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Hi I'm Star and I'm very confused || She/Something/Whatever || 26

[voidpeony]

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[lightasthesun]

2023 is coming to an end so this is my annual I love my online friends so fucking much you wouldn't believe me if I told you post.

[voidpeony]

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@franclemontb @spacejammie-eimmajecaps @demynom @marciaillust

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[spheciform]

Unironically I think we need just a more powerful DS again. Dual screens fuck. The amount of creativity and interactivity and cool UI that went into DS games is literally unmatched and like those things were tough as fuck too. Please hear my wish. I get that the switch is technically handheld and thus portable but also no it is not that thang is so delicate and lacks the sophistication of just being able to shut it at a moments notice to pause everything without having to hit a pause menu. Does anyone hear me. Hello. Pokémon ranger.

[capobegone]

I literally just had the stunning revelation that both the head of the Demon Slayer Corps and the actual Demon King have had the strangest gender experiences lmfao?? Kagaya is like yeah haha I was raised as a girl my whole childhood and then suddenly I became an Adult Man at the age of four :) and meanwhile Muzan shows up in full drag to a business meeting and then proceeds to murder all of his employees??? Absolutely unhinged and I love it to death because you just KNOW that transphobia doesn’t fly in either organization. Kagaya and Muzan have one (1) shared idea and that is fuck the gender binary I said what I said

[capobegone]

while we’re on the doodle train I’m bringing this post back with this absolute GEM from my sketchbook lmao

[kitttenteeth]

mutuals i am on the top bunk peering over the side to look down at u & i’m goin Psst hey r u still awake

[princessmo]

people with siblings love saying shit like "you never played first degree murder knife chase?"

[draculagerard]

the word sheepish is so funny. like 🐑 baa

[ancienttheblackangel]

GET YOUR BODY OUT OF SURVIVAL MODE SO YOU CAN CREATE FROM YOUR HEART

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[plaguedocboi]

Working at an aquarium will have you saying things like “this is my favorite scallop because he’s sassy”

[murraysiskind-deactivated202406]

Thinking about how when my oldest brother took Japanese classes his professor was like your pronunciation is really good 😊 but you need to watch movies that aren't about the Yakuza because you sound like a criminal

[doing-90mph-in-central-london]

somewhere in this beautiful world there is a man who sounds like Paulie Walnuts because he learned English by watching the Sopranos

[basilthymee]

im like the guy in the infomercials they depict in black and white doing everything inefficiently and having a thousand tupperware containers fall on me when i open the cupboard

[cyborg-sevalle]

You want some real legitimate advice about mental health? Stop being mean to yourself.

Like, when you wanna say mean shit about yourself either internally or externally, work to learn how to step back a moment and remind yourself that what you are doing is a form of self-harm and not a fair or legitimate judgement on you as a person, and furthermore is not productive to your survival or well-being.

Even if you fuck something up, you can resolve to do better in the future, you can tell yourself that you’re going to make this a learning experience, and even if you’ve made the same mistake 50 times already, telling yourself you’ll get it right someday if you just keep trying will always do you better than calling yourself an idiot and beating yourself up for not being able to get it right.

Take it from me, a lot of mental health shit is a product of your environment and personal history, and therefore you really don’t have the control over it that you need to get by without others’ help, but one thing you can have some control over is whether you’re going to be a friend to yourself or just another enemy, and if you want to survive, you’ve gotta strive to be in your own corner as best you can.

[kedreeva]

Started a discord server a couple of years back, and one of the rules is you can’t be mean to yourself. You don’t have to be nice to yourself, you just can’t be mean. If someone says something self-deprecating, they THEN have to say 3 nice things about themselves to make up for it. This was a steep and harsh learning curve because I can tell you NO ONE wanted to publicly say 3 nice things about themselves a second time (but also, hilariously, everyone else was very eager to inflict making their friends say nice things about themselves, because pretty much everyone wants their friends to be nice to themselves… Go ahead and think about that a minute and try to remember that you are that friend for others, and that they want you to be kind to you, too)

And… Actually it worked. It didn’t work just in the server either, multiple people admitted they caught themselves doing it in real life, and put themselves through saying the nice things to themselves about themselves. And you know, the server is a lovely place to be, these days. Watching people be kind to themselves had a great influence. Not being constantly exposed to people you like saying mean things about themselves actually makes it more pleasant to be there. More people voluntarily praise each other and themselves, and creativity and community remain plentiful. It’s contagious.

I stopped being mean to myself after seeing a post here which communicated the harm it can do, when you say something mean about yourself and then people who like or may look up to you hear it. When you’re a writer or something and you say you’re bad or that something you made is crap, any reader or writer or other creative doing the same thing as you that thinks you’re better at it than they are is being told (in their minds) that they’re worse and their creation is worse crap. That’s not a message I ever want to send, that is not a cruelty I ever intended to inflict even unwittingly. So I stopped.

And holy SHIT does it make a difference. Not even being nice, but just not being actively mean to yourself. Make a pact with some friends if you’re having a hard time stopping on your own. The first time you have to claw your way through saying nice things about yourself in front of someone else after they pointed it out to you will change you.

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[countess-of-edessa]

i think we should stop calling them baby names so people remember they’re not just naming a baby but also a future twenty seven year old with a resume

[starry-night-on-the-impala]

that's why bella called her kid resume right away

[threeheadedtrinity]

Even after death we shall not part

[catmask]

i keep trying to quit being a bitch but they keep inventing new things for me to be a bitch at