grasp the nettle

24, she/they/it, queer.

[petrichorandarson]

pinned post time i think! gotta sort the chaotic from the curated

hey folks you can call me cicada! rumor has it my surname is Anderson. all original posts OR posts i contribute to are tagged #laurel posts :)

pfp is the makówka picrew!

The Chaotic:

@petrichorandarson- my main blog. it’ll have sprinkles of everything i’ve ever been interested in, rambles, etc.

The Curated:

@tarwor is my star wars sideblog (not SUPER active rn)

@ominous-ellipses is my literature blog! it’s got poetry, lit analysis, fanfiction things, and fangirling over books.

@hey-little-gay-boy-why-would-we is my tmnt blog (ft. Usagi)!!! its super active lately because the hyperfixation is KILLING me. edit: it’s been a year help

@creaseless-watcher - the magnus archives/protocol stuff bc. oh my!

My AO3

I've written for tmnt, star wars, and six of crows. Ask me anything abt my stuff!

Re: asks

Open again! Love y’all please send me things <33

DNI IF:

• you hate what i post

• that’s it have fun <3

[ruinedchildhood]

[atlinmerrick]

I just laughed for one year watching this. The casual walk-off is just deadly.

[basicbutch]

i just love him so much

[yougetsoclose]

The different poses really got me 😂

[kirbythesixth]

i love the "grace somehow lives as long as an eridian" interpretations of the movie ending cuz i honestly think something like that could happen in cannon and it wouldn't feel out of place.

like they all are solomely accepting the fact that grace is going to die in like a scary amount of eridian years, and then as he gets to like 90 everyone is bracing for it, but he just...keeps aging. he keeps his mobility- if anything his back is getting worse cuz of the slightly increased gravity, and his health seems to be steady. on the day of graces 122nd birthday (the oldest a human has ever lived) the eridian scientists that study grace are like. hey. what the fuck. and grace is like ┐(´～｀ˇ)┌

[vaserlord]

1. Grace breeds Taumoeba, speedrunning its evolution.

2. Grace eats Taumoeba but who said it will stop evolving just because Grace thought it should?

3. Taumoeba evolves in Grace’s body, binding itself to his DNA as so many things have done before during our own evolution.

4. Grace becomes capable of consuming Astrophage (the most energy efficient organism in the known universe).

5. Grace’s organism becomes more energy efficient as well and therefore its internal structure ages a lot slower.

6. Magic happened, now Grace can live just as long as his best mate Rocky.

[punkitt-is-here]

realized how i sounded talking out loud today

[browningtons]

lmao bruh

[lilyblisslys]

I should be able to tell my boss “hey the united states government is threatening to kill ‘radical transgender activists’, and while I think that’s partly a toothless threat made by floundering clowns it’s still kind of stressful and depressing, do you mind if I work from home after lunch”

[prokopetz]

I swear, every time I share what’s supposed to be an amusing little anecdote and some dickwhistle in the notes goes all Sigmund Fucking Freud and writes a bloviating excursus full of advice to fix what they imagine is wrong with me – like, had I the means, I would bite you in the neck. I want you to know that.

[fandom-man]

[trochaic-mutant-ninja-tetrameter]

🎶Doesn't seem it's working! Undeterred geese!🎵

[thatonedudeinthecorner]

Happy pride month but specifically to these two FREAKS

[snifsnoof]

this in: middle-aged mans first known encounter with flirtatious remark (confused)

[noknowshame]

resurrected dead wife watching her own montage: wow I looked so hot in that

[its-captain-sir]

I gotta ask, how do people, like, do stuff???

[maulusque]

here’s what i’ve figured out so far:

-gotta have eat first

-gotta sleep enough first

(seriously so many days i’m like “i have all afternoon I’ma Do a Thing” and then i just kinda buzz around and do Nothing and think “WHY” and then i’m like “oh yeah i’m really fuckening tired”)

-gotta be Excited About It (ADHD brain only does things if they’re Literally the Most Interesting Thing Happening Right Now) (so like, hype yourself up to work on a project, or think about how happy you’ll be with a cleaner room/all those chores done)

-gotta have small, doable first step (like, “get cloth from fabric drawer” or “open google docs”

-FUCK distractions (computer is in drawer, phone is Off)

-Engage the Senses (if task needs Brain, play vague background Music, if task needs No Brain, listen to audiobook/podcast)

-maybe set time limit so i don’t get lost??? e.g. i have a little egg timer that i use because the ticking isn’t distracting but is enough to remind me that Time is a Thing that is Passing Right Now

-gotta have Self Awareness and Thinky about the Moment (get into the habit of Consciously Noticing what you’re doing at the moment, so you’re more likely to go “wait, this isn’t what i wanted to be doing” and be able to redirect)

-be willing to redirect and try to do something else if whatever you want to do Just Isn’t Happening

-DON’T beat yourself up for only doing part of something, or failing entirely- all that does is make your brain associate “trying to do stuff” with “well that SUCKED”. Which means you don’t want to try again. Tell urself u did good for trying, and if it didn’t work, try again later, or figure out why it didn’t work and try a different way. Reward yourself for trying

this is what i’ve figured out about cajoling the Thinky No Worky Brain into Doing Stuff. it’s not 100% reliable, especially if I forget to do some of these things (like SLEEP), but it’s what i got, ya know??

[its-captain-sir]

I wasn’t actually expecting any answers when I made that post but damn this is really helpful, thank you <3

[gotinterest]

Gonna be honest a lot of people deep down view cheating as worse than abuse which is why so many people view downright controlling and manipulative behavior in a relationship as 100% permissible so long as that behavior is centered around either preventing or discovering cheating.

[not-freyja]

Can everyone who makes video content do a Deaf bitch a favor? Watch your shit with the captions on and the sound off, and then do another round of editing to fix things including but not limited to:

Captions cover the spot on the screen you put the information I need

The dialogue is captioned but not the song you have playing that the dialogue is responding to

You only captioned the person on the screen, not the person off screen who is also talking

No captioning of critical sound effects (alarms, bells, dogs barking, etc)

Speakers are not labelled at moments where it is not clear on the screen who is talking.

Captions cover the spot on the screen that you put the information I need!

Other d/Deaf people welcome to add.

This post brought to you by the fifth video tutorial I could not follow because the bad, auto-generated captions covered what I was trying to watch today.

[barstoolblues]

mozzarella and parmesan is kind of like the age gap yuri of cheese

[uss-emberprise]

[fwizard]

all i need is a sweet treat. and six thousand dollars

[blackwoolncrown]