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I think so many people are so deeply alienated from themselves that they have no clue how to exercise their free will and autonomy. For some, this alienation runs so deep that they are afraid of their own autonomy and humanity. It is completely understandable why one would have those feelings, but it can be worrisome.

I want to help others who feel this way, so here are small things I have done to exercise my free will:

Add "guilty pleasure" songs to playlists and actually listen to them (I have a ton of late 1990s-early 2000s music I listen to now proudly that I never listened to in the past out of shame)

Getting the décor item, bath set, bed spread, ect. in the patterns you like, even if it's "childish" (I got a dinosaur-themed wastebasket from the kids' décor section and I adore it)

Taking a new route to get to a place you go to often

Eat dessert first

Celebrate well, and often

Collect things that are "odd" or don't seem like an "acceptable" thing to collect (somebody on my "for you" page collects dandelion crayola crayons and it was so cool!!!!!!)

Incorporate one new piece in an outfit you wear frequently (e.g., a new chain, a necklace, ribbons, bracelets, ect.). Challenge yourself to add onto the outfits if you feel up for it.

Sing along to songs without worrying that you sound "good" or your intonation is completely accurate

Read a book from a genre you weren't allowed to read as a kid (comics, thrillers, mysteries, anything!)

Walk without having a specific destination or goal

Pick up a new craft without expecting yourself to master it or to ever be "good" enough. Get your hands messy.

I don't want to shame anybody for not feeling as though they have free will or that they are exempt from exercising it. However, I wanted to give ideas so that you might read this list and find your own ways to express your intrinsic autonomy and will. You deserve to be a person, to feel alive, not just living. That is what our lives are for.

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"omg you'll post 'i need him' on the most average men" "she's mid" most of us are average and it's good that we can find beauty and desire in average people

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varric would be a malört troll

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hi i just created an excel sheet where i can pick a meal and have it autopopulate the ingredients i'll need as a shopping list

i have never felt so smart

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Meeran returned it with a grin, bouncing the coin pouch in his palm. “I take care of my own,” he promised. 

Fenris bit back a retort. He would not ever belong to someone again, in any way. Something did occur to him, however. 

“You bet on me?” he asked Meeran curiously. 

Meeran shrugged. “I know a killer when I see one.”

— a scene from Vertigo, a Fenders Enemies to Lovers fic

Commissioned from the lovely and talented @eve-eleidan !

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I like to come up with horrible video game mechanic ideas designed to piss off certain subsections of gamers without effecting the gameplay experience of the average player.

For example, what if I made a completely normal action adventure game, but the final boss is inaccessible by any means until the in-game time reaches 3 hours? If the game had an average play time of 10 hours, this would not effect the average gamer. It would, however, piss off speedrunners. If I wanted to rub salt into the wounds, I could make that three hour limit have a variable of up to five minutes late or early. I think the runners would come after me with pitchforks

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it’s crazy how uldred is at the ostagar planning meeting saying “a beacon at the top of a tower is unnecessary when we have, you know, magic” and he literally could have solved the entire game then and there if the grand cleric didn’t start bitching. i would lose it too

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my new thing whenever an embarrassing memory jumps up out of some backwater neuron to t-bone my present-day thought process is to declare a statute of limitations. like i can burn down an entire building in the state where i live and the law deems it both unfair and illegal to prosecute me after six years have passed, i think that thing i said in high school can be expunged from my record.

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I’m so gay for Mr Anders Dragon Age

Anders’ most iconic look, now in color 😌

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BarkBarkBark

Chicken Melts

Mount Hood (Hoodie for short)

Michaelangelo

Chair

Chernobyl

Geralt of Rivia

Names that I would like trans folks (or anyone that wants to change their name, go off) to adopt

Ichabod

Strudel, Toaster Strudel

Bonk McGee

*duck quacking noise*

Leaf

Leif

Breasted Boobily

______ the Titless (@favorofthewater)

We've gotta change it up, we must kill respectability politics in the same way we are trying to kill cringe culture. Be the funky little gremlins you want to see in the world.

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dentists will splash some water in your mouth and youll think "oh a nice drink of water i was parched" just for them to suck it back out with their wretched little tube. disingenuous behavior

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I don’t have a good grasp of DND lore okay?