someone: so what do you think is the solution to homelessness?
me, socialist:
Let homeless people occupy peopleless homes, build houses for use rather than exchange, 3D print comfortable houses in a day, convert corporate skyscrapers into housing and commercial malls into publicly-accessible community centers with living commons and entertainment
When you say it to people and they break
“But the money? … we can’t just? But, Money? We can’t just… help… people? Can we? The Money. We can’t just help people? Like that? We can’t just? Money?”
I love how the Addams Family has ZERO slut-shaming. Like… honey you can dance naked and enslave someone with your womanly charms if you want to, I don’t fucking care, but so help me you’re going to get a college education first.
A+ PARENTING
The Addamses are what every family should aspire to be like (you know; without the dismemberment and electric chairs as play time). Honestly, have you ever seen more unconditionally loving and supportive parents than Gomez and Morticia? And not just with the kids, but with each other. I think what’s especially unique about them is how open they are with everything. They don’t treat their children like children. They treat them like they treat everyone else; direct, and to the point.
I HAVE to reblog this…
so many shows about a family use a constant abrasion between the parents in order to bring the plot along. not the addams family, no. gomez and morticia were disgustingly in love to the point that gomez kissing up morticia’s arm to her neck is something that even people who haven’t seen the show will recognize. they have a marriage to strive for
There’s an episode of the original show where a rebellious runaway teenager crashes at their house, and is taken aback by how little they care about how he dresses or what he says, and they wind up teaching his parents how to love their son. Four for you Addamses, you go Addamses.
I really liked Edward Nigma’s transition from villain to private detective, it made a lot of sense for me.
I also really liked the fact that since giving up the crime-spree’s, Eddie actually would risk his life to save another, in this example, Angela.
He has nothing to gain from this, but he does it without hesitation. I really like that, it shows actual character and personality change for him, and doesn’t just change his profession.
I read a short story where a woman character “always looked forward to her period” because it was “a reminder of her womanness” and YES! The story WAS in fact written by a male!
*my uterus hits the self destruct button and tissue and blood begins falling out of my vagina*
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:
THINGS YOU SHOULD NOT DO WHEN ANXIOUS
–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.
THINGS YOU SHOULD DO WHEN ANXIOUS:
–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.
THINGS YOU SHOULD DO DURING PANIC ATTACKS ESPECIALLY:
–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
If your anxiety includes rapid heartbeat for no reason then it may help to exercise! It helps for me because I’m focused on whatever moves I’m doing and breathing, and it gives my heart rate a reason to be that high so that I can start the slow cooking down process and (hopefully) bring that heart rate down with it. Look up a quick cardio workout on YouTube or something and just do it in your room!
This is so, SO true.
All ‘doing something relaxing’ ever did for me was give my brain MORE free time to FREAK THE FUCK OUT.
I like how this boil down to grabbing something then tell the brains weasels to GO FETCH YOU PIECES OF SHIT
I mean.
That’s basically it tho.
Yeah… One good thing about ADHD, I guess… the brain weasels are as distractable as the rest of me 😀
Of course, sometimes they also unlock hyperfocus mode, but, eh. Could be worse.
This advice is gold.
Circuit breakers! Life-saving skills.
This is one of the reasons I find weight training so relaxing: when I’m doing a heavy bench press, I do not care about anything but the bar in my hands.
I used to recite the fibonacci sequence. The bigger numbers always made me have to focus on something other than the alarms in my head.
Revealed that villain’s schemes secretly served the greater good, somehow
Villain switches teams out of expedience; protagonists overlook the fact that they’re still a huge jerk because they now benefit from it
Context or status quo altered so that villain’s previously harmful actions become constructive and useful with no changes on their part
It turns out that villain wasn’t actually responsible for the one specific thing the protagonists are trying to stop or get revenge for; everything else they clearly did do conveniently ignored
Villain never repents or makes amends for any of the awful stuff they did, but they’re really hot, so no one cares
@editorincreeps These seem like your kind of writing prompts
Thoughts from some random writer who lives in the equivalent of tumblr’s homeless shelter.
The idea that readers owe it to the writers to reblog works they like is ridiculous.
While yes, it is undeniably nice to see a bunch of people enjoy your work, it does nothing to change the quality of that work.
If you are doing this to get noticed you are doing it for the wrong reasons.
If you are basing all of your motivation on the tepid support of a group of tumblr users you are doing this for the wrong reasons.
If you are disappointed something didn’t do as well as you wanted it to? That’s okay. If you lose motivation to write for a while because of it? That’s okay.
But if it’s to the point that you don’t want to write unless you get likes/reblogs, or you only write what gets you those likes/reblogs, you need to stop and reevaluate why you are here.
I seriously doubt the lot of you came on here to write fan fiction for the reblogs/tumblr fame. If that’s what you came to write for, I feel sorry for you. But I doubt that most of you write for that reason.
I understand that this is an issue, and that a lot of people struggle with it, but putting all the blame on readers is a little unfair. Yes they probably should be reblogging more. But remember that they owe you nothing. You are the one who decided to post your work, knowing that there is always a possibility that no one will see it/like it. They are not paying for this service any more than you are.
The casual reader is probably not going to reblog works. Speaking from experience, if they liked your fic, they’re going to give it a like, and then lock their likes from being viewed on their blog. People being ashamed of reading/writing fic is a whole different issue, but it plays in here a little bit.
I don’t want to start a single thing, and I support every writer on here whose message is asking for more support. Because I totally understand. It sucks to see something you loved writing flop. Trust me, I know the feeling.
There’s nothing wrong with wanting more recognition, or pointing out the obvious fact that reblogs do more good for the writers. I would never dispute that, nor would I ever try to go against the writers on here who are struggling with this.
But everyone here has got to understand that demanding something from a group of readers who are on here for free, most of whom are probably a little uncomfortable with the idea of reblogging a fan fiction (even if Jesus Christ himself wrote it, most people are going to squirm at the idea of people knowing they read fic, at least in my experience) demanding something from them is going to get you nowhere. It’s going to cause drama, it’s going to be a big ole thing and everyone’s gonna be flamed for a few days and then it’ll stop. Sad but true.
So don’t let it upset you. As shitty as it sounds to have a blog where little to no one reads/reblogs your work (or for some of the bigger blogs out there, a blog where the proportion of likes to reblogs is a little too slant for your liking) everybody’s gotta get to a point where they don’t care.
That’s not to say stop appreciating your readers. Appreciate those motherfuckers, because they are awesome people! But most of them are shy!!! A lot of people lurk on fics, come back every once and a while to read, but never reblog, or even like it! Love your readers, I won’t tell you not to. Care about your readers, hell, write shit for them if you so desire. They shouldn’t be your only reason, though.
Try to get to the point where your motivation, your reason for doing this, your reason for writing and posting fic is not what they think or want from it. Don’t base your creative endeavor on whether or not your fic is going to get likes, and don’t get disappointed if it doesn’t! Sometimes masterpieces go unnoticed for hundreds of years! There’s no law saying that a fic is bad or disappointing or whatever because it has no likes or reblogs. Hell, I’ve read fics with zero notes that have been goddamn epic.
That’s why basing your whole mind around notes isn’t going to help you. It’s gonna hurt like hell. Something isn’t doing as well as you thought? Oh well, at least you posted it, right? And even if it’s only a few likes, someone read it, someone enjoyed it. Sure, they didn’t reblog it, sure your work might be lost in the “shuffle” but as a person who has dug through all the fics in a tag listing before, let me just say this:
The people who need to find your fic are going to find it.
Your most important reader is you.
Don’t let the likes/reblogs get you down.
There are people out there who love your work no matter what.
all those ‘say no to drugs’ assemblies in school where WACK i never once had the pot head kids push the Devils Lettuce on me. they’d be like ‘hey u wanna smoke some of this here Blunt of Marajoouana?’ and i’d be like ‘no thanks i dont smoke’ and they’d be like ‘ok cool’ and never bother me about it again
drinkers? NO CHILL AT ALL. even into adulthood people act like i’ve slain their child when i say i am completely sober. like every single time i’ve said no to drinking some person is like ‘what about jello shots there’s barely any in it’ or they’ll leave me a solo cup of wine ‘in case you change your mind’ and when by the end of the night i haven’t had it they’re all ‘you didn’t want any?’ LIKE? YAH I SAID I DIDNT?
anti drug psa’s are fine but they gotta talk about drinking too bc never once did anyone i know who did drugs push me to do it too but everyone i tell i am sober tries to find a way to get me to drink like i said ‘i am sober but change my mind’ or smth
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