it's lovecore season

24 / enby little guy 🤙 queer with a side of neurodivergency

[thiingamajiig]

different, but the same

[kikker]

doing crafts while listening to a podcast is truely an ancient activity. makes me feel like a prehistoric grandma doing nålbinding at the fire and also a young lady learning to do embroidery and also a sailor knitting in his free time on the ship and also my gay friends doing fiber arts and we're all telling each other stories

[its-funnytwittertweets]

[skullshoal]

the start of a comic i was making in 2023 about a mosquitos point of view

[skullshoal]

OK i finished it.

[homeofhousechickens]

Everything has to eat even the humble mosquito 🦟

Its a neutral action to eat and to be eaten.

I forgive you, mosquito

[lilcowgirl7-deactivated20210223]

I needed this drag. Let’s change guys and not look back

[user87262893]

working out your brain is a must!!

• hydrate it by drinking lots of water

• eat dark chocolate and blueberries and walnuts and salmon and other foods high in antioxidants!!

• play little brain games on your phone; I like wordconenct! anything that makes you think!

• read books. It’s simple but necessary. Even better - join a book club, or read with a friend, so you can have discussions after. This will improve your reading comprehension.

• do puzzles - it doesnt have to be sudoku, I love playing Beat Saber on the Oculus Rift because it makes my brain have to match colorful patterns to physical movements very quickly!

• learn a new dance - even a tik tok trendy dance. Learning new dance moves are proven to strengthen synapses!!

• go bird watching, or foraging, or anything outdoors that requires you to explore pattern recognition and visual searching

• watch a movie with the intent of analysis - this is best done with a cinephile friend!! talk about tropes and symbolism and character growth

• cross stitch, or sew, or do anything that requires matching nimble hand movements to patterns

• play or learn an instrument!

• develop a consistent sleep schedule (or as close to consistent as you can get!)

• when eating, try to identify the ingredients and flavors you’re perceiving!

I hope this helps :)

[moonlightwaterhealing]

I like how this went from me feeling like “hm why is this attacking me 🤨” at first, but feeling grateful seeing an added guide on a genuine expansion on a “ how to” work out the brain. This genuinely helps a bunch. People find solace in doing activities that get them through life by doing said activities of phone/tv or if that’s all they’ve ever known in their life to get them through things + etc tho. However, this was very impt to point out. Slowly beginning incorporating things to work the brain in ones own time.

[apocryphics]

oh ok

[gorps]

[bisquid]

WHY does the inner ear have a direct line to your stomach? What evolutionary advantage is there to throwing up when you're dizzy?

[moniquill]

When your ancestors were fish, this:

The inner ear positional system reports data about your position in three dimensional space in relation to gravity, accounting for acceleration.

Throwing up when you're dizzy might make the predator drop you.

[bisquid]

... That makes sense but also why is it always because fish

[earhartsease]

don't diss your ancestors

they also gave us some other weird shit in your middle ear that means singing with other people gives you euphoria

[earnedmagic]

1930s “i’m the guy that” pinbacks, part 2

[imaginingfromtheblock]

this just sent me down a rabbit hole and i need to inform you all that the "i'm the guy" slogan was popularized in the 1910s by cartoonist rube goldberg (known better today for his famous machines) and he even capitalized on the popularity of the catchphrase by writing the lyrics to a song in 1912, recorded by prolific vaudeville entertainer billy murray:

112 years later this is still fucking funny. and i think that's so beautiful

[beggars-opera]

I love that Hugh Grant is an absolute maniac masquerading as an unassuming nebbishy posh kind of guy. If this was signed by anyone else I would say "that's a spoof, he didn't sponsor that" but it's Hugh Grant so I am 100% confident that it's genuine. This is the guy who talks about bdsm on the red carpet and payed a performance artist to blast yakkity sax on loudspeakers outside Westminster on the day Boris Johnson resigned. This is peak Hugh Grant.

[yormedaar-deactivated20240214]

[skeletonclaw]

[shilohtx]

pitter patter putter patter *you look down and see this*

[mrsketchy]

@clawfootboy​

I trust him

[i-survived-that]

Okay but this is exactly what I love.

The above image is a historical artifact. Colima dog. It dates back to circa 100 BCE-300 CE. (x)

And, around two thousand years later it was originally shaped with care, painted with love, and adored… someone draws it. Draws it using a new technological device that allows modern people to shape things with care, paint with love, and even move them -on a screen, glowing.

And the said person decides to share it with the world. The whole world adores it.

I love the connection between past and today. We were humans back then, and we are still the same.

Cute dog :)

[capnsoapy]

It's cool how this is a 60k note post when almost every word of it is untrue

[thesleepiestselkie-deactivated2]

wait fr? can you say more bc that post def freaked me out

[capnsoapy]

Short version; no, "phone addiction" and "social media addiction" aren't real. Obviously it's possible to overuse them in unhealthy ways, but that's true of practically anything enjoyable. Checking your phone isn't going to give you brain damage.

The only reference backing up any of this scaremongering is an article on phone addiction from "Addiction Center"; an internet marketing website which takes commission from forwarding people onto paid services. There are four(!) referral links Better Help embedded in the article. This is not an unbiased source.

It does include citations, but the sources are either spurious or nonexistent. The research they reference on how phone usage causes brain damage isn't linked, for example, but after finding the paper it's based on an inconclusive study of 19 children. The other papers cited found depression and anxiety correlate with phone usage, but only correlation not causation.

[serial-unaliver-deactivated2024]

I think the problem is people are using "addiction" where it doesn't really make sense. Whether or not you spend a majority of your time on social media depends on your personal life and not just your phone.

When I was reclusive and severely depressed for a few years my screen time was probably like 12 hours a day. I have the same phone now that I did then but my screen time is down because I'm more proactive in my life. If someone appears addicted to their phone it's probably because whatever is going on there is better than their real life. And in this case the problem remains with and without the phone

[knitmeapony]

I love seeing a meme and being like oh, tumblrs going to love this one

[obsessingoverl]

found this today

Please use these terms correctly. Not doing so will deeply harm the people who actually have experienced trauma, gaslighting, triggers, and people who have NPD.

[ironychan]

My friends and I used to do this thing where we'd dress up on a theme and go do something totally normal.

We dressed up as pirates and went bowling.

We dressed as vikings and went to the grocery store. The security guard told us we had to move our longship because it was illegally parked.

We dressed as Romans and went to Blockbuster. The staff chanted, "toga! Toga! Toga!" at us.

We dressed up all steampunk and went to the museum. Tourists kept taking our picture.

[a-krogan-skald-and-bearsark]

I used to do historical reenactment when I was at University. I would go to class before session as a Norman knight, and when the session was over me and some of my buddies I did it with would get the bus home in the same kit. Stop at the Tesco's in full armour for beer and supper and ice cream, then get together at Irish's place for a LAN party.

It's enrichment for all involved. I remember being told I was 900 years late for the battle, and asking the bus driver where the horses were.

[lastoneout]

I genuinely think the world would be a much better place if more people felt comfortable dressing a bit silly out in public.

[prismatic-bell]

I had an Elizabethan reenactor come into my gas station one night and he absolutely loved that I greeted him with “what ho, Horatio! Hast thou word of our king?” and then we literally did the entire transaction in Elizabethan English and made shit up as we needed. (He required much drink for his horse of strange fire and I did humbly request not florins, but the coin of this land, as recompense.)

It was a BLAST. People should do that kind of thing more often.

[goodstuffhappenedtoday]

[incidentally-its-nonsense]

Everytime someone says that being trans is just a phase because there are no old trans people, I think of situations like this. So many people hid who they were because the world wasn’t as accepting.