#they are literally my lifesaver

[just-existng]

never underestimate the power of a six year's old video of a guy on youtube with his white board and marker to save you in exams

[inkskinned]

you're in the habit of denying yourself things.

if someone asked you directly, you would say that you love a little treat. you like iced coffee and getting the cookie. you drink juice out of a fancy cup sometimes, and often do use your candles until they gutter out helplessly.

but you hesitate about buying the 20 dollar hand mixer because, like. you could just use your arms. you weren't raised rich. you don't get to just spend the 20 dollars (remember when that could cover lunch?), at least - you don't spend that without agonizing over it first, trying to figure out the cost-benefits like you are defending yourself in front of a jury. yes, this rice cooker could seriously help you. but you do know how to make stovetop rice and it really isn't that hard. how many pies or brownies would you actually make, in order to make that hand mixer worthwhile?

what's wild is that if the money was for a friend, it would already be spent. you'd fork over 40 without blinking an eye, just to make them happy. the difference is that it's for you, so you need to justify it.

and it sneaks in. you ration yourself without meaning to - you don't finish the pint of ice cream, even though you want to. the next time you go to the store, you say ah, i really shouldn't, and then you walk away. you save little bits of your precious things - just in case. sometimes you even go so far as putting that one thing in your shopping cart. and then just leaving it there, because maybe-one-day, but not right now, there's other stuff going on.

you do self-care, of course. but you don't do it more than like, 3 days in a row. after that it just feels a little bit over-the-edge. like. you can't live in decadence, the economy is so bad right now, kid.

so you don't buy the rice cooker. you can-and-will spend the time over the stove. you can withstand the little sorrows. denial and discipline are practically synonyms. and you're not spoiled.

it's just - it's not always a rice cooker. sometimes it is a person or a job or a hug. sometimes it is asking for help. sometimes it is the summer and your college degree. sometimes it is looking down at scabbed knees and feeling a strange kind of falling, like you can't even recognize the girl you used to be. sometimes it is your handprint looking unsteady.

sometimes it is tuesday, and you didn't get fired, and you want to celebrate. but what is it you like, even? you search around your little heart and come up empty. you're so used to denying that all your desires draw a blank.

oh fuck. see, this is the perfect opportunity. if you had a mixer, you'd make a cake.

[syn4k]

THANK YOU, RANDOM STRANGER IN A PUBLIC RESTROOM

[alizalayne]

ART WRAPPED ON BEETLE AND THE HOLLOWBONES 2, BEETLE AND THE CHIMERA CARNIVAL

[opencommunion]

thank you for your post yesterday about who to contact regarding that february pbs segment on "an israeli soldier's diary." i sent an email to the producers this morning and wanted to share the template in case anyone else wants to write to them as well.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d5C-mTDdXoVQwCa110M7PE2NaVKCGA5F-iijw1rq7IM/edit

anon!!! this is amazing, thank you!!!

everyone please check it out and send your emails!! (here's the post about the segment icymi)

they have a physical address for public comment too if anyone wants to send snail mail: NewsHour Productions 3939 Campbell Avenue Arlington, VA 22206

[blushouyo]

this has been my main experience in star rail so far lol

[autisticandroids]

tmi. doing my period cupless due to a miscalculation and i had completely forgot about my favorite part, the mad dash to the bathroom immediately after waking up on day two so you can let fully 6-8 ounces of blood leave your body (because there's no maxi pad or thinx that's gonna help you with that much, buddy)

[technicalknockout]

I found billford so funny in gravity falls the show and tbh in the context of tbob it's even funnier. they're so divorced

[blackbackedjackal]

Binging It's Me or the Dog and holy shit I'll never understand how people will just get dogs and not train them.

[game-grumped]

The person who made this should be praised on high

[aquaspiderart]

if you don't mind me asking, i was wondering how you drew the trees in the background of your chikorita drawing? the entire piece is amazing

Thank you!! I owe a lot of the magic of these trees to these brush sets by @tamberella.

I blocked out the trees' general shape using the Evergreen tree brushes, and then gave them some shading using a mix of other tree brushes and some grass brushes!!

[yourfatherjustinmcelroy]

I owe my actual life to whoever coined the phrase “serving boycunt”

Like it has hoisted me up from the pits of despair and dysphoria so many times

Back hurts too much to bind? Time to serve boycunt

Chest is too big to bind well and doesn’t look flat?? Ummmm excuse me it’s because im serving boycunt

Ass is too big to fit in mens pants and even when it does, still looks feminine? Yeah duh it’s bc I’m literally serving boycunt

Dressing in a hyperfemme sexy outfit because the thought of being seen as societally unattractive screams louder than your dysphoria for a day? Bad news for you buddy, cuz this ain’t a woman this is a boy and they’re serving boycunt and if you like it you’re gay now

[saintlesbian]

love how my shitty health insurance chose THE perfect time to expire. just really impeccable timing

[kylewalker-peters]

Going to start using hinge just to get men to explain this fucking exam to me because what in the ever living fuck is this textbook talking about

[bittersweetblasphemy]

maybe a hot take but i don't think i should be the one who has to research the new drug my doctors prescribed to make sure it wont have a lethal interaction with my current meds.

[divaatrait]

Tweaked my reshade settings just in time for fall... (New Sim Alert!)