#years in the making

[flythesail]

It's always "why would Lyra risk shooting Krennic" and never "how was she strong enough to wait years to do it"

[neuroticbutsymbolic]

Well hey there, I’m Nueroticbutsymbolic.

I’ve been amateurly writing poetry in a variety of styles since 2014.

My whole entire life I’ve fought. To eat. To be loved. To be seen. To be heard. To be accepted and to fit in. I’ve fought for those who couldn’t fight, and I stood right beside those who could.

After years of fighting, it turned to silence and the silence, well, it turned into poetry- poetry I read now and think how? Why? How did this young, damaged, and hopeless teenager not only survive, but also manage to create beauty within an absolutely blackened environment?

The answer to both the how and the why is simply survival.

Finding comfort in that chaos allowed me to accept what I was and remind myself of what I wasn’t- and what I am not, is apologetic.

What I am though, is unapologetically neurotic.

Here, I’ll be anonymously posting some of my neuroticism as I compile all my work into a manuscript of sorts. Follow along for the official publish date drop.

*ALL POETRY RIGHTS AND ANYTHING WRITTEN ON THIS BLOG BELONG TO NEUROTICBUTSYMBLOIC AND IS SUBJECT TO COPYRIGHT*

[newbiespud]

By the way, this month I've been posting a Let's Play of Dark Sector, Digital Extremes' single-player console shooter from 2008, where I engage in its hardest difficulty, find every upgrade, and make comparisons to both the original very-Warframe-like concept video years earlier and Warframe as it is today! It's finally gotten to the part that is REALLY evocative of Warframe!

If you want to start from the first episode in the playlist, you can do so here!

[sscriqui]

I spent the majority of my gardening career trying to grow sweet woodruff that flourished. I have finally succeeded!

[pocketoon]

cant wait until s3 is actually out and i can finally make my amv

[frankencanon]

[casawio]

WILBUR CAT SOON MR PRESIDENT WILL BE REAL SOON WAHHHHHGGG

[arcanegifs]

ARCANE LEAGUE OF LESBIANS: 2x08 - “Killing is a Cycle”

[rivetgoth]

It's honestly crazy that discussion around testosterone HRT skews so much towards the beginning stages of it (to the point that you have dozens of guys thinking their transition is "failed" if they don't pass by like a year in lol) and what the initial changes of the first couple of months to years look like, like the classic laundry list of those early basic changes like bottom growth, voice drop, etc, when IMO literally none of that compares remotely to the depth and intensity of the long term total masculinization you start to experience like 3-5+ years in.

[reasonsforhope]

If you're feeling anxious or depressed about the climate and want to do something to help right now, from your bed, for free...

Start helping with citizen science projects

What's a citizen science project? Basically, it's crowdsourced science. In this case, crowdsourced climate science, that you can help with!

You don't need qualifications or any training besides the slideshow at the start of a project. There are a lot of things that humans can do way better than machines can, even with only minimal training, that are vital to science - especially digitizing records and building searchable databases

Like labeling trees in aerial photos so that scientists have better datasets to use for restoration.

Or counting cells in fossilized plants to track the impacts of climate change.

Or digitizing old atmospheric data to help scientists track the warming effects of El Niño.

Or counting penguins to help scientists better protect them.

Those are all on one of the most prominent citizen science platforms, called Zooniverse, but there are a ton of others, too.

Oh, and btw, you don't have to worry about messing up, because several people see each image. Studies show that if you pool the opinions of however many regular people (different by field), it matches the accuracy rate of a trained scientist in the field.

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I spent a lot of time doing this when I was really badly injured and housebound, and it was so good for me to be able to HELP and DO SOMETHING, even when I was in too much pain to leave my bed. So if you are chronically ill/disabled/for whatever reason can't participate or volunteer for things in person, I highly highly recommend.

Next time you wish you could do something - anything - to help

Remember that actually, you can. And help with some science.

[whiterabbitloveposting]

For those wondering - Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 #338 (Hobgoblin sprays Spider-man with poison) and #339 (Doc Ock reveals the poison only becomes lethal when combined with cocaine).

[hinamie]

trick or treat!

[daincrediblegg]

OK THIS IS NOT A FUCKING DRILL EVERYONE FUCKING REPEAT AFTER ME. THIS IS WHAT YOU WILL DO WHEN YOU WATCH MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL THIS YEAR:

You will navigate to the page on disney plus (and it has to be here. Unless someone has actually uploaded the REAL movie anywhere else you cannot get it elsewhere)

BUT YOU WILL NOT HIT PLAY. You won’t do it. Because it’s NOT THE REAL VERSION OF THE FILM AND DISNEY IS FUCKING LYING TO YOU AS IT ALWAYS DOES

You will scroll down HERE. To EXTRAS instead. You MUST GO HERE. This is non -negotiable

THEN YOU WILL SCROLL DOWN TO THE BOTTOM OF THE EXTRAS AND YOU WILL THEN HIT PLAY ON THIS BAD BOY: THE FULL LENGTH VERSION

And you will watch it. And you will thank me for having been so blind and led astray by that stupid fucking mouse. You’re welcome.

[batbabydamian]

happy booping! 🐾

[aesthetic-uni]

It’s that time of the year again

[cozylittleartblog]

cant tell you how bad it feels to constantly tell other artists to come to tumblr, because its the last good website that isn't fucked up by spoonfeeding algorithms and AI bullshit and isn't based around meaningless likes

just to watch that all fall apart in the last year or so and especially the last two weeks

there's nowhere good to go anymore for artists.

edit - a lot of people are saying the tags are important so actually, you'll look at my tags.

#please dont delete your accounts because of the AI crap. your art deserves more than being lost like that #if you have a good PC please glaze or nightshade it. if you dont or it doesnt work with your style (like mine) please start watermarking #use a plain-ish font. make it your username. if people can't google what your watermark says and find ur account its not a good watermark #it needs to be central in the image - NOT on the canvas edges - and put it in multiple places if you are compelled #please dont stop posting your art because of this shit. we just have to hope regulations will come slamming down on these shitheads#in the next year or two and you want to have accounts to come back to. the world Needs real art #if we all leave that just makes more room for these scam artists to fill in with their soulless recycled garbage #improvise adapt overcome. it sucks but it is what it is for the moment. safeguard yourself as best you can without making #years of art from thousands of artists lost media. the digital world and art is too temporary to hastily click a Delete button out of spite