Finding a Reason to Shine

CA↠SC↠NM↠TX↠CO Been on this website for over a decade, you’d think I’d have something clever to put here.

[lifelessonswithliza]

Forever posting selfies on the internet✨

[zoewashburne]

[stream]

X2: X-Men United (2003)

[rubysapphrald]

i feel so defensive and protective of people with ARFID like if i had a disorder that made my brain register 90% of food as poison for no reason and i had a bazillion people on the internet constantly calling me a manchild who needs to just grow up and stop being a picky eater i would start killing people

[rubysapphrald]

people with ARFID and people with very few autism safe foods and people with contamination OCD and people in ED recovery and everyone else with a complicated relationship with food that no one takes seriously GET BEHIND ME!!!!!!!

[aidashakur]

[umbrellamoss]

[ID: A tweet by @omgsidewalks that reads "NGL I JUST HEARD SOMEONE SAY, "MAYBE YOU DON'T NEED MORE TIME TO HEAL, MAYBE YOU MEED MORE EXPERIENCES THAT SHOW YOUR NERVOUS SYSTEM A DIFFERENT REALITY," AND YEAH... IT ECHOED IN ME". End ID]

[pop-video]

MUSIC VIDEOS THAT TURN 20 in 2025

[only-cat-memes]

[ryley-robinson]

Where's the post about how being an expert or just acutely interested in something, can skew your perception about what is common and not common knowledge.

According to a friend, most people don't know the fried egg jellyfish exists.

There. Now you do.

[omi-papus]

Love her. Need her. She is everything

[lifelessonswithliza]

She looks like she’s on top of an everything bagel, I need this tattooed on me

[iwait4youalexg]

Oh!

[doh007]

Thank you all, i needed further explanation - And i do find it might help me!

[livingmeatloaf]

[ID: first image is a tweet by brother stone @/saul_mondriaan posted Dec 2022 that reads: "i need to get better at going "oh, these aren't thoughts, you're not figuring anything out, this is just your version of how animals in captivity chew on themselves" "

Images 2 through 4 are unattributed screenshots of tumblr tags:

#one of the otters at the local aquarium sleeps with his tail in his mouth. It's very cute and charming #but when there was a stressful time (introduction to a new otter) he started chomping down on his tail and got an injury #and I think about that as like. The things that become chewing-on-yourself behaviors often start as something you do to self-soothe. #You get more stressed you do the soothing thing more frantically it starts to hurt you and you don't necessarily notice. #If you like to reassure yourself by thinking through outcomes and possibilities. The chomped-down version is a spiral of overthinking. #and you think maybe it isn't calming you down because you haven't thought through everything yet - ! #stop chomping.

#this is a good way to put what I've identified as pacing your cage thoughts #your friends don't hate you. you are pacing your cage #you're not boring or stupid. you're gnawing at the bars of your enclosure

#something that helped me a lot was a psych lecture that said that thoughts are supposed to be innovative #so if you're going in circles something's wrong

End ID.]

[lightasthesun]

I miss the era where there'd be outtakes to animated movies like toy story or early 2000s barbie movies that shit was hilarious and so wholesome

[ryan-sometimes]

I love how Zohran Mamdani is wearing a suit everywhere. And if he has anything else he puts it ON TOP of the suit. A basketball jersey. A high-vis vest. All worn over the suit. He’s like the mayor character in a cartoon who’s always dressed as The Mayor. If I didn’t know who he was and he biked past me in NYC I’d be like holy shit was that the mayor

[arschfrech]

[ryan-sometimes]

I know his tailor is stressed bro look at this man wearing a suit to fix a pothole

[overcastghostedghoul]

I bet he opens his closet to the same suits with some slightly different ties like SpongeBob.

[lizluvscupcakes]

I bet if he took off his suit there’d be a suit underneath

[uncleromeo]

if you don't do anything else today,

Please have a moment of silence for the people who were killed instead of freed when news of emancipation finally reached the furthest corners of the american south.

have another moment for the ledgers, catalogs, and records that were burned and the homes that were destroyed to hide the presence of very much alive and still enslaved people on dozens of plantations and homesteads across the south for decades after emancipation.

and have a third moment for those who were hunted and killed while fleeing the south to find safety across the border, overseas, in the north and to the west.

black people. light a candle, write a note to those who have passed telling them what you have achieved in spite of the racist and intolerant conditions of this world, feel the warmth of the flame under your hand, say a prayer of rememberance if you are religious, place the note under the candle, and then blow it out.

if you have children, sit them down and tell them anything you know about the life of oldest black person you've ever met. it doesn't have to be your own family. tell them what you know about what life was like for us in the days, years, decades after emancipation. if you don't know much, look it up and learn about it together.

This is Juneteenth.

white people CAN interact with this post. share it, spread it.

[ruinedchildhood]

My internet wont work 90s/2000s starter pack

[lifelessonswithliza]

I guess this is growing up💜✨

[pepperspoppies]

All the scene and emo kids of the 2000’s

RISE FROM THE ASHES!!!!!

[holyunholy]

should be able to leave kudos on scientific studies. i liked your paper dude keep at it

[holyunholy]

sorry, Dr. Dude

[thepioden]

Dude et. al.

[wormofmouth]

need y'all to know that most academics have publicly searchable email addresses and this not only makes their day but they can put nice emails in their giant packets for applying for jobs or tenure. "hi i read your paper for a class and it was very helpful, im at xyz college and the class is blah with professor blah" is sufficient and ENORMOUSLY helpful

[link-the-feral-anon]

It seems that, once again, when you can't kudos, commenting is the way to go

[ostolero]