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"stress" by yoan capote - made of bronze and concrete

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#1) the message is that characters =/= real people #and it is not only okay but required that they have personality flaws #we want conflict in stories because thats what drives them and its not a moral failing to enjoy that #2) because tumblr’s reading comprehension is piss poor and people send death threats to people for liking a #~problematic~ character even though this is normal and not a moral failing #3) she’s saying this is a basic #fundemental concept that even a child could understand #and that you need to grow up and understand this in order to have an understanding of media criticism

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In her essay Less TikTok, More Screaming, Persinette writes that these e-therapists have turned healing into “a religion, a lifestyle, and above all, a brand” while promoting a culture of isolation and individual optimization. In this ecosystem, “...therapy has become a litmus test for social belonging and inherent goodness, a sign that one is aware of and has adapted to the newest standards of how to behave.”  The social standard this culture offers is one of controlled, placated solitude. Its narrative often insists that you’re surrounded by toxic people who are trying to hurt you, and the only way to ever become the person you’re meant to be is to cut them all off, retreat into a high-gloss cocoon of talk therapy and Notion templates, and emerge a non-emotive butterfly who will surely attract the relationships you’ve always deserved — relationships with other “healed” people, who don’t hurt you or depend on you or force you to feel difficult, taxing emotions. And finally, your life will be as frictionless and shiny as you, alone, have always deserved for it to be.

Rayne Fisher-Quann, no good alone

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tiktok is such an awful app, it's almost designed to feed you misinformation and expose you to insane discourse. unlike beloved tumblr, the app that feeds me misinformation and exposes me to insane discourse

#also #unlike tiktok #i eventually catch up on posts and leave the site #instead of endlessly scrolling exposing myself to rancid takes #and when I unfollow someone! I don't see their posts anymore! WILD

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how come?

we have a guy in the tower who does tarot spreads and predicts the most fortuitous gate location for any given plane

#''the tower's drawn the tower'' is the most ominous spread to get and requires all flights being canceled until tomorrow

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sorry about my constant depressive episodes. its just that i have issues and also problems

#yeah

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bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

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A fawn curled up beside a fake deer which is used for target practice. 

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people say folks with adhd struggle with "delayed rewards" aka long term goals and as such we tend to focus more on short term rewards. what they don't talk about is that at when we Do accomplish long term goals we don't actually feel anything proportionate to the amount of work we did to achieve it. In my head I suffered for a while and then money spontaneously appeared in my bank account.

#yeah LOL i finished a manuscript and felt nothing #finished a chapter? FELT GREAT

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Colors of Fall

jukkarisikko

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#this is why i keep a notebook right next to my bed at all times

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"the problem with booktok is that it romanticizes toxic relationships blah blah blah" NO!! the problem with booktok is that its a community that talks about, produces, and consumes published novels the same way people talk about, produce, and consume fanfiction. every issue with booktok (lowbrow subject matter, oftentimes poor writing and editing, a disproportionately heavy focus on erotica, books described via tropes (tags) instead of plot synopses, thinly-veiled misogyny) boils down to that. i don't give a single solitary shit if colleen hoover is writing toxic step-sibling incest romance! i've come across weirder shit this week on ao3!! what i do care about is the fact it reads exactly like an unbetaed oc-centric slash fic and this woman is expecting us to pay upwards of $20 for a copy!! girl i can read mid-tier fic for free any time i want i don't need you!!

#i mean i also hate how its treated as this is only what people are consuming literature wise #and that there’s nothing well written anymore #the bestseller list has never been a reliable way of finding well written stuff lol #this is nothing new

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Truly love the number of people I've met that have been like "Well I went to a Catholic school as a kid, which is to say I'm not Catholic" like damn Catholic schools really out here doing the exact opposite of missionary work.

#this works for nondenominational christian schools too

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Kitty adventures