I love this so much, I’m gonna start saying “nuts” we need to bring it back
I love b&w proper ladies breaking character with “sonofabitch”
“OHH you’re following me, oUUhhh I didn’t know that!”
“And tried to uh…. ….NUTS!”
larian please hire me, I wanna draw full issue ;u;
Roberto Cavalli Fall 2007
Favourite Designs: Minna ‘Silver Sequins’ Haute Couture Gowns
(Warning: Even though the garments are gorgeous to look at, the shape of the mannequin is an inaccurate, unrealistic and unhealthy depiction of the female form)
Say hello to mechanically separated chicken. It’s what all fast-food chicken is made from—things like chicken nuggets and patties. Also, the processed frozen chicken in the stores is made from it. Basically, the entire chicken is smashed and pressed through a sieve—bones, eyes, guts, and all. it comes out looking like this. There’s more: because it’s crawling with bacteria, it will be washed with ammonia, soaked in it, actually. Then, because it tastes gross, it will be reflavored artificially. Then, because it is weirdly pink, it will be dyed with artificial color. But, hey, at least it tastes good, right? High five, America!
oh my god
bitch that’s the tubby custard machine
date of origin: 2012
A classic
A lot of the time when people give advice intended to relieve anxiety, they suggest doing “relaxing” things like drawing, painting, knitting, taking a bubble bath, coloring in one of those zen coloring books, or watching glitter settle to the bottom of a jar.
This advice is always well-intentioned, and I’m not here to diss people who either give it or who benefit from it. But it has never, ever done shit for me, and this is because it goes about resolving anxiety in the completely wrong way.
THE WORST THING YOU CAN DO when suffering from anxiety is to do a “relaxing” thing that just enables your mind to dwell and obsess more on the thing that’s bothering you. You need to ESCAPE from the dwelling and the obsession in order to experience relief.
You can drive to a quiet farm, drive to the beach, drive to a park, or anywhere else, but as someone who has tried it all many, many times, trust me–it’s a waste of gas. You will just end up still sad and stressed, only with sand on your butt. You can’t physically escape your sadness. Your sadness is inside of you. To escape, you need to give your brain something to play with for a while until you can approach the issue with a healthier frame of mind.
People who have anxiety do not need more time to contemplate, because we will use it to contemplate how much we suck.
In fact, you could say that’s what anxiety is–hyper-contemplating. When we let our minds run free, they run straight into the thorn bushes. Our minds are already running, and they need to be controlled. They need to be given something to do, or they’ll destroy everything, just like an overactive husky dog ripping up all the furniture.
Therefore, I present to you:
–Go on a walk
–Watch a sunset, watch fish in an aquarium, watch glitter, etc.
–Go anywhere where the main activity is sitting and watching
–Draw, color, do anything that occupies the hands and not the mind
–Do yoga, jog, go fishing, or anything that lets you mentally drift
–Do literally ANYTHING that gives you great amounts of mental space to obsess and dwell on things.
–Do a crossword puzzle, Sudoku, or any other mind teaser game. Crosswords are the best.
–Write something. It doesn’t have to be a masterpiece. Write the Top 10 Best Restaurants in My City. Rank celebrities according to Best Smile. Write some dumb Legolas fanfiction and rip it up when you’re done. It’s not for publication, it’s a relief exercise that only you will see.
–Read something, watch TV, or watch a movie–as long as it’s engrossing. Don’t watch anything which you can run as background noise (like, off the top of my head, Say Yes to The Dress.) As weird as it seems, American Horror Story actually helps me a lot, because it sucks me in.
–Masturbate. Yes, I’m serious. Your mind has to concentrate on the mini-movie it’s running. It can’t run Sexy Titillating Things and All The Things That are Bothering Me at the same time. (…I hope. If it can, then…ignore this one.)
–Do math problems—literally, google “algebra problems worksheet” and solve them. If you haven’t done math since 7th grade this will really help you. I don’t mean with math, I mean with the anxiety.
–Play a game or a sport with someone that requires great mental concentration. Working with 5 people to get a ball over a net is a challenge which will require your brain to turn off the Sadness Channel.
–Play a video game, as long as it’s not something like candy crush or Tetris that’s mindless.
–List the capitals of all the U.S. states
–List the capitals of all the European countries
–List all the shapes you can see. Or all the colors.
–List all the blonde celebrities you can think of.
–Pull up a random block of text and count all the As in it, or Es or whatever.
Now obviously, I am not a doctor. I am just an anxious person who has tried almost everything to help myself. I’ve finally realized that the stuff people recommend never works because this is a disorder that thrives on free time and free mental space. When I do the stuff I listed above, I can breathe again. And I hope it helps someone here too.
(Now this shouldn’t have to be said but if the “do nots” work for you then by all means do them. They’ve just never worked for me.)
This would’ve been great an hour ago
This is good advice for anxious peeps and peeps with anxious friends. Seems obvious now but I hadn’t thought about it this way before.
I’m about to sound like an ad but I’ve found that using duolingo is actually really useful too, I mean, i know not everyone finds it to be enjoyable/something they can do for longer than five minutes but it requires me to think and I am also doing something which I can’t get bored of fast
Sudoku is also good as mentioned above and for reading, you should read something you really like because I always feel bad if I space out when reading my fav books because I missed a moment I really like, so get your fav book and read it because it is very affective (for me at least)
Try learning a new skill, if I’m feeling anxious, I will try to do something (like type) with my left hand because it’s not dominant, this requires me to actually focus on using my left hand so I don’t have thinking space + I am making my left hand more useful which is always good, if you have shit sight like me, try reading with one of your eyes closed, you’re helping your vision improve and distracting yourself because this is seriously difficult if you have bad vision
And colouring can be something that you have to focus on, it depends on the person really, but I find trying to colour within really small lines is really helpful because it requires a lot of focus, drawing complex things is also good, for ppl who don’t draw regularly too
Memorising things can also work, find something, like equations for example, and memorise them
Obvs, not going to help every single person because different things work for different people but still useful
Also!! Studying but studying things you care about, I can spend ages learning all of the synonyms for some random word, Wikipedia or name sites are especially good for this purpose
Try changing your handwriting if you don’t like it, I have slowly changed the way I write letters and it requires a lot of focus because you will automatically write them so you have to stop and force your hand to learn how to write in a new way, I also write or read in Cyrillic because I’m not very good at it, so if you have a way of writing or reading you’re not very good at, you can practise that too
I find strategy/tactics games like Fire Emblem to be best, particularly bc i’m a strict planner/micromanager so even the “boring” parts like inventory management and reclassing distract me completely and totally from my anxiety.
Anyway, I feel like this completely 100% accurate description of anxiety needs to be reiterated:
the girlz are hanging out
It’s not that bad. Think of all the goblins you killed. True. That was fun.
thanatos gets a thank you-smooch ♥
“Before the fixes, let’s share something you’ve created yourselves (this is your own fault) through your choices in character creation. We took the most popular choices in character creation, and recreated this. We thought our analytics system wasn’t working! We checked. It is.
Congratulations, you’ve basically made the default Vault Dweller. What the hell guys. We gave you demon eyes, horns, and even tails. We are sorely disappointed. Go crazy. We worked hard on this!”
I’m dyin’, can you imagine the poor devs at Larian being excited to see what people were making and they get this.
Apilat Wedding ‘Time To Shine’ collection
I tell you, on a day like this, I’d just sit on my porch, pick away at my six-string.
Happy Birthday, Joel. — September 26
The unsundered, Commission for @illegiblewords 🤗
