gothic horror is when there's a location. cosmic horror is when there's an unauthorized fucking Thing. folk horror is when you're outside.

there basically isn't a single established action archetype that you can't improve tenfold by making it a girl

the old master. the sneering rival. the implacable pursuer. the pragmatic mercenary. the combat hedonist. the sleeper operative. the guy who's just really big. the list goes on

Guards! Make that character look older

At one point I had a housemate who had been through multiple abusive or at least unhealthy relationships, and it effected the way they interacted with the world and others around them.

One of the effects was that they couldn't admit to mistakes or accidents. They would lie when they could, and they'd try to cover it up when they could.

One day, they broke one of my glass dishes in the kitchen. I wasn't at home at the time, so they cleaned up in a hurry and then hurriedly scrambled to glue it back together. They never said anything to me, and I wouldn't have ever noticed-

Except I walk barefoot in my home and two steps into the kitchen I had a small shard of glass in my foot. Looking for a source, I noticed the dish in the drain, and looked a lot more closely at it than I normally would have, and noticed a small piece missing from where they had glued two larger pieces together.

It took me a good twenty minutes to fish that glass out of my foot. I then went and vacuumed very throughly, as two dogs and a cat lived in that house, along with the humans.

If they hadn't been stuck in the patterns they learned when they were younger, they might have told me about the glass, and I could have worn shoes until it was safe. They might have spent longer cleaning it up and making sure the floor was safe, instead of trying to cover up their mistake by gluing the dish back together.

If they could have broken out of those patterns, they would not have put those around them in harm's way.

Break out of your unhealthy patterns. They're hurting you, and they're hurting the people around you. If someone over reacts to something like a broken bowl, the answer is to remove them from your life, not to go around gluing bowls back together without saying anything.

I forgot to say it, but this is both metaphorical and literal. It was a very real shard of glass in my foot AND a lot of us pick up unhealthy coping mechanisms and then go on to unintentionally hurt others. So please, please, work on identifying behaviors and thoughts that end up hurting you and those around you.

Because sometimes it's not just a shard of glass. Sometimes it's a lot bigger and more harmful.

it's so sick and twisted that you have to forge the life you deserve from the molten scraps of the life you were forced to have

i wish that the "bad people don't worry about whether they're bad people" myth was less pervasive in posts about moral OCD. you can tell it's false if you look at the world for more than a half-second, and i think the degree to which it is obviously false makes more people conclude that their OCD is correct. there are lots of self-hating terrible people out there. the crucial part is that their self-hatred is not making them into better people

dehumanization as horror is great and all but what about humanization as horror. Being forced into a role that was not made for you. Being forced to fulfill expectations that you can never achieve. Being made to exist in a society that so cruelly expects you to act in a way that is against your nature.

my number one piece of advice to you as someone who has been happily in a relationship coming up on a decade now is that someone who loves you should not make you scared to say no

maybe it is just the cat part of me but i have never felt held by someone who decided my boundaries were simply an obstacle to overcome to get what they wanted. and that can be as small as saying 'no i dont have the energy to do this today' but i have found that those who press the small defeats into you expect to do no less when it comes to things that could genuinely hurt you or kill you

as a woman in the ozempics era you HAVE to have friends who eat normally (3-4 meals a day, no girl dinner bullshit) and who are always down to going to cafes and eating burguers and fries and stuff, I cannot stress how vital for your mental health it is to have friends with whom you feel free to say you're hungry at any time and with whom you feel free to eat as much as you want

really drawn to characters who are copies of someone else and/or hollowed out inside. which could mean anything

your weird obsession with moral purity is degrading your critical thinking skills and poisoning your ability to empathize with other people btw

since this is going around again i want to clarify that this post is about cancel culture. more specifically the type of cancel culture that results in long callout posts and mass harassment and doxxing of random internet users that up until an hour ago believed you were their friend. nobody is perfect all the time. nobody is secretly evil and just waiting to show their true colors. you look at someone who has had a rough day and said something slightly misguided out of frustration and instead of reaching out it’s abandon ship immediately and anyone who doesn’t is going on a blocklist. what the hell are we doing here.

there are people in the notes asking “ok yes but how do i stop it” good news! it’s actually easier to stop than it is to perpetrate. the method is called “talk to your friends if they say something that surprises you” and “don’t participate in mass cyberbullying”. we are creating a subculture that cares more about appearing righteous than they care about learning and growing as people

reblogging a post that says “do it scared” vs actually doing it scared

[ID 1: pixel simple drawing of a bright-eyed, grinning, blushing, and sparkling creature clasping their hands cutely

2: the creature now whimpering and crying]

FUCK WITH ME

[ID: A photo of a teddy bear themed after the character Neo from the Matrix movies. The bear wears a large black trenchcoat, two belts, and black shades obscuring its eyes. Its face smiles as it reaches a paw out toward the camera. End ID.]

IN 2026 YOU CAN MAKE THAT CHARACTER

AND DON'T YOU FORGET IT!

man I love my OC that I designed I really wish I knew how to draw him

in 2026 DO NOT ask yourself whether your art is GOOD

instead ask:

and don't forget to stay silly

the year is 2026 we are moving past calling random quirky behaviours male for no fucking reason.

"men love reading the wikipedia article for something while they-" men love looking out upon a world and seeing naught but ash. ash beneath their feet, ash in their bellies, ash in front of and behind their eyes. they love it so much.