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[celestialsymbiosis]

Binging Sharp Objects after watching True Detective isn't enough, I need to find a way to eat all these characters yeeeeoooouchhhh

[blonde-fraumell]

Hi, howdy. Just popping on to say hi and that I'm still around. I haven't touched Tumblr or AO3 since I vanished, but I do plan on continuing my stories and art. Things have been... hectic, to say the least. New job, family emergencies, among more.

[notjusthespongenextdoor]

I'm coming to realize how vital it is to keep a running list of shit you did in the past few weeks so that you can participate in small talk. It's literally not anything to do with them being interesting at all it's just having Something to say to give people even the barest thing to hold on to. It's so you don't get into the "what have you been up to" "nothing much what about you" "yeah same" trap. Literally just say something.

What have you been up to? Um well it's getting warmer so I've been having to brush my cat every day.

Like no it's not that interesting of a thing to say. But now they can respond to it. They could say, man yeah it really is heating up, I've been trying to think of things to do inside more often. Or, oh you have a cat? What's their name?

Like. It's Something. All you need is Something. And if you're like me and your brain immediately goes blank upon entering small talk then keeping a list will help you remember things to say.

[rioblitzle]

working retail

[coleopterabyte]

Part of the reason I'm so adamant about encouraging people to get comfortable with bugs, my own interests aside, is because we cannot have a bright, solarpunk future without them.

A green future is not a bugless future. It is, in fact, a fairly bugful future. If you care about ecological stability, then you need to start with bugs, because they're the most at risk with our current use of pesticides.

[dionysus-complex]

funniest Kamala Harris VP picks go

[chaotic-neutral-knitter]

I think one of the kindest things you can do for people with various mental health struggles is just... let people back into your life after they've been absent for a while.

Making friends as an adult is so fucking hard already and isolating yourself from other people is a very common symptom of depression, anxiety, burnout, ocd, trauma, grief, etc. Which means that someone will do the hard work of recovery/healing and resurface back into a world where their previous friends have written them off because they stopped showing up.

So if you know someone where you're like "yeah we could have been better friends but they fell off the map a bit" and that person suddenly reaches out, or starts showing up to events even though you kind of forgot they were still in the group chat... well they may have been Going Through It and you don't actually have to punish them for their absence you can just be glad that they're back.

[queerofthedagger]

I'd truly be the worst person to stick into a timeloop because I'd really just spend the first 5 years catching up on my book tbr, the next 7 on all the movies and shows that've Been On My List for ages, and then another decade on ao3. like sure nothing may stick but my memories will and i can just go into a supermarket to get snacks and wine each day, and i have art to indulge in. like thanks for the hints on how to get out but respectfully, I am busy

[stakdai]

My online bio was boring. So I let an AI roast it. 🔥

send help. i am not okay. 😭

i let an AI roast my online bio and i am PERSONALLY ATTACKED. 💀 it told me my profile pic looked like i was ‘trying to solve a simple math problem’ and that my bio was giving ‘i have no personality but i do own a plant.’

I'M SCREAMING.

But like... after I wiped away my tears, I realized... it was right??? My bio was so boring. But now?? Now it's ✨amazing✨.

Seriously, if you're trying to make your dating app profile less ‘generic straight person’ and more ‘actually interesting queer person with hobbies and a personality’ you HAVE to try this. It’s the brutal honesty we all need.

I wrote a whole thing about my descent into madness for the sake of self-improvement. It's a wild ride. Check it out if you're ready to get absolutely humbled by a robot. 🔥

Read the full, hilarious story here: https://stakdai.com/roast-ai-the-ultimate-guide/

[le-velo-pour-dru]

Mutuals who I don't know very personally yet I am holding a sugarcube out in my hand in the hopes that you will approach me like the noble horse

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

Happy Stitch Day, everyone donate to the NICWA out of apology that we let the reboot gain any kind of traction

The National Indian Child Welfare Association is an organization working to protect indigenous children and families through education and advocacy on child welfare and kinship rights. Nobody gets left behind.

[soaptaculart]

The cat and the dad she said she "didn't want"

[nightside-of-siberia]

Me: *starts hitting my brain with a stick*

Me: STOP 👏 TRYING 👏 TO 👏 MAKE 👏 EVERYTHING 👏 I 👏 WRITE 👏 SAD/SAPPY/DEPRESSING! 👏

[parkjammys]

the audacity of the official dc account to even post this 😭

[kitschky]

and maybe we're doomed but oh my love which one of us is orpheus?

congrats to severance for becoming my second fav anticapitalist-media-referencing-greek-tragedies