SOMNUS

. . .Lucius - male - 20 - INFJ - Canada . . . visit /links for my different pages

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I'm back from the dead, bitches!

[leichenfresser]

a public post about growth

I’m never on here anymore and honestly it’s only helped solidify my satisfaction with life as of late. I can focus on things that really matter to me that I never found the time or energy to do before. I even have 5 plants in my room that I’ve been keeping alive the past 3 months (which is a huge accomplishment since i could never keep anything alive before), I have more drive to do things because I’m not secluding myself and letting my mental illness (depression) take control of me. I’m actively helping my family around the house and learning new life skills on a near daily basis. I make sure to get out of the house and see friends once a week or so, I’m getting my drivers license, being promoted to a Supervisor, legal changes done with, plan to apply for the next school year and working out nearly every day, on top of daily responsibilities like chores that just come with being an adult. I’m doing more for myself than I ever have before and I thank my friends, family AND myself for getting me this far, self improvement can be addictive in some ways. :) 

Sometimes it takes experiencing something bad in order to realize how lucky you had it before, that alone can be enough to change your outlook on things and take more time to appreciate the people that truly matter. Not every day is perfect but I feel like I’ve conquered some big obstacles in my life and despite the fact there will always be those bumps along the road, thats all they are in the end, and it doesnt matter because I know I’m heading in a good direction. 

As much as I wish I never wouldve made certain life choices in the past, because I can clearly remember how hard they were to survive, those choices are what have gotten me here to this day, in this moment. Those choices are what helped me grow as a person and improve myself exponential amounts from who I had been beforehand. I have the drive to do better after experiencing the bad.

To anyone reading this, I know you can also get to this point (if you havent already!), it just takes self discipline and not covering up your faults with excuses. Things can be worked on if you’re willing to put in the effort and not give up. There’s always something you can look forward to, dont take on too much, and making lists of goals and schedules can be a huge way to help you keep track and stay feeling productive, even if all you can manage to do one day is shower, any progress is good, push yourself as much as possible and eventually you do start to outgrow bad habits and mindsets, even with mental illness. Anything beneficial in life requires a bit of work, and over time you will be able to handle more :)

[pure]

Me when i see a wild animal in a metropolitan area: reclaim your space, we are the invaders, retake what is yours

[pauzamro]

griffith from last year after watching the ‘97 series. pls i just need new chapters

instagram / prints

[asexualmew]

Just in case anyone else was curious.

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This is kind of horrifying

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holy shit

[leviathan-supersystem]

fucking destroyed

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looks like we have a new king

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get a load of this

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tokyo street snap

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[evilrashida]

Jewelry from Christian Dior’s Fall/Winter 1999 “Matrix” Haute Couture collection.

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[sntg]

i think about this video a lot

[harperandmary]

Wtf is going on

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[wondersmith-and-sons]

happy lunar new year, friendly reminder that jimmy kimmel and ellen degeneres inviting marie kondo on to their show to “tidy up” their writer’s rooms only to dismiss her advice, belittle her methods, make fun of her use of a translator, and act like ungrateful children in the face of her genuine attempts to help is literally the most basic form of Othering from white people. It’s another form of commodification by white people of non-white cultures that is being willingly shared, and it doesn’t get any less racist when it comes from “progressives”, be they a liberal white woman or a “Woke” news pundit 

[wondersmith-and-sons]

like she’s already being attacked and villainised into this aggressive book-burning harpy by white people on twitter who thinks having a full bookshelf can substitute having a personality, and now mainstream network talk shows are coming after her as well. 

I don’t care if you think “this is just how Degeneres/Kimmel does comedy”, I don’t care if they did it for laughs. The overall tone of their segment is to show their reaction; to show how ridiculous and childish they find the KonMari method. We get it, white liberals don’t have time for wishy-washy Japanese mindfulness woo-woo and their enlightened views make them too rational to take seriously any other cultures that are based in spirituality and animism

Kimmel made a long, over-winded joke that deliberately put both Marie and her translator into an embarrassing situation, deliberately highlighting and mocking Marie’s lack of English, and then mocked the Shinto cultural background that Marie’s methods come from. Ellen’s writer acted as if Marie was going to overturn his office, then shoves Kim Kardashian’s ass into Marie’s face, then admit that he’s going “put everything back anyway” after Maries leaves. Both of them act as if her “greeting ritual” was some form of Weird Hokey Japanese Gimmick. 

White “progressive liberal voices” are turning non-white cultures either into a commodity or into a joke without any self-reflection or foresight into the damage they’re potentially doing. They take no care in the hurt that they as white comedians are sowing; in turning Marie’s traditional Japanese cultural values and contexts into a joke, they’re making the act of othering and disrespecting non-white cultures more normative and easier to do. Their activism and political commentary is nothing but performative white bullshit.

When we share don’t share our cultures, white people turn it into a hip commodity, then cry PC-gone-mad when we take offense. When we willingly share our cultures, it gets turned into a punchline. It doesn’t matter if the dismissal and commodification come from someone wearing a MAGA cap or a white liberal icon; the lack of respect still stems from the same root of privilege. 

[ernuotori]

Marie Kondo on Ellen

Marie Kondo on Jimmy Kimmel

[sixpenceee]

Thunderstorm over the Kimberley, Western Australia. Video by Geoff Green. More interesting posts here: @sixpenceee

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