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[bedbuggie]

Triple P(ink) i love my poly baddies so much skskssk

[terresdebrume]

Step 1: remind yourself "this is one of my sore spot/anxiety points. Just because my emotions are acting out right now doesn't mean people are doing it on purpose.

Step 2: engage your Calming Technique of choice

Step 3: can you think of a specific thing that triggered your anxiety/sensitivity (as opposed to a more generic feeling of 'this person hates is avoiding me') ? Are there any other factors that could make your usual issues even more of a sore spot (lack of sleep, stress at work/home, etc)?

Step 4: If you answer No to the first question and/or Yes to the second, continue practicing your Calming Technique of choice + see if there's anything you can do about your aggravating factors, and see if you can get more 'evidence' one way or another. If your answer one is 'Yes' and the second one is 'No', move to the next tutorial: how to have awkward but necessary conversation about potential conflict (not included in this post)

If you're like me, there will be several instances where you'll get evidence that things are fine, actually (ex: last time I felt like a friend was pulling back, she invited me to a mutual friend's birthday, which she kinda had to, and then to a dinner she could simply not have mentioned, which made zero sense if she was trying to avoid me: I calmed down immediately). With time, repeating the process will:

Teach you brain not to panic so fast

Provide a bank of evidence that Sometimes We Freak Out When We're Actually Fine and that's okay, which helps keeping the big preemptive freakout at bay, which helps make the experience less horrible/traumatizing

Automatize the process, helping you to go To it and Through it fast, thereby making your anxiety a lot more manageable

Drawback: occasionally, having those moments and going through the process may feel like you have to convince a toddler to go clean their room before dinner. I haven't found a trick for that.

can someone teach me how to be emotionally regulated and not be sensitive or take things personally

[basilsfakejordans]

so thats what he meant by "tv star"

[rickktish]

The superior captain marvel is an immortal 8 year old newsboy who stopped aging when he received his powers and faces magical problems of the dream-logic variety while transformed into a hyper-buff version of his last memory of his father's smiling face, who hasn't had a stable home since his uncle kicked him out and stole his inheritance and is STILL as pure of heart as Snow White was in 1939 and has a magical talking stuffed animal who is sometimes a very dapper chap and sometimes a fuck you tiger. And that is simply the fact of the matter.

[wickedsick]

Playing through Chapter 4 again and it turns out there's some special dialogue if you go to the diner after meeting noelle

[greatsilverini]

I would know you in the blindness of my eyes… in the deafness of my ears… as a shadow smudged against the wall, annihilated by light…

[endiness]

but that .05 seconds after scott became a twu alpha, deucalion murdered jennifer right in front of him and scott still let him go. and nevermind that deucalion was also responsible for erica and boyd's deaths, too, along with what was left of his pack and the rest of the packs whose alphas joined him. (or that the only reason why jennifer even killed anyone in the first place was to stop him and the alpha pack.)

but peter was "always a monster" even though the vast majority of deaths peter was responsible for were people that had harmed him and his family and his pack. and obvs villainy doesn't begin and end with murder, but that peter killed less people than deucalion ever did and for far better and much more justifiable reasons yet, again, peter was "always a monster."

but then adding all of that context to scott looking at stiles being responsible for donovan's death and — regardless of theo's manipulations and the miscommunication issues aside — that scott couldn't even find it in himself to just forgive stiles and accept him for it anyway and instead basically disowned him for it and lowkey kicked him out of the pack. plus all of that on top of the already existing narrative parallels between peter and stiles, too. likE. am i not supposed to read something into that.

[factual-flittermouse]

Similar but distinct from feral teenage inventors (pink or otherwise unusual colored hair often included but not required)

I love them

[kitschruby]

My contribution to spamtenna

[littlegeecko]

WHAT U WANT!!!!!!!

yall sleeping on this duo frrrr (not a ship post btw)

based on that one asteria song

[chadillacboseman]

In the wake of these strikes on Iran and our ever-growing warmongering, you WILL see a rise in Islamophobia in this country.

Do not let it slide. Speak up. Defend your friends and neighbors.

[littlemisspractical]

they're not uncanny they're adorable!

Mainland She Oak Skink (Cyclodomorphus michaeli), mother with pups, family Scincidae, eastern Australia

photograph by Ken Griffiths

[ruemilley]

for make a terrible comic day

[spacecaptcha]

#Yuri

[sourtomatola]

@villainoustrioau by @crees-a, I was inspired by this question

I miss these guys so much, hunger crazed Eclipse makes me so happy.