pooligan

oscillating between obsession & disintrest

[phooliganbabadook]

i love you

[newtype-exe]

Kid with a bluey backpack on the flight to Sydney this must be his mecca

[kentucky-fried-thea]

you call them flop posts but I call them reaching my target demographic: whichever mutuals are active rn

[somanyjacks]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if the phrase "self care" doesn't resonate with you, try calling it "system maintenance" and see if that clicks.

[wormsslime]

[somanyjacks]

Reblogging to add amazing tags from @meta-theory

#this both makes things more fun and also is a really good analogy#because there are four types of system maintenance and that makes the term much more exact than the nebulous ''self-care''#and therefore much more helpful to those of us who uhhh struggle with nebulosity#for anyone curious the four types are:#1. corrective (to fix current problems)#2. preventative (to avoid future problems)#3. adaptative (to re-adjust to any changes)#4. perfective (to work towards a better system)#I really like this idea I'm gonna make a checklist

[ominous-signs]

Official ominous sign

[bitchesgetriches]

{ MASTERPOST } Everything You Need to Know about Self-Care 

[fexalted]

[image description: photo of a sign with all caps text reading:

"Warning

If you don't schedule time for maintenance, your equipment will schedule it for you."]

[miamaimania]

"Sisyphus Sport" (1997) ⛰ Jana Sterbak — granite, backpack straps, photographic documentation

[power-handmaiden]

when I was in high school I had a literature teacher who had a policy of unlimited extra credit. All you had to do was read a book by a notable author (his discretion) and have a little chat with him after school to prove that you read it. No limits, no need for variety (one month I decided I really loved Kurt Vonnegut and just read everything of his I could get my hands on).

Yes, I was tearing through books constantly, and talking to this teacher at least weekly. Because even though I always loved reading as a kid, literature was always a very weak subject for me in terms of a teaching-to-standardized-test school setting (I just do awful on "what color were the curtains" type multiple choice questions. Those details don't stick in my memory THEY JUST DON'T). But that didn't matter for this class. I could just read my way out of any bad test score. I have always had fond memories of how I "fudged" my way through that class and "abused' the extra credit policy.

I was thinking about it again today, and only just now realized that he absolutely tricked me into being well-read, while my teenage self thought I was totally getting away with something. THAT MOTHERFUCKER. I hope he's doing well.

[stillnotmollified]

willing to bet money that “no, go back” is the least-pressed button in the history of the internet

[sealedbeastnue]

“what time is it” you ask, i pull out my 2.7 metric ton granite sundial and immediately crush both of your feet, I loudly announce “it is cloudy”

[1mlostnow]

Hyperfixation so bad people think of me when they see it

[organical-mechanical]

if you're a pixel artist and never tried working with a reasonably accurate CRT filter I HIGHLY recommend it

[organical-mechanical]

i'm definitely reaching for colors and techniques that i otherwise wouldn't use

it feels a lot more sculptural

[organical-mechanical]

oh, and you can pull bullshit like this:

[organical-mechanical]

I mean, not necessarily. There are color palettes and techniques that look fantastic on a flat screen, but horrid on CRT.

Like, look at this kitty:

Looks great here, but with a CRT filter? Completely obliterated.

Pixel art that wasn't designed to look good on a CRT doesn't always look better on CRT.

He has to be built with a completely different approach:

[canonkiller]

eat drink sleep play

[canonkiller]

you are being cared about!! what do you earn by rejecting it!!

[canonkiller]

Three times for charm, or something like that. Get your shit checked out, save your life.

[canonkiller]

this picks up in notes every so often so a summary of my answers to those things:

Q: I love how the quality degrades with each reply!

A: yeah my body was going into organ failure I didn't have much in me for art. which is why I made the post lol

Q: I can't rest / take care of myself I have something I HAVE to do first

A: you will get there faster and less destructively if you are taking care of yourself. rest doesn't mean "I need a full week of doing absolutely nothing" by default. give yourself a half hour to actually relax. even ten minutes. there are inevitably windows of time in your life that you are dedicating to stressing out about what you're not doing. use that time to do what you can to be gentle with yourself. and when you have the option to treat yourself, do so.

Q: I don't know what my problem is but I'm sure there is one because what the fuck else could it be I feel like shit all of the time

A: get your iron and vitamin levels checked. start taking a multivitamin. try removing gluten or dairy from your diet (replace them with other things!! this is not weight loss!!) and see if anything improves because secret intolerances can develop and make you feel like garbage. if you notice it worse with specific foods, try leaving those out as well and cross reference ingredients. get one physical hobby even if it's something simple like making paper airplanes sometimes. ask for help when needed. seek help when needed. clean your water bottle (all of it, really) and replace your toothbrush. push to get the treatment you need I know that it sucks and I know that doctors will be jerks about it but figuring out what's wrong has to matter more and I'm sorry I don't have any tips for making that easier. try compression socks and a shower chair. keep wearing a mask. I love you and you'll figure this out. I'm serious about the dietary change checks though celiac is a bastard and gluten is in fucking everything. get used to googling ingredients. itll work out.

[belleeebelleee]

going from “it’ll never be me.” to “please tell me it’s really you.” was crazy work and I don't think I'll ever recover

[alleesaur]

rolling rolling rolling

[ieatratsyummy]

They could never make me hate you, complex female character whose reaction to trauma was not pretty and digestible like how people think it should be.

[artistformerlyknownasbutttrumpet]

i was training a young person at work, and she referred to sexual assault as "SA" out loud, and i immediately was like, "no, it's sexual assault, call it what it is," bc idgaf if the algorithm overlords have taught y'all that you should fear direct language, how tf do any of you expect to ever address real issues with any amount of seriousness if you can't even say the words? imagine an advocate looking a sexual assault survivor in the eyes and asking "did he grape you?" it's absolutely fucking absurd, but these young interns and new hires are coming into an environment where we deal with survivors of all different kinds of abuse, and they're coming with the mindset that the words are as bad as the actions, and that makes them shitty at the job and look juvenile af

i HATE self-censorship for a lot of reasons, but being in crisis work makes it even more frustrating. who are you censoring for? like i am being so fr, WHO are you censoring for? have you even thought it through? people who have been raped know that they have been raped. if someone attempts suicide or is grieving someone who did, saying "sewer slide" isn't going to protect them from any of the feelings. a murder victim's family isn't going to feel better bc you said "unalived" instead of murdered. if anything, it's just extremely invalidating and othering. it's saying "what happened to you is so bad that i won't even say the word," which is NOT trauma-informed care. you are not protecting survivors/victims when you self-censor. the ONLY things you protect when you self-censor are the puritanical ideologies that are being encouraged by rich fascists who want your money and obedience

say the fucking words, guys. just say the goddamn words before i go insane!!!

[boarofthenorth100]

[thank-you-everyone-deactivated2]

Yes, come on in!

[boarofthenorth100]

Ok

[thank-you-everyone-deactivated2]

Yes, yes, come in to my cabin, watch your step please.

[boarofthenorth100]

You Have A Lovely Hombe

[thank-you-everyone-deactivated2]

Thank you, Horace. Sit, make yourself at hombe. Or would you like to play a game of Billiards in my special room over here?

[boarofthenorth100]

Oh I Just Love To Play Balls

[thank-you-everyone-deactivated2]

We’ll get along splendidly, then.

Some wine?

[boarofthenorth100]

Oh Enough Chit-Chat And Lets Talk Creams.

[thank-you-everyone-deactivated2]

Go on.

[boarofthenorth100]

Well I Just Love Creams. Well They Taste Good. And. Oh The Texture An-

…

*Shrnf…*

Smells Of Steel.

[thank-you-everyone-deactivated2]

*All pretense and friendly affect is dropped, eyes fixing coldly on the boar*

*Advances*

[boarofthenorth100]

Well I Simply Knew All A Long

*And Horace Delivers A Series Of Funny Kicks And Rageful SMACKS To The Assailant’s Solar Plexus And Hip Bones*

[thank-you-everyone-deactivated2]

AAAAAIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! DEFL…AAAA…a.aa….aaating….

[boarofthenorth100]

Hm Hm Hm That Aought To Teach You Scoundrel

*Horace Turns His Handsome Snout To Face YOU*

Rememboar: Dont Go In A Strangor’s House Or Something I Forget

[youngadultread]

“Teachers are often unaware of the gender distribution of talk in their classrooms. They usually consider that they give equal amounts of attention to girls and boys, and it is only when they make a tape recording that they realize that boys are dominating the interactions. Dale Spender, an Australian feminist who has been a strong advocate of female rights in this area, noted that teachers who tried to restore the balance by deliberately ‘favouring’ the girls were astounded to find that despite their efforts they continued to devote more time to the boys in their classrooms. Another study reported that a male science teacher who managed to create an atmosphere in which girls and boys contributed more equally to discussion felt that he was devoting 90 per cent of his attention to the girls. And so did his male pupils. They complained vociferously that the girls were getting too much talking time. In other public contexts, too, such as seminars and debates, when women and men are deliberately given an equal amount of the highly valued talking time, there is often a perception that they are getting more than their fair share. Dale Spender explains this as follows: “The talkativeness of women has been gauged in comparison not with men but with silence. Women have not been judged on the grounds of whether they talk more than men, but of whether they talk more than silent women.” In other words, if women talk at all, this may be perceived as ‘too much’ by men who expect them to provide a silent, decorative background in many social contexts.”

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PBS: Language as Prejudice - Myth #6: Women Talk Too Much (via misandry-mermaid)

Every EVERY women’s studies class I’ve been in has had this problem and failed to address it. 

(via iamayoungfeminist)