Caffeine is for the weak And Im Weak

"I don't need you to soothe me, Susan. I'm not a child."

"Good," she said seriously. "I'm not a nanny. I personally like to avoid most children, since they're rude, ill-mannered, and usually smell like freaky kinds of juice and mixed fruit." She frowned as those words struck her with a bit of humor. "Wait a second, given all that, you DO remind me of a child."

- Dark Side of the Moon by Sherrilyn Kenyon

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Throwback thursday to when I was like 12 and I was putting out new writing DAILY...... Like entire Chapters of my then-current wips just, over an afternoon. What the fuck was I on

Nobody:

Me, age 12, just started drinking coffee:

I drew 14 pictures during the day, and wrote 32 pages a night. Now I can’t do shit.

A huge part of this is because you've gotten better! And now, when you're drawing/writing/doing whatever creative task, you're not just mindlessly throwing thoughts at your paper, you're thinking as you do it. Children can churn out a lot more work because it's not yet refined, but when you're older and have more practice, you work with all these thoughts running through your head about form and shape, color palettes or word choice. Now, you're making a dozen decisions with every moment of work, and you're also questioning the decisions you've just made, wondering if you can do it better. Don't beat yourself up about producing less work now than you did back then, because every sentence or shape involves a lot more effort for you now, than it did when you were ten and brand new to this hobby.

Also you have a job now and the never-ending bullshit that is laundry and dishes and feeding yourself.

"Dicks and bricks should never mix" - Kings of Lockdown by Caroline Peckham

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just in case y’all would like More Neil Gaiman, his Masterclass on writing is available on Hoopla (the library app!). So if your library uses Hoopla for their ebooks/shows/movies, it should be available to you.

Hoopla is a free app, you’ll just need your library log in information once you sign up for an account. Your library’s website will say if they use Hoopla or another app.

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE S01E05.  “A Vile Hunger for Your Hammering Heart”

there is something so darkly comical about tumblr potentially outliving twitter

tumblr, which is held together with duct tape and madness, run by three raccoons in blood stained Yahoo! hats and a handful of crabs, its only discernible source of income the sale of shoelaces from an inside joke so inside no one knows the original source anymore and fake blue checkmarks... that website still lives on

truly the cockroach of social media and I love it for that

#SpaceKaren broke me

I’m going to be very open with everybody about this: I’ve been to four treatment centers, I think when I started hitting my early twenties is when it started to get really dark, when I started to feel like I was not in control of what I was feeling, whether that was really great or really bad. It would start with depression, then it would go into isolation. Then it just was me not being able to move from my bed. I didn’t want anyone to talk to me. My friends would bring me food because they love me, but none of us knew what it was. Sometimes it was weeks I’d be in bed, to where even walking downstairs would get me out of breath. I thought the world would be better if I wasn’t there. - Selena Gomez for Rolling Stone.

I've seen a lot of posts welcoming new Tumblr users, but I haven't seen any welcoming old users BACK. So, if you're returning, here's some fun new stuff Tumblr has added. Some of this may be desktop only right now, but Tumblr has been very good about migrating features to mobile without too much delay. I'm also primarily a desktop user, so some buttons may be in different spots on mobile.

That's all I can think of. Everyone else is free to add to this!

This might be the big one, y'all

preserving this video at all costs to teach future generations what twitter was like

EDIT: About a billion people asked me where they can buy the soundtrack to this. I love you guys + I'm so glad you like my silly music. Working on a bandcamp ep with bonus stuff ASAP

The secret to a peaceful tumblr experience is that every once in a while you gotta be deeply fucking cringe on main so only the strong will keep following you.

all the new fuckers: don’t censor words in ur post with numbers, @ and punctuation signs, different letters, shit like that. not just cuz it’s absolutely fine to say weird shit and things that other places generally censor on tumblr, but also cuz there are people with screen readers, and when u unnecessarily censor things like that, it really fucks with screen readers and makes it very difficult to read.

this isn’t just a “you don’t have to” thing, it’s a “you shouldn’t”.

also it makes the blacklist function useless

pretend the word "bananas" is a common trigger and i don't want to see posts with that word, so i add it to my blacklist. if you make posts spelling it "b4n@n4$", my blacklist won't block it and i will see your triggering post.

Might be controversial with the tumblr crowd but something that ive learned both as a teen on the internet, as an adult who’s done management & just worked a job, and through observation of other peoples lives and problems, if a person tells you that “EVERYBODY says (negative thing) about them and they dont know why”, “everybody” is right, and they Do know why, and those words are your cue to become involved with this person as little as possible.

When my coworker said he got fired from his last job for being late and that it was “totally unreasonable”, i wasn’t surprised when he showed up 5-15 minutes late to every shift. When one of the people i managed last summer said that when she worked her last job everyone said she wasnt a hard worker and worked too slow and she thought it was unfair and confusing, I wasn’t surprised when she had severe performance issues. When my friend told me her new boyfriend said all his exes were crazy, i wasn’t surprised when he turned out to be the crazy one. When a boy at my college said no girl would give him a chance and he didnt know why, i wasn’t surprised when he was a misogynist. When one of my friends in early high school said everyone kept abandoning them and calling them manipulative and controlling i Was surprised when they were toxic and manipulative and controlling, and i felt extreme guilt for “abandoning them” and joining a list of people who just wouldnt stick around, but i learned, and it was a lesson that stuck. I dont feel guilty anymore. I didnt abandon them, i broke off the friendship because they were a hurtful, mean person who refused to change their behavior. I learned to listen when people say what their personality flaws are. A lot of the time they’ll tell you themselves. People very rarely dip from someones life without a word- theres boundaries crossed, explanations of hurtful behavior that are ignored to shield the perpetrators emotions and ego, the reasons are never missing, they just are ignored to fit a different, self victimizing narrative.

If everybody around you has the same problem with you, the problem doesn’t lie with everyone else.

i know all about allistic people. they really love loud sudden noises and bad textures

dude it’s People With Allism

person who is trapped inside an allistic body here. i really like having no pressure on top of me and not being particularly interested in any one specific thing

you are so brave for sharing your story 💜💜💜