Highball With Lemon

And this one that's much newer came up in my feed right afterwards, so I will be watching it very soon!

A crackship isn't just any ship that makes you go, "Eh, I don't see it." A crackship is absolutely WILD in concept. A crackship is the one that makes your friends look at you with the beginnings of existential horror. It's the one where they wave a circle round you thrice and close their eyes in holy dread, for you on honeydew hath fed and drunk the milk of paradise.

But! I would like to introduce you to a version of this trick called progressive muscle relaxation.

I've never been able to get into meditation because my brain moves too fast and my stress and anxiety want me to ~do something~ instead of sitting down and acknowledging thoughts. This is nothing against meditation, it just doesn't work for me.

A couple years back, I was introduced to progressive muscle relaxation. It's like meditation, but faster, and with physical tasks which let me deal with physical symptoms very effectively.

Basically, turning slow tigers into fast tigers over the course of 10-ish minutes with the help of a guide so you can target specific muscles one at a time, until your whole body has calmed the heck down.

The one I use (below) is by the Department of Veteran Affairs in Australia. I like this one because the pace is fairly quick and they get right to the point - nothing except for noticing your body, tensing muscles, and then relaxing - so that you can get right back on with your day.

I've also used this in the past when I've been too restless to sleep - if once wasn't enough, I was definitely sleepy by the time I finished it the second time.

I've reccomended this to friends in the past, but I hope knowing that this is a thing will help folks on here too. As someone who has stressed themself into having pretty bad angina before, I cannot overstate how important it is to deal with not just your mental anxiety/stress symptoms, but your physical symptoms too.

but it's an entirely new level of tragic when somebody you've actually spoken to gets turned into a bot account. it's like peeking at a zombie apocalypse through the window and realizing one of the shambling corpses was your friend.

and then the zombie catches sight of you, lurches up to your window, and shouts through the glass that they accidentally reported your account to tumblr and you'll be deactivated unless you click this link.

if you get something like this ↑ they're gonna follow up by instructing you to contact tumblr support on discord and give you contact info; or they're gonna link a website that looks sort of like tumblr support and say you have to email them; or any variety of "you must now contact tumblr, here is how you contact tumblr."

whatever they send you, it Does Not lead to tumblr. it leads to the master zombie that bit them and inducted them into the ranks of the undead, and will bite you the second they have your email and password. i might be confusing zombies and vampires. anyway,

it's easier to fall for these messages because the blog doesn't LOOK like a bot blog, because it ISN'T a bot blog. it's a normal person's blog that got accessed by a bot, meaning the blog's content CLEARLY looks like a real active user when you click on it. and yes—it might even be a blog you already know. sometimes bots like this go down a blog's DMs or reblogs and message people they've previously interacted with.

Embroidered Sculptures Recreate Lifelike Mushrooms, Lichen, and Fungi in Thread

by Grace Ebert - Colossal, February 25, 2022

Amanda Cobbett suspends a singular moment in the fleeting lives of fungi by stitching their likeness in thread. The textile artist photographs and gathers specimens that she brings back to her Surrey Hills-based studio, where she finds fibers to match pale green lichens and golden chanterelles. Using a free-motion embroidery technique on a sewing machine, she then stitches multiple layers onto a piece of dissolvable fabric that, once the organism is complete, is washed away to leave just the mushroom or mossy bark intact. As a scroll through her Instagram reveals, the resulting sculptures are so realistic in color, shape, and size that it’s difficult to distinguish the artist’s iterations from their counterparts.

Currently, Cobbett is preparing a collection that will head to the Artful Craft exhibition at Make Southwest, which opens on April 2.

This is like the literary equivalent of meeting someone who doesn't know Darth Vader is Luke's father.

So they go "I don't understand why anyone would have a problem with this relationship! Yeah he's older and there is a class/power difference but he clearly respects her as a person and it's so refreshing!" and you just cackle, cackle, cackle behind your screen until the inevitable day you get this message.

*reluctant sigh*

*scrolls back up*