Idk, disgust, sadness, and fear are some pretty big players too.

Honestly the way I look at it is more that I just had to let her know how I prefer to cuddle with her and she was cool with it. It just took a while to do that because aside from not speaking English she doesn’t even really think the same way at all so.

I just trained her to snuggle up in my lap instead. Only took a month or so and that’s what she’s done for years now.

Honestly I was just reflecting on the lack of self-forgiveness being a lot of what’s wrong with sobriety culture. I quit booze cold turkey 6 months ago (it was easy when I stopped talking to my fundie parents) but I’ve had people try to get me to personally identify with the label of “alcoholic.” It’s actually really important to some people that I do so, even internet strangers! They will literally argue for entire ten or more comment long threads that I need to call myself an alcoholic.

I honestly just don’t find dwelling on it to be a useful sobriety strategy. I’ve gotten significantly more mileage out of just thinking about why I feel the need to drink sometimes and how I can arrange my life to lessen that. For instance in addition to cutting off my shitty family it also helped for the first couple months to temporarily not help my fiance with walking the dog because walking the dog to the corner store had become part of that ritual. It’s not an issue now, but just not doing it for a little while was a big help. But to believe some of these people I should have needed to self-flagellate a lot more to have accomplished what I did.

I have never heard this phrased with such accuracy and succinctness. 10/10, ty.

My best and coolest work projects were basically all done in a caffeine-induced mania and had nothing to do with what my boss thought they needed but wound up creating huge benefits.

I’ve made guides and cheat sheets for legal and medical concepts four my coworkers, I collected a database of over 500 printable pdf activities to entertain my patients and created a nice graphical interface for them on the facility intranet. I even designed board games that can be printed on cardstock so my patients can enjoy themselves but not make weapons or self-injury implements. I can make d6 dice completely out of origami-folded paper, no staples, tape, or even glue.

Now we have a boss that’s micromanaging our time and dictating where on the unit we need to be every moment of the night. I used to just jump in to help even with other people’s patients whenever it looked like they could use an extra hand. Now I just don’t have the energy. They’re having meetings monthly to ask why the place is failing while actively choking it to death.

Humans cuddle platonically/familially. I also wonder if it’s maybe not more like holding hands which isn’t always romantic among humans depending on culture. Again, arguing 0% on the gayness, my only beef is with the anthropomorphization, and the whole point of acknowledging in the first place is that no human has any real way of knowing what’s going on in an animal’s head.

The gesture almost can’t mean the same thing to a creature that doesn’t have a pair of soft appendages with some of the densest nerve clusters on its entire body in that specific location. But yeah raising a child together is pretty darn gay. I guess they could be platonically coparenting but tbh that seems like an even bigger anthropomorphization. “They’re gay, Karen” is honestly just occam’s razor for this situation.

I love him so much. He’s the kind of rural demographic the democrats need to be trying to campaign towards but their head is way too far up their own asses. We really do rely on our rural populations for a lot of things, especially food, and allowing conservatives to be basically the only ones who even bother to speak to them for so long has resulted in an extremely uncomfortable amount of our food supply almost completely under the control of fascists.

Yeah that tip really only works for hardcopies, and handwritten ones at that.

I found dialectal behavior therapy in particular had a strong focus towards preparing me to face injustice by teaching me how to control, conserve, and target my energy most effectively towards such goals.

I’m referring to the disturbing images on packaging.

Nah do it like they do in Europe. Pictures of what it looks like to be held to the bed screaming by a 19y/o who had no idea what they signed up for while an ICU nurse shoves a tube up your ass so that the diarrhea they induced to rebalance your ammonia doesn’t dissolve your anus as quickly except she can’t get the tube to stay in because your anus has already been slightly dissolved so she keeps shoving the tube back in and you’re still screaming because you’re in acute alcohol withdrawal and the terrified child they’re paying $12 an hour to help the ICU nurse restrain you seems to have snakes crawling out of their dinner-plate sized eyes.

Leaving the tide pools. Possibly even forming proteins to begin with. I much more enjoyed being stardust.

Idk man these things are super dependent on locality, you know how it is.

Actually it’s so they can catch the tooth fairy at customs. Your teeth will still be ripped out, you’ll just also get justice for it.

Then why do you keep fucking licking random shit OP???

While arcade games are stimulating, both opiates and alcohol are depressant drugs and well known for causing depression. Depression isn’t sadness, it’s slowness, emptiness, and an inability to get things done. Opiates and alcohol obviously do that in the moment, but repeated use eventually results in a prolonged depression that persists long after the substance is eliminated from the body.

I’ve been making obsidian vaults/notebooks actually! Earlier this year I made one about tarot cartomancy and what I guess you could call Christian Esotericism (connecting myself to many of the cultural traditions while eschewing most of the traditional bodies of authority) and right now I’m working on a basic/informal intro to DBT for people struggling to access talk therapies due to poverty and/or rural living.

I was in the mood, lol. lmk if it helps.