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It’s okay if you’re afraid of the dark. You aren’t failing as an adult if you can’t sleep without a light.

Getting a nightlight was honestly so helpful to me.

It’s okay to do what you need to do to feel safe. It’s not “childish”. It’s okay. You deserve to feel safe and if there are things you can do to help with that (like a nightlight or a stuffed animal), then please do them.

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The paradox of tolerance is only a paradox if you think of tolerance as some sacred and unconditional moral duty. Some ultimate and absolute law with no exceptions, and if you ever slip into the sin of intolerance, you must repent yourself and beg for forgiveness. Yeah no fuck that. Tolerance is a social contract. You're in the game as an equal player for as long as you play by the same rules as everyone else, and if you don't, your ass is fucking out. You're not entitled to the same respect you won't give others.

"Oh so you all tolerate each other just because you tolerate each other, but if I want to destroy you, then all of a sudden you want to destroy me?" Literally yes. That's the gist of it. What's not clicking. This equation is so simple it barely counts as math.

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breathing deeply using your gut, do this to manually activate your parasympathetic nervous system and force your body to calm down. the longer you do it, the better it works.

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sorry but if you’re reblogging or commenting things that will make others feel worse when they’re seeking hope, you’re getting blocked. it is what it is.

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You’ve heard of “don’t monetize your hobbies”; get ready for "don’t master your hobbies".

Your hobbies are here to help you decompress and have fun. They do not have to be disciplines you toil over for expertise, unless that is something you genuinely enjoy doing.

It’s okay to enjoy language-learning without ever becoming fluent, or even conversational. It’s okay to like playing guitar even if you only know a few clumsy songs. You can read books and never finish them, bowl without ever scoring even halfway to perfect. We’re here to explore and play, and we cannot do that if we’re chasing perfection in everything we do.

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I decided to color this cast of monstrous neighbors!

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Happy Haunting to Boo and Yours with the Welcome Home Happy Haunting Wally Darling Plush! (What a mouthful!)

Bring home a little devil of your own by exploring the Menace event over on Makeship!

(I would like to say too! Thank you to @friendlyfrankenstein for reprising his role as Wally and to @syntheticcharmva for his work as Barnaby B. Beagle! As well as additional voicework from @anonymouspuzzler and @hollowtones! Thank you as well to @downydig for the illustrated backgrounds and the Barnaby pail! A final thank you to Makeship for the opportunity to create something for the Menace event! It was a lot of fun!)

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What a nice costume you got there! Here, here, take a candy from the bowl- Oh look at that! That gumball is shaped like a Website Update! Oh boy! https://www.welcomehomerestorationproject.net/

Happy Halloween! (Artwork by @downydig !!!)

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having friends notably older than you is fantastic actually, cause you can drop in a little mention of how old you would have been at the time of a story they tell and watch the existential crisis set in

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sorry but if you’re reblogging or commenting things that will make others feel worse when they’re seeking hope, you’re getting blocked. it is what it is.

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so like I said, I work in the tech industry, and it's been kind of fascinating watching whole new taboos develop at work around this genAI stuff. All we do is talk about genAI, everything is genAI now, "we have to win the AI race," blah blah blah, but nobody asks - you can't ask -

What's it for?

What's it for?

Why would anyone want this?

I sit in so many meetings and listen to genuinely very intelligent people talk until steam is rising off their skulls about genAI, and wonder how fast I'd get fired if I asked: do real people actually want this product, or are the only people excited about this technology the shareholders who want to see lines go up?

like you realize this is a bubble, right, guys? because nobody actually needs this? because it's not actually very good? normal people are excited by the novelty of it, and finance bro capitalists are wetting their shorts about it because they want to get rich quick off of the Next Big Thing In Tech, but the novelty will wear off and the bros will move on to something else and we'll just be left with billions and billions of dollars invested in technology that nobody wants.

and I don't say it, because I need my job. And I wonder how many other people sitting at the same table, in the same meeting, are also not saying it, because they need their jobs.

idk man it's just become a really weird environment.

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I can't keep having the same conversations about love languages, mbti, iq, bmi, "brain fully formed at 25" and shit over and over again...

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“Do it scared” but please realize that, if you Do It Scared too much and don’t let yourself rest + relax + have fun in between, you will fuck yourself up. If you “do it scared” all day every day, you will burn out badly and quickly. Sometimes this is temporarily necessary but please keep this in mind.

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Compliment them. That person you think has their shit together and wouldn't need it or want to hear it. They do. They absolutely do. Their shit is dispersed. I promise you. It is a shambles.

I've had someone tell me to my face that they would compliment me, but for the fact that I already know this or that about myself. Huh???? No. Sorry.

No I don't. In my weaker moments I become an ungrateful mud monkey that has never once internalized a compliment

I adore being told you like me or something I've done. It sustains me, and in my weaker moments when I forget that life is good and happy, you might catch me before I fall.

You ever had someone catch you like that? You can do it too. The ones that catch you have been you in that moment before and know they will be again.