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Tongue Tied - Uncut

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Tom Hiddleston: The Puppy Interview

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Because I'm stupid and I fall for this behaviour every time, I'm making a little list of potential red flags you may encounter when interacting with people online. None of these may be red flags on their own, but when combined and when there's a clear pattern of repeated behaviour, you should consider distancing yourself:

1. Overfamiliarity from the start. They initiate contact and act like you’re old friends.

2. Excessive praise combined with self-deprecation. They compliment you while putting themselves down. It can become uncomfortable because they make you feel like you're responsible for the way they feel.

3. They may assert subtle control early on, masking it behind excessive vulnerability or self-deprecation, while also making sure you know how well-connected, talented, or admired they are.

4. They assign you roles you didn’t ask for. You’re “the intimidating one,” “the territorial one,” “the competitor” . Even if you’ve barely interacted. They make you feel like your existence somehow threatens them.

5. They bond by gossiping about others. If they confidently dehumanise others to you, they’ll do the same to you behind your back. They’ll bring up people’s trauma as if it’s their personal achievement, and they make sure you know how closely they are watching everyone. This is your sign to run immediately.

6. They push boundaries. You say you’re uncomfortable, they don't care. They are invasive and have no regard for personal space.

7. They make everything about themselves. Everything you say or do is somehow about them. If it is about them, it’s only because they recognized themselves in something you said.

8. Once you start distancing yourself, the passive aggression intensifies, jabs masked as jokes, subtle guilt-trips. They want you to feel like you're the one who’s done something wrong.

9. The smear campaign begins, if it hasn't already. The second you block or disengage, they start spinning their version. They’ll rewrite the narrative and cast themselves as your victim.

10. They don’t stay gone. Being blocked doesn’t stop them. They’ll show up again elsewhere.

These people are not harmless. I'm just talking from the point of view of a personal interaction, this doesn't include how these people may or may not act publicly, which may or may not be relevant to your particular "relationship" (it often is). I often fall for this stuff because I give people the benefit of the doubt, even when something feels off.

I hope this helps someone and please know: you’re allowed to protect your peace. You're allowed to walk away.

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My old inktober

Day 7

Plants

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Poster art for the Wizard of Oz (school musical theatre production)

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Celebrating summer 🐙

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Pigeon Party 🕊

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stuff like this is awesome! it’s a great way to help a charity and let people know your tattoo shop is trans friendly! and a fuck you to jk rowling of course.

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Know a notebook, laptop, or bathroom stall that could use a little zhuzh? (It’s not vandalism if it’s ✨aesthetic✨)

We’ve got just the thing...

... Yep, we’re officially jumping on the merch gambit.

With a whole slew of stickers to choose from, you can support your favorite local writing tool, stay delightfully AI-free, and let the world know you write like a human. And for Pride, 50% of all proceeds will go to The Trevor Project, Trans Lifeline, and The ACLU this June.

Check em out here! - the Ellipsus Team xo

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"What radicalized you?"

Nothing.

I've just always held that fascism is bad and that all people deserve basic respect and human rights, along with food, healthcare, housing, and civil liberties.

And somewhere along the line, that became a radical opinion.

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RETURN TO OZ | 1985 ↳ Directed by Walter Murch

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Just a little PSA for all our mental health (and chronic pain*) spoonies out there! A lot of doctors neglect to mention this little side effect, which means a lot of us are suffering extra from the heat without knowing why.

*Many psych meds are used to treat chronic pain as well, if you didn’t know!

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every piece of ""autistic representation"" in hollywood sucks not just because of the infantalization and inspiration porn but because movie executives always fail to realize the real universal autistic experience: spending your childhood slowly and unfalteringly realizing all of your friends not so secretly hated and/or merely tolerated you at best and you've missed every social signal about it ever

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happy autism awareness day to all the girls who had “ friends” growing up who were actually bullying them . to the girls who always sat alone in the grass and wondered why nobody wanted to talk . to the girls who spoke to animals like they were listening . to the girls who created a little world in their room . to the girls who always felt ashamed for how deeply they love things and how passionately they enjoyed media . to the girls who covered their ears when they were overwhelmed by everything . to the girls who carrying a special thing around to feel safe . to the girls who never understood what they did wrong to feel so lonely . to the girls who were diagnosed later in life because they weren’t little boys who liked trains. you are so special and beautiful and you’re not worse for it, you love deeply and that is so wonderful please never try to push that down . I LOVE YOU !!!!!

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If you live or work somewhere where you have access to a walk-in freezer DO NOT go in there to cool down!

A rapid shift from dangerously hot to dangerously cold is, you guessed it, dangerous!

Sincerely, a long-suffering chef who is trying to keep his employees from dying

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A pair of brown bear cubs (Ursus arctos) watch their mom catch fish in the creek in Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA

by Helene Hoffman

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lavender__garden on ig