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anomalocaris is a maid

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girl you need a shot b12

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[spins wheel] the homestuck team announced [spins wheel] an animated pilot made by [spins wheel] vivziepop with a character voiced by [spins wheel] toby fox

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Btw this year I got the funniest tramp stamp I could think of

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i just need to have more rules for myself. more rules and limits. surely that will help me

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at this point I’m tired of putting “prefer not to answer” on my job applications when they ask me my gender. Remove the question. I will never answer. My identity is a surprise you find out at the interview when I show up appearing as gender ambiguous as humanly possible in order to disguise the fact I am thousands of bees in a skin suit. No I am not buzzing. There was no option for Hive Insects on the form. This was your decision. I am consequences.

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the gooners

they’re everywhere

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So I started working again today, and me and my coworker had to squeeze lemons which usually is a really un fun job but TODAY. We had the mostly lovely batch of lemons to work with. So we rated how smoothly they cut and how nice the insides of them looked for about an hour. An absolutely marvelous time I gotta say

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u know when u drink really cold or hot drinks and u can feel it going down into ur stomach and u feel like one of those skeleton pirates in pirates of the caribbean when they’re drinking the beer

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His wrath….disgusts me

BUT HIS DETERMINATION AND SPIRIT BLESSES ME

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What if water didn't have surface tension and whenever you spilled some, the whole floor of your entire apartment was covered in a 2 micrometer deep puddle

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Recovery doesn't necessarily mean 'fixed.' I think a lot of people picture recovery as this neat little finish line where you take your meds, go to therapy, and then the “bad stuff” just…stops. But that’s not always what recovery looks like.

For me, recovery has meant learning to work with my brain instead of constantly fighting it, especially when it comes to my bipolar disorder. Despite therapy and medication, my manic and depressive cycles haven’t gone away. But I’ve learned to understand them, and that has changed everything.

When I feel a manic episode coming on, I use that energy to prepare for the inevitable downswing with things like meal prep, queuing up posts, pre-making products for my business. I treat it like stocking up for a storm.

When depression hits, I switch into coping mode. I remind myself it’s temporary, I reach out to my support system, and I try to do the opposite of what my brain urges like isolating. I know now that I can get through it, even if it’s hard.

I haven’t “stopped” my cycles. But I understand them. I can work with them. And my quality of life is so much better than when I was constantly at war with myself.

Recovery doesn’t have to mean “fixed.” Sometimes, it just means you’ve learned how to live with your brain in a way that doesn’t destroy you and that is worth celebrating.

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If you've got a friend that you know can't remember shit, and you feel like it'd be rude to remind them about something that's coming up beforehand just in case they did remember something they signed up for and now you feel bad for implying that you don't trust their memory, and you know that there's a 90% chance that they won't remember the thing unless you remind them, here's a tip from someone with a Can't Remember Shit Disease:

Instead of simply reminding them about the event, just ask them about a specific detail involved in it instead. If you know that The Thing is on next week's friday, and the last moment you need confirmation whether they're coming or not is this thursday, instead of texting

"Hey you remember we have the thing on next week's friday, right?"

you can text some specific question - regardless of whether the info itself is important to you or not - that clarifies when the event is, like

"Hey are you going to be driving to the thing next week's friday, or is someone giving you a ride? We'll need to plan parking beforehand."

Because in case they did remember the thing, they can just answer you for the question you asked. And if they didn't remember and go "OH SHIT IT'S NEXT WEEK I COMPLETELY FORGOT", you still gave them the reminder they needed just the same.

I don't personally get insulted when people gently remind me that they know that I can't remember shit, and most self-aware memory problem people don't either, but if you're worried that it would feel rude to remind people about things you're worried they might've forgotten, this is a good way to circumvent that.