, and is a groundbreaking resource for anyone who has ever been called “picky” or “discerning.” Learn how to alter the texture or taste profile of a dish, or even fit it within a specific palette with a unique color-coded guide. Delicious, nutritious, and easily tailored recipes (including for gluten-free and vegan eaters) include:

the perfect smashed cheeseburger

Italian sausage and potato soup

the best omelet

stuffed focaccia 

chocolate pinwheels

and dozens more

Professional chef Matthew Broberg-Moffitt’s advice is broken down by category (The Five Tastes, Texture, Color, Aroma, Presentation, and Plating) in order to address each and every aspect of food aversion, and a Food Preference Profile and Worksheet is included for you and your child to quickly identify and summarize their preferences. Instead of leading to mistrust by disguising or slipping in foods your kids don’t want to eat, this cookbook supports caretakers in a way that maintains a healthy relationship with food, and a joyful, less stressful experience around the table."

[carriesthewind]

I have this, and I recommend! I've only tried a few recipes so far (because I samefood a lot), but they've been a) very good and b) to the extent there are elements that don't work for me, they are very (intentionally) easy to adapt. The only drawback I would warn about is that (in my opinion) he assumes the reader/cook has access to a much larger variety of cooking equipment that a lot of people will have. I haven't had any trouble adapting his instructions to the equipment that is actually in my kitchen, but I could see this tripping up someone who is brand new to cooking.

(Also this book has permanently changed the way I make mashed potatoes. He recommends baking them instead of boiling, and they are incredible.)

[gracechoreography]

My only worry is… what if the author’s safe textures are not the same as my safe textures?

[carriesthewind]

@gracechoreography It's not that kind of cookbook! :) It's designed to help you work with *your* specific needs.

A large chunk of the beginning is entire chapters dedicated to the different senses, and how to cook with your sensory preferences/needs in mind. For example, here is the beginning of the texture chapter:

And then here's an example of how it talks about recipes:

The book is aimed at people who don't have a lot of experience cooking and/or are trying to figure out how to cook for someone with food aversions (like their kid) without prior tools or experience, so it won't blow your mind if you're already been successfully cooking for your food-averse self for well over a decade. But there was a still useful tips in it for me, and also it's just...nice?... to have a cookbook that thinks about food the same way I do.

[pat-lechem]

poppy anemone (anemone coronaria). western negev, israel. 2026. photographer: gadi eidelheit. source.