today's bug thing are these bug stickers!

THE duo of all time 🌠

His Desk

[ID: an ikea alien sitting behind a laying black cat as though sitting at a desk, with a notepad and pencil on the cat.]

While making dinner tonight, I very very fleetingly, but very seriously and legitimately thought “I should watch Goncharov tonight”

And then I Remembered.

That it's no longer on poob?

This is incomprehensible outside of tumblr, i love a well maintained closed ecosystem

"time heals all wounds" WRONG. time is chasing me with a knife

...Are there actually people out there who only ever have a problem because they're not aware of the problem? The sheer amount of people who seem genuinely shocked and baffled that someone can be perfectly aware of the nature of their issue and still continue having it is so strange to me. Like they'll come in to tell you "hey it sounds like you have this specific problem that you just described" and they're genuinely befuddled when you answer with "yes, I am aware, that is the nature of the problem that I am currently having" like that's not the response they expected at all.

Like do some people really live like that? Only ever experiencing difficulties without ever pausing to wonder why things are like that, and as soon as someone pops in like "hey you have a problem with this happening because of this reason", everything gets wrenched back on the right track with a crack like resetting a dislocated limb, and it's all clear skies and smooth sailing from thereon now that someone kindly offered them some awareness of how they're living their life.

The thing about ADHD is that the "lack of reward chemicals in your brain" doesn't just mean that you don't want to do any tasks that don't feel particularly yummy :(, it means that your brain will look at chores and tasks that need to be done like "doing this would be painful and tedious for absolutely nothing to gain from it, Do Not Do That." The same thing that your brain tells you about everything else that would feel really bad and hurt the entire time that you're dying. The part of your brain that stops you from doing the thing is the same part that keeps you from shoving your arm into a wood chipper.

With unmedicated, unmanaged ADHD, "I have to do this assignment or I fail and my life will be ruined and I die" feels like a SAW trap, every single time.

Articles written by neurotypicals will be like “ADHD children find the external motivation of the SAW traps is very effective. Here’s how to build SAW traps to maximize their productivity.”

i NEED people to realise foreshadowing is. in fact. a literary device. and not a Bad Thing. the audience picking up on your hints is a Good Thing. because. it makes the story and it’s conclusion make sense. and some people will not see those but enjoy seeing them on a second read through. red herrings are one thing but if your novel consists of nothing but red herrings it’s not a coherent story it’s just a collection of paragraphs that don’t actually plausibly link to one another. you're not fighting with the audience you don’t look clever you look like you don’t know how basic fiction works. be vulnerable for once in your goddamn life and don't treat writing like a game to be won where the audience losing is a good thing.

Why is 95 percent of craft fair art the most generic cringe inducing cutesy slop. I get that it’s designed to be as marketable as possible and that it’s supposed to be desirable to people who self-identify as like… quirky Queer chaos goblins but like. Dear god.

A kawaii frog with a wizard hat and wand sitting on a lily pad with the text “hydrate or die-drate”. And if they’re feeling bold, perhaps a rainbow capybara with the text “queer as in fuck you”.

There's such a lack of education when it comes to testosterone in trans spaces because I'm tired of seeing people call testosterone 'stand alone' hrt in comparison to estrogen/progesterone.

A lot of people on testosterone will go on estrogen, that is completely normal and this helps avoid menopause and improves your sexual health. Not only do I never see people talk about this but to see people actively spreading misinformation or gendering hrt in a way that makes trans people on t with menopausal symptoms be put off from the care they need, is bad! If you're on t and struggling with period cramps/spottiness, extremely fluctuating mood, hot flushes, etc please talk to your doctor! Having stable hormone levels is good for you and your health and taking estrogen is completely normal for a lot of people on t

I'll also add, some people never lose their menstrual cycle on T. in the year+ before my hysto, I never stopped having a period. a lot of people get breakthrough bleeding at the very least. there is no shame in using multiple hormones at once & while that didn't work for me (I just spotted for 3 weeks out of the month instead), it works for most people.

also T is not birth control. T is not birth control. losing your period does not mean you're not ovulating. people with a penis taking E is not birth control, they can still have functional sperm. HRT is not birth control do not treat it as birth control unless you want a baby or a very expensive doctor's visit

he's like a patron saint to me