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[marijuana-barbie]

Things I find myself saying these days that I never said during the 10+ years I had severe depression:

- I love my life

- my life is fun and exciting

- it’s a great time to be alive

I honestly never thought I’d be here. I never thought I’d be free. But I’m so grateful I survived.

[asummersday]

and remember kids: if you pull enough all nighters, your sleep schedule will eventually shift until you become practically nocturnal and wont be able to fall asleep until 4am

[catastrophic-crow]

okay, but. consider:

what if it's not you, that changed?

cakes for when you die and get brought back but there's something wrong with you and everyone can tell

[dredsina]

Ive said this before but swear the biggest skill to learn as an adult is how to resist high-pressure sales tactics. You do NOT have to answer questions with anything other than "Sorry I'm not interested." No matter how nice they are or no matter how many follow up questions they ask or even how agitated they get when you stand your ground. Just keep saying I'm not interested. Don't answer their questions. Don't give them an opening to try to push back on your reasons. Be a fucking brick wall of I'm not interested.

[riacte]

not romantic not platonic but a secret third thing [what would happen between earth and the moon if the earth stopped spinning as illustrated by xkcd randall munroe]

[ghirahimbo]

starting a compilation of my favorite "no thank you" buttons from when they want you to subscribe so bad

[varilien]

am i blanchin?

girl we blanchin!!

HI HIII happy birthday to everyone's favorite mystery twins!! how did they grow up so fast!!!!

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[bags-of-regret]

Oh god theres more

[beidak-art]

Birthday gift great blue heron, watercolor and ink.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Expertise can't help you here.

[nariarts]

Spent a ridiculous amount of time last night obsessively editing my hand written zines in Photoshop to take away any tiny blemishes so they were definitely readable.

Whatever. Understand or don't.

[cryptocism]

It would have taken another immortal to keep up with him.

so i haven't read the books but i did read the Devil's Minion chapter and this part made me laugh out loud:

[seldom-equivocate]

Please. Someone. Help. I really need to watch Gravity Falls.

A week or so ago something about [first name] Hirsch made its way onto my dash and I liked and reblogged it. That led to a chain reaction, with stuff from the Hirsch guy and then stuff from that godforsaken show going all over my dash.

I've never watched Gravity Falls, never really thought about it until now. When I saw all of this Gravity Falls stuff I didn't have context for it. And yet...it's still iconic. Now I need to watch it. So much that it's preventing me from sleeping and invading my thoughts.

The problem is, I don't have time for another obsession. I already have etymology, and linguistics, and pure math, and reading, and school on top of it all. My life does not have space.

Even worse, I feel like after consuming Gravity Falls Gravity Falls would consume me. It would eat away at my thoughts until only fragmented shreds remain. I would hate and love that show simultaneously; hate it because it secreted the right to control of my thoughts away mid-first episode and left me defenseless against its majesty, but love it because I have no other choice. Because whatever-his-name-is Hirsch created something that doesn't allow for halfassery. You can't just watch it casually, and if you try...then you're foolish. Trying to resist the inevitable, even when its already occured.

I'm afraid that if I dip a toe in Gravity Falls' murky waters then something just under the surface will intrigue me enough that I'll welcome the touch of its tentacles, then leap more than get dragged down into its merciless embrace.

[tma-thoughts]

What accent coach is working magic behind the scenes of iwtv. A british man plays an american man with a thick new orleans accent that slowly fades to a standard american accent. Another british man plays an indian man with a french accent that morphs into a british accent. An australian man plays a french man with the strongest most unintelligible french accent youve ever heard

[uncanny-tranny]

I think so many people are so deeply alienated from themselves that they have no clue how to exercise their free will and autonomy. For some, this alienation runs so deep that they are afraid of their own autonomy and humanity. It is completely understandable why one would have those feelings, but it can be worrisome.

I want to help others who feel this way, so here are small things I have done to exercise my free will:

Add "guilty pleasure" songs to playlists and actually listen to them (I have a ton of late 1990s-early 2000s music I listen to now proudly that I never listened to in the past out of shame)

Getting the décor item, bath set, bed spread, ect. in the patterns you like, even if it's "childish" (I got a dinosaur-themed wastebasket from the kids' décor section and I adore it)

Taking a new route to get to a place you go to often

Eat dessert first

Celebrate well, and often

Collect things that are "odd" or don't seem like an "acceptable" thing to collect (somebody on my "for you" page collects dandelion crayola crayons and it was so cool!!!!!!)

Incorporate one new piece in an outfit you wear frequently (e.g., a new chain, a necklace, ribbons, bracelets, ect.). Challenge yourself to add onto the outfits if you feel up for it.

Sing along to songs without worrying that you sound "good" or your intonation is completely accurate

Read a book from a genre you weren't allowed to read as a kid (comics, thrillers, mysteries, anything!)

Walk without having a specific destination or goal

Pick up a new craft without expecting yourself to master it or to ever be "good" enough. Get your hands messy.

I don't want to shame anybody for not feeling as though they have free will or that they are exempt from exercising it. However, I wanted to give ideas so that you might read this list and find your own ways to express your intrinsic autonomy and will. You deserve to be a person, to feel alive, not just living. That is what our lives are for.