Just Your Average Bear

Cricket - They/any - Early 30's

[the0dd0ne]

"Wow things have been so nice lately.... I'm so happy...."

OCD: thats coz youre gonna die soon! :D

[the0dd0ne]

"Wow things have been so nice lately.... I'm so happy...."

OCD: thats coz youre gonna die soon! :D

[ruhrohrexia]

i wont worry about it i say to myself with the always worried disorder

[beaft]

common advice for social anxiety is to tell yourself "people aren't going to think less of you just because you said something a bit daft" but the thing is. sometimes they will. and you just have to learn to be cool with that and to treat it as a dnd random encounter rather than letting it ruin your whole day

[beaft]

recent example. lady at my careers appointment had a post-it with her name on it stuck to the monitor, so i introduced myself by saying "hello, i'm eliot! you must be [name], it's nice to meet you!" and she stared at me as if i was the stupidest person alive and said icily, "yeah, i'm [name]. congratulations, you can read."

in bygone times this would have reduced me to a sort of quivering blancmange. thankfully i am now in a place where i was able to pull back, calmly evaluate this interaction, and say to myself "this woman should probably not be working in a customer-facing job"

[beaft]

important additions!!!!

[vaspider]

Sometimes learning "wow, that person is a DICK" is the best thing for your social anxiety.

[sinensis26]

You all need to hear this:

1. You probably dont suck at your craft as much as you think you do, I bet a lot of people are amazed at what you can make, and

2. If you actually are the Literal Worst In The Whole Wide World at your craft... who the fuck cares? What are they gonna do, call the police on you? Keep making your shitty little things, youre the boss of you, fuck the haters.

[firebirdeternal]

"I have never seen a cat that showed affection/love for it's owner" is the pet ownership version of "I don't believe in Female Orgasms they don't exist, after all, my wife has never had one"

[botgirlchassis]

Ohhhh that is too much for you little spider…

[botgirlchassis]

Ohhh nooo…

[catilinas]

everyone i've talked to about this has been completely unaware so: if you didn't know already, there's going to be a solar eclipse, with totality or coverage of 90% or more in some places, over a lot of europe, on august 12th 2026. in the uk it will start just after 6pm, and the maximum will be at 7:13pm.

here is a map of the path of the eclipse (from timeanddate)

get eclipse glasses if you want to look at it. it is not safe to look at through sunglasses. ok informative post over o7

[romulusthewolf]

my only advice to people who wanna get into writing is

listen to all the advice you can find, all of it, you don't have to follow all the advice, but listen to it all. and if someone says something you think is stupid, ignore it.

so many people say that "oh you don't have to write all the boring stuff you can just skip to the fun stuff and do the boring stuff later!" and while I'm sure that works for some people and absolutely no hate to anyone that does that, it doesn't work for me.

because if i wrote the fun stuff first I would never write the boring stuff.

but i still listened to that advice, took it into my brain and thought about it.

sure the end result was "no I'm not going do that" but I still took it in. and i think thats important.

tldr: read all the advice you can find, take the stuff you like and apply it, throw out the stuff you don't.

[undeadhousewife]

[eeby-deeby-dark-and-creepy]

Ok now I’m curious… Which do you prefer:

I have lived in and out of the city, I prefer the city

I have only lived in the city, I prefer the city

I have only lived out of the city, I prefer the city

I have lived in and out of the city, I prefer out of the city

I have only lived in the city, I prefer out of the city

I have only lived out of the city, I prefer out of the city

Bald/vanilla extract/I reject dichotomies under all circumstances/I can’t read

Remaining time: 3 days 2 hours

[chryza]

hey people with uterusussys if you are bleeding a fuck ton with large blood clots you need to go fucking get checked for cancer. This is a massively overlooked sign for endometrial cancer. If you've ever bled so much you need a transfusion go get a biopsy. If you've told yourself you'll just bear the super heavy three month long "periods" go get a biopsy. Stage 1 endometrial cancer basically quadruples the number of potential treatments you can do. Source: it was cancer.

[sunriseverse]

genuinely i don’t think it’s possible to easily explain the explicit part of online friendships to people who don’t Understand. i don’t mean like, explicit in the sense of “oh you’re sexting” or whatever. no. i mean when you and your friend start gleefully making up explicit sexual scenarios for your shared blorbos and you get giddier and giddier as you add more detail and you’ll be grinning at your screen as you type away at mach speeds. and it’s entirely nonsexual in an interpersonal sense, you’re not really getting Into it, but ohhhhh it’s soooooo fun and satisfying. and you can NEVER tell someone who doesn’t also do this that your mood is actively improved like fivefold because you and your friend played Sexual Tuoys together because they’ll go “what the FUCK.”

[tothechaos]

any tips for developing discipline? ive been going through life on a lackadaisical hedonist build but ive got a bunch of mysterious problems that i may or may not be at fault for

[the0dd0ne]

NEW GLASSES HYPE

[yesterdaysprint]

Hartford Courant, Connecticut, March 9, 1906

[raptorcivilization]

Reminder to all nonbinary people: You can summon SUE the T. rex for aid

[energyprison]

Having a job is an awesome way to stay hydrated because you get so bored you start drinking water just for a little excitement