#osfed things

[melanirana]

ECLIPSEEEEEEEEEE THE BIG BOY IS HERE YES OMG I LOVE IT SO MUCH JSKSHEJSHDJSHSLSBDISNDIDD YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAHAHHHHA YEEEES DAMN HE BIG I LOVE HIM HE'S SO COOOL HE LOOKS SO GENTLE AND GOOFY MY BOOOOOY AHAHSHKSJSJS

Yeah the big boy :D

ther he is!

truly the softest of them all. what a goofy guy

[girlnadian]

can wato stop being in wemmbu videos please i cant be assed to watch them

[chaossagaproductions]

Update... IG

Okay, so a little bit ago *goes back and checks posts/nots* like three weeks actually, I did a Q&A, that post it still up and I'm taking questions whenever really. Love talking about this series of mine. Anyways, I brought up how I might change Onyx Saint and Wyatt Osf to be the same character since when you looked at them side by side, they were twins.

Well, after playing around with them both over the last few weeks, I've decided to use the system I've already created. Which works great when you write something forever ago and it turns out to help a current problem you're having. loved how I somehow foreshadowed this problem. So Onyx Saint and Wyatt are now the same, yet different characters at the sometime.

You see in book II, its explained how creatures are coming over from the other dimension, but its going to take time for the magic of the world to recalibrate and re-balance, so the full creature can't come through yet, but their consciousness can come through with the help of a Host. And Onyx was already a Host, I just hadn't figured out who his creature was yet.

That's right, his creature is now Wyatt. This also means Opal is Luke's host. Both of these changes help a lot with book IV stuff that I won't get into right now. Anyways, just a little update on how characters are and things. If you want me to go into it a little more, I will, but not too much more, guess I could explain how hosts work more, if you all wanted me to.

[anachronistictrash]

I hate how I've been professionally dxed with most of the popular-to-fake disorders, because I feel like when I creep in here to complain that I'll be seen as an attention-seeking faker.

I actually really don't want attention thx, just screaming into the void.

[sashabunnie]

Hi! I apologize for not posting recently despite having a resurgence in wanting to draw. I've recently gotten a new art program and am still trying to figure out how to use it. In the meantime I'd like to discuss a topic I find important to talk about.

I recently received a question in my inbox. I found it rude and decided to delete and block the person. But now I'm realizing I could use this comment to educate those not in the art field on this subject, specifically about how proportions and different body types are taught to be drawn. I'll paraphrase the comment received:

"It's funny how you're fat but you draw yourself skinny, it's hilarious."

Yup that's the basis of what the comment was. I could tell from this comment that a) they're trying to be rude and mean and b) they at least don't draw humans and at most have no idea how to draw period.

Now you may be asking, how does this comment lead to an educational moment? I'm glad you asked.

I've been drawing since I can remember, and I only took a few art classes in middle school and highschool. Other than that I'm almost completely self taught and often took my inspiration from cartoons.

I also grew up in a much larger body than a good portion of my peers. I had binge e@ting disorder. This was caused by growing up in a poor family. I was taught to eat whatever I was offered(unless it was by a total stranger). I was also taught at school to inhale my food starting from kindergarten as we only got 15 minutes to eat and 15 minutes to play, if we went over the 15 minutes to eat we weren't allowed to play. Anyways this conditioned me to have BED.

Being overweight as a child was torture. Just like any ED it's very hard to control and even harder to spot in a child. I went untreated until I was 19. I'm a lot better now but sadly my stomach is now partially paralyzed.

Now like I said, growing up fat was extremely difficult, seeing others in my life who were skinnier than I, seeing all the cartoon shows on TV with the pretty skinny ladies and bulked up men, or even lanky men. And sure there were fat people in cartoons, but they're often portrayed as these lazy, stupid, people or they're middle aged with greying or thinning hair, in a mobility scooter, who are also portrayed as stupid and lazy.

I never saw a true representation of myself in cartoons. I never saw a plump nine year old with dreams to become a ballerina or baseball player, I never saw a bigger girl who exceeded in every class who wanted to become a paleontologist. All I saw were people making jokes about the fat character, how dumb and lazy they were.

But to me, I was never lazy or stupid. And when I started drawing myself I did so as a beautiful young person who was smart, clever, and always taken seriously. It was my escape from this world of hate.

Then I started taking art classes in middle school and highschool. They taught very basic anatomy in drawing, such as "this is how long your arm should be" and "the hand should be able to cover the face", just teaching proportions. But here's the catch, they hardly taught anything more than an hourglass shaped body for females and a rectangle shape for men.

In fact if we tried to explore more or less body shaped, whether it was a flat chested female, a dad bod male or vice versa, it was met with severe criticism.

Now over the years I've learned how to draw different body shapes and sizes better than I have in the past. And I have worked greatly to improve my self image and that a bit of extra fat here or there won't be the end all be all.

However that's not to say that I still have a hard time drawing myself as big as I see myself irl. The ED that warped from BED to OSFED in my teen years still yells at me from my mirror, telling me how ugly I am for being in a bigger body. People have told me several times that I'm not as big as the mirror says I am, which is true.

I may be in a bigger body but it's not to a point where my weight is affecting my health. The only real thing affecting my health are a slew of genetic disorders that I cannot control.

Just to conclude, just because someone draws themselves as bigger or smaller does not mean that they're delusional. It's just how they draw themselves.

Just be kind and non judgemental. You don't know what that person has been through and honestly it's not really your business unless it's a threat to safety, theirs or others.

And if you don't like what you see, scroll, it's not your place to get upset over something as small as someone drawing themselves in a different light than your perspective.

Love y'all!

(Picture of my gravity falls x the owl house OC for y'all)

[narrator-navigator-storyteller]

I want to make a shoutout post for people with severe ADHD, since I rarely see actual severe ADHD symptoms talked about on here, and want to spread awareness of the actual debilitating effects of ADHD since it gets treated like little baby disorder so much.

So shoutout to pwADHD who:

Have chronic UTIs

Have issues getting to the bathroom in time/have wet themselves into adulthood

Have genuinely dirty rooms, not just disorganized

Have extremely poor personal hygiene (smell bad, unhealthy teeth, unkempt hair)

Have learning disabilities

Have intellectual disabilities

Have ASPD

Have OSFED from lack of hunger cues

Are genuinely rude in social situations due to lack of impulse control

Have RSD that feeds into paranoia disorders

Have RSD that has ruined friendships

Have social issues that have led to an inability to form friendships

Have severe anger issues

Have self-harming and excessively risky behaviours due to understimulation

Are suicidal

Have "8 year old boy" ADHD (get up at inappropriate times, climb furniture, are genuinely disruptive)

Are hyperactive or mixed type in general actually (especially those raised female who are told that women always have inattentive)

Can't drive

Can't work a job

Procrastinate to the point that you don't get anything done at all, not just do it last minute

Burnt out educationally far before it's 'relatable' to (elementary/middle school)

Were in affective learning/special education

Can't do higher education

Rely on other people in order to live life

Can't live alone

Can't mask their ADHD

Aren't just a 'quirky' person, but are visibly mentally ill

Have made their other mental illnesses worse because of ADHD

Have developed other mental illnesses because of ADHD

Have made their physical disabilities worse because of ADHD

Have developed physical disabilities because of ADHD

We need to accept that ADHD is not a funny lighthearted diagnosis, and is in fact a severe thing to deal with. Anti-ADHD ableism has gotten way too common here, and acting like moderate (and honestly mild) ADHD is severe even more so.

Feel free to add more but if you add mild traits or act like any of these are about autism/any other disorder instead of just accepting that ADHD is a severe and debilitating disorder on its own I will kill you with hammers.

[cyb-by-lang]

okay so my guess for which nine-tailed jinchuriki. you don't have to say if i'm right of course but i think it's Naruto. he's like, what, five now? it's been so long since you published the CYB chapter when he was born (and like a million other things happened that night 🥲) but i vaguely remember Kei being 14-ish? maybe?

my reasoning: 1) Kushina should have way more control over Kurama, so i'm not sure she'd even be able to (unwillingly) enter V2 mode. .... but that does raise the question of, if it IS Kushina, what the fuck pushed her to that?? but yeah mostly i just don't remember her ever doing V2 in CYB or OSF.

also, 1.5) i cannot imagine Kushina and Bruce being in the same room without some kinda consequences. her patience for emotionally constipated men would be incredibly limited lol, she'd either have him hiding away or she'd speedrun the whole "Fix your relationship with your SON before I BECOME HIS MOM" deal.

that said, i think Kushina and Alfred would be best buddies. idk if Alfred knows Japanese, but assuming he does, they'd be too powerful together lololol

2) if it's Naruto, then that's maximum emotional pain and plot drama/shock value for both Kei and also kinda Bruce. bc not only has a child been ripped away from his family and thrust into an unfamiliar and hostile world, the V2 cloak tends to burn the jinchuriki's skin off right? so upon Kei getting Kurama to chill, Bruce would see a small child in incredible pain and we all know that kids are his ultimate weakness. plus he'd want to interrogate Kei about it, since jinchuriki are supposed to be "weapons" and this is a whole ass child and what the FUCK is going on in her home world that this is a relatively normal thing??? Keisuke. Keisuke please tell me this isn't normal. What do you MEAN there's another one his age???

and for Kei, she suddenly has a part of her family with her, but Naruto doesn't deserve this at all. with Kushina, Kei could at least get a sense of security, bc that's her adopted mom who is stupidly smart and might be able to help figure out how to get back home. but Naruto would unfortunately add more problems. at least Isobu would have a sibling to talk to either way.

and 3) yeah, a baby jinchuriki wouldn't have a whole lot of control over Kurama in this kind of situation. and Kurama, being less dickish thanks to Kushina and Kei this time around, would probably get super protective of Naruto getting yoinked to another dimension, and if they met hostility upon arrival, then Kurama would 100% start swinging

4) this one is more of "i think this would be adorable" and that is Naruto being added to the Wayne household. the SHENANIGANS! the panicking Bruce and/or Alfred when a bored Naruto gets up to stuff. Tim potentially bonding with a high energy child (imagine the PRANKS!!)

and i know Naruto is too young to have mastered his "talk-no-jutsu" but there's nothing like a small child to forcefully pull a family together, he'd have a pretty solid chance of getting past Bruce's emotional walls (those walls wouldn't necessarily be knocked down, Naruto would just find a metaphorical "window" in a wall, stick his head through, and yell at Bruce to come out and play. how could Bruce resist??)

so yeah, my guess (or maybe just hope?) is Naruto. i really wasn't expecting other jinchuriki to show up, so i wonder if this is gonna be like in Ocean Stars Falling? lol now i'm picturing the Wayne Manor getting filled with nine more over-powered shinobi and Bruce banging his head on a wall for the stress of it. he and Doctor Fate would certainly have their hands full!

so very much looking forward to the next chapter (⁠ﾉ⁠◕⁠ヮ⁠◕⁠)⁠ﾉ⁠*⁠.⁠✧

So, funny story, I couldn't figure out a way to respond to this without giving up a spoiler for chapter 13, so I held off for two weeks despite wanting to say MANY THINGS.

And here we are.

I did genuinely think about having Kushina along, but it was one of those choices that would have reduced the tension because Kushina would be someone Kei could confide basically everything in. On top of being more in-sync with her version of Kurama, she actually doesn't go wild the same way an inexperienced host does.

I'm aware that the Minato-centric bonus manga indicated that if anything, canon!Kushina was way less experienced than even Kei in her first couple of weeks. Like "real chance of going berserk if she steps foot out of the village without her bodyguards" inexperienced. It's simply not the case in CYB.

Then I thought about Naruto as a four-year-old, but then remembered that Kei could probably not be trusted with too much more stress. Can you imagine how badly she would've reacted to seeing a kid she's actively helping raise get the experimental subject treatment? She's leaning on all the restraint she has already.

So far.

Also, a genin Naruto offers certain leeway in interactions that caring for a preschooler doesn't. Which is more fun. >:3c

For the record, I did consider either of the Ginkaku and Kinkaku, or Sora, or an alternate Minato, but each one offered either too much or too little competence.

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[cheeeryos]

thank you for the tag @flightspathfic to share what some of my various versions of ronan and adam would be doing for the holidays! hopefully it's not working like some of us I could mention....

starting with our official Holiday Celebrators (tm)...the backup adam did NOT schedule a christmas shift this year so they spend the full week at the barns. ronan gives him a ring, maybe, but not actually on christmas and not all wrapped up like a gift because that's simply too on the nose.

the professors from the season to be jolly are still writing warring articles every year. the actual journals aren't even publishing them anymore bc they're fed up with the feud, so ronan and adam are just sniping back and forth in preprints on osf. their arguments are getting stupider and their callouts more and more pointed. in actuality, the lynch lab and the smh lab have collaborated successfully on several recent projects, but no one wants to mess with tradition. adam has learned to appreciate some things about the season, namely: whiskey by the fire, snowball fights (he needs to be poked and prodded into them every single time, and ends up the most hardcore and vicious one of the lot every single time), and gingerbread.

two point perspective-verse ronan hosts christmas because he likes to host shit and the ghostbusters have all gotten used to his house as their home base. niall and opal pop in to put on a shockingly disturbing performance of a christmas carol. gansey has to leave early to meet the family at the national cathedral christmas eve holy eucharist, and everyone makes fun of him until he tells them that the national cathedral is actually full of ghosts and then they all feel a little left out.

popular mechanics-verse ronan and adam do NOT host christmas because who wants that kind of responsibility. they reluctantly show up at gansey's and blue walks in on them fucking again, and she's had too much egg nog to modulate her voice and the rest of the guests run in because they think she's being murdered or something and end up seeing ronan's ass (in more ways than one).

the special sauce lynch and parrish spent their first couple months of retirement letting their bodies heal after decades of battering and saying to each other, "it'll be so nice to relax over the holidays!" and then the holidays arrive and they're bored out of their minds without hockey to play. they call up gansey and sargent and some other pals and end up in the loudest, dirtiest, most brutal game of shinny boston's ever seen. which is saying something.

bonus round: sic semper ronan and adam are probably not in the mood to celebrate with each other considering ronan's about to hunt that fucker down for [spoilers redacted]. honestly, who knows what will happen next! ask me again in a little bit :)

@werewolffeelings and @emmerrr I know I'm a couple days late with this but if you want to play?

[quarterqueens]

big day for tagging fans: i did in fact file a support ticket to ao3 to fix their eating disorder tags. the issues are:

EDNOS and OSFED are not synned. OSFED is erroneously synned with 'Eating Disorders.' ENDOS is a canonical subtag of 'Eating Disorders.' (Also OSFED should probably be the primary tag, since it's the current name.)

'disordered eating' for some reason isn't canonical or synned with anything, even though multiple variations of it (ex. 'tw: disordered eating') are synned with 'eating disorders.'

the variations of 'disordered eating' probably shouldn't be synned with 'eating disorders' at all since they aren't actually the same thing.

ANYWAY that's my thrilling adventures in tagging. i think the ao3 tagging team is extremely fantastic & they have actually been fixing many issues with the ed-related tags but these ones seem to have slipped through

[evil-jennifer-hamilton-wb]

Hey there, a friens of mine suffers from an ed and is in unhealthy environment, which I cant do much abt as we live in diff places

Do u have any tips on how to be as helpful as I can for this friend of mine? I love them very much and want to be as helpful as possible in helping them create a less destructive state of mind

Thank u

Tw: discussion of EDs

It depends on a few things. First of all if you want to help your friend they need to be willing to try to get better. "Pro-ana" sentiment ie. Wanting and encouraging your own ED (and sometimes the EDs of others) is very common, and if your friend is in that state of mine (I was, I think most of us were at some point), then there's not much you can do to help your friend reach a better state of mine. That barrier needs to be crossed first no matter what, on the past of your friend.

If your friend does not want to get better, then the most helpful thing you can do is to just talk to them about topics unrelated to food and dieting. You get in a state when you're deep in an ED where food is genuinely the only thing you can think about and contextualize things through. Giving your friend a break from that mentally is helpful, and maybe gives them the energy and space for further self reflection. Additionally just keep in mind that they are hungry and exhausted and probably bitchy/aggressive/anxious/paranoid as a result. I guess give them some grace but also call them out if they're being an asshole.

If your friend does want to get better, first off avoid triggers. Avoid talking about food, weight, dieting, etc... unless they bring it up. Encourage them to leave environments like EDtwt, EDtok, or MPA/EDSF (do young people know what MPA is?) where they would encounter triggers and pro-ana sentiment (Keep in mind that they may be in pro-recovery [SIC] circles within these spaces, and the harm of said environments is up to their discretion). Watch if they bodycheck (talking photos that , count calories, etc... and gently call them out for it, given that they're okay with that.

[if they have a restrictive eating disorder (ie. AN, ARFID, OSFED)]

Ask them what their safe foods are (ie. Foods that they would be less anxious about / less likely to count calories), encourage them to obtain these foods so that they would eat them at least 1-2 meals a day, depending on their progress, a single "normal" sized meal can be very anxiety inducing. Encourage them to eat *something*, even if it's small even if it doesn't seem nutritional, if they're eating something it's good. Try to encourage them to eat, at regular times and intervals.

[if they have a binge/purge eating disorder (ie. Bulimia, AN-bp)]

Again ask about safe foods, this time defined as foods that would not trigger a binge or purge. For me it helped a lot to determine foods that were especially unpleasant to purge, and eat those. Again encourage them to eat safe foods at regular times and intervals. Don't fearmonger about calories absorbed after purging (not true anyways) or about health risk (unless they think it helps), because they probably already know and have already heard.

In general, avoid triggers, gently encourage your friend to eat foods that feel safe to them, and encourage them to eat at least once a day if not more, at regular times and intervals, in a safe environment. Allow them to talk to you and remind them that you are a safe place to discuss their disorder without judgement.

And definitely avoid commenting on their body in any way. Don't express concern (this is what we want to hear and fuels the disorder), don't compliment looking healthier (that is not seen as a complement), I'd say blanket avoid commenting on your friend's body, even if it feels positive to you.

There's only so much I can say without knowing any information about your friend. Anon please feel free to dm or send further asks if you need more information on anything. I'd be happy to help in any way I can. EDs are lonely and exhausting and feel inescapable, and it's wonderful that you are trying to help your friend through it. I know I wouldn't be in the place I am now without the support of my friend.

[owl-writing]

My Resources

Research - General

Academia.edu - For a bunch of academic V academic fights over subjects.

Marginalia Search - If I ever wanna get super fucking specific.

TV Tropes - For examples of particular tropes in media, not used for much beyond a quick glance.

WikiHow - For figuring out how a character (or I) would go about doing something specific.

Wikipedia - Starting point for everything.

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Fashion History Timeline and OSF Costume Rentals - I am insane about keeping clothes consistent to historical equivalents. Gods help me.

Featherbase - For bird feathers (which I need quite often, as it turns out).

Fragrantica - For perfume notes, which is helpful for olfactory descriptions.

Gender Neutral/Queer Titles - Even being agender myself, I lose track of different gender-neutral terms.

Project Gutenberg - In case I need to look into Public Domain stuff.

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Behind The Name - Naming website with a generator and history of names (where applicable).

Chaotic Shiny - Generators only.

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Nameberry - Naming website with a generator (generally less useful than Behind The Name).

Seventh Sanctum - Generators only.

Springhole.net

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LibreOffice - For actually writing.

Milanote - For organizing my thoughts for particular projects.

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Ambient Chaos - By the same individual who brought us Absurd Trolley Problems and many other fun tools!

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[aviewofthejames]

George Soros's Open Society Foundations is a top donor to Just Security, which is rated (with a light hand, imo) by mediabiasfactcheck as left-center. OSF is itself rated as hard-left.

The question remains whether an EO can dissolve USAID. For that matter, I'm still wondering if he has dissolved it or simply defunded it.

Anyway, here's a pertinent quote from Tess Bridgeman's article:

Can the President Dissolve USAID Without An Act of Congress?

No, not lawfully. In 1961, USAID was created by an E.O. issued by President John F. Kennedy (E.O. 10973), based in part on authority provided in the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. But a later act of Congress (The Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998, 22 U.S.C. 6501 et seq.) established USAID as its own agency. In a section titled “Status of AID” (22 U.S.C. 6563) it states:

Unless abolished pursuant to the reorganization plan submitted under section 6601 of this title, and except as provided in section 6562 of this title, there is within the Executive branch of Government the United States Agency for International Development as an entity described in section 104 of title 5. (emphasis added)

The key language here is “there is within the Executive branch of Government [USAID]” (see sections 6562/6563). Those are the words Congress uses to establish an agency within the executive branch. It would take an act of Congress to reverse that – simply put, the president may not unilaterally override a statute by executive order.  

The 1998 statute also transfers only certain functions of USAID to the State Department, and in essence requires USAID to handle all other pre-existing USAID functions described in the Foreign Assistance Act. This means that, at a minimum, Congress asserted a role for itself in such transfers of functions as well as early as 1998. 

Also in the 1998 Act, Congress gave the president a near-term, time-limited opportunity to reorganize these departments (22 USC 6601). Specifically, the Act provides, among other things, that within “60 days after October 21, 1998,” the president may, in a “reorganization plan and report” to be provided to Congress:

“(1) … provide for the abolition of the Agency for International Development and the transfer of all its functions to the Department of State or (2) in lieu of the abolition and transfer of functions . . . provide for the transfer to and consolidation within the Department of the functions set forth in section 6581 of this title; and may provide for additional consolidation, reorganization, and streamlining of AID . . .”  

President Bill Clinton submitted the statutorily-envisioned report to Congress on Dec. 30, 1998, within Congress’ specified 60-day window. In that report, the Clinton administration explicitly chose to retain the independence of USAID as its own agency (while providing for certain forms of coordination and resource sharing). It stated: 

(d) United States Agency for International Development. Effective April 1, 1999, the United States Agency for International Development shall continue as an independent establishment in the Executive Branch.

[deathsconsort]

here's a couple of things i want to happen within the next ac/otar books...

for one, i want cassian to go back to ac/owar cassian and not w/e the fucking happened to him in ac/osf. nesta is a romance reader and has a soft heart ( if ppl don't get that by now then idk wtf to tell you ). she deserves someone who loves her fiercely, unconditionally, and someone who will stand up for her. ( bc tell me why azriel seems to treat her better than her own mate sometimes )

the second thing, i want the inner circle dismantled and for them to take a break from one another and focus on their own things bc there is too much toxicity within that group. and i'm not even including the sisters when making this statement.

[pienpup]

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pom's problematic past /silly

!! content warning !! i do not trigger tag on this blog! scroll at your own risk. there will be discussion of self harm, sexual & cult trauma, abuse, sex work, and disordered eating.

this is my jirai blog ( ˶ˆᗜˆ˵ ) ! it's kinda a mishmash of things! i'll mostly post vents, but also my own personal interests and about jirai-related things like fashion! i have been active in the jirai community since august 2024! i lurked for much longer than that, though.

please dni ♡ ୨୧ r*dqueer / tr*nsid ୨୧ if you post about LGBTQ+ discourse ୨୧ if you self ship with seong gi-hun, will graham, hannibal lecter ୨୧ trump supporters and their defenders ୨୧ if you make cult jokes.

please do not follow if you are under 16 ♡

byf ♡ ୨୧ i do not believe in calling jirai kei "dark girly." there is a lot more nuance to this than jiraiblr would have you believe. ୨୧ i am disabled, i may often misunderstand things or come across wrong. ୨୧ please don't tell me if someone is talking bad about me unless i absolutely need to know. do not send me an ask, do not dm me, i do not want to know anymore.

i have a discord server called piencord! ♡⸜(˶˃ ᵕ ˂˶)⸝♡

i also have a wishlist but its literally just 4 fun i dont expect anyone to get me anything lol >,<

read more about me under the cut if you're interested :3

whats wrong with you?? i have autism, H/BPD & C-PTSD, GAD, and GDD. i am seeking an OCD diagnosis currently and i likely have OSDD-1 & 2. i have ARFID and likely OSFED/EDNOS. i am physically disabled.

interests ♡ spins are bolded music (emo & metalcore especially), fashion, toy collection, MLP, squishmallows, dating sims & VNs, sea slugs, furbies, dolls, squid game, lots of diff fandoms, writing & drawing

IDs & kins ♡ i am a dog!! i am also dollkin (in the spiritual sense) and have been for ~5ish years or so. i kin fluttershy & emma from beatcats. copinglink with mikan tsumiki and madoka kaname. lots more copinglinks idk.

i am a dog. specifically, a pomeranian/chihuahua mix or a pomchi. please do not try to "reality check" me on this even though i dont think its even a delusion. im not a therian / otherkin / etc im just a dog.

i am white. please correct me if my behavior is ever insensitive or intrusive. i understand that as a white person in a japanese subculture, it is my job to be informed & behave appropriately.

@yumedoggie - my yumeship blog @romantic-speculations - my main

dividers 1 & 2

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Real talk, my only New Year’s resolutions are currently to:

Limit phone time. Something I’m already doing a horrible job of, but I think what I’m going to do is start only allowing myself to check my phone at certain intervals and limit internet stuff to the physical computer for only a certain amount of time a day. Mostly, I just wanna stop feeling like I always need my phone in my hands which results in a lot of mindless scrolling. If I want to go on the computer to work on my fic(s) or play sims or something, I will allow that without a limit (within reason of course) since it is an actual hobby, opening and closing apps all day is not.

Read more books or listen to more audiobooks. I didn’t reach my book goal this year on Goodreads, but I did consume more actual published books this year than I have in a long time which is still a good thing. I will just do better next year.

In addition to that though, I’d also like to read more fics. I’ve felt very disconnected from the fandom because I stopped reading fics within the fandom I write for out of guilt. I always felt like if I had time to read, I should be working on my own writing. That or I’d compare and despair. I want to read more so I can leave comments because the comment drought is so real. The ratio between people who read and those who leave comments is not great and I’d like to do my part.

I’d also like to work more on going out in public and challenging my agoraphobia. This year was the best year I’ve had since pre covid lockdowns and of course the onset of my agoraphobia and diagnosis, but I’m often still not going out into public unless it’s unavoidable and I always need a safe person with me unless it’s like the dollar store or the pharmacy.

Hmmm other than that just general wellness goals, cooking more/eating better, getting more exercise, keeping up with self care and cleaning to keep depression at bay.

Also staying off eating disorder related social media. I’ve been doing okay, I left the group I was in because frankly I was tired of the constant pity parties with zero action taken. Trust me, I get that it’s difficult but it wasn’t a good environment to have a mix of people who were at various stages in their disorders. Kind of hard to focus on recovery while others are bodychecking and posting about hitting their newest low weight. I still firmly believe that the people doing the best in recovery are the ones who don’t have social media dedicated to their disorders. So many recovery accounts are just as obsessed with their ED’s just in a different font. Not to mention the anorexia/bulimia/osfed/bed to orthorexia pipeline. Hint, even if you’re maintaining your weight and eating an adequate amount, if you can’t have a treat you enjoy without freaking out or compensating for it later, you’re still disordered. I also stopped using MyFitnessPal which has been really hard because I had a streak going for over 2 years. So yeah, no ED discord groups or other sites I won’t mention. Forgot to add that I don’t mean people should never talk about their experiences with ED, but having a platform solely dedicated to it whether it’s related to recovery or active illness is harmful and contributes to the recovery/relapse cycle.

I think that’s that. I just wanna be more present in my life and not so phone addicted. I want to actually feel physically good, well, at least as much as I can with chronic illnesses and aging.