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every once and a while twitter is genuinely enjoyable

Ok actually genuine tip for new tumblr users: if you see a post you like and want to reblog but theres a bad/annoying added on bit in the reblog chain feel free to just reblog that post straight from op or the last person who knew how to mind their business

thedepressionoftrees

Or just mock the edition. That usually works

mitzo

oR jUsT mOcK tHE eDiTiON. tHaT uSuAlLy WoRkS

thedepressionoftrees

phantomrose96

All the talk about “oh Elon Musk’s buying twitter now all the people who fled from tumblr to twitter are gonna come back here” and gotta say. I’m on edge. SOMETHING happened to tumblr between 2018 and 2020 that turned it from a warzone to a tolerable shitposting website and my one best guess has always been that the p/orn ban sent so many people packing to twitter that we ended up exporting all our native-grown gremlins to the bird site. I back this theory up by the fact that all batshit fandom drama I hear about these days comes from twitter.

So for most people coming back, happy to see you welcome have some tea or coffee over on the table to the left but if the shit-stirrers come back for me it’s on sight. It’s on sight. First time around I was nice I was like “oh I shouldn’t engage if I’m the Bigger Blog that’s a bad move to put smaller blogs on blast :(” free pass is up. I’ll name and shame. I clawed my way back up from 6 feet underground and I’m not doing it again I’ll defend this garbage tower to the death. PVP. I’ll salt the earth I’ll poison the water supply I’ll burn the village down hand in unlovable hand I’ll take everyone and everything down with me before I cede this stupid blog again it’s on. sight.

Oh also there’s some lemon bars too.

phantomrose96

I’m installing a security system.

dispatchesfromtheclasswar

cloverandcrossbones

This is such a freeing concept to remember when you’re feeling too dependent, whether that’s because of a disability, mental illness, chronic or temporary sickness, what-have-you, you’re part of the human race and humans are social creatures. This is how we’ve survived and evolved. This is why we built family systems and communities.

You aren’t any more dependent than the rest of society/human history; it just shows in different ways.

skin-slave

Exclamation marks, but instead of a huge line of them, we do like Roman numerals of them.

You know. To save space.

lastvalyrian

Me doing 490 exclamation marks: XD

lekosis

If you are like me with the anxiety and the depression and the executive dysfunction

- DON'T say to yourself "I need to take a shower"

-showering is a long multistage process that requires you to be vulnerable (naked, wet, blots out sound, what if someone calls/rings the doorbell, etc)

-INSTEAD say to yourself "I'm just gonna go turn on the water right quick"

-small one step task checked off your list

-your anxiety brain is a dumb motherfucker and it will be none the wiser that you have tricked it into BEGINNING the shower process

-once the water is running you are already there in the bathroom with the water running so you might as well finish the job

NOTE that this trick works for like. Fucking everything.

-Don't "work on your WIP"-- just open the document

-don't "make the scary phone call" -- just pull up the number in your contacts

-don't "make lunch" -- just pull out a loaf of bread

-don't "do the dishes" -- just open the dishwasher. Literally just open it

Remember ur anxiety brain is a dumb motherfucker and that you CAN therefore TRICK it into being functional

also bonus tip: for those times when u just need to lie on the floor and be a worthless lump of anxiety-ridden garbage for a few hours, download Duolingo and pick a language. Are you going to be fluent in a week? No. But it's easy to focus on and that way when you've been down there for half a day and your shitty fukken brain is trying to convince you you're garbage because it KEPT you there, you can counter with "excuse you I just spent the last four hours TEACHING MYSELF A FOREIGN LANGUAGE you punk ass bitch."

Good luck out there kids I believe in u

sandersstudies

Both these tips are REALLY good advice! I have quite bad executive dysfunction and multi-step tasks become very difficult.

For the second one I actually put my Duolingo app in place of a social media app on my phone so I would open it automatically.

sevdrag

holy fucking shit you are a saint

brightwanderer

Also a corollary to this, which for me at least is very important: it’s not about “tricking” yourself. It’s about keeping your bargains.

Tell yourself that you don’t have to write the whole scene, you just have to write one sentence, and then see how you feel. And if, having written that one sentence, you feel that you cannot write any more... you get to stop.

Tell yourself that you don’t have to empty the dishwasher, you just have to open it, and see how you feel. And if you feel that you can’t do any more, don’t.

Because the thing is, for me at least, a big part of executive dysfunction is the struggle to start, and once I have started, often it suddenly turns out oh, actually, I can empty the dishwasher. I can write the scene. No big deal.

But the bargain with myself to make that start only works if I know it’s not a trick. If I know that the offer to stop once I’ve done that one thing is genuine. Because I can’t, fundamentally, trick myself. And the part of me that struggles with things like this is often, fundamentally, very child-like - sulky, obstinate, over-dramatic, emotional - I don’t wanna, you can’t make me - and it is very easy to lose its trust. And ADHD already gives me enough reasons not to trust myself without adding more.

So I don’t think of it as “tricking” myself. I think of it as asking an open, honest question - performing a basic test - “is the problem here that I can’t get started? Let’s find out, let’s just do this one thing. Come on, sweetie, just write the one sentence. How do you feel now? You want to stop? Okay, let’s get you some juice then. We can try again another time.”

pissvortex

now why are they shortening the notes

pissvortex

tumblr staff just frantically rearranging furniture to make the place look nicer because a bunch of unexpected guests (twitter refugees) are coming over

pumpkinspicebluntwrap

Let’s hear it for bagel & cream cheese

itsjustminormending

tooquirkytolose

Welcome to The Crossroads of Destiny!

pikachupoblacional-deactivated2

bobacupcake

we are already living in the cyberpunk future and i know this because within a span of 3 days we went from this tweet:

to thousands of people making phony images and replying to them with their passionate desire to have them as a tshirt to overload the bots with nonsense and junk and send out warnings to shoppers like this:

and now we even have people replying to pictures of baby yoda with “i want this on a tshirt” knowing how ravenous disney is being with copyright in hopes to get the stores taken down altogether

i dont know what it is about stuff like this and the whole turn mei into a symbol of hk protesters thing but, its really reassuring for some reason

pinkieperil

And the next step…

systlin

https://teezyli.com/

Holy shit y’all look at the front page of the site right now

cathrine-rose

Oh my god

systlin

Anyway, I just emailed [email protected] to report the site for very evilly stealing Disney’s IP! Because obviously that is very evil and bad and shit.