Something I've been re-trying lately is persistent positivity. It's been really helpful.
It's exactly what it sounds like, where you just keep being positive no matter what.
I found a neat little bohemian boutique store, but as soon as I walked in the lady started being really overbearing and condescending and making me want to never go back. But I just kept smiling and being nice and noticed they were selling tea from my favorite tea shop, five minutes later and we're sharing favorite blends and having a genuinely pleasant conversation.
Went to a tiny, cliquey hobby shop for the first time to pick up my first 40k build kit and the clerk was being super arrogant and dismissive. So I kept appreciating what he said and asking more about what I wanted and a few minutes later he's looking up stuff on his computer to show me what other stores can sell similar items to help make my build more affordable.
If you assume the best about people, they will often go out of their way to prove you right.
my favorite calvin and hobbes comic is the one where his dad just rolls up and casually destroys his entire night by pointing out some neat trivia about record players
Imagine a bee rn in a hive muttering "the beekeeper is not real because he is not intervening or helping me at all with this disastrous relationship I have with another bee". now imagine that's you talking about the good lord. now imagine a dog with a propeller hat on
got a worm nibbling my brain. can someone help me find a piece of obscure media?
webcomic/indie comic from the 2010s. basically a sci-fi short story about a young girl (with red hair?) who was being raised by scientists as part of an experiment. she receives a haircut/has her head shaved, in preparation for her annual brain scan/testing. it is revealed that while her body is human, her "brain" is artificial, made of computer implants throughout her skull and spine. at some point her biological mother (also a scientist on the same campus?) encounters her and is repulsed, viewing her as a machine who has murdered her daughter.
it was very poignant and it bruised my heart and i can NOT find it anywhere