Gomenasigh

Tanu/Riley, a 31yr old Cat Uncle from Massachusetts. He/him ✌️I'm most likely sorry.

[mentalmilkshakes]

[teaboot]

When I was a kid (like age 12-15ish) sometimes I’d get super paranoid that someone on the train or in public was reading my mind and at first it made me worry that they’d see what I was thinking and think I was a bad person but after a while I started just responding to the paranoia by thinking at them like “what the fuck bro, this is a huge invasion of privacy, what is wrong with you. mind your damn business” and yes it was weird but you know what?? It worked

[teaboot]

Around the same age I got super SUPER nervous around mirrors for some reason? Like I don’t know how I got the idea in my head but I was weirdly worried that every time I looked at myself in the mirror it let something on the other side see me? Like seeing my reflection in something meant something else was looking back

And because of this I really avoided my bathroom mirror and hung towels over the silver faucets and avoided dark windows and junk, and I was never comfortable changing clothes cause what if something was watching?

But eventually I got so sick of living like that that I just started sleeping buckass naked like ‘fuck you Buddy enjoy the view’ and flipping off my reflection until I straight up stopped thinking about it and forgot until this exact moment

[bloodlinemagick]

In Times Unprecedented But Suspected: A Short VPN Guide

I'm British, you've seen what's going down here and what's coming for you.

-> Mullvad VPN is the real deal. €5 = £4.35 = $5.78 a month, no subscription. Up to 5 things can be connected to that one login, including phones. Many ways to pay including familiar to unfamiliar, up to and including just sending them cash in an envelope.

-> Mullvad were raided back in 2023, but because they DO NOT keep any user data, the cops left empty handed.

-> When using Mullvad, it's best to route through Switzerland, as they are one of the few countries that isn't part of the Five Eyes, Nine Eyes, or Fourteen Eyes agreements.

-> Learn how to download and store your bought media. Reddit is a great place to start learning these things, or privately approaching people who you know Know.

-> Now is NOT the time to be laissez faire with your security. Certainly the British Govt will either roll this back or double down harder, Aus and the USA are gearing up to take it even further, and coincidentally all of these are Five Eyes signatories. As we step ever further into a future fraught with new heads to the hydra of fascism and authoritarianism, there are small things we need only do once or twice to at least give some semblance of control over our own adult lives back.

[rslashrats]

the saddest beanie baby related thing ever is still trap the mouse. no birthday

[rslashrats]

[holisticknight]

hi, fun fact! Trap the mouse doesn’t have a birthday because he was THE FIRST BEANIE BABY. Before Beanie Babies had birthdays, there was Trap the Mouse. Basically, he is too ancient for birthdays. Older than dirt, this one.

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

He predates the modern calendar

[rolypolies]

[utilitycaster]

I'm going to *remembers suicide jokes are detrimental to my mental health* quit my job and start making shoes for American Girl Dolls

[biowareproblems]

[sephraem]

I will never not reblog this when it hits my feed.

[akashicrecord]

me at 12: dad's anger issues are so scary waaaah

me at 27: if another slight inconvenience happens to me i'm going to put my car in reverse on the interstate

[teaboot]

Alright kids say it with me

My thoughts don’t make me a bad person

My feelings don’t make me a bad person

My thoughts, feelings, and impulses only exist inside my head, and none of it matters unless I act on it

Nobody can see my thoughts or emotions

The only things anyone can see and judge me on are my actions

There’s no such thing as a thought crime

thank u

[teaboot]

You can have harmful beliefs and harmful impulses and harmful urges and not be evil. You can make yourself aware that these things are harmful and take steps to correct yourself and not be evil. You can walk around with the urge to kick puppies all goddamn day and as long as you are capable of redirecting that impulse to something benign then it doesn’t matter. I don’t know how else to say this

[depsidase]

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

It's so nice to see black men be vulnerable and fun.

[literallyaflame]

my partner doesn’t use pet names nearly as much as i do, which is very funny because i will crack my gay little knuckles and say some shit like “good morning my sun and moon, my loveliest boy, my baby my sweetheart my darling dearest” and he will reply “hello adrian”

[isaiahomega]

[notoriousmasc]

the asexual pervert is the most powerful and frightsome of them all. their abilities can drive one to madness most of all themselves

[trismeowgistus]

I've heard it said that the asexual pervert wields frightful magicks, that they have conjured demons to bedevil the dreams of good folk

[yossyislandd]

[yossyislandd]

[storm-of-feathers]

I look at ppl who are "anti medication" the same way i look at anti vaxxers tbh.

[storm-of-feathers]

Like I'm sorry to sound "we can't all be neurotypical, karen" but. some people actually genuinely need medication. like cannot function or even be alive without it. I get that the psychiatry field has a lot of abuse but saying that no one should use it is insane.

[valcaira]

Hope this isn't derailing but I've genuinely had people tell me (e.g. my mom's friend) to stop taking my rheumatoism medication because "big pharma" and "they are poisoning us" and should instead take globuli and pray 💀

You know. The medication. That medication my joints and tendons would ERODE AWAY without.

Anti-medication people are so fucking stupid it's insane.

[vergess]

Anti medication people scared me away from trying antipsychotics as an adult (rather than being forcibly sedated as a kid) for like a decade, until I got a psych willing to start me on a microdose and go up from there.

And it turns out, I spent that decade in a constant state of crisis for no fucking reason other than fearmongering about how I would lose my entire sense of self, stop being able to make art or even read books, would be functionally lobotomized and unable to even understand how broken I'd become, etc etc.

Medication can be misused, especially in high control settings like psychiatric institutions. But if you're living under your own care, medication may be what lets you go from struggling to survive, to actually living a life.

It's worth trying.

This is, IMO, true of all medication, doubly true of psych meds, and triply true of pain meds, which people are notoriously afraid to take.

[shofarsogood]

A (now ex) boyfriend convinced me to stop my antidepressants. I wound up in the psych ward for a week.

Medication is really important.

[subbaculture]

I had people try to advise me that i should decline chemotherapy treatment for my breast cancer because “the chemo is just as bad for you as the cancer is”.

Friends, it was not good advice, and i did not listen to them. And yes, going through chemo sucked and all the side effects sucked too, but do you know what didn’t suck?

Beating cancer.

[sacred-portal]

[frogmoss1]

weewee the stowaway

[frogmoss1]

wevrybody loves you weewee.

[teaboot]

I know that bitch from Tintin

[micdotcom]

Watch: John Cena continues, “So, let’s try this one more time. Close your eyes.” 

[darringtonshorthalt]

x

[science-jumps]

King

[ohgodshesloose]

Worth noting that he protested loudly against the WWE doing a show in Saudi Arabia after the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi, and the company retaliated by making sure he hasn’t been on TV or PPV since. Not fired, of course, so they can keep selling merchandise with his face on it (and keep him from joining the competition), just out of the public eye so he and his protests gets forgotten by the fans.

Picture that: an ubiquitous celeb and household name like John Cena basically got black bagged and vanished for speaking up for human rights. That’s the power of capitalism, kids

[thememedaddy]