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The key to writing good fanfiction is to harbor a deeply humiliating desire, and the trick there is that even pretty basic and societally-accepted desires like “being held” and “being wanted” CAN and WILL be humiliating if they’re intense enough. Become so estranged from human connection that the idea of someone playing with your hair fills you with yearning so deep you feel like you’re going to throw up and you will write some banger fanfiction. It might have some other consequences too but idrk about that.

they should invent a headache that goes away the second you drink any water at all

one of the best pieces of advice I've ever heard (for myself, at least) is that if you're in a terrible mood and NOTHING is helping, then start doing the chores/responsibilities/job stuff/etc that you've been putting off. Will it put you in an even worse mood temporarily? Probably, but you're already pissed off, so you might as well double up on it at that point 😭 there's no loss. It's not like finally getting around to cleaning the house and scheduling appointments is going to ruin the good day that you aren't currently having to begin with 💀 And then, when the bad mood passes, you'll have gotten shit done and you'll feel a lot better later, even if in the moment you're having The Worst Time Ever about it.

DUDE NO FORREAL ACTUALLY I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH. This is one of the few things that works SUPER WELL for me. Years ago one of my friends was talking to me and they were in a real bad mood. Then mentioned they were gonna do something productive and sink themselves into their work so at least something good can come of that time they otherwise would have spent in quiet misery. I internalized that and started practicing that on my own. Now, whenever I'm doing REALLY rough, I'll try to turn that into productivity. It's REALLY effective when I work on commissions, because that work gets me closer to being done regardless. Not only does it help get my mind off of whatever's ailing me (at least to some degrees), it means I made a net positive out of a bad situation. I can look back and feel ANY kind of positive emotion instead of it being completely terrible, and it's less work I have to do when I'm in a better mood. Win win.

they are replacing penis and vagina with 2 new species of terrible awful birds

riding the highest horse you’ve ever seen back to my glass house

my older brother is autistic about politics and my younger sister is autistic about batman and my youngest sibling is autistic about specbio. and me? i am employed

did you know avoidance only makes all of your problems worse. no one has ever discovered this before

I've suspected this for a long time but I usually try not to think about it

gambling with angels is easy. they can't lie but they have addictive personalities; it's easy to clean them out then make them divulge secrets about the business of heaven to call your bets. my dad used to say "hey, watch this" and summon angels to play poker with him with a sort of bone flute he inherited from his grandpa, and they'd be holding horseshit and still want to call him. i'm talking "raise on a two pair" level bad at it, but they couldn't stop trying to win. my dad taught me all the secret names of God before i was out of grade school and i would use them to curse my enemies so they came down with leprosy. you can cure leprosy these days but it still sucks, especially for a child. but they had it coming for pissing me off

im at the age where ive started checking the material composition of clothes