Unusual Coping Mechanisms

Legally I'm an adult somewhere from 25-36, spiritually I've just discovered that I can eat a whole sleeve of biscuits without asking for permission, physically I am more crippled than cryptid, and mentally I am always craving the high that comes from sliding into clean sheets after a shower. Lost Tomb trash with some chronic illness and disability posts thrown in. No politics please! Using comfort, caretaking & whump to deal with what life throws at me.

[colourpatternist]

When you can feel the hyperfixation dying off/going dormant just as the next season release date is nearby

[rabbiteclair]

auto immune disorders happen when the immune system ignores regulatory factors and begins attacking healthy bodily tissues, due to what scientists refer to as "sheer love of the game"

[feveredcharm]

platonic pet names for sick or hurt bbs are just 🤌

and by that I mean basically any platonic peer to peer adult relationship. Just a few of the ones I frequently use and have actually used with close friends when they're sick/exhausted/generally in desperate need of TLC:

• hon

• sweet pea

• sweetheart

• honey (almost always with one specific inflection because I've realized just how bad they've gotten - oh, honey...)

• babes

• love

• darlin'

there are def more but they're specific in a personal way, like stuff that wouldn't make sense for general use~

[dragongirlteeth]

I am shocked at how many people don't have an actively hostile relationship with advertising

[dragongirlteeth]

I am skipping your ads as fast as I can. I'm skipping past your sponsor read. I'm muting the tv. I'm muting the tab. If they get too annoying I will simply stop trying to watch.

If advertisers can use every manipulative trick in the book to get me to buy their product, I am fully within my rights to do everything I can on my end to make their job impossible

[jackandhisspacemonkey]

None of it means anything. Um. Daniel, why don’t you come inside here? I tried. It just goes away. Okay. Then we’ll get it back. You can’t get it back. Whatever’s wrong, we'll…we’ll fix it. You don’t even know what I’m talking about. No. No I don’t.

STARGATE SG-1; THE LIGHT

[kwistowee]

#wholesome THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL (1992)

[kikmessenger]

sits on my own blog like it’s the edge of a lake wistfully

[kikmessenger]

skips a stone over a few posts

[comfortingcatharsis]

A semi-conscious character being bridal carried- weak enough to necessitate being carried and unable to hang on securely enough for a piggy-back, but able and aware enough to have one arm loosely looped 'round their carrier's neck and the other hand tremulously clutching at their shirt-front, head lolling but able to tilt it into the carrying character's shoulder, holding on just enough to keep from being a deadweight.

[hurtcomfortguaranteed]

In the movie True Blood (1989), Ray is reunited with his estranged little brother Donny under dire circumstances, when Donny is shot and has nowhere else to turn.

[sickfictropes]

when the hurt meets the comfort

[vibing-lizard-nose]

I JUST CHOKED ON MY TEA STOP

[tuxankhamun]

lock out. crash in.

[tactfulsaboteur]

breaking into your own house: a manual for the chronically forgetful

[tocourtdisaster]

I started watching SG-1 recently and season one really is just Daniel's horrible, no good, very bad day over and over again, isn't it?

[manhandlingmayhem]

I have news for you about seasons 2 through 10

[whumpprentice]

me: I hate cliches

media: here’s a character losing control of their powers when they’re sick

me: omg a character losing control of their powers when they’re sick

[very-freakin-effable]

IT'S THE GOOD SHIT

[soberqueerinthewild]

Shel Silverstein predicting ChatGPT in 1981

[aniconist]

when people are like “he’s not even attractive you could find a guy that looks like him at any gas station” i’m like….. well you see there’s beauty everywhere actually

[what-even-is-thiss]

You can also find a sunset at a gas station

[thriftedspacesuit]

time to break out my favorite photo I ever took

[speedlimit15]

grocery store mission barely accomplished took massive damage to the hull and all internal systems. shield repair could take days

[buqbite]

one of the funniest things abt this white collar job so far is that i get to see how fucking long people take for the tiniest things. "please paste this text into a separate document and send it to me whenever you're able to this week" i mean shit, man, i know what it's like to take weeks for a 2 minute task, but that's wild even for my standards. like yeah i can probably find the time to press the copy and paste buttons sometime this week

[buqbite]

meanwhile when you do restaurant work one of the waiters will come in and go "okay we have 27 new orders, including three cakes made from scratch, 53 cups of coffee, 60 appetizers and an entire horse roasted on a stick. it'll need to be done within the next 7 minutes before the small town that rented out hall c for a wedding arrives" and you'll be like ah this christmas is so chill compared to last year