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I don’t know if I’ve spelled it out on tumblr yet, but I want to talk about The Mammal List. 

The Mammal List is something I came up with when I was in a mental health intensive outpatient program four(!!) years ago. The premise is that we are at our core animals, and if I consider myself the way I’d consider a pet cat, I’m much more likely to practice good self-care:

1. Mammals need food. Eat something! If the Hellbeast doesn’t pass judgment on a piece of cheese, neither should you. (She also eats anything small enough to fit in her mouth, so be judicious in that respect. Food is good. Lint is not.)

2. Mammals need hydration. Drink something! It doesn’t have to be water. It could be delicious tuna juice. You’re a discerning creature. I trust you. 

3. Mammals need sleep. Make a soft nest and let yourself enjoy it. Knead it until it’s comfortable. Let yourself rest as long as you need. Just existing is hard. You’ve earned a break. 

4. Mammals need movement. Take your precious body and do something. Don’t hurt yourself. Be kind.

5. Mammals need stimulation. Treat yourself to a new jingle ball or mousie toy. Get a bird feeder and stare at it. Let yourself really enjoy it. Play is in your nature.

6. Mammals need socialization. I know this one is particularly difficult these days, but if you don’t keep reaching out, you’re going to forget yourself and start biting people. 

7. Mammals need cleanliness. Nobody likes scooping the litterbox, but it has to be done. Don’t forget your own body. Make your fur shine. Treat yourself as the luminous creature you are. 

And most important of all: don’t feel guilty. This isn’t about deserving (although you do deserve it). You’re an animal and you need these things to survive, and I very much want you to survive. 

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Here's one for the academics in the audience: in your experience, which specific discipline is most likely to have strikingly personal, dude-owes-me-money type beef with a guy who's been dead for nine hundred years? I know you get them in every field of study, of course, but I mean like statistically.

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if you ever find yourself thinking “wow I scraped the bottom of the barrel with my energy with that and came out okay!” that’s the devil talking. you did not come out okay. you borrowed energy from the future. you will repay it if you don’t rest and replenish the borrowed energy first.

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an interaction im very tired of in online autism spaces. aka when you don’t have a special interest / when your special interest isn’t [character] or [fandom]

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“The original orgies and bizarre sex were perfectly sufficient” I am always saying this

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*thinks about how Tamora Pierce wrote Daine hating chickens cause she hates chickens* I wonder what Tamora Pierce thinks of the backyard chicken boom these days

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Brennan Lee Mulligan plays to win but Vic Michaelis plays to make Sam Reich lose

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math-y sayings you can start using to have even less friends (= more time to study algebra):

"what the funct?"

"it's isomorphic" to mean "it's the same"

"ACR" (after certain rank) to mean "eventually"

"epsilonesque" to mean "very small"

"clopen door" to mean "half-open door"

abusing the prefix "co-" to invert the meaning of words

please reblog with more suggestions on how to become mathematically insufferable :>

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If Vance isn't even a little concerned that he might have killed the pope then you know without a doubt that he's a performative fake catholic

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A lot of you said that they can’t quite picture Kip’s firedance so I gave it a go.

I’m really happy with my fire and my only regret is that I am not able to capture how beautiful he is in my head. I know he’s not handsome officially and yet…

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originally i was going to say that they should get hit with water bombs each time they get it wrong, but actually they should get hit for just trying to answer that question for other people at all

its not the point, and also would be horrifying for all involved but I do want UK MPs to enter a game show called 'What bathroom should I use?'

where they are presented with a line up of people and have to decide their assigned gender at birth

Bonus round: Naked Attraction style

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of course this is a bad idea because a. it emphasizes passing as the most important part of being trans, and b. its demeaning for everyone involved

but this is how awful UK politics has become now, with the equalities minister stating that transgender women should use male toilets and they need to know the basic thing of, no, you can't always tell, yes even biological sex has large amounts of variation and masc cis women, as well as fem cis men do exist

its not the point, and also would be horrifying for all involved but I do want UK MPs to enter a game show called 'What bathroom should I use?'

where they are presented with a line up of people and have to decide their assigned gender at birth

Bonus round: Naked Attraction style

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its not the point, and also would be horrifying for all involved but I do want UK MPs to enter a game show called 'What bathroom should I use?'

where they are presented with a line up of people and have to decide their assigned gender at birth

Bonus round: Naked Attraction style

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csethiro ceredin kinda the specialest girl in the world. her solution to all problems is 'KILL THEM WITH A SWORD!!!' she fully thought she was in the first half of pride & prejudice. (she wasn't). she's an academic. she's a hater. she's one of the most accomplished courtiers of her age group. she WRITES LIKE THIS in some niche script and is the only person who does apparently. she felt bad she was mean to her boyfail fiancé & gave him a sword which carries the implication of 'this is the sword for killing traitors from my house and you can kill me with it if I betray you'. she sent the phrase 'WE REGRET EXTREMELY THAT WE CANNOT CHALLENGE HER TO A DUEL AND PROVE HER WORTHLESSNESS UPON HER CARCASE' in a letter to said boyfail fiancé when she'd only met him like three times. she luvs symbolism. she's about to replace her childhood rival as empress. she can yap for days. she will keep the wastrels from him!

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watched conclave with friends yesterday and now the pope is dead. anyway completely unrelatedly next weekend i’m gonna watch the hit disney+ show andor where they bomb a fascist government.

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WHEN ON PERIOD:

do not crash out

your feelings are NOT valid

do not send that text

don't kill yourself. lock in

do not act on negative emotions until at least 2 days have elapsed