#this is a big one for me

[inkbirdie]

achieved perfection in stardew valley yesterday. only took 305 hours of my precious life but hey i got to see some. parrots! pretty cool

[uncanny-tranny]

Here's another one:

Going to places alone and learning to enjoy your own company. Being able to reliably deal with being in spaces with the assurance that you belong there on your own without needing someone else to make up for your presence is so moving.

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.

[spr0utsies]

[skunkes]

Cant stop thinking about this comment under a video about stardew valley rabbits foot drops

[inkskinned]

having good & true friends will literally save and protect you in a million unfathomable ways. like okay we have written so many times about lovers. but the way a platonic friend laughs and cries with you. the way they hold your hand at 14 years old and at 34. the way they keep a little silver tie to you, touching base over and over and over. how you can go years without talking, only to re-meet and discover: oh shit! you're still cool!

there are people who have been in my life for more than half of it, and i have loved every version of them. do you know how fucking beautiful that is. yeah love will save the world. but the way friends love you is gonna save the you.

[chloesimaginationthings]

"They call it the MANGLE" - FNAF 2 phone guy

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

worlds collide

[very-small-giant]

you have been bad friends to riz gukgak

[megatronusprimedecal]

"Always got your back." "No matter what."

Transformers One (2024)

[seafoamsol]

Gaze upon me, and witness my glory!

[malusvalley]

Quangled together

[pokimoko]

Asexual bird? Please

How about two asexual birds?

[lotus-pear]

learning to love

[demaparbat-hp]

She will (and he'll let her)

[skunkes]

did anyone post this here yet bc literalmente

[technically-human]

Payneland²