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toronto gothic: i just bought something off facebook marketplace and the guy was like “meet at the tim hortons at [intersection]” and when i got to the intersection there were 4 different tim hortonses
i can tolerate a lot of shit but i just unfollowed & blocked someone for reblogging a post shitting on midnight mass/mike flanagan. get fucked
I have just learned that Mountain Goats are NOT, in fact, actual Goats.
I have never heard of this band. I AM in fact referring to the animal.
But wait, there’s more!
but you know what IS a goat? a musk ox
WHAT
wanted to share my favorite tiktok
this has a very Vine energy and I like it
[Video ID:
There is a poster on a store wall that says ‘Halloween is here,’ but there is a line break separating ‘Halloween’ to ‘Hallo’ and ‘Ween.’
Man behind camera: Hallo! Ween is here!
The camera pans to another man who strums a small string instrument.
Other man: I am Ween
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Do you write music with the view of being politically active and delivering a message or does it just happen and the rest follows?
Not sure how this is legal 😔 We should probably have a conversation about the impact of this as a society. Take good care of yourself y’all
I gotta say, one of the greatest achievements of my 20s was that I learned (mostly) to differentiate between:
"I truly do not want to go" and
"I'm just feeling the Demand Avoidance, and I will like it once I get there."
Well, goodness, this one resonated much more than I was expecting. I mean, I get it. My mind was also blown wide open when I found out "demand avoidance" was a thing that existed, and that I'm not the only weirdo in the world who suddenly wishes it wasn't her birthday after anxiously waiting for her birthday for days.
Loads of people in the tags are asking how I do it? I feel this won't be groundbreaking advice, but here is what I have learned:
- Previous experience. Really no way around it. Now that I hit thirty, I feel like I have done enough things to know, intellectually, from experience, what will feel nice if I overcome the avoidance, and what won't.
For example, every time I go to the beach, I wake up early and would rather eat a tire than get off the bed. But I remember that every time I got up and went to the beach, I was glad I did it. So I just get up, feeling like shit, and get ready, feeling like shit, and I get to the beach and magic!! I feel great, I love the beach!! Sometimes you just gotta do itscaredfeeling kinda like shit. - Am I avoiding the thing or getting to the thing? I have a lot of demand avoidance around just, y'know, getting up, getting ready and going out the door. Universal human experience. If I notice that doing the actual thing (Swim in the pool!) sounds nice, but I'm avoiding having to rally myself to go do that (Fetch swimsuit! Sunscreen! Towel!), then I know it's demand avoidance and I should just fucking go.
- Is the thing making me feel excited at all or just anxious? I have had previous occasions when I did the opposite; I convinced myself it was just demand avoidance when I really just. Hated the thing. And wanted to stop. If you feel a mix of excitement and dread, or excitement and anxiety, that might be demand avoidance. But if thinking of doing the thing just makes you feel actively anxious, then yeah. You don't want to do the thing.
- Do the thing a little bit. Used often with dishes. I've seen this advice float around Tumblr a lot and it's correct. Commit to doing just a bit of the thing; a little bit of the thing; the smallest bit of the thing you can do. Getting started will make it clear right away if you don't want to do it (and in that case, you have permission to stop), or if you just having trouble getting started.
Do you ever write out a multi-paragraph rebuttal to something and then think "actually I do not want to get involved in this" and close it
All the time. It’s like letting the release valve go on a pressure cooker - I said my piece, got it out of my head, and then decided to save future me the headache of dealing with the fallout.
cory stans were screaming crying throwing up about how it would be a win for misogyny if their king went home since he’s “the only unproblematic man in the house” as if he wouldn’t be leaving next to a REAL ACTUAL WOMAN, only for his oblivious ass to pivot from wanting to target cam next week to wanting to target meme, felicia, or cirie… incredible just incredible
Senator Feinstein's team have announced that, regardless of her passing, it will not impact her job performance and she will not be stepping down.
