'Sup.

I like cute things, games (video & board), and psychology. I also enjoy talking to people, so just crash into my inbox like we're besties.

[diver-up]

u all ever lose the ability to socialize in the middle of a convo like…. ok i’m done now there’s no more words in here brain shutting off

[cockandballnurture-deactivated2]

[dastaire]

Maddison's Breast Reduction (Save the neck!), organized by Maddison Eustace

Heya thank you for reading this my name is Maddison and I’m in need of h… Maddison Eustace needs your support for Maddison's Breast Reduction (Save the neck!)

It’s a long shot but please help!!

[the-sea-wolfe]

Any help for my girlfriend would be much appreciated, even just reblogging this post would be great. Covid has screwed us both over job wise and despite the fact that she needs a breast reduction or faces further long term nerve damage or even paralysis it is being classed as an elective cosmetic procedure and thus has a wait list of up to 4yrs to have the procedure done in a public hospital due to covid precautions forcing us to go the private hospital route.

@glumshoe @thebibliosphere any chance of getting a boost for this post?

[iamryanhenly]

Parents should not be reading your journals

Parents should not be searching through your trash 

Parents should not be snooping on your private social media messages 

Parents should not be taking your bedroom door off 

Parents should not be invading your privacy 

[sapphichollstein-deactivated201]

reblogging this because when they go through my phone and find my tumblr they’ll see this

[becausedragonage]

As an actual mom, I approve this message. If your parents say it’s a normal part of parenting, no. No it’s not. They are wrong.

[asfdhgsdkjhgb]

shout out to all the people who identify with gifted kid burnout syndrome who are probably just neurodivergent but werent diagnosed as a child, who used to devour books like it was nothing and never really understood why the protagonist would leave their cool fantasy world behind to go back home at the end of the story, and who are now extremely disappointed in reality and use escapism as their primary coping mechanism. how’s that bisexuality and deep-rooted anger at the school system going for you?

[radiotroph-deactivated20180625]

me: haha oh god this is so bad im making so many unsupported claims and pulling all this analysis out of my ass

my prof in the margins: excellent analysis!

me: 

[orphanblaque]

when i was in high school i used to write my papers thinking wow i’m just bullshitting all of this. then like a week before my senior year ended after all the grades were set, i was talking to my english teacher and told him you know i just bullshitted every paper i wrote. he told me that while i may have thought i was just pulling it all out of my ass, i genuinely knew what i was talking about and made well-supported analyses. i only thought i was bullshitting because it didn’t take much effort and it all seemed obvious to me. if you do well on your essays even though you think you’re just making it up as you go, chances are you’re not pulling it out of your ass. you’re just a genuinely talented analyst, even if the analysis that you’re making comes from a subconscious understanding of the material rather than a conscious effort to study it. give yourself some credit. 

[persistentmanlyagitation]

[mpregwizard-deactivated20260125]

anything you pull out of your ass had to get there somehow

[captain-trash-cannot-deactivate]

Anything you pull out of your ass had to get there somehow

[obscuritiesoffbeat]

I don’t usually soap-box, but I’m going to for a hot sec since this has been on my mind: 

Cults are getting better branding, prettier leaders, hipper-sounding cosmologies, and wider reaches due to social media. They’re not all deity-focused. Thoughtful, intelligent people can get sucked into them. Just…stay safe out there, guys. Do your research, look at all your options, and trust your gut, not groupthink.

[obscuritiesoffbeat]

I’m glad this is resonating with people.

I do want to emphasize, again, that cults (and toxic groups with cult-like attributes, I’m using this term pretty loosely) don’t usually look like what you’d expect. A lot of toxic and dangerous religious movements are tiny and you won’t find much about them via Google. Cultish non-religious movements are the same way.

Start-ups, multi-level marketing companies, activist groups, fan groups, political groups, and internet mystics who run retreats can all be cult-like and dangerous. Tune your BS detector, ask family, friends, and experts for advice.

Here are some warning signs:

Pressure – pressure to make quick decisions, to give (or pledge) considerable amounts of money, to move in with a group, to abandon family or cut off friends. Elevated Leaders – anyone claiming special insight, special powers, or that they aren’t human. Demanding special treatment (compared to other followers). Misuse of funds or money collecting at the top. physical, emotional, and/or sexual abuse. Lack of accountability or oversight. Isolation – encouraging (or requiring) members to cut off family relationships, friendships with those outside of the group, leaving jobs, moving to isolated areas, taking away communication methods. Strong “us-vs-them” mentality. Vilification of ex-members. Love-bombing. Altered states of consciousness – long work hours, sleep deprivation, lack of access to adequate food or water. Otherwise unproblematic activities like meditation/prayer/chanting, but done for hours. Discouraging doubt – discouraging or punishing doubt and critical thinking.

(Source 1, Source 2, Source 3)

If these send up red flags for you or loved ones, here are some collected resources: one, two.

[otarsus]

This is the best D&D

[theangriestlittleunicorn]

“I have a dexterity of bad” is my favorite

[darkbookworm13-deactivated20240]

that’s my life in a nutshell at the roll of the Universe’s dice

[starlightandtears]

I do not think, therefore I do not am.

[ball-hard-in-miklagard]

- René Descaren’t

[fermatas-theorem]

[ghastmaskzombie]

it’s wild that there are 42,000 people in the middle of the venn diagram of “likes classical philosophy” and “likes surreal memes” but i’m one of ‘em so

[pocketss]

it’s just one of those croissant days

[pocketss]

we love a recovery

[davidtransking]

giving all my mutuals a little kiss in the forehead, happy new year hope the world is kinder too yall this year

[michaelgovehateblog]

I would like to wish everyone an uneventful new year

[primarybufferpanel]

May we live in very uninteresting times

[broken-academia]

may you experience very precedented events

[definitelyforsurenotbees]

may the emails never find you at all

[sawasawako-archived]

[text ID: a tweet by @rhododaktulos that reads, ““my child is completely fine” your child’s favourite trope is found family”]

[happifying-things]

here’s your damn fish

[ask-swagger-dagger-trolls]

(Y E E T)

[ruinedchildhood]

[lankybrunettepartdeux]

I never guessed that in my adulthood, I’d be relating to Calvin’s parents as much as I do in this comic.

Because damn … Calvin’s dad was so right.

[cheshireinthemiddle]

Alternatively

[hedgehog-moss]

I always hire my guests to help me with ‘chores’ (if they’re willing!), the kind of task that’s fun at first but less fun when you have to keep going for hours (burning all the broom bushes in the pasture, picking many kg of berries to make syrup, carrying a mountain of logs into the wood shed and building stable log piles so they don’t come cascading down later…) And every time I’m amazed by the way humans can make the most tedious tasks genuinely fun through… group dynamics? just the way people start interacting and bonding with each other when everyone is focused on the same repetitive physical activity. It’s hard to find examples because it’s always so specific to each situation; but I mean things like

people spontaneously specialising and developing a feeling of expertise and pride in their subtrade, no matter how silly (putting away firewood involved one Log Selecter outside going back and forth delivering logs to two Pile Builders who piled them up in the shed, and each rapidly created their own well-oiled System and became convinced it would be hard to replace them now that they had mastered their craft)

new vocabulary being coined and immediately adopted (the Pile Builders came up with nicknames for logs of different lengths and shapes so they could ‘order’ them from the Log Selecter more efficiently—”I’ve got a One-Armed Bandit here, I need another one to fit next to it, but with an ‘arm’ on the other side” “Here” “The arm is on the same side!” “Just turn it around and the arm will be on the other side”)

songs emerging almost by themselves (a song about fishing mussels was repurposed into a song about picking plums; a whole new song was invented to encourage weirdly-shaped logs to fit in with the others as we tried to fill all the gaps)

stories being told. Weaving a trivial task into a complex imaginary plot and context to make it more entertaining and meaningful

the extremely human compulsion to write down our knowledge to share it with future generations (I was told to take note of the best & quickest knot to tie up foliage when making tree hay, for the benefit of whoever does it next summer)

beliefs as to the Right Way To Do Things quickly solidifying into myths or superstitions, as we forget what drove us to do things this way in the first place, but trust that we had good reasons so now it’s the Way It’s Done

I always tell people to help only if they feel like it and we can stop anytime and I’ll finish later by myself, but what usually happens instead is that they want to come back at the same time next year to do this exact chore again because of how they’ve made it theirs in just a few days (or in one afternoon!) Give a group of humans a banal task and while they’re at it they will come up with a whole new inside slang, a few work songs and a handful of founding texts and myths, until it feels special and important. I love seeing the way these miniature folklores just emanate from people doing things together.