#im good at maths

[void-dude]

Oh yeah his brain finally kick started processing his emotions! Against his will!!!

Bill at therapy part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

[axoqiii]

shujin trio,,my babies..,.,

[inkskinned]

you were raised in comparison.

it wasn't always obvious (well. except for the times that it was), but you internalized it young. you had to eat what you didn't like, other people are going hungry, and you should be grateful. you had to suck it up and walk on the twisted ankle, it wasn't broken, you were just being a baby. you were never actually suffering, people obviously had it worse than you did.

you had a roof over your head - imagine! with the way you behaved, with how you talked back to your parents? you're lucky they didn't kick you out on your ass. they had friends who had to deal with that. hell, you have friends who had to deal with that. and how dare you imply your father isn't there for you - just because he doesn't ever actually talk to you and just because he's completely emotionally checked out of your life doesn't mean you're not fucking lucky. think about your cousins, who don't even get to speak to their dad. so what if yours has a mean streak; is aggressive and rude. at least you have a father to be rude to you.

you really think you're hurting? you were raised in a home! you had access to clean water! you never so much as came close to experiencing a real problem. sure, okay. you have this "mental illness" thing, but teenagers are always depressed, right. it's a phase, you'll move on with your life.

what do you mean you feel burnt out at work. what do you mean you mean you never "formed healthy coping mechanisms?" we raised you better than that. you were supposed to just shoulder through things. to hold yourself to high expectations. "burning out" is for people with real jobs and real stress. burnout is for people who have sick kids and people who have high-paying jobs and people who are actually experiencing something difficult. recently you almost cried because you couldn't find your fucking car keys. you just have lost your sense of gratitude, and honestly, we're kind of hurt. we tell you we love you, isn't that enough? if you want us to stick around, you need to be better about proving it. you need to shut up about how your mental health is ruined.

it could be worse! what if you were actually experiencing executive dysfunction. if you were really actually sick, would you even be able to look at things on the internet about it? you just spend too much time on webMD. you just like to freak yourself out and feel like you belong to something. you just like playing the victim. this is always how you have been - you've always been so fucking dramatic. you have no idea how good you have it - you're too fucking sensitive.

you were like, maybe too good of a kid. unwilling to make a real fuss. and the whole time - the little points, the little validations - they went unnoticed. it isn't that you were looking for love, specifically - more like you'd just wanted any one person to actually listen. that was all you'd really need. you just needed to be witnessed. it wasn't that you couldn't withstand the burden, but you did want to know that anyone was watching. these days, you are so accustomed to the idea of comparison - you don't even think you belong in your own communities. someone always fits better than you do. you're always the outlier. they made these places safe, and then you go in, and you are just not... quite the same way that would actually-fit.

you watch the little white ocean of your numbness lap at your ankles. the tide has been coming in for a while, you need to do something about it. what you want to do is take a nap. what you want to do is develop some kind of time machine - it's not like you want your life to stop, not completely, but it would really nice if you could just get everything to freeze, just for a little while, just until you're finished resting. but at least you're not the worst you've been. at least you have anything. you're so fucking lucky. do you have any concept of the amount of global suffering?

a little ant dies at the side of your kitchen sink. you look at its strange chitinous body and think - if you could just somehow convince yourself it is enough, it will finally be enough and you can be happy. no changes will have to be made. you just need to remember what you could lose. what is still precious to you.

you can't stop staring at the ant. you could be an ant instead of a person, that is how lucky you are. it's just - you didn't know the name of the ant, did you. it's just - ants spend their whole life working, and never complain. never pull the car over to weep.

it's just - when it died, it curled up into a tight little ball.

something kind of uncomfortable: you do that when you sleep.

[maria-ruta]

SO I had a theory that Chilchuck is actually a little older than Senshi IF you make them the same species or if you compare their age to the lifespawn

and

I WAS RIGHT

the difference is tiny BUT ITS THERE and honestly its fucking hilarious

Senshi tries his best to be the dad but true dad is a little slightly older man, who actually have kids... BOTH are valiDADS though and I love them both

[fakesorbet]

The Bad Kids + Summer drinks

[pieofdeath]

"Your body floods with cortisol and stress and rage hormones. Your heart rate picks up, and as it does, you begin to feel a rhythm to your own heartbeat that you recognize is mathematical. There's an asymptote. It picks up in speed. There is a mathematics to your rage. You can follow. Your drummer sensibilities come in, and you pick it up, hitting harder, rhythm faster." "Keepin' the beat." […] "The entire world of Aguefort has told you that it doesn't make sense to be an artificer and a barbarian, and for a moment you go, "No, there is a math to being mad.""

HOLLLLY SHIT BRENNAN. I'M GOING TO BE THINKING ABOUT THIS FOR.... FOREVER I THINK???????

[unluckyprime]

GOD YOU GUYS . WHAT AN EPISODE !!!!!

[bigmammallama5]

My parents bought their 4 bed 3.5 bath house 32 years ago for $145,000 (originally $200,000). This summer a similar house a block away (similar age, 4 bed 3.5 bath, slightly smaller lot) went up for $800,000. It's since been reduced to $650,000 and they put some more work into it, but it's still on the market. I know interest and investment and overall cost of living raise prices, but that just seems like highway robbery to me.

[owleics-fr]

Considering all the concerns about the fest skin and accent contest winners, potential staff bias towards certain users, and whether or not new people can even get a chance to win, I was curious just how many players who win in the contest are actually new and how many are more experienced, long term winners.

With this in mind, I went over the previous 5 festivals covering the latter half of 2023. There's 16 potential winning slots per fest which mean 80 wins total- with 57 unique winners.

Out of those 57 unique winners, 26 were first time winners.

Typically there are 5 first time winners per fest- this does vary and the highest amount of first time winners in this time period was 7 during rockbreakers ceremony, the lowest was 4 during thundercrack.

Some extra info: Under current usernames and considering unique winners only, there was 20 winners in this time who have between 2-5 wins in the database. There were 4 winners with 6-15 wins in the database. There were 7 winners with 15+ wins in the database (highest total was 32, with that users earliest win dating back to 2015).

I think the biggest take away from this is, there are people who take part in the skin and accent contest month after month, and have over the years racked up their wins. And equally there are people who have never made a skin before in their life who decide to take a leap and win! Purely by statistics, the odds seem fairly even to me.

[lemmyloop]

Button Gauge

Do you have a project that you have no button guidelines? Or perhaps you need to change the number of buttons or their placement? Are you bad at math? The button gauge is the tool for you!

All the button points are equidistant from each other, and when you open it the points REMAIN equidistant. It's like magic. I already have the top and bottom my button placements marked beneath the button gauge with pins.

My gauge has little gaps for you to draw your buttonhole guides with a chalk pencil. I went back and drew a 1 in. guide from the edge of my garment to ensure everything would be lined up.

Then I just installed the buttonholes with the buttonhole foot that came with my machine. It's a nifty little tool that makes the task of button placement super easy! You do need to be gentle with it. Mine is cheap and flimsy, so it gets "out of sorts" if I open it too quickly and the top and bottom most points become unaligned. This is easy to fix by just closing and reopening the gauge.

[dumbassv32]

payrus

[aaabatteryy]

my friend, let's call her grappling hook (yes that is a real nickname i call her irl) is CONVINCED that billford is the freakiest thing she's ever seen and i'm just so tempted to sit her down and explain to her everything from tbob and journal 3 and what happens. i also need to tell her about fidds and and ford, because they're just old man yaoi and i love them

[shit-people-probably-didnt-say]

Jesper: Anyone else still traumatised from doing maths homework at the kitchen table with their parents?

Jesper: My Da flicked me on the forehead once cause he was so frustrated. He is the least violent person I know but he was sooo mad at me

Wylan: My Father used to hit me with the textbook like it was going to transfer into my head 😅

[murdercamelinplacesitshouldntbe]

murder camel shouldnt be in sushi!

They are the secret ingredient that makes it good!

[julijbee]

yulieva for my health.

[smimon]

okay i know you probably have enough drawing ideas for giant k but i just had this idea invade me.

you know how in snow white (not just the disney version) she pushes together the beds and sleeps on like 3 or more of them sideways? anyway giant k sleeping on 3 beds pushed together. and now i'm just picturing giant k as snow white and everyone else as the various dwarves

Ohoho big brain!!! 👀👀👀 Big brain. I love this idea so much and not just because Snow White is my favourite fairy tale hdjsbdbdfh

Thank you!!! Of course I have to draw it and not just once, let's make it into a comic! Let's gooo

Giant K series #16: once upon a time, in a land far, far away...

To be continued 😉