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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.
#mental health#mental health support#positivity#if anybody has ideas of their own definitely include them!#i just think being stuck with this feeling that you don't have autonomy and that you ultimately aren't an equal person or a person at all..#...in comparison to other people can be a really troubling and dangerous place to be in...#...and that isn't the person's fault for feeling that way. they didn't pluck those thoughts out of thin air...#...like i have felt that exact way all my LIFE because i have been abused for. probably 2/3s of my life...#...only within these past few years have i even FELT alive. frankly it's going to take a while to repair what i have been left with...#...so i know the feeling and i want to help others feel even a LITTLE bit alive. you deserve it...#...you deserve to take in a deep breath before slowly realizing 'oh my gd this is what it feels like to be alive' and SMILE about it#i want that for you even if it is brief. even if it is small. even if it is a whisper. i want you to feel alive#unironically getting rid of the idea of 'guilty pleasures' has made my life SO much better
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"A story doesn't need a theme in order to be good" I'm only saying this once but a theme isn't some secret coded message an author weaves into a piece so that your English teacher can talk about Death or Family. A theme is a summary of an idea in the work. If the story is "Susan went grocery shopping and saw a weird bird" then it might have themes like 'birds don't belong in grocery stores' or 'nature is interesting and worth paying attention to' or 'small things can be worth hearing about.' Those could be the themes of the work. It doesn't matter if the author intended them or not, because reading is collaborative and the text gets its meaning from the reader (this is what "death of the author" means).
Every work has themes in it, and not just the ones your teachers made you read in high school. Stories that are bad or clearly not intended to have deep messages still have themes. It is inherent in being a story. All stories have themes, even if those themes are shallow, because stories are sentences connected together for the purpose of expressing ideas, and ideas are all that themes are.
#original post#text post#500#1k#2k#btw i know my definition of death of the author is loosey goosey here#it wasn't the main point so i went informal with it! as ppl in the tags have pointed out it isn't exact#and i do recommend reading the wikipedia article or similar (possibly even the essay itself if you're narsty) if you want to learn more!#wasn't expecting this to take off so my apologies to my barthes-heads out there#love you mwah#5k#10k#15k#20k
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Alison Bechdel in Her Minnesota Apartment, Tom Sweeney, 1990 (photo taken from lesbian archives/ @/butchusband on twitter)
Highlighting this photo specifically because it really shows how Mo from Dykes to Watch Out For has the same exact hair swirl that Bechdel had! Seeing photos of Bechdel with this hairstyle always jump out at me because it looks stunningly similar to her cartooning.
#dtwof#dykes to watch out for#alison bechdel#like Mo being a sort of self insert makes a lot of sense seeing this close to each other#Mo isn't an exact self insert obv but there's definitely a lot of Bechdel in the character#bailey.txt
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got an urge to design ponies oops
#If people like this I'll do the rest of the life cast... No cutiemarks though cause Im really bad at those#geminitay fanart#pearlescentmoon fanart#jimmy solidarity#martyn inthelittlewood#scott smajor fanart#zombiecleo fanart#bdubs fanart#ethoslab fanart#impulse fanart#joel smallishbeans#he was difficult lol. I tried all sorts of green + brown (sometimes borderline red) colors but none felt quite right#so I just. made both the body and hair both green and brown. I think theres definitely a better design to be had here but I did my best#ldshadowlady fanart#Impulse ofc mostly inspired from that one skin where he has a beard#seeing people do fan designs for lifers is the only thing that gave me the urge to draw this#I wanted to see how much the colors could be played around with without making the ponies unrecognizable#and also like. pleasant to the eye. Again as if they could fit into the show itself#there arent a lot of skin toned ponies walking around equestria for a reason... it's uncanny unfortunately#that often makes fan ponies all follow the exact scame scheme of light body + dark hair#they get really indistinguishable so go wild!!!! mix things up!!!#sorry Im passionate about animal character design and ponies#tubby art
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#this makes me laugh because i made this exact same meme during fhsy for zelda / gorgug / ragh#skuttlespring#gornit#Gorgugs got that autistic rizz#headcanon that gorgug has the highest body count of the bad kids#my guy has sex positive parents AND a van#hes DEFINITELY fucking#mary ann skuttle#gorgug thistlespring#UNIT#dimension 20#d20#fantasy high#d20 fhjy#fhjy#alix original post
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guess who’s been wading thru the archives again
#yes i know it’s as a result of semantic drift etc etc but it’s funny (to me)#this is from the late 19th century I THINK#i found the clipping in my files and forgot the exact publication date#it’s somewhere between 1880 and 1910 definitely (cause that was the era I was examining)#the original paper was discussing chameleons hehe#good omens#crowley#ineffable husbands#good omens 2#aziracrow#aziraphale#go2#ineffable lovers#ineffable wives#good omens season 2#shitpost#good omens shitpost#gomens#gomens 2#David tennant#Michael sheen
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(The rest is under the readmore!)
(Next part) ->
#breaking news: local man is confronted with the fact that if he uses dumb contests as an excuse to avoid emotional vulnerability —#then his partner is going to do the exact same thing lol#also covid update: I had a bit of a relapse and have been completely stuck in bed again the last couple days#am still definitely doing better than before but remain very very fatigued#apparently changing my bedsheets was a little much for me lol#anyway thank you to the people who have sent in asks the last couple days!! I am very excited to get to them#I just had to get this self indulgent comic out of my system first lololol#bsd#bsd dazai#bsd chuuya#soukoku#skk#bungou stray dogs#my art
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Later...
(Shimo is a prankster)
Ghidorah every time Godzilla gets a new enemy.
True frienemies right there!
I was going to make a Godzilla animatic of this exact scene but discarded the idea later (wasn't sure whether we were allowed to use the audio without getting a copyright strike idk)
I LOVE the Mickey Mouse Shorts lol
#godzilla#godzilla x kong: the new empire#king ghidorah#mickey mouse shorts#godzilla king of the monsters#godzilla and ghidorah are the very definition of frienemies#i literally headcanon them as enemies (rivals to be exact) but also like cool friends if they aren't fighting#Ghidorah wants all that attention for himself#he's the only one who can bully Godziila and no one else!#I'd like to think Ghidorah will help Godzilla fight his other enemies cos Godzilla is not allowed to have other enemies except for him#tldr Ghidorah has a hard time admitting that Godzilla is his (friend-ish) rival#hehe ghidorah redemption arc hehe#do not repost#my art
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My Mental Definitions
Photo by Min An on Pexels.com Paranoia No one is there, but I’ve already seen it. I’ve checked a hundred times, but I don’t feel safe. Things have gone well for too long. Peace never lasts. Depression I’m hollow, numb, and tired. So tired. My soul is leaking through my fingers. I just want to feel warm and feel. Social Anxiety I’m annoying. I must be. They haven’t said anything. Am I…
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Velvette: Breathe, darling, just breathe. Vox, sobbing: I've done nothing with my life! I'm a failure! Alastor: Well that's never bothered you before.
#hazbin hotel#incorrect quotes#hazbin hotel incorrect quotes#radiostatic#staticlovetune#vox#vox the tv demon#alastor#alastor the radio demon#velvette#hazbin hotel velvette#vox embarrassing himself in an overlord meeting yet again#i think i created a bit of fandom trope#he's probably drunk#never mind he's definitely drunk#this is literally canon#it should've happened at some point#pre stayed gone#but i can also see the exact same convo happening post stayed gone#Vox when he can't make himself throw out the Alastor body pillow#The tags from my wretched mind are getting worse and worse
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Question about your changling AU, where did you learn about the ins and outs of Fae and Changling myths? I'm interested in learning too but not sure where to start lol
some of the lore I have for the AU I crafted myself, otherwise I read a lot of old faerie tales growing up and my mom, for some reason, knows an awful lot about shit like that, so some of it is just innate from her. otherwise i just read a lotttttt of books around the concepts of these things when I was younger because I was fascinated with jim henson's worlds
#replies#look into old myths and legends#read old books#start with uhhhh. uhhhhhhh#the princess and the goblin. the moorechild. shit like that#i read a lot of robin mckinley's works growing up which lean more into the silent side of magic shit#where magic is very much an unknown element. and defining it is not only risky but generally stupid#so sometimes shit happens. and you can make a cause and effect. you can do research. but there is always folly when playing with fate#so i feel like how I write magic tends to be a little more esoteric and odd#not so much chanting spells and giving exact definitions#more of. magic being a force like gravity. whos effects are usually not seen without it in action
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Moonwatcher and Kinkajou charm designs as requested! 🌙🌸
#not sure about this exact kinkajou but moon's definitely being turned into a charm soon#wof#wings of fire#moonwatcher#wof moonwatcher#wof kinkajou#kinkajou#dragons#dragon
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mac: bottom
dennis: eviler bottom who bullies and manipulates him into topping all the time
#macdennis#macdennis fanart#I hope you guys like this because I’m probably gonna make nearly the same joke at least 2-3 more times#this is their exact dynamic don’t fight me#listen if I wanna draw Dennis differently in every panel that is my god given right#and it’s definitely not because I have no consistency#I’m allergic to drawing backgrounds sorry lol#tungle would not let me post this the first time let’s try again#machinegoods#nsft#suggestive
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Unexpectedly normal
John Constantine falling in love with an Eldritch creature wasn't the weirdest thing he'd ever loved. After his dates with King Shark and some demons, this was among his most normal romances!
Phantom seemed like a creature of darkness and ice but he was the opposite: attentive, kind and loving; things that generally shouldn't be combined with Constantine (given his usual tendency to blow his chance with anyone who treated him well), but something made him stick with him.
Sure, the Justice League Dark judged him every time they saw him but he couldn't care less. When Phantom nervously told him he had something he wanted to show him, John was prepared for anything: a cult, a corpse, some crime he'd have to feign ignorance of (he didn't mind helping with a crime or two).
He hadn't expected Phantom to decide to show him his "true form" (Unexpectedly his boyfriend looked human, usually the opposite happened to him!), and sheepishly admitted that the first time he came to the dimension his powers had gotten out of control, leaving him in a form he used very little. And fuck, his boyfriend was hot as hell.
Constantine remembered when they met, he remembered the cult summoning "the most powerful creature in existence", he remembered the dread he felt when he saw Phantom appearing in all his Eldritch glory, but most of all, he remembered his disbelief when the creature started scolding the cultists as if they were children.
Phantom admitted his name was Danny (Danny Phantom, he just forgot to mention it), and he didn't know how to tell him, he looked so nervous that John couldn't help but joke with him.
"Are you human? These are things you talk about in time, bloody hell" Constantine pretended to be offended, pulling a cigarette out of his jacket "you know damn well I don't date normal humans sweetheart."
Danny looked confused, but understood what was going on in a matter of seconds.
"Lucky for you I'm not a normal human" Danny joked, taking the cigarette from his hands "I'm half ghost, a walking physical impossibility, is that enough for your dating standards?"
John pretended to think before shrugging and kissing him; sure, he'd have to get used to the lack of darkness, and extra organs (though he was sure he could persuade Danny to switch between forms), but as far as he was concerned, this was just a win-win.
Danny wondered if he should have started with Phantom's form first but he had no desire to give the hellblazer more ideas. He was aware of his partner's odd tastes, so he was actually nervous that he would reject him for being human (which was definitely a big difference from Amity), but as John kissed him just as intensely as always he guessed there was nothing to worry about.
#dpxdc#eldritch danny#he landed in the DC universe after being summoned by some cultists#Constantine was there#at first he was scared#but after seeing the Eldritch creature from another dimension scolding cultists it just seemed hot to him#Constantine does have mixed tastes in couples after all#Danny fell for the hellblazer too#He shamelessly flirted with him despite him not looking remotely human#dp x dc#dc x dp#JLD judges Constantine out of habit at this point#Danny being afraid that Constantine will reject him for being human is just hilarious#It's the exact opposite of what happened in Amity and he loves that difference#Constantine doesn't really care#He unexpectedly got a couple that looked human#he's definitely going to brag about it#Danny wonders if he should mention the ex-superhero part too but that was years ago#he's honestly too old to care
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Bullshit words from Guilty Gear only the sick and deranged know the definitions of:
Garm
Fora
Walkpod
Minimerta
Zeal
Vald
Vyde
Vitae
Charge <-not what you think it is
#textpost#These are all in Strive's GG World if you wanna look them up#Most are under the World tab on the wiki#'Charge' might be hard to find the exact definition I mean here so I'll share that one (it's under World->Diet)#It's like an oatmeal-type dish served in the USA in Guilty Gear#I'm assuming it's probably like a grits analog
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Reprogrammed AU Minicomic
Whoever set off that villain alarm better be prepared to get the most brutal Wild Kratts intervention
#wild kratts#reprogrammed au#wk reprogrammed au#chris kratt#martin kratt#wild kratts fanart#technically not spoilers because theres no guarantee this exact scene will happen in the fanfiction#but i thought it was silly#so i wanted to draw it anyways#Aviva proceeds to disassemble the entire alarm system out of rage with a paperclip#they are seriously considering knocking Chris out with a frying pan#mostly kidding.... but it's definitely crossed their minds at least once#Martin's look of “If you wake him I'm going to either kill you or break down crying”#is very reminiscent of a new parent who hasn't had a proper rest in a month and finally put their kid to sleep
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