#Possibly a vent

[uzi-x33]

needing to vent but not wanting to be a burden<<<<<<<

[smibberz]

simple explanation

5x20

[theheavenlybat]

Tw self harm

I can’t even cut myself right. It’s never deep enough, doesn’t hurt enough, doesn’t bleed enough. I cut to release frustration, but lately it’s only making me more frustrated.

[chocodile]

Ramen Shop

[darkmuffinstudios]

Whenever I’m struggling (physically, emotionally, or psychologically), I would always put a pen to my screen and just let myself draw.

Messy lines for messy feelings

I hope I captured it well. Killer and Nightmare were always a perfect muse for these kinds of moments.

[ogatas-beloved]

I am once again reminding you to stop fucking excluding intersex people from conversations about gender and gender related oppression

[intermundia]

Saturn’s rings loop for hundreds of thousands of miles. And just beyond them, one of its largest moons changed everything we thought we knew about volcanic activity this far out in the solar system.

With a hard, frozen exterior, Enceladus’ surface averages minus-330 degrees Fahrenheit. It’s one of the coldest places in the Saturn system; an ice world, where we’d expect everything to be completely still, frozen and unchanging.

But in 2005, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft travelled to the south pole and discovered that stillness shattered. It captured explosive jets, constantly erupting from the surface. Giant plumes, far bigger than the moon they erupt from, are an incredible sight.

Over 660 pounds of water erupt from the surface of Enceladus every second, creating visible eruptions that can thrust up to 6,000 miles into space. It’s called “cryovolcanism,” “cryo” from the Greek for cold.

As Enceladus orbits Saturn, it wobbles like a raw egg, by about 0.12 degrees on its axis, a tiny but significant movement that tells us something about the moon’s interior. There is an outer shell of solid ice, around three miles thick, sitting on top of a global ocean of water.

When the liquid ocean is heated from below, by energy from tidal heating, it expands, so the liquid wants to take up more space. As it seeks to take up more space, it pushes up against the bottom of the ice shell. Once that water goes through a crack and then is exposed to the vacuum of space, it’s like a suction.

That’s how tidal heating, caused by an elliptical orbit, drives volcanic eruptions on Enceladus that aren’t even hot.

Solar System: Volcano Worlds on NOVA

[mxelliott]

i think it’s really funny how ppl are always either “you be happier in a relationship” or “you won’t be happy taken if you’re unhappy single” or whatever

as an aroace person i can never understand how people don’t understand that the base of just about any long-lasting relationship is friendship?? maybe i wont be happy “taken”/in a romantic relationship however i would fucking die for my best friends because i love them.

fuck everyone who thinks the end goal of all life is to fuck or be romantic bc you can only do one of those things without becoming friend-ish, and it’s not fucking.

[chiliger]

You know he’s gonna get away with it.

[hyah-lian]

how many adventures, how many more?

y'all gettin me on the lege train rn. poor bastard.

reblogs help creators and artists!! &ko-fi if you want to commission me or whatever

[scwambledeggs]

i am a lamb i promise ; vent art for when i felt i was splitting, i am scared of this feeling. it feels like it becomes me, i desire nothing more than to be soft and harmless- inside and out

this was just vent art that doubled as an experimental peice aaa- i've been meaning to work with more textured brushes and this felt like a good opportunity 2 try <3

[angel-dustspo]

2025 - The year of your Recovery ₊˚⊹ᰔ

2025 is the year of change, and in the first part of January everybody is extremely motivated to "glow up", "reinvent themselves" and "change their lives". I'm all for that, but I believe there is something even more important that we should focus on in 2025: recovering. Learning how to be there for yourself, appreciate your own value, know your worth and finally, how to love yourself should be a priority this year. In order to achieve all of those, you'd have to undo the damage that has been done to your brain by the eating disorder and begin your healing process.

It's an extremely brave thing to acknowledge there is a problem and to actively WANT to change it. Recovery is a hard thing and, at times, it could seem even more challanging than the disorder itself and make you wonder "why did I even begin this, there's no point, i want to give up". It's normal to have bad days too, where you feel like you can't keep going anymore, but it's very important to keep pushing yourself. Recovery isn't linear and it WILL hurt, but it's so worth it to finally enjoy that dessert, have enough energy to hang out with your friends, improve your mood, feel warm again, have the strenght to go for a walk, and to look in the mirror and be happy with the person you see, to love the way you look and to fall in love with yourself again.

✮ Here are some recovery tips that have worked for me:

ׂ╰┈➤ Inspiring youtube videos

My most important tip for any disorder, addiction or problem ever. I know I would still be in the same place the little girl 4 years ago was if I didn't discover the recovery and self improvement youtubers. This has been the most important thing in my recovery journey because it was the starting point, the switch that finally showed me the light. Watching just a few videos made me change the way I am forever. I feel like everybody trying to recover should watch and learn from other people's mistakes and their journeys.

The people I find the most helpful are:

Linda Sun (I basically owe her my life, nothing and nobody ever helped me so much as she did through her inspiring videos!!!)

zoeunlimited (she helped me with beating ana by making me understand how the metabolism actually works and how important food is - please watch the metabolism videos)

growingannanas

Coleen Christensen

LilBigNanc

Mae Alice Suzuki

ׂ╰┈➤ The Tumblr pro-recovery community

A key piece in my recovery, I wouldn't be in such a good mental state without Tumblr. It's true that it helped me beat an0rexia forever, become my best self and develop all my healthy habits. But we all know though that Tumblr can be a very toxic place for obsessive self improvement and that good health achieved by any means is glorified here, and I got myself orth0rexia from here, which I'm still struggling to recover from too. It's important to take the good stuff only and ignore any harmful media on here.

ׂ╰┈➤ Have "allowing days/meals"

My approach was to say "I allow myself to eat this". No reason needed to enjoy something you (used to) love, and I aim to feel no guilt afterwards. It doesn't work all the time, but it's a BIG step towards being able to eat anything guilt-free.

ׂ╰┈➤ Not consuming ED media

Say goodbye Tumblr th1nspo, glorifying eds on Tiktok or saving all those ana pins, all it does is ruin your progress and make you feel miresable about your own journey

ׂ╰┈➤ Changing your end-goals

My end goals changed from being skinny and pretty to being strong and healthy, and doing things towards my new goal has brought me unintentional weight loss and enhanced my features a lot. Chasing that unhealthy beauty only attracts opposite results.

ׂ╰┈➤ Thinking about your reasons for recovering

It's extremely easy to get lost. Always keep in mind your recovery reasons and reassure yourself that you will succeed. Think about what you'll be able to do, what you miss now and how you will feel if you keep going, and stay strong!!!

ׂ╰┈➤ Don't beat yourself up

We all screw up sometimes, and the important thing is to keep hoping and keep working towards our dreams. It's stupid of me to just say this continuously, but you have to never give up on recovery. Most days you will hate yourself so much and not understand what's going on or what are you doing wrong. It might be the worst thing for your mental health right now, but in a week, a month, a year, you will be so happy you started recovery and never gave up on it.

The path is not easy, but it is worth every struggle. I hope 2025 is the year when you recover and you start to love yourself. You're so brave and I'm so proud of you for trying, good luck on your journey <333

[candycryptids]

Hiiii having like the worst Thursday possible ! We have to somehow materialize like 500$ because our Electricity is on a different date than it has been for the past 8 FUCKING YEARS And we still have other shit that desperately needs paying for like OUR LAST GODDAMN CAR PAYMENT and we’re so close to being ok if we can just make it through this goddamn month.

Commissions are open [here]

My Cashapp is $candycrypt

And the commission post doesn’t say it but if you would like Carbuncle or Minion model edits drop me a tumblr dm and we can talk about what you want and if I think I can feasibly do it and how much it would take (it would vary on complexity obviously. Like, just a hat or something small would be 3$ and something like pants we’d have to talk about cos I’m not 100% I can do it consistently)

Thanks for reading, sorry for wailing, I know everything is on fire for everyone, and the holidays are fast approaching.

[trashiiplant]

bro is going through it

[morays-lament]

I want a dad, like an actual dad so bad

The comfort of fictional men isn't enough, I need to be someone's daughter and they love me unconditionally and treat me like their family, I need to be cherished by a father figure, I need it

I'm so jealous my friends who have good relationships with their fathers, they know they can be themselves without any risk of possibly being shunned by their parents

I don't think I can fix things with my dad, we can be civil with each other but I can't feel comfortable around him

I can't see him as my dad, he's simply my father

[eilinelsghost]

So I ran across a (not particularly pleasant) conversation about my writing on someone else’s post the other day in which it was put forward that the correct way to frame Bëor’s wife was to erase her entirely and make his sons his nephews; also heavily implying a lack of creativity on my part (and a lack of commitment to the authenticity of Finrod and Balan's relationship) for not having utilized this "much easier solution that changes nothing much but allows for way less cringe".

I vented to friends and just moved on and tried to ignore it, but this particular aspect of the commentary has been bothering me so much that I'm going to take a moment for my own peace of mind to briefly address it here.

Bëor's wife is not a problem to be solved

The majority of women in the Silmarillion already exist as textual ghosts (Bëor's wife included). Why would the story be better served by eliminating her existence? One of the strengths of Silm fanfic that I've consistently appreciated has been the commitment to lifting women from the margins of the text and fleshing them out with full, complicated, and detailed identities. Her unspoken presence in the text is an opportunity to draw another woman forward into the narrative, not an excuse to erase them even further.

Furthermore, we know of Bëor's wife because of the existence of Baran and Belen. This suggested approach holds that they thus create a "problem" within the text for this particular story and the simplest solution should be to take her children from her and give them to someone else, all so that her husband can be free to fall in love without the encumbrance of her existence. Which leads me to the next issue.

Bëor's wife does not need to be erased to make Finrod/Bëor ok

The implication in these comments was that she needed to be scrubbed from the narrative in order for Finrod and Balan's relationship to be authentic or "monogamous." I'm not even going to get into the second part of that (which is...sure a take) but the authenticity of a relationship or the depth of someone's love is not determined by whether this is the only person they have ever been in love with. To be perfectly frank, that sounds more like the purity culture slop I was fed growing up than it does like the desire to uplift and enhance the queer relationship in the narrative that the op seemed to indicate was their intent.

It matters that the House of Bëor are the actual descendants of Bëor

This is a key point in the arc of the Silmarillion itself, but focusing just on what this means within a Finrod/Bëor context, it matters that the House of Bëor - who are consistently loyal to Finrod, who sacrifice to save his life, and for whom he eventually sacrifices his own life - are the offspring of the man for whom he crossed wisdom and wedded despite the chasm of sundered fates. They are how Bëor lives on even after Finrod's irreparable loss. Caring for them - dying for them - is a large part of how he carries Balan forward with him through the years of solitude and how he remains true to his love long after they are sundered.

There is a good deal more I could go on about, but I did say this would be brief, so I should leave it there.