#I am simply overreacting

[basmatazz]

Am I sweating, my heart beating out of my chest, with a declining interest in life and constant pain of EVERYTHING because I am depressed and it’s the first HOT (80°F+) day of the year, OR because it’s been 5 days since I’m pretty sure my internal cyst on an organ has burst and sepsis is setting in? Only time will tell!!

[kindheartedgummybears]

you wanna know what??

I am

TIRED

of overmasculinized werewolves!!!!

I WANNA SEE A

WEREWOLF

WALKING AROUND IN A CVNTY LITTLE OUTFIT!!! WALKING THE STREETS!!!! DISEMBOWELING CREATURES!!!!

I WANNA SEE WEREWOLVES COVERED IN BLOOD AND GORE WHILE WEARING A SHORT SKIRT AND CROPTOP WITH HELLO KITTY ON IT!!!!

I WANNA SEE A WEREWOLF WALKING AROUND IN COTTAGE AND FAIRY AND PRINCESS CORE OUTFITS!!!!!! WITH A DEAD MANGLED RABBIT IN ITS MOUTH!!!!

AND MAKE THE WEREWOLF

D I S G U S T I N G ! ! !

[mania-sama]

guys. despite being so so careful. so careful. i was eating a slice of wheat bread (curse the goddamn wheat bread). a little bit got stuck in the back of my mouth. i finally needled it out but. guys. the area is hurting now. and it bled a little bit. if i gave myself dry socket i will NEVER forgive myself. also i will never eat wheat bread again.

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

peace and love on planet earth save me.... peace and love on planet earth.... save me peace and love on planet earth....

[ricecaqes]

fucked up how the world gives me symptoms of a disorder but Only sometimes. how am i supposed to figure this out boy

[piesa2]

everyone is pitying me and i dont know how to feel about that

[shittyclive]

That's it I'm shaving him in headspace now.

(Loud audio.)

[hippo-pot]

pissed pissed pissed pissed pissed

[passionfruitbowls]

god gives his toughest battles (being in a large fanbase where leaks spread like wildfire) to his strongest soldiers (me)

[the-winchesters-wear-prada]

when you don’t even have the energy to be angry or text fuck head back anymore. in case you were wondering void, the “bestie” originally said he would be coming to visit next weekend. now he is asking if he can bring his adult niece as well to tag along. for context, fuck ass said next weekend was to show how grateful he is for my constant friendship and how much my friendship means to him. must not be much if you are asking me to house and entertain your niece over the weekend. and i know you were wondering void, and no, he still asking asked me about the non-binary lesbian i hung out with on sunday ✌️

[backtodecembertv]

yeah okay i should’ve blocked him in february shouldn’t i

[seventh-district]

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[xing-hua]

u know when u have nerves and u just need to do the noodle dance in a corner to shake it out... that's what this is

bruh i like..... i reached out to someone for language checking help and i....... im so scared LMFAO this is the most nervous i have ever been about anything resembling a beta read

also the most humble. they could tear it to shreds and i would be like "sure", no arguments. i think it's cause i hv a degree of like, arrogance re my englishing that i do not around literally any other language

[sassmill]

Hm think I might go nuts for a bit

[sionnachs]

waking up at 7:30 am when i dont have work until 4 but i cant go back to sleep because of crippling anxiety even though i am barely keeping my eyes open and know im inevitably going to get a raging migraine from exhaustion in a solid 4 hours

[headspace-hotel]

How people in the USA loved nature and knew the ways of the plants in the past vs. nowadays

I have been in the stacks at the library, reading a lot of magazine and journal articles, selecting those that are from over fifty years ago.

I do this because I want to see how people thought and the tools they had to come up with their ideas, and see if I can get perspective on the thoughts and ideas of nowadays

I've been looking at the journals and magazines about nature, gardening, plants, and wildlife, focusing on those from 1950-1970 or thereabouts. These are some unstructured observations.

The discourse about spraying poisons on everything in your garden/lawn has been virtually unchanged for the past 70 years; the main thing that's changed is the specific chemicals used, which in the past were chemicals now known to be horribly dangerous and toxic. In many cases, just as today, the people who opposed the poisons were considered as whackos overreacting to something mostly safe with a few risks that could be easily minimized. In short, history is not on the pesticides' side.

Compared with 50-70 years ago, today the "wilderness" areas of the USA are doing much better nowadays, but it actually appears that the areas with lots of human habitation are doing much worse nowadays.

I am especially stricken by references to wildflowers. There has definitely been a MASSIVE disappearance of flowers in the Eastern United States. I can tell this because of what flowers the old magazines reference as common or familiar wildflowers. Many of them are flowers that seem rare to me, which I have only seen in designated preserves.

There are a lot more lepidopterans (butterflies and moths) presumed to be familiar to the reader. And birds.

Yes, land ownership in the USA originated with colonization, but it appears that the preoccupation with who owns every little piece of land on a very nitpicking level has emerged more recently? In the magazines there is a sense of natural places as an unacknowledged commons. It is assumed that a person has access to "The creek," "The woods," "The field," "The pond" for simple rambling or enjoyment without personally owning property or directly asking permission to go onto another person's property.

There is very little talk of hiking and backpacking. I don't think I saw anything in the magazines about hiking or going on hikes, which is strange because nowadays hiking is the main outdoor activity people think of. Nature lovers 50-70 years ago described many more activities that were not very physically active, simply watching the birds or tending to one's garden or going on a nice walk. I feel this HAS to do with the immediately above point.

Gardening seems like it was more common, like in general. The discussion is about gardening without poisons or unsustainable practices, instead of trying to convince people to garden at all.

Overall, the range of animals and plants culturally considered to be common or familiar "backyard" creatures has narrowed significantly, even as the overall conservation status of animals and plants has improved.

This, to me, suggests two things that each may be possible: first, that the soils and environments of our suburbs and houses have sustained such a high level of cumulative damage that the life forms they once supported are no longer able to live, or second, that our way of managing our yards and inhabited areas has become steadily more destructive. Perhaps it may be the case that the minimum "acceptable" standard of lawn management has become more fastidious.

In conclusion, I feel that our relationship with nature has become more distant, even as the number of people who abstractly support the preservation of "wilderness" has increased. In the past, these wilderness preservation initiatives were a harder sell, but somehow, more people were in more direct contact with the more mundane parts of nature like flowers and birds, and had a personal relationship with those things.

And somehow, even with all the DDT and arsenic, the everyday outdoor spaces surrounding people's homes were not as broadly hostile to life even though the people might have FELT more hostile towards life. In 1960, a person hates woodpeckers, snakes and moths and his yard is constantly plagued by them: in 2024, a person enjoys the concept of woodpeckers, snakes and moths but rarely sees them, and is more likely to think of parks and preserves as the place they live and need to be protected. Large animals are mostly doing better in 2024, but the littlest ones, the wildflowers and bugs and birds, have declined steeply. It's not because "wilderness" is less; it seems more because non-wilderness has declined in quality.