#*ruminate -_-

[neil-gaiman]

I remember the first piece of writing I ever read of yours. It was bit in SimCity 2000. I was about 11, I'd never read any of your books and honestly didn't know you were an author until like, three or four years later. I assumed it had been written by one of the staff (I mean, it would not be out of character for Maxis; if you look in the Sims 1 build/buy mode catalogue you can find very odd bits of lore like a wallpaper made of coffin interiors and an anti-capitalist artist who is also a dog.)

But I remember it very clearly because I was getting to grips with SimCity and all its various tools, having lots of fun with setting giant robots and volcanoes on the wealthy neighbourhoods who complained about taxes but also about potholes, and I found the 'ruminate' button. I didn't know what 'ruminate' meant at the time, or if I did, I thought it had something to do with cow digestion. I clicked on it.

The mental whiplash from "mwhahaha fear my god-mayor wrath!" to having my preteen mind blown was quite the experience.

I then had my mind blown again about a decade after this when I discovered that the rumination was written by you.

That makes me very happy.

[dk-thrive]

This is all my fault for not moving homes or cities, for not taking certain jobs or marrying certain men, for looking backward all the time when I should be looking forward. I dwell too much. I hold on to things I shouldn't, to people I shouldn't. If you don't change, change will find you in its most unruly form. It will press down on your vulnerabilities until they squish out the edges. Life needs volunteers or else it will start calling on people at random.

��� Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People (MCD, February 27, 2024)

[klaascows]

Panda.

[kailash-se-birha]

Though the wait has been long, monsoon has at last washed ashore on my most precious little archipelago, Mumbai.

[kabcy]

"What if I said I wasn't good enough? Do you ever feel the same way?"

[uncannycreative]

Ruminating Clown

[bestrongglobal]

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[songspiral]

"Ruminate" by Holly Powers

[fuckdvyn]

What's holding you back from pursuing a career in modeling? Is it the fear of pressure and meeting society's beauty standards? Perhaps it's the fear of rejection or the uncertainty of reaching your full potential. Maybe it's the fear of becoming the person you aspire to be, or the impact you hope to make. I believe it's the fear of being accepted for who you are, and at the same time, not being accepted for who you aspire to be. It's also the fear of realizing your own potential greatness while being aware of the self-doubt that you carry.

-dvyn’s inner thoughts

Who will i be?

[cosmicallyconscious]

 "Without self-reflection, we ride the momentum of whatever we're already doing and whatever we stumble across. That's dangerous, because it stops us from self-reflecting on how we've changed and whether we should be doing something new."

Julian Shapiro

[brainwillexplode]

i have moved on from the endless rumination phase after a breakup and into vague disdain and secret childlike hopeful longing that i will bury with eating a lot of popsicles and feta cheese (separately)

[dk-thrive]

"Every night he would lie awake, endlessly reprocessing the day’s events, discovering in these rehashings slights and conversational missteps that hadn’t in the moment occurred to him to worry about. He’d work to try to convince himself these affronts were imagined, then his brain would offer its rebuttal: they were real, and each person he’d maligned would remember it forever—... The cycle repeated endlessly."

— Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!: A Novel (Knopf, January 23, 2024)

[great-and-small]

Sheep tail go down goat tail go up that’s all you need to know

[well-hello-hi]

Wooowww i took the olly miss mellow suplements, meant for reducing stress, i actually think they worked 😍🥹 😌😌😌😌🫠😴 doooooontt ruminate 😴 gooo to sleeeeeeep instead 😴Hnnggg. I feel sooo at ease. Such inner peace. Gnight. 💗

[onryou-onryou]

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