Saskia Sez Read Downtempo

Saskia | 31 | She/They | 🇬🇧 | Author of International Fantasy BL Webcomic Sensation Downtempo | Fake Gamer and Fake Girl | Fatass | NSFW art

[stuckinapril]

I think part of getting better is complete ego death. Like you’re not above setting a timer for 5 minutes and focusing on a task. You’re not above doing a very simple 3 minute workout to start. You’re not above reading for 10 minutes a day when you first get out of your reading slump, even if you used to read for hours. You’re not above starting slow and then building up to where you want to be/where you once were. What you are above is total inertia. Doing something really is better than doing nothing. Radically accept where you are, radically accept your limits, and go from there. Don’t let your ego get in the way.

[gracklesong]

I would be pretty surprised, personally

[himbonotes]

I'm not annoyed at Americans for turning their nose up at British Chinese food, I am however annoyed at them for being like THAT'S NOT REAL CHINESE FOOD UNLIKE WHAT WE HAVE HERE when 90% of the time they're talking about like beef and broccoli or crab rangoons

like I think it's really cool when an immigrant populous comes over to a place and their food adapts to local tastes creating a cool new third thing and it's annoying you're passing over celebrating that in favour of a game of authenticity one-upsmanship that you seem to think you are winning when you are not!!

[aristocrating]

its 2026 i cannot handle any more fucking "author A obviously ripped off author B" discourse by people Who Have Only Seen the work of author B and admit themselves that they have no further knowledge of the literary landscape they are moving in. like.

[insomaniackills]

Folks really need to reacquaint themselves with this concept

[seeingteacupsindragons]

[witchofanguish]

trying to play peekaboo with my child but he's a European diplomat:

me: where'd daddy go?

baby: we must articulate a post-daddy vision of strategic autonomy

me: peekaboo!

baby: my historic relationship with my father is stable despite recent troubles

[archacovercosine]

when i'm five minutes late with dinner: truly this is a wake-up call for baby

[slowlikehoney1996]

If your lover lives in Hong Kong and cannot get to Chicago, it will be necessary for you to go to Hong Kong. Perhaps you will spend your life there, and never see Chicago again. And you will, I assure you, as long as space and time divide you from anyone you love, discover a great deal about shipping routes, airlines, earthquake, famine, disease, and war. And you will always know what time it is in Hong Kong, for you love someone who lives there. And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time and, furthermore, to win.

James Baldwin, Nothing Personal

[comment-tube]

[spiderbitesandvampirevenom]

can we bring back the term "fair-weather friend" bc I feel like if fair-weather friends got called that more this whole argument about whether or not you should be there for your friends when it's inconvenient/at what point of personal inconvenience it's ok to bail on your friends would kinda fall apart bc like. we literally have a word for "friend who's only there when you don't need something from them" because the baseline expectation is that a friend should be there even when it sucks. like we used to make fun of people for bailing on their friends.

[shamebats]

"it's just stress" oh thank god, it's just the silent killer that slowly kills you, perfectly harmless, no need to worry

[himbonotes]

Finished my second doll faceup!! This was an Ever After High doll I rescued from eBay cause I thought her face shape and skin tone was perfect for my OC Miki Oddloop (also means I don't have to paint her lol). Feel like I've already improved from the first one

Can tell that I'm full send in this hobby because I'm hyped to start putting hair on her even though my last reroot did take like 12+ hours or so

[ashubii]

This is why I have TikTok

[luntfontanne]

jane schoenbrun funniest person alive actually

[himbonotes]

One thing scaring me off finally taking the plunge and getting a cat is not wanting hair all over everything but that has gone out the window with my newfound doll customizing hobby there is hair EVERYWHERE

[himbonotes]

My Young Girls Of Rochefort inspired nails, who up having a Jacques Demy summer

[segamascott]

[ms-demeanor]

How do you feel about driving?

I can drive, I am good at driving, I enjoy driving.

I can drive, I am good at driving, I do not enjoy driving.

I can drive, I am bad at driving, I enjoy driving.

I can drive, I am bad at driving, I do not enjoy driving.

I haven't learned to drive, I think I would enjoy driving.

I haven't learned to drive, I do not think I would enjoy driving.

I can't drive anymore, I was good at it, I enjoyed driving.

I can't drive anymore, I was good at it, I didn't enjoy it.

I can't drive anymore, I was bad at it, I enjoyed it.

I can't drive anymore, I was bad at it, I didn't enjoy it.

Voting ended onJun 4

[pansy2025]

goo goo dolls if they were in dune: and i don’t want the worm to see me