#reading the news is horrifying

[heartshaped-lou]

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[tsuchinokoroyale]

Take a good look… with Gyo.

[bleaksqueak]

Honestly, I'm really grateful that my brain isn't wired to jump from hyperfixation to hyperfixation. It has its own unique drawbacks, sure, but I've always found it really comforting that I know what to expect from myself.

[theriu]

K guys your posts won my curiosity and I managed to binge the first Lockwood book in one day. Skimmed over the really grisly parts, very pleased with myself for not getting super freaked out and for figuring out the villain about the time they got to the scary mansion. A little disappointed that the funny talking skull in a jar didn't actually talk until the epilogue. No I will NOT be watching the tv series because 1) I appreciate my brain's inability to provide me with vivid imagery that would definitely excite my anxiety, and 2) Im sure the actor playing George is great but he is also reasonably cute and skinny and the book is VERY CLEAR that George is supposed to be an overweight, not-conventionally-attractive blond kid. Justice for tubby kid representation! (Altho I will add that the author has a foreward in this edition stating how much he loves those actors and how they portray the kids, so at least he's okay with it.) Anyhoo will let yall know if I make it through book 2, now I need to try and actually go to bed it is so LATE

[girlivealwaysbean]

i think growing up is just life repeatedly sucker punching you and saying bitch you thought things were gonna better lmao no you're so naive and stupid for having hope in 20 years the world will be flaming bag of garbage and no matter how hard you work you'll get eliminated at some point

[clove-pinks]

For the first time ever, I have been followed by SO many people at once that tumblr condensed the notification on mobile app and I had to click to see all of my new followers (like five people, and three of them were bots). I guess I will be here until it's truly a smoldering ruin but man these new bots are prolific and annoying. I like to click on the names of unfamiliar people who are interacting with my posts (because I'm nosy that way, and I suspect that others do the same to me); and this is how I find many porn bots to block and report.

It's unfortunate that with all of its problems, tumblr remains the best social media site for me. I feel like I am sailing past in a ship that is slightly on fire, frantically manning the pumps while I yell at passing craft, "BUT SHE'S A BEAUTY! SITS ON THE WATER LIKE A DUCK, SUCH ELEGANT LINES TO HER HULL!"

[propertyofkylar]

the thing about being a journalist is sometimes you learn news that’s horrific and it really reminds you that fantasies ≠ real life bc hoo boy

[chaoflaka]

Excuse me.

Hello?

HELLO??

HELLO??!!

HELLO?!?!?!!!?!

[snobgoblin]

ocd rep is very tricky because on one hand you would LOVE to see it represented but on another hand if they ARE represented you have to watch with caution because it can very much make your own worse if you're not careful

[rabbitmotifs]

currently reading Unconfessed by yvette christiansë for my south african fiction class and its genuinely fucking gut wrenching

[unlicensedmortician]

could someone tell me why that series was life changing and also send me fic recommendations please and thank you

[milfygerard]

was gonna make some vague post like "coming back to tumblr and remembering immediately why i took a break" but that makes it sound like im encountering drama when the case is just that this website is. so overwhelming

[23sanguinity]

The worst thing in fanfic is when you ship a poly ship but there’s not enough content for it so you read a fic with just two of the characters and they make another character you ship with both of them an ex? And it’s not the author fault, they weren’t writing for the poly ship but it still ruins what could have been a great fic because you don’t want them to be exs

[girlivealwaysbean]

when will people understand tumblr is my safe space and if i wanted to see news i would just look it up on the three news apps downloaded on my phone

[pinkrangersarah]

rvb final season announcement and rwby volume 10 storyboards

camp camp season 5

[witchcraftingboop]

(Coming back to add: I don't know if this needs trigger warnings. Almost-SA, I guess? More like just sexual harassment, I think.)

Talking about my life is always wild, because I barely share anything with people I'm close to, so I had the amazing experience of telling my favorite cousin about that time a man called Freebird, stepdad to my aunt's not-yet-fiancè-boyfriend, kept trying to lure me back to his confederate flag decorated house in swamplands to "watch his dog," for months, which eventually led to his wife outright threatening to shoot me if I ever tried to be more than a mistress (already, arguably, a lot to unpack), and then my aunts had to come rescue me from their empty house after the lil biker gang man stood in their living room, hand on his gun, and tried to intimidate me into going upstairs to "play doctor" (which, can I just say, is so Comically bad, like wdym I, as a 21yo woman, had a grown, known gang leader in my aunt's living room asking me to "play doctor" in full view of their security cameras???? Bizarre) So yeah! She had an eye-opening look into why I don't let men in my apt, and I had the revelation that yeah, I have been through some shit and that maybe talking about it all would do me some good! In short, either my journal is gonna get Real Colorful this year or 2024 may be the year I actually get a therapist, though I am heavily leaning towards just journalling.