Psychotherapist's Wet Dream

Raccoon. Prime age for back braces and complaining about weather. It's not discourse, it's wank, kiddo.

[raccoondead]

No spoilers or anything

It was sad to see Sycamore gap in 28 Years Later.

Because two years ago two knobheads cut it down. And are currently on trial for that. They both look like the kind who drink discount beer.

[leebrontide]

Potentially hot take but one of the reasons we need art and music in schools is that, taught correctly, they are ideal avenues for teaching kids how to do something, kinda suck at it, keep going anyways and improve over time.

And THAT is one of the most valuable skill sets a human being can have. THAT is the skill set that unlocks soooooo many others.

A LOT of people I see with anxiety and depression do not have this skill set. To suck at something is a threat. Proof that they are doomed to suck at it forever. And then, often, that either THEY suck forever or the task must be stupid/useless/pointless (whence we get AI art fans who have decided actually making art is pointless and degrading the labor and skills of others is fine because these are useless skills).

Or you get the freeze- the inability to try things in case you fail. The sudden lancing shame and humiliation or hopelessness. The sense that anything you haven't learned by now you can't learn. Which is so heartbreaking and so untrue.

I just hate it.

"What if I write it and it's bad" "what if I draw it and it's bad" "what if I play it and it sounds bad" DOING IT BAD IS HOW YOU LEARN TO DO IT GOOD! You can't skip the process of leaning and the process is FUN if you let it be what it needs to be!

[raccoondead]

Learning music also teaches you how to accept criticism and use it to improve (and to distinguish between valid criticism and people just being assholes).

While artistic expression is subjective, many metrics in music are generally objective - being out of tune or out of rhythm are not crimes but realities everyone runs into sooner or later. If anyone says they don't, they are filthy liars.

If it sounds off the first time, after practicing and figuring out what went wrong, it will sure as hell sound much better by fifth, tenth and hundredth time.

[raccoondead]

Snickering

This year I am amused every time when someone uses words such as "magic" or "enchanting" to describe LV entry.

Because that's what those lyrics are.

It's a spell. Good kind of spell, but a spell nonetheless.

Threefold rule is probably the only reason someone hasn't just entered a curse in national selection by this point.

[raccoondead]

It's that time of the year...esc time

Me: hmm, why do I really dig LT song?

Me:...

Me:...

Me: Ah, reminds me of my favourite BM song in a good way

[2001hz]

AKIRA アキラ Directed By: Katsuhiro Otomo (1988)

[xanaxfarts]

Akira アキラ (1988) dir. Katsuhiro Otomo

[atesan]

STRAUME / FLOW (2024), dir Gints Zilbalodis

[emotiondelivered]

[miggylol]

First off, spin this wheel.

You just landed on one of 200 fandoms that have been very popular somewhere on Tumblr over the years. Topics were chosen either from appearing on a @fandom end-of-year recap or from my own long (long, long) site memories before that.

also all of these fandoms are definitely things that really exist in the real world and none of them are Tumblr creations

Would you be able to appear knowledgeable about this topic in a five-minute conversation with someone?

Yes, because I already knew about this topic on my own

Yes, thanks to what I've absorbed from Tumblr

Yes... but only if the other person doesn't know much about it

Uh. Maybe.

Probably not, to be honest

I have never even heard of this topic

Voting ended onJan 19, 2025

[memeclassheroes]

[nightvaleofficial]

[princesskuragina]

hardcore gamers only: what do you consider to be the best video game of all time

pokemon go

sudoku

la times crossword puzzle

merge fruit

picross

cookie clicker

the google dinosaur jumping game that appears when you have no Internet

animal crossing pocket camp

doordash

quordle

jetpunk geography quizzes

something else????

Voting ended onDec 3, 2024

[welcometololaland]

actually genuinely curious about this because anecdotally I think I've seen a shift, maybe even in my own reading patterns

how likely are you to read a wip (on ao3)?

I will read a wip only if it has a definite number of total chapters

I will read a wip if it is posted as /?

I prefer to read when the fic is fully posted

I will read a wip only if I've read other fics by that writer

I'm bald/I don't read fic

OTHER (please tell me in the tags 😘)

Voting ended onNov 29, 2024

[ihni]

Tags by @imsodishy also yup

[annalyticall]

My new favorite excuse for not jumping on new trends or bandwagons is 'I'm 30.' No more explanation needed because anyone under 30 just thinks I'm old and everyone over 30 understands implicitly

[oodlyenough]

[cellobuster]

Whoever invented "open in app" links that redirect you to the app store instead of actually opening the app even when you already have the app installed on your phone should be involuntarily turned into a beanbag chair

[raccoondead]

Oh wow, Sky Sports defending MBS.

Who would have seen that happening?

[raccoondead]

five cents about recent GPDA resurgence

Seeing as it was revived in 1994 after what happened to Senna, Ratzenberger and Barrichello and one of the key players was none other than bloody Lauda they for sure picked the time on purpose.

F1 needs more anarchy.