maculategiraffe:

inkskinned:

fucking hate it when the stuff everybody says “actually works” does actually work.

hate exercising and realizing i’ve let go of a lot of anxiety and anger because i’ve overturned my fight-or-flight response.

hate eating right and eating enough and eating 3 times a day and realizing i’m less anxious and i have more energy

hate journaling in my stupid notebook with my stupid bic ballpoint and realizing that i’ve actually started healing about something once i’m able to externalize it

hate forgiving myself hate complimenting myself more often hate treating myself with kindness hate taking a gratitude inventory hate having patience hate talking to myself gently

hate turning my little face up to the sun and taking deep breaths and looking at nature and grounding myself and realizing that i feel less burdened and more hopeful, more actually-here, that i am able to see the good sides of myself more clearly, that i am able to see not only how far i have to grow - but also how much growth i have already done & how much of my life i truly fill with light and laughter and love

horrible horrible horrible. hate it but i’m gonna do it tho

pallettown:

pallettown:

words cannot describe how much i love showering. my wet contemplative box

Hey everyone how’s it going

twoheadeddoe:

redownloading grindr was not a mistake. this is poetry

pomplerrr:

1617:

sometimes home is a person

please don’t say that

mortalityplays:

hi, a lot of you need a perspective reset

• the average human lifespan globally is 70+ years
• taking the threshold of adulthood as 18, you are likely to spend at least 52 years as a fully grown adult
• at the age of 30 you have lived less than one quarter of your adult life (12/52 years)
• ‘middle age’ is typically considered to be between 45-65
• it is extremely common to switch careers, start new relationships, emigrate, go to college for the first or second time, or make other life-changing decisions in middle age
• it’s wild that I even have to spell it out, but older adults (60+) still have social lives and hobbies and interests.
• you can still date when you get old. you can still fuck. you can still learn new skills, fashionable, be competitive. you can still gossip, you can still travel, you can still read. you can still transition. you can still come out.
• young doesn’t mean peaked. you’re inexperienced in your 20s! you’re still learning and practicing! you’re developing social skills and muscle memory that will last decades!
• there are a million things to do in the world, and they don’t vanish overnight because an imaginary number gets too big

barbieaemond:

ALICENT HIGHTOWER and GWAYNE HIGHTOWER
2.06 “Smallfolk”

aimmyarrowshigh:

word-wytch:

I think there’s something that needs to be said about encouraging readers to leave feedback.

For me it’s not about “tell me my writing is amazing and stroke my ego”

It’s more about “please engage with me so that I can experience your joy secondhand and foster a connection with you”

I understand that not everyone wants this in their reading experience, some people are shy and a million other reasons why maybe someone wouldn’t want to engage and that’s perfectly fine!

But what I’m trying to steer away from is being a passive content creator with passive consumers. What I want to steer toward is fostering a community that is essential to fandom. I want to see your reactions because it makes me feel like I’m a part of something.

On encouraging reblogs —

I understand that not everyone is comfortable reblogging, especially explicit content. This is ok!

But just consider that the only reason you were able to enjoy a fic or fanart is because someone else shared it, and by not sharing it yourself you are potentially robbing someone else of the opportunity to enjoy it as much as you did.

As OPs our reach only goes so far and this website relies on reblogs in order for anything to truly get seen by a wider audience.

So that’s really it! That’s why I encourage these two things at the end of every story I post. Not because I’m trying to be demanding and “make people feel bad” if they don’t do it.

I know most other social media sites encourage mindless content consumption and that’s just the way of the world nowadays, but I am from a time when community was at the heart of fandom and I just don’t want to lose that.

But what I’m trying to steer away from is being a passive content creator with passive consumers. What I want to steer toward is fostering a community that is essential to fandom. I want to see your reactions because it makes me feel like I’m a part of something.

wizard-archivist-official:

wizard-council-bureaucrat:

aqueerkettleofish:

mug-of-beans:

“The old magic persists thanks to it’s unfathomable power.”

No, the old magic persists because the new magic can’t run the legacy spells I need to do my job, and keeps trying to install spirits I don’t want or need onto my orb.

Look, if the new magic didn’t have a personality construct that kept trying to tell me which spells to use, maybe I wouldn’t still be using the old magic.

Yes it had a deep blood cost, but at least it was a one time sacrifice and not this monthly bloodletting nonsense new age magic has

The old magic is robust enough to survive a decade of use and it’s compatible with every wand, staff, scroll, and charm in our collection.

The new magic stops working after three days and every spell uses proprietary runes.

Our preferences, as an archiving institution, should be pretty clear.