issa-carmella

[lotus-pear]

horrendously late entry for @luneariann’s dtiys!! congrats on one million ely i’m so proud of you <3

[kaleloverboy]

Foyer Chicago

Mid-sized transitional foyer design with a brown floor, wallpaper, and metallic walls.

[lockedndenied]

Front Yard in San Francisco Photo of a large mediterranean partial sun front yard stone garden path.

[chalkrub]

so i got through to the top 300 for the pokemon tcg contest. i'm feeling normal about it........feeling very normal and sane. which is why i also drew this in ms paint

[capturedbeauty]

[wereshrew-admirer]

The Figure goes to Phrygian for some rest and relaxation and what do they get? Chine and Duvall and the Baby, (mostly) tragedy free!

[available as a PDF for easy viewing]

EDIT (01/30/24): updated to correct some missing dialogue!

This year's secret samol for @thelostlarrikin! I chose to combine two of his prompts (queerplatonic Figure&Phrygian + "Chine, It, and Duvall being a cute weird family"), and hopefully delivered (I, like Phrygian, don't always know what counts as "cute".. but i think i've got a handle on weird!)

content warnings for: body horror (not treated as horror), reference to past trauma and shitty (read: homo/transphobic) family member(s)

[academic-vampire]

“Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love…?”

-Franz Kafka's Diaries, 1910-1923

[tianaahhhh]

Reading your old diary entries are like swallowing your own vomit.

[autumnbell32]

Do you want to hear about my coffee routine when I was on the psych unit?

They always gave us a full carton (like a carton…a school lunch carton) of 2% milk on our trays. And I hate milk, hate it- so every day I would throw mine out and that made me feel some kind of bad/guilty. So I started asking for their shitty cup of decaf coffee. I’d sit with the stryofoam cup of hot coffee and the carton of milk in front of me for a fair amount of time, way past when my unit mates went back to their rooms or started walking around just to ease the passage of time (I didn’t really talk to anyone anyways, but I would sit among people…though somewhat removed at a table in the corner on one of those god awful plastic chairs filled with sand so no one could throw it in a rage- I had back pains from those monstrosities for a few days after discharge, by the way). I’d sit there and wait for the black coffee to cool enough so I could guzzle half of it, then add a few packets of sweetener, and then dump all the milk in there. The cup was almost overflowing every time, the precious meniscus jiggling at the edges.

But sitting there with my doctored decaf coffee, the tv on in the day room, watching the cars drive past outside- not knowing how or what I would do when I was discharged…You just do what you can to get by and to alleviate some pain and give your poor little, cortisol-bathed brain some dopamine. And you survive, and the pain becomes another memory and part of the reason you are able to remind yourself that you deserve to be here and you can count on yourself to take care of you. Even in little ways.

[iron-sparrow]

⸺ I heard thick thighs save lives ♪

[becomingher-era]

Delayed gratification ♥

Have you ever worked so hard at something and not seeing results. Have you posted for years on social media and still no results? Have you been working for months on your splits and still not achieved them?

You know what I realized? It's not about how long you've been doing the thing but about how often you've been doing it.

Just because you've been working on your splits for over a year doesn't mean you've been consistent. Let's be honest, how many months off have you taken, how many weeks have decided to skip your stretching sessions?

Sometimes, we need to take a step back and think: Have we really put in as much work as we think we have?

For me, for example, I know I have been very inconsistent with my splits stretching. I also know I've been inconsistent with my posting on instagram. Even though, I did improve, me missing days is the reason why I haven't seen decent results.

So, I'm writing this to inspire anyone who have been unmotivated to take a deep look at the goals you've been trying to achieve... have you really put in the work?

[hairtusk]

[embeccy]

"We deny reality. We seek only the dream."

- Anais Nin

[softpine]

she's looking especially sacrificial lamb today 🥩

[planetnini]

satoru is a certified lover boy… in every single one of my fics no matter what genre… he will and always remain a lover boy even if he doesn’t know it

[capturedbeauty]