#the small pleasures
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I think so many people are so deeply alienated from themselves that they have no clue how to exercise their free will and autonomy. For some, this alienation runs so deep that they are afraid of their own autonomy and humanity. It is completely understandable why one would have those feelings, but it can be worrisome.
I want to help others who feel this way, so here are small things I have done to exercise my free will:
Add "guilty pleasure" songs to playlists and actually listen to them (I have a ton of late 1990s-early 2000s music I listen to now proudly that I never listened to in the past out of shame)
Getting the décor item, bath set, bed spread, ect. in the patterns you like, even if it's "childish" (I got a dinosaur-themed wastebasket from the kids' décor section and I adore it)
Taking a new route to get to a place you go to often
Eat dessert first
Celebrate well, and often
Collect things that are "odd" or don't seem like an "acceptable" thing to collect (somebody on my "for you" page collects dandelion crayola crayons and it was so cool!!!!!!)
Incorporate one new piece in an outfit you wear frequently (e.g., a new chain, a necklace, ribbons, bracelets, ect.). Challenge yourself to add onto the outfits if you feel up for it.
Sing along to songs without worrying that you sound "good" or your intonation is completely accurate
Read a book from a genre you weren't allowed to read as a kid (comics, thrillers, mysteries, anything!)
Walk without having a specific destination or goal
Pick up a new craft without expecting yourself to master it or to ever be "good" enough. Get your hands messy.
I don't want to shame anybody for not feeling as though they have free will or that they are exempt from exercising it. However, I wanted to give ideas so that you might read this list and find your own ways to express your intrinsic autonomy and will. You deserve to be a person, to feel alive, not just living. That is what our lives are for.
#mental health#mental health support#positivity#if anybody has ideas of their own definitely include them!#i just think being stuck with this feeling that you don't have autonomy and that you ultimately aren't an equal person or a person at all..#...in comparison to other people can be a really troubling and dangerous place to be in...#...and that isn't the person's fault for feeling that way. they didn't pluck those thoughts out of thin air...#...like i have felt that exact way all my LIFE because i have been abused for. probably 2/3s of my life...#...only within these past few years have i even FELT alive. frankly it's going to take a while to repair what i have been left with...#...so i know the feeling and i want to help others feel even a LITTLE bit alive. you deserve it...#...you deserve to take in a deep breath before slowly realizing 'oh my gd this is what it feels like to be alive' and SMILE about it#i want that for you even if it is brief. even if it is small. even if it is a whisper. i want you to feel alive#unironically getting rid of the idea of 'guilty pleasures' has made my life SO much better
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Shout out to the Holy Roman Empire for the funniest assembly name ever, Charles V for convening it and Martin Luther for refusing to recant his writings, causing the name of it to feature several times in my textbook.
#the small pleasures#the diet of worms#german history#holy roman empire#charles V#martin luther#the reformation guy#theo yells at the void
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”Well, I fucking love it,” Jamie says while Roy stares at Phoebe’s gift in mute horror and you know that Jamie is just as genuinely impressed with the shirt as he is ecstatic at it being gifted to Roy who will now have to a, grit out a thank you bc adorable niece, and b, wear it because – again – adorable niece.
Ah. Called up for England. Called Roy’s best friend. Getting to see Roy squirm. Jamie Tartt is living his best life in 3x10 and I fucking love it.
#scene to end all scenes really#roy’s sister and jamie taking turns being delighted at roy’s discomfort#but imagine how pouty jamie will be#when he realizes that roy went and wore the shirt while jamie was still away#roy takes some small measure of pleasure in that#perhaps he starts making a point of it#wearing the shirt whenever jamie is not around#carefully and forcefully forbidding anyone from taking pictures#jamie will NEVER see him in that shirt#but will live with the knowledge that everyone else HAS#well played roy#well played#3x10#jamie tartt#roy kent#roy & jamie#my stuff
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huge props to freddie wong for nailing the delicate balance of “sex isn’t the only way to receive pleasure, plenty of other things like hugs and cold pillows and acting morally are pleasurable too” and “but obviously the personification of pleasure is a sex freak”
#mentopolis#a mix of earnest joy in the small pleasures of life and extreme constant horniness was the funniest option and he pulled it off
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'I flirted with the idea that instead of being trans that I was just a cross-dresser (a quirk, I thought, that could be quietly folded into an otherwise average life) and that my dysphoria was sexual in nature, and sexual only. And if my feelings were only sexual, then, I wondered, perhaps I wasn’t actually trans.
I had read about a book called The Man Who Would Be Queen, by a Northwestern University professor who believed that transwomen who were attracted to women were really confused fetishists, they wanted to be women to satisfy an autogynephilia. And though I first read about this book in the context of its debunkment and disparagement, I thought about the electricity of slipping on those tights, zipping up those boots, and a stream of guilt followed. Maybe this professor was right, and maybe I was only a fetishist. Not trans, just a misguided boy.
About a year later, on the Internet, I come across a transwoman who added a unique message to the crowd refuting this professor. Oh, I wish I remember who this woman was, and I wish even more that I could do better than paraphrase her, but I remember her saying something like this: “Well, of course I feel sexy putting on women’s clothing and having a woman’s body. If you feel comfortable in your body for the first time, won’t that probably mean it’ll be the first time you feel comfortable, too, with delighting in your body as a sexual thing?”'
-Casey Plett, Consciousness
#this quote always moves me almost to tears when i remember it#i'm not a trans woman and i don't share the author's specific experiences with transition#but it really moves me that she frame transition as joyfully giving yourself permission to approach your body#not as something that has to be disciplined and deprived and made small in all these various ways#but as a means for experiencing pleasure and joy and delight and for insisting that our feelings and desires are worth#valuing and exploring and treasuring#i always used to think of prioritizing those things for myself as selfish and irresponsible#but who does it harm to want to experience pleasure in your own body?#it's such a beautifully simple and powerful switch to have flip in your head#and equally why are we forced to deny our own pleasure in transition and anything else related to our bodies in the name of moral rectitude#this is why i get so confused and pissed off when other trans people are fatphobic for example#like why are you so invested in politics of shame and disgust that never had any purpose other than#violently disciplining people as if they've violated moral codes by existing in a body#to say nothing of white people being racist in gay and trans communities#like again this system of violence is foundational to homophobia and transphobia#so why are you acting like it has nothing to do with you#even if you are unmoved by the urgency of other people's suffering which btw you should be moved by#what do you hope to gain by acting a collaborator and handmaiden to those systems#Casey Plett#she really is one of my favorite authors i wish more non-canadians read her#this quote is from a series of columns she did ont transition and every single one is a banger#i love when she talks about the people-pleasing elements of dysphoria and transition denial#she's so sharp about noting how many of us deny our own dysphoria on the grounds that others like and validate our bodies#that's how i always felt during my cis conventionally feminine era#it pleased other people so much and also that reception felt so hollow and joyless to me because i hated it#i get less of that positive feedback but that feels so unimportant next to the joy and pleasure i get to experience#said with the understanding that i'm very privileged in being able to prioritize those things without fear. but it was a switch flip#personal nonsense
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Do you think gojo makes those freaky ass feral expressions while getting dicked down?
YES YES YESSSSSSSSSSS RAAAAAAAAAHHHH THIS IS SOMETHIGN IM PASSIONATE ABOUT OKAY!!!!!!! YES HE DOES
like, pleasure looks such a specific way on satoru. we can see it in the tojigo fight, the hanami/jogo fight and the sukugo fight. they're the only moments where we truly get to see raw pleasure on him and it's that. eyes popping out and manic grin and laughter bubbling in his torso and body charged, and mannerisms especially crude.
there's something so animalistic about it, his "human" mask slipping from him and showing him in all his monstrous glory, unfiltered and raw and like the freak of nature he truly is
and it's exactly the same thing when it comes to sex. it's all pleasure after all.
#f.ask#however likewise it's only ever when the sex is really good and he is truly engrossed in it and enjoying it fully. the sex HAS to be good.#which is....not something easy to give him. but if u are able to give it to him#then boy u're in for the weirdest (and best) fuck of your life#anon u touched on something about him that i love sooooo much#bc YES. that IS what pleasure looks like on him#and that's how i imagine it to be during sex too#jjk#gojo#gojo satoru#like i DO love satoru who's a subdued mess while getting fucked#but that's bc that's what I'M into#but this is what goes more in line with his character#and what i generally tend to imagine for him is a mixture of both#where there's moments where he's taken by it all and u'll find him toned down into muffled moans and low whimpers#that feel much too small on a being like him#but then. there's a few cracks. the bubbling pleasure gets too much for his body to hold. and it pours out of him with laughter#and a grin that's much too wide and eyes that threaten to swallow u whole.#it's pretty scary if u're not someone who can deal with that haha#but let's be honest. he's only having sex with people who can get that out of him and therefore also weirdos#(tho that's not to say they aren't at least a LITTLE offput by it)#it IS very much creepy after all#gwah! love him so much!!!!!!!!!!!!#the middle right. where he makes a throaty sound and turns to hanami is one of my fave fave moments.#but fuuuuuccck when he gets atop hanami like uuuughghghgfhdgfhgdshf#satoru's fighting style is so very fascinating to me#esp considering what his techniques actually are#and god. he's just so FUN to watch
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Yoosung stans rise uuuuup! ☆*:.。. o(≧▽≦)o .。.:*☆
I’ve been in love drawing all of them! It’s so much fun and helping me forget about me being sick 🤧
I hope yall enjoy it as much as I did!
@cheritzteam
#artists on tumblr#digital art#fanart#small artist#mystic messenger#mm fanart#mm yoosung#yoosung kim#mm yoosung kim#mystic messenger yoosung#mysme yoosung#mysmes fanart#mysmes#mysme fanart#mysme#illustration#digital illustration#digital painting#art commisions#art commissions open#:^>#mysme on 2024#guilty pleasure#yoosung stans#trending#discover#tumblr fyp#fypシ#fypage#cute boys
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One of the thing they learn to do together, and the list is long enough they lost the count (and it goes from learning how to do a load of washing machine with all the clothes at once to communicate better), is ordering takeout.
It's starts at the end of a long day for both of them, and even if Mav wouldn't think about it normally, he knows the soup from that particular place it's going to make things a little better. And he knows he's going to help Ice, too. It only takes fifteen minutes to convince his boyfriend they deserve something nice and that won't require cleaning fifteen pans or them waiting four hours to be ready.
It tastes so good that it makes both of them a little giddy, and it feels like they can both take the first deep breath since the beginning of the day.
#this was brought to you by someone who doesn't know how to order take out bc - as grandma wanted - 'until there's food in the house you-#-don't need to relay on take out'#(the x ray came back clean but it didn't make me as happy as i should be)#icemav#tom iceman kazansky#pete maverick mitchell#domestic fluff#domesticity#learing about the small life pleasures
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i'm stupid so i absolutely did not put together Conrad Schintz as "conscience" until i saw someone in the tag point this out but now that it's in my dumb brain i can't stop thinking about it. Alex's choice to portray Conrad as this softspoken never speaks up but still has to do Something boy who is kind and thoughtful to a fault. pitch perfect character choices!!! but also this tiny quiet boy somehow being pegged by the heads of the city as the BIGGEST DISTRACTION to the big guy's goals and ambitions!! and then his choice of the important article to pay attention to being the culmination of Elias' months and months of research - specifically for the goal of, as Conrad put it, getting it before the "big wigs" could get to it. WHAT is Elias Hodge DOING for Gobstopper Industries??????
#sarah.txt#dimension 20#mentopolis#d20 spoilers#d20 meta#story meta#kind of????? this isn't really meta just me going WHAT is going on and being too dumb to figure it out skdnfskdfnsd#god these fucking world building choices though.#cortisol being the main hormone available legally and one of its functions is to regulate stress response.#the city is on strict pleasure/love lockdown until elias gets a raise.#his conscience is a tiny little boy who no one ever listens to but still somehow managed to shake up the whole city w one small choice.#logic is the mayor!!! ambition is the DA!!!!!#all of these small things that tell us SO MUCH about who elias hodge is as a person without ever even meeting the big guy!!!!!!#Brennan how much fucking WORK did you put into this world building i'm SCREAMING!!!!!
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you show the boys ur vibrator that looks like a lipstick and they're all varying levels of gagged
#what do you MEAN they can look like that...#sebek isn't even familiar with sex toys. you've given that man levels of paranoia you will never understand .#ace makes fun of you but next time u do ur makeup he's not-so-subtly looking at your bag and wondering if any other of your things are toys#deuce is flabbergasted. he's happy for u . he really is . but they can be that small??? how powerful is it?? ...is it better than him HUSDF#hes not gonna hate on you for having one but he lowk gets motivated to work harder when pleasuring you from that point onward#riddle is so .#i mean . as long as u clean it .#trey turns it on IMMEDIATELY lmao he wants to see how it does and how he could possibly use it on u#AWUHGHHHHH NEED TO WRITE HEADCANNONS ABOUT THESE BITCHES DISCOVERING YOUR TOYS IM SO SICK#nsfvv#moth.txt
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r u the grew up poor never being able to buy the little things in life u always wanted as a kid so now u buy whatever little thing u want as an adult and struggle with saving for the big mandatory thing,
or the grew up poor never being able to buy the little things in life u always wanted as a kid so now u just never buy anything small bcs u had to learn to live without it and constantly try to save for the next big thing in 500 yrs
#everyones been asking what i wanted for my bday and i always say nothing#like i hate the feeling of getting somebody smthing just to get them smthing like personally#it needs to come from the heart for me. if it's for smthing big like a bday#now like getting someone a coffee judt to get them one on a random day is dif bcs it's just smthin random on a random day i can understand#but idk like as a kid into adulthood the only bday my relatives / guardians have ever celebrated was my adopted brother's n my dad's#the dad bcs hes a hyperconservative dictator lol n the older adopted bro is cus hes got higher needs#so everybody gets more money taking care of him n stuff so u gotta act like u care abt him according to the guardians#but like i never even knew bdays were that big to people. like i mean i know OTHER PEOPLES bdays are big to them#i find ppl who rlly love their bdays to be rlly cute. like i dont think theyre selfish or make fun of em cus theyre judt having fun#n like u only get one x yr bday so have fun with it!!#but for ME? my bday was never anything special n i dont think it is now#everybody feels bad or smthing for me or for not getting me nothing today but it's like?? this is the norm??? im cool with it#ive been thinking abt other stuff like i just dont have time to think abt the pleasures rn. i have to double on the pain or smthing#like my friends always laugh abt how i dont drink coffee/tea or alcohol bcs u cant be in the medical field without a lil smn smn#& it's like idk ! i like ppl that do do that kinda stuff but like! i never grew up with that & it just feels odd to do it now kinda thing#idk im very cheap but also i will use the fact that im cheap on the small stuff to justify wanting to make a big purchase#i have a weird relationship with buying things for myself vs for others like 4 others i will buy watever u want bro#sugar papi ted#hey heres this idk insert raccoon bracelet bcs u like raccoons n love wearing bracelets so i thot of u n bought it#but if i buy smthing for me it has to have a dual purpose or smthing#i got to have a free dessert today n chose the churros over the tres leches cake slicr cus u can judt make the cake#but i dont own a deep fryer so i cant make churros n storebought churros just arent the same#like im just always idk comparing or needing to know the use of things yanno#if i do smthing. i have to see it thru. & it has to have multi purpose#i mean just look at my username jrue ships or jrue's hips like#im unwell when it comes to that#idk is anyone else like this#anyways yea this whole new thing of getting stuff on one day is hard for me like it just never matches up with my time#of course ill see stuff id like to have but like. ill just make myself forget it n by the time stuff like this rolls up it's like idk#i COULD get a new laptop but i got one that works just fine. i got an ipad on its last legs but can i still turn it on? alright
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Free me.
#gtjuly#giant tiny#sky#lark#AU prompt of Sky being a caged giant#cause it's my guilty pleasure trope of small human freeing the giant monster
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My body is my home. I’m so grateful that I carry it with me wherever I go. I can always come back to my body whenever I need to. No one can take away the safe and gentle home I have built for myself 🏠🫀
#you are worthy#mental health#you are enough#self love#self reflection#recovery#living in the moment#positive affirmations#positive reminders#living in the present#self acceptance#self compassion#social anxiety#social anxiety tips#mental health tips#positive mental attitude#positivity#little pleasures#life is good#confidence#safe space#small wins#self growth#growth#life quote#positive vibes#gentle reminder#thinkingoutloudm
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Fuck it I don't care.
Shay and Dora are going to get married on the Morrigan "Will and Elizabeth" style, fighting against some Assassins and in the midst of a freaking Maelstrom.
Gist is going to basically be Barbossa and SCREAM AT THEM TO GET ON WITH IT.
WHEN I TELL YOU PERFECTION.
*PERFECTION*
bloody hell imma draw this.
Not a want.
BUT A NEED.
But first I need to learn how to draw Shay properly.
So i need to PRACTICR PRACTICE PRACTICE.
#nemo babbles#Shay/Dora#“The Bliss of the Fall”#Guilty Pleasure#i was right 4 years ago#and i still am now#this is my small vindication from all the time I had one “friend” shaming me for shipping Dora with him#Shay Cormac#Dorothea Starrick#Ship: Starshayde
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the thing you need to know about me is that I turn into a little feral animal when given any quantity of fruit. I will attack that mango with my teeth. I will devour that custard apple, seeds be damned. I will decimate that plate of strawberries. no fruit is safe from me at any time of day. my primate ancestors look down at me and nod approvingly.
#I’ve not had a custard apple in so long#if you’ve not been eating a super ripe super soft custard apple#as it falls apart in your hands#and you’re just scooping the flesh into your mouth#you’re missing out on a massive pleasure in life#same with sucking a mango and getting it all over your face#anyway less messy fruit was had today but I was going to have a ‘small snack’ before dinner#and before I knew it most of the punnet of grapes was gone#oh well! life is short fruit is tasty#text post#my post
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