Storm (they/he)

My friends do not think I’m annoying

My friends aren’t talking about me behind my back

my friends love me and care about me

OP turned reblogs off but as someone with a crazy wicked scar that's been called "body horror" a few times, I really wanted this on my blog

if you put potatoes in your medieval european style fantasy world people will by and large not find it jarring and accept it as a normal fantasy trope

if you put, say, black people in your medieval european style fantasy world a whole demographic of people will get very angry and accuse you of breaking their immersion

Write your own chats. Nobody has to read them—they can be just for you.

Write x reader/self insert fanfiction.

Read x reader/self insert fanfiction.

Read a book.

Create OC's.

Make a list of all the reasons you don't want to use AI anymore and keep it on hand to remind yourself why you want to stop using the bots. (for example: it narrows my interests. It steals my time. It makes me depressed if I'm not using it. It dulls my creativity. It's harming the enviroment. It's making millionaires even richer, ect.)

Listen to roleplay ASMR.

Find websites to roleplay with other human people, or find some friends to play DnD and other RPGs with.

Watch a youtube video on the dangers and pitfalls of generative AI. I recommend iceberg videos especially.

Delete the chats. Delete your account.

Talk to family and friends or a therapist about it and try not to feel too ashamed.

My understanding is that addiction is not your fault. Using AI hijacks your brain in the same way that any other addiction does: it gets you hooked on the dopamine rush.

Eventually, our brain stops producing dopamine naturally because it has learned to rely on the chat bots to signal when it's time to release the feel good chemicals. This means the only time we are triggering our dopamine response is when we use AI. We start feeling that AI is the only thing that brings us pleasure, so when we aren't chatting to the bots we can feel anxious and disregulated.

This disregulation craves the dopamine rush to feel better, and we know we feel good when we use AI. That right there is the vicious cycle that we get stuck in.

We are doing something. We’re rejecting allonormative ideals and that’s a massive thing to do. We’re actively fighting not just to help other aspecs, but to help everyone, because amatonormativity (and allonormativity as a whole) hurt everyone. Single people who want to find a partner but can’t also deserve to be able to exist.

There are so many issues with the expectation of marriage, including:

A single income isn't enough to get by anymore

Having a spouse is almost necessary under the current medical system

Society shames and pressures people who are single to get into relationships constantly

Rejecting allonormativity means fighting against these things that hurt everyone.

If you are getting gender affirming surgery, especially if it’s your first major surgery, PLEASE be aware that you can become SEVERELY depressed afterwards ESPECIALLY if you have a history of depression or suicidal ideation.

Post op depression is a natural reaction to the crazy mix of hormones your body goes through after major surgery as well as the stress and anxiety of recovery. Think of it like an adrenaline crash, but dragged out longer.

For me it kicked in about 6 weeks after top surgery and the worst of it lasted until about 10 weeks post op. EVERYTHING felt IMPOSSIBLE. None of the skills I’d been practicing worked. I thought everything was going to be bad forever. I didn’t attempt, but I was in the hospital. If it wasn’t for my support system I probably would have attempted.

This is not regret, but it can feel like it. I remain happy about my results to this day (going on six years later).

This is not you failing to maintain your mental health, but it can make you feel like a failure.

Things are not hopeless, but through the haze of this depression they can feel hopeless.

It can be terrifyingly sudden or it can sneak up on you. I didn’t even realize what was going on until after the depression finally passed and my mental health went back to normal.

I am writing this post because nobody told me about this before my top surgery. I was caught completely off guard. For my subsequent surgeries being aware has made all the difference. Being able to treat those symptoms as an expected and normal part of the healing journey has made them far easier to deal with. Because even when my emotions go to dark places I *know* they will pass. I have been able to tell the bad thoughts to take a bad seat and focus on healing.

"With genetic test results back from U.C. Davis Laboratories of toe-hair samples from each side of his body, I am excited to share that this sheep

🌟 IS INDEED a CHIMERA 🌟

His black mouflon side is a genetically different individual from his black gray side. The lab ran the test twice just to be sure!

Oh but wait, THERE IS MORE!

He is ALSO a she!

The black mouflon side is male.

The black gray side is female!

What I can tell you beyond these test results, is that this beautiful creature successfully bred four solid patterned ewes this winter that produced a total of 9 lambs, of which all were either solid pattern or mouflon pattern; 5 rams and 4 ewes. "

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“WHAT THE FUCK STAY AWAY FROM THE ROCKS.”