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It's time for a masterpost of my stories, so I can pin it on my blog! XD (All of my posted stories on AO3 + SqW)

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The little things

(Teenwolf, Peter Hale/Stiles Stilinski, Soulmates, Pocket Soulmates, I call them Lysal, Stiles has a pocket werewolf, Not Beta Read, Also I have no idea where this will go, its just a little playground for me)

Part 1 AO3 (12/14)

Teen Wolf Bingo 2024 (25 short stories, some of them related, currently done 25/25) AO3

The Fox And The Wolf

Part One: Dead On Time (Steter Bang 2023) (Teenwolf, Peter Hale/Stiles Stilinski, (parts of) the Hale family, Time Travel Fix-it, magical!Stiles, two times Stiles is double the fun!, younger Stiles is called Mischief) AO3 (6/6)

Part Two: The Wolf, The Bitch And The Oak Tree (Steter Bang 2024) (Teenwolf, Peter Hale/Stiles Stilinski, (parts of) the Hale family, Time Travel Fix-it, magical!Stiles, two times Stiles is double the fun!, younger Stiles is called Mischief, Pack Alpha Peter Hale, Peter gets an Alpha spark) AO3 (3/3)

Steter Week 2024 (7 short stories about magical!Stiles and Peter meeting again) AO3

Battered, Bloody, Beaten - A Māhrgent Meet Cute (Teen Wolf, Chris Argent/Danny Māhealani, pre-Chris Argent/Danny Māhealani, Chris Argent & Danny Māhealani, Māhrgent, meet cute, ish, Not Beta Read) AO3

Inn of the Multiverse (TW AU-fest 2023, WIP)

Part one: Inn of the Multiverse (Teen Wolf, Peter Hale/Stiles Stilinski, Derek Hale & Peter Hale, Cora Hale & Peter Hale, Cora Hale & Derek Hale, Cora Hale & Stiles Stilinski, Derek Hale & Stiles Stilinski, Alternate Universe, Multiverse Inn jumping through dimensions, magical!Stiles, Inn proprietor Stiles, Found Family, Not Beta Read) AO3 (5/5)

I Can See What Could Be And I Want It

(Teen Wolf (TV), Peter Hale & Stiles Stilinski, Chris Argent & Peter Hale, Chris Argent/Peter Hale/Stiles Stilinski, Peter Hale/Stiles Stilinski, Chris Argent/Peter Hale, Chris Argent/Stiles Stilinski, Chris Argent & Stiles Stilinski, Peter Hale, Stiles Stilinski, Chris Argent, Talia Hale, Sheriff Stilinski (Teen Wolf), Claudia Stilinski, Derek Hale, Time Travel, Time Travel Fix-It, Kinda, Pre-Chris Argent/Peter Hale/Stiles Stilinski, You see their relationship at different times, future stetopher have a little daughter, Peter just sees and wants to have it all, Mostly Fluff, Happy Ending, multiple mentions of Peter burning and assorted tastes and smells, Steter Secret Santa 2023 (Teen Wolf), Steter Secret Santa 2023)

AO3 (5/5)

stealingpotatoes

happy pride from some stretchy and sleepy cats <3

spicyvampire

The way all the 2020s have done so far have been making me categorically against every new generation of tech that comes out is insane. Like I'm from a technological boom generation, saw the first portable phones, nokias & blackberries & flipphones etc, and the first smartphones, and the first ipods & ipads & tablets in general while still having cassettes & DVD & MP3 players around so I know how all of it work, I had computer classes in high school, I did the transition between home desktop computers to laptops and back to gaming computers. But then they started to put internet in your printer & microwave, everything has ads & AI now and every update is worst than the last. I literally loved technology and they ruined it

sandersstudies

Every time you go in a public place and something ISN’T disgusting it’s because somebody cleaned it. Every time you feel comfortable using a public bathroom or sitting at a restaurant table or setting something on a gas station counter or playing on a playground it’s because somebody cleaned it.

Thank you to everyone who cleans the world, especially those who are underpaid and under appreciated.

mylittleredgirl

thank you all gif makers everywhere, yes i WOULD like to live inside that half a second when my otp looked at each other forever on repeat, lovingly color-adjusted to make them even hotter than ever

transformativeworks

AO3 Celebrates 11 Million Registered Users

AO3 now has 11 million registered users! Visit our celebration post and learn about gifts on AO3. Read more at https://otw-news.org/5n7expmy

tlirsgender

They don't tell you this but besides the Beloved Mutual there's also the Longterm Follower who you don't follow back but they're always in your notes and you're kind of watching them. Checking on the longterm follower's bio every so often like turning over a log. She's trans now good for her

tlirsgender

Longterm followers I am putting fresh leaves and hrt in your enclosure

rainformation

formative years? aren’t they all?

absolutejamer

show me a permanent self and i will show you a facade or a corpse

rosemehdee

hurting ur friend with a really sad headcanon like

talvilupus

Insp.

mouse--trap

devastating getting to the end of a fic that fucking rules and there’s no tumblr link in the notes. this isn’t fair youve ensnared me body and soul. let me in to your house.

prokopetz

Expository writing is basically the drawing hands of prose fiction; it's clangingly obvious when it's done poorly, but it's even more awkward when you try to avoid doing it at all, and those who are best at it usually got to be that way because they have some kind of fetish.

merrybitchmas91-deactivated2019

Why "doing something relaxing” does not help your anxiety

A lot of the time when people give advice intended to relieve anxiety, they suggest doing “relaxing” things like drawing, painting, knitting, taking a bubble bath, coloring in one of those zen coloring books, or watching glitter settle to the bottom of a jar.

This advice is always well-intentioned, and I’m not here to diss people who either give it or who benefit from it. But it has never, ever done shit for me, and this is because it goes about resolving anxiety in the completely wrong way.

THE WORST THING YOU CAN DO when suffering from anxiety is to do a “relaxing” thing that just enables your mind to dwell and obsess more on the thing that’s bothering you. You need to ESCAPE from the dwelling and the obsession in order to experience relief.

You can drive to a quiet farm, drive to the beach, drive to a park, or anywhere else, but as someone who has tried it all many, many times, trust me–it’s a waste of gas. You will just end up still sad and stressed, only with sand on your butt. You can’t physically escape your sadness. Your sadness is inside of you. To escape, you need to give your brain something to play with for a while until you can approach the issue with a healthier frame of mind.

People who have anxiety do not need more time to contemplate, because we will use it to contemplate how much we suck.

In fact, you could say that’s what anxiety is–hyper-contemplating. When we let our minds run free, they run straight into the thorn bushes. Our minds are already running, and they need to be controlled. They need to be given something to do, or they’ll destroy everything, just like an overactive husky dog ripping up all the furniture.

Therefore, I present to you:

THINGS YOU SHOULD NOT DO WHEN ANXIOUS

–Go on a walk

–Watch a sunset, watch fish in an aquarium, watch glitter, etc.

–Go anywhere where the main activity is sitting and watching

–Draw, color, do anything that occupies the hands and not the mind

–Do yoga, jog, go fishing, or anything that lets you mentally drift

–Do literally ANYTHING that gives you great amounts of mental space to obsess and dwell on things.

THINGS YOU SHOULD DO WHEN ANXIOUS:

–Do a crossword puzzle, Sudoku, or any other mind teaser game. Crosswords are the best.

–Write something. It doesn’t have to be a masterpiece. Write the Top 10 Best Restaurants in My City. Rank celebrities according to Best Smile. Write some dumb Legolas fanfiction and rip it up when you’re done. It’s not for publication, it’s a relief exercise that only you will see.

–Read something, watch TV, or watch a movie–as long as it’s engrossing. Don’t watch anything which you can run as background noise (like, off the top of my head, Say Yes to The Dress.) As weird as it seems, American Horror Story actually helps me a lot, because it sucks me in.

–Masturbate. Yes, I’m serious. Your mind has to concentrate on the mini-movie it’s running. It can’t run Sexy Titillating Things and All The Things That are Bothering Me at the same time. (…I hope. If it can, then…ignore this one.)

–Do math problems—literally, google “algebra problems worksheet” and solve them. If you haven’t done math since 7th grade this will really help you. I don’t mean with math, I mean with the anxiety.

–Play a game or a sport with someone that requires great mental concentration. Working with 5 people to get a ball over a net is a challenge which will require your brain to turn off the Sadness Channel.

–Play a video game, as long as it’s not something like candy crush or Tetris that’s mindless.

THINGS YOU SHOULD DO DURING PANIC ATTACKS ESPECIALLY:

–List the capitals of all the U.S. states

–List the capitals of all the European countries

–List all the shapes you can see. Or all the colors.

–List all the blonde celebrities you can think of.

–Pull up a random block of text and count all the As in it, or Es or whatever.

Now obviously, I am not a doctor. I am just an anxious person who has tried almost everything to help myself. I’ve finally realized that the stuff people recommend never works because this is a disorder that thrives on free time and free mental space. When I do the stuff I listed above, I can breathe again. And I hope it helps someone here too.

(Now this shouldn’t have to be said but if the “do nots” work for you then by all means do them. They’ve just never worked for me.)

lovelyplot

This would’ve been great an hour ago

h0lyhandgrenade

This is good advice for anxious peeps and peeps with anxious friends. Seems obvious now but I hadn’t thought about it this way before.

sindri42

I need to listen to music or run an audiobook any time I walk somewhere because otherwise the distance between my room and the mailbox (let alone between home and work) is too long to be alone with my thoughts.

wowbright

My “yes, and” just to say that all of these are great, and also some tips for turning non-brain occupying activities into brain occupying activities.

My tip for turning walks into a brain occupying activity (besides listening to an audiobook or calling somebody) is to learn a little bit about (depending where you walk) plant identification, bird identification, architecture, language, etc. if I’m wondering what each of the 20 different plants in the garden I just passed by are, I’m not thinking about other things. If I’m in a neighborhood where many of the signs are not in my native language, trying to read them and figure them out is another way to keep my mind busy. (You can also do games like “look for things that begin with s” for any object, labeled or unlabeled.)

Similar with manual hobbies. I don’t draw much, but I do a lot of fabric stuff. Straightforward stitching might not be great when anxious (unless I’m doing e.g. a language practice audiobook at the same time), but puzzling out a difficult mending/repair project or planning/starting a new patchwork project (colors, shapes, how I want the pieces to go together, and even piecing them together if it’s a complicated one), can be very mentally occupying.

If I find my mind wandering will listening to audiobooks or podcasts, upping the speed usually helps. If my mind still wanders, then it probably means I’m bored with the thing and should listen to something else.

I hope that helps someone!

Still trying to figure out how to make doing yoga more compatible with my brain …

captain-acab

The above comment, about nature identification and manual hobby crafts, reminds me of a great piece of advice I saw from another post I think I reblogged somewhere:

Start a new sicktime hobby when you’re still feeling well.

It’s great to do low-energy activities when you’re ill, or distracting activities when you’re anxious, but trying to find, start, or learn a new hobby when you’re already ill/anxious is really hard! So if e.g. you think you’d like to play a video game next time you’re anxious, install Steam and learn the controls for a game now! Don’t wait til you’re in the middle of a panic attack!

Which leads to my next point…

Playing Tetris is a great distraction!

wowbright

Yet another reason to love Tetris!

batmanshole

crisp glass of water moodboard

animentality

arrowandaxe

bee-in-your-binnet

Coyotes trying their damndest to get domesticated

hst3000

They coyotes are free you can just take them...

saxifraga-x-urbium

Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia

TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire…

TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire job was to listen to volunteers. Most of the people they fired were union organizers. Wikipedia’s editors are now threatening to strike in solidarity. The Foundation is sitting on $296 million in reserves and a freshly profitable AI revenue stream. This is a confrontation with global implications.

It has been suggested elsewhere that if you are a Wiki Foundation donor, it would be a good idea to email and explain that this kind of behaviour will lead to you withholding future donations.

reynard61

Let's ambush mama! 😼

dvandom

"Why do Pallas cats always look grumpy?"

"Pallas kittens."

waywardmartian

The sheer roundness of this kitten must be admired.

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