Ryan

[astarionancuntnin]

cheers to this gang of dysfunctional nerds, my life wouldn't be the same without them

the tadfools + text posts (part 2)

[amengaga]

[amengaga]

[anxietyproblem]

[zero-two-ten]

this site has one setting

[jenroses]

I’m laughing, but there’s a super useful corollary, which my husband calls “the Red Balloon.” He was a defense lawyer and had a fair number of drug addicts come through, and there is a thing where if you’re like, on your first offense, they’ll do a thing where you can go to treatment and if you complete it they’ll take the conviction off your record.  And he would tell his clients, “Look, everyone’s going to tell you not to do drugs. They’re going to say it over and over again. And it’s like, if people tell you not to think of a white elephant, you’re going to think of a white elephant. But the trick to not thinking about a white elephant is to think of a red balloon. So you need to find your red balloon. For some people it’s yoga. For others it’s woodworking. For some people it’s scrapbooking or gardening or any of a long list of things to do. They focus on that, it’s a lot easier to succeed in ignoring the white elephant.” So yeah, “watch yourself” is one thing… but the better idea is to watch something else. (Even if it’s fanfic about werewolves fucking.)

It’s a form of productive dissociation, and is super, super helpful. It’s easy for me to get bogged down in how much pain I’m in… but some of the most painful periods of my life have also been the most productive, writing-wise, because writing is one of my red balloons. 

[kittydorkling]

There is a phrase I use A LOT in my parenting and my son gets very sick of it, but it’s true:

The thing you practise is the thing you get good at.

You may not intentionally be practicing “being grumpy” but if you don’t put effort into practicing “not being grumpy” then I’m afraid that’s what you’re doing. It’s hard! It’s really hard! Sometimes, for some things, it’s pretty much impossible and that sucks!

But being carefully aware that you are going to get good at the things you do most of is a good way to be more careful of what those things are. If that makes sense.

[bogleech]

You gotta appreciate sometimes how tumblr works in such a way that everyone who wants to reblog this interesting or useful psychological advice is also forced to reblog the thing about werewolf fucking

[callmebliss]

What, like we mind?

[everythingfox]

“You gonna be done soon?”

(via)

[grawly]

[striders]

i’ve been thinking about this for days

[ampervadasz]

[uncle-beanbag]

That jump is the funniest shit

[cutecutejames]

it took me a LONG time to work out that this is “life on a boat” and not like, “physics just said fuck you today”

[syanah]

So THAt’s what sailors mean by sea legs

[argumate]

something about reference frames

[sindri42]

there’s a reason traditional sailing vessels had hammocks instead of bunk beds.

[pro-gay]

[gotterhag]

[a-girl-with-sparkling-lies]

I need everyone to understand the above gif is unedited. That actually played on TV.

[pro-gay]

people keep asking about this one as well

[aavaradeactivated-deactivated20]

[midwest-merman-deactivated20210]

Now THIS is real art

[honeyfawns]

mid life crisis ? no no, mid DAY crisis. happens every day

[the-walking-red-blog]

that’s an interesting marketing strategy

[topgunhat-deactivated20191021]

I summon Blue Eyes Hairy Chest in attack position

[obobro]

Water tribe~🌘

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[oniongarlic]

[onepersonfriendgroup]

[ridiculouslyphotogenicsinosauru]

For clarification ^-^

[thyrell]

[zicygomar]

[sketchdeath]

everyone in the 80s was like fuck ending this song

[sergegainsbourgs]

THIS IS SO FUCKING STUPID BUT IT'S LITERALLY WHAT HAPPENS LMAO

[salytierra]

Not the celebrity news we ever expected to read, but the celebrity news we deserve to read.

[azulapropaganda]

While speaking to Slate for an oral history of the cabbage merchant, Sie playfully said, "Of course, now I’m more at the age of what the cabbage merchant was then. I will cultivate that little beard if they need me to. And because my face is quite expressive, I’m perfect for a live-action version of an animated show. I’m ready."

Please let this guy play the cabbage man

[timeofdeathnote]

it’s what he deserves

[im-a-creepy-cookie]

#CabbageManForLiveCabbageMan

[kaibasego]