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I'm having such a hard time posting something on the regular. Nothing seems good enough, so I don't want to work on it. How do people just put themselves out there on the internet?

First you have to plan the post, create a rough draft, edit and refine it, find good hashtags, then actually post it, and then wait for feedback that may never come or may devastate your soul. Throughout the entire process, you are your own worst enemy. But gosh darn it, I want to create content

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Trying to turn lil outings into an artistic experience. The high tea set was really low key but the environment was cute. I think they're closed :c

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quite fun to imagine fairy circles less as "trickster gods kidnapping humans from the human realm" and more as "fae scientists capture-tag-and-releasing humans back into the wild, hoping to one day understand the behavior of this bizarre feral gremlin species that keeps getting lost and wandering into the Fae's backyard"

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I don't take pictures often but when I do I cover it in silly stickers. I got to try so many little treats and idk the hustle and bustle of the city makes me feel alive

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You want me to find a quiet place to study? The thing that put Haruhi Fujioka in debt?

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A lot of pop psychology gets thrown around and since I already have a headache, here's preventing you lot from making it worse.

Love-bombing: A manipulation tactic of increasing affection and grand gestures before or after doing something abusive, specifically to weasel one's way out of consequences.

What it is not: A streak of affection and generosity towards friends/loved ones.

Trauma-bonding: Knowingly traumatizing someone to take advantage of their vulnerable state, to then act like the "hero" or the one who cheers them up.

What it is not: Bonding over similar traumas.

Gaslighting: *Knowingly* convincing someone they cannot trust their own perception of a situation in pursuit of one's own narrative.

What it is not: Misaligned perception of events.

Narcissist: Someone afflicted with Narcissistic Personality Disorder, a traumagenic cluster B disorder, that struggles with self-obsession, paranoia, craving validity from the public, delusions of grandeur, and social disconnection.

It is not: Your rubbish ex that cheated on you.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

-Xanthe

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One thing I really love about seedy anime websites and YouTube mp3 converters is like. They actually do what they say they’re doing. But they WILL try to trick you into downloading a virus. Like it’s almost just a greeting at this point. I try to extract a song from a YouTube video and it says free VPN installer tonight perhaps? Free VPN installer tonight queen? And I say YouTube-mp3 converter you sly dog, you know what I’m here for. Show me the goods. And YouTube-mp3 converter says ahhh you got me, no getting one over on you. Thought it was worth a try tho. Here you go king x

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Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena // Alain de Botton, Essays in Love // Eden Robinson, "Writing Prompts for the Broken-Hearted" // Chloe Liese, Always Only You // Anne Carson and Euripides, An Oresteia // Two—Sleeping At Last // Studio Bones, SK8 the Infinity // Trista Mateer, "is it okay to say this?" // @moodylilac // D. H. Lawrence, "The Rainbow"

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no show will ever have what taskmaster has. to me. the absolute silliness. a competition show where everyone wins and everyone loses and everyone is having the time of their lives. bring in a flashlight from your kitchen as a prize. or bring in your whole oven. it's 5 points either way. you WILL build a fort out of cardboard and tape and you WILL care about it so much. the way every task is so harmless and fun and generally done with like. everyday household objects. it's just weird little challenges that no one in their right mind would ever do or be good at. but everyone wants to win so bad and they get mad when they only get 1 point. throw some ping pong balls at alex horne and maybe you'll feel better.

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gintama said you have to live even if life sucks and it's embarrassing even if you only live for the small things even if you live day by day still you have to live. and it said when you live you pick up the burden that is caring about other people and you have to carry it always even if it's heavy even if you feel like you can't anymore even if you don't even realize you're carrying it until you drop it and you never ever want to pick it up again because what if you drop it this time too how can you do it all again but you do you always do. and it said when you care about someone else they care about you too. when you protect something it protects you back. how can this burden be so heavy when you're all carrying it together