“the arts and sciences are completely separate fields that should be pitted against each other” the overlap of the arts and sciences make up our entire perceivable reality they r fucking on the couch

Some helpful phrases I think when I’m starting to spiral:

• I am not my intrusive thoughts.
• This is not an emergency. I can slow down and think about what my next step is.
• I’ve been through similar circumstances before and survived. I’m going to be okay.
• I won’t argue with irrational thoughts.
• It’s okay that I’m having these thoughts. I don’t need to act on them.
• I am capable of getting through this.

I find a lot of these helpful for when I’m having urges too.

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To all who struggled in 2024 but made it through - I'm proud of you!

May 2025 be full of the joys and successes you felt deprived of in '24, and then so much more.

hate when people are like "trust your gut! listen to your intuition!" like okay well my gut is telling me every person i lay eyes on is hunting me for sport and my intuition is saying i should find a secluded cave and live there forever so what do you suggest i do with that information

(Semi-serious answer to joke post incoming) If your gut is sending you endless “UNSAFE!” signals in a situation your logic brain knows is safe, then you trust it by kind of treating it like a conversation with a screaming parrot.

Like going “ok, Gut, what feels unsafe?” And it’ll say “PEOPLE IN THE GROCERY STORE”

and you go, “huh, ok. People in the grocery store aren’t usually dangerous…what makes them scary in the grocery store?” And it’ll go “LOUD AND RUSHED AND BUSY”

and you go “ok, people in the grocery store are probably not dangerous but they’re loud and rushed and busy. Loud and rushed and busy makes me feel stressed. How about we wear earplugs to make it less noisy and go at a less busy time of day?”

And then sometimes you try that and your gut goes “HMMM GROCERY STORE SAFER?” And you go, “yes, grocery store safer.”

Your gut isn’t necessarily correct that the SITUATION is unsafe but it’s usually right that your body/brain FEELS unsafe in the situation. You can trust it by approaching it with curiosity and usually learn something.

From somebody with an anxiety disorder. I spend a lot of time doing this. It feels like you're basically trying to calm down a neurotic chihuahua.

animals are so right about nuzzling your face into things

any computer people wanna explain how the hell this works

it wont let me do shit bc i apparently have 81 gigs of apps clogging my c drive, but my largest app is 0.4gb?????? its not system applications either because system is its own segment of storage. wadda hell are you talking about

guys i installed a program to show me exactly where the data is hidden and i think i found it and youre never gonna believe it

todd howard im fucking coming for you

"thank you random microsoft customer support agent" we all say in unison

hearing the words “you have no idea how long I’ve waited to do this” in a moment when you’re about to share an incredibly intimate and physically affectionate experience with someone drives me absolutely crazy. Like... just thinking about the amount of pining, the absolute torture that person must’ve went through while knowing they couldn’t have you. Thinking about all the times they’ve wanted to kiss you, to touch you, their heart racing from the lightest brush of your hand. Idk man... that line really gets me... being wanted so badly for such a long period of time and finally getting to heal the heart ache that that character/person is feeling? Perfection. Sublime line that people should not stop using in life, in writing, in anything.