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I'm done with the internet. Probably with life by the end of the year. Goodbye everyone

I’m 19 and the youngest is 16 in another fucking state but go off I guess

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The fuck happened?

Damn imagine being painfully unaware of the power an adult can hold against a minor and making fun of and making a witch-hunt against a 14 y/o for feeling like something is suspicious. You're the one who went around crying on your blog like a little bitch instead of addressing the issue like an ADULT.

Imagine sending this ask and thinking you were on to something

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No but seriously. Normalize finding love in your 40's. Normalize discovering and chasing new dreams in your 30's. Normalize finding yourself and your purpose in your 50's. Life doesn't end at 25. Let's stop acting like it does.

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Once I finally have an actual flat and job, I'm gonna start a thing where I invite all my friends over for dinner. And there's gonna be a dress code but it's just "that one outfit you never have any chance to wear". Flapper dress? Awesome. Medival gown that you got at a renesaince fair but don't actually know what to do with? Yes! Prom dress? Of course! Cosplay you made for that one convention? Definitely. Pikachu onsie? What would be more fitting?

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Omg- they can't be serious!

how can you eat the fried hearts of something that once was alive and had a beating heart? do you feel any guilt? i hope you do.

please google what an artichoke is

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I'm reblogging this to read later because holy shit

i just had the weirdest moment, i was feeling my front teeth with my tongue because they’re the tiniest bit crooked, and then i had the thought “i’ll check if they’re also crooked in my other mouth” and then i realized to my shock and confusion that i have only one mouth, leading me to believe that in a past life i was a terrible monster with two mouths

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“It’s only a trigger if it causes horrible flashbacks” is so utterly divorced from how the concept of a trigger is used by actual real therapists

a thing doesn’t have to cause traditional flashbacks to be a trigger. a trigger can be a thing that causes:

- panic attacks - emotional flashbacks* - anxiety episodes - paranoia/delusions - hallucinations - seizures - rage episodes - manic episodes - depression spikes - suicidal thoughts - dissociative episodes - sensory overload - obsessions and compulsions (as in OCD)

and probably more things than that, i don’t know all the possible things. I’m not trained in clinical psychology, but neither are all the assholes who say “It’s not a real trigger unless it gives you flashbacks”

* an emotional flashback is a type of flashback where you feel the emotions associated with the trauma happening to you while still on some level knowing that the trauma isn’t currently happening to you. this is a more common type of flashback than the traditional kind.

tl;dr the word trigger in clinical psychology (the field of therapists) can refer to many things other than traditional flashbacks. stop telling ppl “that’s not a trigger unless it gives you flashbacks,” because you are utterly fucking wrong.

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This is what I’m talking about.

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Watch_Dogs legion is looking great

Via @netpol on Twitter.

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Saving this

I made some ghost dresses and face paint if anyone is interested!

(Based on @atduskart ‘s comic)

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Ok, this seems fantastic, but I have to listen to it later

ASMR: It is the year 12,000. You have strayed far from your family’s encampment while foraging for nutrients, and you stumble upon a peculiar structure in the wilderness. It is overgrown with strange, stunted plants, and as you approach, a hologram is activated. The ghostly image of an ancient votary of the atomic priesthood appears before you and delivers a pre-recorded message in a language that is at once alien to you, and strangely familiar… you have stumbled across one of the Great Old Ones nuclear waste disposal sites, from before the world moved on…

[Script is the summary of the proposed long-time nuclear waste warning messages from the Sandia report, aimed at protecting humanity from the threat of nuclear waste for at least 10,000 years, even after civilization collapse]

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Ok, I see war and pestilence. Death is ever present, so I'm not exactly counting them, but I suppose the nuclear fire would fit? That means some time this year there's gonna be a famine.

the apocalypses this year

January:

February:

march: 

April:

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Is that a Skeksis?

Me on this day

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Roughly 3 cubits, a span, and a finger and a half. I'm surprised I remember those lengths from Bible class, lol

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I love this

i love how even purportedly heterosexual 1920s advertisements are rarely more than marginally heterosexual-passing