#Dana speaks

[cherrylindreams]

okay listen: the cat king and love cats by the cure

[juniperss]

omg thank you to everyone who has sent in a request I'm having so much fun with the ones i've gotten and im busy typing away and giggling, kicking my feet! you guys are so creative with some of these ideas too!!

[cherrylindreams]

I'm definitely more of the 'enjoying time by myself'-type, but when I first started planning my move here three years ago, a coworker made me promise her something.

she was fierce and beautiful and intimidating, and she knew of my habit of doing things with friends at most once a month, preferring to do things by myself.

i don't know if she was genuinely worried or just wanted to pass on some advice, but when she said "promise me this: for the first three weeks there, don't say no to a single invitation you receive. just these three weeks and I'll be satisfied." my first instinct was to say "no", because human interaction is hard and exhausting and humiliating.

but as I said, fierce and beautiful and intimidating, and just something so settled about her that made me want to impress her so bad. so I made the promise.

and for the first three weeks here, I didn't say no to a single invitation. no matter how much I wanted to stay home, read, watch something, stay inside my bubble; an invitation popped up and I said "yes!" and I told people about the promise I made. they laughed and questioned whether I'd only spend time with them because of a promise. I explained, people thought it was great advice.

I went out for dinner every night these three weeks, met up with people on the weekend, drove to a close-by town with a coworker, to a bear sanctuary with another. I stumbled my way into wonderful friendships in these three weeks. I established myself as someone who was up for doing things so that now, when I really feel like being alone and having some peace and quiet by myself, people know it's a one-off and to ask me again next time.

I've learned that while it's nice and wonderful to do things on my own, or stay home by myself enjoying my hobbies, it's also wonderful to have a network of people to fall back on when I want to go out for dinner with someone or to go to a cultural event together. or when i feel the depression creeping in.

I might still complain about having to do social interactions and sometimes it definitely gets too much and I need to pull back a little, but I'm so glad to actually be able to find my boundaries and not just guess where they might be and by doing so, accidentally laying them way too tightly, and isolating myself in the process.

idk what introvert needs to hear this but please check yourself when ur saying stuf like “staying in your room all weekend by yourself watching netflix is much better than going out and being social” because speaking from experience it’s very easy to confuse being introverted and isolating yourself to cope with anxiety and depression please reach out to your friends and make an effort to live your life and say yes to things, there’s no harm in enjoying your own company but please try to avoid shutting yourself away because you’ve convinced yourself that you’re better alone it’s seriously a recipe for loneliness and will really fuck with your self worth

[smokestarrules]

NEW DANA LUMITY ART (alongside more!!)

[aspiringhexgirl]

girls dont want love, they want hq promo pics of 90's monster of the week shows that slay so extremely hard

[syl-stormblessed]

why does god (dana terrace) give his hardest battles (TOH finale) to his weakest soldiers (me)

[california-112]

S08E14 / S08E15 / 'Work Song' - Hozier

[mulders-too-large-shirt]

i think it is fascinating that the first time we see mulder have sex (in 3) and the first time we see scully have sex (in never again), both of them approach it fundamentally as an act of self-harm.

mulder, wracked with the grief of losing his partner, trying to save this woman he just met as an act of penance, while scully's necklace dangles around his neck.

scully, processing that she does not have much longer to live, feeling terrified and frustrated, once again trying to force herself into doing what society expects of her, as if that will bring the happiness she has been denied.

i just think it's neat.

[astralzeraphias]

“he was mentally ill. this monster was a- was a sick fantasy. a product of his dementia.”

“…i saw it too. does that make me disturbed? demented? does… that make me sick too?”

[zipstick-art]

working late at the hoover building

reference image under the cut

[march32nd]

the x files is like the twilight zone for hot girls and the twilight zone is also the twilight zone for hot girls btw

[cherrylindreams]

literally everything about my life is changing this week. I'm allowed to be a little on edge and stressed and grumpy and wobbly and excited and scared and tired and sad.

[juniperss]

Are Soda and Ace a thing??? I feel like they always have hands on eachother???

So i haven't actually seen the musical so I'm not sure if it's like a canon plot or anything but that could be cute!! Honestly I don't know much about Ace as a character, but I think adding a girl to the Greaser Gang is a really cool idea. I'm hoping to get tickets for the show for the fall, so fingers crossed!!

[ouroboroscully]

scully is so real for fucking her professor and then not fucking her fbi partner she is in love with for 7 whole years

[smokestarrules]

Babysitting for immortal and semi-immortal beings.

NEW DANA ART

[aspiringhexgirl]