Crazy=Genius

[Image 1: A Screenshot of an invitation to a Facebook group named: “A group where we all pretend to be ants in an ant colony.” Under that is a post in the group that reads: “We reached the center of the Earth. Now what?” Four people commented saying one word each in this order: scurry, dig, work, melt. These words are in capital letters and have spaces between each letter.]

[Image 2: Another Screenshot of a post in the group that reads: “It has come to my attention that when we put the spaces in-between letters it makes it difficult for visually impaired ants to know what we’re saying and so I was wondering if we could try to make this group more accessible for them. (The text to voice can’t figure out what we are saying with the spaces) (Picture of an ant for attention)” This text is then followed by a close up picture of an ant.]

[Image 3: A screenshot of some comments on the post in Image 2. Five people commented: adapt, adapt, inclusion, love adapt, adapt. These words are in capital letters and have no spaces between the letters.]

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Hope others will join me in celebrating by remembering their favorite Marisha moments.

I’ll start! 

When her liveshow outfits gave the gays everything they wanted

“I….wait.”

“You’ve never heard of boulder, parchment, shears?” 

That time she came onto Talks just to lie down and take a nap

Her Vex impression during the Honey Heists

Her Marlon Brando impression during the Honey Heists

wearing her most flammable pants to the fire-spinning episode of AWNP

“Don’t worry guys, it’s going out. Slowly but surely -” “THERE IS SMOKE IN THE HALLWAY”

Hazel Copperpot’s extria sylliables!

Honestly everything about the Honey Heists, those are my go-to when I’m sad

All of her descriptions of Beau doing cool monk shit

Keyleth being Maid-of-Honor-zilla during the wedding oneshot

Keyleth using control weather to move the storm out of the way when VM were on an airship, and Marisha’s description of it

And the ever iconic fall after successfully casting Feeblemind

Self-deprecation isn’t a healthy coping mechanism. Coping mechanism? Yes. Healthy? Absolutely not. Saying bad things about yourself seems harmless or even good in the moment but if you do it enough you will reinforce negative beliefs about yourself and the world around you. Say “I’m the worst” enough times and you will believe you’re the worst. Say “everything sucks I should just die lol” enough times and you will come to believe that too. 

I’m not pulling this shit out of my ass either, by the way, this is coming direct from when i was an outpatient at a psychiatric hospital, way back when i did this EXACT THING CONSTANTLY and ended up suicidal. This is what I was taught there, and this is how I dragged myself out.

The best way to combat this (very unhealthy) coping mechanism is really just to force yourself to say good things about yourself, and shut down the bad ones. It feels stupid, it feels like you’re lying, it feels like it will never work. But over time, if you keep at it, and with the help of friends, the new words will replace the old ones.  If you replace “i’m terrible” with “I’ve made a mistake, but that doesn’t make me a bad person” that is what you will come to believe, and make it 1000% easier to actually fix the problem because you won’t be bogged down with self-hatred. 

They cheered for the baby and booed everyone else. This is the greatest thing