#pearl's rambles

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does anyone ever think about Tommy attacking wilbur with his sword because he doesn't know how else to deal with his feelings and "I didn't use to be like this" and does anyone think about tubbo stealing from Aimsey and pushing them off a bridge to their death. Clingyduo's trauma sickens me

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I have a confession to make. In my year 10 drama class at school, we were given an assignment about choosing a monologue, and a list of monologues to choose from. We also had the option to find our own monologues online, but they all sucked.

So I decided to write my own monologue. It was a fun exercise, like 300-400 words and using a tone I hadn't played around with much before. My monologue was about an adult woman trying to reconnect with a childhood best friend and ultimately failing. My teacher loved it, said she got goosebumps and it made her think of her own childhood friends, I got all A+'s and she was shocked that I wrote it myself.

The monologue was in fact a dream smp fanfiction with the names changed. About Tubbo and Ranboo's failing relationship. Sorry Ms Rhiannon.

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isn’t it crazy that Tubbo survived and Tommy didn’t. Tubbo volunteered to be the spy, the president, the person creating nuclear bombs. He was ready to sacrifice himself to save Tommy. And then Tommy died in the prison and Tubbo was still alive. He was alive and Tommy wasn’t and he never planned for this. It wasn’t supposed to be this way.

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downloaded the wayback machine extension for when i go on my dsmp archive trawls bc im terrified of me commenting on an old animatic will get the creator to panic and delete it

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I'd love to collect people's practical tourette's advice, like there's the obvious generic stuff but I genuinely love hearing what solutions people come up with for their own tics.

Things I've learned in my years of ticcing:

Exercise does help, but only as a preventative measure. Don't try to go for a run when you're already mid tic attack lmao

Do as much research as you can on OCD. Most of us already have it and even if you don't it's a major risk factor, so do lots of research into every area so you can catch the symptoms in yourself

If you have the ability to suppress your tics, please don't do it all the time. Seriously just don't it comes back to bite you. Instead focus on suppressing on one specific type of tic (for example, while working fast food my suppressing focus went into not putting my hands in the deep fryer. This meant I was constantly swearing my head off but one of those is more important in the battle. Whereas if you're at a library you might focus on ticcing quietly even if that means being more physical)

The simple versus complex tics is great information for doctors and stuff but it doesn't really mean anything in my day to day life. What has helped me is learning about tonic, clonic and dystonic tics.

Most tics happen very quickly, or it'll be the same quick motion over and over. If you have tensing tics, or any singular tic that goes for more than 10 seconds can be an indicator that there's other stuff going on other than just purely tourette's. Here's the videos I first learned about the different types of tics:

If you have punching or other violent tics, see if you can work out what satisfies the urge. Is it the impact of the movement (the thud) or the pain? If the urge is about the thud, try punching with the side of your fist or the base of your wrist. If it's about the pain, go for a slap instead. Do whatever you can to prevent long-term damage

Speaking of long term damage, DO WARMUPS!!!! Frequent screaming tics? Do vocal warmups at the start of the day. Neck tics? Stretch that bad boy out as much as you can. Tensing tics? Get your body moving and stretch it out when you can

punch doorframes instead of walls. You won't put holes through them.

Go through a sensory profile and work out which areas your body is naturally overstimulated or understimulated in. Both of these can make tics worse. For example, I'm oversensitive to touch, but undersensitive to taste. This means my tics are worse when I'm wearing uncomfortable clothes, but they improve when I'm chewing on gum. You can find sensory profile pdfs online to fill in and add up your score in each area, or you can get an OT to do it for you

If your normal tics start hurting weirdly, go to the physio ASAP. Don't wait two weeks to see if it goes away, tourette's is so prone to over using muscles and the longer you ignore it the longer you'll end up in a brace unable to do that specific tic. I recently damaged a tendon in my hand from snapping my fingers too much like seriously DON'T RISK IT.

okay that's all I've got for now but I'd love to hear other veteran's tips!!

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watching the lorax in 2026 is really fun if you go into it with the academic perspective on "What factors were present that made HIM be the tumblr sexyman?" And I think the answer is because the onceler fits into the metrosexual aesthetic (with physical appearance and also habits through the movie like brushing his teeth and general cleanliness). Like obviously this isn't the whole thing but can we be real. Oh and also the fact that he was a skinny blue eyed whiteboy. Can't forget about the racism and the fatphobia

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when i get the energy I'll write a monologue about the man I've been stalking on pinterest for the past two years

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do you think in uhcg when they came across the bodies of past generations they would put daisies on them as they buried them