#Picture Yourself

[silverspleen]

Every time I see that G--gle phone photoshop commercial my heart is filled with infinite sadness, like, yeah it's cool you can have a good family photo, it's cool you can do that, but god, there is something to be said for the honesty of a family photo where you're blinking, or crying, or have ugly wrinkles.

What is too unsightly for you? Would you swipe-click-replace out the image of my cousin crying on our Florida trip family reunion photo? Would you remove the plastic snake I have clenched in my grip, which I still have to this day? Would you scoff at the wrinkles around our eyes and the strands of hair on our faces as we squint into the wind, the day before the massive storm? Would I remember it if I didn't have these reminders, if the picture was perfect and clean, all children in a row with perfect gleaming white tombstone tooth smiles? No tears. No plastic snake.

Everyone is beautiful and no one looks genuine.

[chechula]

Request drawing: Gollum ♥ Being tortured by Mirkwood elves. Brutal creatures.

[inkskinned]

they want to talk about mental illness and acceptance and how everyone is a little ocd it's cute and quirky and their "intrusive thoughts" are about cutting their hair off and you say yours are about taking a razorblade to your eye and they say ew can you not and everyone is a little adhd sometimes! except if you're late it's a personality flaw and it's because you are careless and cruel (and someone else with adhd mentions they can be on time, so why can't you?) and it's not an eating disorder if it's girl dinner! it's not mania if it's girl math! what do you mean you blew all of your savings on nonrefundable plane tickets for a plane you didn't even end up taking. what do you mean that you are afraid of eating. get over it. they roll their little lips up into a sneer. can you not, like, trauma dump?

they love it on them they like to wear pieces of your suffering like jewels so that it hangs off their tongue in rapiers. they are allowed to arm-chair diagnose and cherrypick their poisons but you can't ever miss too many showers because that's, like, "fuckken gross?" so anyone mean is a narcissist. so anyone with visual tics is clearly faking it and is so cringe. but they get to scream and hit customer service employees because well, i got overwhelmed.

you keep seeing these posts about how people pleasers are "inherently manipulative" and how it's totally unfair behavior. but you are a people pleaser, you have an ingrained fawn response. in the comments, you have typed and deleted the words just because it is technically true does not make it an empathetic or kind reading of the reaction about one million times. it is technically accurate, after all. you think of catholic guilt, how sometimes you feel bad when doing a good deed because the sense of pride you get from acting kind - that pride is a sin. the word "manipulation" is not without bias or stigma attached to it. many people with the fawn response are direct victims of someone who was malignantly manipulative. calling the victims manipulative too is an unfair and unkind reading of the situation. it would be better and more empathetic to say it is safety-seeking or connection-seeking behavior. yes, it can be toxic. no, in general it is not intended to be toxic. there is no reason to make mentally ill people feel worse for what we undergo.

you type why is everyone so quick to turn on someone showing clear signs of trauma but you already know the fucking answer, so what's the point of bothering. you kind of hate those this is what anxiety looks like! infographics because at this point you're so good at white-knuckling through a severe panic attack that people just think you're stoic. even people who know the situation sometimes comment you just don't seem depressed. and you're not a 9 year old white kid so there's no way you're on the spectrum, you're not obsessed with trains and you were never a good mathematician. okay then.

mental illness is trending. in 2012 tumblr said don't romanticize our symptoms but to be fair tiktok didn't exist yet. there's these series of videos where someone pretends to be "the most boring person on earth" and is just being a normal fucking person, which makes your skin crawl, because that probably means you are boring. your friend reads aloud a profile from tinder - no depressed bitches i fucking hate that mental illness crap. your father says that medication never actually works.

you still haven't told your grandmother that you're in therapy. despite everything (and the fact it's helping): you just don't want her to see you differently.

[thethingsicantsayinpublic]

Keep going stink 💖

[bunjywunjy]

What’s your favorite cursed chipmunk fact?

chipmunks looooove to eat baby mice. if they find a nest they'll just horf the little guys down like popcorn.

like this but way worse!

they'll eat adult mice too, if they can catch them!

it is simply not safe to be a smaller rodent anywhere in the vicinity of a chipmunk.

[ddeck]

recently ive been doing nothing but sketches of my jedi oc. yes her lightsaber is gatorade green

[umblrspectrum]

do you ever like wanna make something cool but you dont know how so you just sit around like a moron for 5 hours straight pretending you know how

me neither

on a more serious note i know ad astra as a whole isnt over but i still want to thank daybreaker for their fics. what friends are for was the very first md fic i ever stumbled upon when trying out ao3 for the first time, and prior to joining the server i was checking it near daily for uploads. god knows if i'd be as deep in ao3 as i am now if it werent for this story and convenient timing. Thanks for the story.

[bitchy-craft]

PICK A CARD: What you should be proud of

Hello and welcome to this new post of mine! In here I will give you a reading on what you should be proud of. I hope you guys enjoy and find this useful!

Masterpost > Paid Readings > Subliminal Channel

~pick a card~

Pile 1:

No matter what people say; you have more motivation than any of them will ever have. You push through in order to avoid problems, in order to achieve your dreams. Your will to succeed in great, and that will itself is already more than many will ever have. It doesn’t matter if you believe you haven’t achieved enough in your life yet, the fact you try to do things about it, no matter how effective says enough about you as a person.

Next to that; you have achieved great things already, and will continue to do so for the rest of your life; not many people can say that for themselves.

Pile 2:

You possess great intelligence, whether that is book-knowledge or emotional intelligence. You remember things, you learn quickly, and many things have great effect on you. You grow quickly because you suck up all that information.

All those things you know that you deem useless are, as a matter of fact, not useless at all. You knowing those things prove how easily you learn and can remember; and no matter how niche a certain interest of yours is, or someth8ing that you remember, it will always be useful at some point; whether for actual problematic situations, for a good grade, or for a fun conversation.

Pile 3:

You have empathy. You might sometimes hate it yourself, or deem yourself as oversensitive because people around you have often called you such; but you are not overly sensitive, you are empathetic and a good person. The people who look down on you because of this ability are the ones who will never understand what it’s like to relate to people or to properly keep others in mind when making decisions.

People trust you more easily and can count on you whenever there is something wrong; you have a social ability many would dream of having. Getting heavily affected by things is simply a side effect, of which nothing is wrong with.

[just-null]

HELLO HANTENGU NATION (5 people)

I'VE MADE AN [unofficial] HEIGHT CHART FOR MYSELF

Hantengu: 5"5 (166cm) Sekido: 5"9 (175cm) Karaku: 5"9 (175cm) Urogi: 5"9 (175cm) Aizetsu: 5"9 (174cm) Zohakuten: 5"3 (160cm) Urami: 8"5 (257cm)

[little aftermath under the cut]

they're so annoying. peace is nonexistent... they're the best ever.

[theriverbeyond]

“I killed wizard’s filth like you all my life, I killed them with guns, and bombs, and knives, and gas, and when I didn’t have any of those I just got in real close and put my thumbs through their fucking eyes. You can flick that little skewer around all you like, boy. I’ll choke you with it.”

[thyming]

They smelled amazing! ♡

[m3tth4ws]

[hedgehog-moss]

Jour de brume

[reality-detective]

Looking forward to the disclosure! 👇

It's going by the Book 🤔

[longmaxsilvarg]

something about the main menu for life is strange genuinely makes me wanna collapse and sob

[ryan-sometimes]

I don’t know what’s weirder, the fact that my uncle had his phone stolen and the people who stole his phone sent all the pictures and videos of him having sex with a woman that wasn’t his wife on the family group chat, or the fact that no one in my family seemed to care?? As my grandma recounted this story at the dinner table, literally everyone in my family was laughing hysterically??