#If anyone has advice

[the-kinfesssional]

hello hello! i’ve been thinking SO HARD about a character/the pov of this character for the past nearly two weeks and I have no clue whether this I’m just hyperfixating or if this is a kin situation— any advice for figuring that out? i’ve never been in this scenario before, it’s always been an immediate realization

Hey, it's okay. I always have a similar problem. I'd say let it wait, if the hyperfixation goes away but not the feeling, then it's a kin. I think that's my advice

[cannibalcharon]

ngl I hate being the enthusiastic friend the enthusiastic emotional support the enthusiastic listener and enjoyer of whatever my friends like because I get so bent out of shape when no one meets my enthusiasm for things I like and things I need so I feel betrayed and hurt then spiral into the I don’t deserve to be cared about self talk. when it isn’t true. fuck I’m getting so depressed.

[swearphil]

I started my first job out of grad school a couple months ago, but my grad assistant supervisor from my previous position just let me know that she's moving next year and that a position similar to hers is going to post at some point. she thinks I'd be a good fit and she said she'll keep me updated on it and I think depending on the job description, I'm going to apply for it. I said I would take advantages of opportunities that came my way and I feel like this is one of those moments but I also feel bad about already thinking about leaving my current position when I haven't even been at it for even one full semester

[shippingfangirl013]

Starting to wonder if planning for a future as a vet is even worth it at this point. . . It’s going to be my third time applying, and I’m burnt out working in small animal.

I genuinely do not want to be here. I feel like planning for any sort of future is pretty damn pointless because I feel like I won’t be around in a year or so to see it.

I haven’t felt this way since I was 16. And things did get better before… but this is worse.

Every fanfic I’ve written in the past 2-3 years has had some sort of suicidal ideation in it (not great.). I feel like I’ve lost hope in other people and faith in myself.

I’m probably gonna delete this later. I just needed to get it off my chest.

[your-icarian-carrion]

how do I start seeing her as just a friend again?

[manybrokenquills]

Is it weird to have a crisis as your best friend (who you care for deeper then just in a friend type of way) is sleeping beside you??

Like they actively have their hand around my waist and their face in my chest and I am crying???

God, I love them.

[ningadudexx]

I love these ominous snake people

[bugbrush]

just for a while

[maxedes]

nico rosbergs reaction to seeing lewis hamiltons post race interview

[independent-fics]

Sending the Kids Off to Fight Crime With Even More Crime

Leverage (2008-2012)

The Juror #6 Job

[the-kipsabian]

saw a take so fucking rancid on twitter i almost deleted the entire app from my phone jesus fucking christ

first of all ao3 is an archive site. this is like going to the library and saying "oh i dont like this" on every piece of media you find that you dislike and thinking they should be stamped with some sort of a marker just cause you didnt like it

you can always click back and leave. fic writers owe you nothing to explain themselves and their creations. if they have mistagged or miscategorized fics, then i understand, however there are report tools for that instead of yelling at the artist tbh

im not saying free works arent necessarily above criticism. but this is just. fucking wild. its common courtesy to just enjoy stuff (or fucking leave if you dont, the back button is free) and if the artist specifically asks for critiques, then give one - constructive that is, shitting all over someones work is not proper criticism, mind you

i just find it fucking wild people are treating art and archive sites as social media these days like this and everything needs to be policed and ~catered to the algorithm~ like. no. ao3 doesnt have an algorithm. you should be able to fucking tell what you like and what you dont like and steer away from that kind of content and let people fucking be with their art. they dont owe you anything (except trigger warnings i'd argue, but i know some people disagree with that as well for some reason), and imagine how much more energy you'd have if you only engaged with things you liked and spent time looking at instead of going to places where you dont enjoy yourself. let alone spending time telling other people you dont enjoy what they enjoy. what a fucking life

[autumnblooms]

I’m still not over this

I found some new Procreate brushes today~

[normal-about-the-dca]

They look like they're having an allergic reaction....

[znxu]

🕊️freedom from settler colonialism now and forever🪶🇵🇸

[no-where-new-hero]

I am actually going to talk about what I call images, or symbols. It seems to me that in our present great drive—fiction-wise—toward the spare, clean, direct kind of story, we are somehow leaving behind the most useful tools of the writer, the small devices that separate fiction from reporting, the work of the imagination from the everyday account. Of these the far most important, and the most neglected, is the use of symbols; I am using the word loosely, because it has altogether different meanings elsewhere, and yet I hardly know what other word to use ... There must be at least one basic image, or set of images, for each character in a story, a fundamental symbol the writer keeps always in mind; as these images grow the character grows, and the accumulation of material and information about the image slowly makes up the character in the story. Various things belong to a character—a manner of speaking, a manner of moving, a particular emphasis, a group of small physical things—and each of these must take on, like a perfume, the essence of the character they belong to. Just as a tune or a scent can evoke for most of us an entire scene, so the basic image of the character must evoke that entire character and his place in the story. As a result of this, of course, the characters themselves grow apart in the writer’s mind, become entirely separate people, and by the end of a book or a story the writer can no more mistake one for another than he can mistake a can of beans for a pearl necklace.

--Shirley Jackson, "Garlic in Fiction"

[mynqzo]

this guy (me) got off their antidepressants officially baby. they were prescribed to me by a doctor at the ER I went to for stomach problems early this year because they said I 'look a bit sad' and knew I had sleeping issues. started taking them and was not informed of side effects or what would happen if i went off them cold turkey - which i did a month later!

i had the worst month of my life after that, having the worst pain ever, cluster headache, shakiness, etc, and i thought i was going crazy until i researched the reasons for this myself, and begged the doctors to help me of course lmao (thrice).

since then i have been tapering my medication for 5 to 6 months now and got to the point three days ago where the next step was to get off them entirely. and believe it or not, the withdrawal symptoms, while still awful, are not as bad as they were at the beginning of the year so yipee!

idk i just wanted to share this because i am 1. struggling and 2. proud of myself nonetheless and have my fingers crossed most of these pains will clear within a week or so!

the worst thing is that (and this is just a ramble) that this medication was misprescribed to me. i had anxiety yes, but this was not something they (the docter) asked about or i think cared for? like i said, i went there because i had a stomach virus and left with medication for something completely different because they apparently believed my vibe was too sad. this should have never happened if they didn't rush to prescribe me something to keep them out of their hair. huff. sigh even.