Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

i gotta admit, homestuck as a thing only for kiddos does baffle me slightly, mostly because the story format is a send-up of old text adventure games, which is a genre that has not been in the popular public imagination for a hot goddamn minute. a twelve year old doesn't know what zork is, lol. i *barely* do and i'm 30.

i mean, i still personally find homestuck odious, overgrown, and needing a machete taken to it for a ruthless edit to be readable, but i'm not sure why it's kiddie fodder.

@InspectorCaracal man i should really give mccaffrey another chance

pern on paper seems like My Shit but for some reason whenever i've tried to read it, it's always been like gnawing on concrete.

i will say tho that if you've never read Black Horses For The King, it's the one book of hers that i genuinely really enjoy, and well-recommended

-cerave and cetaphil are both wretched and awful things you shouldn't bother to put on your face.

-vegan cosmetics might not actually be a good ideal and i'd rather have crushed up bugs than "we can only say this is a pressed pigment bc it's not actually approved for use on eyes"

-hormonal birth control is going to be something looked at in 80 years as "i can't believe they'd be so stupid and inhumane"

@BabaIsBot

ok have an old picture of hollydog and then goodnight, fediverse

(this is the "you had cookies and didn't give me any >:(" glare)

the whole occasional rancid fart thing i'm calling a draw, since i'm sure i dutch oven her plenty since she sleeps under the covers

my dog's one fault is that she loves me mostly because i have cookies

but i forgive her.

there are so many good dogs in okami top game

the only way it could be better is if you could pet the dogs but you are a dog so that is a pretty good reason why you can't pet them.

i do wish there was a "demand pets and belly rubs" command for just going up to human npcs and whining

there's only so many times you can realize you're most of the way to having natural drill curls before you just accept that it's destiny and order some motherfuckin tiaras

me, gazing at this one curl i have that always wants to be perfectly formed:

i didn't choose the hime life.......... the hime life chose me

@monorail tbh the more i sort of observe this all going on, i'm pretty sure the dude is just the resident missing stair

"oh he's just like that, ignore him" is a test for 'are you cool enough to hang with us' at this point. doing anything about it is not something worth consideration. the onus is on everyone else to learn where the missing stair is, apparently, lol

@mwlucas @June@kitty.town well, yes, and also needs to know the source of the confusion. therapy is, after all, a partnership - a back and forth - a dialog. if you're unhappy with your therapist, i encourage you to go find another that you are more comfortable with, so that you feel empowered to ask your therapist things like "could you be more specific". you are, after all, paying them. i'm just a rando shmuck on the internet who jumped in with perhaps-topical advice to a stranger. v:

@mwlucas @June@kitty.town however, this will probably not help the therapy to get anywhere, as the point of this exercise is more or less to link emotional hurt to the physical self so that we can recognize the physical symptoms, often to head off a bigger emotional snowball to come hit our heads clean off our shoulders.

e.g., "boy, my shoulders are tight. am i feeling anxious? what's making me anxious? hmm. i should do some self-care."

@June@kitty.town (breathing high/low, well, you can learn that from practicing belly breathing which is a really useful anti-anxiety thing. but honestly i learned it from wearing corsets LMAO. when you have steel boning underbust on down, you learn immediately that to breathe, you gotta fill in air around the titties and not in the belly lol.)

@June@kitty.town tbh some of this shit is really easy to miss because it all blurs together. it's like the body gives us so much input that at some point out of necessity, we just get the cliff's notes.

for me what really made it Fuckin Obvious was the fibromyalgia lol, but i know before that, guided full-body relaxation helped me kinda get my bearings. (because how often do you really get the chance to sit there and think 'relax your jaw', right?)

@June@kitty.town oh i might be able to actually help with this

think of anger as like tension or tightness. if you don't know where to get your bearings, maybe do a little checklist. are you breathing quick? is your stomach feeling fluttery or like you've got heartburn? are you clenching your teeth? are your shoulders tight? are you scowling and making your face bunch up with knitted eyebrows? are you breathing 'high', more near your throat, or 'low', in your belly?

objects that exist in liminal space, prone to sliding out of reality:

-chapsticks

-the other sock in a pair

-nail clippers/nail files

-the lipstick that you really want to wear today but has fucked off into the lands hidden at the bottom of your purse and may return someday, laden with gold and spices, if you hold hope steadfast in your heart

-top of a tupperware container

@Jessicacrets@mastodon.xyz i say public specifically for two reasons - one, it shows people moderating is getting done. two, it lets people he's rallying around him to come pat his ass for a dick move that such things aren't a fun escapade to not feel bad about in the least, but are instead contradictory to the culture the instance is trying to make.

the latter bit there is, i think, what's getting folks - since, again, i'm reading that for many instance admins this is not the first bs from r.t.