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YOU ARE THE REASON
trying on a metaphor
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Monterey Bay Aquarium
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
I'd rather be in outer space πΈ
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Misplaced Lens Cap

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Kaledo Art

Product Placement

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How is she doing this

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WE LOVE YOU PEDRO
This is actually such a huge thing for an actor to do. Like we know he is wonderful and correct about this and not afraid to say so but when was the last time an actor this famous called for a boycott of a series this popular on a network THIS BIG.
Friendly reminder how to actually use band aids on fingertips because we see people doing it wrong all the time.
Reminder?! How was I ever supposed to know this?!
Todayβs lucky ten thousand! Wait, noβ¦ Thatβs for things that are common knowledgeβ¦
With your help, we can make this reach ten thousand people! And then it will, in time, become common knowledge!
As someone who has overcome substance abuse, I find this decadeβs framing of addiction incredibly insulting.
Somewhere along the line, we decided that any repeated behavior, any source of pleasure, any coping mechanism, any habit that isnβt monk-like and productivity-optimized must be labeled an addiction. You like scrolling art before you create? Addiction. You watch comfort shows after work? Addiction. You check your phone in line at the grocery store? Addiction. You drink coffee with breakfast? Addiction. The word has been stretched so thin it barely means anything anymore, except βa behavior I personally disapprove of.β
Addiction is not βI enjoy stimulation.β It is not βI have habits.β It is not βI seek input before I produce output.β Addiction is a specific, devastating pattern of compulsion, harm, loss of control, and often self-destruction. It dismantles relationships. It corrodes trust. It hijacks the reward system so thoroughly that survival itself becomes secondary. It is not equivalent to liking Pinterest boards or needing music to focus.
When everything becomes addiction, nothing is. The language gets diluted, and with it, the gravity of what actual addiction is. People who have clawed their way out of substance abuse know the difference between compulsion and preference, between destructive dependence and deliberate engagement. Collapsing those distinctions into a trendy moral panic about βdopamineβ is not enlightened. Itβs sloppy. Unserious, even.
Thereβs also something deeply puritanical about it. The 2020s seem obsessed with pathologizing pleasure. If something feels good, it must be suspect. If it captures your attention, it must be hijacking your brain. If it isnβt explicitly productive, it must be rot. Weβve replaced older moral frameworks with neuroscience-flavored shame, but the tone is the same: you are wrong for enjoying things.
What bothers me most is how casually the word is thrown around in creative spaces. If you gather inspiration through music, images, movement, conversation, suddenly youβre βstimulus addicted.β If you canβt brute-force a novel in a silent white room with no input, you lack discipline. Never mind that many artists throughout history have relied on immersion, community, environment, and cross-media inspiration. Now itβs framed as weakness, as though the only legitimate art is produced under self-imposed sensory austerity.
This framing flattens nuance. There is a difference between avoidance and incubation. There is a difference between doomscrolling to numb out and deliberately engaging with material that fuels your imagination. There is a difference between compulsively chasing a hit and consciously choosing input that enriches your work. But nuance doesnβt trend. Alarmism does.
Thereβs also a strange individualizing move happening here. Instead of asking why people are exhausted, overstimulated, underpaid, isolated, or burnt out, we zoom in on their coping mechanisms and label them addictions. Instead of examining structural monotony, economic precarity, and social fragmentation, we scold individuals for having βbad dopamine habits.β Itβs easier to diagnose peopleβs scrolling than to confront the conditions that make endless scrolling appealing.
Calling everything an addiction also erases agency. It suggests that people are perpetually hijacked by their brains, incapable of intentional choice unless they purge all sources of easy stimulation. Thatβs not empowering. Itβs infantilizing. Adults are capable of enjoying things without being enslaved by them. Adults can have rituals, comforts, and creative processes without it being pathology.
When I hear the word βaddictionβ tossed around to describe normal human behavior, it doesnβt sound like insight. It sounds like moral grandstanding dressed up in pop psychology. And for those of us who have actually lived through the wreckage of substance abuse and fought to reclaim control, it feels like watching something serious get turned into a meme.
We deserve better language. We deserve distinctions. We deserve a culture that can tell the difference between compulsion and preference, between harm and habit, between numbing out and nourishing ourselves. Not everything that holds our attention is a disorder. Not everything pleasurable is a vice. And not everything repetitive is an addiction.
I am giving this post a FAQ (of sorts - the "Q" there is very charitable considering these are more like "whatabouts" and "gotchas" than actual questions) because it has been the bane of my online existence ever since it broke containment, and yet I don't want to disable reblogs because I still think the message is important and I want people to continue seeing it.
"But caffeine IS addictive, though!!!"
I never even said the word "caffeine" in this post. I said "coffee." Decaf exists. Don't talk to me about the trace amounts of caffeine in decaf, either, I already know about them. They are not enough for an average adult nervous system to respond to, and that's not the point anyway. The point is, yes, caffeine causes physical dependency, but so do blood pressure regulating meds, corticosteroids, and virtually everything you might get prescribed by a psychiatrist. The point is also "find me somebody who would rather end up homeless or sell their friends/family's valuables than go a couple days without a latte and then we can talk."
"But my friend/SO/family member is addicted to their phone!!! They ignore me to use it!!!"
If you're feeling ignored, that is on you to talk to them about it and set boundaries. You may also want to consider the possibility that you are boring.
"But I'M addicted to my phone. I know this because I end up using it all day and I feel happy when I'm doing it but then I feel bad later. Also, you are probably also addicted to your phone - try not using it for a week and see how you feel."
This is still not addiction. This is having trouble with task transitioning/initiation, avoiding something difficult, "FOMO", struggling to trust that other activities will have as reliable of a return on investment, missing your own emotional cues that tell you when you're getting bored, living in a society where most things require use of a phone, any combination of the above, and/or probably also some other shit I can't think of right now.
I am an app-based independent contractor and if I did that on a whim, I would wreck my finances. But that's so cool how you're apparently so concerned about my well-being!

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If youβre ever having a breakdown, just remember the wise words of the lord himself
βthereβs an ai tool for thatβ okay ?? thereβs probably an ed sheeran song for it too who gives a fuck
As a young adult, I used to think what messed me up as a kid was having completely unfiltered access to things I wasnβt ready for, like NSFW content, gore, heavy discourse, and the existence of predatory adults online. But now that Iβm older, I see it differently.
The problem wasnβt what I had access to. It was that I didnβt have access to a safe adult I could actually talk to; someone I could trust to help me without immediately cutting me off from everything and everyone. I remember getting messages from strangers on Skype. I didnβt even respond. But when my parents found out, they banned me from using it entirely. That meant losing most of my contact with friends outside of school. So what did I do? I went behind their backs. And once I was hiding, I couldnβt tell them when something actually dangerous was happening, like when I started being groomed. By the time things escalated, I was already alone with it.
I think about an episode of Scared Straight where a girl was dragged through a prison because sheβd been talking to adult men online. She wasnβt doing that because she was reckless or malicious; she was lonely. Her parents werenβt present, she was being bullied at school, and these men gave her attention, told her she was pretty, told her she mattered. She was already being harmed. And the adults in her life responded by terrorizing her. Humiliating her. Calling her a slut. Telling her she deserved it. Breaking her to pieces.
What lesson does that actually teach? Not βthis is dangerous, come to us.β It teaches: If you get hurt, we will hurt you more. Do you really think that makes her stop, or does it just make the predators look safer by comparison? They might as well have driven her straight into the jaws of those predators with torches and pitchforks. Because when every path back to safety is lined with punishment, kids donβt run away from danger. They run deeper into it.
If you want kids to be safe, stop treating them like problems to control and start treating them like people worth protecting. Stop ripping away their autonomy the second they make a mistake or encounter something risky. Stop teaching them that honesty will cost them everything.
Be the person they can come to without fear of losing their entire world. Because safety isnβt built through control, itβs built through trust. And if you arenβt safe for them to tell the truth to, then you arenβt keeping them safe at all.
like to charge, reblog to cast.
Just got off a whole day on a bus to check the world's most beautiful pictures of the Moon and Trump threatening genocide upon a whole civilization
oh carlitos we're really on it now

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things to say after fucking up egregiously
pack it up boys we've made a social blunder
let's run that again
one more time normal style
I'm going to become a statistic
further proof god is out to get me
it's because I tore my acl senior year
I couldn't do it for religious reasons
my ex took my talent in the divorce
good thing nobody saw that (said directly to someone who definitely saw it)
the problem with personality tests and other similar quizzes is that they assume you know things about yourself. Which is simply not true
KAORI AT WORLDS YES!! My day is made
i miss u so much (pre ai internet)

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I think the hottest thing a woman can be is a weirdo
My favorite part about season 4 of Bridgerton and Sophie's journey is that she learns how abundant love is in all forms.
She starts off not believing anyone could love her and she doesn't deserve love. She never knew her mom, she assumed her dad didn't love her after learning he left nothing to her in his will, and was abused by her step mom. She always felt out of place and never truly cared for.
But it was Alfie and Irma who helped her get to the masquerade ball. It was Benedict who without even knowing who she was, saved her from the Cavendish house because he saw men attempting to assault a maid. It was Violet who hired her after learning she saved Benedict and who adored her and was eventually supportive of her and Benedict's relationship. It was Posy who literally climbed out a window to warn her that Araminta was trying to find her. It was her fellow maids/staff like Varley, Alfie, and Hazel who tried to get her help when they found out she was arrested. It was Hazel and Alfie who constantly provide her with emotional support. It was Eloise who steps up to distract Cressida while Sophie goes to find her father's will. It was Violet and Benedict who work together to blackmail Araminta into dropping the case against Sophie. It was Lady Danbury and Alice Mondrich who work to get the Queen to support Sophie and Benedict's union. Everyone had Sophie's back and that's how she got her happy ending.
People often misunderstand Cinderella and claim itβs just about a wealthy man who saves her from poverty and abuse, but a true Cinderella story will have her mice, birds, and fairy god mother who help her get to her happy ending. Sophie learns she has a whole community of loved ones who are there for her.