#after only getting like 3 hours of sleep

[ruvyn29]

I flew back home after spending the week with my family, my wife and bestie had saved my birthday presents for when I came back, and I want to show off what they got me ♡

She got me an illustrated version of Gaston Leroux's Phantom of the Opera! It's SO beautiful, the illustrations at the end of the book made me begin to cry! (If i have to cry, so do yall)

She also got me earrings with beads from the broadway chandelier! The earrings are very pretty, I'll have to find something nice to wear them with

And this pretty little broadway musical pin 🥺

And my bestie got me the collector's edition of Phantom of the Paradise! I'm so happy I don't have to rent the movie anymore hehe (the subtitles are completely wrong and I'm sad about it but at least i have the movie)

[mossy-paws]

Mangograft! (PHIGHTING!)

Would one care for a mango? (It’s a bomb /j)

ANYWAYS I forgot to post this so here it is! Live laugh Mangograft this was a suggestion from a friend since I was bored :3

Also here’s this gem too no im not giving context

[foxett]

First five days of suntantober!!! Cats, flower language, weather, games and movies :3

Bonus drawing under cut because two birds with one stone, suntantober AND that one challenge

[thevioletcaptain]

Sigh. That one panel from "The Beast With Two Backs" mini comic is going around again, which means that (once again) people are choosing to repeat some nonsense about it being Kripke sharing his real feelings about J2, instead of paying attention to the context: that it is explicitly presented as a comic commissioned by Ed and Harry to make themselves look tough and cool, and to make Sam and Dean look vain and weak. It's completely tongue in cheek, and perfectly in character for Ed and Harry.

It's also making fun of the kind of dudebro comic fans that go on about "real men" any time someone shows an emotion, and I think that's incredibly obvious when you actually read it.

The mini comic appeared in an issue of Rising Son, a prequel series set when Dean was 11 and Sam was 7, and opens with a reference to The Outer Limits (a classic sci-fi horror show from the 60's, if you're not familiar) as Ed and Harry "interrupt" the transmission of an exaggerated moment of melodrama between the Winchesters.

Here it is in full:

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

really wish my one friend would quit flirting with me. and trying to goad me into hanging out more. and assigning us fictional characters that are oh-so-coincidently either couples or with romantic tension. and then interrupting our gameplay to ask me repeatedly if I think they’re “like us” (which they rarely are…). and matching my icon on discord without asking (again, usually by insinuating a couple connection). and giving me random things I do not want and did not ask to receive (and then forcing me to take them???).

[idk-my-aesthetic]

diversity win! my mother finally admits her children are autistic!

[random2908]

Practicing your good manners all the time is so that when you're in a bad situation, you can still fall back on highly-trained reflex and be polite.

For a random example that probably did not happen to me a couple hours ago, when you're about to pass out from a migraine and your head isn't even steady on your neck, and you order a burger and shake to fix it and drive over and barely make it without throwing up or dying...

You don't want to shamble like a zombie to a complete stranger and like make inarticulate grunts. You just won't get your food that way!

No, this is where reflex shines. Turn on the big friendly American smile that you've trained all your life to do for strangers, and say, "Hi! Online order for [R]!"

And then they hand you the sandwich and then they're like, "Just a sec, I have to get your milkshake from the kitchen." You don't snarl inarticulately, flail, and pass out on the floor in front of this poor woman working customer service at the one Halal burger place in town (immaculate veggie burgers, three choices of vegan patty, with entirely different toppings meant to compliment each patty type, like there was thought put into the veggie options at this fast food place). No, you keep that smile frozen, and when she comes back not 10 s later with your shake--already prepared and just waiting for you in the fridge--you can just say, "Thank you so much!"

Reflex has saved you. You were polite to the customer service rep and looked normal. You did not faint in a restaurant or need the police called on you. Now you have a burger and a shake to take the edge off the need to pass out, and can live another day.

[aroaceofthesea]

Welp i just spent literally 8 hours on a videocall with friends its 2am and its storytime in the tags

Noooo i reached the 30 tags limit todomal im not rewriting shit tho so if the story feels abruptly ended thats why lol

[transmechanicus]

Woke up from my little power outage nap and couldn’t even manage to eat a full box of macked cheese, grad school will fuck you up for life kids, do it at your own risk.

[erasedcitizen2]

for anyone else out there struggling with insomnia, I'm sharing this just in case it helps anyone else: my doctor suggested 5 mg melatonin for me. It didn't make me sleep better and also gave me pretty bad side effects like having brain fog the day after, like I was completely unable to think and my reactions were slowed down to the point I would've been a danger in traffic. but I switched to a lower dose of 3 mg melatonin and not only do I have no side effects from that dose but ALSO IT WORKED. I've actually consistently slept 7-8 hours for the past week since I switched dose. I don't know the science behind that but lowering the dose worked better to put me to sleep.

[apologetic-artist]

I'm awake, but it's still so late, and I can't turn my brain off to go back to sleep blehhh -_-"

[ryuseitai]

walked in this morning snd my coworker says You're training today! and I said Oh.

[theinvisiblestringoftommykinard]

Woohooo I'm officially seeing Hozier twice this year!!! (So far lol, if another opportunity presents itself I might take it) Many thanks to the Concert Ticket Gods, I was in and out of both queues in <20 minutes 🥳🙌🏻

[seaofreverie]

Anyway how is everyone doing

[iliveinprocrasti-nationn]

one thing abt being disabled/chronically ill that some people don’t get is that sometimes body maintenance that ensures you have the absolute minimum amount of function can also be something that takes away a lot of control and autonomy. you can argue till the cows come home that making those decisions to try and help yourself (or realistically to try to make sure things aren’t worse than they already are) is something that exhibits control and autonomy and stuff, but they can be so limiting in practice because they’re things that take up so much time but have to be done to do anything else

[phantaloon]

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