#survive stress

[mspi]

Have you felt this before?

Try finding yourself a healthier job, because this is toxic. I've been there before. Imagine making $52k and willing to drop to minimum wage with benefits for fresh air and beautiful skies.

It's not because it was IT. It was the stress from upper management, lawyers, spammers, and all their smoking. BTW you know you're screwed when one of the founders and your HR director gave the smokey musk.

My daily swimming to get that environment off me didn't really help. An hour+ of laps followed by a shower at least made me feel secure about kicking back on the comfy living room couch.

Don't I wish they had Fitbits back then. Ok only curious. My roomie thought I was trying to lose weight and was always making me feel positive about my body. Oh, that's not the reason for all my exercise. It's how I let loose the yucky feelings I wanted to beat up.

Instant fix was the day my ex came home from work and saw me happily laying across the couch. Arns up saying, "I'm unemployed!"

Some people thought I was planning on mooching off unemployment. Uh nope. Only took a needed year away from IT. We were sure to throw me 🔙 in the industry once there was an opening with my name on it. That's with 4-days of studying a Microsoft certification manual.

Yeah I can't believe I survived it either. But my goodness did working for the new company feel like everything I expected it to be like. Of course, 5yrs later they died, deli their patents to other companies. Happy most went to Google at least.

-- dnagirl

09.08.2024

[benevolenterrancy]

WHO ARE YOU CALLING A PROTAGONIST???

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Happy Year of the Snake!

[fairycosmos]

god i want to be a better person

[kedreeva]

At some point in your life, there will be a moment where exactly - or near exactly - half the people in the world are younger than you, and half the people are older.

And I think that moment should be the one your soulmate Mark appears at, not at birth or puberty or something. Both because at birth is kind of boring but it's also very you-centric and soulmates are about the thing outside of you being a part of you, and I think it would be nice to include The World.

But also I think it would have fascinating implications for scientific and social studies. Longevity trends tracked by the average age soul marks appear. Tragedies causing a rash of recent marks to disappear (because the people are no longer the middle). Marks appearing early during baby booms.

[ciderjacks]

Chilchuck is one of those special characters where you learn about his past and you go “ohhhh that explains a lot” except where for most characters this happens like once or maybe twice, with Chilchuck it happens literally any time you learn anything at all about him, and every time it’s explaining a different thing he has going on.

[starry-bi-sky]

mmmmmm read a disciple shen yuan/shizun luo binghe fanfic about two days ago where the first chapter was the Immortal Conference arc, and SQQ was the one who had to be pushed into the abyss (he was still the villain) except Luo Binghe was refusing and was like, lowkey losing his mind about SQQ being so close to the edge. SQQ ended up having to be the one to fall in himself because of the system's punishment system. The rest of the fic is leading up to that moment. But like, MMM i've been obsessively thinking about that first chapter for DAYS ever since.

now i've been in svsss for a grand total of *checks watch* a week. but god obsessed with that. I want to write/read a fic where disciple SQQ goes a little nuts down there. Like keep all of the things that make SQQ, SQQ, but just. Throw in a little bit more trauma in there. A little bit of a mental break. Let him go a little nuts as a treat. Just a tad unhinged. I wanna see him go, just a little, "god fuck it, i've tried so hard to change this shitty story's outcome and it feels like everything i've done has been for nothing. I'm going to die in this world no matter what I do, I've been doomed from the start, so might as well die the way I want to." and he just, breaks a little! Under all the stress.

He still retains the traits that makes shen yuan, shen yuan, like his overwhelming kindness. But he's just! yk. A little less patient. Paranoid. Jumpy. Colder. A little more aloof and closed off. A little more Shen Jiu. He's no asshole child abuser, but he was a Number One Hater in his past life and he's leaning into that old habit a little more now.

(On a totally coincidental not-at-all related note, there's not enough SJ-and-SY-are-the-same-people fics out there that i've found. This is totally unrelated...)

The Endless Abyss turns the mind into an over-sharpened blade, and SQQ is both fascinated and perhaps a little excited to explore a place that doesn't have a lot of info on it in the mortal realm, but still terrified out of his mind. And he's no Luo Binghe, he doesn't have the sheer brute strength and power to just bulldoze his way through, so he has to be a lot more sneaky and cunning if he wants to survive.

The fic itself role-swapped LBH and SQQ so that SQQ was the half-demon (which lowkey fucks) and LBH the human, but I'm equally-if-not-more obsessed with the idea that LBH remains the half-heavenly demon and SQQ the human. If only because I keep thinking about SQQ befriending some demons (particularly and specifically a group of succubi) and they grow very attached to this Human Cultivator so through magic plot stuff they create some kind of seal/illusion/talisman that makes SQQ appear as a demon because a human cultivator in the endless abyss may as well be the equivalent of putting a giant neon target on your back.

And iirc Shen Jiu was taught demonic cultivation by that one guy(?? i've only been here a week so im not caught up in ALL of the lore yet) so that could totally happen here.

(On the other end of the realms, poor Shizun Luo Binghe is just. losing his fucking mind over losing his most precious and beloved disciple. About .5 seconds from burning down the peaks himself. somebody sedate him.)

The Endless Abyss sucks and SQQ is having a really terrible time and can feel himself going lowkey mad, but also holy shit look at all this WORLD-BUILDING. look at all this flora and fauna, and oh if he had the equipment for it he'd be writing all of this down. ALL OF IT. He was kinda-sorta-already planning on never leaving the Abyss as some sort of fucked up self-exile and self-preservation thing, but now he might? actually just?? never leave if he can help it, like he lowkey likes it down here.

anyways the next time anyone ever sees SQQ again he's got hair so long its almost touching the ground and he's either in rags and half-feral or he's been completely dolled up by his adoptive succubi sisters and still about three seconds from biting anyone who tries to touch him. (he's also lowkey trying to book it back down to the abyss even if he has desperately missed all of his friends and shizun)

[theealbatross]

someone: wow, you work so well under immense pressure :o

ominis, whose best friend turned into a dark wizard at 15 and was under constant threat of being sent to azkaban and whose other best friend is the Hero of Hogwarts with a bounty on her head and was actively being hunted by dark wizards: i've had some practice

[vuelode-irbis]

Been wanting to draw some fanart for Poor George MAP since it's my favorite one, and because it was its anniversary recently, I finally did it :>

ID: A digital drawing in two panels with characters from Warriors. In the panel above, there's Yellowfang watching Brokenkit play with a moss ball, she looks endearingly at the little kit; they're in a green environment and plants surround them. In the panel below, Yellowfang is in the same possition, looking down at an adult Brokenstar at her feet, already dead, she looks sorrowful. Fireheart is by her side, looking at her with compassion. They're at ThunderClan's medicine den.

[justaprototyp3]

weird ass found family or something

[himboraccoon]

murph's ability to say something depressing about riz so nonchalantly yet it cuts me so deep i have to pause and take a second to reflect on myself

[titsoutfortntduo]

crawling forward and ratting my little tin can. would anyone be interested in 10-15 dollar colored sketch commissions? I non urgently need some money for food (I have enough for the rest of the month I would just like to eat smth other than soup and mac n cheese orz) but Im also busy as FUCK and cannot do fully rendered art atm. so if anyone has extra money or is looking for art pls hmu !! Im also happy to negotiate prices if 10-15 dollars is too much

examples of what id do ^^ pls dm if interesteddd

[neuroticboyfriend]

i dont think people realize how painful it is to constantly live in survival mode. like fight/flight/freeze/etc. is reserved for when you're close to fucking dying. people weren't made to live entire lives in that state. can you imagine the damage that does?

[savagechickens]

The Right Amount.

And more stress.

[aethersea]

it is funny though how kids' shows are so so so careful about death, no one's ever killed except MAYYYYBE the big bad, all those random side characters are fine, here have a quick shot of them before we leave just so you know they really did survive that 50-foot drop into a stormy sea,

and meanwhile kids' books nearly all agree that it's not an adventure until it has a body count.

[tvmusiclife]

Paris 2024 Women's Artistic Gymnastics:

Team Final

🥇USA 🥈Italy 🥉Brazil

All-Around Final

🥇Simone Biles 🇺🇸 🥈Rebeca Andrade 🇧🇷 🥉Sunisa Lee 🇺🇸

Vault Final

🥇Simone Biles 🇺🇸 🥈Rebeca Andrade 🇧🇷 🥉Jade Carey 🇺🇸

Uneven Bars Final

🥇Kaylia Nemour 🇩🇿 🥈Qiyuan Qiu 🇨🇳 🥉Sunisa Lee 🇺🇸

Balance Beam Final

🥇Alice D'Amato 🇮🇹 🥈Yaqin Zhou 🇨🇳 🥉Manila Esposito 🇮🇹

Floor Exercise Final

🥇Rebeca Andrade 🇧🇷 🥈Simone Biles 🇺🇸 🥉Jordan Chiles 🇺🇸