My Low Self-Esteem is At an All-Time High

Perennially relapsed caffeine addict that used to call myself creative. Clinically depressed, definitely stressed. Welcome to my whatever blog. Ask and I'll do my best to tag. TERFs fuck off.

[crimewave420]

what kind of blogs do you follow

I follow a wide range of blogs to make sure my own blog content is as inconsistent and annoying as possible

[rosslynpaladin]

Weird Experience: Comforting people as you explain your Chronic Condition

Empathy can have funny effects when you have to try to get people to understand your diagnosis/life with an Chronic Illness. 

It’s like you have to ease them into the idea, and then pat them on the back and try to cheer them up while it sinks in for THEM that YOU have an incurable condition. 

Their entire world view is predicated on the idea that “all illness is temporary”. They genuinely cannot cope with the idea that someone will not Get Well Soon. And YOU have to be one to ease them through this existential crisis.

You can’t just say to people, “No I am not doing anything much until the one thing at the end of this month, because I am still sick, and will be still sick for the foreseeable future. Getting into a remission will require a few years of steady slow work which might not have any effect even if I do everything right. I am sick. I shall be sick. This is my LIFE now. I’m sad, yes it’s not what I wanted, but I’m a person not a tragedy so hold off on the pity okay?. No, there’s nothing to be done but what I am already doing. “ 

And you can’t say this because THEY will panic and be offended by your total bluntness. 

You have to protect their emotions about your condition. It’s weird. And an exhausting dance to do over and over again.

[senatortedcruz]

One piece of advice that’s always stuck with me is to never hold back a compliment. If you think someone looks nice/is doing a good job/is very talented tell them! Could improve someone’s day or make you a new friend.

[madmonksandmaenads]

I wish I could make white people(and not just white Americans) understand how diverse the pre-columbian Americas were. The history, religion, culture, politics was at least as complex as Europe's. There was the full gamut of religions, from monotheists to animists to ancestral religions. There were city building empires, village farmers, nomadic traders, and so many other ways to live. This is all just based on what we know, the fragments left behind and the stories of survivors of an apocalyptic plague. All this before the most extended campaign of genocide in history was waged in an attempt to wipe out those survivors.

Over 500 years spent trying to cut down a whole trunk of human culture.

Do you understand how much poorer our whole species is because of it? Can you imagine where art, religion, and science would be if we still had these vast bodies of knowledge? The stain of the colonial project will never be fully washed clean. We owe more than just the land to those we stole from. We owe them a whole future, a future that could have been brighter for all of us. If only greed and fear weren't allowed to rule this land.

[rocketbirdie]

guys. Guys please you're allowed to say big boy words. please we cannot keep just rolling with the sanitization of every space on the internet ok. you're allowed to say suicide. you're allowed to say porn. they're not bad words, they're just words.

also by ''censoring'' the words with silly spellings you're actually making it much harder for people to filter out. please just say Sex you don't have to call it woohoo like it's the fucking sims. i promise the Word Police aren't going to arrest you

[dykecinema]

[slackeremeritus]

[Image description: a Reddit comment by user BouquetOfGutsAndGore, with five upvotes.]

I'm not trying to be mean and I promise I'm saying this with complete sincerity and don't see this as a character flaw or anything, but just by virtue of you asterisk censoring the word "porn" I am going to take a leap and say you may not be Cronenberg's intended audience.

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[devilleworship]

saw this on Insta and the idea that people who are anti-AI are just using it anyway like... willing to give it up? I ACTIVELY AVOID THAT SHIT BUD! WHAT ARE YOU EVEN TALKING ABOUT?

ALSO

It's not as if this shit has been around SOOO LONG. We all existed JUST FINE before this shit became THE THING someone decided to shove in our face like...

[slackeremeritus]

[Image description: an Instagram comment by user kavishj611.]

All the people who are anti-AI or want to slow AI progress, I have one question:

If AI disappeared tomorrow, could you still get through an entire workday without ChatGPT, Claude or any other AI tool?

Imagine AI was suddenly banned. Would you actually be willing to give it up?

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[veggiesforpresident]

honestly one of my favorite things about fanfic is when you can see the canon influences come out in really subtle ways. like a canon line thats mentioned once as a throwaway is suddenly the entire premise for a fic or it influences the characterization or something. its just so cool to see how people weave their ideas around a source material, especially if its not a detail i'd thought about before

[raevenlywrites]

Its me, your feral godmother

[raevenlywrites]

*waves a wand and grants you the teeth and claws to fuck your evil step family up*

[blckgirlacid]

Doing weird stretches in your room is so important.

[cognitohazardous]

not everything is eldritch bro youre just incurious

[justsomeguycore]

but there actually are some social cues that can be taught. like the obvious one is when someone says “how are you” they usually mean “friendly noise” and are not actually asking how you are, although some people ARE genuinely asking how you are and it’s usually up to the context of your relationship to determine the difference

also that apparently “when you get a chance” usually means “when you take a break from the thing you’re immediately doing” and not “on a list among various other things you are doing today or tomorrow”

and when someone says “i’ll let you get going” they mean “please leave”

[justsomeguycore]

oh and you have to learn to weaponize “thank you for your understanding”. which means “there is nothing you can do about this so accept it”

[ieatratsyummy]

They could never make me hate you, complex female character whose reaction to trauma was not pretty and digestible like how people think it should be.

[akindplace]

anxious person realizes for the 17000th time that the anxiety was not worth it™️ will they keep worrying about the same stuff? more at 8

[inbabylontheywept]

spiders and octopi are what happened when the 8 armed creator god divided himself into his twin dualities

[inbabylontheywept]

i am still mad that this is never in any of the boxes when surveys ask about my religious views

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

okay. breathe. listen to my voice. can you tell me five things in this room you can fuck?

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

okay great. now list me four things in this room you can kill.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

beautiful. there you go. okay. now: tell me three things you can impose unjust taxes on.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

almost done. can you list two things you could shove in a pipe and smoke?

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

last one: one thing you could use as a makeshift weapon?

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

why are you still crying

[quietwingsinthesky]

it's wild how once you decide that actually someone being fat isn't the scariest, worst possible scenario thing in the world. how so much fearmongering just becomes so absurd and so obvious. from how every conservative comic artist draws their leftist caricatures as fat people to that one family member who won't stop whispering about how complete strangers must be terrible people when all they're using to justify that assumption is their weight to a billion weight loss ads on tv that show you a completely normal looking person and then insist that they're unacceptable to live in society without this miracle drug that'll completely fuck up their body to maybe lose a few pounds. this is crazytown. this is the bad place. what the fuck are you all talking about. it's just being fat.