ANHEDONIA REMEDIES!

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if you are lost in the rut, i am begging you to read this essay by Sasha Chapin suggesting what, essentially, my take, are potential jump-starts back into living life in real time. like actually experiencing experiences

do it now! don’t lose months, years, or decades! there is a life beyond doomscrolling, and it’s finite (sorry. sorry. i know okay)

Ok I found this genuinely helpful today, having recently been dealing with long-term stress and a creeping amount of anhedonia. There are several brilliant ideas in here, I highly recommend giving it a read.

I like it when people have bad spelling like I see words spelled the right way all the time, it adds a lil variety to my life

i think there’s actually nothing better than being randomly told “I love you” after doing something characteristically stupid. Like what do you mean I’m a lovable person and I just did something silly and you thought “of course you would do that. I love you.”. No better feeling

its so scary to put yourself out there but a SINGLE message saying "hi i loved what you made it touched me in some way" makes it all worth it 10000%

daily reminder that if you like something someone made tell! them! tell them tell them tell them TELL THEM

i cant quit tumblr because i get good life advice from other maladjusted adults on here

I feel like in the rush of “throw out etiquette who cares what fork you use or who gets introduced first” we actually lost a lot of social scripts that the younger generations are floundering without.

A lot of tough situations where we now feel like we “don’t know what to do or say” had social scripts just a couple of generations ago and they might have been canned phrases or robotic actions but they could still be meant sincerely and unfortunately we haven’t replaced them with any more sincere or easier new script.

a lot of people are giving examples in the notes of things they just find annoying like not using headphones in public, but OP is talking about actual literal scripts of things to say in awkward situations

if you have a date or two with someone and you don't see a relationship developing? most millennials / gen Zers just end up ghosting. but a social script that might have been taught and rehearsed in the past could be:

"I really appreciated getting dinner with you the other night and I enjoyed your company, but I'm afraid I didn't feel a spark. I wish you the best, and hope you find that special someone!"

like it sounds kind of trite but it was at least something to say and it can still be meant with kind sincerity. it also communicates in 2 sentences that you don't want to see them romantically again, but there aren't any hard feelings about that. that's it!!! that's all it takes!!!

Another example is that at parties a lot of people talk about how awkward it is to mingle or talk to people they dont know. But at old timey parties that was traditionally the HOST'S job, and there was a specific scripted way of doing it that eased the process! The host would bring you in, introduce you and maybe even a little bit about you like what you did for a living, and then guide you to a group you could talk to. They didn't just let you in the door and then ditch you to fend for yourself in a sea of strangers. That would be unthinkable and no one would be surprised if a get-together like that wound up being awkward.

I still do the party-host thing and yall can, too! (Thanks Mad Men for teaching me a lot of outmoded social scripts... no really tho)

Remember things about your friends! Ask people about their weekends, hobbies, holidays, studies, and jobs! Listen for the concerns people have and what they are working on! Draw connections between one person and another to get the ball rolling. "Oh, Maura, you just got your first cat! You should talk to Felix, he used to work at a rescue. Felix, please tell Maura all the new-cat-guardian pointers."

"Bill, Sheila, Xan, this is my friend Kale. Kale is really into Star Trek, Bill you and them should talk about it!"

Orrr whatever! After you make the introduction and draw the connection you just float on into the next interaction with someone else at the function. Just listen, care about your friends, get our of your own head, and think of how you can bring other people together and you will feel 100% less awkward.

hi i am so excited about this post because i have posted this exact thing MANY times on here, often in the specific context of how formal etiquette is so useful for autistic people especially, but also for everyone. even if you come off a little bit formal, which you will sometimes, having Old School Manners (or just knowing what they are) for various common scenarios is like having a magic ticket that will just sail you through all kinds of social iinteractions, gatekeeping, social weirdness, and as is pointed out in the above posts about introducing people to each other, can make you into a really valuable and helpful person for an entire gathering or group of people.

i also want to point out that knowing what the polite thing to do in all situations makes you a lot more effective at being rude and obnoxious when the situation calls for it, which is also a valuable and necessary adult skill

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can the prince of darkness have a toy to play with please

the prince of darkness is no longer asking nicely. toy. now.

Hello, you.

last time I dropped acid at the peak I entirely forgot what like, life is, and coming down from that, hearing my roommate move around and gradually becoming aware of my own bodily sensations, there was a process of trying to figure it out, and I remember thinking something along the lines of like “oh so I’m this kind of monkey thing, that’s neat. and I can control what it does, and like go around and do things and interact with other monkeys. that’s pretty cool”.

and I was right it is pretty cool

hey everyone its april fools. but dont worry i dont have anything planned. just going to sit here and...

I LIED !!!! GET PRANKED

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Hey guys! Check out this block of pure sodium that I got!

hi hello i have deduced on this foolsday of maximal allowable annoyance that if u follow me youre probably used to putting up with silly diaper talk being posted (or you have the tag muted so you dont even have to see this)

so with that inn mind for this specialest special of april challenges i think YOU my dear non-abdl oomfriend reading this should try acquiring at least one(1) tiny sample of some kind of cute appropriately sized good quality diapers, if at all possible!

just as a silly joke, you know? nothing big or nothing serious, you don't gotta use it or anything, and it doesn't even have to be one of the baby print clothy ones or tapey plasticky baby ones if you don't want!! there's lots of normal no-print options or even some pull-up options too! it's just fun and silly and doesn't have to mean anything at all. it might be cute or comfy or just a dumb thing your friend lilyflor tried to talk you into for no good reason --

-- Otherwise, feel free to just roll your eyes and continue scrolling, we can both forget that I or my alter or whatever said anything here.

hi hello i have recently learned that northshore can give mostly-free samples of things!! i think they still make you do the shipping tho.

in case u want to try something new at a smaller volume than a whole pack c:

man if I gotta make bad art, it should at least be easy! But it’s not! It is also hard to make this bad art

For april fool's today, i swapped the avatars of all my accounts on here, as well as the display names, and the handles.

i also deleted every post on both accounts and reposted them - backdated for their original times - and then i used powerful magic to move all the followers between them, too.

now i know what you're thinking. "but Opalbloom Kappledasia, you only have one tumblr account!" and to that i say: wait, why did you call me that?