#but it is accurate

[being-somewhere-else]

I call this one: onion

[sigynpenniman]

My greatest terror, I think, and I have many terrors, is that I will be perceived as arrogant. That people will think that I think that I’m better at something that I am. When I present something that I’ve done or made without a line of preemptive depreciation attached, I hear the thoughts of all who see it: does she think that’s GOOD? And it’s so terrifying I almost can’t let it stand. I can never allow anyone to believe I think anything I make is any good, because what if it’s not, and I’m living in a pride I haven’t earned. What if I do or feel anything I haven’t earned. What if I take up space, make art, have an experience, use an accommodation, use someone’s time, feel a joy I do not deserve. What if I get above my station. Trying to learn art, a mission I have not abandoned, was so difficult in part because my sublime badness made me feel as though I had no right to even participate. What if, imagine, unbearable, what if someone sees me trying to make art and somehow gets the idea that I thought I was good enough at art to have a right to experience the joy of making it? I take myself to the eye doctor to make an appointment to get measured for contacts for a costume and am so very sure I will be laughed out of the building because I’m asking for help and time I don’t really need, for something silly and unimportant, which my own projects must be, by definition, because they’re mine, and everything I touch immediately becomes silly and unimportant by association, and how dare I take up the time of a real actual eye doctor who has real actual patients to see with real actual needs and problems that aren’t a Halloween costume, nevermind that this is still within the purview of their literal job, nevermind that I’m paying them actual money, nevermind the literal content of my own rant a couple nights ago about the toxicity of the way we reserve relief only for the desperate. And of course, they don’t laugh me out of the building. But it’s all the same thought, over and over, in different shells and different flavors, no matter the topic, no matter the terror. Because when the voice of anxiety tells me lies, as it often does, despite the fact that I know they are lies, when the voice of anxiety in my head parrots the horrible things it’s so sure everyone around me is saying, it’s always the same sentence, every time: who does she think she is?

[willowcrowned]

if you're feeling powerless right now—and god knows I am—here's a reminder you can donate to the National Network of Abortion Funds, the Trans Law Center, Gaza Soup Kitchen, the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, and hundreds of other charities that will work to mitigate the damage that has been and will continue to be inflicted

life continues. we still have the capacity to do good, important work. that matters

[jellyjamheadobb]

[starbuck]

“…to me” is one of the most powerful disclaimers we have on here… is this character analysis accurate? debatable. but it’s real… to me.

[beaft]

the little girl i was looking after today was so effortlessly funny and she didn't even know it. she wanted me to play "holidays" with her, which i assumed was a game where you pretend to be going on holiday - and it technically was, except her version mostly consisted of roleplaying being stuck in a traffic jam on the way to the airport

[theotherhappyplace]

Finished designing my bull angel concept! for my friend's TTRPG

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Folks someone just made the most amazing thing I've seen in ages

the eye pinning when they're excited???? sent me

[victusinveritas]

[helpimstuckinafandom]

I'M FUCKING CRYING LMAOOO

[charlesoberonn]

Tell me you know nothing about history without telling me you know nothing about history

[shinymanticore]

So yesterday I went to take banana, peeled it, and came back to show my partner because wow, this is a VERY STRAIGHT banana !

Like abnormally straight !

!!!

[misscrazyfangirl321]

Thinking about... Grieving the undead.

[maureen-corpse]

One thing they don’t tell you about sewing is that it is actually ironing

[zillychu]

everyone sh. shutd up im cooking smthn