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Here is my submission for the Fallen Cosmos fan art contest. I hope you all enjoy it 😉✨

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Our cat has such love for my partner, she was on my lap this morning while I was working and he was asleep in the other room. Perfectly content, purring, making biscuits, etc. She heard him clear his throat when he got up to use the bathroom and scrambled off my lap so fast bc she thought he was getting up and it was time for Breakfast with Papa™️.

Alas, it was not, and he went back to bed so she came back to me and cried and cried and cried. Like girl no, I’m not picking you back up, you made your preference very clear lmao.

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Mutuals who I don't know very personally yet I am holding a sugarcube out in my hand in the hopes that you will approach me like the noble horse

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me 2 seconds after going into the tags for a character i like:

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“op is a morally corrupt pervert” ok 💖 yay +follow

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Mel + Padme Amidala

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I love music so much, I hope I'm a pair of headphones in my next life

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Big Mom is not pleased with you

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I do think fandom would be wildly different if people respected fanfic writing. And I don’t mean treating it as a skill you need to improve or comparing it to published writing—I mean treating it as a hobby worth respect no matter the effort or perceived skill. You don’t look at someone’s art sketches and tell them to go study paintings to improve or to only post something polished. You don’t tell people admiring fanart to go to the moma instead. You don’t go to a gif maker and ask for more gifs minutes after they post. Or ask someone who writes a song to make a second song or tell them how you think they should improve it to your taste. So why do you do all these things to fic writers

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Aizawa, about to come up with the first term final exam: I love my students, but sometimes I wish we could square up fr

Nezu: Approved.

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How cute..! Not suspicious at all

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Someone in that poll said not to watch naruto bc it's queerbait and I hate to tell you this but naruto wasn't trying to queerbait you it's actually the number 1 example of "text is so misogynistic it becomes gay"

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thank god anything at all useful is being torn down and made illegal so that the computer can just be a box you turn on to watch ads for fake phone games

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honestly feel free to ignore this but how did you go about finding a therapist? everytime I look I just feel like there's no way I'd be able to be open with this person, or there's just 0 information about them

Hey friend! That’s a good question, and my recent experience and past experiences have differed quite a bit. Putting below a cut because I talk too much.

For context for anyone else reading, I’m U.S.-based, and my health insurance carrier is also my provider—meaning generally, if I go to any doctor, they’re employed by my health insurance company unless I’ve been referred outside their network for some reason.

In this case, our employed mental health providers are overworked/overbooked and they were (and still are) on strike, so I was referred to an outside provider. I had to call my insurance company, complete a series of questions with the intake person to basically make sure I “needed” therapy, and then was given a referral to a practice about 2 hours away from me that offered Telehealth appointments.

I lucked out in that I vibed with my therapist pretty quickly. I will say, the practice and therapists there are very…rooted in faith religion to varying degrees it seems? So I’m sometimes reluctant to discuss certain topics with her, but I also know she’s welcome to set boundaries if a topic doesn’t jive with her.

As far as finding someone when your insurer doesn’t just assign you one, whether or not you have insurance, here’s what I can recommend based on my prior experience:

Psychology Today’s database is sometimes outdated/inaccurate but can be a good place to start. There are also filters for certain topics/preferences/needs, like trauma informed, ADHD friendly, LGBTQ+, etc.

If you have health insurance, you can sometimes log in and search their website for providers as well, and that will ensure they’re in-network

Once you find a provider that seems to meet your needs, I’d recommend doing a general internet search for them—look for google reviews and/or their personal website or practice’s website

If your city/location has its own subreddit, using Reddit to ask for recommendations can be helpful, too

Once you’ve chosen someone, it’s entirely possible you may not vibe with them. It sucks, but I’d consider your first few appointments more of an interview than diving right into your issues. Maybe discuss some more surface-level concerns and see how they handle them. If you don’t like them, it’s okay to tell them you don’t think it’s working out. This happened to me with a therapist and I just let her know my needs weren’t quite meeting her style, it was nothing against her, and I went back to the list I’d made of other therapists I’d sort of vetted via internet. I ended up with a much better fit the second time around.

Looking for a therapist can be really daunting/exhausting, and it’s hard not to feel weird about opening up to a stranger. I still don’t tell my therapist everything because I just don’t feel comfortable with disclosing all my trauma to anyone, not even just her. But that’s also okay—I’m still getting help on major issues, and I’m sort of able to work around the other issues.

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sorry i am a size queen i love when it's big enough to hit the cervix and it doesn't fit and it feels like he's gonna slip out when you squeeze down on him augh

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Farspace Colonel [ LADS ]

( I need to start updating my social media as soon as I finish the pieces (': ) I've been totally obsessed with Love and Deepspace as soon as Caleb debuted, therefore there's a lot of ideas incoming so bear with me on this aha

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It feels like this every time I write a fic