#mangsney

Omg Sam. Fluids and rest, please.

That’s the plan! At this point it’s nigh-unavoidable, now that all my errands are done. I just have to make sure I’m awake for the grocery delivery tonight.

winds-wanderer replied to your photo “Dearborn is a proper princess. Polk is a CIRCUS LION!”

Dearborn's properly curled tail! Is that the kitty equivalent of humans drinking tea with their pinkies up?

And wearing a string of understated but beautiful pearls! 

mangsney replied to your post “WELP I’M SICK”

The Sisters let you sleep for six and a half hours? SUCH GOOD GIRLS!!

That’s the funny thing -- they wake me up around 3:45 every day for food, because That Is When We Get Up, but really it’s just habit. Once I’ve gotten up and moved around to prove I’m not dead, they will happily go back to bed with me. The bedroom is their favorite place in the whole world. 

excellent advice! it's like, smile when you don't feel like smiling, and your brain registers it the same and secretes the good chemicals. #fakeittillyoumakeit :D

A bit like! Though I want to be clear I definitely don’t mean to say that this kind of thing is a fix-it for depression or anything like that -- I want people to use medication or therapy or whatever works for them, because otherwise I do sound a bit like I’m recommending yoga. I still have depression, it’s a chemical issue, but now I have one more tool for managing it, and perhaps more importantly for managing how it impacts my relationship to the world. If your formed habit is to respond to outside stimulus with frank openness and an assumption of good will -- or even, as Clint’s player said in a reblog, with an acknowledgement of “Hey, I’m in a hot mess, it’s okay to say it” -- then it makes it easier to maintain relationships and also accept help. 

prof-elsie replied to your post “It’s not really a secret, but it’s not really well-known and I don’t...”

And that, Sam, is the core principle of virtue ethics — modeling oneself on a good person.

I think the key for me was that it wasn’t something I was doing in a real attempt to improve, or something I felt pressure towards. It’s just...a very persistent meme, really. There’s no stakes, there’s no goal, so there’s no sense of failure or even threat of failure. And that makes it super easy to keep doing it. 

mangsney replied to your post “It’s not really a secret, but it’s not really well-known and I don’t...”

Waaaaaaaaaait, YOU'RE @memecaptainsteverogers?? ��

:D :D 

junker5 replied to your post “It’s not really a secret, but it’s not really well-known and I don’t...”

Ok, this made me tear up. I try to be positive and upbeat in my school teacher role, but in my own "real life" I sometimes forget. Thanks, for the upbeat reminder, Sam! Happy New Year!

And see that’s the great thing, it doesn’t have to be YOU being upbeat. You can just make a post AS SOMEONE ELSE being upbeat and then the pressure’s off!

kink-tomato replied to your post “wait you punched a pigeon”

You can always take comfort in knowing Tom Lehrer would approve

I am hoping beyond hoping this all blows over and we can still interact. I found you on Tumblr because of your fic on AO3...and I would really miss your wit and wisdom...and pics of the terror girls!

Well, I’ll still be on AO3, and I’m sure I’ll keep blogging somewhere. It just won’t be twitter or instagram. I don’t want to have to post an image every time I want to say something or have to spend nineteen posts saying it. 

iamshadow21 replied to your post “fyi, since last night, when I click on your direct page, I only see...”

That happened to petite madame, and it's completely screwed up the posted continuity of the-life-of-bucky-barnes. She observed anything challenged and cleared was boosted to the top of the blog.

Which is interesting because as far as I’m aware, nothing on my journal except the one image of Polk has been challenged or cleared. I haven’t seen any orange banners on a single post, and I haven’t asked for review on anything but the single Polk post. I was wondering for a while if stuff that other people reblogged automatically moved to the top somehow, like a horrific version of Facebook. 

lanerose23

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“amairawrites replied to your link “Subway Toasts New Ultimate Cheesy...”

Having eaten this sandwich cooked by competent people, I feel really confident in saying you just got super unlucky with whoever was making it.

That is almost certainly true. I’ve had many an edible meatball sub from Subway, and even a few that were delicious. The problem is the delicious ones are all at least ten years in the past, and the edibility of them got closer and closer to “not” until finally I had the airport sub (I couldn’t go anywhere else; it was across from a gate where I was on minute’s-notice standby) after not having had a meal from Subway in a couple of years. So I did get super unlucky, but it was becoming easier and easier to get unlucky over time. At this point it’s not worth throwing the dice -- the odds of a bad meal are too high and the badness is too intense for me to risk money on it. 

Then again I’m also lucky to live in Chicago, where the Potbellys outnumber the Subways pretty much anywhere I go, so I rarely have to make that call. 

mangsney replied to your post “amairawrites replied to your link “Subway Toasts New Ultimate Cheesy...”

That’s… a lot happening at once in a single sandwich.

It was a lot happening in my life altogether at that moment in time :D I’m sure it wasn’t helped by being eaten in the NOLA airport -- New Orleans is delightful but the airport is second only to the Las Vegas airport for gross griminess. 

bluelinnet

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“gokuma replied to your post: Do you have an...”

ahh, i'm so happy to know you have a twitter handle, you're the one thing i miss when i don't login here

Ah, it's good to see these 2 again! :D

As someone who's always found Jousia attractive, I have to say all of these look wonderful to me! *fans self at sleeveless one*

Haha oh u Mangsney! Oh yah Jousia is attractive, I just want to like... make something just to accentuate that :D

I read it as "BULLDOG-sniffing dog" and was confused because what? Also, excellent on the transformation but also, ew gross, that it was that bad she remembered it

“I’m sorry, Mr. Starbuck, it appears you have bulldogs.”

Yeah, I was shocked she remembered too, but...it was pretty bad when I moved in, and supposedly that was after a cleaning. 

paxfelis replied to your post “Every time you refer to Dearborn and Polk as the Sisters I always...”

They spin the threads of fate, they tangle those threads, and they're too young for scissors.

Polk has been slowly pulling long strands of shag out of the hallway rug....

mangsney replied to your post “My condo association employs a bedbug-sniffing beagle. He comes around...”

I read the beginning as "bedbug-sniffing EAGLE" and I WAS SO CONFUSED, SAM!!

reluctantabandon replied to your post “My condo association employs a bedbug-sniffing beagle. He comes around...”

CONGRATS ON NO BEDBUGS BUT DID U PET THE DOGGO

No, I said he was a good dog but he was still working and I didn’t want to take up their time. They had four floors to tackle in three hours, so they had to go fast. 

chibiesque replied to your post “My condo association employs a bedbug-sniffing beagle. He comes around...”

I regret googling bed bugs, eeeww.