#it was definitely hard today

[savage-rhi]

Daily Highlights #14 (3/7/23)

3 Things That Made Me Happy

A friend checked in on me while I was flaring up and shared their art. 

My bearded dragon didn’t try to eat my fingers this time while I fed them.

My lover bought me a slice of cake just for fun.

3 Productive Activities I Performed

Productivity be damned. I slept most of the day so I didn’t deal with the brunt of the flare. 

3 Self Care Activities I Accomplished

Made my bed extra comfortable after calling out for work.

Kept interactions with others minimal so I could spend my energy on feeling better.

Went through a mental list of reasons why I’m not a burden and committed to said list.

3 Emotions I felt Today

Scared 

Troubled 

Elation 

Overall Day

7/10 Jeff Goldblum’s

[maximura]

[magnumopos]

mirages beverages

[lesbianralzarek]

my fellow, like, 20% of tumblr users with a drivers license

for clarification: this is not about what the law says. this is about whats courteous

[astriiformes]

Getting my first grad school rejection today was not ideal (not that it was something I was exactly looking forward to, but this week has sure been a week), but I am feeling somewhat soothed by the fact that I opened the email while on the way to my first independent study meeting with my favorite professor, who definitely made me feel a bit better about the whole thing. Which I especially appreciate seeing as he wrote some of my letters of rec and as a result was familiar with all my application materials, so hearing him say he still thinks I'll get in somewhere eventually means a bit more.

I think this project with him (on abnormality in the history of science) is going to be so nice because he's genuinely very excited about the topic and a great person to study it with, but also because it's very comfortable and casual, and regardless of what else happens with my applications this semester, it's nice to have a fellow academic in my corner who is already treating me a little more like a grad student than an undergrad in some significant ways. We were able to talk pretty frankly about some of the reasons this particular application might not have worked out, and then move on to chatting about what readings we wanted to do this week. I even recommended a new book to him that he got very excited about, which was fun since it's one very related to my PhD thesis proposal, but also to a class that he teaches.

I don't know. I'm still very stressed and will remain so until I've heard back from everywhere, and then I'll be a different kind of stressed (regardless of what I hear, honestly). But I think that rounding out my final year of undergrad with something like this--where I can process some of my feelings about it with someone who's been there, and who also treats me like I actually know things about my research topics--is going to help a lot, and I am feeling particularly grateful for supportive mentors today.

[slythereen]

every time i think of the soft spot checo seems to have for charles it makes me think about that story about charles calling him after mexico 2021 to congratulate him and say how happy he was that checo had his parents there to celebrate with him and i experience immediate heartbreak all over again

[mbirnsings-71]

*sips my drink* God I love being a multishipper sometimes.

[uldahstreetrat]

glamtober - 9. melee

I never had an official dragoon glam for Q'ihnn but I think I might just keep this one! it turned out SO good! (♥ω♥*)

glamour details!

Augmented Lunar Envoy's Gambison of Maiming - Midnight Blue Edengrace Gauntlets of Maiming - Midnight Blue Hemiskin Brais of Maiming - Midnight Blue Augmented Cryptlurker's Sollerets of Maiming - Metallic Gold Lar Glaive - Midnight Blue

[royalarchivist]

Green Gay Ninja's "team full of strong opinionated leaders" ran into a lot of communication issues on Day 1, but nobody has more experience wrangling loud rowdy people than FitMC.

[your-unfriendlyghost]

ohhh god I think my brain’s broken or somethin cos at the sight of all the goddamn 9hr shift Saturdays and 4.5hr shift Sundays in my near future I legit bawled. Like I don’t DO that ok that is WEIRD for me. I miss having weekends. I should be BEING A TEENAGER ON SATURDAYS not standing in a small space for NINE HOURS

I genuinely think this is gonna be what makes me lose it

[scurvyboy]

do these people not realize how headcanons work lol? if they dont see ford that way its literally fine, they could just move on but nah they gotta make it an issue and fight with you about it? wild. ill never understand why people get so up in arms about others interpretations of characters. anyway your headcanons are super valid and big brain and you're really cool, i hope you have a good day :3 👍

literally. i mean i don't blame most of these people, they're still in middle school english.

but yeah i think it's really funny how mad people got at me. like sorry i think the litol beatification of this old man doesn't make any sense and think he should be written like a real person.

[legendary-pancakes]

*chanting* Weird! Little! Dudes! Weird! Little! Dudes! Weird! Lit-

anyway here's the whole crew (or as I like to call them Team Golden Eyes) and their weird little dudes™

if you don't know what rolling with difficulty is its a D&D podcast and its great you should go listen to it right now (they just started campaign 2 its very cool)

individual drawings under the cut:

[venomouslilith]

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[fromtheseventhhell]

Remember George's outline notes that had "joy of giving" and "mercy at the gate" for Arya? Mercy is crossed out and we obviously have that as her sample chapter, so what if Arya's next alias is "Joy"? Over-thinking the significance of that phrase and how it could apply to the rest of her Braavos arc🤔

[unexpectedbrickattack]

I bet Gustavo knows how’s exactly small he is and uses his charms and adorableness to get tips , and it’d work

Peppino pays Gus very well (esp after postgame) so theres no need to have tips. He lets Gus have the jar there anyway, but at the cost of having Pep occasionally come up behind him and catch him conning these poor customers

[selectivechaos]

my love to the people who didn’t get up today

who didn’t face their fears today

who didn’t do the coping mechanisms

my love to the people who had breakdowns today.

my pride in the people who aren’t proud of themselves.

my love to the people who feel unworthy of love.

my love to the people who didn’t ride the wave but rather were swallowed by it, for they are still treading water even though they can’t see the shore.

you didn’t bring it on yourself. it’s just heavy. and it is not your fault. 🌹🌹