#peoples drug store

[onceuponatown]

Peoples Drug Store store fronts, night photos. Washington, D.C. Ca 1920. 

15 & S, N.W.

7th & K

7th & E

14th & U

7th & M

8th & H, N.E.

11th & G

[crushedsweets]

Toby specifically stalks this elderly lesbian couple because one of them started spouting off nonsense about demons and slendy wants them to stop poking their noses in the paranormal.

Toby decides to purposefully make it obvious they’re being stalked by a real person instead of haunted, but he just further convinces both of them that they have a demon in their home. Nothing he does works and he doesn’t really wanna kill them. Starts sending them emails saying giving the demons attention gives them more power.

The ladies give ignoring the “demon” a shot, so he stops purposefully breaking into their house and moving stuff around and scaring them. Now they truly believing ignoring a demon is how to stop a haunting. They no longer stick their nose in the paranormal. This is a successful Toby mission. And he stole a lot of money and jewelry in the process. Extra Toby points

[there-will-be-a-way]

I was diagnosed with DID three times. The first time when I was 17 - and my therapist suspected I have it before I even knew what DID was so I couldn't have faked it for attention. But I fear she "over diagnosed" the disorder with her patients idk.

The second time I was diagnosed at a clinic by a whole treatment team plus they interviewed my mother and sister for a third party anamnesis.

The third time I was diagnosed at the rehab clinic by using the SKID-D and I was very careful not to exaggerate my symptoms. At the end the therapist asked me how severe I thought my symptoms were. In pretty much all points I said moderate. She said she viewed them as severe and the test also came out with severe.

Yet I still doubt I have it because my current therapist hasn't diagnosed me with it. I know that I use different names and am forgetful, but I think my forgetfullness is normal and I don't have an explanation for the different names tbh. Maybe I'm just weird.

Anyway. Last session my therapist and I talked about how I was diagnosed with BPD at the age of 15 - and he agrees with me that it clearly was a misdiagnosis. I literally don't have any of the BPD symptoms. My relationships are stable. My ex had BPD though and we talked about how it affected the relationship. How he put me on a pedestal and idealized me which led to him never seeing the real me.

[ningtual]

me and my mom are going to the drug store rn so i can give her all my recommendations

[wolfram-but-art]

Hey! Absolutely love how you draw engie! Do you draw for other fandoms or just TF2? :)

hi!!! thank you so much!!!

and i mean, i guess i do draw stuff from other fandoms occasionally, but i've built up a persona of "that guy who mainly draws Engie and sometimes other mercs too" (not that it's a bad thing, i like being weird about him)

therefore i don't post other stuff because i know that's not what people come here for, and it doesn't do very well

the only other fandom art i've done would be minecraft, Movie Star Planet, and stuff for EngineerGaming1972, but besides that it's mostly tf2

and since you ask, i was thinking of making a sideblog specifically for art that's not tf2 related (and maybe one that's more nsfw than this? idk i'd have to think about it) idk how interested in that would people be tho

if i ever switch fandoms however, i'll probably make a separate blog for it and keep this one as an archive, since i personally dislike digging through people's profiles just to find stuff from a specific fandom

[funnuraba]

Relatedly, I was actually a little surprised by the sheer number of people writing in to the zines who were very clear that they'd never, ever felt like they fit in with other people, until they got into this new thing called "scientifiction" and its fanciful tales of elves and aliens and robots*. And then they discovered this group called "fandom", full of people who also loved talking about the same thing over and over, and had very passionate feelings about everything that was wrong with the world. Was it possible that "fans" were some special type of human? In fact, they almost got a little cult started in the 40s, based on the slogan "Fans are Slans" (Slans were an evolved kind of psychic human in a contemporary SF series). But then that got derailed by an actual cult that was started by Claude Degan, a recent couch-surfing arrival to fandom who turned out to not be joking about his frequent statements that Martians had arrived on Earth. It also turned out he was a sex offender who had to be chased off by the detective work of some of the old guard.

But anyway. I feel like I could have prevented more than a few fights by traveling back in time to explain that hey guys, there's actually a certain type of person who tends to get very fixated on minuscule details that, when you step back and take a deep breath, aren't really that important to begin with. Then again, looking at modern fandom, where we all know that and still get into the most absurd fights over nothing, maybe not.

*Fantasy, horror and modern-style science fiction were actually lumped in together for some time when they were emerging as genres; it was a while before they were split into "weird things caused by magic" and "weird things caused by science". For example, Poe wrote some of the first realistic detective stories, and he was considered a founder of speculative fiction in a way that didn't exclude or separate his psychological horror or his work with supernatural elements.

[pandaspwnz]

I was hanging out with two friends yesterday and I had like 6 or 7 puffs of a funny cigarette for the first time in my life, and I'm so grateful how much they both cared about making it a good, safe experience, and that I wouldn't have a bad time, but I gotta say after hearing about this stuff for years and years and years I'm just sort of like. What was all the hype about? Like I purposefully didn't have more than those 6-7 puffs, and while I was definitely affected by it, mostly I just got reeaaaaally spacey and forgetful, like my ADHD had been cranked up to the max. I lost complete track of what was being talked about like 3 times and sat and did the confused math lady meme for several long moments to try to remember, but aside from that and feeling like only my brain had vertigo but the rest of me didn't, and like my sense of self was like not in my body fully but extended/separated by like a nose length from myself (I don't know how else to describe it), that was it? I didn't get the munchies or get gigglier than normal I don't think, I was just a forgetful, spacey little gremlin? I honestly think if I had been alone and experiencing it that way, it would have just ended up being a frustrating experience with how bad my memory was, but because I was with them and we were having a good time, it was fine. I definitely don't really get the appeal of doing it by myself but that's okay! I've tried it, it was safe, it was fine, that's it!

[tariah23]

My sister just texted me this but hallelujah, this is how it’s supposed to be 🗣️🗣️🗣️!!!

[poonking]

the absolute state of queer dating apps

[bbyboybucket]

Bro they aren’t playing when they say the job market is bad right now and nobody wants to hire, particularly entry/low paying jobs. I applied for a part time job as a fucking KENNEL CLEANER, literally just a bitch who feeds the animals and cleans the kennels and not even for a good pay. And they rejected me within an hour. And I have a great resume and stuff too, I was beyond shocked when I got rejected. Like here I was just wanting the job because it’d be good to spend my free time at an animal hospital, literally not even for the money or anything, and they dead ass told me no 😭

[dead-pidove-do-not-eat]

Genuinely if stores want to pretend they give a shit about racism they need to get rid of all of their protocols to dissuade shoplifting I’m not even fucking kidding

[nefarious-616-necromancer]

But that's okay and everything gone be fine. I know I'm tough and that's enough of what's on my mind

[purplesaline]

Trigger warning for medically assisted death

I learned something today. As a Canadian I'm incredibly lucky that we have access to MAID (medical assistance in dying). Not to say it doesn't have it's issues, which it does and I have no problem being very loud about those issues, but when you have a family member suffering from terminal cancer and they've exhausted all possible treatments that have a chance if prolonging their life those issues don't really come into play. That's not what I learned by the way, just a little bit of background.

What I learned is that gathering to be with your loved one while they die is very similar to a funeral. In fact, for me at least, it's more effective than a funeral.

Funerals are supposed to be a way to allow people to say goodbye to someone who has died, to get closure. More often than not there wasn't a chance to do that before the person died. It allows you to get together and remember the person and grieve, and for a lot of people that works really well. It's never really helped me much though. Between my ADHD "Now" and "Not Now" time blindness and object stasis (it's not really onject impermanence bit that's a discussion for another time), and my belief that there is no after life, we just.. end, a funeral doesn't provide me any of that closure it seems to for most people. The only thing a funeral does is cause me pain because I'm overwhelmed by seeing so many people emotionally hurting.

But gathering as a family today with my mom, getting to say goodbye to her and have her say goodbye to us, having the support of other people who loved her as much as I did while we watched her fall asleep and then stop breathing, and then going back to the house with everyone to eat and help each other co-regulate? That was as much closure as I think my weirdly wired brain is ever going to be able to get.

I don't have much experience with death. The only two people in my life who have died were very old (80+), so I didn't know how I would handle being there today. I thought it might be too hard, seeing everyone be so sad. I wasn't worried about my own grief, I long ago accepted this outcome and I'm very happy she had the option to die with dignity and go out on her own terms, but I was worried about how I'd cope with other people's grief.

It wasn't hard though, it was quite the opposite. It was one of the easiest things I've ever done. I think a large part of that was that no one was uncomfortable seeing other people upset (like they usually are), and we were all really happy for her and grateful so there was no resentment or denial, just sadness and relief.

Actually I take that back. Lance was very distressed to see so many people upset and not be able to fix it. I had him in his vest for the first time in years (mom was in the hospital and I didn't want to leave Lance in the car case while I could have managed without him it was so much easier with him there. I took a couple of decompression breaks and we went and visited some of the other patients which always makes me happy).

But other than Lance no one else was uncomfortable and it was really just an incredibly cathartic experience and I'm really glad I chose to go (mom gave us the option. She said she'd like us there but it was okay if we didn't want to be). I knew I'd regret it down the line if I didn't go, and that instinct was spot on.

I'm sure that not everyone will find the experience as positive and healing as I did, but if you ever find yourself in the position to choose whether or not to be there with someone as they die and you're one the fence about it I hope this helps you make a more informed choice, whichever option ends up being the best one for you.

For me, this experience granted me a peace above and beyond my acceptance of her death that I wasn't expecting, and I'm really grateful for that. If I was a spiritual person I'd even say I was blessed.

I love you so much mom. You fought so hard and I'm so glad that your last moments got to be peaceful ones.

[trashabilly]

had an incredible amount of Feelings about the realization that i essentially go to work cosplaying hawkeye pierce every day

(he/him)

[todayisafridaynight]

I've never stepped into a hot topic in my life because- #indoterlalukonservatis ngl I wanna see what it's like 🚶‍♂️

i aint the slightest clue what that hashtag says BUT if you go into a hot topic nowadays its pretty chill honestly, it's really not that bad and you'll more often than not find anime and videogame merch