love using (!) excessively, like yes!!! i am so very excited!!!! right now!!!!! i love you!!!!!!

Physically I'm at work, emotionally I'm screaming into the void, spiritually I'm in bed, mentally I'm writing fanfiction

Do you ever write out a multi-paragraph rebuttal to something and then think "actually I do not want to get involved in this" and close it

truly just learn the phrase "I did not like this" instead of trying to give some moral or ethical reasoning behind why it's actually evil and morally wrong and problematic. you are allowed to just not like things because they're not good in your personal opinion, they don't have to be problematic you can just not like them

I read this and realized: I AM TOTALLY A HORMONE JUNKIE !! 😁😁😁😁

Especially endorphins and serotonin.

REBLOG if you are old enough to remember what a VCR is.

childhood

The other day I saw a YouTuber I follow make a text post that said almost verbatim "sometimes I when I watch a thought provoking movie, I find I think about it for several days afterwards." the highlighted comment was someone saying "I think that's called hyperfixation?"

People seem to be increasingly oblivious to the difference between thinking about or liking something, fixating or focusing on it, and /hyper/fixation as a disxriptor of the extreme of this that occurs in neurodivergent people.

If someone reads "I think about things sometimes" and sees "hyperfixation", then I can totally see it following that "I think about people sometimes" becomes synonymous with "I am an obsessive creepy stalker with no boundaries"

Which. Sure is something.

Obviously the trend of people being weird about 'you need consent to have a crush, but also crushes are a sin' has been a slow rolling train wreck for a few years now, but seeing that YouTube comment made something click for me

ppl misunderstand me when I say "I want more [thing] in stories". I don't mean "I'm going to love every single one" I mean "I'm very picky and I want more of it in circulation so I can actually choose from a wealth of them and be discerning". I see ppl being like "you say you want more of [this thing] but you don't like [example of it]" YEAH CUZ I'M PICKY!!!!!!!! I have opinions and standards????? not all of them are gonna be the same I wanna be able to look at 100 of them and go "I want these 20" not "I only have 3 to choose from and I don't like any of them" you feel me??????

underrated lotr moment is gandalf’s “let me risk a little more light” so the fellowship can see the ruins of dwarrowdelf.

idk what it is idk how to put it into words but like. such a quick and quiet little moment of, recognizing we’re all in constant mortal peril but while we’re here you should still witness the wonders of the world. while we are here, though it may be on a life-threatening quest, you deserve a little tourist moment. soak it in, the great city that remains long-abandoned and nearly forgotten, the grand pillars that outlived the memories of those who built them. so much of love and life is fleeting in this dark age. but the scraps of it can still be found. the remnants are still here, and even with significant risk they deseve to be beheld.

And Howard Shore went “Do it, Mithrandir, I’ve got your back.” 

#and when you consider that this comes after gimli talked at length about the glory of khazad-dum and the place it holds in their history #and then got there to find it abandoned and shattered and filled with goblins and the bodies of his kin #it's this moment of almost like... affirmation? #no you were not wrong to speak of it this way; yes it is as glorious as you have heard and more #countless dwarves fought and died for this place; it is worth the risk to see what they died for; why they believed it *worth* dying for #gimli is the only dwarf on the quest and in that moment the rest of the fellowship get to see that the creations of his people #are EVERY BIT as spectacular and awe-inspiring as those of elves and men #the movies did gimli wrong in a lot of ways but they NAILED this bit @arafinwes

They don’t tell you this but life really is just about collecting silly trinkets and laughing so hard your belly hurts and writing bad poetry and seeing beauty in everything you encounter and basking in sunlight on cold winter days and forgiving yourself over and over and over again

people who have obsessions are the only ones i know how to buy presents for. everyone else gets the loose change at the bottom of my purse

@socdaily's no mourners event

warning for discord users

If you're on the app, immediately go to your dms and then "add friends". After the latest update they allow your contacts to find you and have that option turned on by default, so make sure it's unchecked!

This is very obviously not great for a multitude of reasons, but especially for people in vulnerable positions who do not want people in their contacts to see who they are on discord and/or know they have discord in the first place. I've also tried finding out if this is a thing on desktop but haven't been able to find any mention of it, so either it's not a "feature" (yet) or they've hidden it. Either way, stay safe, and turn off finding friends via contacts!

[ID: three screenshots from the discord app with circles around the buttons to press to get to this "feature". 1: the messages/DM button, 2: the "add friends button", 3: in the add friends page, the "allow contacts to add me" checkbox. /END ID]

Other options I honestly assumed everybody already had turned off but just in case they hadn't for any reason:

privacy settings inside discord itself: "you" > settings > privacy and safety > scroll down and turn off "sync contacts", "phone", "e-mail", and optionally "use data to improve discord"

[ID: screenshots with the above mentioned buttons circled. /END ID]

App permissions via phone settings (my phone is a Samsung Android, this might look different for iOS and different Android brands!)

Settings > scroll down to apps > scroll down to discord > permissions > make sure contacts is under "not allowed"

[ID: screenshots with the above mentioned buttons circled and directions written down. /END ID]

Multiple others have also said this in the notes and tags, but apparently it's just really bad UI design, where the ticked box is specifically for when you click on "find friends". Apologies for the misleading OP, several servers I was in started talking about this and I hadn't seen anyone on tumblr post about it, which is why I made the post in the first place.

You should still definitely double check your permissions and whether or not your contacts are synced within discord, though, because that would still enable others to find you through your contacts.

can everyone please reblog this version

Tony Ward Fall 2023 Couture

hyperfixations are so embarrassing like nooo don’t look I have a crush. on this tv show

oversharing on facebook is crazy but oversharing on tumblr is correct and proper