@Tuftears (in all honesty the bobcat the other day looked off, so I'm trying to get a better idea of dog and cat legs)
Hey Washington residents! The fucking Nazis have state bills to harm our community, here’s more news;
@obscurestar fuck it, I guess I’ve become one of them, then.
Last night’s #drawing helped emotionally recover from 2/3 things yesterday. That third was a doozy, fuck…
@ziphi Do NOT drink the reactor Baja blast
@Tuftears I think I see what you mean, yeah!
even more journaling
Situations I encounter are likely to be a mix of;
1) I *am* smart, competent, pretty, loved, and wanted
2) I am *also* often stupid, inept or ignorant, ugly, or unwanted
3) there are places where who I am, or what I get right or wrong, doesn't especially matter; how safe and comfortable I am is pretty random, tangential.
So the follow up to that last post is "better judging each situation as I come to it, with the understanding that I'm carrying a LOT of observer bias"
@Bel_tamtu Also if you get a cane, you then have an idea of how practical or impractical it is. I'm all for getting it just to test out the concept, if you can afford it.
more journaling mh, neurodiversity
What I'm noticing now is that combining natural tendencies (everything feels more frustrating/longer/sadder than it does to the people running the show) and bad personal experience (I've been *told* everything is crucial, that safety and comfort is all down to my performance rather than this largely arbitrary thing, and also that I've been *told* I'm a complete fuck up and someone out there honestly is out to get me -- and only a few intentionally malicious experiences give an impression of overall intent to harm);
every choice I make usually goes through a filter of self-doubt -- is this something I fucked up that's unforgivable? could this be the thing that I somehow do well enough to be safe for a bit, so it's ultra important I not fuck it up? -- but of course failure and success are usually big cumulative processes.
And this is where I have problems finding a "middle way;"
1) realistically and emotionally, I can't treat every possible fuck up as a dire portal to complete disaster
2) like fighting while off balance, amped up emotional intensity can make me more vulnerable to the next thing that "goes wrong" and that in turn keeps me more emotionally/fiscally vulnerable to the next thing after that, there *are* cumulative successive failures.
So where exactly is a good balance point between those two? (And, won't how important things are differ from moment to moment?)
... I swear this sounds stoned. I'm sober, just low on sleep and not great at expressing myself.
@LexYeen here a mix of generalizing outwards from "old school renaissance" D&D, looking at the reaction a friend drew while idealizing 2008ish interwebs, and looking at my own nostalgia for the 90s.
Lots of random gunk, but some drawings and cooking talk too. Obsesses about DnD and related topics. Left-leaning/profoundly frustrated politics. Black lives matter; trans rights are human rights.
Occasionally NSFW art and discussion, please do follow if you're 18+.