I'm Not Talking To You

I'm talking to myself. But I don't mind if you want to join the conversation. My art blog is schattenmitternacht.

[bluering8]

listen to me, this is so so important: you've gotta get used to really giving it your 60% as a default. like don't half-ass it necessarily but try not to go over 70% or so of an ass. you'll feel better and live a happier more fulfilled life, and on the rare occasions where you do need to lock the fuck in you'll be able to pull off bullshit that the sad miserable wretches giving it their 100% can never dream off, because they're busy draining themselves dry and you have energy reserves to spare.

[smokingchagga]

This is actually what I was adviced to do at the work rehabilitation program I went to. Hasn't left my mind since. 10/10 solid advice

[milf--adjacent]

Let the historical record show that Mr. Beast was entirely ignorable if you were just like doing literally anything else. I've been on youtube as long as it's been around and I've never been recommended a video by him. I see him in passing as a meme. I thought he was a made up joke, a caricature of bad youtuber content miners until someone I trust confirmed his existence to me in late 2025.

[bookshelfdreams]

People on Ravelry need to stop publishing designs specifically catered to me, I have a full to-do-list and too many shawls

Zumbrella by Ursa Major Knits

[bookshelfdreams]

oh dear god this woman is amazing

every once in a while you will come across a designer who really runs with it, makes it their mission to showcase exactly what one can do with knitting

Scalindra

Sun King

Fairly Squarely

Thrills with Frills

Da Vinci Wings

Tassel Dazzle

Helix Felicis

Batman & Robin

Wizard Lizard

Lindworm

That's not even all of them. I'm not a huge fan of the term fibre art but this really is it. Wearable art. Look at the geometry of it all! The structure, the chaos, the whimsy! God I love modular knitting

She has lots of very fun socks as well, and even a couple of cowls and fingerless gloves. Go look at her page immediately.

[arnaerr]

Please sign and share this petition if you care about small artists and their businesses! This law is very raw and caused so many people already to shut down their stores. I was planning to open a shop in November too, and until any changes will be implemented, all of my work in the recent year was for nothing.

Copied from the doc by bubblesartcraft:

If these requirements are affecting your small business too, please consider contacting your representatives in the European Parliament. Personal accounts from micro businesses help demonstrate the real world impact of unrealistic EPR requirements.

Please keep messages respectful & explain how the requirements affect your business (for example: annual fees exceeding your sales in a country, mandatory representatives, having to stop EU sales, etc).

EU Politicians / MEPs to contact:

Ingeborg ter Laak (NL, LEAD MEP)- [email protected] !!!!

Delara Burkhardt (DE) - [email protected]

Anne-Sophie Frigout (FR) - [email protected]

Pietro Fiocchi (IT) - [email protected]

Ana Vasconcelos (PT) - [email protected]

Jutta Paulus (DE) - [email protected]

Emma Fourreau (FR) - [email protected]

Committee contact: [email protected]

[arnaerr]

YOU CAN GIVE THE FEEDBACK ON THE OFFICIAL EU WEBSITE HERE

[dumblr]

The art of pretending it didn't hurt.

[bloodyhandprint]

did you know avoidance only makes all of your problems worse. no one has ever discovered this before

[transcyberism]

I've suspected this for a long time but I usually try not to think about it

[mxjackparker]

Hate that the term "post-nut clarity" gets applied to guilt and shame people feel after watching porn or having sex. These feelings aren't any more real or reasonable that the horniness was. You don't have clarity, you're just not horny anymore and grew up in a culture that told you to be ashamed of sex and masturbation.

[anachronic-cobra]

It's also wild how often I see people talking about "post-nut clarity" when what they're describing is a drop.

It's more commonly talked about in bdsm spaces as subdrop, but you can drop as a dom or even just after vanilla sex or masturbation, especially if it was more intense than you normally experience.

A drop happens when you've been building up a lot of those feel-good chemicals in your brain during sex, then suddenly the sex is over and your brain overcompensates in trying to rebalance. You might feel depressed, anxious, regretful, ashamed. It can happen immediately after or even a few days after. This can happen even if you're normally a very sex-positive person.

It isn't post-nut clarity! You're either dealing with internalized shame towards sex in general or you're having a temporary chemical imbalance. Maybe even both! Pamper yourself after. Forgive yourself. The thoughts you're having in that moment aren't necessarily rational ones.

Be generous with yourself, do something comforting after sex - it's like a workout cooldown. Take it easy on yourself and give your brain something positive to focus on to ease into the loss of the chemical rush.

[mumblesplash]

it's such bs that the whole guilt-ridden stoic self-sacrificing martyr thing doesn't work outside of fiction. repressing all your emotions and neglecting your physical wellbeing should make you god's most tragically beautiful morally unassailable little soldier of righteousness but all it does is give you bad skin and gastrointestinal problems

[mumblesplash]

like what do you MEAN the number 1 sexiest character trait of all time is just kind of offputting and bad for you in real life. next you'll tell me smoking has consequences other than looking like a mysterious badass

[whatdoesthevixensay]

correct

[lastoneout]

turns out "everything you have ever wanted is on the other side of this fear" is a great trans mantra but also a good mantra if you have OCD

[lastoneout]

Also a cool thing to say out loud before picking up a sword!!!!!

[leaky-heart]

Once a year I get possessed by the urge to go back to traditional art and produce ONE (1) painting so uuh see you next year for the next one

[uss-edsall]

every girl wants to get in a vehicle and flip 3-6 switches overhead in the process of turning it on

[cipheramnesia]

When I’m going to get frozen waffles and ramen from Walgreens.

[stirfriedweasel]

More things should be operated with big thumb switches and knobs and dials and shit.

[cipheramnesia]

Me, getting a drink of water at night.

[saltoncity]

scientists are trying to discover something harder than getting out of bed to go to work in the morning. and dont make a fucking penis joke ok they already checked everyone’s dick and it doesn’t even come close

[romans-art]

something homosexual happened to me during this episode

[the-one-who-doesnt-talk]

I am too hot and too cold at the same time i feel like that gif or video of water under so much pressure that it goes through ALL the Agregatszustände

[the-one-who-doesnt-talk]

how to survive being sick in summer

[chthonicillness]

my teeth were perfectly designed to tear abd rend the soft white flesh of the gentle beast known as the mozzarella

[mergers-and-executions]