Have an updated gpoy!

It's my three year Tumblr-versary!

I wanna post another selfie to celebrate, and I also want to boost awareness of mental health issues like sensory or emotional overwhelm, and therefore my selfie this year is this:

This is me crying and shaking after getting home from a situation that was just too much. I barely made it inside our front door; I'm sitting right on the inside stairs, coat still in my arms (hugging it, in fact, because I needed to hold on to something).

Some days I look like this. And that's okay.

Tumblr continues to be my happy place. 2025 was hard; I spent all of it too sick to work, and a lot of it on the couch or in bed. Here is a little pic, not of myself but of Lyra curled up in a snuggly warm cave on the couch - might not be me in actuality, but is extremely emblematic.

I still have no idea what I have; signs are getting clearer that it might be Chronic Fatigue and/or something about my mast cells, though apparently not MCAS? There isn’t a lot I can do about it except pacing, which in way too many cases means I can’t do this and I can’t do that; it fucking sucks. Can’t even go on a stupid mental health walk without being bedbound for most of two days (extreme example, but a taste of what my life has become these past few years).

Tumblr, hellsite and friends’ living rooms, continues to be my happy place. I honestly wouldn’t know what I’d do without all y'all here, and on Discord as well. If we’re connected, here or there, please know that you’ve played a part in keeping me sane.

@transparent-plastic-robotgirl check it out

omg that's cool as heck!!! 🌸

"nuts are an appetite suppressant!" BECAUSE THEY ARE FOOD. YOU ARE LESS HUNGRY BECAUSE YOU ATE FOOD.

the diet industry is so unbelievably fucked and it’s in your fucking walls. “keeps you full longer so you don’t get hungry an hour after lunch when you’re trying to do something” is a neutral statement of benefit but no we have to treat pistachios like crucial medicine in the war against basic bodily functions.

eating disorder recovery is just getting angry over and over again because food is treated like some horrible necessary evil instead of one of the great joys of life. eat some nuts because they taste good and you are a living thing that thrives on pleasure and calories. you need both.

I need to get some sleep but in case you need to hear it: you deserve to eat. your appetite is not the enemy. if you can, treat yourself to a filling meal of foods you love today. throw pistachio shells at people. be free.

DISCLAIMER: if you or your selected victim have a nut allergy, consider throwing rocks instead. I love you.

One of the most jarring moments of my university education was in a physics class when I was given a device that measures gravity and was told “this cost the university sixteen thousand dollars, but the only glass blower in the world who could make the glass springs inside it died so it’s literally irreplaceable. If you drop it those springs will shatter. Go fuck around with it for a day and take some measurements”

In the UK there's a thing called the endangered crafts list which I highly recommend if you fancy discovering some crafts you never even knew existed. Scientific and optical instrument making is considered 'critically endangered' and glassworking (scientific glassware) is just considered endangered, which is for 'crafts with a shrinking market share, an ageing demographic or crafts with a declining number of practitioners.' There's some other crafts in that category which are easier to teach yourself or go to classes on that list, like lithography, marbling or block printing on fabric, so it might be worth considering those if you're looking for something to try.

Reblogging myself as I wasn't expecting so many people to pay attention to my comment. Again this list is JUST FOR THE UK as I noticed someone commenting on that, please look into whether there are similar things in your own countries and share if you find anything as I'd love to see them.

There are some crafts considered 'extinct' because the whole process isn't completed in the UK, like making cricket balls where most of the steps can be done here but not the stitching for some reason which is outsourced to India. There are lacrosse sticks produced in other countries where it's more popular as a sport, otherwise the whole sport would have died out by now.

Anyway, I just wanted to add that there's a new version of the list for this year which is now online here.

Yup, sure, I’ll incorporate that into my worldview. I mean, in this household we’ve already established that Adam is a fae who bargained away his immortality in exchange for metal use, and he is thriving. Why not a walrus selkie as well?

What a post to remember AFTER the whole “fairy vs walrus” conversation is over.

Which Mythbuster would you be more surprised to find on your doorstep?

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*screencap of a tiktok by @sarahinyellow featuring a lightskinned person sitting at their laptop with a bag of potato chips and a bottle of diet coke*

“diet culture will demonize any food that isn’t “clean” but EVERY food can have a benefit for you

Diet Coke is somehow the only thing that stops my migraines, and it reminds me of my best friend. Cape Cod potato chips are my go to salty snack and I live 10 minutes from the factory, so they make me feel cool.

Food is more than fuel. It’s memories and satisfaction and tradition and home and culture.

There’s nothing evil about that.”

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white cards:

-Jacob little guys

-wearing too many shirts

-tennis idiot

-lady gay

-dinosaur lies

-a dilf with his tibbies out

-ghost beef

-orby's morts

-hot dogs for (i forget if it's Draz or Kaz)

-Gonzo (from Life)

-a present from Onsta (i know it's the same Gojo statue you mentioned but it could be euphemistically funny in other contexts lol)

-the brick from Sonny Angel's ass

-Julia's family crossbow (am i remembering that right? it was some kind of unlikely older weaponry. trident?)

-Nathan's honking boyfriend

-dropping the pen

-waluigi as a denny's

black cards:

- "voice message from Barrett about ____"

- "Fs in the chat for ____ ....or for _____"

- "Karina's dad liked the compilation about _____"

- "Spencer in the bath watching the _____ comp"

- "using my patreon commission to request a drawing of _____"

- "it's gonna be hard for deep blue ink to animate ____"

- "meeting your future mother-in-law in her capacity as the EMT supervising _____"

- "Nathan's not in this one because of ____"

- "a jacob horse plush's many functions include ____"

- "Jacob and Julia are _____, Karina likes _____, and Nathan is normal"