Headspace Vacant

Omen/Sere, 28, any pronouns

[ki11ustr4tions]

How yall feel bout werewolves

[morpheme-publishing]

I’m so excited for the Title Reveal of Book 1 of my “Basslines of the Heart” series!

Introducing, Slowburn Setlist!

Art by the indescribable @sereprophet

[Alt text: “Slowburn Setlist” as a page ripped off reveal]

[alicethebard]

Pick one

You produce pheromones that attract your type

You can shapeshift at will, you are limited to living things

You become a robot/porcelain doll/stuffie etc.

Voting ended onMay 12

[goth-princess-gwennie]

dollie time

[clowngirlhonkers]

shapeshifting biomass sounds fun :3

[foone]

[gigglepuffpixie]

Coffin Text Spell 714

l am one who made myself, and I formed myself at my will according to my desire.

[morpheme-publishing]

Changing it Up

I made this blog when I was in the educational publishing industry, at a time when flat, print books started transitioning into interactive eBooks and digital-first content. Then the pandemic hit, and I questioned my priorities, as many, many other people did. I got into ghostwriting and, while I enjoyed writing stories and seeing the positive feedback, the content-farm core was unsustainable. However, after seeing the enthusiastic response to my writing, I decided to put out my own work. So, for the past two years, I have been working on a series, and now that it’s closer to release than not, I’m transitioning this blog from one form to another—just like I did.

[hannahtempler]

when spiders put their little pedipalps together

[northirish]

Bet it feels good as fuck to be disassembled, cleaned and then reassembled as a firearm

[transmechanicus]

o yeah babey

[evilselfishfool]

this is why they shouldn’t have banned normal porn

[transmechanicus]

no amount of cishets going to plapsburg could ever distract me from the cold certainty of steel

[screenshotsofdespair]

[wearepaladin]

[windsroad]

Just finished a cross stitch of this!

[ilonano]

(knows nothing about a subject) I Should Start An Ambitious Project

[gaybichon]

saw a girl wearing a shirt that said CAN'T BREATHALYZE METH! and it kind of startled me out of my breakdown for a second

[ooppo]

Idk why but as a kid I used to get hysterically upset everytime I would imagine a gif of a rotating cow because I could never stop the cow from rotating no matter how hard I tried and I would be crying and no one knew why

[ooppo]

[ooppo]

[ooppo]

[ooppo]

[chetungwan]

This is probably an unnecessary addition, but OCD is missed in cases like these because it's deeply misunderstood by most people.

It's talked about like being obsessively neat or repeating pointless tasks is the main part of it, when really those are just potential symptoms.

The main thing behind OCD is not being about to turn off a thought. There's a thing where most people can just stop thinking about something. If it's over, it's not relevant, it doesn't matter anymore, people can turn their attention away. For OCD, that mechanism can get stuck. And some thought that was supposed to just temporarily pass through your head just stays there. An image of an object rotating. An anxiety about something bad happening. A wish that you made on a dandelion. These are all things that have at some point gotten stuck in my head, sometimes for years at a time.

The compulsions, the rituals, are the person trying to address the thought so it can go away. After all, if you're worried about the door not being locked you can check the lock. But for someone with OCD, that doesn't make the stuck thought go away. So they check it again. And again. And they made a ritual, maybe if I check it exactly five times, I'll know that it's locked and I can let this worry go.

It helps a little. It feels like you're doing something. But it doesn't solve the problem. Actual therapy for OCD involves not doing the compulsion. Instead, you ignore the thought, move around it, try not to give it space in your life. Your mind won't let the thought go normally, so instead you fill yourself with other thoughts. Other parts of your life.

It's not easy at first. Your mind fights you on it. But as you get practice, it gets easier. You learn tricks around your own mind, ways to look at the thought and go, hm. I guess I'll go distract myself now. It does get better. I promise

[penrosesun]

You know, other people have pointed out that ADHD is perversely named for the ways in which it affects others, rather than for what it actually feels like to have ("are you always worried that your friends hate you and incapable of achieving your goals specifically because they are your goals? you may have 'trouble sitting still in class' syndrome!) – but I think that OCD is in many ways a similar case, especially because "primarily obsessional" OCD (that is, OCD without compulsions) absolutely exists, and is likely under-diagnosed. If people with OCD were naming the condition from scratch, we'd probably call it "Persistent Thought Disorder" or something similar, and consider the rituals that people assume character OCD to be common but non-universal symptoms.

[sizhens-deactivated20250610]

"you are gay and chinese" continues to be such a profound and emotionally impactful work to me which is rly funny

[sizhens-deactivated20250610]

Catalina Cheng, “YOU ARE GAY AND CHINESE”

[60110306]

these horses are lesbians from the same artist!!!!!

[identitty-dickruption]

I went to an exhibition on the history of migration and colonial rhetoric in Australia and it really helped me to pinpoint my exact issue with the way non-Australians (and. tbh. some aussies) talk about this country

this map is a piece of propaganda from 1921. honestly what shocked me about it was how little of Australia is marked out as “uninhabited”. I have seen maps shared around on this website that basically mark out the entirety of non-coastal Australia as “empty”. fucking colonialists from 1921 were more generous than some of you

the history of colonial Australia is a history of “taming the untameable land”. this has been reinforced through narratives that this country is:

inherently dangerous

uninhabitable

empty

this rhetoric survives in both the way Australia is imagined by non-Australians and in the self-image of Australia. the (white) aussie battler conquers the unconquerable. the outback is imagined as a post-apocalyptic hellscape. our fauna is categorised as uniquely hellish and unwieldy. so when non-Australians make joke after joke about how scared they are of this place. well you can imagine why it fills me with the kind of rage that can only be generated by the understanding that You Are Reinforcing Colonialism

[boogerwookiesugarcookie]

For those who haven't seen a map of Indigenous Nations in Australia:

A link to the interactive version, since as you can see there are more cultures than can legibly fit in a single image.

[wordfather]

i do enjoy when there's a little freak, i must say,

[vee-dmsr]

[brandneweyescd]

rb to tell ur mutuals ur fond of them

[virgo-disaster]

The bird app has a lot of garbage but this thread really tickled me this morning:

Bonus:

[37q-archive]

do you think truckers realize that theyre dentists of highways

[antiandrogen]

explain

[teamnowalls-deactivated20180918]

they both fuck twinks at gas stations

[opposite-of-a-problem-deactivat]

explain