Spinning Roses N' Vines

Amanda/ Fiercely pro-life/ Roman Catholic I will post some short stories every now and then, whether original or fanfiction. They'll primarily be on my WordPress blog, though. Happy Reading!!

[da-janela-lateral]

Oh, what is the greatest smile in the world, you say? *Looks at you fondly* Louis Armstrong

[da-janela-lateral]

I think he is a pretty good contender

[komakesthings]

I've slowly been chipping away at drawing scenes from that imaginary Muppet retelling of the Princess Bride, figured it was about time to share what I've drawn on Tumblr!

[starrose17]

He's literally doing this:

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

Learn to articulate how you're feeling without accusing anyone of having bad intentions. You can say "I'm afraid of being alone" without saying "you're just going to leave me like everyone else." You can say "I need some reassurance" without saying "you probably don't love me anymore." You can say "I'm afraid I've hurt your feelings and I'd like to talk it through" without saying "you don't even like me anymore." You can say "I want to spend more time with you" without saying "you've gotten tired of me." You can say "I feel misunderstood" without saying "you always judge me." Try not to let your emotions get the best of you. Have a conversation focused on finding solutions instead of escalating the conflict.

[millionsknives]

i do not inhabit my body i am my body, i am not a brain in a meat suit i am wonderful flesh and bone and veins and synapses and cartilage, my soul is not separate from my body they are one and the same and they are me, and if god did not care about the body he would not have promised to resurrect it

[mademoiseli]

#Sorry Yoda #Sorry fake quote attributed to Lewis #Sorry Descartes and Spinoza and Berkley and all you perfect Albigensians secretly feasting in your castle #I am body and soul - they can be artificially and temporarily separated by death. (It’s really hard to live like this is true - to love #the integrity of my body and soul - but it’s so important.) (@siena-sevenwits)

[songs-of-stones]

every now and then I’ll think about the quote “if God did not love the body, He would not have promised to resurrect it” and I have to stop and breathe and cry a little

[rolkientolkien]

[kuttithevangu]

Being a calm, gentle, non-reactive person is really hard work, which is probably why many people are none of these things. Personally I think it’s worth it but sometimes one does want to just roll around on the floor wailing at the top of one’s lungs

[kuttithevangu]

People in my notes who think I’m repressed or dissociating: you will feel better when you learn emotions are not a binary of Not Feeling It vs Being Overwhelmed By It

[blorbospinninhouseplant]

Ok but How Do I Do That

[kuttithevangu]

Self-regulation for adults: Strategies for getting a handle on emotions and behavior - Harvard Health

Learn strategies for enhancing self-regulation skills, and discover the benefits of mastering this essential life skill to help emotional dy

There are many techniques (also, there are drugs)

[kuttithevangu]

Emotional Regulation: 5 Evidence-Based Regulation Techniques

Emotional regulation is about managing emotions to maintain balance.

A little meatier than the Harvard page but covering the same ground. These pages will give you additional phrases to google for advice

[fullmetalfisting]

The cashier at Whole Foods just treated me like the village idiot because he told me to “look for the three little lines” on the app and i was like “I’m not seeing a hamburger. I see meatballs. Is that it?” And he said “maam you are looking for Three Little Lines”

[fullmetalfisting]

For those unaware

[itspileofgoodthings]

you know what gets me about lord of the rings? evil is defeated by people who choose to fight against it without possessing absolute, or even very much, conviction that they can actually win. all the converging story threads that lead to the happy ending are carried out by people who are far, far more convinced that they will fail than that they will succeed, who had only the frailest, most foolish hope, who had blind faith and frequently wavering hearts not peace or ease or certainty.

middle earth isn’t saved because no one faltered or came close to despairing or who sank to their knees in weary defeat. it’s not saved by pride or conviction or even strength. it’s saved because enough people do what they have to do even if they have to do it in the darkness. in the dust. with the ashes of hopelessness and bitterness in their mouths. because enough people took another step. Frodo, Sam, Gandalf, Aragorn, Theoden, Boromir, Faramir, Merry, Pippin. And many don’t. For every hero there is someone who gives into the “reasonableness” of despair—Saruman, Denethor, Grima, even Gollum—but enough. Enough people said “it doesn’t matter if we lose, I will keep fighting” and then they do.

And that GETS me. It is the most hopeful thing about the lord of the rings to me. There is so much that sums up its spirit, so many beautiful quotes and moments, but to me it’s never been the most famous of the quotes about hope and love that hit me hardest but a line from the films. Before the battle for Minas Tirith, one of the soldiers says “we cannot defeat the armies of Mordor” and Theoden answers “no. but we will meet them in battle nonetheless.”

And I—That is the spirit that leads to the conquering of evil when it comes down to it, when we’re talking about the part played by humanity alone in the fight against evil. Not the conviction you’re going to win, not farsightedness into a perfect future, not perfect inner peace or certainty. But acceptance of the real possibility of defeat, of that defeat being more the reality, the future, of your life than the victory, and then doing the damn thing anyway because goodness is worth fighting for even if you lose.

[melusinemuse]

@freenarnian your tags are everything

[autumnhobbit]

maybe it’s just the growing-up-with-undiagnosed-severe-anxiety-&-obsessive-compulsive-disorder-mother-figures in me, but any time there’s any sort of public health risk, i get real tired of hearing everyone scream and cry and throw away all their food/chew out their relatives if they eat anything “””unsafe.””” a recall could not mention your state at all and your mom/grabdma would be calling you 18+ times leaving voice messages screaming at you to throw away all your peanut butter even if you bought it three months ago before the recall even happened. and you’ve eaten it already. and felt fine.

[autumnhobbit]

“is it safe to eat grapes right now!!!???!!!” i don’t know. no one can give you that answer. the high likelihood is yeah, they’re probably fine. it’s a country with hundreds of millions of people, and while statistically a large increase of cases is of course a concern to note, the likelihood that YOU, anxious woman reading this, is with 100% certainty going to contract the plague if you don’t immediately throw out all suspect food items and scream at your relatives to do the same? probably not that high, actually. most likely all of this is to suit the paranoid goblin in your head that hates you.

[autumnhobbit]

and also. like. the grapes could have not been safe the last 300 times you bought them. until you get sick, you really have no clue. i understand this is a scary reality to consider. but part of being an adult is acknowledging & coming to accept that life is full of risk. any time you get into a car you COULD get into a car wreck & die. any time you go into the grocery someone COULD come and shoot the place up. your grapes COULD give you a parasite that from what we’ve heard is not excessively dangerous unless you’re immunocompromised but certainly sounds unpleasant & even serious to deal with. but uh. most likely, none of it is going to happen. and if it does, it is not your FAULT because you didn’t somehow prevent it, and it is not your JOB to be clairvoyant and eliminate all risk. which isn’t possible. but boy, in the meantime, you’re kind of exhausting to be around.

[nature-travel-photography]

A beautiful view of Mount Fuji Japan - Author: Horror_Albatrosss

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

your fav flower {if multiple then the first one you thought of} is your new name how is it going

good

bad

great

awful

not for my gender

results

Remaining time: 6 hours 5 minutes

[cal3ris]

is this gonna get me fired you think

[mogwai-movie-house]

[coffee-n-kush]

[not-this-crude-matter]

[dorothygale]

pop health science is so annoying bc it'll be like "did you know? eating strawberries will give you mega cancer" and you're like pfft whatever begone influencer. but sometimes then you'll see a reasonably credible article like "Study Shows Possible Link Between Strawberries and Mega Cancer" and you're not usually the type to follow that kind of thing religiously but idk maybe you should consider not eating strawberries? but then there's another article saying "Strawberry/Mega Cancer Study Debunked" and it turns out the original study had a sample size of 3 and was funded by Big Blueberry, and strawberries may have a small connection to mega cancer but only if you are genetically predisposed to mega cancer and eat 50 strawberries every day. so you return to your strawberry eating life. but whenever you eat strawberries in public someone tells you about the mega cancer.

[teaboot]

How it feels when your trusting and optimistic nature thwarts a malicious plot you weren’t even aware of

[teaboot]

An addendum:

[targetedknowledge]

[homunculus-argument]