#I'm not being hyperbolic I'm Right

[trans-xianxian]

sorry I can't stand aus where wei wuxian grows up in another sect. I mean this so genuinely without the yunmeng siblings the story is Nothing

[alexjcrowley]

Was just given a bit of attitude about being aromantic by the only people I've told I am aromantic really trying not to hyperventilate here

[baronfulmen]

So here's my problem:

I think paragraphs, like stanzas of a poem, should be defined by feel and flow and stuff. I don't like the rules.

SPECIFICALLY, I don't like having every single quote be its own paragraph. It's fine sometimes, but when you have a lot of back and forth it's just bad - and even when it's just one thing and then the reply to that thing sometimes they belong together.

I don't mean that I run them all into the same line, just to be clear. There's still a line break. So it's like this:

"Where did he go?" "Who?" "You know who! The fucking axe murderer!" "Oh, Bob?"

But when I do that, people complain. "Oh, Baron Fulmen, you have accidentally only used a line break and not a new paragraph! I can't possibly read this! It's too hard!"

So I go online and I search, hoping to find support and solace, and instead what do I find? YOU MUST START A NEW PARAGRAPH.

Well, fuck you.

...

Except.

Except if, somehow, that really is hard for them to read then I should fix it, right? But seriously you can't read it that way? Really?

[ellaenchanting]

Prompt for a ramble or a drabble or whatever you like if you want: what happens in REALLY deep trance? (can you tell what's been on my mind lol) happy to see you doing a little writing again :)

First of all, thanks! :) I hope the spirit will stay with me.

So- a REALLY deep trance -

Being a really deep trance is like falling back into the ocean from a cliff- closing your eyes and throwing yourself over and not even noticing when you hit the water- just going down down down in the dark. Sinking into a sea with no bottom.

A really deep trance is being swallowed by a huge creature and being carried off by it with no real control over where it'll spit you out. Feeling temporarily consumed.

A really deep trance is being dissolved - everything gets bigger and bigger as you get smaller and smaller and then you just ARE part of the bigness itself in a nice, ego-less way.

A really deep trance is being possessed- feeling so relaxed and distant that something powerful takes you over, mind and body. Something that feels like awe- like your very self will burst from trying to contain something so big.

It feels like an orgasm- but much more internal and not really physical at all. Something deep happens inside and you're on a precipice- like being at the top of a roller coaster hill. Gasping. But there's no shuddery down- it's just the sustained height and widening of the moment as it gets bigger and bigger. I'll find myself moaning from that stretching when it's really good. It's ecstatic in that religious way- like a medieval painting.

(It also doesn't HAVE to be that profound- it kind of depends on the other person and what's ok in the relationship and how the day is feeling yadda yadda. But it CAN feel that big and that's exciting. I'm really bad at spirituality in general and it feels like it's hacking my spirituality instincts- giving room to all of those ideas from my childhood that kinda died on the vine. A bit dangerous but worth indulging in with the right person.)

[raplele]

I think she's really the one!!!! I know I said that about the other 5 but this time it's different !!!!!!!

it's gonna work out once and for all and then I'll never be lonely again

[coockie8]

Actually it should be legal to rush the stage and start beating a guys ass when he starts being blatantly bigoted or predatory disguised as "jokes".

Standing on stage in front of a microphone is not a go-ahead to say whatever the hell you want without consequences because you're "joking", and so many comedians need to be reminded of that.

[songofwizardry]

my youtube home page recommended videos these days are like

video i've already watched

actual video i'd like to watch from a creator i follow

extremely upsetting video that has zero (0) relevance to anything i ever watch

video with ten views of someone's high school graduation or something

shorts i don't want

video i've already watched

video from my watch-later playlist that i saved five years ago

six (6) videos related to home improvement bc i made the mistake of watching one (1) video about fixing something once

tomska????

[gayelectro]

So many of my artist friends tell me “Tell the artist you’re commissioning details about your character’s backstory, personality, and quirks-- they might be able to incorporate those into the art in ways that will amaze you and it’ll make the commissioning process much smoother” meanwhile nearly every artist commission sheet says something along the lines of “If you tell me a single extraneous piece of information about your character, I will strike you dead where you stand”.

[syrupwit]

"Everyone else's take on this character/ship is wrong though--"

Write it yourself then!!!!

[david-watts]

maybe I'm a bit possessive but I HATE it when mainlanders and god forbid non-australians especially yanks are all 'we should bring back the thylacine because it's OUR fault it's extinct' like who's we? this is something white tasmanians did. if you wanna mourn an extinct species due to human action go find something local to you instead

[nexus-nebulae]

stupid fucking broken body

[clownhooves]

Really hard not to get a big ego sometimes when EVERYONE ELSE IS SO FUCKING LAME seriously I swear to fucking god

[karmaphone]

maybe I'm just a hoe with eds but people popping in their shoulders in media always bothers me. you don't grab and yonk it like that you make a fist and rotate it outwards*...........

[somecunttookmyurl]

basic necklace with a charm of the type found in claires:

lobster clasp: 5p

chain: 4p

jump rings: 4p

charm: 15p

2 minutes (VERY generously. ive never timed myself on that but earrings takes me 57 seconds? so) labour minimum wage: 38p

total cost 66p

being a crafter is so weird because it's like. here's a necklace that between materials and minimum wage labour cost me £1 to make. you will happilly pay me £6 for it because the same thing in claire's is £15. here's a blanket that between materials and half minimum wage labour cost me £700 to make. you will tell me to fuck off because you can buy a blanket in a shop for £100.

[spiritsonic]

Deleted my reblog of the post about possible Palestinian donation bots and scams. While I agree with the overall gist of the post, that we should all think critically about where all these donation drives are coming from, their more hyperbolic statements didn't sit right with me. Just as I don't think trusting every ask about donations is smart, I don't think reporting every ask you get is good either, as it will inevitably lead to legitimate accounts being punished for the actions of opportunistic bots. Also, dismissing them as fronts for human traffickers is impossible to prove, and makes it WAY too easy to vilify and dismiss every message you get. I don't want to support that train of thought, even indirectly.

If you want to signal boost or donate to individual drives you do you, please just practice due diligence and take a careful look at where they're coming from before putting money down. In my personal opinion I think it's more effective to donate to established charities with proof of the work they're doing on the ground, so I'm going to repost the list of links for some of those from the original post.

Palestine Children's Relief Fund

Palestine Red Crescent Society

Islamic Relief USA

World Central Kitchen

Medecins Sans Frontiers

[psychoticallytrans]

There's this idea, fairly common in society, that mental illness is for teens and up. Children are happy little creatures, generally, right? Sometimes they're abused and the trauma can make them mentally ill, but that's not common.

There are two fundamental problems with this attitude. One, it's incorrect to assume that trauma is the only reason a young kid can be mentally ill. Two, trauma is more common than people think. I'll be covering the first problem in this post through the lens of my particular experience.

Where I live, you can be diagnosed with bipolar disorder at 18 years old. You cannot be diagnosed with bipolar disorder as a minor. This poses a problem because my age of onset was in first grade, roughly six years old. Because of the fact that I was very young and new to the world, this was also the age of my first suicide attempt. Thinking I wouldn't be able to pass a spelling test genuinely felt like something worth trying to die over. So, I ate some hemlock, since I'd read about Socrates being killed with it. Luckily, I ate western hemlock, an unrelated species, and just felt kind of sick.

I'm not recounting that for fun or pity. I'm recounting it because children with mental illness are in genuine danger because they have little to no experience with managing their emotions, have little to no concept of the idea that their life can change and improve, and are dismissed by adults. I told a teacher that the test made me want to die, though not that I'd attempted to, and it was brushed off as little kid hyperbole. If I had used a method that was effective rather than one I thought would be, I would have been dead at six years old.

I would not receive medication that worked even a bit for another two years. I would not receive treatment for bipolar disorder specifically for ten years, and that required my PCP fudging the reason for the medication because she was afraid I would die if she didn't, and diagnosis was still two years off at minimum. I received a formal diagnosis at age 19, thirteen years after onset.

But surely that's uncommon, right? This story is a huge edge case, right? I actually have no idea, because age of onset and age of diagnosis are massively conflated for most disabilities. Policies like the one in my area that restricted bipolar diagnoses by age can artificially raise the age of "onset", in my case by thirteen years. The general idea that children are somehow immune to mental illness can also delay diagnosis by several years, perpetuating the idea that young children can't be mentally ill. The data on when people start experiencing mental illness is inherently skewed upwards, and I frankly don't have a good estimate on how bad that skew is. If anyone does have that data, please chime in.

Listen to children. If they're saying they're sad all the time, that they don't care about anything, that they don't see a future for themselves, those are signs of depressive symptoms. If they say that tests make them feel sick, that they can't do anything because they're scared, that they can't breathe and freeze up, those are signs of anxious symptoms. Many children talk about imaginary things, and that's just fine, but slip in a question or two about them to make sure that the kid is just playing, and not experiencing psychosis.

Children are new to the world and vulnerable, and they don't know what's normal and what isn't. They need people who are more experienced watching out for problems they might be having, and listening when they talk about having problems. If you can, try to be the person who perceives them, and tells them that things can be better.