a dragon in a trench coat

Bona fide Tumblr Old™. I write stuff. Trying to figure out how to be cringe and sincere again. Curious about my writing? Link to my writeblr: gwenkress I have a website too: gwendolynkress.org

[betweendoctorsanddetectives]

2026

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[dragoninatrenchcoat]

perspective was so easy when I was little. "ok but the universe is endless and if you look up at night you can see the sparkle of a star millions of light years away" was always on my mind. now I get anxiety because the pretend game me and all the other little ape people play with each other is really hard ?? what was that about the universe. go outside about it

[funstyle]

[recommending something i sincerely love] ok so the thing about it is it kinda sucks

[dragoninatrenchcoat]

house: another one of your ridiculous ideas dankovsky: ridiculous?! YOU are the one who wants to bring a bull in the hospital!! house: don't be stupid, we can't keep a bull in the hospital. it's going in your house dankovsky: fine! I wash my hands of it. You and Little do your experiments on the bull to your hearts' content, I will investigate the Polyhedron. house: again with--the hallucinogens they pump into cathedral square are fun but they are not relevant to the current PLAGUE ISSUE. And don't even get me started on your claims about time travel dankovsky: yes they ar- I mean there are no hallucinogens! You still don't believe me? Then here--a pack of matches and my prototype. It is YOUR responsibility today to banish the plague woman. house: I'm not going in a plague district are you insane? I'll catch the plague! dankovsky: oh but I can sacrifice myself, is that it? house: you're better qualified, you have two working legs dankovsky: I concede that I am better qualified to escape the shabnak than you are, but what are you saying? that my capable leg enables me to escape plague mold particles? house: wait a second. if you think I can't 'escape' your fake plague woman, then why did you just ask me to fight her? Are you trying to get me killed? dankovsky: speaking with you is IMPOSSIBLE house: then go back in time and undo it, undergrad dankovsky: THAT IS NOT WHAT BACHELOR MEANS

[anxietyproblem]

[dragoninatrenchcoat]

knightley don't be an idiot 😭

[lexirosewrites]

what they don’t tell you about being a writer is that returning to a long fic you haven’t touched in a while means rereading 50k words first because you don’t actually remember your own fics that well

[victusinveritas]

[black-crested-jaybird]

I always think of the description I saw years ago: Self-imposed deadlines don't help me, because I know the person who set them, and they're full of shit.

[makingtrouble]

Give yourself the treat before you start. I'm serious. And ideally during the task and afterwards too.

Executive dysfunction comes from a lack of available dopamine. Common advice is wrong. You need to provide your own dopamine before you can start. Otherwise you're trying to run your car on empty.

"But what if I still don't do it" well you already weren't getting it done anyway. Now you have a little treat. Try again later.

You deserve kindness and care even when you aren't being productive.

(Also read How to Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis)

[3motionally3xhausted]

My contribution of PHM fanart that took me so much longer to finish than I wanted

[guiltfactory-moved]

i would like if something horrible and invasive was happening to him and his boundaries were violated and he was uncomfortable and scared

[rxkuyo]

Horizon Forbidden West ▶ ⤐ Kotallo｛4/∞｝

[mortalityplays]

here's a secret: whatever you're doing, you have to root for your peers with all your heart because it forces you to root for yourself too. I've seen people in various spheres of my life (workplaces, education, art, activism) fall into the trap of envy and resentment when they see others succeed while they struggle, and it always always goes hand in hand with them pulling back and giving up and stagnating.

when you let yourself get sour grapes about shit, you tacitly give up on yourself. when you sit around hoping other people will flop and fail so you can catch up to them, you stop trying. it's a fantasy of mediocrity, the vain wish that other people would walk so you could take the gold medal at a jog. wouldn't you rather come last place at 27mph?

[catcrumb]

[cypherdrgon]

Phm from Adrian's perspective is just what if you were Penelope and Odysseus came home but he also brought a jellyfish and keeps begging you to build a fish tank for the jellyfish and make jellyfish food for the jellyfish and youre an ancient Greek whos never seen a jellyfish and you cant even comprehend how your going to do it but youre going to because if you dont Odysseus may kill himself. And also the jellyfish can do like. Witchcraft.

[crap-userrname16]

[escuerzoresucitado]

[dragoninatrenchcoat]

#clippy's voiceless yet chipper advice proclaiming the depths of your soul as if you were a bulleted list with nested content#taking something deep and secret from the foul recesses of the heart and making a judgement about it with the same forthrightness#as it would the save function being shortkeyed to ctrl+S#I want to get this professionally printed on a 3-foot-square plain of white#not centered but slightly down and to the side#it's not that clippy has unfettered access into your secret places#it's that everything you thought you were holding close had actually been printed in the user's manual from the beginning#everything that is has been done and everything you are has been been before you#you've committed no sin so great as treating yourself as if punishment will alleviate suffering#need help? you have destroyed yourself for nothing#tip: you are a human and you deserve to be treated with care

probably passé to put my own tags on main but I just found this on my blog and past me was spitting bars

[bebx]