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I'm down for relationship discourse if and only if no possibility exists of arriving at any useful conclusion.

"Is it cheating if you're on a break" what is this, a sitcom?

"Is it cheating if you're fucking two different instances of the same time traveller and the earlier one doesn't know" now we're talking.

Maybe it's because I'm used to polyamorous relationships where "cheating" is more about betraying agreed upon/reasonable limits than any single objective standard(*), but... just ask?

If you can't ask current!partner because it would break the timeline etc then ask future!partner: would past you consider this cheating? If they say yes then don't do it, even if it's not cheating per se it's messed up (like... regardless of how you feel about it, if they think it's cheating then why are they willing to betray their past self like that??)

If they say no then either they're telling the truth and you have a good reason to think it's within the bounds of your current relationship, or they're lying in which case you have bigger problems like a partner who's a liar, a traveler from an evil alternate universe, etc.

I guess if they say, like, "Past me would think it was cheating, but they are wrong, because unlike me they have not thought very deeply about the fluid nature of self with regards to the space time continuum, and I consider myself the same person as them modulo some life experience" then you have a dilemma. But then it boils down to whether you think of them as the same person, I guess.

(*)This is in no way meant to imply that polyamorous relationships are better, just that the question of 'cheating' in a polyamorous context is already so messy and convoluted that adding time travel doesn't seem like much of an extra complication.

eat an entire can of sweetened condensed milk. you deserve it.

(sigh) okay... (CRUUEEENNNCH....) (SCREEEEEENCH...) owie.. (CRUUEEENCH)

this is one of the most rewarding things about posting self care tips on this site. witnessing people's lives getting better in real time. this is why I post

Do you like old timey country music or bluegrass? Do you wanna support Indigenous people making contemporary music in their own languages?

Well if you answered yes to both of these questions, please check out Agalisiga’s album Nasgino Inage Nidayulenvi (It Started In the Woods). He’s a Cherokee singer who recently released a whole album IN CHEROKEE. And it’s really good! Available on Bandcamp and other streaming services now!!!!

No doctor will ever get my respect like the woman in the ER who checked me for claws and fangs because I told her I was turning into a werewolf and could feel it and let me know gently that she couldn't find any but that didnt make it feel any less real, like THATS how you do it, other doctors who just flat out told me I was wrong take notes

This is how you treat us!

i am reblogging this as someone who does not have delusions and often makes shitposts about werewolves, and i just want all my followers to know this is not a joke!

i am so glad you had this positive experience, and i hope this sort of kindness catches on with doctors and the general public.

Look when someone is in a confused or compromised state, no matter why,

and they are your medical charge,

it is vital to continue to treat them with dignity. Like that. Reassure them with visible practicalities that you acknowledge their fears, will not belittle them, and can show them facts to help them cope.

THAT is the proper compassion of a Healer.

Can I just add that, if you like me have delusions where everything bad that happens is your fault, the doctor shouldn't be like "Yeah, you're probably right" but try to reason with you in a respective way. OP's doctor did it right, but some of the notes make it look like people think delusions must be agreed to always, when doing so can be detrimental to the person's wellbeing

This is my favorite addition to this post because it’s true. When dealing with delusions you need to avoid the extremes - DO NOT tell the person flat out “you’re wrong”, “thats not real” or worst of all “you’re crazy.” BUT DON’T ENCOURAGE THE DELUSION EITHER! Let’s take my werewolf delusion, for example. Doctors who have flat out told me “that isn’t real” haven’t helped because for me it is real and no amount of you saying it isn’t will change my perception. It makes us feel alienated.

But someone saying “You ARE transforming into a werewolf but i have a poition thatll stop it! :D” is just as dangerous because you’re furthering a delusion which could get someone hurt. its also manipulative. we’re psychotic, not children.

So what DO you do? Acknowledge that the situation is frightening. If possible, give them the objective facts (ie, i don’t see any monsters; your mom hasn’t said anything to make it seem like she’s going to kill you) while also acknowledging that for them, it is real. Most of all, ask what you can do to keep them comfortable and safe.

Sorry for the long addition but when I made this post it didn’t occur to me apsychotic people would look at it for advice on how to handle an actively delusional person. I’m glad it’s resonating with people, though

I remember when I told a doctor someone had replaced all the veins and arteries in my body with wires and I was no longer a person. she very gently checked me over for any wounds where they could have made the incisions to put the wires in, and took photos of the places on my phone to prove it. all the places I felt were the entry points were out of my sight, behind my ears and in my back and stuff. then she offered to get me an xray if they could fit me in, but it might take a while. I declined because I didnt want to take up space for people who need it, and honestly at this point I trusted her enough to tell me if I had wires. she brought my husband in and showed him how to check me over for wounds and wires, then she asked me if I had any questions. I went back into the waiting room, feeling like I wasn't stupid and I felt much safer.

she came into the waiting room later to check if I was okay, and I felt safe, cared for, trusted and believed. she told my husband she put a psychiatrist on standby in case I got freaked out again, and told me she understands how I feel, and that she can't see anything but she gets how scary it is for me and she's on shift for a few hours and to ask for her by name if I need reassuring again.

I felt safe. I felt believed. that's how you do it.

I have known a lot of people with psychosis over the years, and had a brief but intense run-in myself, and in my experience:

writing advice for characters with a missing eye: dear God does losing an eyes function fuck up your neck. Ever since mine crapped out I've been slowly and unconsciously shifting towards holding my head at an angle to put the good eye closer to the center. and human necks. are not meant to accommodate that sorta thing.

other things I'm bitching about but which could still be useful as writing advice for 1 eyed characters:

2. they're going to favor their sighted side, obviously, but it doesn't always manifest in the way you think. when I walk down a hall I walk much closer to the wall on my sighted side than on my blind side. which is the opposite of how it might seem logical to do that bc it means the world at large is on your bad side, but the reason is I can't fucking See the wall if it's right next to me in the blind side and I end up knocking into it.

3. door frames and poles are my enemy. If your character is smart this will not be a problem but for me it is. I am King of walking into shit I could absolutely see but couldn't tell how far away from me it was. on this note, their blind side hand is getting bashed into every jutting out thing in a 5 mile radius.

4. having 0 depth perception is less of a big deal than you'd think it is. Especially with driving. I've become a Much safer and more wary driver because I can't tell how far the other cars are from me. however I fucking suck at parking now. because I can't tell how far the lines are from me either.

5. you know how people who lose limbs get phantom pains? that happens with eyes too but like. phantom sights. for me it's like. a lot of bugs. like every so often my brain will just put something suddenly skittering beside me there. hate that.

6. it is completely possible to "get stuck" somewhere because your ability to tell how wide a space is is just Gone. shopping isles especially where bumping something or Someone is matter of embarrassment or potentially breaking something. it can be legitimately paralyzing and also irritate everyone around you because they can tell there is Plenty of space for you to get your cart through even if you can't.

7. if the eye is still in their skull it can still be the normal kind of painful. Glares off of shiny surfaces causing weird sharp pains you can't figure out the cause of are genuinely one of gods greatest tests of my patience.

I too am missing my eye and have advice. But first:

OP I've been missing my eye for 18 years and because of you I'm just now noticing that my neck does in fact list left. Now I will live with that knowledge forever.

1) depth perception issues are more severe if you lose the eye on the same side as your dominant hand. I lost my left eye and am right handed, and only have problems with close-up things. Like pouring water or threading a needle. Sometimes putting the pump in for gas. Walking down stairs is a huge problem I have (walking up is fine), but unlike OP I don't have issues with doorways. Depth perception is different for everyone

2) I've completely lost my eye and need to wear eye patches, no fake eye here. People like me do still rub their "eyes." We also usually say "eyes" and "contacts." Except for comedic effect

3) the people that are in your life with regularity just... forget you have only one eye. Even if, like me, you wear obvious eye patches. This means they get confused when people asked what happened. They'll walk on your blind side and get snippy when you run into them. When my sister learned how to cross her eyes she ask me if I could do it, and it took so much coaching for her understand why my answer was no, and that I would not be "just trying." So don't write everyone around them constantly noticing. Most people don't

pls tell me what ur great grandparents did for a living in the tags if u know... mine were dairy farmers, bakery workers and a security guard lol

if somebody you knew for a year said "listen. im just gonna be honest here. i know ive known you too long to not know your name. but i simply do not. i dont know how this happened. im reasonably confident you told me your name at some point. could you remind me please" how would you react

"OH GOD, SOMEONE ELSE WHO DOES THIS. TERRIBLE MEMORIES FISTBUMP." And then I'd double check theirs, because it would be the least mortifying time to find out I had it wrong.

saw someone say months ago that the best cover story for jason coming back to life in the public eye is to say he was in witness protection. and i agree with that! but id like to add: jason would make a public statement saying that the reason he was in witness protection is “i saw joker kill robin”

When the lights are low  -  Carola Schapals  

German , b. 1957 -

Oil on linen , 150 x 180 cm.

ID: A splotchy sparkly expressionistic chiaroscuro painting in shades of pinkish monochrome, of shadows and glitters of sunlight on cloudy water beneath drooping branches.

EDI showing off to her two girlfriends on Pride Day

commission for r/PolyYuri

ID: Female Shepard and Traynor lean against each other, smiling at EDI's glowing sphere which is rainbow coloured with little rainbow and star symbols.

Every day is a reason to celebrate 🥂🥳

High level physics is so fucked up it's indistinguishable from epic level magic

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r/Showerthoughts u/FeelThePower999 One day of the year, nobody knows what, is the anniversary of the Big Bang.

Greyrock99 17h Okay so no physicist have posted here yet, I'll going to give you the real answer of the anniversary of the Big Bang. Let's say you could teleport back to the Big Bang with a indestructible, perfect atomic clock. You could conceivably pick the clock back up now, read the days and divide by 365.2422 and you'd have an accurate date of the the anniversary of the Big Bang. Now the issue is that you want the clock to end up sitting on earth when you get back to today - for example, it's no good if the clock ends up stuck in orbit around a distant star. Since you're very smart you manage to think of a way around this. You figure out what atoms and particles from the Big Bang that are going to eventually form the earth and you decide to glue your atomic clock to the side of an atom (for the purpose of this experiment, your clocks are invisible, microscopic and weight zero kg). You're also very throughout and have a lot of clocks so you decide to glue an atomic clock to every single atom that makes up the earth, just to get a good read out. Why do you find when you get back to 2024 and read all the clocks? You find every single clock is different. You see, time isn't solid - it stretches, speeds up and slows down depending things like relative speed and gravitational fields. Every atom in earth experienced a different path in the 14 billion years before they got to earth. Every atom will have experienced a different length of time to get to now and all lengths are true and valid. And 14billion years is plenty of time for the date to be smeared out between the earth atoms, pretty much evenly. Some of those atoms could have experienced billions of years less than other atoms, even if they were created at exactly the same time. As such, when you divide the clocks by 365.2422 you're going into get every single day on the calendar, and that's the answer. The anniversary of the Big Bang is every day on the calendar for approximately 1/365th of the atoms that make up you, the earth, your mom and your pet turtle, Alan. Happy birthday!

My doctor and therapist: now with this autism + ADHD diagnosis you need to learn to unmask because masking all the time will make you burn out again and feel like shit

Other people: well it's just interesting how after getting the diagnosis you suddenly start behaving like that I mean I'm not saying you're faking it's just funny how you suddenly cannot be normal like you were before

THIS IS SO TRUE!

bUt yOu nEveR hAd a pRoBLem wiTH this bEfOre?!

BITCH I have spent 35 years thinking I was just inherently bad at being a person, now I find out I have a disability? That it’s actually (checks notes) NOT THIS HARD FOR EVERYONE?! What the fuck do you mean other people aren’t getting distracted because they can hear the electricity?! Yeah I think I’m gonna give myself a break actually. The microwave IS too loud, now fuck off.

This happened to me after I stopped interacting with high people-pleasing energy and just let my face and voice relax around people I trusted, and suddenly everyone thought I was “flat.”

So I have a very effective mask that doesn't always make people like me but does generally convince them I like them even when this isn't true. It's pretty rare for people to think I dislike them if I'm putting any energy into being nice. (nb I actually don't dislike many people and chances are if you're someone I know reading this I like you well enough)

But something that's happened to me a couple of times now is I slowly befriend someone and eventually become confident they understand where I'm coming from if I express myself more sincerely with less masking etc and it all works pretty well. And then I get to know their partner and they seem nice and when the three of us are together the vibe is chill and mutually trusting and I'm used to not masking around my friend so I don't mask a whole lot... and the partner becomes convinced I despise them, because I'm so distant, mannered, condescending, and mean. Still working on how to avoid this but it's sure a reminder why I don't just stop masking wholesale :/

A nice shower and the day can begin...

i just woke up and for a few seconds i thought those were some kind of vegetables being dropped into the sink to rinse off until they kept moving on their own and they still 100% look like weird leafy vegetables

I've been awake for 17 hours and I deadass thought they were vegetables

Video description: a set of parakeets having a shower in a sink, clearly delighted at the water. End description.

One of my long time patrons requested a space painting tutorial with a focus on how to make the stars shine and the colors vibrant. So I recorded a speed paint I made under 10 minutes of how to paint the Milky Way. I hope it helps!

You can find free downloads of the brushes I used right here YuumeiArt.com/space-tutorial It contains a brush set for Photoshop and another set for Clip Studio (converted by Arcane Halo)

Music is Tree Soul by Kentdow

TIP:

This holiday season, if you know someone who likes house plants,

DON'T

get them a houseplant. DO NOT.

instead, get them a NICE, MEDIUM-LARGE, AESTHETIC, BOTTOM-DRAINING, INDOOR

POT.

that is what they want. that is what they dream of. ok? thats what will be most useful and appreciated. in fact, if you can, get them a CUTE MATCHING SET. OF POTS!!!! NOT PLANTS, POTS!!!!!!!!

they may be more excited initially about the plant. that is true. but a pot is a gift that they will go home and use to upsize one of their already beloved houseplants, and every time they look at it they will remember how much they appreciate you.

HOUSEPLANT:

- they already have so many

- needs to be watered

- takes up window space

- comes in a pot thats already too small, needs to be upsized, costing money

- can die

AESTHETIC POT

- lets them care for an existing plant they own

- they will be grateful every time they see it in their home

- does not take up window space not already occupied by a plant

- can be wrapped without dying or spilling dirt everywhere

Also, some pots can be ordered by mail! Ceramic is heavy and fragile, but if you're buying for someone who enjoys cheap but cute plastic stuff there's all sorts of fun 3d printed options with low shipping costs, even in Australia. I got my husband a robot shaped pot because they love both indoor plants and robots and it has pride of place amongst the other plants.

We all agree, right?

As long as you’re bargaining with the demon for the ability to easily write your novel yourself, yes.

If you get the demon to write it, no.

There's a joke here about the ethics of ghost writing but I can't quite make it out.

Women can write m/m. Men can write f/f. Asexuals can write filthy smut. Lesbians and gay men can write m/f. It's all arbitrary anyway. Who give a shit.

"Oh but they don't have an experience of-" I don't have any experience committing or solving murders either but that's still mostly what I read and write about.

I've never banged an alien but here we are.

You've never banged an alien yet! There's always time!