#brain bugs

[sporesgalaxy]

thank you for supporting my bug emotions :) 🪲

[can-you-find-me-s]

It's Tough To Be A God wordyjokes okay? Okay

[dandunn]

I think watching ds9 way before tng has primed me too hard and ruined my expectations. Like this episode started with political intrigue and got me really going like ohohoho what kind of dastardly plot is going on at Federation HQ?!?!

Turned out the answer was brain bugs.

Brain bugs? Brain bugs.

[creature-wizard]

Comparing religious and mythological traditions gives a lot of people turbo brainworms, because they end up thinking that the common elements they like the best are the Core Essence of Religion Ever, and from there they start thinking that long ago there was this ideal civilization where everyone practiced this supposedly pure and uncorrupted religion that literally has never existed anywhere outside of their own imaginations.

[tragedy125]

i’m FINALLY getting the drabbles I’ve written about my silly little, semi-made up batman 2022 version of jonathan crane condensed into a handful of documents and I could not be happier, *sigh*

[sentient-seafood]

redraw of an old OC from 2015. i think vampire squidlings would be pretty neat

[geistesgegenwart]

Brain Bugs by Emilio Garcia

[gasmaskaesthetic]

I love my parents. I've had a period from hell the last few days (which explains the whole episode of feeling like an unloved failure a few days ago lmao) and I mentioned it to them as the reason I wasn't going to go out last night. So without my asking, my mom brought me tea and chocolate and pain meds AND my dad went to the store and picked up Midol. And this morning after a shitty sleepless night my mom brought down soup and caffeine.

Since I've been staying with my parents after the divorce, they've babied me a bit. I feel a bit bad about that sometimes, even though I contribute a lot to the household when I'm here. Sometimes I know they buy my siblings and me things that they really don't have the budget for, for instance. On the other hand, I do a lot for them in terms of care, and on the other other hand it makes them happy to do things for us. And on the mutated fourth hand, as long as no one is being gratuitously taken advantage of, parent-child relationships aren't really transaction balance sheet type relationships.

Anyone else feel bad when someone else goes out of their way to take care of them? I've literally never felt taken advantage of when helping others in a similar way, but even with my ex spouse, I had a hard time accepting money or caregiving if I felt like I "could" deal with it myself. I think I have this...alief? That I should "pay" for someone else's potential inconvenience by feeling sufficiently bad about it. It's so weird and dysfunctional; I'm pretty sure that the best option is to graciously accept help when offered, graciously offer it when I can, and keep half an eye on making sure I'm not being a mooch or being exploited.

I wonder if I can make that a habit somehow.