I'm Doing This For ME.

31. Northerner. NB Transmasc. Pan. He/They. I'm trying. Dear gods I am trying.

[scorpiontoxin]

Sure would be nice if tumblr would, y'know... work

[corvid-language-library]

Remember that if you want to do more of something, you have to do less of something else. It's that time of year where people set goals for the new year and they have plans and hopes and it's always focusing on what they want to do more of. More studying, more exercise, more crafting, more socialising, more making things from scratch. Okay, great. What are you going to do less of in order to have the time and energy to do more of those things you really want to do?

[corvid-language-library]

And if your answer to this is "less doomscrolling" or "less bedrotting" then great, but please think about why you're doing those things. No one's doomscrolling or bedrotting because they don't have things they'd rather be doing. Actually, I'm willing to bet you have a lot of things you'd rather be doing and you spend your life internally screaming at yourself to do literally any one of the many things you want to be doing instead, but you don't have the energy for them all and you can't work out how to prioritize them, so doomscrolling spares you from making that decision. Or perhaps you're burned out from taking on too many projects and you need to rest your brain, so you lie in bed because you don't even have the energy to get started anymore.

This is going to be a really hard pill to swallow, but the truth is you might not be able to balance all your hobbies and all your projects the way you'd like. If you want to finish writing that book, you might have to reduce your daily drawing habit to a couple of times a week. If you want to do yoga every morning, you might have to accept not cooking from scratch as often. If you want to spend more time with your family, you might have to cut down on your yearly reading goal. I'm not saying give up on your hobbies; I'm be realistic with your time and your energy and be kind to yourself. Stop expecting yourself to do more and do better every single year. You don't have to constantly be growing upwards and reaching for the stars; you can be content with where you are, or even cut parts of yourself back to make space for other things in your life to bloom.

Think about what your priorities are and make peace with doing less of other things. Less is okay. Less is not failing. Less is self care.

[7crowsinadress]

If you’re a USAmerican and rightfully horrified by what the government is doing right now, I just want to rq share 5calls. They have a really simple tool for finding your reps and contacting them, as well as a variety of scripts for anyone not confident speaking off book. Emails can be filtered out, phone calls, voicemails, and physical letters are much harder to ignore. Calling your reps isn’t the end all be all of anti-war action, but it’s a place to start while you process what the fuck just happened.

5 Calls

Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

[ghostseeds]

please call if you can call

If text is more your speed resist bot has a ton of HEY WHAT THE FUCK letters about Venezuela rn - I like using the fax option - it’s physical paper that can’t be ignored. Resistbot also has a mail option (it does cost money) if you use resistbot or are interest in using it you can text SIGN and then any of these codes below to 50409 to send messages about Venezuela to your reps

PNUSAU “return to session now to reign in illegal Venezuela airstrikes”

PCHAWK “demand congressional action to stop war in Venezuela”

PGYZRL “VENEZUELA: a step too far. NO ILLEGAL WAR. check Trump NOW. DO YOUR JOB”

[animentality]

[ao3cassandraic]

It matters that we refuse.

It matters that we resist.

It matters that we be loud about our refusal and resistance.

[stephendann]

Whenever my workplace goes "We must integrate AI to everything" I ask if that's alongside our NFTs, or with the blockchain, or part of our Labubu investment portfolio?

That's handbrake stopped a few people's brains more than once. You can sometimes hear the train fall clean off the one track to "Adopt whatever they think everyone else is using" safety net.

[moodringsformushrooms]

that’s a good one

[kinkshame-puncher-666]

Reblog this to ease the back pain of the person you reblogged it from

[mackdaddyofthecravate]

Please return us to a world where Notp and squick are used for a ship you don’t like instead of just making up a load of bullshit about how immoral it is or w/e lol 

[sazandorable]

a short selection of concepts and phrases that used to be commonplace in fandom and we’d really benefit from making that a thing again:

NOTP: the opposite of an OTP (One True Pairing). It is a ship a fan strongly dislikes. The word is a portmanteau of ‘no’ and ‘OTP’ and thus is not a contraction of any particular phrase.

Squick: anything that is a deep-seated, visceral turn-off. Squicks may be shared by many fans or be specific to one; one person’s kink may be another person’s squick.

YKINMKATO, or kink-tomato: Your Kink Is Not My Kink, And That’s Okay: used to indicate support for fannish diversity and to distinguish between disapproval or kink shaming and simply having different taste.

DLDR: Don’t Like, Don’t Read: a phrase used to warn against complaints about an aspect of fic or meta. A “live and let live” philosophy of fandom, which places the responsability for avoiding content one doesn’t want to see on the side of the fanwork consumer, rather that on the creator’s.

SALS: Ship And Let Ship: similar to the above specifically about shipping tastes.

YMMV: Your Mileage May Vary: a phrase used to acknowledge that any given individual’s personal opinion on the topic at hand may differ due to their own tastes, standards, values, experiences, etc.

As the OP points out, all of these crucially imply no moral judgment of what they’re designing.

(definitions lifted more or less wholesale from fanlore’s relevant pages)

[shatterpath]

bring the healthy fun back to fandom!

[greenteaandtattoos]

If ever a time comes when I don’t reblog this when it appears on my dash, assume I’m dead

[sweatermuppet]

Blessed Be by Sol Rios, published in Ghost of my Ghosts

[sweatermuppet]

if you enjoyed this poem, pls consider supporting sol as she tries to secure housing

Donate to Help Sol raise money for housing, organized by Sol Rios

Hi, my name is Sol (she/her). I have been struggling with rent for the past several years as… Sol Rios needs your support for Help Sol raise

[shadow27]

Doctor Who celebrates 60 year anniversary by releasing 800 episodes online

Allons-y!

Doctor Who is celebrating 60 years by releasing over 800 episodes on BBC iPlayer.

The sci-fi fantasy show first premiered in 1963 and has cemented itself as a permanent fixture in pop culture history. This fall, fans will be able to stream the entire 800-plus episode series along with spin-offs like Sarah Jane Adventures, Torchwood, and Class, and the behind-the-scenes series Doctor Who Confidential.

Each Dr Who episode will be made accessible for all Whovians, with subtitles, audio description, and sign language options available for the very first time.

[dostoyevsky-official]

[marithlizard]

That hits really hard.

“At a deathbed, if my patient can communicate, they show they’re dying two deaths: the one they’re dying and the death of the life they really wanted to live.”

[crossoverheaven]

Battle of the Bastard Headmasters! (REMATCH)

Albus Dumbledore

Monokuma

Gakuho Asano

Akio Ohtori

Mari Ohara

Mephisto Pheles

Hierodymus Bump

Professor Ozpin

Voting ended onAug 23, 2023

But I'm pretty sure the bear is gonna take the W once again...

[thephoenixcave]

Been waiting all week to post this. Ladies and gentlemen welcome to your tuesday. Today is tuesday.

[bewbin]

LETS BRING BACK 1337 SPEAK 

[bewbin]

why do i even try 

[bunney]

I THoUGHT YOU MEANT THE YEAR

[esoanem]

my l0rd, t3h p34s4nt5 4r3 r3v01t1ng! W3 mu5t s411y f0rth 4g41n5t th3m 4thw1th!

[thotsfortherapy]

it's not "am I good enough to do it?", it's "do I like it enough to be bad at it?"

[spnfanficpond]

Because what you do at first will always be crap. But crap makes good compost.

[cassie-darlin]

btw you can use whatever gender seasonings you want. paint your nails, wear breast forms, wear a binder, pack, tuck, dress however you want, whatever. you are adding ingredients to your gender soup.

[sheikonfleek]

“You need to believe in things that aren’t true. How else can they become” - Hogfather, Terry Pratchett

[dduane]

Here it is: the core of his work. Everything else accretes around this, like pearl around a grain of diamond grit.

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

be gentle with yourself. no good will come out of forcing yourself to do things you don’t have the energy or mindset for.