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Spoiler alert: adulthood is 96% of you going “well, I hope this is how it works and I’ll keep doing it till someone yells at me”

bakasara

I like these posts because you read them as a teenager and you think, ‘surely these people are blowing it out of proportion’

AND THEN YOU REACH ADULTHOOD

visource

@incognito-lezbean requested: ↳ Violyn + touch

lilcowgirl7-deactivated20210223

I needed this drag. Let’s change guys and not look back

user87262893

working out your brain is a must!!

• hydrate it by drinking lots of water

• eat dark chocolate and blueberries and walnuts and salmon and other foods high in antioxidants!!

• play little brain games on your phone; I like wordconenct! anything that makes you think!

• read books. It’s simple but necessary. Even better - join a book club, or read with a friend, so you can have discussions after. This will improve your reading comprehension.

• do puzzles - it doesnt have to be sudoku, I love playing Beat Saber on the Oculus Rift because it makes my brain have to match colorful patterns to physical movements very quickly!

• learn a new dance - even a tik tok trendy dance. Learning new dance moves are proven to strengthen synapses!!

• go bird watching, or foraging, or anything outdoors that requires you to explore pattern recognition and visual searching

• watch a movie with the intent of analysis - this is best done with a cinephile friend!! talk about tropes and symbolism and character growth

• cross stitch, or sew, or do anything that requires matching nimble hand movements to patterns

• play or learn an instrument!

• develop a consistent sleep schedule (or as close to consistent as you can get!)

• when eating, try to identify the ingredients and flavors you’re perceiving!

I hope this helps :)

moonlightwaterhealing

I like how this went from me feeling like “hm why is this attacking me 🤨” at first, but feeling grateful seeing an added guide on a genuine expansion on a “ how to” work out the brain. This genuinely helps a bunch. People find solace in doing activities that get them through life by doing said activities of phone/tv or if that’s all they’ve ever known in their life to get them through things + etc tho. However, this was very impt to point out. Slowly beginning incorporating things to work the brain in ones own time.

bamsara

hey bro, do you have any basic tips for dumpster diving or safety? do some stores have better finds than others? and any good donation spots in particular? sorry for so many questions, thank you!

*rubs my little grimy hands together* Actaully do you mind if I write a whole info post?

So you guys may have read this post I made where I talked about how a lot of holiday returns end up trashed and in a landfill rather than back on the shelf, and how it's better to just donate it if possible.

I mentioned that I dumpster dive, so I see a lot of...trash. All the time. I climb over it and in it. Absorb the trash into my heart and soul. Here's some tips:

What to wear/bring:

Gloves (work gloves made of rubber or rubber-life material preferable, protects you from glass and sharp objects and prevents any liquid/trash residue from getting on your hands.)

Closed toe shoes, preferably with hard bottoms. Don't wear crocs. You don't want something sharp sticking through your shoe and into your foot.

Depending on the weather, whatever else. I like to wear masks in the dumpsters just in case (esp during pandemic) to protect myself if there's any contamination risks, or more likely, stinky perfume spilled over in the dumpsters.

If you have lengthier hair, pull it up/cover it. You want hair out of your face to see properly. Even if it's cold, trust me.

Flashlight! Using your phone flashlight works just fine (what I do) but one of those head-lamps things or the smaller handheld battery types are also really useful.

One of these 'reach grabber' things:

Dumpster Diving ettiquite:

Do not leave a mess. Anything you take out of the dumpster, please put back in. Don't spill or break things outside of the dumpsters, employees will have to clean that up.

If you are aware that other dumpster divers might use that spot, leave what you don't need/are not able to donate easily for them. Don't be greedy.

Advice! Do not be blantant or brag about details on social media unless it's for educational and informational purposes and/or you are prepared to face backlash. There's a stigma about dumpster diving and every single one is rooted in classism and capatilistic chokeholds. Bragging about what you found from a certain dumpster might also get that specific spot padlocked if word gets around.

Legality:

A lot of people worry about legal issues when dumpster diving becasue of the concern that stores will consider it stealing. The Supreme Court did weigh in on the status of trash in 1988 but from a privacy rather than property standpoint.

In that case, the court ruled that the police can search trash bags without a warrant because it’s “common knowledge” that garbage is “readily accessible to animals, children, scavengers, snoops, and other members of the public.” And, therefore, there’s no “reasonable expectation of privacy” when it comes to discarded items.

Basically, it's not illegal to dumpster-dive. It is, however, illegal to trespass. That's how they get ya. That's why you see 'no trespassing' signs on store dumpsters sometimes. 'Trespassing' on retail property is murky.

If police ARE called, really the only thing they can say is 'hey, stop that' and ask you to leave. If an employee catches you, they can also ask you to leave. Don't argue, because that can get you into *actaul* trouble. In general, if you start to feel uncertain in any way, go ahead and go.

Now we'll talk about Items you might find in dumpsters:

Food:

Normally, the dates on food packages tell what their best sold by. Sometimes the food you find in dumpsters are past this date, but it's not actaully illegal to sell it after this date but they'll still throw it away. A lot of the time, they will throw out food that has not reached that 'expiration' date yet, sometimes by a day, or a week or even some canned food out by years. Also, some store systems are inefficent, and they'll toss out food wayyyy before it expires sometimes just because it doesn't sell.

Example: a store scans the shelves weekly, depending on the products. Let's say they scan a shelf on the 7th of the month. This means they won't scan that shelf again until the 14th, so anything that is dated up until the 14th will be thrown out. (Not all supermarkets do this.)

Stores will also toss out food that's not 'pretty.' Fruits with bruises, deformed, Single banannas, bags with a single bad fruit in it, cans that have a dent in them, a couple eggs broken they'll throw away the whole carton, ect.

So some tips:

WASH IT. I don't care if it's still in the original plastic packaging, lmao RINSE THE PLASTIC PACKAGING THEN.

Absolutly do keep up to date with food recalls. If you see a large amount of the same item in the dumpster, do a quick google search to see if there's been a recall on it.

Anything that normally needs to be COLD is up to your call on it's saftey. I've found still-frozen boxed taquitos in dumpsters before, lucky enough to get there quickly right as they were tossed. If you thinks it's been a few hours since a frozen meal item was tossed, just pass over it and move on. (the taquitos were a great snack)

If you do happen to find some food but you're not sure if perfectly good for you, make a compost system! Feed it to livestock! (within reason) Or! Just leave it. There is no shame in not being able to save what big companies waste, it's their fault.

Clothes:

More often now, people donate to thrift stores or shelters, so clothes don't show up that often as they used to, but that doesn't mean you won't find an occasional bags of items that someone decided to throw out to minimize their wardrobe...or a retail store that needs to get rid of returns and make room in storage.

Some clothes you find might be stained, which you could either leave if it's unsalvagble or you might have a chance at washing it at home yourself and seeing if it comes clean. Unfortunatly a lot of retail stores like to spray paint their products, and while I've used different methods to save them (nail polish remover, dish detergent, paint thinner, ect) it can be a really hardy process with sometimes no results. Up to you.

Household items/Furniture:

If you're looking for furniture, make sure you have a vehicle with you capable of carrying it. DO NOT try to lift heavy items by yourself. Best to leave it there than risk injury or worse.

Blankets! Sheets! Pillows! Stuffed Animals! Wash these, always. Even if they are brand new and with the original packaging, you don't know where these have been. Sometimes stores destroy these with box cutters and spray paint, be warned.

Candles! Any candles I find are usually because the glass container they were in broke. If you are wearing gloves, you can pull the actaul candle out of the container and viola! New candle. Put it on a plate or another holder before you light it.

Mirrors! Be very careful. Mirrors in the dumpster usually means it's broken. Although not all the time. Once found a really HUGE mirror unbroken in a Kirklands dumpster with only the frame slightly detatched from the glass. Some hotwood glue fixed it up.

Office supplies/School supplies. I find a ton of unused notebooks, binders, clips, pencil packs and other stuff in big box store dumpsters all the time. If you can, please donate/give away those. It would really help families who cannot afford school supplies.

Toys: I have found figet toys, Lego sets, nerf guns, sets of barbie clothing and furniture for those dream house things, hot wheel cars, ect. If the item isn't electronic and doesn't show any visible damage, snag it and donate it. Electronic items (like those little remote control cars) are a gamble because it may have been tossed out due to it not working.

Other misc items/Decor: I've found essential oil sets, a dish set that was marked as $150 worth that was tossed because it had two out of the 25 dishes broken/chipped (the rest were perfectly fine), wall shelveing, ect. It's really a mystery what you'll find.

Technology:

Most tech items thrown in the trash are because they are not usuable, but not always. I have found samsung and kindle fire tablets, essential oil deffuseors, charging cords and boxes for phones, and a $300 Roomba. ALL FUNCTIONAL.

Usually these items have tickets stuck to their boxes (if they have one) explaining why they needed to be tossed.

The roomba was a returned item because the customer didn't know they needed an app to use it. One of the tablets was tossed because the charging cord that usually came with it in the box was missing (I checked, it uses the android type charging)

All in all, it's entirely up to you whether you want to take tech items if you find one and test it at home.

Places to dumpster dive/donations:

I don't think I can be entirely helpful here because I could only say what my expereince is from whats in my area, but I give you generals: Mall dumpsters, supermarket dumpsters, Collage campus dumpsters (esp when it's season to be moving out), Apartment complex dumpsters and big box store dumpsters (that last one carefully.)

Be careful about mentioning store names when discussing the practice of dumpster diving online.

Do not dumpster dive from places like cemataries, hospitals, factories, ect. DO NOT DUMPSTER DIVE FROM T4RGET, or if you do, do it at your own risk. T4rget is notorious for trying to tack charges for trespassers/dumpster divers unlike other places that would rather just ask you to leave, or not care at all.

As for donations, thats up to you and your area. All I can say specifcally is Don't Donate to Salvation Army and to always let them know where you get the items.

One more tip!

If possible, do not go alone! Take a friend with you! Not only is it a fun as hell to raid trash with your buddies, but they can also pull you out of a low spot (literally) if you find that you have trouble pulling yourself out of the dumpster.

(I personally go alone 90% of the time, but I still do not recommend it. I'm 4'9 and not very strong, I've had to do some serious parkour shit to not be stranded in a dumpster. If the worst happens, keep your phone on you to call for someone to rescue you lol.)

Be smart, be safe, and be kind to your planet and the people on it, Happy Diving!

inkskinned

one of the things that media can get so wrong about sibling relationships is that even when you're getting along it's like. "im actively trying to end you right now you fucking nastyass" as a form of affection

& that there is a secret, 12th dimensional emotion behind the following experiences:

oh we were not supposed to break that. we are agreed, right? we are Sworn To Take This To The Grave. the Dog Did it.

we are awake at hours we are Not Supposed to be, & doing Crime

"i know we were in a fight 2 seconds ago but do you want any pasta i made too much and i don't want to waste it. asshole."

the specific, entirely unhinged cruelty that erupts out of you when you find out someone messed with your sibling. any additional siblings, upon hearing the news, are immediately similarly incensed to near-rabies and now your threat has evolved into a Promise.

the impossible confluence of events that happens when all siblings have EXACTLY the same Evil Thought at the same time and do something entirely buckwild as if on cue . like. the lord jesus just plants the idea to start linedancing in a serious conversation and you're all like. yep it's time to yeehaw and box step.

peachhoneii

“I hope you didn’t give it up, so you and he can get it up. You sold your life for a thrust.”

Let’s dissect this. Because this is a very poignant scene that I haven’t seen under discussion a lot, yet and I want to talk about it.

Music tells a story we didn’t know before. The big story is Blitzo is painfully aware of his and Stolas’ societal gap. He’s an imp. He’s a prince. He’s aware of it and has always been aware of it; using their “transactional” status has helped protect him from accepting genuine emotional attachment to Stolas.

Inferiority complex. Blitzo knows Stolas is too good for him. He’s out of his league. He has no idea how he’s managed to secure this prince for so long, but he has, so far. Secretly, he wants more. He wants a genuine romance with Stolas but is afraid to accept it because he isn’t good enough.

Then Stolas validated those negative feelings…

Look at him. He’s devastated. A small part of him believed or wanted to believe under the cruel reality of their world that Stolas didn’t see him as “less.” He wanted to believe that Stolas saw him as something more, probably an equal, probably not but something more and to have him raise his menu, therefore extracting himself from their relationship for societal appearances, Stolas unknowingly validated every negative thing Blitzo thinks about himself.

I don’t think Stolas meant to. He’s got his things going on. He’s afraid to lose his daughter. He’s afraid to lose his status and authority and power. I dare say he may fear losing Stella. Not because he’s in love with her but is comfortable with her. They’ve been together for a while now. You get comfortable. Interclass relationships come with sacrifices.

“Stolas, don’t act like what we have is anything but you wanting me to fuck you. You make that really clear all the time.”

His voice broke, guys. This is the part where he’s trying to come to terms with their reality and he can’t. He doesn’t want to.

Stolas broke Blitzo’s heart and he doesn’t even realize it. That’s so fucking sad.

determinators

I know our first instinct is to select “no” on this dialogue option after the Spamton fight to let Kris be honest for a second, but “yes” is an underrated option for the following reasons:

1. They don’t believe Kris is okay anyway, but instead of just brushing it off…

2. We get the promise of a chocolate cake in the future (BIG!! win for Kris, their stomach actually rumbles)

3. When Ralsei tries to share his scarf for warmth, they brush him off and make grabby hands for Susie’s cool jacket instead, which is funny and possibly an attempt at humor on their part.

4. Susie actually gets a smile out of them.

luminarai

*david attenborough voice* truly the most dangerous predator in the animal kingdom

timestables

bamsara

Something I made while dealing with my own stuff and hoping drawing this would pick me up somehow. Maybe it worked.

FT my cat. His name is Mischief

pcktknife

thou shalt not kill.

kanotynes

woah I’m actually done????

there’s a good lesson here notorious procrastinators should never volunteer to hand-draw 52 unique playing cards

also they’re animated gifs right now because that’s how they’re formatted on the photoshop files and I’m not in the mood to separate them yet.

doge-w-a-bloge

frisktastic

Here’s the matches I could find:

fuck-philip-banks

without this post, undertale wouldn’t exist

neververy4

I had to look this up because I always thought these cards came out after the game (That’s when i first saw it) but no this post really is over 6 years old, predates even Undertale by years

bnhabbraeee

beautiful

modmad

fluffygif

Bluetiful 😍

tiktoks-for-dead-pope

creacher-feature

vinitile-deactivated20210311

Hi!! Reblogging this a second time to inform everyone theyre nonbinary!! They use they/them pronouns!! (also check them out on tiktok their videos are wonderful)

weaver-z

Honestly if your anxiety is so bad that you can’t read like… something in the horror genre that I wrote (and tagged correctly) without tagging the post I made with “this literally made me have an anxiety attack i’m panicking omg my dereality is acting up” maybe you SHOULDN’T INTERACT WITH ME, because I’m a horror fan, I’m very open about being a horror fan, and I don’t like being guilt tripped over and over about a harmless piece of “creepy” writing I made!!

weaver-z

I’m talking about this kind of… growing group I see on this site and other sites who blames horror content creators for their anxiety issues that the creators have no control over?

For example, Adam Ellis drew a pretty good horror comic about the ghost of a creepy nurse (it was not graphic in any way, and was fairly tame) and posted this DM he received about it on his Twitter:

For any concerned, Adam Ellis put absolutely no id’ing info on this post, so the person who sent it is safely anonymous. But I honestly hate this so much. If you are THIS afraid of a drawing of a creepy ghost, you should not engage with media that is LABELLED AS A HORROR COMIC! Many people with anxiety (including myself) create horror as an outlet for our own fears–Ellis even discussed the fact that his comic was tied to his very real fears of doxxing and harassment by certain fans/enemies online. Do you have any idea how genuinely horrible it feels to be told “this thing you created for fun/to vent caused me direct and terrible mental damage?”

In short, stop being a manipulative, guilt-tripping asshole to horror creators. Stop engaging with horror media if you are so, so viscerally distressed by it that you send genuinely cruel things to people in an attempt to force them to apologize to you. A lot of horror creators use horror as an outlet to vent THEIR anxiety, and you are an asshole for trying to increase their anxiety by telling them that they “hurt you” by writing horror. G’night.

randomslasher

^^^^^ Figure out your boundaries and then HONOR THEM YOURSELF.

Example: I love Horror as a genre, but I have certain types I can’t tolerate as well. I started listening to The Magnus Archives, which is a fantastic podcast, well put together, and utterly fascinating. But I was listening to it in December when my Seasonal Affective Disorder is at its worst, and I realized it was negatively impacting my mental health. My anxiety and depression were getting worse. So you know what I did?

I just stopped listening to it. I said “this is really good but right now it’s not really good for me so I’m going to move on to other things for the time being, maybe someday I’ll be in a better place to handle it and come back but for now I’ll just go watch The Haunting of Hill House again”

THAT’S ALL YOU HAVE TO DO. Step away. You do NOT need to tell a content creator about the problems you have with their content when it is WELL MARKED and your problem is I DON’T LIKE THIS GENRE.

I get that some things hit you hard out of nowhere, unexpectedly, and yeah that can really really suck. But it’s STILL not the content creator’s fault.

You can learn things about your own boundaries and move forward without being an asshole about it.

jhinology-deactivated20210520

( art by eugene )

painted-bees

Every single DnD character I have designed so far…Starting with the ones I have designed for myself!: -Swindle: Circle of dreams firbolg druid -Cinder: Swindle but on fire. Circle of Wildfire firbolg druid. Mad about it. - The Astronomer: Circle of Stars aasimar druid. His identity is his career, no work/life balance. Chill with it. - Brite: Pact of the Archfey warlock human child. The rat is her dad. -Tu: College of Glamor Winter Eladrin Bard. Loves mortal folk. Loves pretending to be mortal folk.