The cake is a lie, there is only passion

“But it’s confusing!” If you take the time to educate yourself it’ll no longer be confusing. Otherwise you’re just gonna have to learn to be ok with being confused.

“But it’s weird!” You probably do weird things all the time. Everyone does weird things sometimes. Life goes on.

“But it scares me!” Is it hurting you? No? You’ll be fine. Being scared and being harmed are not always the same thing. Learn to tell the difference and then act accordingly.

"But it makes me uncomfortable!" The world is an uncomfortable place and complete strangers are not required to fix that for you. Learning to endure harmless discomfort is a life skill for existing in public.

"But I don't like it!" There's plenty of things in the world and not all of them are fun or enjoyable or For You. This applies to everyone and we all have to deal with that in a mature fashion.

“A classic. Congratulations.”

“If my soul leaves my body, this spell will keep it around and lucid enough to magic myself back together.”

“Effective. Next?”

“My spell feeds off the life force of microscopic things! When bacteria die near me, it adds to my total. Wiping down the sink with antibacterial cleaner gives me SUCH a buzz; I think I may have to dial it down a bit.”

“I see it also gave you… ah…”

“Massive dobonhonkeroos?”

“I was trying to find a more diplomatic way to bring it up.”

“An unexpected side effect, but not an unwelcome one.”

“Shall I assume it’s she/her from here on out, then?”

find a more diplomatic

way to bring it up.”

wasn't planning to go more into detail on this, but I wanna touch on this tag real quick. Having done OCD advocacy work and some partnerships with mental health organizations, I've personally found that deciding whether something is "normal" is ultimately unhelpful (for many, at least) in figuring out your needs.

OCD is normal in that it effects hundreds of millions of people globally —making OCD about as common as having red hair.

Your intrusive thoughts are normal. Whether they're focused on morality, cleanliness, disease, sexuality, unreality—and yes, even the more stigmatized obsessions about sex and violence.

Everyone experiences intrusive thoughts. ("What if I drove my car off the road right now?" "What if I jumped off this balcony?" "What if I yelled a curse word really loud in this meeting for no reason?")

Not everyone gets stuck in cycles of obsession and compulsions. If you get stuck in these cycles, it's worth looking into OCD and how OCD treatment may benefit you.

But don't ask yourself whether you're "normal." You are. Ask yourself instead whether you're struggling. Whether you're in pain. Whether the way you think and feel harms you and whether changing the way you think and feel might help you.

Anyway, if you know me at all you already know I'm gonna recommend checking out MadeofMillions and their info on OCD for further reading. Okay I love you good luck <3

Absolutely enamoured with this snail mug I got yesterday....

Discovered last year I couldn’t look at my 2015 MacBook Air without it triggering nausea and migraines, and figured the screen died. Have been getting by on my phone, but concluded I really need a laptop again.

Saved up, realised I could afford a brand new MacBook Neo, and got one.

-And I couldn’t spend more than five minutes looking at the screen without massive eye strain, nausea, vertigo, and if I pushed it, I-need-to-lie-down-in-a-dark-room-for-hours migraines.

Looking up MacBook and Eyestrain explained what is going on. The liquid retina displays that Apple currently has uses Pulse Width Modulation or PWM. In order to give the screens a deeper depth of colour and contrast, PWM flickers between several hundred to thousand times a second.

And there is currently no way to turn it off. There are settings and apps to reduce it, but there is no way to stop the screen from flickering. Checked Apple forums, called Apple Support, and the time I could look at the screen kept shrinking. Got the laptop Tuesday, returned it Friday, today is Sunday and I’m still dealing with a vertigo migraine.

For MacBooks, it seems to vary on the computer model and the software it uses. In retrospect, the issue with my MacBook Air started after a major software update.

And it’s not just an Apple thing. Current Windows and Android screens do the same thing. There’s even a Reddit for people who are sensitive to PWM flickers to help find computers and screens that won’t trigger eyestrain and headaches.

So, yeah. This week has been a learning experience. But for those who are prone to headaches and migraines, this may be something to be aware of, cause I was not.