#self care box

[the-midnight-in-me]

If I'm gonna do this, I want to decorate it. I'm supposed to be saving money in case I get laid off but idk, this feels important. There's a supermarket right next door to this craft store so I'll probably run in there after I pick this stuff up to find treats and maybe a coloring book and/or puzzle book to add to it. I have trinkets that were gifts I'd like to add to it as well. Screenshots of kindness that was aimed towards me. Photos. Some of my own dried lavender. Mint, once my plants start growing again. Idk. Whatever I can find.

I know you're supposed to try to cover all 5 senses with these things, so I'll have to see what I can find for touch. I'm sure I have another plushie that was gifted to me floating around here, somewhere. There's also that fidget toy I found on a particularly fun adventure with my friends.

Those two mean so much to me and I really want to get better for them if nothing else.

[thehousewarmingproject]

A Guide To Gift Boxes For Women

A gift basket is a collection of gifts that comes in one unit. It usually contains food, beverages, and other items that the receiver can enjoy. The baskets themselves are usually beautifully decorated to display its contents, but they are also utilized for the reason that it helps all kinds of the gifts together nicely. When it comes to getting the gift boxes for women, handmade cosmetics always top the list.

Women like taking care of the way they look, and since every person is keeping away from processed products and artificial chemicals as much as possible, the demand for homemade beauty products has not at all been higher.

If you are familiar with this, then figuring out what is supposed to give the women in your life should be pretty simple, even though the trickiest part will probably be making the actual homemade cosmetics. A typical self care box for women that is themed around homemade cosmetics usually contains bath salts or bubble baths, essential oils, body scrubs, soaps, lotions, face masks, and lip balms.

You can base the gift basket around any of these products; the only thing that you need to keep in mind is that if they contain foods that are known to be common allergens, check to find out whether the woman you plan on giving it to is allergic or not.

Even though the majority of companies sell pre-made gift baskets for women with homemade cosmetics in them, you could even opt to make one on your own by getting a pre-made package (they usually come in bags or cardboard boxes), taking the products out, putting them in a wicker basket, adding one or two other homemade beauty products, and you are done!

Unique Gift Boxes - Personalized Boxes

Nothing will make a person happier than a gift basket that is filled with so many personalized things that it would be impossible to say that the gift basket was for someone else. For instance, you can fill in the basket with photos of you two, or even objects that were personalized with your photos printed on them.

One more wonderful idea for custom gift boxes with logo is to fill them with things that have some of your favorite sayings in them. If you have not at all been together for a long time and you know what they live to say, then we guarantee that they will laugh their hearts out when they find one of your favorite jokes printed on a card inside the gift basket.

This is for the reason that it shows how much thought was put into making the gift basket as personalized as possible, and how much effort you are willing to go through just so that the person feels loved and appreciated even more than usual.

The ultimate personalized gift baskets are the ones that have those little special gestures in them that show just how much thought and effort you put into the process. If you are in search of some of the best housewarming gift boxes, do not miss to check out The Housewarming Project!

[married-2-the-music]

Honestly, sometimes I’ll be looking in an old purse and just find a bunch of bandaids, a tampon, a pack of gum, and a few random pennies. Because Past Me had a good sleep schedule sometimes.

Thanking Past Me every day for deciding to keep a plastic tote with a breakfast bar, facial cleanser, mini deodorant, a Tide pen, travel-size Febreeze, extra energy shots, ibuprofen, period supplies, and a can of dry shampoo in my bottom desk drawer at all times.

When Current Me doesn't have her shit together, Past Me is very often there with the save and a fistbump like I GOT YOU GIRL.

Good Job, Past Me. 💜

[desultory-suggestions]

I would like to give a shout out to the gullible folks. The people who were lied to with some ridiculous story by an abuser and taken advantage of. People who can't describe their situation to others bc they know it sounds crazy, but they have fallen too deep to escape.

You aren't dumb. You're so trusting and so full of love. It is not your fault others take advantage. There are people out there that will not lie to you like others have. Your trauma is valid even if the lies you were told were so outlandish people laugh when you try to explain the terror you lived through.

Don't stop loving. Don't stop trusting. Just... Learn how to be more selective with your trust. Because not all have pure intentions for you.

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[fumifooms]

Dungeon lord Chilchuck

What would his wish as a dungeon lord be? What would he be like? Headcanons & speculation post for fun. But I’ll start with analytic lead up because that’s always fun for me, though feel free to skip and skim.

When it comes to what Chilchuck’s dungeon lord desires could/would be like we have mainly 3 hints: His nightmare, his succubus and what the winged lion says to him.

Why: — From what we see nightmares are based on the person’s worst fears and insecurities, both Laios’ and Marcille’s nightmare were closely tied to their dungeon lord wishes (Laios’ dream monster being summoned to crush the ghosts of relationships that represented the pressure to fit in and belong, Marcille seeking control over death and aging through magic to avoid loss), the fuel behind their desire/goal if you will. Fear and deep-seated desires are seemingly closely tied, something also supported by Thistle and Mithrun’s reigns as dungeon lords (Thistle proving his worth through fulfilling his given duty + protecting his loved ones, being listened to instead of having to listen, Mithrun escaping rigid two-faced elven society and living in a wonderland where he has no enemies and he’s loved, free from everyone he knew yet propped up by the person symbolizing his brother being chosen over him, the bastard child).

— I’ve talked about the significance I assign to the succubi often by now, but rundown: What we see of each character is all very telling if you care to listen, it shows not only someone’s "ideal form" but what they want from it. Izutsumi’s is familial, offering a hug and comfort, Marcille’s is romantic with a character she knows and loves, offering a kiss on a hand and a connection regardless of how distant it actually is, and Laios’ is platonic, arguable at first but then Laios’ fear of judgement is placated and he is offered the picture perfect friend group that accepts his interest (if you want my full look at Laios’ succubus go here). They take on the most alluring form, most ideal person of their victim, even uncovering deep subconscious desires, so precisely and effectively to the point it leaves victims physically frozen before the object of their desire. Succubi and the demon are themselves tied in lore and it’s easy to see how similar their core skill are. Succubi don’t give a good idea of what a character would wish for on their own but they certainly give hints on what they crave, regardless of how you want to read it.

— Last bit is self-explanatory. To placate Chilchuck and win his compliance over, the monster that reads your soul like an open book offers to give him something specific. But! It’s also important to remember that the lion isn’t offering to fulfill Chilchuck’s dream world wish here, it’s a second prize, because his goal with what he promised Laios is that they’d stay in this world, away from everyone and everything else. Chilchuck wants to get away but is kept back, and it’s here the lion placates him with "hey it’s okay! You can’t do that but I can still give you this! This is enough right? It’ll make everything easier on you".

What each bit says: — Long version in another post. Tldlr: His daughters and family are obviously important to him, and this reinforces that he takes on the role of protector a lot, he’s constantly worried for his party members’ lives and implicitly his family’s. Safety and stability, both economical and otherwise, are his core values and goals, and he berates both others and himself if someone fails on those fronts. Here, there’s the fear of not being enough, of not having been able to protect, and of course of loss.

— Chil’s succubi are obviously sexual, and not only that but agressively and straightforwardly so. It’s not like Marcille’s where there’s personality involved, all they do is give him sultry looks and pretty smiles before jumping on him. His succubi aren’t like Izutsumi’s, always the same exact person and appearance, so it’s not someone but an appealing general idea. The idea of a sexual being he can regard as simply a gorgeous piece of meat and a good time no strings attached. In my interpretation, especially with my reading of Laios’ succubus where even with deep-seated desires negative emotions can be too intense to effectively freeze a victim, I think this doesn’t contradict his character. Relationships have been painful to him in the past, in the succubus scene when his wife gets mentioned his immediate reaction is to yell "Don’t bring her up now!", like with his habit of drinking and as a tallman liking his senses feeling dulled, it’s about not having to feel emotions with how difficult they are to deal with sometimes and just feeling good, or at least not having to think, for a while. If a succubus showcases someone’s ideal connection with an ideal person, then Chilchuck’s is with a pretty person that doesn’t stir any negative memory or drama, someone low stakes and low maintenance that doesn’t require him to manage or talk out feelings because there’s none involved in the first place.

— Once more, wife and family are important! He does long for his family, not only his wife but his daughters, and vice versa. This suggests not only that he wants good relationships with them but that he wants them to be with him, a family life. Far from the cut communication they all more of less have during canon, and perhaps far from their life pre-canon when he worked away from home a significant amount of time. We’ve seen recreations of people by the winged lion before with doppelgangers and monsters (naga), and though he claims he can make satisfying imitations, what we’ve seen is that they base themselves on the best memories of that person, like with Marcille’s dad, or twist behavior to be more pleasant, like Mithrun’s lover (and possibly twist appearances depending on the person’s view of them, but that’s Mithrun analysis). The line does suggest Chilchuck would want his family members as they are in reality and not idealized versions, but the circumstances are chaotic and urgent enough in the scene (and again the lion isn’t fulfilling Chilchuck’s wish but trying to make him content for Laios’) that it could just be the winged lion saying what he needs to to convince him the fastest possible, and like we see with Laios that can crumble to give way to deeper or more complex desires.

On top of that we just have general info on Chil. How does Chilchuck deal w his issues? What does he like to do? He likes alcohol and ignoring his problems. We have to remember there is a split between what someone would consciously wish for and what their soul uncontrollably irrationally craves. As always with Dunmeshi, there’s a narrative of irrational deep-seated desires vs active wants, what you crave vs what you strive for, what you dream of vs what’s actually good for you, the animal vs the human inside you, heart vs mind. Chilchuck craving a harem of hot babes in his fantasies but wanting his family life & wife back again is not mutually exclusive. You may crave becoming a monster and tasting what humans are like a little but still want to save the world & your friends more.

Btw can we adress the irony of him terrified of being the last one alive, of being left by his daughters and wife, of having left and coming back home one day to see everything gone or rampaged, yet not caring about dying of liver failure himself, knowing every time that he enters a dungeon there’s a real risk he may not come out. Die somewhere I can’t see you. I prefer leaving you than being left behind. He’s selfish and shortsighted like that… Chilchuck is selfless in many ways of course, but perhaps also due to his own relationship with his parents, he often undermines the effects he has on others in his relationships, both the good and the bad (he talks himself down about being cowardly and greedy yes, but never hints at his bad health habits, alcoholism and starving himself, may have affected his loved ones, doesn’t question his wife falling into a bad mood the night before she left, and talks about the possibility of dying here and there very casually, though obviously he tries his best to stay alive when it doesn’t concern his health).

Chilchuck king of "Let me just avoid and ignore my problems surely they’ll go away, things might work out and if they don’t well tough luck I’ll survive and I probably deserve it anyways". If I don’t look at it it will dissapear <3 Why care when you can simply not think about it.

You might not understand Mister "my love will stay strong through months of work travel and also 4 years of separation" and Mister "well idk my siblings and me are kinda strangers and my dad is dead but that’s kinda whatever", but typically relationships need some form of maintenance and emotional availability…

The actual headcanons finally

I kinda have 2 routes in mind for dunlord Chil and both of them are centered on "I care too much, i wish things were easy", so first is a lot like his succubi, it’s full on indulging in his guilty pleasures like alcohol and bodies and it’s to keep him in a constant state of thrill and euphoria and distracted, unfeeling about stuff that really matters. "Nothing matters except that I’m enjoying the moment!" vibe. He gets to live a life worthy of Dionysus, with alcohol and women and debauchery and like— never having to think again, never having to feel anything but pleasure again, never have to feel guilty or shitty or angry or sad. He has a harem and gets everything on a silver platter.

Breaking news demon magic-induced rush of euphoria and power still not enough to cure this man of his self-hatred nor his capacity for thought!! But in his case a state of euphoria is what he seeks I think, to kinda mask or replace the Everything Else.

The other is what I think closer to what canon suggests, with what WL implied too with "I’ll make you a new wife and kids like the originals!! 😊", it’s a (spoilers) Wandavision type thing where it’s a slice of life where he’s never at work and always at home and the family eats lunches at the dinner table together and everything and everyone at any moment is just. Happy. No issues. It was all a dream, this is real and everything is fine and your family is perfect and happy. I like to think the timeline would be wonky, his daughters would fluctuate in age, but he’d want to be there for what he missed, would want them to still rely on him and look up to him like when they were young, would like to forget that they’re now independent adults and the distance that grew between Chilchuck and his siblings is happening between them as well. Chil would want doppelgangers of his family imo, at its core just a general wish for a peaceful happy family life with no drama, no need to compromise, a little paradise of unconditional love and no consequences. It’s for sure straightforward, but Chilchuck is a man with straightforward desires…

But see Chilchuck is a greedy man, and he wants it both ways without having to sacrifice anything or expanding any efforts himself. He wants to have his cake and eat it too. I think playing with these two opposite directions and mixing and matching is most fun. Him leading a life where he indulges in all his worst habits while still having everything he wants… Him getting to have BOTH his wife and any woman he can imagine up, his life like two sides of a coin he can flip at any moment where he’s partying then he’s at home enjoying the quiet and his toddler daughters playing with toys on the carpet. Christ when you remember it’s all an illusion that’s terrifying, the doppelgangers and succubi from the winged lion playing chilchuck ping pong.

A safe little haven both security-stability wise and emotionally. Gets to have both the relaxing and the thrilling in any dose he wants, mixed or separatedly. What I’d argue he had pre-canon too: Can live it up in taverns away from home, stays away from home for long periods of time, and can come back to home aka the symbol of relaxation and safety whenever he decides to. Something he can leave and come back to at will, an anchor he can trust in (until it’s taken from him and his wife leaves. Or in his worse nightmare people rush in and kill his daughters). The ideal of a house and family to a working man, perhaps…

I think it’s fun to think on wether or not these desires would be interesting at all to the winged lion… In canon he seeks out "rare/complex desires", common simple things like I imagine riches, sex, substances and pleasure would be are boring to him, he’s eaten those so many times already. So perhaps he wouldn’t last long as a dunlord, the WL would want to eat him fully quick, can’t keep him interested or waiting long for a meager meal, too much effort raising the cattle and too low quality meat. By making it more twisted or layered Chil’s desire would become more desirable to the demon, it’s part of what’s fun with the third option to me. But whatever. Has he ever eaten a guy with this much repression and self-sabotage... Like trying to get the meat out of a walnut, enrichment…

Other dunlord Chil takes I’ve seen that are fun and good:

@feelo-fick and @pluvio-floret have a dunlord Chilchuck AU project dubbed "tragedy AU" where Chilchuck is said to be "on vacation", in a weird delirious state, only half-there half of the time… From which he doesn’t want to wake up </3 Quoting Feelo, this is why the vacation thing is only a half-joke cause he is 1) letting all his responsibilities go 2) indulging in himself and 3) "spending time with his family" <- lie but you get what i mean. Additional comments that have me vigorously nodding: because changing is hard why cant things just be okay right now without the effort !!! Life is hard he’s so so tired he just wants to feel good… he just wants life to feel nice and easy for a sec while he can learn to breathe again and lose the stress and trauma he’s accumulated…….. spoiler alert yes !!! in fact a depressed person can suck themselves into their job and lock out the world who wouldve thought !!!

And then Cabinette I know posted about his dunlord take once but I don’t have the link, in which Chil has a lot of nosebleeds because of mana overload which is fun and interesting to think about imo~

In dunmeshi, where characters get underground pockets of the world as their playground disconnected from everything outside and the rest of the world, it’s important to remember to face reality even if it has conflict and people with different views and stances from you, it’s something Chilchuck and Marcille and everyone needed to learn, and the thing with a dungeon lord AU is that you imagine a timeline where he fails to <3

A timeline where his dungeon lord wish is to desire nothing bc hope and want has only ever hurt him would also go so hard. Very universal thing though I suppose.

… And this is why a Chilchuck-centric Coraline AU is really really interesting and fitting and topical— Ok that’ll go in a separate reblog/post at @Fumiku I need to let this end

[non-newtonian-id]

this is complete insanity on my part because i thought about PIDW!Shang Qinghua a little too much but

he and PIDW!Mu Qingfang were in love. to me.

they never actual got together before og!sqh died but there was mutual pining happening

trust, i spoke to airplane himself (<- guy being delusional about two double fictional characters (characters that are fictional within a factional setting))

[girlbossagenda]

You may not know this answer to this.. but how do I remember all the advice and tips I’ve learned?? I can never remember literally anything, but would love to use your, and others advice in my daily life..

XOXO ~ GBZ

HOW TO REMEMBER THE LIFE HACKS YOU LEARNED

Hi gorgeous!! sorry for anwering so slowly, Sadly tumblr is not like pinterest, you can't save and organize what you find intresting.

BUT you can make mastelists, you can make your own private or public masterlist with liked all the posts, you can do this here on tumblr(in my masterlist comments I explained how) or on a google doc(you can link all the post and organize each one in categories)!

If you want to recall them mentally you can start by implementing fist the habits and the physical act, then you implement the mindset, in this way you associate a way of thinking to a way of acting!

ex. I want to get healthy -> I exercise and eat healthy -> "what else can I do to get my results -> what I actually want to get -> focus only on the tips that match your desires

This is the main secret, create goals (better if specific) and focus only on the solutions of those problems!

I hope I was useful, stay healthy and ethereal see you all soon

xoxo

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[the-midnight-in-me]

The transfers arrived 💜 new craft obsession obtained

[thejournallo]

EXPLAIN THE METHOD: Wish-list.

As always, I will love to hear your thoughts! and if you have any questions, I will be more than happy to answer them! If you liked it, leave a comment or reblog (that is always appreciated!). if you are intrested in more method check the masterlist!

I know you didn't hear from me for a while, but I'm trying to do my best to manage my private life and this blog because it's been a pretty mess. I'm going in strong with another easy method just for you, my darlings!

What is this method?

It is a simple method, as always, and I think it is actually pretty smart. I named it a wish list because I don't know what the proper name for this method is. It reminded me of when I was little and used to make a wish list for Santa, and my gift "magically" appeared under the tree. Let's get into that mindset while I explain how to use this method.

How do I do this method? 

Let's take some steps back in time to the past, when we were all mindless children writing for Santa Claus in the hope that he would give us a pony or the incredible toys that we so much desired, for them to magically appear under the Christmas tree, and we were so happy and grateful! 

This method genuinely recalls those types of feelings to manifest  Make a list of all the things that you desire the most, and as the week goes by, simply check the things you have already manifested. because, like a child receiving a toy for Christmas, everything is taken care of for you.

thoughts: 

vote 8/10.  great method to keep track of your manifestations, great method to let you understand the right mind and belief around manifestation, and it also works extremely well because everything is handed to you.

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⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀No Mind To Think 、 🏛

⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ —⠀No Will To Break …

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⠀⠀⠀⠀Born Of Void And God 。 🖤

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[princessblue135]

incorrect quotes part 2

[littlefingies]

Some half-shaped meta that has probably been said before:

I think OFMD is a kind of fable, especially s2, in that it explicitly has its characters learning specific lessons as a part of the plot. For example, I these are the big Stede/Ed lessons in S2:

You cannot fly forever

No, it's not too late

Yes, you are loveable

Communicate and change

Trauma is real

The dream of a life beyond piracy/violence

Choosing violence actually sucks

Violence can be wielded in defense of others

I say that because:

Other characters learn explicit lessons too.

We know that Izzy learns that he needs to accept help. That he can't set himself above and apart from the crew, he needs to be on it. That he needs an identity of his own; he can't shape his self image around Blackbeard, a man who doesn't actually exist.

We know that Jim learns that revenge satisfies your past by stealing joy from your present and future.

We know that Auntie learns about softness, and how being soft doesn't mean you can't be tough.

And in the last three episodes, what does Zheng learn? I don't think her lesson is don't trust other pirates, or don't form a fleet. She learns:

You can't trust the British.

(And that there are strengths to be had outside of swordfighting.)

Anyways I'm curious what lessons you see the rest of the crew learning, or what you hope they'd get a chance to learn in s3?

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[rarilight]

one day I’m actually going to grab everything I went through last year and pour it into a raritwi breakup fic where they don’t get back together and I don’t do my usual thing where I hint there’s hope for them

And I think that will probably be a very emotional and good fic but also it’ll probably be incredibly crushing more than anything Ive ever done so honestly maybe we should all be grateful I haven’t written it yet