reimu is incredibly cute. let's all take a moment and remember this very important fact

Linkle sets up a sign that says "Advice: 5 Rupees". Then she sits at a booth.

Hey, you're blonde! How do I get soot stains out of blonde hair, preferably while keeping the hair attached to Alice's head?

"Dish Soap does it. Most name brands. If there are still stains, try massaging shampoo deep. Typically should take care of it. If you got braids like mine, gotta undo them. I deal with fire at times."

Thanks!

See, Alice? I always fix most, if not some, of my mistakes. Now where do you keep the washing-up liquid?...

Linkle sets up a sign that says "Advice: 5 Rupees". Then she sits at a booth.

Hey, you're blonde! How do I get soot stains out of blonde hair, preferably while keeping the hair attached to Alice's head?

hi, best tits– oh sorry i mean bestie

Are there any suggestion blogs active anymore?

I got bored of it after a bit, but I keep it around.

Nope, no suggestion blogs over here. Have you tried looking in Reimu’s cellar?

Exercising every day is good for you. I mix things up by exercising my arms, exercising my legs, exercising Reimu’s patience, exercising Alice’s patience, and running five miles away from them both.

@twilitlloyd For Patchouli, running two hundred and fifty metres will do. There’s no use running from Sakuya, though, so I run towards her and whatever happens, happens.

So, Sumireko showed me this video programme thingy, which is sort of like a noh play but without masks and with different stages. I kid you not: there were these people on a magic teleporting ship powered by mushrooms. BY. MUCHROOMS. And the ship’s doctor’s boyfriend had to tame an eight-legged monster who could talk to the mushrooms. Then this woman went swimming in a room full of magic mushrooms. Why did no-one tell me you could do SO MUCH with mushrooms?! I need my own mushroom-powered ship!

How very interesting. It sounds like something from a child’s mind.

Yeah, you’d think so, but was also really dark and violent… Apparently, there’s this group of bald, ugly youkai who want to take over the world, and the mushroom ship is the only thing that can stop them. The bald youkai were pretty brutal. One of them even sawed a guy in half…

Update: The bald youkai are growing their hair out again! And killing each other instead of innocent humans! And this girl with more hair than brains got transported to the Land of Mushrooms to slay an evil monster who turned out to be the doctor from before who’d been killed, which was fun. He’s better now!

Marisa, did Sumireko tell you the name of this… program?

No, she just said it was really super amazing and that I’d love it.

I’m really looking forward to series 4, where our heroes get new jumpers and go to space in the future! Sumireko’s being cryptic about it, though. She keeps saying “Admiral Vance is everyone’s dad”. How could he manage that at his age???

a fools guide to not wanting to die anymore

by me, a fool who doesnt wanna die anymore 

… 8|

That’s some pretty good advice. I don’t know what’s left of my humor after ‘guess I’ll just die’ jokes but it’s worth a shot.

Personally i went from “guess I’ll die” jokes to “IF I HAVE TO BE HERE FOR 5 MORE MINUTES I PROMISE YOU I WILL BUY JUST, AN ARRAY OF CLOTHES.” and other wild hyperbolic stuff. Just replace the death part with something ridiculous and off topic. Its very entertaining

This also works with calling myself things like stupid, worthless, trash, etc. Even if you do this jokingly to yourself, your brain still believes it, and keeps up the cycle. Seriously, I found that when I stopped saying these things about myself, even jokingly, it made a massive difference.

Here’s a tip I picked up from a friend that’s helped me a lot — replace self deprecating jokes with ironically self aggrandizing jokes

Like every time I trip and fall, instead of saying “l’m just a disaster human” I say “I’m the epitome of grace and beauty”

Or like, when I draw a picture I’m not 100% happy with, instead of saying “my art is trash” I say something like “you know I think it’s time we replaced the Mona Lisa”

When you do that you get to make a joke, but you’re ALSO getting practice building yourself up, y’know?

And eventually it becomes a reflex and you get so used to it that you can say nice stuff about yourself even when you AREN’T joking

This is so important

That self-aggrandizing technique is no joke.

I replaced “I’m stupid” with “I’m a God damn genius.” “Move over newton” “another masterpiece”

I replaced “gross/ disgusting” with “sexy/attractive” “the hight of elegance”

I replaced “I suck/ that sucked/ this is bad” with “fantastic”, “a lovely time”, “ swell/jolly good”

Replace every negative with a positive. Say it so sarcastically. Make it complicated make it entertaining have fun with it.

It will stop your self deprecating and build confidence. And people are more easygoing around you.

#a good stopgap is being neutral rather than negative/positive #when i drop smth at work i just say #ah… gravity. #and move on (tags by @whatever-you-can-give-me )

^^^ to those of you who complain that it feels weird or uncomfortable or not genuine to immediately switch to self-aggrandizement, try this instead!!! nobody on this post is kidding that it helps - you’re basically building a manual override for the mental pathways your brain is used to so you can switch those train tracks