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depression tips™

shower. not a bath, a shower. use water as hot or cold as u like. u dont even need to wash. just get in under the water and let it run over you for a while. sit on the floor if you gotta.

moisturize everything. use whatever lotion u like. unscented? dollar store lotion? fancy ass 48 hour lotion that makes u smell like a field of wildflowers? use whatever you want, and use it all over. 

put on clean, comfortable clothes. 

put on ur favorite underwear. cute black lacy panties? those ridiculous boxers u bought last christmas with candy cane hearts on the butt? put em on.

drink cold water. use ice. if u want, add some mint or lemon for an extra boost.

clean something. doesn’t have to be anything big. organize one drawer of ur desk. wash five dirty dishes. do a load of laundry. scrub the bathroom sink. 

blast music. listen to something upbeat and dancey and loud, something that’s got lots of energy. sing to it, dance to it, even if you suck at both.

make food. don’t just grab a granola bar to munch. take the time and make food. even if it’s ramen. add something special to it, like a hard boiled egg or some veggies. prepare food, it tastes way better, and you’ll feel like you accomplished something. 

make something. write a short story or a poem, draw a picture, color a picture, fold origami, crochet or knit, sculpt something out of clay, anything artistic. even if you don’t think you’re good at it.

go outside. take a walk. sit in the grass. look at the clouds. smell flowers. put your hands in the dirt and feel the soil against your skin.

call someone. call a loved one, a friend, a family member, call a chat service if you have no one else to call. talk to a stranger on the street. have a conversation and listen to someone’s voice. if you can’t, text or email or whatever, just have some social interaction with another person. even if you don’t say much, listen to them.

cuddle your pets if you have them/can cuddle them. take pictures of them. talk to them. tell them how u feel, about your favorite movie, a new game coming out.

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I truly hate the word "unalive." There are so many other euphemisms that fictional Italian mobsters worked so hard to provide you with and you just ignore them.

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I can’t express how important it is to have hobbies in your 20s. To have something you enjoy and look forward to after long work days, tough conversations, and pressures in the real world. You need something to pour into like you’re a child again. The world is expectant, in a rush, focused on outcome. But with a hobby, you can take your time, make it your own, show it to no one, be bad at it, and do it for pure enjoyment without worrying how it will turn out. We desperately need the space to experiment without emphasis on the final product. We need emphasis on the process. Hobbies can teach us how to get back to that space. 

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Azura: Fairytopia’s Gay Aunt

Watching Azura scenes back to back… fully different character design they even changed her eye colour and made her skin like 10 shades more tan (part of this is changed animation style but still)

I was rewatching the Fairytopia scenes with Azura so I have a renewed appreciation for her. She is the cool gay aunt of fairytopia.

Like haircut aside she goes out of her way to help people she perceives as “outcasts”… and like… I heard a headcannon once that her whole “friends you haven’t met yet” and table that is always set is so that kids who are disowned by their families will have a place to go. I can’t get that out of my head, because that is so absolutely something Azura would do.

A middle aged woman living in a cottage and she has this random table set for people she hasn’t met and lets the protagonist who is an outcast from society in because “she has the rainbow in her eye”

… I don’t care whether or not that’s what was intended, it fits.

Examples of Azura being the GOAT

1. Before the events of the story Dahlia betrays Laverna and she tries to join forces with the guardians who rejects her and don’t believe she’s capable of change.

- Azura goes out of her way to support Dahlia even visiting her often enough. Dahlia clearly thinks very highly of Azura.

2. Random disabled fairy with rainbow in eye shows up on her doorstep asking for help

- She brings out like a special floating flower to accommodate her

- Offers her food and drink and a place to sleep without even hearing the full story

- Trusts this stranger with one of her most important possessions because she thinks she has potential to do good (just puts her whole faith in her)

3. Is kidnapped and brought to Laverna

- Is an icon the entire time. This woman is at her finest under pressure.

4. Is asked to pick an apprentice (who will one day become a guardian in her place)

- Picks the disabled (queer?) country bumpkin (who did save the country I will say)

- Is clearly leading this project, she gives all the pre training instructions

- Put Elina and Sunburst in their places, clearly favoritism is not an obstacle keeping her from tough love

5. Elina tells everyone that Laverna has returned

- She takes the threat seriously and doesn’t laugh or mock Elina for it unlike Tourmaline (hello sir?!) even when evidence point to the contrary she takes preventive measures

6. She’s friends with the toothfairy?!

7. Calls Elina ‘my dear’ and asks her to visit for tea

- This one is just evidence that she is a gay aunt.

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The fact that both of zukos abusers used lightning against zuko and instead of learning to use lightning himself like he could have he learned how to redirect the lightning and let it pass through him and then straight clean out of him… Do you ever think about how that is literally physically representing how instead of absorbing his father and sisters abuse he lets it pass through him and instead of soaking it in and letting it destroy him he redirects it away from himself… I just want some peace in my life

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they should pay you extra if you have to be the only fag in the workplace. they should give you a bonus for that.

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I've been rewatching Assassination Classroom and I've come to the conclusion that Nagisa and Karma are THE character dynamic ever. Like, there's the obvious appeal of the "which of them is more likely to kill you in cold blood" bait-and-switch, but the keyword here is "more likely", because both of them are fundamentally unhinged people who think murder-suicide is a really cool way to prove a point.

And their reactions to each other being unhinged are absolutely hysterical. Karma can act like a whole serial killer and the most Nagisa ever summons up about it is like mild concern. He sees Karma threaten to kill someone with a broken bottle and he literally does not even react. This is just completely normal for him. He always just seems vaguely surprised that anyone would actually be scared of Karma, whose hobbies include hospitalizing people.

Meanwhile, Nagisa sneaks up on Karma one (1) time, and he's like "Holy shit. He is terrifying. Like a venomous snake poised to strike. He is dangerous, I can't let my guard down around him, he could kill me", and all Nagisa did was just. Poke him in the side.

Also they are 14 years old.

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hot girl summer is over it’s officially time for haunted whore halloween

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might seem like a harmless quirk but once you start typing in exclusively lowercase you can never capitalize anything again outside the designated midsentence Gay Emphasis Zones or anyone following you for longer than a week will think you’re about to commit murder

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autistic folks when their routine gets disrupted, and they don't get alone time when they're supposed to get alone time

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‘twist villain’ is always good of course but i’m such a sucker for ‘twist hero’. specifically as in they write a character to be as suspicious and unnerving as possible without really actually doing anything wrong yet but you just KNOW something is wrong but then surprise. they’re fine actually. all the alleged wrongdoings were either lies harmless or taken out of context. it’s even better if the suspicious aspects of their personality don’t go away after the reveal that they’re a good guy. they just act and look and talk like that for fun. they’re just a little silly

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the worst thing about writing or any kind of craft is having an idea you're really excited to make a reality but then you sit down and realize how much work it's going to take to get to that point and suddenly you feel like those two little gay guys in the mountain in the lord of the rings

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interesting developments. the graph suggests that george and yuki could be teammates as early as 2028 if this downward trajectory continues.

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The duality of man is thinking “children cannot help themselves and we all need to be patient with them as they explore what it means to be human in public” and also “damn, I wish this crying baby was not on the plane rn :/“