#real life interferes

[acommonrose]

On the one hand, it’s very cool and fun that academics get funky little outfits and rituals for graduation.

On the other hand, it turns out it’s terrible for my anxiety, because I keep worrying that there’s some Secret Code I forgot that lets me graduate even though I have paperwork that proves beyond a doubt that I did in fact graduate.

[pyrotechnicarus]

My main part-time job is as a tutor for high schoolers and usually we get a little "Interests" summary from their parents before we start and uh. the trends in what interests they list are SO funny. Why are all these 7th graders into coding? Why is your 17 year old into stock trading? I am biased because I think anyone who says they WANT to major in Business is lying but why is this 16 year old's hobby "reading about economics." Why is this 8th grader into entrepreneurship? WHO is the 16 year old into AI and fantasy football? I hate to say it but the kids may not in fact be alright.

[sneakyboymerlin]

My hot take is that if Merlin didn’t love Arthur, the Disir episode would have still gone exactly the same.

[strixhaven]

“that’s a normal human behavior/thought that basically everyone has” not in a “you’re mentally normal and dont have any problems and are lying about whatever’s going on with you” way but instead in a “the degree to which you’re pathologizing human behavior and ascribing it to xyz disorder/syndrome is making you feel disconnected from other people and ignores the messy reality of mental well-being and how human beings function. viewing the world with such a clinical lens is ultimately detrimental to your health and also gives far too much credence and authority to psychology and mental health professionals and fails to understand how our entire idea of mental health is steeped in very human biases and is ultimately something that is subject to change and constant interpretation and reinterpretation”

[softpine]

[downsteepy]

i am very grateful that im not someone that has to deal with daily seizures but it is evil when it takes like a week and a half's worth of business days to recover from a seizure

[always-is-always]

I'm baaack.....

What did I miss this week? 🤩

[sharpbluejay]

i cannot stop thinking about the horror of mary’s resurrection, she died with all those secrets and she comes back to life and her babies are grown men and they know! they know what she did! john raised them as hunters which was the worst thing she could ever imagine happening to her children, they’re attached at the hip, they’ve died or tried to die for each other multiple times, her first day back on earth and she watches dean go insane with worry for sam since he's been kidnapped, they’re friends with monsters, they kill without flinching. her sons are strangers with her children’s names and the man she loved is dead, and apparently he was driven by her death every day until he killed himself for dean, and while dean dances around all those facts in her first episode back, sam gives her john's journal which has to be filled with some sick shit because again, john's grief changed him fundamentally to the point where she wouldn't recognize him. everything surrounding her resurrection is just horrifying, its a gift for dean but literally plunges mary into her worst nightmare

[kareenvorbarra]

hmmmmm ketil anime backstory bad

[acommonrose]

Apparently if you went to math camp circa 2010, you either turned out to be a weirdo academic or to be someone involved in massive wire fraud.

So, you know, I’m having a very normal week.

[raiiny-bay]

good morning. we officially have world lore for the mbzAU

[gravedirtandbriarthorns]

I remembered why I was thinking about Naruto in the wee hours of the morning, which is because I finally investigated what Jujutsu Kasien is and turns out it's just "Naruto but everyone is trendy, the power of friendship doesn't work, and every time anyone tries to talk to the demon inside the protagonist it calls them a little bitch and then threatens to do a murder."

[lemotmo]

How am I supposed to return to work tomorrow (I had two weeks of vacation) and be a responsible adult when I'm suffering fom Buddie brainrot? I have no idea how I'm going to get through my day? Or my week?

But as a good adulting adult I'm going to go to bed now. It's already waaay to late and I need to get up at 6am. 😫

[unproduciblesmackdown]

other day i was like "yeah virtually all my dreams are defined by anxiety / every goal/hope being Thwarted, but at least i never really have nightmares" but it's like well what's the baseline what's the reaction, b/c i also then have to be like "but does it count if yeah i had a fairly typical dream sequence that was like, 'uh oh, i'm on The Horrors Street and the monster is probably after me, which i'm staving off by hand but it's kind of difficult b/c it can dissolve its own corporeal form in a somewhat gory manner as it tries to gnash at My corporeal form' but i was like 'i mean this is some bullshit but typical tuesday' level reaction so it wasn't a big deal?" like i don't even know when In Real Life it's also typical to have stress reactions like, just now going "smh obviously this sucks. i know i'm stressed. i know this is unpleasant bullshit & somewhat alarming. but typical tuesday (on a thursday)" and only due to noting some physical tremors is it like oh right i guess i'm also having an adrenal response. i tend to bring the like "smoke grenade! disassociation!!" response to a dream in that i can kind of Respond to it by withdrawing / distancing myself, sometimes even like [pushing things into being: as though it's a video game. pausing, exiting, etc] & like it's My psyche & it's brief sequences melding into each other anyways so okay, we'll pivot. other times it's just like yeah this is bullshit but shrug guess we're doing this, until it pivots anyways. Outliers are usually like, "just had an unpleasant Worldwide Peril scenario premise :/" or that like yeah once in a blue moon like sometime the past year my dream was so stressful i woke myself up b/c often when Urgently Confronted w/ Alarming Dream enemy i launch into fight mode & that one was just so [!!!] >:((( that it pushed the urgency into "oh shit, wake up maybe??" response levels. get their ass!! but mostly it's like "ugh i'm at this Job & im not sure what i'm doing, didn't get enough training for this. thinking about getting food but can i afford it" like yeah thee horrors but not as urgent. but then sometimes it's urgent or at least threatening & it's still like literally zzz / well this isn't ideal clearly but it doesn't even occur to me like Do i have nightmares i just shrug off? idek man. call that nightmarinating

[liveisbetterwithfiction]

So many books, so little time. I might need holiday for reading purposes only

[acermerryweather]

see this is what happens when youninvite someone into your problems... they get involved! and then they're forever involved and they also thinnk they now have a RIGHT to be involved, to advise, to "problem solve" to INTERFEAR! your life will no longer be yours alone. they say a problem shared is a problem halved... well it's also your life halved too.. your life is also then shared too with that said involved person!

the take away... stay lonely,stay private, shoulder the burden alone or you will spend the rest of your life repaying for that share!