bismuthcreature

[bismuthcreature]

You're not actually a better friend for not articulating and respecting your own needs, limits and boundaries. Your lack of communication and boundaries is not some impressive sacrifice. You're not doing anyone any favors by acting like you're okay with things you aren't okay with. You're just building burnout and resentment that will eventually damage the relationship in question. And when you eventually snap and walk away because you silently overburdened yourself to be a "good friend", it won't be the other persons fault

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Being a committed pedestrian in a major city will make you hyperaware of the ways urban areas will attempt to make themselves hostile to homeless people and the ways that these efforts also make life worse for everyone else. The needlessly narrow sidewalks, the uncomfortable and inconvenient seats at bus and train stops, the noise pollution from convenience stores piping loud music outside. It all sucks, it all has a negative impact on everyone simply trying to exist within a community, and it’s all in service of cruelly trying to drive a class of people from public view.

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An interesting part of writing is all the condescension that attacks from everywhere.

The illustrator who cold-DMed me on Discord and asked if I draw and write, then when I said yes, said, "Yeah, alot of ppl think that but their usually wrong," (because apparently insulting people is a new marketing method), then got angry when they asked for samples of my art, like they were demanding I prove myself and thereby justify not hiring them, and I did, and they realized I had more visual art experience than they did (they were, to be fair, probably 14 - 18, but wow).

The marketer who also cold-DMed me on Discord and then kept asking questions like, "Well WHY aren't you traditionally published yet?" And then asked what I'm doing/what stage I'm at, and when I told them, replied, "ok, pretty good," like... are you people really thinking this will net you clients?

It's wild out here.

Also -- don't approach people like you're just making conversation. If you're making a sales pitch, just be up-front about it. Have your website or portfolio or carrd site, offer your services, and stop wasting days trying to lead people into paying for your shit. Save us both time.

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but what if i read one of your fanfics and then went to your ao3 accounts and read all of your fanfics and left a comment on every single chapter of every single one and you got spam emails from all of my kudos and comments and it made you smile, what then? what if i brighten your day with my words like you did mine, what then???

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You shouldn’t date or become serious friends/partners with someone if you can’t stomach the thought of being stuck in a car or train with them for 16 hours.

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theyre inventing the opposite of ozempic that actually makes you happy. and theyre calling it yummy foods and treats

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firm believe that not everything happens for a reason, sometimes things are just cruel. and they shouldn’t have happened and it’s not supposed to be a lesson because we never deserved such thing.

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people who have obsessions are the only ones i know how to buy presents for. everyone else gets the loose change at the bottom of my purse

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british towns will be called Fuckmouth or whatever and people will just go with it

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i'm not going to lie. i would do this all the time

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Me and my boyfriend have no overlap in what we can handle. I love meeting new people and being in new situations, and one of the reasons I love plane travel so much is because I enjoy having no fucking idea what's gonna happen next and where I'm gonna go. But if there is A Weather anywhere, I Will Die.

My boyfriend generates heat like a furnace and is his happiest at -20 celsius. Unbothered by rain. He's fine with wind, can handle hot weather without any other symptom than loudly bitching about it, fine with bugs, does not attract mosquitoes, doesn't burn in the sun. But if there's an Unexpected Occurrence, a person he doesn't know, or an unfamiliar place, he'll get so anxious that he'll throw up, throw up so hard he'll throw up blood, and then die of bloodloss because he threw up all of his blood.

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executive dysfunction tips! It gets easier to do a task if you dress appropriately first!! It’s much easier to get started once you’re wearing the right clothes for the headspace. For example if you need to clean your room, try putting on a maid dress! If you need to make dinner, try putting on a maid dress! If you need to accept visitors, try putting on a maid dress! If you need to poison the tea that will be served to your mistress’ esteemed guests in an effort to ensure her suitors never take your mistress’ hand from you, try putting on a-

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No worries if you don’t fell like engaging with this lol but I am literally sooooooo angry at my ex boyfriend and I just want to call him and yell at him constantly and I think having no outlet for that anger is making me start to lash out at other people. How might you suggest I quell my insatiable rage?

I personally like to write the harshest, cruelest, most abrasive and degrading letter I can to the target in question. Pull no punches. Aim below the belt. Break them down fundamentally as a person from their inborn circumstances to their personality to their actions as a human being. Make it hurt. Make YOURSELF think “damn, that’s a bit too far actually”. Then read to yourself over and over till you get sick of it. Then when it no longer brings amusement or satisfaction and just kinda makes you go “meh”, light it on fire and move on.

It works for me, at least.

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why do we take towels for granted. have you ever needed to dry off and could only use your clothes or a blanket or something. little fibers all over you, just terrible. towels dont do this. not nearly as much at least. thank you towels