#stress reducers

[fordragonfliesandme]

The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Stress-free Home Office: Organization Tips & Tricks

Introduction to creating a stress-free home office! I feel very fortunate for the opportunity to work remotely. Working from home has become increasingly popular in recent years, and with the global pandemic, it has become a necessity for many. It really opened the eyes to many employers, showing them staff were able to complete assignments from home as well as they had in the office. However,…

[pinktrapped]

stupid cat part 2 (I tried to animate 😭😭)

[jeeaark]

When trying to teach your friends cool new tricks accidentally turns into a business deal.

A small crack idea, but if lv 12 Mizora can be a patron, so can Greygold. Even adventure-accomplished Emps is flabbergasted at the 'how'. It's cool, nothing like a quick side-quest to fix that technical difficulty.

Anyway, I need Mizora to get fired from her job. I need Zariel to fire her lawyer. Figuratively. Literally. Both. Hunting her down is all good and reasonable but. How many other warlocks are under her belt that risk turning into lemures if she capooted? It's cool, team heart-of-gold can beat her at her own game.

[yukipri]

TW: pet death.

I miss my Lu.

Cats tag: #YukiPriASLKittens

[narnour-momo-007]

Soft <3

[dukeofthomas]

"Angry robin" "violent robin" "misbehaving robin" shut up and accept my alternative; spunky Robin. Determined and head strong, can out-stubborn the Batman, has a strong moral-backbone and does what he thinks is right regardless of what anybody else says, Robin. Jason who was sassy and quippy and made crude jokes with a smile on his face. Jason who hid in Bruce's cape and whispered gossip to him. Jason who, if Bruce refused him something, could keep bothering endlessly until Bruce caved. And also dramatic Jason. If Bruce tells him no, it becomes a whole theatrical show; a monologue, a narration, embellishments, and falling onto the floor in his grief upon the fact his cruel father has denied him once again.

(Jason who has suffered through abuse and homelessness and poverty and starvation, who is the Fight out of Fight or Flight, who's built up defenses and walls and when pushed and triggered responds with the thing that's always protected him; anger. He's sweet and kind and funny, and when he sees a pimp hitting a prostitute he gets furious and responds with violence.)

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

glad to see you posting a bit more again! hope you're feeling well + having a good spooky season. what are you doing for Halloween?

Thank you! Without getting into too many grody details, I have some lovely doctors who've helped me get a drug regimen that has my symptoms way down. So while I still have Your Digestion Is Completely Fucked, Seriously Your Shit-For-Brains Intestines Can't Do Anything Right To The Point Where It Fucked Up Your Brain (the official diagnosis) it's waaaay more under control than it was a few months ago.

And thank you to everyone who messaged me support. When I say that on multiple occasions you all made me cry actual tears while curled up on the floor of the bathroom, I do mean it in a good way.

[channelsoph]

Some thoughts after the Wembley show on 16.12.2023

(i wasn't there but i was following it closely and i have some thoughts)

Wembley show just proved that they are a huge success and growing at an extreme rates BUT they are still the same band we know and love and they won’t let the success haze their mind cause who the fuck does not cancel a show when he can’t sing? a very dedicated person. who the fuck continues to play concerts when one of the band members has an emergency and has to bounce? a very dedicated band. i’m not saying there are no other dedicated bands out there. i’m saying you can really see just how much this whole thing means to them. and who the fuck flies off to a family emergency during tour? A HUMAN FUCKING BEING. argue with the wall.

i can see that they love what they do so much and they handle everything that comes their way with such humanism and plain kindness my heart is aching. it is so rare in our times. they are an anonymous collective but they show so much humanity and personality it is astounding and honestly so so beautiful. they play monsters but act so human. i love them. i love the fans. i love being here. they bring me the most intense and incredible feelings.

playing Bloodsport at the end of the set? i bet my ass Ves just was in his feelings and this fucking song fits so fucking perfectly to this whole ordeal of a show. what does that say about him? to me it’s that he lives through every single show with us, with its differences and mishaps. again, the humanity is striking and gut wrenching. it’s nothing sophisticated, they are just being real. humble. human. maybe it was planned. we won’t know. i think the beauty of this is that it is open to interpretation and that’s my two cents on what happened.

in the most healthy way possible, my heart belongs to them.

im gonna tag a little human being @monstrouscrew to thank for the inspiration. you have a beautiful brain

[lovesodeepandwideandwell]

ok this is a deeply deeply weird manifesto and i'm sorry but i feel suddenly very burdened to say it so. if you felt like we were friends and i unfollowed you, this is for you. (don't be scared this is not about problems with anyone this is just my mess. that I think is ok to have which is why I'm talking about it)

so I joined tumblr in 2020 when a) the world was isolated b) I had just moved to a new city and was living alone taking Zoom classes in my apartment. what started as a mindless distraction became such a lifeline of connection and friendship! and still such a support as things started to open back up and get busier in 2021, when I was teaching and in class in person but still struggling for close in-person friendships. I know the group dynamic on here has shifted a number of times, as some of you probably experienced from various vantage points. my use of tumblr has shifted too, on and off, as I've needed different things out of it and been in different spiritual and emotional states. and I've kind of come to realize that I probably threw myself in too eagerly in some ways. it was so exciting to have actual friends on here and for them to actually turn into friends in person, that honestly I maybe prized that dynamic too much for what it symbolized over actually valuing the people. I'm sorry for doing that.

anyway, that worked fine for a bit, but as (glory be to God) I've become much more plugged into my in-person community in the last couple years, I've felt more and more emotionally strained. I've taken up a new attitude towards my family that's much more in line with God, but also much more draining as it means I have to just pour out in prayer and love and wait with patient sorrow over some things rather than fighting and defending my perspective as always right and necessary; and then there's the church-related grief my family has gone through over the last year. I've had a very delicate and difficult friendship that pulled up a lot of unresolved stuff from a college situation and felt endlessly wearying at times. I've had another issue from college recur in a way I thought had been healthily resolved years ago. I've had this whole roommate marriage situation that as y'all know is a very weird trial and pressure. My church has been dealing with a strange and tough ongoing struggle that was already stressing me out before I started working there. My small group has been amazing and I've loved connecting with and relying on them more, but that connection also means more fully bearing the griefs of a lot of different people dealing with the different struggles of life. My advisor situation has been so weird and tough, making my academic work really hard, and then this recent church work has been fulfilling but physically and often mentally exhausting. My future location, work, and community is up in the air after a few years of stability. (I really didn't mean to make this a recitation of my woes, but honestly it's really helpful to see it all written out here; helps explain my deep deep exhaustion, I guess.)

If I ever followed you on tumblr, I love you. In a number of different ways. I feel fondness at the thought of you and at your presence; I want to know you more fully; I desire the good for you; and I find my well-being to be, at least a little bit, tied up with yours. That last one is the rub. As I'm sorting through all the callings and duties in my life, trying to identify what counts as changing my tires versus what wears my tires out, I've found that my tumblr dashboard can switch back and forth very unpredictably between one thing and the other. Often it's a delight to come on here and find my friends and the cool things we're showing each other and the joys and sorrows and goofy moments of our lives! But at other times, when what I desperately need is an escape and rest and humor to provide solace from in-person cares, I find myself pricked all over again by the sorrow of the world and the stress of sin--or even just irritated by stuff I find irrelevant or disagree with or don't want to be reminded of.

To be clear, I'm not saying anyone's doing anything wrong on here. The opposite; I love the freedom y'all have to seek out what helps you, whether that's a lot of facts and ideas or a lot of goofy content or recipes or weird TV or music or venting about life or seeking prayer or advice! We all have the freedom and responsibility to determine how to use the tools we have to aid us in pursuing the good, whether the good is a quick laugh or building up virtue. But I think for me, at this point in my life, my duty and calling has swung back towards my in-person connections in a variety of ways, and I have to honor that.

The lie of infinity that the internet offers is just that--a lie. for me, that lie right now is being laid bare in my inability to have infinite care for everyone whose path I cross. I could follow everyone on here whom I'm endeared to, could keep messaging and replying and building relationships, but it would be a lie to think I can offer that love and care to everyone I would like to. In-person friendships are limited by physical proximity and time; online friendships can't be unlimited either. I need to apologize for acting as though they could be, and committing myself beyond my limits; but also, my life has really changed, and I'm not going to be caught either by the lie that online is only worthwhile if it's permanent.

I want to be clear that I value the connections I've had with you. I've loved exchanging mail and phone calls, messaging fun things back and forth, being online at the same time or learning about your day after the fact. Please know, also, that I have gone to war in prayer for you, and I continue to do so. I wish that I knew how to love widely without feeling pulled apart and worn down, by difference and sorrow and sin (mine and yours). I hope God is sanctifying me toward that end. But right now I'm fairly convinced I need to honor my calling to in-person friendships; I need to protect my mind and heart from even little pricks and distractions, so that I can keep my desires in order and use my energy for prayer and Scripture and to do good work and love the people God's made my physical neighbors. I really do love you, and I wish we had infinite time to talk and think together. I'm so excited to be with y'all in heaven forever. And who knows--maybe my life will shift yet again (it's looking likely) and I'll have a ton of spare energy and love and will come sheepishly back looking to connect with you again. We'll see. You deserve love and attention and connection, in person and online, and I'm sorry that--at least as it feels to me--I held out the promise of giving you that and then had to withdraw it.

so. there's all that. My dash is super quiet these days, thwarting my dopamine search but pushing me towards texting friends, towards meditating more fully on Scripture, towards praying over my work and burdens. I hope you can understand and maybe even be glad that, God willing, this is how I'm able and needing to work for the kingdom right now. love you love you

[sethdomain]

Dawg i hate mouthwashinhg fandom so much now, the analysis now is just so reductive ☹️☹️☹️☹️

[gildedkisses]

Mirror Palais S/S 2023

[silvermoon424]

Was going to write an entire rant on some random asshole commenter on Youtube who keeps arguing with people who tell him that women being oppressed throughout history and having fewer rights is bad actually.

Then I remembered I'm wearing a full Cinnamoroll outfit which brings me a lot of joy. And I have plushies to hug, hobbies to engage in, and friends/family to talk to. I am too blessed to be stressed!

[release-the-hound]

Just remembered there used to be discourse over kennel training cats which in hindsight is really funny because like. Where do you think we put them when they're hospitalized??

[moeblob]

Anyway i should post these to my OC blog but I keep mentioning Ymber here and so you guys are getting forced to see him.

In Deacon's defense, he doesn't think it's weird that he likes being alone in Ymber's temple considering they first met /when he was alone in Ymber's temple/. In Ymber's defense, he knows Deacon has no magical powers and so the whole resonance with the dead is unexpected cause he's never seen Deacon talk to the dead because he's always on duty around Ymber.

So. (jazz hands) Deity of Wet, Ymber.

[kilometresrufflefuck]

Hi, fellow law person here (not a lawyer, a Trial Office Functionary that is a court clerk but not quite and practicing notaio in Italy, it's not the same as a notary public if you want I can explain in pvt)...you guys have to try and mediate ANY civil controversy before actually filing a civil lawsuit?! How does it work? We have that in Italy for an handful of matters and most don't even show up. Thank you so much and congratulations!

lol hello to you! thank you very much!!

im hesitant to really try and provide information on real law haha but very broadly and vaguely yes, in australia we have so-called 'genuine steps' obligations which require parties to take genuine steps to resolve civil disputes before commencing proceedings in the federal courts. (to be clear this is federal law im not talking about state law)

i don't think it applies with 100% strictness to literally every kind of civil dispute (there are exceptions but i dont recall precisely what they all are), and the interpretation can be flexible (so what constitutes a genuine step can vary, it's up to the court's discretion), but often you need to file a statement about what steps you've taken to try and resolve your dispute before proceeding to litigation. eg mediation or just reaching out to the other party like 'hey can we talk' etc can count depending on circumstances

[manifestsoul]