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“bits to use in everyday conversations”

wanted to try and do one of those forum-style creepy stories like Candle Cove but the entire time I kept thinking about how this just wouldn't work on a site like tumblr because it's just so normal to be like "yeah the demon in the basement got out :/ it's possessing my dog :/"

Now when I read a long online horror story I just think, with the same cadence as "this could've been an email"

This could've been a tumblr post.

note-katha

"there's something watching me through my window"

And half the notes are "same bestie"

#reminds me of the carbon monoxide reddit post #which isn't horror technically

daggersandarrows

you know, the more i think about it, the angrier i get about how mainstream media and even people in general treated marie kondo when the life changing magic of tidying up got big. it's just so unnecessary and sad to me and i think the vast majority of people would love what she has to say if they just actually looked into it instead of maliciously memeing her to death? i'm not talking about the cutesy does it spark joy stuff but all the things portraying her as some bizarre evil cleaning dictator.

i actually read her book when i was about twelve years old, in the most shocking and probably only example of me ever being ahead of a trend, and even at twelve i really loved everything she said. at that point in time i lived in fear of my mother's threats that she would come and throw everything away while i was school, and my small and very adhd mind simply could not grasp the concept of "have less stuff". have less of WHICH stuff? how? i'd never actually been taught how to clean my room besides being told "pick up stuff" and "be organized", and as she points out multiple times, cleaning is not an intuitive thing. it's a learned behavior and skill.

anyways. her entire philosophy centers on surrounding yourself with things that you love, and only things that you love (or things that you absolutely need). she explicitly says over and over again that it is not about throwing things away, it is not about minimalism, it is not about "what is the smallest amount possible that you can survive on". she literally has a whole section where she talks about how hard it can be to throw things away when you've lived in poverty all your life and you don't have absolute confidence that you can replace something that you really needed if it gets thrown out, even though you're not likely to ever really need it--you've just been conditioned to think that because that's literally how you survive, when you're poor. she talks about how that mindset can serve and how it can damage. she talks about how minimalism is sort of a rich people thing, cause they can afford to throw everything away.

this woman really came out here and said "i want you to be surrounded by things you love and i'm going to validate your fears and your difficulties in getting to that place" and people somehow got mad at her. i don't understand it

stevishabitat

👆👆👆

clownkiss3r

learning a lot toda✍️y

fwizard

omfg

amvs

hold on i have to look something up

amvs

yeah he’s autistic

"You can sell this!" isn't as much of a compliment as some may think.

I crochet, I make fun little things that bring me joy and take effort. And I love showing it off!

My mom loves to tell me to show off my work when we have family friends around and it's fun to let them see and be wowed.

But... Then "you could sell this, you should do a store!" comes up and I lose all my energy.

I'm not creating for profit, I'm not creating because it's marketable. (And let's not get into the pricing conversations about the cost of crafting)

I don't want people to see the cardigan, something that took me a week to make and years before I was even confident enough to make a large project and tell me to make more.

I don't want people to see the mushroom dolls I put my heart into and tell me to make more and sell them for less than store-bought dolls.

My room will fill up with things I'll never sell. I'll spend a week making gifts for people I love and never ask for a penny.

I create out of love and passion, not because it's marketable. And every time someone thinks I should, I stop wanting to make something new.

#note talks #note rants actually #they didn't mean harm I know #but it hurts #especially having one person turn to her daughter and say “learn from them! then make me something”#you shouldn't be forced to learn something just for others benefit #crochet #fiber arts #crochet rant #I typoed crochet as #corhet #and that's too funny to me

zerozerozio

bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

boimann

reblog to let people know it's ok to bother you with questions and statements

wyrnneva

You know we really don't say "egads" enough. Can we bring that back.

note-katha

Professor Elvin Gadd would agree with you

#luigi's mansion

veryberryskye

yeah i like to give my blessing to the most pathetic looking weak little knight at the tournament. she can’t even look me in the eye when i give her my flower and she stutters out that she’ll do her best or something of the like. i think its funny when she has to cry and beg my forgiveness and i get to say “such a shame, i suppose my hand in marriage will have to go to someone else…” and then i get to hear her whimper like a dog. ive done this like 6 times alrea-

did she just win.

the-stew-goblin

I shall prepare a stew for the wedding! Extra salt!

veryberryskye

wait wait wait stew goblin wait

peachdelta

get ready for the wedding

ariadne-mouse

me, unloading a fitted sheet from the dryer: *squinting* what's that you've got in your mouth

fitted sheet: nothing :)))))))

me, prying open its twisted jaws: na-ah!!! give it to me RIGHT now!!

fitted sheet: *resentfully spits out a wad of 3 very damp dishtowels, a pillowcase, and a pathetically sodden washcloth*

steakosaur

shower-thoughts-last-responder

Kudos to this post, I think of you every time I do my fucking laundry

unnameablethings

knight who is constantly searching for a good and noble king to serve but cannot fucking find one for the life of him so he has to become the good and noble king himself.

and now all these other knights are coming around like "please let me serve you" and like obviously hes going to let them serve him thats the point of being a good and noble king but its also. very annoying. one of you become the good and noble king for once lets trade

pixiemuse

ziggyplayedd

things that made me stop wanting to die that require no effort whatsoever

change the color used to highlight text on your laptop

move the pictures on your wall

stack whatever clutter is in your room into piles even if you don’t have time to clean it all

slightly vary your commute, even just by one street

change where you sit and scroll aimlessly on your phone even if it’s only to the chair in your room instead of your bed

drink water or juice out of a wine glass in the morning because nothing is real

shower with the lights off, without music

buy $3 flowers at trader joe’s—they look bad next to the more expensive ones but they look so good in your room

start typing things you don’t post into your notes. your thoughts can be worth documenting even if you don’t deem them worth sharing

wake up super early just once. you don’t have to make it a habit it’s just extra satisfying to go to bed that night

listen to the entirety of your favorite album from 2015

sandersstudies

Almost all of these are about variety. Humans need stimulation! We need enrichment! We literally cannot do the same thing every day!

The other day I was feeling miserable, so I hopped on a bus and rode it all the way back to where I’d started, and my brain, which had finally had some proper stimulation via new environments, was suddenly ready to go again!

This is why taking walks/drives and trying new hobbies are good for you! Don’t turn yourself into a sad zoo animal! You need some pumpkins to roll around in your enclosure!

yippeeepenid

ITS BACK!!!!!

god i fucking love the quote “dont turn yourself into a sad zoo animal” it has really inspired me!

discord has that feature to suggest friending contacts when they make a discord account but THEY DON'T TELL YOU WHO IT IS.

Like, thanks for suggesting I friend this person but who are they. I don't know who "meowmeowman" is, is this a high school classmate I added for a project half a decade ago? Is this a friend of my parents who's number I have?

Who are you.

#note talks #discord #discord is stupid #technology is so progressed and yet we can't provide basic context