time to make myself proud (& everybody around me a lil' nervous)

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[spitegoblin]

2026 PSA for ✨️everyone✨️--

If you send a stranger you've never spoken to a message that just says "hey", and don't follow it up with any other words or interaction, you will get reflex blocked, 'cause that (undercase, unpunctuated, unprompted) random message 100% looks like it was sent by a spambot.

It literally does not matter how much individualized jazz you put into your bio, or if you have a personalized user image-- Random messages sent to strangers without additional "signs of life" look suspicious as fuck.

[lobstabear]

To my 25 - 35 year olds, you've reached the age where people around you are starting to give up on themselves because they think it's too late. Don't let that energy rub off on you. It's not too late.

[knittingontheroad]

I became a tattoo artist at 49.

Married the love of my life at 50.

Got my Class A CDL at 59.

You've got time.

As long as you're breathing, you've got time.

[mametzwood]

JUSTICE FOR BIG CHALLENGES I LOVE YOU BIG CHALLENGES

[taydivorce]

the disgusting can really be so beautiful if you're enlightened enough

[anomalia-arromantica]

"It was not quite black, or blue, or red, or even green—it looked like the shriveled remains of rat roadkill, or like the fishy-smelling scales of a dead fish, or even something like rain-soaked mud and cold bamboo grass. Hikaru’s insides spilled out, causing his face to collapse into a crumbled mess of flesh."

The Summer Hikaru Died, Vol. 1 (light novel) — Mio Nukaga (Writer) & Mokumokuren (Original author)

"From Hikaru’s headless body and bodyless head, his insides began pouring out. Its color would be best described as “ominous.” It appeared to be not quite black, or blue, or red, or even green—and yet Yoshiki had come to find the color somewhat endearing because they were Hikaru’s insides."

The Summer Hikaru Died, Vol. 2 (light novel) — Mio Nukaga (Writer) & Mokumokuren (Original author)

[vee-dmsr]

[am1vf]

Not leaving this in the tags

[superfluffychickens]

We are Having Fun and Making a Mess! That’s what babies are best at!

[animentality]

[illusoryfem]

[bodhi-devotee]

“you’re such a ray of sunshine!” thanks! one day i chose to act happy and then i kept choosing it over and over and over and over until the neurological pathways formed like desire paths in the thicket. i dug and clawed my nails into the grooves of my brain and carved out joy. i retouch it every day.

[spitegoblin]

Just WHAT in the goddamned hell is it about these horrific squish cubes that's got the American public losing its collective, grown-ass mind--?

I personally dislike squishy toys, full stop, but it's because I'm autistic, not because I'm a Trend Hater™. Slime/squish/etc-type products are a sensory nightmare, for me. Whenever some kiddo wants to show me what it looks like when they squeeze their fidget squish thingy, I feel like puking. Everything about that crap makes my skin crawl, and gives me nausea. I fucking did manual labor for sewer and septic cleaning for years, and never felt the kind of revulsion I get from touching/smelling/seeing Some Trendy Squishy Thing Get Squished.

What the fuck is happening

[whyenn-reader]

ADHD advice from non-ADHD people: start blocking out your day and put things in your google calendar

ADHD advice from ADHD people: any time you're waiting for your food to microwave YOU HAVE TO WASH DISHES WASH AS MANY AS YOU CAN THIS IS A RACE AGAINST TIME THIS IS THE ONLY TIME THIS COULD HAPPEN

[imjohnnyboy]

[aroace-ryland-grace]

the sewing machine is like if a horse and an inkjet printer had a child

[oneheadtoanother]

[noah-wyles]

she's the best of us

[spitegoblin]

A year ago, she was just a sad little cutting I'd potted up, stuck in the bathroom window, and been hoping for the best about.

This week, she's BLOOMED. I've never had a Hoya mathilde bloom before. ✨️👁👁✨️

[spitegoblin]

Something I never really see asked to the people who think liking kids = wanting them is this question: "Do you actually like children as a whole, multifaceted dependent population and the ways in which consenting adults are bound to their needs; or, do you just like how able-bodied children exist in predictable and charming ways?"

Because, nine times out of ten (once the defensive and huffy, idealized moralizing shouts are over with, i.e. declarations of: "I swear, I'll love [my child] no matter what!"), people who Want Kids™ but ✨don't✨️ have experience with the ugly side of what comes mutually exclusive with the double-blinded gambling involved in reproduction are NOT prepared to live as parents of permanently, innocently burdensome offspring.