#it's healthy and you'll be happy

[cosmicharm]

You're such a strange girl I think you come from another world

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

License to Kitty.

[chrisbangz]

happy birthday chris ♡ insp.• insp.

[medi-bee]

You will accept affection. You have no choice in the matter.

Featuring @bitteraerie‘s wonderful slug!iterator designs!

[waitineedaname]

Yo, friendo What's the best way to consume these funny doomed men I keep seeing?

( Didn't mean it literality, but I can't help but think that the answer is with spice )

depends on which ones!! there are two series I've been posting about a lot, both by the same author: SVSSS and MDZS!

Scum Villain's Self-Saving System/SVSSS is a book series, and you can read it physically (which I did through my local library for the first two books) or online on the Internet Archive or Anna's Archive (which I did for the last two books when I got too impatient to wait on my holds). It also has a ten episode long donghua called Scumbag System that covers most of the first book and it's terrible (affectionate). You can find that one on youtube or most anime pirating sites. In short summary, SVSSS is about a terminally online dude getting isekai'd into the villain of a webnovel he absolutely hates, and in his attempt to avoid the villain's horrible death he sends the story completely off the rails. It's unhinged, hilarious, and everyone in the series is a complete freak <3 It's only four books long (three of which are the main plot and the fourth is extras)

MDZS/Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation is also a book series by the same author! Similarly, you can check your public library or the Internet Archive and Anna's Archive. It also has a donghua (which I haven't watched) and a wildly successful live action drama called The Untamed (which is how I initially got into the series!). The Untamed is available on Netflix and Youtube and probably other places. It does make some significant changes due to censorship reasons and it is extremely cheesy, but I enjoy it. If you want more classical tragedy, I'd say start with The Untamed, and if you want more gay necromancy shenanigans, I'd say start with the books! In short summary, it's about the life and death and second life of Wei Wuxian as he goes from war hero to widely reviled necromancer, and it's quite fun. The book series is five books long, and The Untamed is 50 episodes long. I have a character guide for that one if you need it because the names do get confusing!

[menlove]

another example of how insanely conservative "liberalism" and "leftism" has become is this movement of the nuclear family being the only one that's non abusive to children

like you'll have people claiming they're progressive saying you shouldn't adopt (though I do agree w this one privatized adoption is an evil industry), you shouldn't foster and especially not foster to adopt, you shouldn't use donated eggs or sperm, you shouldn't use a surrogate, and you shouldn't have children if you're poor or mentally ill/neurodivergent. and they'll say these are all examples of child abuse because a child can only ever be healthy and happy when they're with their birth parents who are rich.

like girl you just did eugenics but with the language that it's for child advocacy

[dairyfreenugget]

I could count the amount of original stories of mine that don't have horror elements on one hand and idk what that says about me

[tiredfuckery]

fuck I miss my BMI of 11.4 so fucking bad

[starpros-sunshine]

When others enjoy things in an overly emotional and enthusiastic way I find it tacky and rebarbative. When I do the exact same thing though it's different. Then it's appropriate and justified. Obviously.

[svnflowermoon]

the not giving a fuck mindset is really working out well for me you guys should try it

[xazz]

predictably

everyone acting like the sky is falling about Bungie

looked at my YT feed today to yet more videos about it

you guys ARE THE PROBLEM

all your bitching and moaning over the past YEAR is partially why this is happening

but nah layoffs happen in a vacuum it can't be my fault UWU Me telling people for the past 8-11 months how boring Destiny is, how not worth it is to buy, how stupid the story is has zero bearing on why people might have lost their jobs because preorders (and probably Silver and season purchases) for Final Shape were low.

[edge-oftheworld]

starting to have a way of processing my reaction for when i see what i call 'shallow hearts for shallow minds' takes on here like. do you not know how when you don't feel something at the time it catches up with you later? do we not understand the cumulative nature of nervous system stress and how. sometimes it gets worse before it gets better. sometimes getting better isn't about being happy, it's about feeling things as they come rather than trying to force yourself to be happy. making choices that will lead to the most happiness, even if they're painful at the time. i won't know exactly where an artist is at, neither do you, but I can trust that they're making the kind of decisions that are a step forward in self care in times where I see something that looks familiar and i'm like. i think i've been there. i know it doesn't make so much sense to everyone, but, that's what the fandom's for right?

[asterdeer]

trying to articulate that while i do want to be more mentally healthy and more stable, i am not a woo woo uwu humanity is basically good <3 i love living life and romanticizing every little thing <3 if depressed people would only try to see beauty in a plastic bag they would no longer be depressed <3 kind of person and i don't see why i should have to be in order to Not Be Depressed. this is literally high school all over again

[piscadilly]

hi can i just have a fucking break

[weaselle]

i had to make a solution for this for myself, mostly because of depression, but it makes a nice How To for folks who are low on spoons or could use some help in the kitchen.

Fortunately i was a professional cook for over a decade. UNfortunately the first post i made explaining it was suuuuper long. Let's see if i can do better

So you select any protein that you can cook in a frying pan -- chicken breasts, ground beef, pork chops, sausages, steak, chicken thighs, whatever. You also select one or two types of veggie (mushrooms or tubers also work, i just did this with potatoes and carrots for dinner tonight).

[i like cooking for vegetarians, but this is how i cook for myself when i'm low on spoons - perhaps i'll do another post for meatless meals]

You'll also need some kind of oil, and a sauce or two of your choice in a bottle. All cooking gear is a large frying pan with lid (i prefer non-stick) a spatula, a cutting board, and a knife.

You cut the veggies into bite size pieces, cut up enough for two meals. One kind of veggie is fine, or you can do mix two or three

Put frying pan on medium heat with a little oil. Tubers or mushrooms or go in the pan a few minutes before the protein. 2 portions of the protein goes in the pan, about 5 minutes with lid (don't worry you can still get a good sear on both sides)

Now flip your protein if it's flip-able and add normal veggies, put the lid back on another five-ish minutes.

Take your protein out and put it with one portion of the veggies in a microwave safe container. That's going to be your lunch tomorrow. Put the other portion of protein on a plate to rest (you have to let a cooked protein sit a couple minutes before you serve it or when you cut into it all the juices run out and it goes dry - the liquids thicken as it cools, preventing this drying out if you let it rest, the goal is to serve it very warm but not hot hot)

While it's resting, pour some sauce from your bottle in the pan with the rest of the veggies and turn up the heat. A single sauce/bottle is fine, i like to get fancy and mix a couple. Two examples of personal favorite mixes are 1: bbq sauce and a hot sauce like sriracha 2: roughly equal parts low sodium soy sauce and worcestershire (makes something similar to a teriyaki sauce) A swallow of wine is almost always a great option if you want to add that to your sauce too, just add it to the pan before the other sauces so the alcohol has time to burn off.

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Here is the important bit. While your veggies are finishing, wash your cutting board and chef knife. Then when you dump your veggies and sauce over your protein on the plate, while it is still too hot to eat, you wash your frying pan and spatula before you eat. Now the only dishes you have left to do are your plate and fork. Maybe a steak knife.

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The whole thing takes about 35 minutes even with washing the dishes, and that includes your lunch for the next day- just pour a different sauce on and stick it in the microwave for a couple minutes (or five minutes back in the frying pan) and you have a full healthy lunch with a different flavor

You can use this technique every single meal and it yields hundreds of combinations, from pork and potatoes bbq, to salmon and broccoli teriyaki, to chicken and zucchini in a soy glaze.

It will keep you down to less than an hour of kitchen time per day total for both lunch and dinner including all dish clean up, uses the least dishes, the least effort, requires the least technique, and is, depending on what you pick out, very affordable

here are a couple more examples from this month; i didn’t take pictures of the salmon i did recently, but you get the idea

it's not super fancy, but it is easy, affordable, quick, and any flavors you want. Hope this helps some folks

Happy Cooking!

[anaalnathrakhs]

like

i want something. then i change my mind in a reasonable, timely, and non-penalizing manner. cue scrambling and apologizing and so much fucking offense that i'm ohhhh nooo restricting myself again poor wittle baby :((((((

i want something so much i can't stand the thought of leaving it behind or not making it, so much that i'm panicking. cue incredulous surprise from parents when it was a decision driven from near-pathological FOMO that i fucking hate, even though i took responsibility of it and paid with my allowance.

i don't know what are any of the options. well, sucks to be you, because they forgot to listen to you asking them out loud to take one more minute, despite info and the time to take it in being like, a lifelong need for me.

i don't want something they want. i tell them it's okay if it's important to them. we do it, it sucks, they way overdo it, it explodes, we talk it out, turns out it was like 1% importance to them the whole time.

i don't want to go on vacation at my grandma's. i thought it over since my parents asked. i say i don't want to go. cue very long description of how sad grandma will be, and how old she is compared to the median lifespan in this country. cue them telling me but of courseeeeee you have a choice and we respect that choice.

i agree to go to a store. we walk around the store taking all the fucking time in the world to look into great details literally every single object. i went around the whole store ten times and they're still not done. i want to cry and tear my eyes out. i walk some more. i still want to cry. i see something and i need to buy it to have it to never let it go i'll never see it again i can't live without it i'll never forgive myself. buy object. feel the weight of object in my hand. it feels good. go home and feel guilty about this shit you never wanted (lie) and will never use or look at again (true)

i don't want something. are you sure you don't want it? :( are you sure?? are you sure??? are you sure are you sure are you sure are you sure

i don't want something. but it might be your only chance! it's stupid not to take the opportunity!

i can tell them out loud as explicitely as i can, and it's still like oh sorry yeah it's true you told us but we forgot this one time sorry shouldn't have happened whoops haha. whoops sorry we didn't understand that you meant what you said lol sorry. haha noticed you uh feel trapped into cyclical problems, why's that?