#unless i'm active atm

[didderd]

anyone who sticks around long enough will eventually learn that my sleep schedule is non-existent. unpredictable. all over the place.

i may be nocturnal one week. an early bird the next.

now with that said, it's almost 10am and i'm going to bed

[dimiclaudeblaigan]

For anyone annoyed by the Tumblr changes, if you're on desktop I would recommend using XKit Rewritten (and New XKit for any other odd changes you'd like to try out, including even older aspects of Tumblr). It's the older version of Rewritten but most of the extensions on it are still supported/do work). I can't guarantee they'll definitely make a fix for it/a direct fix for this particular UI change, but it's possible that they might since they usually make extensions that allow you to essentially revert changes made to the UI. Other various UI extensions (such as old ones from Tumblr's past UIs that the extensions basically just revert you to) may also help fix up your UI.

As you might expect these extensions need to be on to work/revert the appearance of the UI (so if you turn them off you'll revert to the current state of Tumblr), but while they are on you can curate your UI to look how you want it. This goes for both New XKit and XKit Rewritten. I use both and I couldn't live without them lol. You can get some big oldies of Tumblr's, like classic search on Rewritten or the Tweaks extension (full of various UI tweaks) on New XKit (including the old shade of blue Tumblr used a long time ago that I never stopped using!).

Unfortunately I don't know of any solution for mobile if it affects mobile at any point (or if it already has), but whenever you're on desktop, I would definitely recommend both these versions of XKit. I have so many extensions from them that I often don't even realize when there are UI changes (remember how Tumblr added themes for your dashboard? I didn't even notice for the longest time because I've had New XKit on the whole time) because Tumblr's default coding is overwritten by the extensions I have on.

[the-lark-ascending69]

Haters whining that Steve would be oh so sad if Robin and Nancy got together makes me actually want to see it. Toxic friend Steve who is irrationally mad at Robin for "dating his ex" and Robin actually feels... so heartbroken that her best friend is turning against her like this. She doesn't understand - she's loved Nancy for years and Nancy loves her back. She's finally gathered the courage to ask her out and Nancy said yes. She didn't hate her, didn't shun her, didn't find her disgusting or sick - she loved her back. And for the first time in her life, Robin feels a little bit hopeful for her future - she's loveable and loved and she's not doomed to life alone as her friends move on and marry and have kids. She has someone who understands this fear and horror and happiness in a way no one but another girl like her could, and she thought... she thought Steve would be happy for her. She finally found love.

But Steve is just offended that she'd choose hoes over bros or whatever.

[astrxealis]

i am so used to my pinned post i kinda don't want to change the format but i want to

[waokevale]

@joyflameball (for some reason after I saved your ask as a draft I wasn't able to edit it, so I had to screenshot it instead)

Anyway, here are the answers:

Wortox doesn't exactly align with the shadow gang, he's pretty neutral and free-spirited to be honest. He's been slightly coerced and is indebted to them, but overall doesn't want to get too involved with them unless he has to. Wormwood...Is a little quirky like that. And he may or may not be a tad perfidious.

If you mean psyche wise, some took it well, some didn't, but had to adapt. Warly deliberately sought out to corrupt himself, in order to heal his dying mother. He's not opposed to the idea of being slightly corrupted. Wigfrid got corrupted by accident and decided to become a vigilante hero with said power, so she also took it well. For Wickerbottom it came natural, she was one of the first to accept and cherish her abilities for various reasons, some regarding her past. Honestly most aren't opposed to the abilities themselves, just the negative side effects that come with them. But if you mean power-wise, I made this post, explaining somewhat everyone's powers atm.

Wilson was always a bit weird, but his family blamed it on skin condition, ailments etc. So he had no way of knowing and no way to prepare for dealing with his developing powers. After they started augmenting, his denial basically activated with every excuse in the world, and when he had no way of logically justifying it, he tried to hide them, obviously ashamed and fearful of being hunted down and shunned.

As far as everyone is concerned, there is no nightmare throne. There can't be just one person who can randomly take control over the world at any point. Instead, They managed to get sucked in with a couple of corrupted rifts of each alignment. | On a scale of 1-10 with 1 being 'light powers that help boosting basic chores' to 10 being godly and world ending, Charlie and Max fall somewhere around 5.5-6/10, so pretty powerful, but nowhere near eldritch level entities.

Good. That was the intent behind their designs, alongside Wormwood. I'm glad it worked.

I'll give you a few crumbs of lore.

There is no portal into the constant since constant is already out there in the world.

Instead, their deal is Woodrow doing some supernatural research for him.

But since there is no portal, when they go rogue, Wagstaff has no other way to get rid of them but to terminate them. Due to his guilt, he hesitates and they manage to break free and escape.

[mystic-mikey]

Woohoo pinned post time !!!

Hi i'm Hamato Michelangelo, but you can call me Mikey or Angel!

I'm 17!

I use mirror pronouns (aux he/she/they), am genderfluid, demi and pan.

I am ADHD, autistic and schizospec (unsure where I fall there atm 🙏)

I'm the babiest member of the Hamato Clan and the best mystic warrior this side of Brooklyn (don't ask why it ends at Brooklyn you don't wanna know). Oh also I'm a ninja mutant turtle idk how relevant that information is.

I love cooking, art and bugs. I also have SPINs in psychology and food! Please ask me about them 💕

@bettertwin1, @bettertwin9000 and @hamatored are my sibs and @ratjitsu and @draxum-was-already-taken are my two gay dads 💕❤💕💖💖💕❤

commission info if you like my art!

My playlist! It's really long and always being added to

Boundaries

Just setting some boundaries here cuz I'm tired of having them crossed and having to constantly reaffirm them

No compliments or comments that can be read as flirtatious unless we're close (including, but not limited to, "pretty" and "cute")

No touching unless we're close, also. (I.e. no *hugs you* or "can I get a hug")

Please don't be overly friendly if I don't know you. You know me, but I don't know you.

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// finally I'm just gonna do a little blurb about me the mod

// I'm Mikey a ROTTMNT fictive in The Web System. Former host, no longer hosting so I'm not as active as I used to be. This blog is fictional but not roleplay, as I'm essentially just playing myself. It is also now part of my source. Please be aware of that when sending asks thanks ✌

[masked-ragdoll]

Holy crap those qsmp egg models are so cute so uh...

COMMISSIONS ARE OPEN

Only offering rendered pieces atm ($70+)

examples:

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[silusvesuius]

Hiii. Did you know you’re so awesome? Not only your art is amazing but you’re also hella funny and very big brained. Every take you have about the characters you mentioned so far is so peak.

Also, I wanted to ask about what you think of the dark brotherhood. I myself am an avid Mathieu Bellamont and Lucien Lachance fan. (Having the killed of your mother be your mentor who you spent years obsessing over the day you will spill his blood while ranting all about it to your dead mother’s head is so fkdhjdsgk) That story from Oblivion especially is just so damn delicious to me it made me feel like skyrim was a downgrade when it came to that cult.

Thank you :3

hi 🍏 well why thank you That's very sweet of u 2 say 🤗🤗💗🎀 i do also think my way of speaking about characters is PEAK. nobody! does it like me. unless we become friends, then they do it like me, too. 🥰 (tearing off wallpaper)

&& well tbh i don't think too strongly about them cus it's been a biiiiiig while since i played their quest in skajrim Lmfao like 2 yrs .. i should get in on it now that i have a new save; but not rushing it and i don't rly want to. i'm very ' proud ' of the writers for being able to create c*cero tbh, LMAO........ he's been molded to perfection without any fixes or add-ons being needed, it's crazy. i can't even say anything about him cus i don't wanna ruin what he already is. hmm.... i'd also say i keep thinking ab how that group rly consists of psychopaths that need lobotomies but are (viewed..? as) level-headed (aside from c*cero because he has very visible psychosis). don't know how to word it. i think it'd be smarter to add some demented-ness into their personalities in more obvious ways, if that makes sense. n*zir is hawwwwtttt btw + oblivvy...; i was actually planning to play that cus my friend actively is, but it seems i've changed my mind. my drive to play anything is so low it's insane, lol, oh Well. maybe some day, but probably not..... but i do find the characters in that game very cute (appearance-wise) it's perfect. nothing will top the dirt and musk that skajrim characters are covered in though. my number One

leaving you with a song. dre's verse is my fav thing atm idk why but he sounds much better here than he does in anything, ms. roq good af toooooo

[trans-axolotl]

hi so ive been reading a lot of your mad liberation stuff (i think thats the term i cant actually remember atm) and im having trouble understanding some of it so i want to like ask this for clarification

is it like. not quite antirecovery but that "recovery" shouldnt be the default? like mad ppl should be able to live as is, and if they want to seek recovery they can but shouldnt be looked down on for not doing that?

or that like. "recovery" doesnt look like psychiatric definitions?

sorry i dont know if im phrasing things right im pretty dissociated lol

ty for your time tho!

hi anon!

I'm always happy to answer clarification questions. I know when I was first learning about antipsych stuff, there were so many terms and concepts that were new to me, and I'm always still learning more.

A lot of what you've said is stuff I agree with! When I'm thinking about the concept of recovery, it feels important to me to really analyze what people really mean when they say "recovery" in the current psych system. I might ask questions like:

Who gets to define recovery? Is the mad/mentally ill/neurodivergent person supported in setting their own priorities and goals, or is the only thing prioritized the mental health professional's ideas about wellness?

How do ableist concepts of normality and conformity contribute to our ideas about recovery? What ways might recovery frameworks get in the way of radical acceptance of mad/MI/ND people's traits? How do ideas of recovery contribute to stigma and violence against mad/MI/ND people?

What ways does the psych system enforce recovery, even at the cost of bodily autonomy and freedom? What ways does psych treatment use violence to enforce recovery?

Within the current psych system, I think that "recovery" is not a neutral concept, and I think it's one that contributes to a lot of fucked up patterns within the psych system. There's so many ableist and sanist ideas that label mad/MI/ND people just existing as a threat, and force cure on us instead of building a society that embraces madness/MI/ND. The language about being a "danger to yourself and others" reveals the ways that mad/MI/ND people are often labeled as inherently unsafe if we're existing in public, if we have nonconforming behaviors, if we talk to ourselves in public, if we stim, etc. There's this pattern set up within the psych system where unless we're actively compliant with treatment, unless we're institutionalized, unless we're taking our meds and going to therapy and doing every little thing the psych system asks us to, we're labeled as dangerous and unstable.

In a system where "treatment" is often violent, coercive, and oppressive, I think that the way recovery is defined is a really harmful framework. Recovery in the psych system is more about compliance then it is about actually listening to our needs. It treats mad/MI/ND people as unworthy unless we're doing every single thing that the psych system wants us to. And I think that mindset is super damaging to mad/MI/ND people. It makes us feel like we're not deserving of support, care, accommodations, and community unless we're willing to give up our autonomy, conform to ableist ideals about "normal" behavior, and give up so much of ourselves. I'm much more interested in separating morality from our ideas of health and wellness, meeting people where they're at, and embracing the idea that it is totally fine to exist openly and fully as a mad person. We do not have to change ourselves in ways we don't want to. My mad community is always going to be one that embraces + prioritizes people who have no interest in recovery, who want and need to keep using behaviors labeled as dangerous, odd, and crazy, who don't comply with treatment and who demand the right to exist anyway.

I think that as mad/MI/ND people, we should have the room to define healing/coping/resistance/resilience/care in a way that is affirming and supportive for us, instead of just being restricted to "recovery." Our distress, pain, and hurt is very real, and we deserve support, skills, resources to help us navigate that in a way where we aren't shamed and aren't forced into coercive treatment. We should be able to set our own goals and priorities about what actually feels important for us in making our lives better/more tolerable. I'm not super interested in telling mad/MI/ND people to stop using the term recovery because I think for a lot of people it's a familiar shorthand to sort of describe a lot of different ways of healing. But I think it really is worth critiquing the concept, doing self inquiry about what it actually means to us, and analyzing the ways we use recovery in our communities and who that might exclude.

Personally, I don't like to use recovery language around a lot of my own madness, because it's important to me to be able to validate and affirm the ways I exist as a crazy person in the world. I think of my bipolar & psychosis as fundamental ways that I engage with the world, and I'm really glad that those are the ways I experience my life. I don't think of my bipolar and psychosis as a transient state that I will "recover" from and wake up one day and have all that taken away from me. I find a lot of value and meaning in my psychosis and my mood cycles, and I think I would lose a lot if I no longer experienced them. At the same time, there are ways that my psychosis and bipolar have changed the way my bad days look, ways that my self harm has really caused me a lot of distress and was really debilitating, and ways that my relationship with suicide is incredibly, incredibly difficult. I've been able to find support, healing, and care from places outside the psych system in a way that feels more meaningful for me than the psychiatric systems definition of recovery. Every time I go into the mental health system and try to express that I don't want to stop having hallucinations, that I want to use harm reduction for my self harm, and that I don't want to go on meds, I am labeled as noncompliant, antirecovery, dangerous, and incapable of living outside of institutions. This is despite the fact that I have worked really hard in building up a support system, access tons of resources, have found a bunch of coping strategies that work for me, and have built a life that accommodates my madness.

So to answer your question, I am against the ideas the recovery should be the default and I am really critical of the way the psych system uses recovery as a foundation for coercive treatment, but I fully support mad/MI/ND people's right to find healing, support, resistance, care, coping skills, resources in whatever way makes sense to them and fits with their needs and autonomy.

Summary: The current concept of recovery in our mental health system is based on ableist ideas about normality and labels mad/MI/ND as dangerous for just existing as mad people. Coercive treatment like psych wards tries to force ideas about recovery onto all mad/MI/ND people, and makes us feel like we are unworthy if we aren't doing everything we can to be compliant. Mad/MI/ND people have the right to define what healing/coping/resistance/care means to them, and if that means rejecting ideas of recovery, treatment, and conformity, our autonomy should be respected.

Feel free to ask any other questions!

[crazyexdirkfriend]

Okay, I've got a sincere ask, since you've got an insanely bright head on your shoulders and I need you to dissect the hell out of Dirkjake so I can use it as a hand guide to navigating smthn in my personal life but like- in one of your posts you state that Dirk's inability to communicate with Jake is (inherently the problem) where as Jake isn't as much at fault (you tagged it with Half Joking, so im treading lightly here) but i was wondering if you could elborate on that? Unless you were actually joking. If you weren't, I'd sincerely like to know why Dirk's communication issues (in terms of fault) highly outweigh Jake's affinity for denial and ignoring all of his issues outright. Are they not both equally at a disadvantage? Is Dirk actually The asshole for his inability to express himself properly?

Hi! Thank you, thank you I'm glad you think so but my supposedly bright head is mush atm. So my opinion on this rapidly changes wrt to post-canon, but that is my opinion on HS proper more or less. I'm not like, super serious on it bc as I've grown up I'm way less hardline on what was basically a messy teenage relationship. But I was very very opinionated on it when I too was 16. I don't remember when the post you're referring to was exactly so just (vague hand wavey) Basically my point is that in HS proper, Dirk and Jake are both bad at communicating, though people typically attribute Jake's lack of communication as being at fault for the ultimate relationship breakdown, alongside Dirk's clinginess. I don't think any of that causes the relationship breakdown as much as the channels of communication being broken on Dirk's end, so I think it's important to look at how Dirk and Jake communicate before any of that.

Okay so for starters, they don't. Dirk and Jake never have an on screen conversation so all Jake's attempts to communicate with Dirk are scuppered. Jake makes genuine attempts to communicate with the real Dirk throughout the first leg of the alpha kid arc, and is blocked every time. When Jake tries to communicate issues via Dirk proxies, he's shut down entirely. Off the top of my head, I'm thinking when Jake tells Hal about Brobot being "tender." Now, I don't ascribe to the belief that the robot is being inappropriate when he says this. I believe Jake is attracted to Dirk and the robot treating him more gently is sending his mind places. However, Hal's immediate response to this is to shut off novice mode, leaving Jake to fight the robot on the harder mode. Hal is not doing this because he legitimately believes this will make Jake more comfortable; he's doing this to fuck with him. Jake speaks up about an issue and is immediately punished for it because Dirk or Dirk-proxy is defensive -> Jake is less likely to speak up. (Side note: a lot of people say that Dirk is not aware of what Hal is doing and does not condone it. This is contradicted in the text when Dirk says he knows Hal is fucking with Jake and thinks it'll teach him to be less trusting in people, and does not contact Jake back himself. Dirk's issues with Hal interfering with Jake only arise later.)

Since they don't communciate, we don't have much to go on about how their conflict styles mesh aside from via Dirk proxies. Which is basically stuff like the above. So when we get to their largely offscreen relationship, the information the audience really has to go on is that Jake appears to have upped and left without saying anything and is hoping the whole problem really just goes away without having to text Dirk back, and Dirk is frantically trying to communicate with him, and assuming that he's too clingy. We don't actually know if Jake HAS communicated with Dirk. All we know is that he's not currently doing so.

My personal belief is that it's a bit of a leap to think that Jake has gone from being vague, dancing around issues, but bringing them up when the issue is actively on the table (brobot, Jane's crush, etc.) to immediately packing a bag and going to the hills without saying *anything.* I just think that Jake is less likely to press the issue if he thinks Dirk is going to take it the worst possible way, and to the worst possible extreme, and Jake is less likely to press an issue if he thinks he's upsetting someone. If "I think the robot is a bit tender" leads to "Ok I'll put the robot on *waterboards you in the sea and beats you unconscious* mode," then "I think I could use some time to myself for a little while" leads to "Ok, guess if you need space so bad I'll stop bothering you and we can just stop hanging out altogether." And Jake, despite wanting space, is very very afraid of his friends all deciding he isn't worth the hassle and abandoning him permanently. So he'd immediately recant and drop it (until he cracks)

Now since we don't know what happens between Dirk and Jake in that gap in the narrative, I'm conjecturing. I suppose my point is that assuming that Jake doesn't communicate to Dirk is also conjecture, and not the natural conjecture I would make based on his actions up until this point. He's avoidant of conflict, not avoidant of conversation. I also don't think Dirk being immediately receptive to Jake asking for space is in line with his actions up until this point- I believe his response would be the above, or continuously "fixing it" until Jake drops it.

My point basically is that if you take all that in isolation, it's a sad miscommunication between an insecure boy who takes things to extremes and another insecure boy who doubts himself and can't stand up for himself. No one is the asshole for that. But it's not in isolation. Dirk allowing AR to interfere with his communication with Jake shuts down the channels of communication before they ever date. If I remember correctly, Jake says at one point that he can't remember when the last time he spoke to the "real" Dirk was. I just don't think it's overly fair to blame Jake for the culmination of a communication breakdown that was months, if not years, in the making on Dirk's side. It's less that Dirk is THE asshole and the only one who did anything wrong, and more that generally when people say there was fault on both sides, Jake is the one who receives extensive criticism on his communication skills. Now ultimately: I'd take this with a pinch of salt. They're kids and their first relationship doesn't work out, it's not hugely important to ascribe fault one way or the other- this is all semantics tbh. I only really argue the point for three reasons. 1. I think it makes for a better narrative reading of Jake repeatedly trying to communicate with Dirk and getting a blank wall pre-game and that wall ultimately crumbling around Dirk's persona during the game. It reads better as a cohesive story 2. I think viewing Jake as "the problem" skewered a lot of people's reading of later scenes in the text, especially when HS was actively updating pre-gigapause, and the portrayal of Jake as "the one who can't communicate" leads to a wooden reading of the other alphas by association. and 3. Hal gets the blame for a lot of stuff people don't want to put on Dirk, which also skewers readings of Hal's actions later on. Now if we were talking EPILOGUES...then absolutely Jake's issues with denial, avoidance, and lack of communication (and terminally low self esteem) are going to play a primary, if not inciting role, in their ultimate relationship breakdown. But that's a whole other post and I'm aware I'm rambling at this point. Caveat: If this is an issue concerning your personal life though as your ask sorta suggests, I'd triple take this with a grain of salt because this is a very specific HS situation and HS is ultimately a story with a plot and characters have to act a certain way and do certain things bc it makes the story go zoom. Real people who may resemble Dirk and Jake are not necessarily going to have matching issues, communication problems, and robo-clone answering machines

[pickingupmymercedes]

So, I'm pretty sure George is going nowhere unless it's on his own will. Toto is not the only decision-making person in Mercedes, and the others seem to be very pro George. There has also been a lot of media content of him lately, not only in European/Western media, but also in China. There is no reason to let George go, especially not in his current form. Toto has been loud to praise him in German TV, has been defending him and they do have a comparable relationship, they know each other since George was 15. In my opinion, the Max/Kimi talk was about who gets the other seat and not about having both of them in one team, and Toto really like to stir up the media sometimes. Even if George decided to leave the team after 25, there will be many teams to gladly pick him up, so we should not worry. It's nothing but speculations after all. (and I have not heard anything about that handover, but that would be the most stupidest thing Mercedes could do. Lewis won 6 world titles with them, Kimi has never raced in F1 before. That's even more pressure to put on him, and he will not be the number 1 driver from the beginning as he has literally zero experience. I'm really hopeful to believe that Mercedes know that and don't expect anything from him in the first few races.)

So, I'm not a Russell fan (also not a hater, he's just not one of my favs), but I've been a Merc follower for a while now.

F1 is not only about markets and advertising, but it plays a huge part in it. Specially since Liberty took over. And the drivers today either win enough to be constantly on the up or they have a strong commercial appeal (in a ideal world you get both).

I, particularly, have noticed a different approach to media from Russell's team this year (it was due, honestly) and maybe I'm biased here, or haven't paid enough attention, but it is his third year in a Mercedes, and he's not as commercially appealing as he should be (kind not his fault to some extent).

I have a pretty wide access to Chinese and Japanese media (because of my work) and, again maybe I'm being biased, but even Alonso sells better than Russell in those markets. It's also nowhere near the likes of the Mclaren's, Honda powered drivers, Lewis, and Yuki/Zhou.

In the Americas, his position is slightly worse tbh. In the US, the Ferrari duo, Lewis and Checo are the main faces, and I really thought he'd have some sort of easier introduction in Latam with his first win being in Brasil, but he's just not there, (again, markets I have easy and wide access too)

Now, in Europe, I think that's where his biggest selling pool is. His image sells to the old-money/heritage type (and I have a personal view that that's like 1/4 of the reason it's so hard for him to sell in eastern/latam markets) but in Europe it hits the jackpot.

All this to say, I don't think Max is in contention to a seat so he gets to show how valuable he can be (commercially), because he's already a multiple wdc anyway, he's gonna sell regardless. Russell, we already have a somewhat decent outlook. Kimi's the one we have no idea of.

I also wouldn't take what Toto says to the media to heart. Like, at all. For a number of reasons but the main one being his loyalty is to his money. He is a business man, first and foremost.

Do I think Mercedes is actively planning to get rid of Russell atm? No, not in the near future. But for 2026 maybe. And not only because of driving, or season results alone, but because F1 and the teams need to sell, and George's image sells to a very specific demographic.

Now, as for leaving only on his own will. Anon, please it's F1. It's Mercedes. They forced Lewis, of all people, to leave. The guy who won 6 wdc and 8 wcc with them. And I hope Russell's camp is not as dense as Sainz's and their blind belief he was irreplaceable (because no one in that circus is).

But I do agree George probably has a good couple of almost garanteed seats should he leave Mercedes.

[thejockout]

Update: It's been a while!

Hey all. Been quite a bit since I've been active here; lot of life stuff going on that's contributed to that, but most of it's resolved now and I'm planning a pretty active return to the scene imminently. I've got some announcements on that front that I'll try to keep brief, but I think anyone who's enjoyed my content in the past will be happy to hear them.

First and foremost, I'm going to be returning to file-making soon (end of 2023 or early 2024) with regularly scheduled releases. (My precise schedule is TBD, but I'm aiming to be release either once weekly or once fortnightly depending on how much of a backlog I can create.) I've got ideas/concepts for 20 files written out atm which would amount to either 5 months of weekly releases/10 months of fortnightly releases once written and recorded. But obviously some of those ideas might not work so well in practice/I'll obviously come up with new ones along the way too, so that number's in flux. I'm going to try to write and record ten before launching any of them, so that I don't leave a huge gap between them again. But I think you guys'll like them, there's something for everyone in what I'm planning to make. There'll be content like what I've made before, but sfw and nsfw, attending a variety of kinks I'm into.

Included in these releases are going to be updated versions of my more popular, previous files. At the moment, the files I am planning to remake are Chill Out, Bro; Blink's Good Boy; All Pups are Good Pups; and The Bigger You Are. Some of these I want to remake for reasons of audio quality, but others I straight up want to rewrite portions of to bring them more up to my current standards. I've run out of space on Soundcloud and a premium account is expensive, so I'm racking my brain for a better storage alternative. At the moment, Soundgasm is an OK backup, but I'm also considering just straight up trying Youtube/Tumblr's own audio system/Patreon's audio system on a free basis to see if they work alright. Speaking of which...

To support this expanded venture, I'm also going to be opening a Patreon + selling specific, exclusive files either by subscription to said Patreon or via platforms like Gumroad and other appropriate audio file vendors. I don't plan for all my content to be locked behind a paywall, of course. I'm planning some kind of dual channel release system where I have a certain amount of files that will be free, and then others behind subscription. But for those who don't like the idea of monthly subs, I'll be putting my Patreon-exclusive files on a third party purchase platform like Gumroad, Ko-Fi, or another suitable alternative. I appreciate that all my files previously having been free will make this annoying to some, but I am flat baroque... and realistically, each file being 4-10 hours of work (dependent on complexity) means that I really want to be seeing SOME income from this if I'll be putting a lot of time in. That's why at current, the final announcement I'm making is that:

I am now taking commissions. I've done 3 commissions in total at this point and had been keeping quiet about it while I didn't know what I was doing with the Jockout account generally, but I am now available to write and record custom hypnosis files for listeners. I'm hesitant to provide a flat rate because the cost of a file usually does come down to its complexity/length, but somewhere in the ballpark of 50-80 dollars is what I'm currently valuing the time spent on a file at, unless you want something crazy simple or crazy complicated that'll price outside that range. I'm in a Euro territory, so 50 dollars amounts to about 4 hours of minimum wage work here, which is pretty low for the amount of time a good file takes; but I appreciate that high barriers to entry are going to put people off, and I feel that way myself when commissioning. You can DM me here if you want to discuss a commission idea.

All in all, I'm pretty excited with what I hope will be the future trajectory of my page. I'm having fun learning more about hypnosis/exploring new ideas in writing, and I hope you'll all enjoy the fruits of that too! 'Til next time :)

[pinxpony]

Twitter won’t allow me to look at the replies unless I make an account and I’m too lazy to do that atm, is there any chance you could post the individual pfps for the pride ponies on here?

yeah I don't mind at all, sorry I haven't!! I'm just much more active on twt, I'll make a masterpost with them all here for you guys

[transgymbro]

hello! undecided whether to commit to the transmasc bit (read: low on my list of stuff to unpack atm) but i've started getting into fitness lately and this blog really makes me happy! i'm trying to work up from general unfitness + chronic pain to some decent level of stamina on a good day (and maybe some actual muscles in the long run). what advice would you give to someone wanting to get generally fitter?

So full disclosure: I don't have any chronic pain, so please be careful and take any advice I give with a grain of salt because I don't know what could make things worse for you or what your limits are, and I'm most definitely not a professional trainer or doctor.

What I can offer in terms of general fitness advice:

Stay consistent. Results will take at least a month if not more to be visible, and you won't make progress unless you can stick to your routine. Find something you enjoy doing, not just what other people say you should do. Personally, I love weightlifting, but if you love basketball or swimming better, start doing more of that.

Even if you're not trying to lose fat, get your protein in. Protein builds muscle.

Don't eat too little. Even if you're cutting fat you should still eat a certain amount to stop your body from going into starvation mode (this is when you're deprived of food so your body starts storing anything you eat as fat).

Stay hydrated. You should, even on rest days, be drinking at MINIMUM half a gallon or 64 oz or 2000 mL of water per day. Not all at once, but over the course of the whole day. This goes for ALL HUMANS, regardless of if they're trying to get fit or not, but it's especially important if you are active.

Listen to your body. If something really hurts, stop for the day. You do need to push yourself, but you also need to not hurt yourself in the process.

Take rest days. It's important to give your body time to recover, especially in the beginning since you'll be sore for days if your body isn't used to it. Since you in particular have chronic pain, this goes double for you. Again, I don't know much about chronic pain, but iirc it's really not something you can or should push through, so rest or keep the workout light if you're in a lot of pain.

If anybody knows I've said something wrong, or has better advice for those with chronic pain, please do leave something in the comments or reblogs.

[take-ya-to-the-ghey-bar]

No one exactly asked for these, but~... just in case any mutuals are curious as to what other blogs you can likely find me on atm-- u w u

Fairly active blog(s): @tenrai-no-ame

currently i'm trying to pop over here a lil more often, since i have some muse back for Rin, and so have been trying to catch up on old threads~ (plus a couple new ones--)

Semi-active blog(s): @rain-filled-garden / @burlesque-grin

i'm not currently super active on either of these blogs, although i would like to pop back on them more often sometime soon-- (basically the want to be there is brewing, but i don't have to motivation to act on it just yet)

Low-activity/Lurker blogs: @virtualized-vocalists / @in-toxi-cant

i only check in on the first blog here occasionally, as muse levels almost always are at a low simmer-- and the second blog here was very recently made, so it's mainly running off a queue, as i have pretty much no mutuals to post at just yet... ; w ;" i do still check the dash fairly often tho, when i'm logged in on the main blog it connects to~!

(i also have some WIP blogs that i hope to complete and be at least slightly active on sometime soon, plus another old one i've been somewhat thinking about bringing back after a lil touch up... but, i'm gonna leave off mentioning those for now, unless anyone in comments is curious--)

[milkytheholy1]

Howdy folks, I thought it was time for life update? If people still even care about those anymore. Anyhooo...

So I just turned 22 a few days ago, its crazy to me that I'm more of an adult than like a week ago. It doesn't feel different anymore, when I was a kid I used to have this tingling in my chest when it was my birthday, and now it's just heartburn.

I also moved out with my boyfriend on the exact same day, so I was quite busy and VERY stressed. But we're getting by, especially now you can walk around the place with no boxes in the way. It's pretty cold here, we don't like putting the heating on unless we want to shower or if it's absolutely necessary, probably why we're both sick atm.

I've also gotten way more hours at work and a pay rise so with that being said I'll still happily do commissions but I'll once again be returning to doing regular requests....wheeeen I have time to do them.

One big thing is I don't have internet for four weeks and it's poor signal, so not like I'm active 100% all of the time but if I disappear for a bit you know why. Which means I can't access Tumblr that well, watch any new shows like bad batch so NO ONE SPOILE IT FOR ME. it also means I can't write for a while cause I need WiFi for all my apps to work.

I also visited London for the day, it's not my favourite place to go to, far too busy for my liking. But it was a celebration for my boyfriend who won a podcasting award, although I did find out the apparently it's completely normal for fires on the tube to occur????

Anyway, that's me for now. Thank you to everyone sticking around.