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Can't fathom the idea that i was ever in utero like no actually I was hand painted and beautifully crafted by the gentle hands of an ancient and forgotten deity thank you very much

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But did you know each other?

Today a very friendly Golden Retriever came up to me and I said "hey buddy :D" and the owner asked "do you know each other?" like his dog had a social life he didn't know about

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I made a website today

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Things to stimulate your brain that aren't doomscrolling જ⁀➴ ♡

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Hello angels and cherubs,

I have really been hit by a tsunami of ' my brain chemicals are not on speaking terms and I am now very depressed ' so I have been in the market for positive stimulation that doesn't turn my sweet intelligent princess brain into Baumkuchen (as yummy as it is)

It seems we are constantly drowning in negative micro media and ever horrifying news updates all the fucking time and my angelic amazing beautiful self, despite being an activist and well educated on these things, has become run over by an existential yet very earthly panic and need to get away from all these scary or brain rotting things, so here are some alternatives to doomscrolling and being drowned in negativity or idiocy

Watch an old children's show ♡

nothing made in the past five years! There are good shows yes, but i think for the most part older ones have less insane stimulation or violence. I have found that for me, shows with cute characters, good morals at the end, small conflict, and revolve around healthy problem solving are perfect! I have been rewatching my little pony and I fucking love it, it's cute, it's got good morals instead of hearing mean shit or straight up horrifying news all the time! Don't get me wrong, I love horror or adult dramas but when shit is bad and you're already not doing so hot and looking for ways to hide from our increasingly fucked societal conditions, I find that watching my little pony makes my head feel better than rewatching Hannibal for the 12th time does (as much as I love mads)

Become your very own maid-simulator game ♡

I'm being completely deadass. I'm being so fucking serious. Put on your very best maid outfit and run around cleaning with cute music on. First of all, it actually makes cleaning a silly little thing, second of all dressing up cute as hell and tidying up gives both your mind and body something to do. I actually have a whole maid dress and petticoat for this sole purpose and I have never cleaned better in my entire goddamn life, and I did it while feeling like a pretty princess

Write yourself a love letter and set a random day to read it ♡

Talk about your day and your headspace, why you feel that way and what you think will help. Look inward and find your favorite qualities, not looks or titles, but who you really are and what YOU really want. Ask yourself how they are doing in the future, make plans with yourself for that day and surprise your future self(assuming you've forgotten). Talk about your favorite people and the little things that make you feel safe or the fragments of a stranger that made you feel loved recently. Work out problems or vent, let your future self be reminded of how brave and strong they are when they hear about your current struggles and remember them as a distant memory. Thank your current self for carrying you so far, and thank your future self for carrying you even further ♡

Stretch ♡

This one may just be me, but I find that after a long stretching session my brain feels so refreshed. Don't judge yourself for your body, your form, or your flexibility! Just focus on the gentle pull in your muscle fibers and remind yourself that the pull of the moon, the tides, the ancient shifts of the cosmos, and the pulling of your muscles are all one. I find that this is a good time for reflecting or affirming.

Master how to make your favorite drink at home ♡

Learn the recipe for your absolute favorite drink and master the hell out of it! See what you like and don't like, make small adjustments until its perfect! Then the next time you're bored, you already know how to make one ♡

Arts and crafts ♡

Don't worry about the outcome! Enjoy the feeling of expression without goal and create! I made a whole castle thingy with paper and tape a few days ago, took like an hour of utter child-like wonder and bliss. Draw, even if its not conventionally good (no such thing as bad art!) just make things!



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A guide to shopping sustainably, affordably, and uniquely ♡

Hello angels and cherubs (｡･ω･｡)つ━☆・*。

Your fairy cuntmother is here to tell you how you can shop sustainably without breaking the bank or losing your unique taste

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Shops ♡

Depop 🎀

yes I know I know, you've probably heard that everything here is overpriced, which CAN be true but there are also easy ways to avoid such sellers and find very cheap and good quality items!

All you need to do is know how to navigate the search engine with your specific keywords and avoid using aesthetic-tied brand names as many sellers will mark an item from a certain brand as part of the aesthetic even when the item is unrelated to the brand - and yes, this may require some digging depending on what it is you're after, but directing of cheaper items will make it so that depops algorithm recommends and shows you more items of the price range while maintaining the specific aesthetic ♡

EBay 🎹

I have found that eBay can be a total goldmine for utility items rather than fashion (also today I FINALLY got my hands on one of those 2003 hello Kitty angel landline phones and first of all holy shit, second of all it was on eBay!) I have found tons of older cute household items on ebay for very reasonable prices! The only downsides is that it may be a bidding situation which can not always be cost friendly, and that I am finding more and more mass production shops on it over time 😞 but there are still tons of cute things for cheap, it may just take some looking ♡

Mercari 🏩

Mercari is soooo underrated omg! Tons of things from Japan which is great for my manga/anime fans or my j-fashion/subculture angels ଘ(੭*ˊᵕˋ)੭* ̀ˋ

Pricing is almost always very low in my experience but I haven't purchased anything huge on the app. Sellers are also very chill in my experience but again, I'm sure that depends on the person!

Facebook Marketplace 🧠

A fucking holy grail for furniture, once had a baby pink couch almost given to me for free just because she was sick of having it (unfortunately she lived in the other side of my country 💔) stuff is so unique with TONS of variety! One downside is that you typically have to pick it up from them since its for much larger things and pieces that cannot be shipped

Goodwill 🍡

Very good for trinkets or materials for up cycling!! Other than that not much to say - you could also donate here and declutter while you refresh your space with 'new' items!

Sustainability tips ♡

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Ask yourself what it specifically is about items you want to toss! I've had SO many things that I've saved and gotten more use out of after a simple change such as painting it or tailoring it, you may find yourself in love with something you were about to toss after you tweak it a bit

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Is there anything actually wrong with it? Does it function still? If it has a small part broken could you repair it or replace that specifically?

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Could you give it to a friend, donate it, or sell it? Someone else in your life could love it! If not then maybe a homeless shelter may? Or you could make a little and sell it!

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Could you upcycle it? Maybe use the materials to make something new! This one is extra personalized and in my opinion the most fun

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Ughhh yess ive been feeling this way for so long and although im not all that bad about it, I find that as soon as I feel lonely or drained I immediately fall into it especially now that it's summer and I don't have much solid routine anymore, this is exactly the shit I need to be seeing tysm ♡

a soft exit from doom scroll culture 𐙚🧸ྀི

Life wasn’t created to be lived through a screen, it was created to be lived through experiences ₊˚⊹ ᰔ michi

I constantly feel like I’m missing out on life. I’m never physically doing anything but I am always.. always scrolling. And for what? To be entertained. For those weak ass dopamine hits. To distract myself from my thoughts and my mental state. To have an excuse as to why I’m not doing something.

Neglecting yourself? Doomscrolling? Having trouble sleeping? Eyes always tired? Unhappy? Always feeling drained and tired?

Don’t you guys ever feel like you’re missing out? I mean you must since you’re here.

So I decided to try a digital detox.

Not in some extreme, delete-everything-and-vanish kind of way (I actually tried that many times and failed each one). I just wanted to see what would happen if I gave my brain a break. If I stopped reaching for my phone the second I felt bored, uncomfortable, or lonely. If I actually let myself sit with things instead of escaping into a timeline that never ends.

It was weird at first.

My brain kept telling me to “check something,” whether it's Instagram, TikTok, even Pinterest like ?? girl for what?? I realized I’d trained myself to need noise. Constant noise. And without it? I felt unsettled. Quiet. But underneath all that static, there was something else too. A kind of peace I didn’t know I missed. My mind actually started to feel like mine again.

Because the truth is, I don’t want to live a life I’m watching from the sidelines. I don’t want to be so overstimulated I can’t even hear myself think. I want to choose what I consume. What I feel. What I do with my time.

I want to remember that I don’t have to perform every moment. I don’t have to be productive to be worthy. I don’t have to post everything to prove I exist.

Sprinkles ˖ ᡣ𐭩 ⊹ ࣪

I thought to myself I should have rules. I should try setting rules and boundaries because, as I said, social media isn't the problem, but rather how we use and interact with it is.

When you do scroll, do it purposefully (because you’re looking for something specific rather than because you’re just bored and you’re trying to entertain yourself quickly)

Delete and uninstall any apps you no longer use & make note of the ones you use too much - a lot of similar posts I’ve read on this topic always talk about keeping tumblr because it��s not that bad blah blah.. But can you really say you don’t scroll mindlessly on here? People use tumblr as an escape from all those other apps, but at the end of the day, it’s still social media.

Set time limits for screen use

Reduce use bit by bit

be careful with what you consume

Don’t be afraid to be bored. You are going to be bored and lonely.

Silence your notifications

Realize it’s okay to have social media but it shouldn’t be abused

Be in the moment. You don’t need to have a hot girl walk with a podcast playing in your ear. Bitch, be the podcast. Yap to yourself and look fucking crazy because I do. And it’s fun.

Find something to do with your free time, in my post Pretty Girl Content, you will find some hobby suggestions, or even in my Enhance Your Whimsy posts.

Tech-free zones - keeping your phone out of the bathroom, kitchen, bed, dining area

Check-in windows: only check social media during scheduled times

A ‘why I opened this’ list - every time you open an app, ask yourself why and write it down. Write it down. After a few days, review it to see your patterns and learn from them. nd if you wanna share thats ok too!

Dopamine Menu - a list of things that gives you pleasure or satisfaction a healthy way. instead of reaching for your phone when you feel lonely, bored or restless, pick something off the list and then do it.. They start easy with the first course, then require more effort and engagement as the course goes up.

Angel’s Dopamine Menu ꒰ঌ ໒꒱

🧁 Sweet Treats (Low-Effort)

Light a candle and practice breath work

Make a cute warm drink

Do mobility routine

take a shower

say affirmations

style dream closet mentally

cuddle blanket and/or pet

stand in sun for 3-5 mins

change into favourite cozy outfit

🍱 Comfort Courses (Medium Effort)

journal with dreamy prompts or about something i’m curious about

write a letter to my future self

Walk around the block

Bake something cute and simple

read a book

Reorganize space a bit (clear bed, fluff pillows, wipe mirror)

Watch a comfort show, no snacks, no other screens

have a tea party with plushies

🥘 Soul meals (High Effort)

solo adventure

Deep clean space

write letters to past you, present you and future you

go to a concert

choose a topic that fascinates me and go full research mode

start a new cute slice of life anime/kdrama

work on a hobby (start a scrapbook, upcycling an outfit, etc.)

write or continue writing a post

sign up for a workshop/class that excites you

learn a new skill (writing, language etc)

host a themed night for yourself (cottage core evening, 2000s movie night)

Plan my dream life

But now that we’ve got that out of the way, I have a question for you

What do you want from these apps? ೀ

𖹭.ᐟ Is it validation?

𖹭.ᐟ To feel seen without having to do much?

𖹭.ᐟ A distraction?

𖹭.ᐟ Community and connection?

𖹭.ᐟ Inspiration?

𖹭.ᐟ Entertainment?

𖹭.ᐟ Self-expression?

𖹭.ᐟ FOMO?

Are you actually getting it? Or are you just stuck in the loop, hoping the next scroll will finally give you what the last hundred didn’t?

People say cons of not having social media is not knowing what’s going on “in the outside world” but.. to me that’s a pro because I get to focus on myself and my mind and loa. So nothing else really matters to me since I’m focused on building the life for me starting with myself. Which I really need right now given my mental state. When i deleted tiktok, I feel good about not downloading it. Whenever I need it, I redownload it. Hair content. That’s about it. Then I delete. I dread even redownloading it because I’m kind of impatient. But I also do the same for tumblr. If I need a little pick me up, a sweet post and I know I have no one around give it to me and I really need to hear it from someone else, I redownload. I use it on my pc mainly now and I don’t find scrolling on my pc interesting enough to do it all the time.

So let’s get to the more philosophical, harsher side.

₊˚ 🦢・₊✧ Modern life encourages consumption, rather than understanding and contemplation - challenge yourself, learn about something that honestly doesn’t seem that big of a deal, like learning random facts about random things. Remember libraries and book shops exist.

₊˚ 🦢・₊✧ One thing about social media it will give you unsolicited advice and opinions, it will try to make you feel like you have to listen and believe what is being shown to you. It could cause you to stray from your own beliefs if you aren’t strong in them. People’s opinions being thrown at you left and right when you aren’t even comfortable and strong in yourself is… jarring. “You shouldn’t do this bc..” but what if I want to? And why are people mad that I want to? Or don’t want to? Realizing I don’t wanna hear anyone’s opinions before I was grounded in mine was a big reason for my detox and regulation.

₊˚ 🦢・₊✧ You pick up a lot of stuff you consume online unconsciously. For instance, I watched a lot of American and Canadian tv growing up.. now I react to certain situations in certain ways (just like a lot of the characters I saw on TV) and I literally didn't notice until like a few days ago. That's the result of repeatedly consuming the same kind of content. So guess what- the thing people call ‘brain rot’… is actually rotting your brain. Surprise, surprise.

₊˚ 🦢・₊✧ Social media constantly exposes you to other people’s timelines, and it quietly convinces you that you’re behind in life. But most people are only sharing fragments- the polished, curated parts. And when we forget that, it’s easy to start holding ourselves to unrealistic standards or feeling like we’re not doing enough. You are not late. You are not less. You are unfolding, slowly and softly, in your own time. And there’s something quietly magical about that.

₊˚ 🦢・₊✧ And on that note… influencers really do be scamming sometimes. Like, a lot of it is just the same old stuff, just prettier now. They take outdated ideas and wrap them in pink ribbons and call it healing or empowerment. Suddenly, being “feminine” means looking a certain way, acting soft and quiet, never taking up too much space, and spending money just to seem effortlessly perfect. But don't get me wrong, there’s nothing wrong with liking pink, or soft things, or wanting to feel pretty. But when femininity becomes a performance—when it’s reduced to a list of aesthetics you have to buy into to be “the ideal woman,” that’s not empowerment. That’s marketing. They just dressed it up and made you feel like you chose it. But it’s still about control. About shrinking yourself into something small, sweet, and palatable. It’s not just influencers because some of them genuinely believe in this and don’t realize what they’re doing. In the end it just leads back to men trying to be in control... Ew. You might not even realize how much of what you like or think you like is just what society has convinced you need to like to be worthy of love or attention. This is not to say you can’t enjoy this stuff because I most definitely still do. But do so mindfully. This is also not to say that life can’t be aesthetic and pretty because it can and anybody that says not is just.. boring I guess. Just be mindful.

So I’m detoxing. To control the identity I’m building for myself and making sure it’s something I like, something I’m doing for me rather than for the algorithm. This is not to say that social media- or rather, how we use it- is to blame for everything. Because it’s not. People around you can genuinely suck. You have to pull away from that. The point is, if it’s not benefiting you, it’s depriving you.

Log out. Go outside. Touch the real world. You deserve to feel real again. -`♡´-🧁

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⋆｡𖦹°⭒˚｡⋆ michi goodbye TikTok, hello living

⋆｡𖦹°⭒˚｡⋆ xiao's you don't have to be that girl

⋆｡𖦹°⭒˚｡⋆ denee you'd be hotter if you logged out

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Made some necklaces today ♡

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BRING BACK THE UNICORN FRAPPUCCINO I ONLY GOT TO HAVE LIKE TWO I WANT MORE

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I've just made a cinnamon vanilla cake into tres leche de rosa(? - I speak German sorry), and it's absolutely FIRE

So basically I took French vanilla cake mix and swapped the oil for melted butter and the water for milk and added a ton of cinnamon and vanilla (was trying to mimic Horchata but I don't think it really matches)

When the cakes were done I just used rose milk for one of the three leches and topped it w milk-tea flavor vintage buttercream, which is something I came up w a bit ago if anyone wants that too

Not that anyone asked

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Studies show that 89% of people want more actions to save our planet, but do not speak out because they believe that they are a minority!! The 89 percent project aims to change this false perception and ignite action

https://coveringclimatenow.org/projects/the-89-percent-project/

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Reblogging so my divalicious kings beautiful photography has a better chance at being seen

gorp cam moment

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Okay fire prompt

Decades of this fixation,

a fixation of ingenuity, industry, wealth.

In a suit and tie which now tightens on his flesh in the face of such an earthy prowess, he witnessed the earth's open backwards, his skyscrapers sigh and slump as though their spines no different from our own, he felt the grounds begin to roam beneath his feet in search of tender care they perhaps once knew.

In all his terror, the earth shifts it's hips as it prepares for something unfathomable to him.

Things that had never seen before now knew of color, of visual pattern, and yet they close their eyes. Not out of fear, not out of confusion, rather they know something he is yet to be told.

They know its over and they know that's okay for them. For the sweet doe on the highway, for the fly on his wall, this death will be a winsome one.

But for him, the tides he poisoned, the lands he littered, the air he smothered, they all grasp him by the collar as if his own mother. Such an unrivaled oblivion this is for him, this death so wrathful, this end so familiar. It seems no fable, no novel, no poet, no divine authority, had a warning fruitful enough to be listened to.

As the earth shifts one last time, he feels the weight of Anubis' scale slam. It is heavier than it has ever been.

Mkkkkk ty that was fun ♡♡🦄🪷

write something where the forest hates you back.

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MH KING YOU MADE A TUMBLR ACCOUNT JUST FJR ME???

what the FUCK is a parallelogram⁉️⁉️

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Occupy Mars

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it's kinda butt cuz I wrote it at like 5am on a school night while crying about a polar bear

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Fascists and fossils,

Typhoons and wobbling tables

The wind and the tides,

That spot of wavering blue of the sky,

When I was six I watched that spot and saw heaven and earth divide,

Even then I planted my feet and I kept on the earthly side

Rotting cars and rotten boys,

Gas that burns and hands that break your toys.

In all our division, our lacking, our passion,

I would not leave this earth.

The dollar did not grab us and drag us apart,

the dollar did not grow limbs for it to lock up children and mothers,

And yet we haven't begun to consider,

You do not need billions to build the tower of Babel unless you are a sinner

These thieves, these killers,

They wear suits and ties.

Their hair is done, and they smile so nice.

Behind their big tall shiny buildings,

Their websites, their hair, and their winnings,

Are the children of the lands they exploit like their fathers taught them.

The food stamps, the poisons, the misplaced karma

Make no mistake, they are miserable

Even in white clean skyscrapers,

Even making billions,

They cannot ever seem to get the blood out from under their nails

They would rather occupy a new planet,

Rewrite the evolution they detest,

Than they would live on an earth stained by their devastation

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people think writers make good English teachers but the opposite is true. sixth grader asks why she can’t start a sentence with “and” and im like idk girlie grammar is a construct and language is a fluid gelatinous animal. people used to write “thou” and they were being totally unironic about it. start your sentences with an exclamation point for all i care. a+